The increasing use of multimedia streams nowadays necessitates the development of efficient and effective methodologies for manipulating databases storing them. Moreover, content-...
A variety of performance-enhancing techniques, such as striping, mirroring, and rotational data replication, exist in the disk array literature. Given a fixed budget of disks, one...
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Assistance – work carried out by one entity in support of another – is a concept of long-standing interest, both as a type of human work common in organizations and as a model...
Thomas Erickson, Catalina M. Danis, Wendy A. Kello...
Reference models play an important role in the knowledge management of the various complex collaboration domains (such as Supply Chain Networks). However, they often show a lack o...
Mathematical modeling for gene regulative networks (GRNs) provides an effective tool for hypothesis testing in biology. A necessary step in setting up such models is the estimati...