The mini-block encoding scheme does not mandate transparent compression. Generally the cost of decompressing and entire block is cheap compared to the I/O so there is little need for it. However, ...

South Africa defeated Pakistan by eight wickets in the second Test encounter in Rawalpindi to draw the two-match series 1-1 on Thursday. Simon Harmer finished with figures of 6-50 as the 36-year-old ...

Abstract: Presently, similar sequence search is a fundamental technique in genomic data research. Patients or researchers, who want to check whether they or their research objects have genetic ...

Abstract: Cloud outsourcing provides flexible storage and computation services for data users in a low cost, but it brings many security threats as the cloud server may not be fully trusted. Previous ...