In many applications, we find large video collections from different genres where the user is often only interested in one or two specific video genres. So, when users are queryin...
Summaries of massive data sets support approximate query processing over the original data. A basic aggregate over a set of records is the weight of subpopulations specified as a ...
We consider the problem of indexing high-dimensional data for answering (approximate) similarity-search queries. Similarity indexes prove to be important in a wide variety of sett...
Background: The opportunities for bacterial population genomics that are being realised by the application of parallel nucleotide sequencing require novel bioinformatics platforms...
Many modern database applications require content-based similarity search capability in numeric attribute space. Further, users' notion of similarity varies between search se...