Inverted index data structures are the key to fast search engines. The predominant operation on inverted indices asks for intersecting two sorted lists of document IDs which might...
Background: Existing biological databases support a variety of queries such as keyword or definition search. However, they do not provide any measure of relevance for the instance...
Abstract Flow Accounting is a passive monitoring mechanism implemented in routers that gives insight into trac behavior and network characteristics. However, processing of Flow Ac...
Chord is a protocol to distribute and retrieve information at large scale. It builds a large but rigid overlay network without taking into account the social nature and the underl...
The term distributed computing conjures the image of a fixed network structure whose nodes support the execution of processes that communicate with each other via messages traveli...
Gruia-Catalin Roman, Gian Pietro Picco, Amy L. Mur...