As the popularity of areas including document storage and distributed systems continues to grow, the demand for high performance XML databases is increasingly evident. This has le...
Modern scientific applications consume massive volumes of data produced by computer simulations. Such applications require new data management capabilities in order to scale to te...
For many applications with spatial data management such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS), block-oriented access over flash memory could introduce a significant number of no...
Similarity search leveraging distance-based index structures is increasingly being used for complex data types. It has been shown that for high dimensional uniform vectors with si...
Rui Mao, Wenguo Liu, Daniel P. Miranker, Qasim Iqb...
The performance of an automatic fingerprint authentication system relies heavily on the quality of the captured fingerprint images. In this paper, two new quality indices for fi...