This paper presents a new model for the Internet graph (AS graph) based on the concept of heuristic trade-off optimization, introduced by Fabrikant, Koutsoupias and Papadimitriou in [5] to grow a random tree with a heavily tailed degree distribution. We propose here a generalization of this approach to generate a general graph, as a candidate for modeling the Internet. We present the results of...

We investigate the behaviour of the genealogy of a Wright-Fisher population model under the influence of a strong seed-bank effect. More precisely, we consider a simple seed-bank age distribution with two atoms, leading to either classical or long genealogical jumps (the latter modeling the effect of seed-dormancy). We assume that the length of these long jumps scales like a power N of the orig...

Natural selection operates both directly, via the impact of a trait upon the individual's own fitness, and indirectly, via the impact of the trait upon the fitness of the individual's genetically related social partners. These effects are often framed in terms of Hamilton's rule, rb - c > 0, which provides the central result of social-evolution theory. However, a number of studies have question...

Some genetic elements spread infectiously in populations by increasing their rate of genetic transmission at the expense of other genes in the genome. These so-called selfish genetic elements comprise a substantial portion of eukaryotic genomes and have long been viewed as a potent evolutionary force. Despite this view, little is known about the evolutionary history of selfish genetic elements ...

In this chapter we study the application of existing entity resolution (ER) techniques on a real-world multi-source genealogical dataset. Our goal is to identify all persons involved in various notary acts and link them to their birth, marriage and death certificates. We analyze the influence of additional ER features such as name popularity, geographical distance and co-reference information o...

Due to the ability of modern obituaries to provide rich genealogical information for family members who have died within the bounds of “living memory,” family history organizations have recently begun to acquire and index obituaries in vast quantities. The indexing process for these documents is typically done using human labor. Yet we describe an effort by FamilySearch which leverages various ...

The long-held dream of a single, global family tree is now within reach. What if users of different family tree websites could link to people, places, and events on other sites? What if everybody was, in fact, working on one tree? For various reasons this goal remains unrealized, though not for lack of effort. Fortunately, recent developments in the Semantic Web provide a sound technical and or...

The critical study of one’s own family history is a relatively new field that sits at the intersection genealogical research and scholarly [...]

Sixteen dinucleotide microsatellite loci were isolated from the genome of Propithecus verreauxi verreauxi. All loci were polymorphic when genotyped on a minimum of 16 animals. The number of alleles across these loci ranges from two to 11. Additionally, seven of these loci were genotyped across a minimum of 200 animals in order to estimate heterozygosity and their potential for parentage assignm...

The gene genealogy is a tree describing the ancestral relationships among genes sampled from unrelated individuals. Knowledge of the tree is useful for inference of population-genetic parameters such as migration or recombination rates. It also has potential application in gene-mapping, as individuals with similar trait values will tend to be more closely related genetically at the location of ...