This paper envisions a distributed network storage service with Quality-ofService (QoS) guarantees, and describes its architecture and key mechanisms. When fully realized, this se...
The Rice Genome Research Program (RGP) launched a large-scale rice genome sequencing in 1998 aimed at decoding all genetic information in rice. A new genome database called INE (I...
Katsumi Sakata, Baltazar A. Antonio, Yoshiyuki Muk...
We propose a new technique for direct visual matching of images for the purposes of face recognition and image retrieval, using a probabilistic measure of similarity, based primar...
We analyze various stochastic processes for generating permutations almost uniformly at random in distributed and parallel systems. All our protocols are simple, elegant and are b...
rigorous, and abstract— clearly defined and generally agreed—type inheritance model. To quote an article by Taivalsaari: “The basic idea of inheritance is quite simple ... [a...