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INTERNET
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
RPC and REST: Dilemma, Disruption, and Displacement
straction and explained how the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style is one alternative that can yield a superior approach to building distributed systems. Be...
Steve Vinoski
BIRTHDAY
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Database Theory, Yuri, and Me
Yuri Gurevich made many varied and deep contributions to logic for computer science. Logic provides also the theoretical foundation of database systems. Hence, it is almost unavoid...
Jan Van den Bussche
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
How opinions are received by online communities: a case study on amazon.com helpfulness votes
There are many on-line settings in which users publicly express opinions. A number of these offer mechanisms for other users to evaluate these opinions; a canonical example is Ama...
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Gueorgi Kossinet...
SIGMOD
1997
ACM
160views Database» more  SIGMOD 1997»
13 years 11 months ago
Improved Query Performance with Variant Indexes
: The read-mostly environment of data warehousing makes it possible to use more complex indexes to speed up queries than in situations where concurrent updatesare present. The curr...
Patrick E. O'Neil, Dallan Quass
BMCBI
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Incorporating background frequency improves entropy-based residue conservation measures
Background: Several entropy-based methods have been developed for scoring sequence conservation in protein multiple sequence alignments. High scoring amino acid positions may corr...
Kai Wang, Ram Samudrala