Large databases with uncertain information are becoming more common in many applications including data integration, location tracking, and Web search. In these applications, ranki...
Data synopsis is a lossy compressed representation of data stored into databases that helps the query optimizer to speed up the query process, e.g. time to retrieve the data from ...
Background: Biological networks offer us a new way to investigate the interactions among different components and address the biological system as a whole. In this paper, a revers...
Dong-Chul Kim, Xiaoyu Wang, Chin-Rang Yang, Jean G...
The IEEE Standard 754-1985 for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic [1] was revised [2], and an important addition is the definition of decimal floating-point arithmetic. This is inte...
Marius Cornea, Cristina Anderson, John Harrison, P...
As the Web continues to grow, it has become increasingly difficult to search for relevant information using traditional search engines. Topic-specific search engines provide an al...