The results of most bioinformatics and microbiology research studies that use SINEs depend entirely on the mechanism used to detect and count these element instances in the genome. Hence, the reliability and accuracy of the DNA sequence alignment and search tool is vital for genetic researches. This research report presents the findings from testing the reliability of some popular DNA Sequence ...

Pairwise stochastic context-free grammars ("Pair SCFGs") are powerful tools for finding conserved RNA structures, but unconstrained alignment to Pair SCFGs is prohibitively expensive. We develop versions of the Pair SCFG dynamic programming algorithms that can be conditioned on precomputed structures, significantly reducing the time complexity of alignment. We have implemented these algorithms ...

Agreement Technologies are needed for autonomous agents to come to mutually acceptable agreements, typically on behalf of humans. These technologies include trust computing, negotiation, argumentation and semantic alignment. In this paper, we identify a number of open questions regarding the integration of computational models and tools for trust computing with negotiation, argumentation and se...

The field of ontology alignment still contains numerous unresolved problems, one of which is the accurate identification of composite matches. In this work, we present a context-sensitive ontology alignment algorithm, CompositeMatch, that identifies these matches, along with the typical one-to-one matches, by looking more broadly at the information that a concept’s relationships confer. We show...

Analysis of ontology alignments, as sets of correspondences between entities, can reveal knowledge to be later fed back to the alignment process. We report on data mining experiments over 3-year results of the ‘conference’ track of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative. The discovered hypotheses express relationships among the matching tools used, the nature of source ontologies, the con...

Robotic systems for computer-assisted surgery involve both tools and techniques that are new to the surgical arena. Registration and immobilization in particular are key problems. Registration is the spatial alignment of the coordinate frames of the robot, an anatomic object (e.g., a bone), and the preoperative plan (a computer model). Immobilization is necessary to maintain that alignment. We ...

Despite the impressive amount of recent studies devoted to improving the state of the art of Machine Translation (MT), Computer Assisted Translation (CAT) tools remain the preferred solution of human translators when publication quality is of concern. In this paper, we present our perspectives on improving the commercial bilingual concordancer TransSearch, a Web-based service whose core technol...

Computer Assisted Translation tools remain the preferred solution of human translators when publication quality is of concern. In this paper, we present our ongoing efforts conducted within TS3, a project which aims at improving the commercial bilingual concordancer TransSearch. The core technology of this Web-based service mainly relies on sentence-level alignment. In this study, we discuss an...

Flexible teams are a new type of organizational entity that will become even more prevalent in the future. We define the concept of a flexible team, present selected attributes of such teams (composite membership and roles, diverse disciplines and skills, rapid communication alignment, and rapid process alignment), address the impact of these attributes on different categories of tools, and dis...

Agreement Technologies are needed for autonomous agents to come to mutually acceptable agreements, typically on behalf of humans. These technologies include trust computing, negotiation, argumentation and semantic alignment. In this paper we identify a number of open questions regarding the integration of computational models and tools for trust computing with negotiation, argumentation and sem...