The exponential growth of data demands scalable infrastructures capable of indexing and searching rich content such as text, music, and images. A promising direction is to combine...
Abstract—Wireless mesh networks are popular as a costeffective means to provide broadband connectivity to large user populations. A mesh network placement provides coverage, such...
Aircraft sizing studies consist in determining the main characteristics of an aircraft starting from a set of requirements. These studies can be summarized as global constrained o...
Probabilistic databases hold promise of being a viable means for large-scale uncertainty management, increasingly needed in a number of real world applications domains. However, q...
Background: Staphylococcus aureus is a human pathogen that causes a wide variety of lifethreatening infections using a large number of virulence factors. One of the major global r...