Chapter 14

Discrete Sequence Classification

Mohammad Al Hasan

Indiana University Purdue UniversityIndianapolis, IN alhasan@cs.iupui.edu

14.1 Introduction

Sequence classification is an important research task with numerous applications in various domains, including bioinformatics, e-commerce, health informatics, computer security, and finance. In bioinformatics domain, classification of protein sequences is used to predict the structure and function of newly discovered proteins [12]. In e-commerce, query sequences from a session are used to distinguish committed shoppers from the window shoppers [42]. In the Web application domain, a sequence of queries is used to distinguish Web robots from human users [49]. In health informatics, sequence of ...

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