The layered architecture of middleware platforms (such as CORBA, SOAP, J2EE) is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, layers provide services such as demarshaling, session management...
To address the challenges of information integration and retrieval, the computational genomics community increasingly has come to rely on the methodology of creating annotations o...
David P. Hill, Barry Smith, Monica S. McAndrews-Hi...
We consider the question of the stability of evolutionary algorithms to gradual changes, or drift, in the target concept. We define an algorithm to be resistant to drift if, for s...
Varun Kanade, Leslie G. Valiant, Jennifer Wortman ...
Sensor networks present a number of novel programming challenges for application developers. Their inherent limitations of computational power, communication bandwidth, and energy...
Large-scale database integration requires a significant cost in developing a global schema and finding mappings between the global and local schemas. Developing the global schema r...