Metric access methods based on hyperplane partitioning have the advantage, compared to the ballpartitioning-based ones, that regions do not overlap. The price is less flexibility...
Metric access methods (MAMs) serve as a tool for speeding similarity queries. However, all MAMs developed so far are index-based; they need to build an index on a given database. T...
Abstract. The retrieval of objects from a multimedia database employs a measure which defines a similarity score for every pair of objects. The measure should effectively follow th...