Background: Searching for similarities in protein and DNA databases has become a routine procedure in Molecular Biology. The Smith-Waterman algorithm has been available for more t...
Graph data such as chemical compounds and XML documents are getting more common in many application domains. A main difficulty of graph data processing lies in the intrinsic high ...
Cloud Computing has been envisioned as the next-generation architecture of IT Enterprise. It moves the application software and databases to the centralized large data centers, whe...
Qian Wang, Cong Wang, Jin Li, Kui Ren, Wenjing Lou
Schemas, and more generally metadata specifying structural and semantic constraints, are invaluable in data management. They facilitate conceptual design and enable checking of da...
Peter M. Fischer, Kyumars Sheykh Esmaili, Ren&eacu...
Large-scale distributed systems have dense, complex code-bases that are assumed to perform multiple and inter-dependent tasks while user interaction is present. The way users inte...
Angelos Stavrou, Gabriela F. Cretu-Ciocarlie, Mich...