Intelligent directory assistance is the ability to retrieve relevant subscriber records in the presence of mismatches between the query and the subscriber record. The challenges a...
Background: Illumina’s Infinium SNP BeadChips are extensively used in both small and large-scale genetic studies. A fundamental step in any analysis is the processing of raw all...
Matthew E. Ritchie, Ruijie Liu, Benilton Carvalho,...
Community Question Answering has emerged as a popular and effective paradigm for a wide range of information needs. For example, to find out an obscure piece of trivia, it is now ...
Performance characteristics, such as response time, throughput and scalability, are key quality attributes of distributed applications. Current practice, however, rarely applies s...
A large-scale, distributed video-on-demand (VOD) system allows geographically dispersed residential and business users to access video services, such as movies and other multimedia...
Constantinos Vassilakis, Michael Paterakis, Peter ...