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VLDB
2000
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2000
ACM
Strict consistency of replicated data is infeasible or not required by many distributed applications, so current systems often permit stale replication, in which cached copies of ...
SBBD
2004
13 years 9 months ago
2004
Today, neither transactional provisions, in general, nor concurrency control, in particular, of DBMS-based processing are tailored to the specific needs of large and collaborative...
TREC
2001
2001
SiteQ: Engineering High Performance QA System Using Lexico-Semantic Pattern Matching and Shallow NLP
13 years 9 months ago
s In TREC-10, we participated in the web track (only ad-hoc task) and the QA track (only main task). In the QA track, our QA system (SiteQ) has general architecture with three proc...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 7 months ago
2008
Background: The problem of accurate prediction of protein secondary structure continues to be one of the challenging problems in Bioinformatics. It has been previously suggested t...
DC
2008
13 years 7 months ago
2008
We study the feasibility and cost of implementing --a fundamental failure detector at the core of many algorithms--in systems with weak reliability and synchrony assumptions. Intui...