111 views209 votes15 years 9 months ago SOSP 1993»
Inter-process communication (ipc) has to be fast and e ective, otherwise programmers will not use remote procedure calls(RPC),multithreadingand multitasking adequately. Thus ipc p...
145 views190 votes15 years 7 months ago ICASSP 2010»
A key step in distributed video coding is the generation of the side information (SI) i.e. the estimation of the Wyner-Ziv frame (WZF). This step is also frequently called image i...
142 views214 votes15 years 7 months ago BMCBI 2007»
Background: Remote homology detection is a challenging problem in Bioinformatics. Arguably, profile Hidden Markov Models (pHMMs) are one of the most successful approaches in addre...
152 views212 votes15 years 7 months ago BMCBI 2005»
Background: Profile hidden Markov model (HMM) techniques are among the most powerful methods for protein homology detection. Yet, the critical features for successful modelling ar...
130 views207 votes15 years 7 months ago PVLDB 2008»
Data integration systems often provide a uniform query interface, called a mediated schema, to a multitude of data sources. To answer user queries, such systems employ a set of se...
As information technology supports more aspects of modern life, digital access has become an important tool for developing regions to lift themselves from poverty. Though broadban...
Current web search engines return result pages containing mostly text summary even though the matched web pages may contain informative pictures. A text excerpt (i.e. snippet) is ...
User browsing information, particularly their non-search related activity, reveals important contextual information on the preferences and the intent of web users. In this paper, ...
Polymorphic, or shape-shifting, robots can normally tackle more types of tasks than non-polymorphic robots due to their flexible morphology. Their versatility adds to the challeng...
The IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN standard power-saving mode (PSM) allows the network interface card (NIC) to periodically sleep between receiving data. In this paper, we show that 802...