Biologists are increasingly using databases for storing and managing their data. Biological databases typically consist of a mixture of raw data, metadata, sequences, annotations,...
Mohamed Y. Eltabakh, Mourad Ouzzani, Walid G. Aref
We present a genetic algorithm for tackling a file assignment problem for a large-scale video-on-demand system. The file assignment problem is to find the optimal replication and a...
Jun Guo, Yi Wang, Kit-Sang Tang, Sammy Chan, Eric ...
Negotiation techniques have been demonstrated to be effective in solving complex multi-objective problems. When the optimization process operates on continuous variables, it can b...
Robust distributed systems commonly employ high-level recovery mechanisms enabling the system to recover from a wide variety of problematic environmental conditions such as node f...
Charles Edwin Killian, Karthik Nagaraj, Salman Per...
t a single security abstraction layer, but rather is a roblem spanning multiple abstraction levels. We use an embedded biometric authentication device to demonstratethenecessityofa...
David Hwang, Patrick Schaumont, Kris Tiri, Ingrid ...