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SIGMOD
2006
ACM
232views Database» more  SIGMOD 2006»
15 years 12 months ago
To search or to crawl?: towards a query optimizer for text-centric tasks
Text is ubiquitous and, not surprisingly, many important applications rely on textual data for a variety of tasks. As a notable example, information extraction applications derive...
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Eugene Agichtein, Pranay ...
MOBISYS
2007
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Improving mobile database access over wide-area networks without degrading consistency
We report on the design, implementation, and evaluation of a system called Cedar that enables mobile database access with good performance over low-bandwidth networks. This is acc...
Niraj Tolia, Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Adam Wolbach
MOBISYS
2006
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Context-aware interactive content adaptation
Automatic adaptation of content for mobile devices is a challenging problem because optimal adaptation often depends on the usage semantics of content, as well as the context of u...
Iqbal Mohomed, Jim Chengming Cai, Sina Chavoshi, E...
WABI
2009
Springer
142views Bioinformatics» more  WABI 2009»
15 years 6 months ago
Back-Translation for Discovering Distant Protein Homologies
Background: Frameshift mutations in protein-coding DNA sequences produce a drastic change in the resulting protein sequence, which prevents classic protein alignment methods from ...
Marta Gîrdea, Laurent Noé, Gregory Ku...
WABI
2009
Springer
117views Bioinformatics» more  WABI 2009»
15 years 6 months ago
A Simulation Study Comparing Supertree and Combined Analysis Methods Using SMIDGen
Background: Supertree methods comprise one approach to reconstructing large molecular phylogenies given multi-marker datasets: trees are estimated on each marker and then combined...
M. Shel Swenson, François Barbançon,...