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SIAMIS
2011
13 years 2 months ago
2011
We define a novel metric on the space of closed planar curves which decomposes into three intuitive components. According to this metric centroid translations, scale changes and ...
SISAP
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
2010
IEEE
The efficient similarity search in metric spaces is usually based on several low-level partitioning principles, which allow filtering of non-relevant objects during the search. I...
VLDB
2001
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
2001
ACM
Similarity retrieval mechanisms should utilize generalized quadratic form distance functions as well as the Euclidean distance function since ellipsoid queries parameters may vary...
COMGEO
2006
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
2006
ACM
The ray shooting problem arises in many different contexts and is a bottleneck of ray tracing in computer graphics. Unfortunately, theoretical solutions to the problem are not ver...
SIGMOD
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2005
ACM
This paper introduces RankSQL, a system that provides a systematic and principled framework to support efficient evaluations of ranking (top-k) queries in relational database syst...