A comparative study of parallel metaheuristics executed in grid environments is proposed, having as case study a genetic algorithm, a simulated annealing algorithm and a random se...
DNA sequence alignment is a very important problem in bioinformatics. The algorithm proposed by Smith-Waterman (SW) is an exact method that obtains optimal local alignments in qua...
Azzedine Boukerche, Jan Mendonca Correa, Alba Cris...
Scientific simulations and experiments use sophisticated data formats to store and access their data. An example of such a format is the Hierarchical Data Format (HDF), commonly u...
Svetlana G. Shasharina, Chuang Li, Nanbor Wang, Ro...
— The increasing complexity of distributed enterprise systems has made the task of managing these systems difficult and time consuming. The only way to simplify the management p...
: Distributed top-k query processing is increasingly becoming an essential functionality in a large number of emerging application classes. This paper addresses the efficient alge...