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TKDE
2010
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13 years 4 months ago
Dictionary-Based Compression for Long Time-Series Similarity
—Long time-series datasets are common in many domains, especially scientific domains. Applications in these fields often require comparing trajectories using similarity measure...
Willis Lang, Michael D. Morse, Jignesh M. Patel
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 6 months ago
The Equivalence of Sampling and Searching
In a sampling problem, we are given an input x {0, 1} n , and asked to sample approximately from a probability distribution Dx over poly (n)-bit strings. In a search problem, we ...
Scott Aaronson
CORR
2004
Springer
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13 years 6 months ago
The Google Similarity Distance
Words and phrases acquire meaning from the way they are used in society, from their relative semantics to other words and phrases. For computers the equivalent of `society' is...
Rudi Cilibrasi, Paul M. B. Vitányi
BMCBI
2007
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13 years 6 months ago
Compression-based classification of biological sequences and structures via the Universal Similarity Metric: experimental assess
Background: Similarity of sequences is a key mathematical notion for Classification and Phylogenetic studies in Biology. It is currently primarily handled using alignments. Howeve...
Paolo Ferragina, Raffaele Giancarlo, Valentina Gre...