A Chaining Algorithm for Mapping cDNA Sequences to Multiple Genomic Sequences -- Edge-Guided Natural Language Text Compression -- Local Transpositions in Alignment of Polyphonic Musical Sequences -- Efficient Computations of ?1 and ???? Rearrangement Distances -- Generalized LCS -- Exploiting Genre in Focused Crawling -- Admission Policies for Caches of Search Engine Results -- A Pocket Guide to Web History -- Jump-Matching with Errors -- Estimating Number of Citations Using Author Reputation -- A Fast and Compact Web Graph Representation -- A Filtering Algorithm for k-Mismatch with Don’t Cares -- Compact Set Representation for Information Retrieval -- Approximate Swap and Mismatch Edit Distance -- Approximating Constrained LCS -- Tuning Approximate Boyer-Moore for Gene Sequences -- Optimal Self-adjusting Trees for Dynamic String Data in Secondary Storage -- Indexing a Dictionary for Subset Matching Queries -- Extending Weighting Models with a Term Quality Measure -- Highly Frequent Terms and Sentence Retrieval -- Implicit Compression Boosting with Applications to Self-indexing -- A Web-Page Usage Prediction Scheme Using Weighted Suffix Trees -- Enhancing Educational-Material Retrieval Using Authored-Lesson Metadata -- Approximate String Matching with Lempel-Ziv Compressed Indexes -- Algorithms for Weighted Matching -- Efficient Text Proximity Search -- Prefix-Shuffled Geometric Suffix Tree.