In this paper we examine the problem of balancing load in a large-scale distributed system when information about server loads may be stale. It is well known that sending each req...
Background: The amount of available biological information is rapidly increasing and the focus of biological research has moved from single components to networks and even larger ...
Stephanie Heinen, Bernhard Thielen, Dietmar Schomb...
We study the communication complexity of rumor spreading in the random phone-call model. Suppose n players communicate in parallel rounds, where in each round every player calls a...
Abstract. The ImageCLEF task of CLEF has a main goal in the retrieval of images from multi–lingual collections. The 2003 imageCLEF saw no group using the visual information of im...
Online citizen science projects engage volunteers in collecting, analyzing, and curating scientific data. Existing projects have demonstrated the value of using volunteers to coll...
Dana Rotman, Jenny Preece, Jen Hammock, Kezee Proc...