This paper presents a surprising result: changing a seemingly innocuous aspect of an experimental setup can cause a systems researcher to draw wrong conclusions from an experiment...
Background: The allele frequencies of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are needed to select an optimal subset of common SNPs for use in association studies. Sequence-based m...
Rootkits are malicious programs that silently subvert an operating system to hide an intruder's activities. Although there are a number of tools designed to detect rootkits, ...
The execution order of a block of computer instructions on a pipelined machine can make a difference in running time by a factor of two or more. Compilers use heuristic schedulers...
Most existing work uses dual decomposition and subgradient methods to solve Network Utility Maximization (NUM) problems in a distributed manner, which suffer from slow rate of con...