The relative difference between two data values is of interest in a number of application domains including temporal and spatial applications, schema versioning, data warehousing...
John F. Roddick, Kathleen Hornsby, Denise de Vries
M-tree is a dynamic access method suitable to index generic “metric spaces”, where the function used to compute the distance between any two objects satisfies the positivity, ...
Paolo Ciaccia, Marco Patella, Fausto Rabitti, Pave...
With the proliferation of multimedia data, there is an increasing need to support the indexing and searching of high-dimensional data. In this paper, we propose an efficient indexi...
Background: Large-scale sequence comparison is a powerful tool for biological inference in modern molecular biology. Comparing new sequences to those in annotated databases is a u...
n explore and understand abstract information spaces as if they were real geographic spaces. According to the distance-similarity metaphor1 one of the most popular spatial metaphor...
Sara Irina Fabrikant, Daniel R. Montello, David M....