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2012
IEEE
11 years 10 months ago
A Higher-Order Distributed Calculus with Name Creation
—This paper introduces HOpiPn, the higher-order pi-calculus with passivation and name creation, and develops an equivalence theory for this calculus. Passivation [Schmitt and Ste...
Adrien Piérard, Eijiro Sumii
CLOUD
2010
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
RACS: a case for cloud storage diversity
The increasing popularity of cloud storage is leading organizations to consider moving data out of their own data centers and into the cloud. However, success for cloud storage pr...
Hussam Abu-Libdeh, Lonnie Princehouse, Hakim Weath...
BMCBI
2008
149views more  BMCBI 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Evolution of biological sequences implies an extreme value distribution of type I for both global and local pairwise alignment s
Background: Confidence in pairwise alignments of biological sequences, obtained by various methods such as Blast or Smith-Waterman, is critical for automatic analyses of genomic d...
Olivier Bastien, Eric Maréchal
WDAG
2001
Springer
131views Algorithms» more  WDAG 2001»
14 years 4 days ago
The Complexity of Synchronous Iterative Do-All with Crashes
Abstract. The ability to cooperate on common tasks in a distributed setting is key to solving a broad range of computation problems ranging from distributed search such as SETI to ...
Chryssis Georgiou, Alexander Russell, Alexander A....
SODA
2008
ACM
126views Algorithms» more  SODA 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
On distributing symmetric streaming computations
A common approach for dealing with large data sets is to stream over the input in one pass, and perform computations using sublinear resources. For truly massive data sets, howeve...
Jon Feldman, S. Muthukrishnan, Anastasios Sidiropo...