Large-scale comparison of genomic DNA is of fundamental importance in annotating functional elements of genomes. To perform large comparisons efficiently, BLAST (Methods: Companio...
During the 1980's there was a lot of activity in the area of Statistical Databases, focusing mostly on socio-economic type applications, such as census data, national product...
XPath [3, 5] is a powerful and quite successful language able to perform complex node selection in trees through compact specifications. As such, it plays a growing role in many ...
Main approaches to corpus-based semantic class mining include distributional similarity (DS) and pattern-based (PB). In this paper, we perform an empirical comparison of them, bas...
We introduce an object-oriented design pattern called Twin that allows us to model multiple inheritance in programming languages that do not support this feature (e.g. Java, Modula...