Top-k Similarity Join over Multi-valued Objects

The top-k similarity joins have been extensively studied and used in a wide spectrum of applications such as information retrieval, decision making, spatial data analysis and data mining. Given two sets of objects U and V, a top-k similarity join returns k pairs of most similar objects from UV. In the conventional model of top-k similarity join processing, an object is usually regarded as a point in a multi-dimensional space and the similarity between two objects is usually measured by distance metrics such as Euclidean distance. However, in many applications an object may be described by multiple values (instances) and the conventional model is not applicable since it does not address the distributions of object instances. In this paper, we study top-k similarity join queries over multi-valued objects. We apply quantile based distance to explore the relative instance distribution among the multiple instances of objects. Efficient and effective techniques to process top-k...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2012
• Where: DASFAA
• Authors: Wenjie Zhang, Jing Xu, Xin Liang, Ying Zhang, Xuemin Lin
• Keywords: Top-k Pairs