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 Novák
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
