Background: Confidence in pairwise alignments of biological sequences, obtained by various methods such as Blast or Smith-Waterman, is critical for automatic analyses of genomic d...
The rapid increase in the data volumes for the past few decades has intensified the need for high processing power for database and data mining applications. Researchers have acti...
Anastassia Ailamaki, Naga K. Govindaraju, Dinesh M...
An operational profile is a quantification of the expected use of a system. Determining an operational profile for software is a crucial and difficult part of software reliability...
Rakesh Shukla, David A. Carrington, Paul A. Stroop...
Emulators that translate algorithms from the shared-memory model to two different message-passing models are presented. Both are achieved by implementing a wait-free, atomic, singl...
An increasing number of social networking platforms are giving users the option to endorse entities that they find appealing, such as videos, photos, or even other users. We defin...