Hadoop is a reference software framework supporting the Map/Reduce programming model. It relies on the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) as its primary storage system. Althoug...
Background: BLAST is a widely used genetic research tool for analysis of similarity between nucleotide and protein sequences. This paper presents a software application entitled &...
Current taint tracking systems suffer from high overhead and a lack of generality. In this paper, we solve both of these issues with an extensible system that is an order of magni...
Location-based applications and services are getting increasingly important for mobile users. They take into account a mobile user's current location and provide a location-d...
Single sign-on is critical for the usability of distributed systems. While there are several authentication mechanisms which support single sign-on (e.g. Kerberos and X.509), it m...