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BMCBI
2006
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14 years 9 months ago
MICA: desktop software for comprehensive searching of DNA databases
Background: Molecular biologists work with DNA databases that often include entire genomes. A common requirement is to search a DNA database to find exact matches for a nondegener...
William A. Stokes, Benjamin S. Glick
GAMESEC
2010
244views Game Theory» more  GAMESEC 2010»
14 years 7 months ago
The Password Game: Negative Externalities from Weak Password Practices
The combination of username and password is widely used as a human authentication mechanism on the Web. Despite this universal adoption and despite their long tradition, password s...
Sören Preibusch, Joseph Bonneau
ATAL
2006
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Reinforcement learning for declarative optimization-based drama management
A long-standing challenge in interactive entertainment is the creation of story-based games with dynamically responsive story-lines. Such games are populated by multiple objects a...
Mark J. Nelson, David L. Roberts, Charles Lee Isbe...
ECIR
2009
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Classifying and Characterizing Query Intent
Understanding the intent underlying user queries may help personalize search results and improve user satisfaction. In this paper, we develop a methodology for using ad clickthroug...
Azin Ashkan, Charles L. A. Clarke, Eugene Agichtei...
SEMWEB
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Learning Semantic Query Suggestions
An important application of semantic web technology is recognizing human-defined concepts in text. Query transformation is a strategy often used in search engines to derive querie...
Edgar Meij, Marc Bron, Laura Hollink, Bouke Huurni...