Indexing issues that arise in the support of similarity searching are presented. This includes a discussion of the curse of dimensionality, as well as multidimensional indexing, di...
Similarity search in complex databases is of utmost interest in a wide range of application domains. Often, complex objects are described by several representations. The combinatio...
An important research issue in multimedia databases is the retrieval of similar objects. For most applications in multimedia databases, an exact search is not meaningful. Thus, mu...
Similarity search and similarity join on strings are important for applications such as duplicate detection, error detection, data cleansing, or comparison of biological sequences....
The problem of trajectory similarity in moving object databases is a relatively new topic in the spatial and spatiotemporal database literature. Existing work focuses on the spati...
Elias Frentzos, Kostas Gratsias, Yannis Theodoridi...