Java performance is far from being trivial to benchmark because it is affected by various factors such as the Java application, its input, the virtual machine, the garbage collect...
Database outsourcing becomes increasingly attractive as advances in network technologies eliminate the perceived performance difference between in-house databases and outsourced d...
Testing of database applications is crucial for ensuring high software quality as undetected faults can result in unrecoverable data corruption. The problem of database applicatio...
Background: The Significance Analysis of Microarrays (SAM) is a popular method for detecting significantly expressed genes and controlling the false discovery rate (FDR). Recently...
Performance tuning is an important and time consuming task which may have to be repeated for each new application and platform. Although iterative optimisation can automate this p...