In emerging applications such as location-based services, sensor monitoring and biological management systems, the values of the database items are naturally imprecise. For these ...
Reynold Cheng, Lei Chen 0002, Jinchuan Chen, Xike ...
In the k-medoid problem, given a dataset P, we are asked to choose k points in P as the medoids. The optimal medoid set minimizes the average Euclidean distance between the points ...
Spatial Database Management Systems (SDBMS), e.g., Geographical Information Systems, that manage spatial objects such as points, lines, and hyper-rectangles, often have very high ...
Recently, a wide range of applications like hurricane research, fire management, navigation systems, and transportation, to name only a few, has shown increasing interest in mana...
Abstract. Comparison of images requires a distance metric that is sensitive to the spatial location of objects and features. Such sensitive distance measures can, however, be compu...