It is time to stop arguing over which type of pattern classification technique is best because that depends on our context and goal. Instead we should work at a higher level of organization and discover how to build managerial systems to exploit the different virtues and evade the different limitations of each of these ways of comparing things.

Minsky, 1991.

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Arun Ross, Karthik Nandakumar, and Anil K. Jain, Handbook of Multibiometrics, Springer Verlag, 2006.

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