Faith and Trueman [Syst. Biol. (2001) 331] recently proposed ‘‘Profile Parsimony’’ (PP) as a new form of phylogenetic analysis, but it is equivalent to the Implied Weights (IW) method when certain functions are used. The PP method cannot accommodate missing ⁄ inapplicable cells and ⁄or multistate characters. Finally we demonstrate that, as defined, PP scores are not random, and 3 there is no ne...

“Accessing information anytime, anywhere, with any device” is a widely used slogan. The problem, however, is how to bring multimedia services to terminals with limited capabilities. Our approach offers a solution for delivering multimedia presentations to terminals connected to mobile or fixed networks with varying capabilities. Our media wrapper is used to adapt the original presentation accor...

Few number of works have discussed the problem of multimedia services negotiation in heterogeneous environments. This paper presents a new negotiation strategy of services in such environments. This strategy is based on the concept of prooling and document selection. We show how CC/PP-RDF model can be used to describe clients preferences and capabilities, and how SMIL 2.0 modularization can ser...

We explain our framework and experimentation to exchange user’s environmental information described in the form of CC/PP and RDF via HTTP Extension Framework. In the next decade, most appliances will have micro Web browser and server. These appliances collect and exchange the various kind of information (e.g., location, temperature) existing among them. We investigated a new way for describing ...

In this paper we introduce a generalization of association rules: change profiles. We analyze their properties, describe their relationship to other structures in pattern discovery and sketch their possible applications. We study how the frequent patterns can be clustered based on their change profiles and propose methods for approximating the frequencies of the patterns from the approximate ch...

When reading a newsgroup for the first time, it is difficult to tell who the key players are. Steve Whittaker (The Dynamics of Mass Interction) notes that usenet newsgroups have what he calls "participation inequality.'' That is, a small number of users are responsible for a disproportionately large number of postings. This presents two problems: First, which of the large number of people are t...

conclusions examination of the fasting lipid profile has clinical importance in predicting the efficacy of peg-ifn-α-2b plus rbv combination therapy for patients with hcv g1b even after the discovery of the il28 genotype as a potent predictive factor. objectives to re-examine the significance of lipoprotein profiles on virological response to peg-ifn plus rbv combination therapy in patients wit...