In the context of object recognition, it is useful to extract, from the images, efficient indexes that are insensitive to the illumination conditions, to the camera scale factor ...
The supercomputer center, digital library, and archival storage communities have common persistent archival storage requirements. Each of these communities is building software in...
Spatial indexes, such as the PMR quadtree, are important in spatial databases for efficient execution of queries involving spatial constraints, especially when the queries involv...
Consistency management is an important requirement in many complex applications, but current programming languages and database systems provide inadequate support for it. To addre...
This paper presents the Authorization Service provided by Tivoli Policy Director (PD) and its use by PD family members as well as third-party applications. Policies are defined ov...