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PRDC
2002
IEEE
14 years 9 days ago
Caveat Emptor: Making Grid Services Dependable from the Client Side
Grid computing relies on fragile partnerships. Clients with hundreds or even thousands of pending service requests must seek out and form temporary alliances with remote servers e...
Miron Livny, Douglas Thain
SPAA
2010
ACM
14 years 6 days ago
Transactions in the jungle
Transactional memory (TM) has shown potential to simplify the task of writing concurrent programs. Inspired by classical work on databases, formal definitions of the semantics of...
Rachid Guerraoui, Thomas A. Henzinger, Michal Kapa...
ERCIMDL
2001
Springer
205views Education» more  ERCIMDL 2001»
13 years 12 months ago
Building and Indexing a Distributed Multimedia Presentation Archive Using SMIL
This paper proposes an approach to the problem of generating metadata for composite mixed-media digital objects by appropriately combining and exploiting existing knowledge or met...
Jane Hunter, Suzanne Little
SIGIR
1996
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Retrieval of Complex Objects Using a Four-Valued Logic
The aggregated structure of documents plays a key role in full-text, multimedia, and network Information Retrieval (IR). Considering aggregation provides new querying facilities a...
Thomas Rölleke, Norbert Fuhr
BMCBI
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
Reduced representation of protein structure: implications on efficiency and scope of detection of structural similarity
Background: Computational comparison of two protein structures is the starting point of many methods that build on existing knowledge, such as structure modeling (including modeli...
Zong Hong Zhang, Hwee Kuan Lee, Ivana Mihalek