Today, the BitTorrent Peer-to-Peer file-sharing network is one of the largest Internet applications--it generates massive traffic volumes, it is deployed in thousands of independe...
Background: A number of completely sequenced eukaryotic genome data are available in the public domain. Eukaryotic genes are either 'intron containing' or 'intronle...
Designing complex multi-tier applications that must meet strict performance requirements is a challenging software engineering problem. Ideally, the application architect could de...
Analysis and design patterns are well established as a convenient and reusable way to build high-quality object-oriented software. Patterns combine experience and good practices t...
This paper describes work in progress on the research project CWSpace, sponsored by the MIT and Microsoft Research iCampus program, to investigate the metadata standards and protoc...