Scientific database federations are geographically distributed and network bound. Thus, they could benefit from proxy caching. However, existing caching techniques are not suitabl...
The emergence of electronic marketplaces and other electronic services and applications on the Internet is creating a growing demand for effective management of resources. Due to ...
Markus Keidl, Alexander Kreutz, Alfons Kemper, Don...
The management of product-related data in a uniform and consistent way is a big challenge for many manufacturing enterprises, especially the large ones like DaimlerChrysler. So-ca...
In recent years, research about distributing databases over networks has become increasingly important. Here we concentrate on the issues of interoperability of heterogeneous DBMS...
Stefan Grufman, Fredrik Samson, Suzanne M. Embury,...
The quality of biometric samples has a significant impact on the accuracy of a matcher. Poor quality biometric samples often lead to incorrect matching results because the feature...
Anil K. Jain, Karthik Nandakumar, Sarat C. Dass, Y...