Subspace similarity search: efficient k-NN queries in arbitrary subspaces

  • Authors:
  • Thomas Bernecker;Tobias Emrich;Franz Graf;Hans-Peter Kriegel;Peer Kröger;Matthias Renz;Erich Schubert;Arthur Zimek

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut für Informatik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München;Institut für Informatik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München;Institut für Informatik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München;Institut für Informatik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München;Institut für Informatik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München;Institut für Informatik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München;Institut für Informatik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München;Institut für Informatik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

  • Venue:
  • SSDBM'10 Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Scientific and statistical database management
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

There are abundant scenarios for applications of similarity search in databases where the similarity of objects is defined for a subset of attributes, i.e., in a subspace, only. While much research has been done in efficient support of single column similarity queries or of similarity queries in the full space, scarcely any support of similarity search in subspaces has been provided so far. The three existing approaches are variations of the sequential scan. Here, we propose the first index-based solution to subspace similarity search in arbitrary subspaces.