-- New ties are often formed between people who already have friends in common. Though the social sciences have addressed the effects of existing structural patterns on the formati...
We show how to speed up two string-matching algorithms: the Boyer-Moore algorithm (BM algorithm), and its version called here the reverse factor algorithm (RF algorithm). The RF al...
Maxime Crochemore, Thierry Lecroq, Artur Czumaj, L...
This paper investigates the role of online resources in problem solving. We look specifically at how programmers--an exemplar form of knowledge workers--opportunistically interlea...
Joel Brandt, Philip J. Guo, Joel Lewenstein, Mira ...
Standard analysis on recursive data structures restrict their attention to shape properties (for instance, a program that manipulates a list returns a list), excluding properties t...
Medical data is often presented as free text in the form of medical reports. Such documents contain important information about patients, disease progression and management, but ar...
Fathi H. Saad, Beatriz de la Iglesia, Duncan G. Be...