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D
-Index: Distance Searching Index for Metric Data Sets
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| Original title: | D-Index: Distance Searching Index for Metric Data Sets |
| Authors: | Vlastislav Dohnal, Claudio Gennaro, Pasquale Savino, Pavel Zezula |
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| Citation: | DOHNAL, Vlastislav - GENNARO, Claudio - SAVINO, Pasquale - ZEZULA, Pavel. D-Index: Distance Searching Index for Metric Data Sets. Multimedia Tools and Applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, USA. ISSN 1380-7501, 2003, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 9-33. |
| Original language: | English |
| Field: | Computer hardware and software |
| WWW: |  http://ipsapp008.kluweronline.com/content/getfile/5025/47/2/abstract.htm |
| Type: | Article in Periodical |
| Keywords: | metric spaces; similarity search; index structures; performance evaluation |
In order to speedup retrieval in large collections of data, index structures partition the data into subsets so that query requests can be evaluated without examining the entire collection. As the complexity of modern data types grows, metric spaces have become a popular paradigm for similarity retrieval. We propose a new index structure, called D-Index, that combines a novel clustering technique and the pivot-based distance searching strategy to speed up execution of similarity range and nearest neighbor queries for large files with objects stored in disk memories. We have qualitatively analyzed D-Index and verified its properties on actual implementation. We have also compared D-Index with other index structures and demonstrated its superiority on several real-life data sets. Contrary to tree organizations, the D-Index structure is suitable for dynamic environments with a high rate of delete/insert operations.
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