In today's society, people have very little control over what kinds of personal data are collected and stored by various agencies in both the private and public sectors. We de...
—Restoring data operations after a disaster is a daunting task: how should recovery be performed to minimize data loss and application downtime? Administrators are under consider...
The miniaturization of transistors in recent technology nodes requires tremendous back-end tuning and optimizations, making bug fixing at later design stages more expensive. Ther...
This paper presents a study of a novel summarization problem called contrastive opinion summarization (COS). Given two sets of positively and negatively opinionated sentences whic...
— The Smith-Waterman algorithm is a dynamic programming method for determining optimal local alignments between nucleotide or protein sequences. However, it suffers from quadrati...