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BMCBI
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
Background: Similarity inference, one of the main bioinformatics tasks, has to face an exponential growth of the biological data. A classical approach used to cope with this data ...
DEBU
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Flash memory affects not only storage options but also query processing. In this paper, we analyze the use of flash memory for database query processing, including algorithms that...
SPAA
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2004
ACM
Parallel disks provide a cost effective way of speeding up I/Os in applications that work with large amounts of data. The main challenge is to achieve as much parallelism as poss...
VLDB
1999
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
1999
ACM
As random access memory gets cheaper, it becomes increasingly affordable to build computers with large main memories. We consider decision support workloads within the context of...
SCALESPACE
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2007
Springer
This paper presents a statistical model for textures that uses a non-negative decomposition on a set of local atoms learned from an exemplar. This model is described by the varianc...