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The last few years have seen a great increase in the amount of data available to scientists, yet many of the techniques used to analyse this data cannot cope with such large datasets. Therefore, strat
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The development of effective methods for the prediction of ontological annotations is an important goal in computational biology, yet evaluating their performance is difficult due to problems caused b
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This Springer Brief presents a basic algorithm that provides a correct solution to finding an optimal state change attempt, as well as an enhanced algorithm that is built on top of the well-known trie
An introduction to the tablet computer covers such topics as personalizing settings, voice commands, social networking, sharing and printing photos, and video chatting.
This text covers the state of the art in multivariate algorithmics and complexity, a vital field with countless applications in modern computing. It describes the latest methods of proving parameteriz
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Blogging For Dummies provides readers with information on blogging basics, the anatomy of a good blog, and the tools required to get started. The authors will walk the reader through choosing which bl
