Effective analysis of genome sequences and associated functional data requires access to many different kinds of biological information. For example, when analysing gene expressio...
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XML has emerged as the standard for representing and exchanging data on the World Wide Web. It is critical to have efficient mechanisms to store and query XML data to exploit the...
Mustafa Atay, Yezhou Sun, Dapeng Liu, Shiyong Lu, ...
The democratization of ubiquitous computing (access data anywhere, anytime, anyhow), the increasing connection of corporate databases to the Internet and the today's natural ...
Increasing demands for interconnectivity, adaptivity and flexibility are leading to distributed component-based systems (DCBS) where components may dynamically join and leave a sys...
Giovanni Russello, Michel R. V. Chaudron, Maarten ...
In parallel computing environments such as HPC clusters and the Grid, data-intensive applications involve large overhead costs due to a concentration of access to the files on co...