A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different site...
Firewall policies can be extremely complex and difficult to maintain, especially on networks with more than a few hundred machines. The difficulty of configuring a firewall proper...
Background: Protein topology representations such as residue contact maps are an important intermediate step towards ab initio prediction of protein structure. Although improvemen...