We used a Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithm for analysis of biological populations through supervised classification of sequence data. We describe an open-source software which implements the method, and apply the method and the program to analyze environmentally challenged populations of the estuarine fish Fundulus heteroclitus. Specifically, we investigate whether the genetic composition...

This paper aims to study the locomotive assignment problem which is very important for railway companies, in view of high cost of operating locomotives. This problem is to determine the minimum cost assignment of homogeneous locomotives located in some central depots to a set of pre-scheduled trains in order to provide sufficient power to pull the trains from their origins to their destinations...

manual fingerprint classification algorithms are very time consuming, and usually not accurate. fast and accurate fingerprint classification is essential to each afis (automatic fingerprint identification system). this paper investigates a fingerprint classification algorithm that reduces the complexity and costs associated with the fingerprint identification procedure. a new structural algorit...

Abstract The simultaneous eating algorithm (SEA) and probabilistic serial (PS) mechanism are well known for allocating a set of divisible or indivisible goods to agents with ordinal preferences. PS is SEA at the same speed. prominent property efficiency. Recently, we extended (EPS) from fixed quota each good variable varying in polytope constrained by submodular functions. In this article, furt...

Permutation games are totally balanced transferable utility cooperative games arising from certain sequencing and re-assignment optimization problems. It is known that for permutation games the bargaining set and the core coincide, consequently, the kernel is a subset of the core. We prove that for permutation games the kernel is contained in the least core, even if the latter is a lower dimens...

The assignment of secondary structure elements in proteins is a key step in the analysis of their structures and functions. We have developed an algorithm, SACF (secondary structure assignment based on Cα fragments), for secondary structure element (SSE) assignment based on the alignment of Cα backbone fragments with central poses derived by clustering known SSE fragments. The assignment algori...

Manual fingerprint classification algorithms are very time consuming, and usually not accurate. Fast and accurate fingerprint classification is essential to each AFIS (Automatic Fingerprint Identification System). This paper investigates a fingerprint classification algorithm that reduces the complexity and costs associated with the fingerprint identification procedure. A new structural algorit...

Helices are one of the most common and were among the earliest recognized secondary structure elements in proteins. The assignment of helices in a protein underlies the analysis of its structure and function. Though the mathematical expression for a helical curve is simple, no previous assignment programs have used a genuine helical curve as a model for helix assignment. In this paper we presen...

High dimensional data, especially those emerging from genomics and proteomics studies, pose significant challenges to traditional classification algorithms because the performance of these algorithms may substantially deteriorate due to high dimensionality and existence of many noisy features in these data. To address these problems, pre-classification feature selection and aggregating algorith...