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BMCBI
2006
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13 years 8 months ago
MICA: desktop software for comprehensive searching of DNA databases
Background: Molecular biologists work with DNA databases that often include entire genomes. A common requirement is to search a DNA database to find exact matches for a nondegener...
William A. Stokes, Benjamin S. Glick
GAMESEC
2010
244views Game Theory» more  GAMESEC 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
The Password Game: Negative Externalities from Weak Password Practices
The combination of username and password is widely used as a human authentication mechanism on the Web. Despite this universal adoption and despite their long tradition, password s...
Sören Preibusch, Joseph Bonneau
ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 13 days ago
Reinforcement learning for declarative optimization-based drama management
A long-standing challenge in interactive entertainment is the creation of story-based games with dynamically responsive story-lines. Such games are populated by multiple objects a...
Mark J. Nelson, David L. Roberts, Charles Lee Isbe...
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Classifying and Characterizing Query Intent
Understanding the intent underlying user queries may help personalize search results and improve user satisfaction. In this paper, we develop a methodology for using ad clickthroug...
Azin Ashkan, Charles L. A. Clarke, Eugene Agichtei...
SEMWEB
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Learning Semantic Query Suggestions
An important application of semantic web technology is recognizing human-defined concepts in text. Query transformation is a strategy often used in search engines to derive querie...
Edgar Meij, Marc Bron, Laura Hollink, Bouke Huurni...