Searching for medical information on the Web is highly popular these days. To facilitate ordinary people to perform medical search and preliminary disease self-diagnosis, we have ...
World Wide Web search engines typically return thousands of results to the users. To avoid users browsing through the whole list of results, search engines use ranking algorithms ...
With the widespread use of BLAST, many parallel versions of BLAST on cluster systems are announced, but little work has been done for the parallel execution in the search for indi...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems are characterized by direct access between peer computers, rather than through a centralized server. File sharing is the dominant P2P application on the...
1 The unstructured Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems usually use a “blind search” method to find the requested data object by propagating a query to a number of peers randomly. In or...