On nonmetric similarity search problems in complex domains

ACM Computing Surveys

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Skopal, Tomáš ^a   Bustos, Benjamin ^b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Approximate and exact search; Nonmetric distances; Similarity measuring; Similarity retrieval

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; DATA MINING; QUERY PROCESSING; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; TOPOLOGY;

APPROXIMATE AND EXACT SEARCH; COMPLEX DOMAINS; DATA ENTITIES; NON-METRIC; NONMETRIC DISTANCE; SEARCH PROBLEM; SIMILARITY FUNCTIONS; SIMILARITY MEASURING; SIMILARITY RETRIEVAL; SIMILARITY SEARCH;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 80155202837     PISSN: 03600300     EISSN: 15577341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1978802.1978813     Document Type: Article

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