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Function Similarity Using Family Context

  • Paul Black,
  • Iqbal Gondal,
  • Peter Vamplew and
  • Arun Lakhotia

Finding changed and similar functions between a pair of binaries is an important problem in malware attribution and for the identification of new malware capabilities. This paper presents a new technique called Function Similarity using Family Contex...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,647 Views
17 Pages

Binary function similarity analysis evaluates the similarity of functions at the binary level to aid program analysis, which is popular in many fields, such as vulnerability detection, binary clone detection, and malware detection. Graph-based method...

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  • Open Access
158 Citations
6,838 Views
23 Pages

9 April 2019

In this article, we propose another form of ten similarity measures by considering the function of membership degree, non-membership degree, and indeterminacy membership degree between the q-ROFSs on the basis of the traditional cosine similarity mea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
90 Citations
3,897 Views
18 Pages

29 August 2018

The existing cosine similarity measure for hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTSs) has an impediment as it does not satisfy the axiom of similarity measure. Due to this disadvantage, a new similarity measure combining the existing cosine similar...

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  • Open Access
924 Views
15 Pages

7 January 2025

The overlap function has been extensively utilized across various fields. In this paper, we introduce the concepts of the similarity and δ-equality of overlap functions to measure the degree of similarity between two overlap functions. Subseque...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,178 Views
25 Pages

8 March 2022

Topologically associating domains (TADs) are the structural and functional units of the genome. However, the functions of protein-coding genes existing in the same or different TADs have not been fully investigated. We compared the functional similar...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,807 Views
19 Pages

Place types are often used to query places or retrieve data in gazetteers. Existing gazetteers do not use the same place type classification schemes, and the various typing schemes can cause difficulties in data alignment and matching. Different plac...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,637 Views
22 Pages

29 November 2021

In this paper, the self-similar functional circuit models of arteries are proposed for bioinspired hemodynamic materials design. Based on the mechanical-electrical analogous method, the circuit model can be utilized to mimic the blood flow of arterie...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
914 Views
21 Pages

In this study, we define the k-Cullen, k-Cullen–Lucas, and Modified k-Cullen sequences, and certain terms in these sequences are given. Then, we obtain the Binet formulas, generating functions, summation formulas, etc. In addition, we examine t...

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1,956 Views
32 Pages

21 February 2025

In this work, we generalize and describe the golden ratio in multi-dimensional vector spaces. We also introduce the concept of the law of similarity for multidimensional vectors. Initially, the law of similarity was derived for one-dimensional vector...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,617 Views
21 Pages

Insight into Functional Boiti–Leon–Mana–Pempinelli Equation and Error Control: Approximate Similarity Solutions

  • Manal Alqhtani,
  • Rekha Srivastava,
  • Hamdy I. Abdel-Gawad,
  • Jorge E. Macías-Díaz,
  • Khaled M. Saad and
  • Waleed M. Hamanah

7 November 2023

The Boiti–Leon–Mana–Pempinelli Equation (BLMPE) is an essential mathematical model describing wave propagation in incompressible fluid dynamics. In the present manuscript, a novel generalization of the BLMPE is introduced, called he...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,706 Views
12 Pages

18 February 2022

Drug repurposing identifies new clinical indications for existing drugs. It can be used to overcome common problems associated with cancers, such as heterogeneity and resistance to established therapies, by rapidly adapting known drugs for new treatm...

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  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,457 Views
18 Pages

A Novel Hybrid Algorithm to Forecast Functional Time Series Based on Pattern Sequence Similarity with Application to Electricity Demand

  • Francisco Martínez-Álvarez,
  • Amandine Schmutz,
  • Gualberto Asencio-Cortés and
  • Julien Jacques

28 December 2018

The forecasting of future values is a very challenging task. In almost all scientific disciplines, the analysis of time series provides useful information and even economic benefits. In this context, this paper proposes a novel hybrid algorithm to fo...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,706 Views
14 Pages

3 March 2025

Equine herpesvirus 1 (EHV-1), EHV-4, EHV-8, and EHV-9, are classified within the subfamily Alphaherpesvirinae and are recognized as causative agents of respiratory, urogenital, and neurological disorders in horses. These viruses, collectively referre...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,024 Views
14 Pages

2 December 2022

Binary code similarity measurement is a popular research area in binary analysis with the recent development of deep learning-based models. Current state-of-the-art methods often use the pre-trained language model (PTLM) to embed instructions into ba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,155 Views
10 Pages

Structural Similarity Measurement Based Cost Function for Stereo Matching of Automotive Applications

  • Oussama Zeglazi,
  • Mohammed Rziza,
  • Aouatif Amine and
  • Cédric Demonceaux

The human visual perception uses structural information to recognize stereo correspondences in natural scenes. Therefore, structural information is important to build an efficient stereo matching algorithm. In this paper, we demonstrate that incorpor...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,507 Views
24 Pages

17 November 2022

Recent studies of alternative probabilistic transformation (PT) in Dempster–Shafer (DS) theory have mainly focused on investigating various schemes for assigning the mass of compound focal elements to each singleton in order to obtain a Bayesia...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,367 Views
17 Pages

Open-source libraries are widely used in software development, and the functions from these libraries may contain security vulnerabilities that can provide gateways for attackers. This paper provides a function similarity technique to identify vulner...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,386 Views
19 Pages

27 October 2023

Mashups, which combine various web application programming interfaces (APIs) to implement some complex requirements, have grown to be a popular technique for developing service-oriented software. However, recommending suitable cloud APIs for mashup c...

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  • Open Access
780 Views
51 Pages

Complex fractal dimensions, defined as poles of appropriate fractal zeta functions, describe the geometric oscillations in fractal sets. In this work, we show that the same possible complex dimensions in the geometric setting also govern the asymptot...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,214 Views
24 Pages

11 October 2019

Monin–Obukhov similarity theory (MOST) overestimates the mean vertical velocity gradient in some atmospheric stable conditions, i.e., Richardson number R f < 0.25 . To obtain a given hub-height inflow velocity for a certain roughnes...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,531 Views
15 Pages

28 November 2017

Functional structure is an important part of a port system, and can reflect the resource endowments and economic development needs of the hinterland. In this study, we investigated the transportation function of coastal ports in China from the perspe...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,980 Views
13 Pages

7 May 2015

The construction of a similarity matrix is one significant step for the spectral clustering algorithm; while the Gaussian kernel function is one of the most common measures for constructing the similarity matrix. However, with a fixed scaling paramet...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,320 Views
13 Pages

13 May 2023

Developing urban functional zone classification method to study urban spatial structure is a hotspot in current research. Using the word embedding model to excavate spatial relationship of the geographic elements in urban functional zones is an impor...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,944 Views
14 Pages

15 July 2024

By constructing a complex network model grounded in time series analysis, this study delves into the intricate relationships between the stock markets of 18 countries worldwide. Utilizing 31 distinct time series distance functions to formulate the ne...

  • Feature Paper
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  • Open Access
1,225 Views
34 Pages

30 October 2025

Tarski’s first-order axiom system E2 for Euclidean geometry is notable for its completeness and decidability. However, the Pythagorean theorem—either in its modern algebraic form a2+b2=c2 or in Euclid’s Elements—cannot be dire...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,248 Views
22 Pages

The purpose of this paper is to find the best way to track human subjects in fisheye images by considering the most common similarity measures in the function of various color spaces as well as the HOG. To this end, we have relied on videos taken by...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,773 Views
9 Pages

A Note on Superspirals of Confluent Type

  • Jun-ichi Inoguchi,
  • Rushan Ziatdinov and
  • Kenjiro T. Miura

Superspirals include a very broad family of monotonic curvature curves, whose radius of curvature is defined by a completely monotonic Gauss hypergeometric function. They are generalizations of log-aesthetic curves, and other curves whose radius of c...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,000 Views
13 Pages

Self-Similar Solutions of a Multidimensional Degenerate Partial Differential Equation of the Third Order

  • Ainur Ryskan,
  • Zafarjon Arzikulov,
  • Tuhtasin Ergashev and
  • Abdumauvlen Berdyshev

11 October 2024

When studying the boundary value problems’ solvability for some partial differential equations encountered in applied mathematics, we frequently need to create systems of partial differential equations and explicitly construct linearly independ...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,443 Views
20 Pages

MSF-UBRW: An Improved Unbalanced Bi-Random Walk Method to Infer Human lncRNA-Disease Associations

  • Lingyun Dai,
  • Rong Zhu,
  • Jinxing Liu,
  • Feng Li,
  • Juan Wang and
  • Junliang Shang

4 November 2022

Long-non-coding RNA (lncRNA) is a transcription product that exerts its biological functions through a variety of mechanisms. The occurrence and development of a series of human diseases are closely related to abnormal expression levels of lncRNAs. S...

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  • Open Access
49 Citations
5,418 Views
27 Pages

6 July 2020

Spectral similarity measures can be regarded as potential metrics for kernel functions, and can be used to generate spectral-similarity-based kernels. However, spectral-similarity-based kernels have not received significant attention from researchers...

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  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,148 Views
22 Pages

2 March 2021

We study nonlinear pantograph-type reaction–diffusion PDEs, which, in addition to the unknown u=u(x,t), also contain the same functions with dilated or contracted arguments of the form w=u(px,t), w=u(x,qt), and w=u(px,qt), where p and q are the free...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,324 Views
18 Pages

7 November 2018

This paper proposes a neutrosophic hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (NHFLTS) based on hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) and neutrosophic set (NS), which can express the inconsistent and uncertainty information flexibly in multiple criteria...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,266 Views
14 Pages

26 January 2021

Boosting of the ensemble learning model has made great progress, but most of the methods are Boosting the single mode. For this reason, based on the simple multiclass enhancement framework that uses local similarity as a weak learner, it is extended...

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  • Open Access
183 Views
16 Pages

22 January 2026

In this article, a new similarity measure is discussed on interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy values (IVIFVs). Here, the proposed similarity measure has been derived based on transformed intervals and its probability density functions, mean values,...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,052 Views
17 Pages

8 April 2019

Image similarity measurement is a fundamental problem in the field of computer vision. It is widely used in image classification, object detection, image retrieval, and other fields, mostly through Siamese or triplet networks. These networks consist...

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  • Open Access
1,448 Views
22 Pages

23 November 2024

The Rose grain aphid, a notable agricultural pest, releases saliva while feeding. Yet, there is a need for a comprehensive understanding of the specific identity and role of secretory proteins released during probing and feeding. Therefore, a combine...

  • Review
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5 Citations
3,448 Views
32 Pages

15 May 2023

A new trend in deep learning, represented by Mutual Information Neural Estimation (MINE) and Information Noise Contrast Estimation (InfoNCE), is emerging. In this trend, similarity functions and Estimated Mutual Information (EMI) are used as learning...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,676 Views
8 Pages

23 November 2020

Stochastic variability is ubiquitous among astrophysical sources. Quantifying stochastic properties of observed time-series or lightcurves, can provide insights into the underlying physical mechanisms driving variability, especially those of the part...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,849 Views
19 Pages

An Optimal Rubrics-Based Approach to Real Estate Appraisal

  • Zhangcheng Chen,
  • Yueming Hu,
  • Chen Jason Zhang and
  • Yilun Liu

Traditional real estate appraisal methods obtain estimates of real estate by using mathematical modeling to analyze the existing sample data. However, the information of sample data sometimes cannot fully reflect the real-time quotes. For example, in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,163 Views
27 Pages

As a non-associative connective in fuzzy logic, the analysis and research of overlap functions have been extended to many generalized cases, such as interval-valued and intuitionistic fuzzy overlap functions (IFOFs). However, overlap functions face c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,561 Views
11 Pages

Non-Stationary Fractal Functions on the Sierpiński Gasket

  • Anuj Kumar,
  • Salah Boulaaras,
  • Shubham Kumar Verma and
  • Mohamed Biomy

6 November 2024

Following the work on non-stationary fractal interpolation (Mathematics 7, 666 (2019)), we study non-stationary or statistically self-similar fractal interpolation on the Sierpiński gasket (SG). This article provides an upper bound of box dimens...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,935 Views
13 Pages

7 September 2022

Fentanyl is a potent opioid analgesic with high bioavailability. It is the leading cause of drug addiction and overdose death. To better control the abuse of fentanyl and its derivatives, it is crucial to develop rapid and sensitive detection methods...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,095 Views
15 Pages

28 December 2022

Third-party library (TPL) reuse may introduce vulnerable or malicious code and expose the software, which exposes them to potential risks. Thus, it is essential to identify third-party dependencies and take immediate corrective action to fix critical...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,481 Views
23 Pages

This is a brief survey of selected results obtained using the “transversality method” developed for studying parametrized families of fractal sets and measures. We mostly focus on the early development of the theory, restricting ourselves...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,235 Views
13 Pages

Similarity-Based Predictive Models: Sensitivity Analysis and a Biological Application with Multi-Attributes

  • Jeniffer D. Sanchez,
  • Leandro C. Rêgo,
  • Raydonal Ospina,
  • Víctor Leiva,
  • Christophe Chesneau and
  • Cecilia Castro

4 July 2023

Predictive models based on empirical similarity are instrumental in biology and data science, where the premise is to measure the likeness of one observation with others in the same dataset. Biological datasets often encompass data that can be catego...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,963 Views
15 Pages

27 February 2023

This paper proposes facial expression recognition (FER) with the wild data set. In particular, this paper chiefly deals with two issues, occlusion and intra-similarity problems. The attention mechanism enables one to use the most relevant areas of fa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
468 Views
32 Pages

A Novel Region Similarity Measurement Method Based on Ring Vectors

  • Zhi Cai,
  • Hongyu Pan,
  • Shuaibing Lu,
  • Limin Guo and
  • Xing Su

Spatial distribution similarity analysis has extensive application value in multiple domains including geographic information science, urban planning, and engineering site selection. However, traditional regional similarity analysis methods face thre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
584 Views
19 Pages

Adaptive Current Differential Protection Method Based on Fréchet Distance Algorithm

  • Haiyong Li,
  • Chao Huang,
  • Zizheng Shen,
  • Pengfei Huang,
  • Junyang Tian,
  • Xiang Li,
  • Haoyang Ju,
  • Guibin Zou and
  • Tao Du

24 September 2025

The integration of a large number of distributed generation (DG) units has altered the grid structure and fault characteristics of distribution networks, posing significant challenges to conventional protection methods. To address this, this paper pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,983 Views
13 Pages

RoCS: Knowledge Graph Embedding Based on Joint Cosine Similarity

  • Lifeng Wang,
  • Juan Luo,
  • Shiqiao Deng and
  • Xiuyuan Guo

28 December 2023

Knowledge graphs usually have many missing links, and predicting the relationships between entities has become a hot research topic in recent years. Knowledge graph embedding research maps entities and relations to a low-dimensional continuous space...

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