Lately the advances in centralized database management systems show a trend towards supporting rank-aware query operators, like top-k, that enable users to retrieve only the most ...
A new generation of distributed systems and applications rely on the cooperation of diverse user populations motivated by self-interest. While they can utilize “reputation syste...
Gayatri Swamynathan, Ben Y. Zhao, Kevin C. Almerot...
The construction of a large class of distributed systems can be simplified by leveraging middleware, which is layered between network operating systems and application components....
Geo-sciences involve large-scale parallel models, high resolution real time data from highly asynchronous and heterogeneous sensor networks and instruments, and complex analysis a...
Background: Microarray experimentation requires the application of complex analysis methods as well as the use of non-trivial computer technologies to manage the resultant large d...
Geraint Barton, J. C. Abbott, Norie Chiba, D. W. H...