We present in this communication a new biometric system based on the use of hand veins acquired by an infrared imager. After the preprocessing stage and binarization, the vein imag...
Abstract-- Current twig join algorithms incur high memory costs on queries that involve child-axis nodes. In this paper we provide an analytical explanation for this phenomenon. In...
An algorithm is proposed for the purpose of optimizing the availability of files to an operating system prior to their being required during execution by a running system. This al...
XML query languages typically allow the specification of structural patterns of elements. Finding the occurrences of such patterns in an XML tree is the key operation in XML quer...