We propose a partitioning scheme for similarity search indexes that is called Maximal Metric Margin Partitioning (MMMP). MMMP divides the data on the basis of its distribution pat...
Semi-join reducers were introduced in the late seventies as a means to reduce the communication costs of distributed database systems. Subsequent work in the eighties showed, howe...
Konrad Stocker, Donald Kossmann, Reinhard Braumand...
Over recent years there has been increased level of discussion on utility pricing for software. The focus of these discussions is to create new operating cost models where the unit...
The two dominant costs in continuous spatial query systems are the wireless communication cost for location update, and the evaluation cost for query processing. Existing works add...
A complete authentication system based on fusion of 3D face and hand biometrics is presented and evaluated in this paper. The system relies on a low cost real-time sensor, which c...