Discerning the similarity between two molecules is a challenging problem in drug discovery as well as in molecular biology. The importance of this problem is due to the fact that ...
Bioinformatics data is growing at a phenomenal rate. Besides the exponential growth of individual databases, the number of data depositories is increasing too. Because of the comp...
— Advance reservation is a mechanism to guarantee the availability of resources when they are needed. In the context of LambdaGrid, this mechanism is used to provide data-intensi...
— As the popularity of resource-constrained devices such as hand-held computers increases, a new network service offloading complex processing tasks towards computational resour...
Tim Stevens, Marc De Leenheer, Filip De Turck, Bar...
— Medium access control (MAC) protocols have been studied under different contexts for several years now. In all these MAC protocols, nodes make independent decisions on when to ...