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BMCBI
2004
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13 years 8 months ago
A SNP-centric database for the investigation of the human genome
Background: Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) are an increasingly important tool for genetic and biomedical research. Although current genomic databases contain information o...
Alberto Riva, Isaac S. Kohane
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Brand awareness and the evaluation of search results
We investigate the effect of search engine brand (i.e., the identifying name or logo that distinguishes a product from its competitors) on evaluation of system performance. This r...
Bernard J. Jansen, Mimi Zhang, Ying Zhang
ICC
2007
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
Adaptive Error-Resilience Transcoding and Fairness Grouping for Video Multicast Over Wireless Networks
—In this paper, we present a two-pass intra-refresh transcoder for on-the-fly enhancing error resilience of a compressed video in a three-tier streaming system. Furthermore, we c...
Chih-Ming Chen, Chia-Wen Lin, Yung-Chang Chen
COOPIS
2003
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Static Type-Inference for Trust in Distributed Information Systems
Abstract. Decision-makers in critical fields such as medicine and finance make use of a wide range of information available over the Internet. Mediation, a data integration techn...
Premkumar T. Devanbu, Michael Gertz, Brian Toone
HUC
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Exploiting Social Interactions in Mobile Systems
Abstract. The popularity of handheld devices has created a flurry of research activity into new protocols and applications that can handle and exploit the defining characteristic...
Andrew G. Miklas, Kiran K. Gollu, Kelvin K. W. Cha...