Strict consistency of replicated data is infeasible or not required by many distributed applications, so current systems often permit stale replication, in which cached copies of ...
Background: Identifying relevant research in an ever-growing body of published literature is becoming increasingly difficult. Establishing domain-specific knowledge bases may be a...
Selecting an informative subset of SNPs, generally referred to as tag SNPs, to genotype and analyze is considered to be an essential step toward effective disease association studi...
Continuous query systems are an intuitive way for users to access streaming data in large-scale scientific applications containing many hundreds of streams. A challenge in these ...
This paper describes the architecture of a Bulgarian–Bulgarian question answering system — BulQA. The system relies on a partially parsed corpus for answer extraction. The que...