A new access method, called M-tree, is proposed to organize and search large data sets from a generic "metric space", i.e. where object proximity is only defined by a di...
Abstract. The task of similarity search is widely used in various areas of computing, including multimedia databases, data mining, bioinformatics, social networks, etc. For a long ...
Metric access methods (MAMs) serve as a tool for speeding similarity queries. However, all MAMs developed so far are index-based; they need to build an index on a given database. T...
The similarity search has become a fundamental computational task in many applications. One of the mathematical models of the similarity – the metric space – has drawn attenti...
Exploiting the concepts of social networking represents a novel approach to the approximate similarity query processing. We present a metric social network where relations between...