When selecting alternatives from large amounts of data, trade-offs play a vital role in everyday decision making. In databases this is primarily reflected by the top-k retrieval p...
Motivation: A few years ago, FlyBase undertook to design a new database schema to store Drosophila data. It would fully integrate genomic sequence and annotation data with bibliog...
I have been designing and building applications, including the databases used by those applications, for several decades now. I have seen similar problems approached by different d...
— Systems biologists are often faced with competing models for a given experimental system. Unfortunately, performing experiments can be time-consuming and expensive. Therefore, ...
Network coordinates provide a practical and efficient way to estimate latencies among hosts in the network. In this paper, we study the problem of designing and implementing a Net...