Abstract— A novel, simple and efficient method for the generation of Tikhonov (a.k.a. von Mises) random variates is proposed. In the proposed method, circular variates of a pres...
We introduce a unified graph representation of the Web, which includes both structural and usage information. We model this graph using a simple union of the Web's hyperlink ...
Barbara Poblete, Carlos Castillo, Aristides Gionis
The objective of query optimizers is to select a good execution plan for a given query. In a distributed system, it is crucial for a query optimizer to have effective remote cost e...
Background: Since proteins perform their functions by interacting with one another and with other biomolecules, reconstructing a map of the protein-protein interactions of a cell,...
Xiaomei Wu, Lei Zhu, Jie Guo, Cong Fu, Hongjun Zho...
Background: To cancel experimental variations, microarray data must be normalized prior to analysis. Where an appropriate model for statistical data distribution is available, a p...