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VLDB
1995
ACM
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A Performance Evaluation of OID Mapping Techniques
In this paper, three techniques to implement logical OIDs are thoroughly evaluated: hashing, B-trees and a technique called direct mapping. Among these three techniques, direct ma...
André Eickler, Carsten Andreas Gerlhof, Don...
ICDE
1991
IEEE
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DOT: A Spatial Access Method Using Fractals
Existing Database Management Systems (DBMSs) do not handle efficiently multi-dimensional data such as boxes, polygons, or even points in a multi-dimensional space. We examine acc...
Christos Faloutsos, Yi Rong
ICPR
2010
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
An LDA-Based Relative Hysteresis Classifier with Application to Segmentation of Retinal Vessels
In a pattern classification setup, image segmentation is achieved by assigning each pixel to one of two classes: object or background. The special case of vessel segmentation is c...
Alexandru Paul Condurache, Alfred Mertins
ECCV
2010
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
A Novel Parameter Estimation Algorithm for the Multivariate t-Distribution and Its Application to Computer
Abstract. We present a novel algorithm for approximating the parameters of a multivariate t-distribution. At the expense of a slightly decreased accuracy in the estimates, the prop...
WSC
2007
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Emergency departments nurse allocation to face a pandemic influenza outbreak
This study proposes a nurse allocation policy to manage patient overflow during a pandemic influenza outbreak. The objective is to minimize the number of patients waiting in queue...
Florentino Rico, Ehsan Salari, Grisselle Centeno