Measuring the association of haplotype similarities with phenotype similarities has been used to develop statistical tests of genetic association. Previously, we applied the general approach of Mantel statistics to correlate genetic and phenotype similarity, where genetic similarity was defined by the number of intervals flanked by markers identical by state for pairs of haplotypes. Here we inv...

Due to the advent of service oriented architecture, web services have gained popularity. The need for efficient web service discovery increases because of the enormous growth of the web services. The main concern of this paper is to addresses the challenge of automated web service discovery and service similarity assessment. It utilizes the WordNet and a traditional information retrieval method...

Re-representation is a crucial component of structure mapping theory, allowing individuals to notice structural commonalities between situations that do not initially have identical relational representations. Despite its theoretical importance, however, this concept has been the subject of very little empirical work. In two experiments, we find that a case’s participation in one comparison sys...

In this work we consider ontologies as knowledge structures that specify terms, their properties and relations among them to enable knowledge extraction from texts. We represent ontologies using a graph-based model that reflect semantic relationship between concepts and apply them to text analysis and comparison. Instead of raw document comparison we compare document footprint enhanced with con...

Real networks show nontrivial topological properties such as community structure and long-tail degree distribution. Moreover, many network analysis applications are based on topological comparison of complex networks. Classification and clustering of networks, model selection, and anomaly detection are just some applications of network comparison. In these applications, an effective similarity ...

Streamline similarity comparison has become an active research topic recently. We present a novel streamline similarity comparison method inspired by the bag-of-features idea from computer vision. Our approach computes a feature vector, spatially sensitive bag-of-features, for each streamline as its signature. This feature vector not only encodes the statistical distribution of combined feature...

For the evaluation of results from remote sensing and high-resolution spatial models it is often necessary to assess the similarity of sets of maps. This paper describes a method to compare raster maps of categorical data. The method applies fuzzy set theory and involves both fuzziness of location and fuzziness of category. The fuzzy comparison yields a map, which specifies for each cell the de...

This study presents a new similarity measure based on the geometric-mean averaging operator to handle the similarity measure problems of generalized fuzzy numbers. Some properties of the proposed similarity measure are demonstrated, and 26 sets of generalized fuzzy numbers are used to compare the proposed method with existing similarity measures. Comparison results indicate that the proposed si...

Similarity preserving hashing applications, also known as fuzzy hashing functions, help to analyse the content of digital devices by performing a resemblance comparison between different files. In practice, the similarity matching procedure is a two-step process, where first a signature associated to the files under comparison is generated, and then a comparison of the signatures themselves is ...

The perception of semantic similarity derives from distinct processes of comparison and integration. A dual process model of conceptual combination claims that attributive combination (e.g., umbrella tree) entails comparison, while relational combination (e.g., pancake spatula) requires integration. The present research uses similarity as a test of this dual process model. Participants (N = 168...