We introduce a classification of the existing mechanisms based on their operational time-scale, discuss the most important techniques employed to date from this perspective, analyze the employed evaluation methodologies and undertake a quantitative comparison of their performance gains.
In this chapter, we introduce a classification of this area in subtopics in order to facilitate the reader in navigating through the various chapters and to easily access them.
Specifically, we first review the state of the art for verifiable data search and secure data deduplication techniques, and introduce a classification of these techniques.
Building on the operations strategy (structural vs. infrastructural elements), Klassen and Whybark (1999) introduced a classification of environmental technologies into three mutually exclusive groups.
Mahler [5] introduced a classification of the set of all transcendental numbers into three disjoint classes, termed S, T and U and this classification has proved to be of considerable value in the general development of the subject.
In 1943, Seddon [2] introduced a classification of nerve injuries based on three main types of nerve fibre injury and whether there was continuity of the nerve: neurotmesis, axonotmesis and neurapraxia [2].
To make comparison of treatment outcomes easier, Dahl et al. (1994) introduced a classification of the severity of the deformity.
Ekstrand et al. [ 4] were the first ones to introduce a classification of caries lesions connecting the specific clinical signs with histological findings (Table 1) [ 4].
This paper intends to review systematically major studies on adolescent endometriosis published since 1979 when the American Fertility Society introduced a classification of endometriosis.
A new law in 1971 introduced a classification of land according to its use, and the responsibilities, the obligations and rights of economic organizations and the administration were defined, and land tenure arrangements introduced.
