An approximate search query on a collection of strings finds those strings in the collection that are similar to a given query string, where similarity is defined using a given si...
Abstract-Similarity searching often reduces to finding the k nearest neighbors to a query object. Finding the k nearest neighbors is achieved by applying either a depth-first or a ...
Recently, there has been much interest in processing skyline queries for various applications that include decision making, personalized services, and search pruning. Skyline queri...
Justin J. Levandoski, Mohamed E. Khalefa, Mohamed ...
Abstract. Interest-based communities are a natural arrangement of distributed systems that prune the search space and allow for better dissemination of information to participating...
There has recently been significant interest in using repions based on abstractions of Blum's skeleton into a graph, for qualitative shape matching. The application of these ...