Approximate computing is a research area where we investigate a wide spectrum of techniques to trade off computation accuracy for better performance or energy consumption. In this work, we provide a general introduction to approximate computing. Also, we propose a taxonomy to make it easier to discuss the merits of different approximation techniques. Our taxonomy emphasizes the expected cost of...

We examine whether the quality of different clustering algorithms can be compared by a general, scientifically sound procedure which is independent of particular clustering algorithms. We argue that the major obstacle is the difficulty in evaluating a clustering algorithm without taking into account the context: why does the user cluster his data in the first place, and what does he want to do ...

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The subject of this paper is the semi-automatic construction of taxonomies over the Web. We address the problem of discovering high-quality resources that belong in a particular node of a taxonomy. We show that minimal additional effort is required to provide relevance feedback in a hyperlinked environment, resulting in significant and consistent improvement in quality. Furthermore, this feedba...

In metagenomics, the goal is to analyze the genomic content of a sample of organisms collected from a common habitat. One approach is to apply large-scale random shotgun sequencing techniques to obtain a collection of DNA reads from the sample. This data is then compared against databases of known sequences such as NCBI-nr or NCBI-nt, in an attempt to identify the taxonomical content of the sam...

The comparative analysis of phylogenies obtained using different phylogenetic methods or different gene sequences for a given set of species, is usually done by computing some quantitative measure of similarity between the phylogenetic trees. Such a quantitative approach provides little insight into the actual similarities and differences between the alternative phylogenies. In this paper, we p...

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We provide a general algorithmic schema for translation rule extraction and show that several popular extraction methods (including phrase pair extraction, hierarchical phrase pair extraction, and GHKM extraction) can be viewed as specific instances of this schema. This work is primarily intended as a survey of the dominant extraction paradigms, in which we make explicit the close relationship ...

Cartograms combine statistical and geographical information in thematic maps, where areas of geographical regions (e.g., countries, states) are scaled in proportion to some statistic (e.g., population, income). Cartograms make it possible to gain insight into patterns and trends in the world around us and have been very popular visualizations for geo-referenced data for over a century. This wor...