The field of Record Linkage is concerned with identifying records from one or more datasets which refer to the same underlying entities. Where entity-unique identifiers are not av...
Searching data streams has been traditionally very limited, either in the complexity of the search or in the size of the searched dataset. In this paper, we investigate the design...
Combination functions typically used in biometric identification systems consider as input parameters only those matching scores which are related to a single person in order to de...
2-D face recognition in the presence of large pose variations presents a significant challenge. When comparing a frontal image of a face to a near profile image, one must cope w...
In many application domains (e.g., WWW mining, molecular biology), large string datasets are available and yet under-exploited. The inductive database framework assumes that both s...