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SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
Cost-based variable-length-gram selection for string collections to support approximate queries efficiently
Approximate queries on a collection of strings are important in many applications such as record linkage, spell checking, and Web search, where inconsistencies and errors exist in...
Xiaochun Yang, Bin Wang, Chen Li
VLDB
2005
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
Indexing Mixed Types for Approximate Retrieval
In various applications such as data cleansing, being able to retrieve categorical or numerical attributes based on notions of approximate match (e.g., edit distance, numerical di...
Liang Jin, Nick Koudas, Chen Li, Anthony K. H. Tun...
COMGEO
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Approximation algorithm for the kinetic robust K-center problem
Clustering is an important problem and has numerous applications. In this paper we consider an important clustering problem, called the k-center problem. We are given a discrete p...
Sorelle A. Friedler, David M. Mount
JIIS
2002
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13 years 8 months ago
Combining Approximation Techniques and Vector Quantization for Adaptable Similarity Search
Adaptable similarity queries based on quadratic form distance functions are widely popular in data mining application domains including multimedia, CAD, molecular biology or medica...
Christian Böhm, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Thomas Se...
COMPGEOM
2011
ACM
13 years 1 days ago
Reeb graphs: approximation and persistence
Given a continuous function f : X → IR on a topological space X, its level set f−1 (a) changes continuously as the real value a changes. Consequently, the connected components...
Tamal K. Dey, Yusu Wang