Commentary—Genetic Algorithms: A Practitioner's View

Neonatal nurse practitioners--a view from perfidious Albion?

Materialized View Algorithms

MATERIALIZED VIEW ALGORITHMS

A Unified View to String Matching Algorithms

We present a uniied view to sequential algorithms for many pattern matching problems, using a nite automaton built from the pattern which uses the text as input. We show the limitations of deterministic nite automata (DFA) and the advantages of using a bitwise simulation of non-deterministic nite automata (NFA). This approach gives very fast practical algorithms which have good complexity for s...

A Data Distribution View of Clustering Algorithms

Cluster analysis (Jain & Dubes, 1988) provides insight into the data by dividing the objects into groups (clusters), such that objects in a cluster are more similar to each other than objects in other clusters. Cluster analysis has long played an important role in a wide variety of fields, such as psychology, bioinformatics, pattern recognition, information retrieval, machine learning, and data...

Convergent message passing algorithms - a unifying view

Message-passing algorithms have emerged as powerful techniques for approximate inference in graphical models. When these algorithms converge, they can be shown to find local (or sometimes even global) optima of variational formulations to the inference problem. But many of the most popular algorithms are not guaranteed to converge. This has lead to recent interest in convergent message-passing ...