The paper discusses three major issues. First, it discusses why it makes sense to approach problems in a hierarchical fashion. It de nes the class of hierarchically decomposable f...
In this paper we propose a new distance function (rank distance) designed to reflect stylistic similarity between texts. To assess the ability of this distance measure to capture ...
This article describes the Xtrieval framework - a flexible platform for testing and evaluating different aspects of retrieval systems. The background for the design of the framewo...
Exclusion algorithms are a well-known tool in the area of interval analysis for finding all solutions of a system of nonlinear equations or for finding the global minimum of a fun...
Background: Subcellular localization of a new protein sequence is very important and fruitful for understanding its function. As the number of new genomes has dramatically increas...