We give the first systematic investigation of the design space of worm defense system strategies. We accomplish this by providing a taxonomy of defense strategies by abstracting away implementationdependent and approach-specific details and concentrating on the fundamental properties of each defense category. Our taxonomy and analysis reveals the key parameters for each strategy that determine ...

Numerical taxonomy and seed storage protein analysis of Hyoscyamus species of Iran was carried out with the aim to illustrate species inter-relationship and to check the sub-generic taxonomic treatment proposed for the genus. Cluster analysis of morphological and protein data grouped the species in three separate clusters which supports the relationships of H. niger with H. reticulatus and H. k...

Accidents in the process industries can be attributed, at least in part, to human causes. Hazard studies are commonly used in industry to identify and manage risks. This paper describes a methodology, called HumHID, which potentially improves hazard identification associated with human factors. The approach is based on cognitive work analysis (CWA) techniques, human factors/error taxonomies and...

We introduce a family of unsupervised algorithms, numerical taxonomy clustering, to simultaneously cluster data, and to learn a taxonomy that encodes the relationship between the clusters. The algorithms work by maximizing the dependence between the taxonomy and the original data. The resulting taxonomy is a more informative visualization of complex data than simple clustering; in addition, tak...

E. R # Sp Data Growth over the Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 Taxonomy Analysis, Most Sequenced Phyla and Genera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 Basic Genome Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Thousands of Genome Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Visualization is a useful tool for understanding the nature of networks. The recent growth of social media requires more powerful visualization techniques beyond static network diagrams. One of the most important challenges is the visualization of temporal network evolution. In order to provide strong temporal visualization methods, we need to understand what tasks users accomplish. This study ...

Recent years have seen a growing interest in non-topical text analysis, in which characterizations are sought of the opinions, feelings, and attitudes expressed in a text, rather than just the facts. A key problem in this area is sentiment classification, in which a document is labelled as a positive (‘thumbs up’) or negative (’thumbs down’) evaluation of a target object (film, book, product, e...

CUIDADO [16] and ECRINS [7] are new projects which aims at providing content-based music applications . Among these applications is an authoring tool for managing sample databases. It includes search by similarity, search by textual attributes, but also automatic sound classification based on predefined taxonomies and user defined taxonomies. This last point raises a crucial issue concerning th...

The use of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components is becoming a strategic need because they offer the possibility to build systems at reduced costs and within shorter development time. Having efficient and reliable COTS components selection methods is a key issue not only for exploiting the potential benefits of this technology, but also for facing the problems and risks involved. Searching...

Fostered by the introduction of the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) competition, the number of systems which calculate Symbolic Melodic Similarity has recently increased considerably. In order to understand the state of the art, we provide a comparative analysis of existing algorithms. The analysis is based on eight criteria that help characterising the systems, and high...