Effective data placement strategies can enhance the performance of data-intensive applications implemented on high end computing clusters. Such strategies can have a significant i...
Palmprint verification is an approach for verifying a palmprint input by matching the input to the claimed identity template stored in a database. If the dissimilarity measure bet...
Ying-Han Pang, Andrew Teoh Beng Jin, David Ngo Che...
With the increasing complexity and dynamics of database and information systems, it becomes more and more di cult for administrative personnel to identify, specify and enforce sec...
Christina Yip Chung, Michael Gertz, Karl N. Levitt
Multimedia database systems (MMDBSs) have to be capable to handle efficiently time-dependent and timeindependent data, and to support Quality-of-Service (QoS). To support continuo...
To avoid unnecessary maintenance costs in large IT systems resulting from poorly planned changes, it is essential to manage and control changes to the system and to verify that all...