Formal Languages and Algorithms for Similarity Based Retrieval from Sequence Databases

  • Authors:
  • A. Prasad Sistla

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • FST TCS '02 Proceedings of the 22nd Conference Kanpur on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Similarity based retrieval is of major importance for querying sequence databases. We consider formalisms based on automata, temporal logics and regular expressions for querying such databases. We define two different types of similarity measures--syntax based and semantics based. These measures are divided into a spectrum of measures based on the vector distance function that is employed. We consider norm vector distance functions and give efficient query processing algorithms when these measures are employed.