Background: A fundamental goal of the U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH) "Roadmap" is to strengthen Translational Research, defined as the movement of discoveries i...
Alan Ruttenberg, Tim Clark, William Bug, Matthias ...
The Web browser has become the dominant interface to a broad range of applications, including online banking, Web-based email, digital media delivery, gaming, and ecommerce servic...
Richard S. Cox, Steven D. Gribble, Henry M. Levy, ...
XML is fast becoming the standard format to store, exchange and publish over the web, and is getting embedded in applications. Two challenges in handling XML are its size (the XML...
Paolo Ferragina, Fabrizio Luccio, Giovanni Manzini...
Wide-area distribution raises significant performance problems for traditional query processing techniques as data access becomes less predictable due to link congestion, load imb...
Abstract. The rapid increase on the circulation of data over the web has highlighted the need for distributed storage of Internet-accessible information due to the rapid increase o...