Top-k similarity join over multi-valued objects

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Conference Proceeding
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2012, 7238 LNCS (PART 1), pp. 509 - 525
Issue Date:
2012-05-11
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The top-k similarity joins have been extensively studied and used in a wide spectrum of applications such as information retrieval, decision making, spatial data analysis and data mining. Given two sets of objects and U and V, a top-k similarity join returns k pairs of most similar objects from U x V. In the conventional model of top-k similarity join processing, an object is usually regarded as a point in a multi-dimensional space and the similarity between two objects is usually measured by distance metrics such as Euclidean distance. However, in many applications an object may be described by multiple values (instances) and the conventional model is not applicable since it does not address the distributions of object instances. In this paper, we study top-k similarity join queries over multi-valued objects. We apply quantile based distance to explore the relative instance distribution among the multiple instances of objects. Efficient and effective techniques to process top-k similarity joins over multi-valued objects are developed following a filtering-refinement framework. Novel distance, statistic and weight based pruning techniques are proposed. Comprehensive experiments on both real and synthetic datasets demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of our techniques. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.
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