TKDE
2012
11 years 7 months ago
2012
—This paper considers a cloud computing setting in which similarity querying of metric data is outsourced to a service provider. The data is to be revealed only to trusted users,...
BIOINFORMATICS
2011
12 years 8 months ago
2011
We consider the problem of similarity queries in biological network databases. Given a database of networks, similarity query returns all the database networks whose similarity (i...
AMW
2009
13 years 5 months ago
2009
Conventional operators for data retrieval are either based on exact matching or on total order relationship among elements. Neither of them is appropriate to manage complex data, s...
SBBD
2007
13 years 6 months ago
2007
The optimization of similarity queries using metric access methods has been widely discussed in the last decades. Similarity queries consider one object as the query center, and re...
COOPIS
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2004
IEEE
Querying and integrating sources of structured data from the Web in most cases requires similarity-based concepts to deal with data level conflicts. This is due to the often errone...
SIGMOD
1997
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
1997
ACM
We study similarity queries for time series data where similarity is defined in terms of a set of linear transformations on the Fourier series representation of a sequence. We ha...
EDBT
1998
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
1998
ACM
Efficient evaluation of similarity queries is one of the basic requirements for advanced multimedia applications. In this paper, we consider the relevant case where complex similar...
SSDBM
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2010
IEEE
There are abundant scenarios for applications of similarity search in databases where the similarity of objects is defined for a subset of attributes, i.e., in a subspace, only. Wh...
ADL
2000
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2000
Springer
Digital libraries are a core information technology. When the stored data is complex, e.g. high-resolution images or molecular protein structures, simple query types like the exac...
CBMS
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2003
IEEE
This work aims at supporting the retrieval and indexing of medical images by extracting and organizing intrinsic features of them, more specifically texture attributes from images...