Big data is the tar sands of the data world: vast reserves of raw gritty data whose valuable information content can only be extracted at great cost. MapReduce is a popular parall...
Background: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are recognized as one of the most important families of noncoding RNAs that serve as important sequence-specific post-transcriptional regulators of ...
Ting-Hua Huang, Bin Fan, Max F. Rothschild, Zhi-Li...
Efficient processing of distance-based queries (DBQs) is of great importance in spatial databases due to the wide area of applications that may address such queries. The most repr...
When computing descriptors of image data, the type of information that can be extracted may be strongly dependent on the scales at which the image operators are applied. This arti...
Data outsourcing or database as a service is a new paradigm for data management in which a third party service provider hosts a database as a service. The service provides data man...
Ahmed Metwally, Amr El Abbadi, Divyakant Agrawal, ...