Abstract—The growth in practical applications for iris biometrics has been accompanied by relevant developments in the underlying algorithms and techniques. Along with the resear...
Gil Melfe Mateus Santos, Hugo Pedro Martins Carric...
Metric access methods (MAMs) serve as a tool for speeding similarity queries. However, all MAMs developed so far are index-based; they need to build an index on a given database. T...
Recently, flash memory is emerging as the storage device. With price sliding fast, the cost per capacity is approaching to that of SATA disk drives. So far flash memory has been ...
We consider the problem of e-Infrastructures that wish to reconcile the generality of their services with the bespoke requirements of diverse user communities. We motivate the requ...
Fabio Simeoni, Leonardo Candela, David Lievens, Pa...
Abstract. The deployment of agent societies —as complex systems— in dynamic and unpredictable settings brings forth critical issues concerning their design. Organizational mode...
Loris Penserini, Virginia Dignum, Athanasios Staik...