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DSN
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
High Throughput Total Order Broadcast for Cluster Environments
Total order broadcast is a fundamental communication primitive that plays a central role in bringing cheap software-based high availability to a wide array of services. This paper...
Rachid Guerraoui, Ron R. Levy, Bastian Pochon, Viv...
ICPR
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A fusion methodology based on Dempster-Shafer evidence theory for two biometric applications
Different features carry more or less rich and varied pieces of information to characterize a pattern. The fusion of these different sources of information can provide an opportun...
Muhammad Arif, Thierry Brouard, Nicole Vincent
WETICE
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Curball--A Prototype Tangible Game for Inter-Generational Play
Older people have been the focus of research for ubiquitous computing applications. While many of these are understandably focused on health and aging in place issues, there is al...
Dagmar Kern, Mark Stringer, Geraldine Fitzpatrick,...
AUTOID
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Fast Algorithm for ICP-Based 3D Shape Biometrics
In a biometrics scenario, gallery images are enrolled into the database ahead of the matching step, which gives us the opportunity to build related data structures before the prob...
Ping Yan, Kevin W. Bowyer
HPDC
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Design and evaluation of a new and effective fairness scheme for multicasting in Internet-scale distributed systems
This paper argues that simply applying a multipletree scheme does not provide sufficient fairness for applications in an Internet-scale distributed system, in terms of performance...
Yijun Lu, Hong Jiang