| Nearest Neighbor Search:: A Database Perspective 2005 Edition Contributor(s): Papadopoulos, Apostolos N. (Author), Manolopoulos, Yannis (Author) |
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ISBN: 0387229639 ISBN-13: 9780387229638 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2004 Annotation: Modern applications are both data and computationally intensive and require the storage and manipulation of voluminous traditional (alphanumeric) and nontraditional data sets (images, text, geometric objects, time-series). Examples of such emerging application domains are: Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Multimedia Information Systems, CAD/CAM, Time-Series Analysis, Medical Information Sstems, On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP), and Data Mining. These applications pose diverse requirements with respect to the information and the operations that need to be supported. From the database perspective, new techniques and tools therefore need to be developed towards increased processing efficiency. This monograph explores the way spatial database management systems aim at supporting queries that involve the space characteristics of the underlying data, and discusses query processing techniques for nearest neighbor queries. It provides both basic concepts and state-of-the-art results in spatial databases and parallel processing research, and studies numerous applications of nearest neighbor queries. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | System Administration - Storage & Retrieval - Computers | Computer Science - Computers | Databases - General |
| Dewey: 005.74 |
| LCCN: 2004059526 |
| Series: Series in Computer Science |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 6.04" W x 9.29" (0.85 lbs) 170 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Modern applications are both data and computationally intensive and require the storage and manipulation of voluminous traditional (alphanumeric) and nontraditional data sets (images, text, geometric objects, time-series). Examples of such emerging application domains are: Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Multimedia Information Systems, CAD/CAM, Time-Series Analysis, Medical Information Sstems, On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP), and Data Mining. These applications pose diverse requirements with respect to the information and the operations that need to be supported. From the database perspective, new techniques and tools therefore need to be developed towards increased processing efficiency. This monograph explores the way spatial database management systems aim at supporting queries that involve the space characteristics of the underlying data, and discusses query processing techniques for nearest neighbor queries. It provides both basic concepts and state-of-the-art results in spatial databases and parallel processing research, and studies numerous applications of nearest neighbor queries. |