Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making a profound impact in almost every domain. A vital enabler
of its great success is the availability of abundant and high-quality data for building machine …

Comparing newly obtained and previously known nucleotide and amino-acid sequences
underpins modern biological research. BLAST is a well-established tool for such …

Peer review is seen as an important quality assurance mechanism in both industrial
development and the open source software (OSS) community. The techniques for …

This book addresses researchers and graduate students at the forefront of study/research on
the Internet of Things (IoT) by presenting state-of-the-art research together with the current …

As computational Grids move away from the prototy** state, reliability, performance and
ease of use and maintenance become focus areas of their adoption. In this paper, we …

Compliance issues riddle the agricultural sector despite being an essential industry for the
human race. Many factors contribute to compliance issues; however, meat cut label …

The trend of using virtualization for server consolidation is more and more popular in
enterprise data center. However, on-demand resource allocation among the concurrent …

Seventeen years after its initial publication at ICSE 2000, the Representational State
Transfer (REST) architectural style continues to hold significance as both a guide for …

Peer review is seen as an important quality-assurance mechanism in both industrial
development and the open-source software (OSS) community. The techniques for …

This book focuses on the core question of the necessary architectural support provided by
hardware to efficiently run virtual machines, and of the corresponding design of the …