Wikipedia is an example of the large, collaborative, semi-structured data sets emerging on the Web. Typically, before these data sets can be used, they must transformed into struc...
Encryption is a well established technology for protecting sensitive data. However, once encrypted, data can no longer be easily queried aside from exact matches. We present an or...
Rakesh Agrawal, Jerry Kiernan, Ramakrishnan Srikan...
We are developing a distributed query processor called PIER, which is designed to run on the scale of the entire Internet. PIER utilizes a Distributed Hash Table (DHT) as its comm...
Brent N. Chun, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Ryan Huebsch...
Analysis of the spacial structure of proteins including folding processes is a challenge for modern bioinformatics. Due to limited experimental access to folding processes, comput...
Sebastian Potzsch, Gerik Scheuermann, Peter F. Sta...
We are concerned with the following problem: How do we allow a community of users to access and process diverse data stored in many different formats? Standard data formats and da...
Luc Moreau, Yong Zhao, Ian T. Foster, Jens-S. V&ou...