An important emerging need in Model Organism Databases (MODs) and other bioinformatics databases (DBs) is that of capturing the scientific evidence that supports the information wi...
Peter D. Karp, Suzanne M. Paley, Cynthia J. Kriege...
Most applications that access large data objects do so through file systems, but file systems provide an incomplete solution, as they maintain insufficient metadata and do not pro...
Declustering and replication are well known techniques used to improve response time of queries in parallel disk environments. As data replication incurs a penalty for updates, da...
Current Bayesian net representations do not consider structure in the domain and include all variables in a homogeneous network. At any time, a human reasoner in a large domain ma...
– Maintenance of the cache consistency is a complicated issue in the wireless mobile environment. Caching of frequently accessed data items on the node can reduce the bandwidth r...