We examine how the biomedical informatics (BMI) community, especially consortia that share data and applications, can take advantage of a new resource called cloud computing. Clou...
Arnon Rosenthal, Peter Mork, Maya Hao Li, Jean Sta...
This work presents a case of an innovative Brazilian experience of use of free software in public administration as an emergent ecosystem, and the attempt to establish a quality f...
Circular splicing has been introduced to model a specific recombinant behaviour of circular DNA, continuing the investigation initiated with linear splicing. In this paper we focu...
Paola Bonizzoni, Clelia de Felice, Gabriele Fici, ...
Top-k queries are widely applied for retrieving a ranked set of the k most interesting objects based on the individual user preferences. As an example, in online marketplaces, cus...
We present Schism, a novel workload-aware approach for database partitioning and replication designed to improve scalability of sharednothing distributed databases. Because distri...
Carlo Curino, Yang Zhang, Evan P. C. Jones, Samuel...