We study the classic problem of estimating the sum of n variables. The traditional uniform sampling approach requires a linear number of samples to provide any non-trivial guarante...
There are increasing requirements for mobile personal identification, e.g. to protect identity theft in wireless applications. Based on built-in cameras of mobile devices, palmprin...
Abstract. As an important feature of fingerprints, singular points (includingcores and deltas) not only represent the local ridge pattern characteristics, but also determine the to...
Abstract. As grids typically consist of autonomously managed subsystems with strongly varying resources, fault-tolerance forms an important aspect of the scheduling process of appl...
Maria Chtepen, Filip H. A. Claeys, Bart Dhoedt, Fi...
Abstract. In many cases, users may want to consider incomplete answers to their queries. Often, however, there is an overwhelming number of such answers, even if subsumed answers a...