Advanced database systems face a great challenge raised by the emergence of massive, complex structural data in bioinformatics, chem-informatics, and many other applications. The ...
The emergence of multicore processors has increased the need for simple parallel programming models usable by nonexperts. The ability to specify subparts of a bigger data structur...
On today's high-speed backbone network links, measuring per-flow traffic information has become very challenging. Maintaining exact per-flow packet counters on OC-192 or OC-76...
One popular form of semantic search observed in several modern search engines is to recognize query patterns that trigger instant answers or domain-specific search, producing sem...
Background: Expression array data are used to predict biological functions of uncharacterized genes by comparing their expression profiles to those of characterized genes. While b...