MapReduce provides a parallel and scalable programming model for data-intensive business and scientific applications. MapReduce and its de facto open source project, called Hadoop...
Background: Ontologies such as the Gene Ontology can enable the construction of complex queries over biological information in a conceptual way, however existing systems to do thi...
nd: A key abstraction in representing proteomics knowledge is the notion of unique identifiers for individual entities (e.g. proteins) and the massive graph of relationships among...
Andrew K. Smith, Kei-Hoi Cheung, Kevin Y. Yip, Mar...
Requirements engineering is a central part of software projects. It is assumed that two third of all errors in software projects are caused by forgotten requirements or mutual misu...
OS-level virtualization generates a minimal start-up and run-time overhead on the host OS and thus suits applications that require both good isolation and high efficiency. However...
Zhiyong Shan, Xin Wang 0001, Tzi-cker Chiueh, Xiao...