METU INteroperable DBMS (MIND) is a multidatabase system based on OMG's distributed object management architecture. It is implemented on top of a CORBA compliant ORB, namely,...
Web search engines are facing formidable performance challenges due to data sizes and query loads. The major engines have to process tens of thousands of queries per second over t...
Background: Detailed information on DNA-binding transcription factors (the key players in the regulation of gene expression) and on transcriptional regulatory interactions of micr...
Current peer-to-peer (p2p) full-text keyword search techniques fall into the following categories: document-based partitioning, keyword-based partitioning, hybrid indexing, and se...
Component Based Development (CBD) aims at constructing software through the integration, using interfaces and contracts, between pre-existing components. The main goal of this wor...
Robson P. de Souza, Marcelo N. Costa, Regina M. M....