Ensuring the consistency and the availability of replicated data in highly mobile ad hoc networks is a challenging task because of the lack of a backbone infrastructure. Previous ...
Background: The number of protein targets with a known or predicted tri-dimensional structure and of drug-like chemical compounds is growing rapidly and so is the need for new the...
Nicolas Sauton, David Lagorce, Bruno O. Villoutrei...
Abstract. We describe a simple CSP formalism for handling multi-attribute preference problems with hard constraints, one that combines hard constraints and preferences so the two a...
Eugene C. Freuder, Robert Heffernan, Richard J. Wa...
The idea of building query-oriented routing indices has changed the way of improving keyword search efficiency from the basis as it can learn the content distribution from the que...
In Grids scheduling decisions are often made on the basis of jobs being either data or computation intensive: in data intensive situations jobs may be pushed to the data and in co...
Richard McClatchey, Ashiq Anjum, Heinz Stockinger,...