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...
Practitioners and researchers often refer to error rates or accuracy percentages of databases. The former is the number of cells in error divided by the total number of cells; the...
Pattern matching in point sets is a well studied problem with numerous applications. We assume that the point sets may contain outliers (missing or spurious points) and are subjec...
In high-dimensional and complex metric spaces, determining the nearest neighbor (NN) of a query object ? can be a very expensive task, because of the poor partitioning operated by...
Evaluating web services provisioning is able to reduce redundancy in search and also generates advantages to service providers who deliver valuable services. However, there exist ...