We show that no Markovian Coupling argument can prove rapid mixing of the Jerrum-Sinclair Markov chain for sampling almost uniformly from the set of perfect and near perfect match...
For the last twenty years fragment assembly in DNA sequencing followed the "overlap - layout - consensus" paradigm that is used in all currently available assembly tools...
Medical histories provide a rich resource for diagnoses and treatment. Similarly, consumers’ blog postings on health-related topics offer unique data for medical researchers, pr...
We propose several models based on discrete-time Markov chains for the analysis of Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs). Specifically, we examine the Pastry routing protocol, as well a...
Idris A. Rai, Andrew Brampton, Andrew MacQuire, La...
This paper describes, compares, and evaluates three different approaches for learning a semantic classification of library titles: 1) syntactically condensed titles, 2) complete t...