In developing a distributed file system, there are several good reasons for implementing the client file cache manager as a user-level process. These include ease of implementatio...
David C. Steere, James J. Kistler, Mahadev Satyana...
— Stochastic activity networks (SANs) are a widely used formalism for describing complex systems that have random behavior. Sophisticated software tools exist for the modeling an...
David M. Nicol, Steve Hanna, Frank Stratton, Willi...
Background: Aligning homologous non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) correctly in terms of sequence and structure is an unresolved problem, due to both mathematical complexity and imperfect s...
Andreas Wilm, Kornelia Linnenbrink, Gerhard Steger
Background: DNA microarray technology allows for the measurement of genome-wide expression patterns. Within the resultant mass of data lies the problem of analyzing and presenting...
Meng Piao Tan, Erin N. Smith, James R. Broach, Chr...
We consider the problem of large scale retrieval evaluation. Recently two methods based on random sampling were proposed as a solution to the extensive effort required to judge te...