Analysis of postgenomic biological data (such as microarray and SNP data) is a subtle art and science, and the statistical methods most commonly utilized sometimes prove inadequat...
Nowadays many customised embedded processors offer the possibility of speeding up an application by implementing it using Application-Specific Functional units (AFUs). However, th...
Crowd-sourcing is a recent framework in which human intelligence tasks are outsourced to a crowd of unknown people ("workers") as an open call (e.g., on Amazon's Me...
In distributed combinatorial optimization problems, dynamic programming algorithms like DPOP ([Petcu and Faltings, 2005]) require only a linear number of messages, thus generating...
Time series data abounds in real world problems. Measuring the similarity of time series is a key to solving these problems. One state of the art measure is the longest common sub...