AlgLab: An Open Laboratory for Experiments On Algorithms
From the webpage:
Welcome to the open laboratory for experiments on algorithms. Computer scientists experiment on algorithms for many reasons, including:
- To understand their fundamental properties.
- To compare several algorithms to choose the best one for application.
- To tune an algorithm to perform well in a given context.
This web site contains laboratories for conducting experiments on algorithms. It is a companion site for A Guide to Experimental Algorithmics, by Catherine McGeoch (Cambridge University Press).
If you didn’t get the brochure, go to: www.cambridge.org/us/compsci11. Publication date is 2012.
Given the large number of similarity measures, I suspect that experiments with similarity algorithms is going to be a “hot” area of research as well. No one measure is going to be the “best” one for all uses.
What is unknown (at this point) is what factors may be indicators or break-points for choosing one similarity algorithm or another?