Multiple sequence alignment is a fundamental problem in computational biology. Because of its notorious difficulties, aligning sequences within a constant band (c-diagonal) is a ...
Queries involving aggregation are typical in a number of database research areas, such as data warehousing, global information systems and mobile computing. One of the main ideas ...
Given a graph (directed or undirected) with costs on the edges, and an integer k, we consider the problem of nding a k-node connected spanning subgraph of minimum cost. For the ge...
We will describe the outline of the cryptographic technology evaluation project in Japan and those present conditions. The purpose of this project is that the cyptographic technolo...
Application integration is a major trend in information technology today. In this paper we present a number of principles for the design, validation and presentation of process mod...