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ISPW
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Accurate Estimates without Calibration?
Most process models calibrate their internal settings using historical data. Collecting this data is expensive, tedious, and often an incomplete process. Is it possible to make acc...
Tim Menzies, Oussama El-Rawas, Barry W. Boehm, Ray...
ICCV
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Deformable Template As Active Basis
This article proposes an active basis model and a shared pursuit algorithm for learning deformable templates from image patches of various object categories. In our generative mod...
Ying Nian Wu, Zhangzhang Si, Chuck Fleming, Song C...
FC
2007
Springer
141views Cryptology» more  FC 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
The Unbearable Lightness of PIN Cracking
Responding to the PIN cracking attacks from Berkman and Ostrovsky (FC 2007), we outline a simple solution called salted-PIN. A randomly generated salt value of adequate length (e.g...
Omer Berkman, Odelia Moshe Ostrovsky
ACSAC
2000
IEEE
14 years 14 days ago
Efficient Commerce Protocols based on One-Time Pads
We present a new commerce protocol that allows customers and merchants to conduct face-to-face creditcard authorizations with a credit card company securely with the option of ano...
Michael A. Schneider, Edward W. Felten
SIGMOD
2000
ACM
141views Database» more  SIGMOD 2000»
14 years 12 days ago
Counting, Enumerating, and Sampling of Execution Plans in a Cost-Based Query Optimizer
Testing an SQL database system by running large sets of deterministic or stochastic SQL statements is common practice in commercial database development. However, code defects oft...
Florian Waas, César A. Galindo-Legaria