The top-k retrieval problem requires finding k objects most similar to a given query object. Similarities between objects are most often computed as aggregated similarities of the...
Consider a universe of tokens, each of which is associated with a weight, and a database consisting of strings that can be represented as subsets of these tokens. Given a query st...
The similarity join has become an important database primitive to support similarity search and data mining. A similarity join combines two sets of complex objects such that the r...
Abstract—A text filtering system monitors a stream of incoming documents, to identify those that match the interest profiles of its users. The user interests are registered at ...
Abstract. Objective image and video quality measures play important roles in numerous image and video processing applications. In this work, we propose a new content-weighted metho...