Generalizing the concept of a Reeb graph, the Reeb space of a multivariate continuous mapping identifies points of the domain that belong to a common component of the preimage of ...
In content-based image retrieval (CBIR), the images in a database are indexed on the basis of low-level statistical features that can be automatically derived from the images. Due ...
Abstract. We propose a new and efficient signature scheme that is provably secure in the plain model. The security of our scheme is based on a discrete-logarithm-based assumption p...
Data integration has been an important area of research for several years. However, such systems suffer from one of the main drawbacks of database systems: the need to invest signi...
XML data is often used (validated, stored, queried, etc) with respect to di erent types. Understanding the relationship between these types can provide important information for ma...