Abstract. MapReduce, being inspired by the map and reduce primitives available in many functional languages, is the de facto standard for large scale data-intensive parallel progra...
Background: The development and testing of functions for the modeling of protein energetics is an important part of current research aimed at understanding protein structure and f...
Many applications in information retrieval, natural language processing, data mining, and related fields require a ranking of instances with respect to a specified criteria as op...
Parallel processing networks, even full crossbars, that only implement point-to-point and multicast message passing are inefficient for collective communications because multiple ...
Abstract--Workflow design, mashup configuration, and composite service formation are examples where the capabilities of multiple simple services combined achieve a complex function...