The family of threshold algorithm (i.e., TA) has been widely studied for efficiently computing top-k queries. TA uses a sort-merge framework that assumes data lists are pre-sorted...
Effective peer selection for intelligent query routing is a challenge in collaborative peer-based Web search systems, especially unstructured networks that do not have any central...
Regression testing is a widely-used method for checking whether modifications to software systems have adversely affected the overall functionality. This is potentially an expens...
A biometric system for user authentication produces a matching score representing the degree of similarity of the input biometry with the set of templates for that user. If the sc...
—Shared cache allocation policies play an important role in determining CMP performance. The simplest policy, LRU, allocates cache implicitly as a consequence of its replacement ...