The performance of many computer vision and machine learning algorithms critically depends on the quality of the similarity measure defined over the feature space. Previous works...
Mining repeated patterns in television broadcast is important to advertisers in tracking a large number of television commercials. It can also benefit long-term archival of telev...
Reuse has always been a major goal in software engineering, since it promises large gains in productivity, quality and time to market reduction. Practical experience has shown tha...
Name matching—recognizing when two different strings are likely to denote the same entity—is an important task in many legal information systems, such as case-management syste...
1 Although widely used in distributed transactional systems, the so-called Two-Phase Commit (2PC) protocol introduces a substantial delay in transaction processing, even in the abs...
Maha Abdallah, Rachid Guerraoui, Philippe Pucheral