Recent in-memory database systems leverage advanced hardware features like RDMA to provide transactional processing at millions of transactions per second. Distributed transaction processing systems can scale to even higher rates, especially for partitionable workloads. Unfortunately, these high rates are challenging to sustain during partition reconfiguration events. In this paper, we first sh...

In this paper, we present a novel approach for heterogeneous self-reconfiguration of a modular robot comprised of heterogeneous cubic modules. We allow an arbitrary number of modules and module classes and show that the proposed self-reconfiguration algorithm can guarantee completion of heterogeneous self-reconfigurations by avoiding so-called hole obstructions. We introduce a hole-detection al...

One of the most important species of the Bartonella genus is B. henselae that causes a zoonotic infection, cat scratch disease (CSD). The main source of the bacteria is cat and the carrier is Ctenocephalides felis flea. One hundred and forty nail and saliva samples were collected from 70 domestic cats. Positive samples for B. henselae were characterized by po...

Splicing event identification is one of the most important issues in the comprehensive analysis of transcription profile. Recent development of next-generation sequencing technology has generated an extensive profile of alternative splicing. However, while many of these splicing events are between exons that are relatively close on genome sequences, reads generated by RNA-Seq are not limited to...

In this paper we address the issue of automating systems management. Currently, any changes made in the configuration settings of the IT infrastructure in an enterprise are performed manually. To enable automatic system reconfiguration we propose the use of Web Service-enabled enterprise registries in combination with Web Service-based processes. Web Service-based processes define complex seque...

The task-switch paradigm has helped psychologists gain insight into the processes involved in changing from one activity to another. The literature has yielded consistent results about switch cost reconfiguration (abrupt offset in regular task-switch vs. gradual reduction in random task-switch; endogenous and exogenous components of switch cost; cost asymmetry...). In this study we present seve...

Cloud computing is a paradigm that is transforming the way in which organization acquire computational resources and is receiving more attention from the research community. The incremental deployment of cloud services is particularly important in agile development of cloud services, where successive cloud service increments must be integrated into existing cloud service architectures. This req...