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AVBPA
2005
Springer
320views Biometrics» more  AVBPA 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
A Principled Approach to Score Level Fusion in Multimodal Biometric Systems
A multimodal biometric system integrates information from multiple biometric sources to compensate for the limitations in performance of each individual biometric system. We propos...
Sarat C. Dass, Karthik Nandakumar, Anil K. Jain
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 10 months ago
To index or not to index: time-space trade-offs in search engines with positional ranking functions
Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
Diego Arroyuelo, Senén González, Mau...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
139views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
14 years 8 months ago
Paths to stardom: calibrating the potential of a peer-based data management system
As peer-to-peer (P2P) networks become more familiar to the database community, intense interest has built up in using their scalability and resilience properties to scale database...
Mihai Lupu, Beng Chin Ooi, Y. C. Tay
WEBDB
2005
Springer
124views Database» more  WEBDB 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
JXP: Global Authority Scores in a P2P Network
This document presents the JXP algorithm for dynamically and collaboratively computing PageRank-style authority scores of Web pages distributed in a P2P network. In the architectu...
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Gerhard Weikum
ICDE
2006
IEEE
134views Database» more  ICDE 2006»
14 years 9 months ago
ISOMER: Consistent Histogram Construction Using Query Feedback
Database columns are often correlated, so that cardinality estimates computed by assuming independence often lead to a poor choice of query plan by the optimizer. Multidimensional...
Utkarsh Srivastava, Peter J. Haas, Volker Markl, M...