Any automated decision support software must tailor its actions or recommendations to the preferences of different users. Thus it requires some representation of user preferences ...
In this paper, we study the problem of indexing multidimensional data in the P2P networks based on distributed hash tables (DHTs). We identify several design issues and propose a ...
In federated Data Grids, individual institutions share their data sets within a community to enable collaborative data analysis. Data access needs to be provided in a scalable fas...
Tobias Scholl, Richard Kuntschke, Angelika Reiser,...
The computational power needed for searching exponentially growing databases, such as GenBank, has increased dramatically. Three different implementations of the most widely used ...
This paper presents an efficient parallel information retrieval (IR) system which provides fast information service for the Internet users on lowcost high-performance PC-NOW enviro...