BACKGROUND Genome-wide dense markers have been used to detect genes and estimate relative genetic values. Among many methods, Bayesian techniques have been widely used and shown to be powerful in genome-wide breeding value estimation and association studies. However, computation is known to be intensive under the Bayesian framework, and specifying a prior distribution for each parameter is alwa...

Sentiment analysis of reviews traditionally ignored the association between the features of the given product domain. The hierarchical relationship between the features of a product and their associated sentiment that influence the polarity of a review is not dealt with very well. In this work, we analyze the influence of the hierarchical relationship between the product attributes and their se...

This paper addresses the improvement on the generalized Hough transform for the biometric identification applications. The errors in generalized Hough transform for fingerprint matching are investigated and a new hierarchical Hough transform algorithm is proposed, which is faster and more accurate compared to conventional generalized Hough transform.