In this paper we develop a theory for characterizing how deformable a shape is given a sequence of its observations. We define a term called ‘‘deformability index’’ (DI) ...
Fairness is an inherent and fundamental factor of queue service disciplines in a large variety of queueing applications, ranging from airport and supermarket waiting lines to comp...
Duplicate detection is the process of identifying multiple representations of a same real-world object in a data source. Duplicate detection is a problem of critical importance in...
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