Structured data including sets, sequences, trees and graphs, pose significant challenges to fundamental aspects of data management such as efficient storage, indexing, and simila...
Xiaohong Wang, Aaron M. Smalter, Jun Huan, Gerald ...
The challenge of similarity search in massive DNA sequence databases has inspired major changes in BLAST-style alignment tools, which accelerate search by inspecting only pairs of...
Similarity retrieval have been widely used in many practical search applications. A similarity query model can be viewed as a logical combination of a set of similarity predicates....
In this paper, we target on the problem of personal name disambiguation in search results returned by personal name queries. Usually, a personal name refers to several people. The...
We propose a novel approach to shape-based image retrieval that builds upon a similarity criterion which is based on the average point set distance. Compared to traditional techni...