In a database system, disclosure of confidential private data may occur if users can put together the answers of past queries. Traditional access control mechanisms cannot guard a...
Abstract. A critical step in automatic fingerprint recognition is the accurate segmentation of fingerprint images. The objective of fingerprint segmentation is to decide which part...
Cooperative transmission by base stations can significantly improve the spectral efficiency of multiuser, multi-cell multiple input multiple output systems. We show that in such s...
Hongyuan Zhang, Neelesh B. Mehta, Andreas F. Molis...
Distributing scarce resources among agents in a way that maximizes the social welfare of the group is a computationally hard problem when the value of a resource bundle is not lin...
Databases are often incomplete because of the presence of disjunctive information, due to con icts, partial knowledge and other reasons. Queries against such databases often ask q...