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...
Similarity search in time series databases is an important research direction. Several methods have been proposed in order to provide algorithms for efficient query processing in t...
Maria Kontaki, Apostolos Papadopoulos, Yannis Mano...
The quadratic form distance (QFD) has been utilized as an effective similarity function in multimedia retrieval, in particular, when a histogram representation of objects is used...
Peer-to-peer Data Networks (PDNs) are large-scale, selforganizing, distributed query processing systems. Familiar examples of PDN are peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, which su...
—A method for secure query processing in mobile databases has been presented in this paper. Mobile devices send queries to the server via point-to-point channels. The mobile data...