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GIS
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Two ellipse-based pruning methods for group nearest neighbor queries
Group nearest neighbor (GNN) queries are a relatively new type of operations in spatial database applications. Different from a traditional kNN query which specifies a single quer...
Hongga Li, Hua Lu, Bo Huang, Zhiyong Huang
EDBT
1998
ACM
131views Database» more  EDBT 1998»
13 years 11 months ago
Processing Complex Similarity Queries with Distance-Based Access Methods
Efficient evaluation of similarity queries is one of the basic requirements for advanced multimedia applications. In this paper, we consider the relevant case where complex similar...
Paolo Ciaccia, Marco Patella, Pavel Zezula
CIDR
2007
177views Algorithms» more  CIDR 2007»
13 years 9 months ago
bdbms - A Database Management System for Biological Data
Biologists are increasingly using databases for storing and managing their data. Biological databases typically consist of a mixture of raw data, metadata, sequences, annotations,...
Mohamed Y. Eltabakh, Mourad Ouzzani, Walid G. Aref
BIOINFORMATICS
2011
12 years 11 months ago
RINQ: Reference-based Indexing for Network Queries
We consider the problem of similarity queries in biological network databases. Given a database of networks, similarity query returns all the database networks whose similarity (i...
Günhan Gülsoy, Tamer Kahveci
VLDB
1991
ACM
122views Database» more  VLDB 1991»
13 years 11 months ago
An Iterative Method for Distributed Database Design
The development of a distributed database systemrequires effective solutions to many complex and interrelated design problems. The cost dependenciesbetween query optimization and ...
Rex Blankinship, Alan R. Hevner, S. Bing Yao