Frequent-pattern mining has been studied extensively on scalable methods for mining various kinds of patterns including itemsets, sequences, and graphs. However, the bottleneck of...
The correct interpretation of tandem mass spectra is a difficult problem, even when it is limited to scoring peptides against a database. De novo sequencing is considerably harder...
In distributed stream processing environments, large numbers of continuous queries are distributed onto multiple servers. When one or more of these servers become overloaded due t...
In large-scale distributed information systems, where participants are autonomous and have special interests for some queries, query allocation is a challenge. Much work in this c...
Autocompletion is a widely deployed facility in systems that require user input. Having the system complete a partially typed "word" can save user time and effort. In th...