We introduce the distributed gradient clock synchronization problem. As in traditional distributed clock synchronization, we consider a network of nodes equipped with hardware clo...
Data mining techniques frequently find a large number of patterns or rules, which make it very difficult for a human analyst to interpret the results and to find the truly interes...
Kaidi Zhao, Bing Liu, Thomas M. Tirpak, Weimin Xia...
Background: We present a novel method to encode ambiguously aligned regions in fixed multiple sequence alignments by ‘Pairwise Identity and Cost Scores Ordination’ (PICS-Ord)....
Robert K. Luecking, Brendan P. Hodkinson, Alexandr...
Background: Cluster analysis is a crucial tool in several biological and medical studies dealing with microarray data. Such studies pose challenging statistical problems due to di...
Subspace learning based face recognition methods have attracted considerable interests in recently years, including Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Linear Discriminant Analysi...
Deng Cai, Xiaofei He, Yuxiao Hu, Jiawei Han, Thoma...