Distributed software development is a fact of life for many projects. It is well established that
distance makes difficult to interact and to cooperate effectively. Scrum emphasizes …

Background Biological entities do not perform in isolation, and often, it is the nature and
degree of interactions among numerous biological entities which ultimately determines any …

An information extraction system that extracts' sentiment'words in unrestricted Arabic texts is
described. Earlier work on the automatic sentiment analysis in English and Chinese texts …

The grid service system is a type of large-scale distributed system, which is being widely
used in many fields now. The partition of a grid service task into subtasks and the distribution …

OBJECTIVES: Biological research literature, as in many other domains of human endeavor,
represents a rich, ever growing source of knowledge. An important form of such biological …

Biomedical literature and database annotations, available in electronic forms, contain a vast
amount of knowledge resulting from global research. Users, attempting to utilize the current …

In this paper we discuss text data mining (TDM) mainly in the context of the biomedical
domain, where we extract associations from MEDLINE text articles and construct association …

Advances in commercial and scientific data collection have generated a flood of data which
has triggered the need to turn such data into useful information and knowledge to identify …

Automatic tools to extract information from biomedical texts are needed to help researchers
leverage the vast and increasing body of biomedical literature. While several biomedical …

Chapter Overview Identification of relationships among different biological entities, eg,
genes, proteins, diseases, drugs and chemicals, etc, is an important problem for biological …