Tasks of information retrieval depend on a good distance function for measuring similarity between data instances. The most effective distance function must be formulated in a con...
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....
Many modern database applications require content-based similarity search capability in numeric attribute space. Further, users' notion of similarity varies between search se...
—As databases increasingly integrate different types of information such as multimedia, spatial, time-series, and scientific data, it becomes necessary to support efficient retri...
: In this paper, we introduce the concept of -orthogonal patterns to mine a representative set of graph patterns. Intuitively, two graph patterns are -orthogonal if their similarit...
Vineet Chaoji, Mohammad Al Hasan, Saeed Salem, J&e...