Performance of biometric-based recognition systems depends on various factors: database quality, image preprocessing, encoding techniques, etc. Given a biometric database and a se...
One of the key challenges in large information systems such as online shops and digital libraries is to discover the relevant knowledge from the enormous volume of information. Rec...
Schema matching is a crucial task to gather information of the same domain. This is more true on the web, where a large number of data sources are available and require to be matc...
Large-scale distributed data management with P2P systems requires the existence of similarity operators for queries as we cannot assume that all users will agree on exactly the sa...
Search engines are the primary gateways of information access on the Web today. Behind the scenes, search engines crawl the Web to populate a local indexed repository of Web pages...