: The issue of determining "the right number of clusters" in K-Means has attracted considerable interest, especially in the recent years. Cluster intermix appears to be a...
In old times, castles were surrounded by moats (deep trenches filled with water, and even alligators) to thwart or discourage intrusion attempts. One can now replace such barrier...
We study a generalization of the k-median problem with respect to an arbitrary dissimilarity measure D. Given a finite set P of size n, our goal is to find a set C of size k such t...
Background: One important application of microarray experiments is to identify differentially expressed genes. Often, small and negative expression levels were clipped-off to be e...
Query-oriented summarization aims at extracting an informative summary from a document collection for a given query. It is very useful to help users grasp the main information rel...