— Optimal location (OL) queries are a type of spatial queries particularly useful for the strategic planning of resources. Given a set of existing facilities and a set of clients...
There is a wide variety of data mining methods available, and it is generally useful in exploratory data analysis to use many different methods for the same dataset. This, however...
Self-Organizing Maps (SOM) are very powerful tools for data mining, in particular for visualizing the distribution of the data in very highdimensional data sets. Moreover, the 2D m...
This paper describes a method for optimizing the cost matrix of any approximate string matching algorithm based on the Levenshtein distance. The method, which uses genetic algorit...
Background: Determining whether a gene is differentially expressed in two different samples remains an important statistical problem. Prior work in this area has featured the use ...