In this paper we demonstrate that in an ideal Distributed Information Retrieval environment, taking the ability of each collection server to return relevant documents into account...
Recent years have seen extensive investigation of the information aggregation properties of prediction markets. However, relatively little is known about conditions under which a ...
Krishnamurthy Iyer, Ramesh Johari, Ciamac Cyrus Mo...
Large-scale websites are increasingly moving from relational databases to distributed key-value stores for high request rate, low latency workloads. Often this move is motivated n...
Michael Armbrust, Stephen Tu, Armando Fox, Michael...
Safety Critical Java is a specification being built on top a subset of interfaces from the Real-Time Specification for Java. It is designed to ease development and analysis of s...
The directed evolution of proteins, using an in vitro domainal shuffling strategy was proposed in (J. Kolkman and W. Stemmer, Nat. Biotech. 19, 423 (2001). Due to backhybridization...
John A. Rose, Russell J. Deaton, Masami Hagiya, Ak...