Similarity Search The Metric Space Approach

In the Information Society, information holds the master key to economic influence. Similarity Search: The Metric Space Approach will focus on efficient ways to locate user-relevant information in collections of objects, the similarity of which is quantified using a pairwise distance measure. This b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zezula, Pavel, Amato, Giuseppe (Author), Dohnal, Vlastislav (Author), Batko, Michal (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 2006, 2006
Edition:1st ed. 2006
Series:Advances in Database Systems
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Metric Searching in a Nutshell
  • Foundations of Metric Space Searching
  • Survey of Existing Approaches
  • Metric Searching in Large Collections of Data
  • Centralized Index Structures
  • Approximate Similarity Search
  • Parallel and Distributed Indexes