Conference Program

Friday 11th

13:30-13:40 Welcome

13:40-14:30 Invited Talk

• Evolving Models of Biological Sequence Similarity
  Daniel Miranker

14:30-14:45 break

14:45-16:00 Session 1: Searching in Specific Metric Spaces

• HiPeR : Hierarchical Progressive Exact Retrieval in Multi-dimensional Spaces
  Nouha Bouteldja, Valerie Gouet-Brunet and Michel Scholl

• High-Dimensional Similarity Retrieval Using Dimensional Choice
  Dave Tahmoush and Hanan Samet

• Approximate Similarity Search in Sequence Databases using Landmark-Guided Embedding
  Ahmet Sacan and Ismail Toroslu

16:00-16:15 break

16:15-17:30 Session 2: Spaces and Similarities

• Visual Similarity in Sign Language
  Jan Ulrych and Michal Kopecky

• A Contextual Normalised Edit Distance
  Colin de la Higuera and Luisa Mico

• Counting Distance Permutations
  Matthew Skala

Saturday 12th

9:40-10:30 Invited Talk

• The Many Facets of Approximate Similarity Search
  Marco Patella

10:30-10:45 break

10:45-12:00 Session 3: Distributed Indexes

• Combining Metric Features in Large Collections
  Michal Batko, Petra Kohoutkova and Pavel Zezula

• Similarity Searching: Towards Bulk-loading Peer-to-Peer Networks
  Vlastislav Dohnal, Jan Sedmidubsky, Pavel Zezula and David Novak

• An Empirical Evaluation of a Distributed Clustering-based Index for Metric Space Databases
  Veronica Gil-Costa, Mauricio Marin and Nora Reyes

12:00-13:30 lunch

13:30-14:45 Session 4: Index (Re)Organization

• A Dynamic Pivot Selection Technique for Similarity Search
  Benjamin Bustos, Oscar Pedreira and Nieves R. Brisaboa

• Effective Use of Space for Pivot-Based Metric Indexing Structures
  Cengiz Celik

• On Reinsertions in M-tree
  Jakub Loko. and Tomas Skopal

14:45-15:00 break

15:00-16:15 Session 5: Advanced Similarity Problems

• List of Twin Clusters: a Data Structure for Similarity Joins in Metric Spaces
  Rodrigo Paredes and Nora Reyes

• Anytime K-Nearest Neighbor Search for Database Applications
  Weijia Xu, Daniel Miranker and Rui Mao

• On the Complexity of Reverse Similarity Search
  Matthew Skala

16:15-16:30 break

16:30-17:30 Panel discussion and farewell