Many AFLP studies include relatively unrelated genotypes that contribute noise to data sets instead of signal. We developed: (1) estimates of expected AFLP similarities between unrelated genotypes, (2) significance tests for AFLP similarities, enabling the detection of unrelated genotypes, and (3) weighted similarity coefficients, including band position information. Detection of unrelated geno...

The complex analytic methods have found a wide range of applications in the study of multiplicity-free representations. This article discusses, in particular, its applications to the question of restricting highest weight modules with respect to reductive symmetric pairs. We present a number of multiplicity-free branching theorems that include the multiplicity-free property of some of known res...

Kernel functions as similarity measures for sequential data have been extensively studied in previous research. This contribution addresses the efficient computation of distance functions and similarity coefficients for sequential data. Two proposed algorithms utilize different data structures for efficient computation and yield a runtime linear in the sequence length. Experiments on network da...

Electronic Music Distribution (EMD) is in demand of robust, automatically extracted music descriptors. We introduce a timbral similarity measures for comparing music titles. This measure is based on a Gaussian model of cepstrum coefficients. We describe the timbre extractor and the corresponding timbral similarity relation. We describe experiments in assessing the quality of the similarity rela...

The goal of the study was to determine which similarity coefficient and statistical method to use to produce the highest rate of correct assignment (RCA) in repetitive extragenic palindromic PCR-based bacterial source tracking. In addition, the use of standards for deciding whether to accept or reject source assignments was investigated. The use of curve-based coefficients Cosine Coefficient an...

Electronic Music Distribution (EMD) is in demand of robust, automatically extracted music descriptors. We introduce a timbral similarity measures for comparing music titles. This measure is based on a Gaussian model of cepstrum coefficients. We describe the timbre extractor and the corresponding timbral similarity relation. We describe experiments in assessing the quality of the similarity rela...

Similarity is the key notion underlying many contemporary theories about the representation of meaning through words or concepts. However, these representations are strongly colored by the kind of information captured by various semantic measures. In this paper we present a systematic comparison of human similarity judgments and calculated similarity coefficients from different sources of seman...

An image authentication and tampering localization technique based on a wavelet-based digital watermarking technique [8] is proposed. To determine whether a given watermarked image has been tampered or not, the similarity between the extracted and embedded watermarks is measured. If the similarity is less than a threshold value, the proposed sequential watermark alignment based on coefficient s...