Similarity search in metric spaces has several important applications both in centralized and distributed environments. In centralized applications, such as similarity-based image ...
Searching in decentralized peer-to-peer networks is a challenging problem. In common applications such as Gnutella, searching is performed by randomly forwarding queries to all pee...
A practical method for creating a high dimensional index structure that adapts to the data distribution and scales well with the database size, is presented. Typical media descrip...
Peng Wu, B. S. Manjunath, Shivkumar Chandrasekaran
Intervals represent a fundamental data type for temporal, scientific, and spatial databases where time stamps and point data are extended to time spans and range data, respectively...
As many metadata are encoded in XML, and many digital libraries need to manage XML documents, eļ¬cient techniques for searching in such formatted data are required. In order to eļ...
Giuseppe Amato, Franca Debole, Pavel Zezula, Faust...