Developing a new similarity measure from two different perspectives

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 279-294

  Zhang, Jin ^a   Rasmussen, Edie M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DATA STRUCTURES; VECTORS;

ANGLE-BASED SIMILARITY MEASURES; DISTANCE-BASED SIMILARITY MEASURES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0035281757     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4573(00)00027-3     Document Type: Article

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