The problem of searching the elements of a set that are close to a given query element
under some similarity criterion has a vast number of applications in many branches of …

During the last decade, multimedia databases have become increasingly important in many
application areas such as medicine, CAD, geography, and molecular biology. An important …

This paper discusses advantages and shortcomings of the S environment for multivariable
geostatistics, in particular when extended with the gstat package, an extension package for …

For similarity search in high-dimensional vector spaces (or 'HDVSs'), researchers have
proposed a number of new methods (or adaptations of existing methods) based, in the main …

Items from a database are often ranked based on a combination of criteria. The weight given
to each criterion in the combination can greatly affect the fairness of the produced ranking …

The area of similarity searching is a very hot topic for both research and c-mercial
applications. Current data processing applications use data with c-siderably less structure …

Similarity search in large time series databases has attracted much research interest
recently. It is a difficult problem because of the typically high dimensionality of the data.. The …

We compare two different techniques for browsing through a collection of spatial objects
stored in an R-tree spatial data structure on the basis of their distances from an arbitrary …

Many applications require finding objects closest to a specified location that contains a set of
keywords. For example, online yellow pages allow users to specify an address and a set of …

Regression and classification methods based on similarity of the input to stored examples
have been part of the arsenal in statistics and computer science for decades. Despite …