With increased demand for storage of scientific data comes a corresponding demand for efficient retrieval mechanisms necessary for analytical and reporting purposes. As is often...
We present a technique for organizing data in spatial databases with non-convex domains based on an automatic characterization using the medial-axis transform (MAT). We define a t...
Eric A. Perlman, Randal C. Burns, Michael M. Kazhd...
Query expansion has been shown effective for both single database retrieval and for distributed information retrieval where complete collection information is available. One might...
Motivation: Next-generation sequencing methods are generating increasingly massive datasets, yet still do not fully capture genetic diversity in the richest environments. To under...
Alex L. B. Leach, James P. J. Chong, Kelly R. Rede...
Abstract. The research on P2P systems which support skewed key distributions has rapidly advanced in the recent years. Yet, the assumptions on the skews we are dealing with remaine...
Sarunas Girdzijauskas, Anwitaman Datta, Karl Abere...