Web 2.0 applications like Flickr, YouTube, or Del.icio.us are increasingly popular online communities for creating, editing and sharing content. However, the rapid increase in siz...
Joins are essential for many data analysis tasks, but are not supported directly by the MapReduce paradigm. While there has been progress on equi-joins, implementation of join alg...
Requirement analysis continues to be one of the most critical and challenging phases during the software development process. Many object-oriented methodologies identify three pri...
Peter J. Clarke, Yingbo Wang, Tuan L. Cameron, Yal...
We propose a novel approach for shape-based segmentation based on a specially designed level set function format. This format permits us to better control the process of object re...
Background: Manual curation of biological databases, an expensive and labor-intensive process, is essential for high quality integrated data. In this paper we report the implement...