To address the limitations of centralized shared storage for cloud computing, we are building Lithium, a distributed storage system designed specifically for virtualization workl...
Background: Ontologies such as the Gene Ontology can enable the construction of complex queries over biological information in a conceptual way, however existing systems to do thi...
Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks (WSANs) are composed of a large number of heterogeneous nodes called sensors and actors. The collaborative operation of sensors enables the dist...
Tommaso Melodia, Dario Pompili, Vehbi C. Gungor, I...
Background: The pyridine nucleotide disulfide reductase (PNDR) is a large and heterogeneous protein family divided into two classes (I and II), which reflect the divergent evoluti...
This paper addresses software plasticity, i.e. the ability of interactive systems to adapt to context of use while preserving user-centered properties. In plasticity, a classical a...