Background: The Smith-Waterman algorithm for local sequence alignment is more sensitive than heuristic methods for database searching, but also more time-consuming. The fastest ap...
Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
Abstract. Query expansion has received extensive attention in information retrieval community. Although semantic based query expansion appears to be promising in improving retrieva...
Finding visually identical images in large image collections is important for many applications such as intelligence propriety protection and search result presentation. Several a...
-- A large and reliable DNA codeword library is the key to the success of DNA based computing. Searching for the set of reliable DNA codewords is an NP-hard problem, which can take...
Qinru Qiu, Daniel J. Burns, Qing Wu, Prakash Mukre