Recent research in domain-independent information extraction holds the promise of an automatically-constructed structured database derived from the Web. A query system based on th...
Identifying communities in social networks is a problem of great interest. One popular type of community is where every member of the community knows all others, which can be view...
Fair exchange is one of the most fundamental problems in secure distributed computation. Alice has something that Bob wants, and Bob has something that Alice wants. A fair exchang...
Background: The study of protein-protein interactions is becoming increasingly important for biotechnological and therapeutic reasons. We can define two major areas therein: the s...
Background: Survival time is an important clinical trait for many disease studies. Previous works have shown certain relationship between patients' gene expression profiles a...