stract This panel addresses a very important area that is often neglected or overlooked by database systems, database applications developers and data warehouse designers, namely s...
Background: Innumerable biological investigations require comparing collections of molecules, cells or organisms to one another with respect to one or more of their properties. Al...
Despite Java’s automatic reclamation of memory, memory leaks remain an important problem. For example, we frequently encounter memory leaks that cause production servers to crash...
The asymptotic distribution of estimates that are based on a sub-optimal search for the maximum of the log-likelihood function is considered. In particular, estimation schemes that...
In emerging Web2.0 applications such as virtual worlds or social networking websites, the number of users is very important (tens of thousands), hence the amount of data to manage...