Increasingly, scientists have begun to tackle gene functions and other complex regulatory processes by studying organisms at the global scales for various levels of biological org...
Cathy H. Wu, Hongzhan Huang, Anastasia N. Nikolska...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems are becoming increasingly popular as they enable users to exchange digital information by participating in complex networks. Such systems are inexpensiv...
This paper describes an efficient optimistic concurrency control scheme for use in distributed database systems in which objects are cached and manipulated at client machines whil...
Atul Adya, Robert Gruber, Barbara Liskov, Umesh Ma...
Current collaborative work environments are characterized by dynamically changing organizational structures. Although there have been several efforts to refine work distribution, ...
Some applications have to present their results in the form of ranked lists. This is the case of many information retrieval applications, in which documents must be sorted accordi...
Adriano Veloso, Humberto Mossri de Almeida, Marcos...