Abstract. In this paper we introduce the concept of statistical deformation models (SDM) which allow the construction of average models of the anatomy and their variability. SDMs a...
Daniel Rueckert, Alejandro F. Frangi, Julia A. Sch...
Most modern DBMS optimizers rely upon a cost model to choose the best query execution plan (QEP) for any given query. Cost estimates are heavily dependent upon the optimizer’s e...
Michael Stillger, Guy M. Lohman, Volker Markl, Mok...
This article describes a finite-state cascade for the extraction of person names in texts in French. We extract these proper names in order to categorize and to cluster texts with...
Data archivists expect information storage media to have a lifetime greater than ten years. Furthermore they desire the ability to predict when the media will fail in order to pla...
In an attempt to cope with time-varying workload, traditional adaptive Time Warp protocols are designed to react in response to performance changes by altering control parameter c...