A multimodal biometric system integrates information from multiple biometric sources to compensate for the limitations in performance of each individual biometric system. We propos...
The classical Probability Ranking Principle (PRP) forms the theoretical basis for probabilistic Information Retrieval (IR) models, which are dominating IR theory since about 20 ye...
We present a system towards the integration of data mining into relational databases. To this end, a relational database model is proposed, based on the so called virtual mining vi...
The new generation of open networked IT systems poses particular challenges to software engineering due to their evolving nature and their high quality requirements. In particular...
Abstract In this paper we present a new rule-based approach for consistency preserving view updating in deductive databases. Based on rule transformations performed during schema d...