Advancing in genome sequencing has greatly propelled the understanding of the living world, however, it is insufficient for full description of a biological system. Focusing on, proteomics has emerged as another large-scale platform for improving the understanding of biology. Proteomic experiments can be used for different aspects of clinical and health sciences such as food technology, biomark...

Web services are an important paradigm in distributed application development. Currently, many businesses are seeking to convert their applications into web services because of its ability to promote interoperability among applications. As a number of web services increase, the process of discovering appropriate web services for consumption from user’s perspective gains importance. In this pape...

Current service discovery systems fail to span across the globe and they use simple attribute-value pair or interface matching for service description and querying. We propose a global service discovery system, GloServ, that uses the description logic Web Ontology Language (OWL DL). The GloServ architecture spans both local and wide area networks. It maps knowledge obtained by the service class...

User experience in modern content discovery applications critically depends on high-quality personalized recommendations. However, building systems that provide such recommendations presents a major challenge due to a massive pool of items, a large number of users, and requirements for recommendations to be responsive to user actions and generated on demand in real-time. Here we present Pixie, ...

Motivation Ethnopharmacology, or the scientific validation of traditional medicine, is a respected starting point in drug discovery. Home remedies and traditional use of plants are still widespread, also in Western societies. Instead of perusing ancient pharmacopeias, we developed MedCrawler, which we used to analyze blog posts for mentions of home remedies and their applications. This method i...

We present Figaro, a content discovery solution for mobile ad hoc networks. Our main focus is on urban environments, featuring high densities of users in relatively narrow, circumscribed areas where wireless connectivity is provided by an infrastructure (e.g., bus stops integrating a wireless access point). Figaro superimposes an overlay network onto the mobile ad hoc network, exploits the the ...