Nearest Neighbor Search A Database Perspective /

• Main Authors: Papadopoulos, Apostolos N. (Author), Manolopoulos, Yannis (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Series: Series in Computer Science,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Data structures (Computer science).; Database management.; Information storage and retrieval.; Multimedia information systems.; Computer Science.; Database Management.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Multimedia Information Systems.; Data Structures.; Data Storage Representation.

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 S...

Table of Contents:

• Fundamental Issues
• Spatial Database Concepts
• The R-Tree and Variations
• Nearest Neighbor Search in Spatial and Spatiotemporal Databases
• Nearest Neighbor Queries
• Analysis of Nearest Neighbor Queries
• Nearest Neighbor Queries in Moving Objects
• Nearest Neighbor Search with Multiple Resources
• Parallel and Distributed Databases
• Multidisk Query Processing
• Multiprocessor Query Processing
• Distributed Query Processing.