We describe and evaluate the performance of a parallel search engine that is able to cope efficiently with concurrent read/write operations. Read operations come in the usual form ...
ArachnoServer (www.arachnoserver.org) is a manually curated database providing information on the sequence, structure and biological activity of protein toxins from spider venoms....
Volker Herzig, David L. A. Wood, Felicity Newell, ...
Most recommendation methods (e.g., collaborative filtering) consist of (1) a computationally intense offline phase that computes a recommender model based on users’ opinions o...
Justin J. Levandoski, Mohamed Sarwat, Mohamed F. M...
In many multiclass learning scenarios, the number of classes is relatively large (thousands,...), or the space and time efficiency of the learning system can be crucial. We invest...
—In China, the number of online learners who attend formal education has quadrupled in the last 5 years to 8.2 millions until the end of 2008. How can online teachers build and u...
Xiaohong Tan, Carsten Ullrich, Yan Wang, Ruimin Sh...