The optimal size of a signature

  • Authors:
  • S. Y. Sung;W. J. Hsu

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information Systems and Computer Science National University of Singapore Kent Ridge, Singapore 0511;School of Applied Sciences, Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 2263

  • Venue:
  • Mathematical and Computer Modelling: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

Signature file has been shown to be a fairly good filtering mechanism to reduce the amount of data that need to be retrieved for a query. Previous work in signature construction has emphasized on determining the optimal signature weight to minimize the false drop probability. In this paper, we present a method to determine the optimal signature size to a block according to its bit probability and the number of objects in that block. The scheme is optimal for both uniform and nonuniform block accessing frequencies.