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Introduction It has been demonstrated that a pathway-based feature selection method which incorporates biological information within pathways into the process of feature selection usually outperform a gene-based feature selection algorithm…
Signaling pathways are responsible for the regulation of cell processes, such as monitoring the external environment, transmitting information across membranes, and making cell fate decisions. Given the increasing amount of biological data…
Traffic state estimation plays an important role in facilitating effective traffic management. This study develops a combinatorial approach for nonparametric short-term queue length estimation in terms of cycle-by-cycle partially observed…
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