GPU-FS-kNN: A Software Tool for Fast and Scalable kNN Computation Using GPUs

AS Arefin, C Riveros, R Berretta, P Moscato - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background The analysis of biological networks has become a major challenge due to the
recent development of high-throughput techniques that are rapidly producing very large data …

Unveiling clusters of RNA transcript pairs associated with markers of Alzheimer's disease progression

AS Arefin, L Mathieson, D Johnstone, R Berretta… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background One primary goal of transcriptomic studies is identifying gene expression
patterns correlating with disease progression. This is usually achieved by considering …

An information theoretic clustering approach for unveiling authorship affinities in Shakespearean era plays and poems

AS Arefin, R Vimieiro, C Riveros, H Craig, P Moscato - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
In this paper we analyse the word frequency profiles of a set of works from the
Shakespearean era to uncover patterns of relationship between them, highlighting the …

A FPGA-based architecture for automatic hexagonal bolts detection in railway maintenance

G De Ruvo, P De Ruvo, F Marino… - Seventh …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Rail inspection is a very important task in railway maintenance and it is periodically needed
for preventing dangerous situations. Inspection is operated manually by trained human …

kNN-Borůvka-GPU: A Fast and Scalable MST Construction from kNN Graphs on GPU

AS Arefin, C Riveros, R Berretta, P Moscato - … de Bahia, Brazil, June 18-21 …, 2012 - Springer
Computation of the minimum spanning tree (MST) is a common task in numerous fields of
research, such as pattern recognition, computer vision, network design (telephone …

[HTML][HTML] Protein Markers for the Identification of Cork Oak Plants Infected with Phytophthora cinnamomi by Applying an (α, β)-k-Feature Set Approach

AC Coelho, G Schütz - Forests, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cork oak decline in Mediterranean forests is a complex phenomenon, observed with
remarkable frequency in the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula, causing the weakening …

kNN-MST-Agglomerative: A fast and scalable graph-based data clustering approach on GPU

AS Arefin, C Riveros, R Berretta… - 2012 7th International …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data clustering is a distinctive method for analyzing complex networks in terms of functional
relationships of the comprising elements. A number of graph-based algorithms have been …

Pseudo-centroid clustering

F Glover - Soft Computing, 2017 - Springer
Pseudo-centroid clustering replaces the traditional concept of a centroid expressed as a
center of gravity with the notion of a pseudo-centroid (or a coordinate free centroid) which …

A fast meta-heuristic approach for the -feature set problem

M Rocha de Paula, R Berretta, P Moscato - Journal of Heuristics, 2016 - Springer
The feature selection problem aims to choose a subset of a given set of features that best
represents the whole in a particular aspect, preserving the original semantics of the …

Introducing clustering with a focus in marketing and consumer analysis

NJ de Vries, ŁP Olech, P Moscato - Business and consumer analytics …, 2019 - Springer
Clustering has become an extremely popular methodology for consumer analysis with many
business applications. Mainly, when a consumer market needs to be segmented, clustering …