Biosequences typically have a small alphabet, a long length, and patterns containing gaps (i.e., “don’t care”) of arbitrary size. Mining frequent patterns in such sequences ...
Semantic understanding of multimedia content is critical in enabling effective access to all forms of digital media data. By making large media repositories searchable, semantic ...
Space constrained optimization problems arise in a variety of applications, ranging from databases to ubiquitous computing. Typically, these problems involve selecting a set of it...
Themis Palpanas, Nick Koudas, Alberto O. Mendelzon
Performance of biometric-based recognition systems depends on various factors: database quality, image preprocessing, encoding techniques, etc. Given a biometric database and a se...
Bioinformaticists use the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) to characterize an unknown sequence by comparing it against a database of known sequences, thus detecting evolu...