Conference program - session details

Session 1: Models of Similarity, Data Analysis and Transformations

Structural entropic difference: a bounded distance metric for tree structured data [presentation]
Richard Connor, University of Strathclyde
Efficient Similarity Search by Reducing I/O with Compressed Sketches [presentation]
Arnoldo Muller-Molina, Kyushu Institute of Technology
Takeshi Shinohara, Kyushu Institute of Technology
Curse of Dimensionality in Pivot-based Indexes [presentation]
Ilya Volnyansky, University of Ottawa
Vladimir Pestov, University of Ottawa
CoPhIR Image Collection under the Microscope [presentation]
Michal Batko, Masaryk University
Petra Kohoutkova, Masaryk University
David Novak, Masaryk University

Session 2: Indexing Techniques

EGNAT: A Fully Dynamic Metric Access Method for Secondary Memory [presentation]
Roberto Uribe, University of Magallanes, Chile
Gonzalo Navarro, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Metric Index: An Efficient and Scalable Solution for Similarity Search [presentation]
David Novak, Masaryk University
Michal Batko, Masaryk University
Optimal Pivots to Minimize the Index Size for Metric Access Methods [presentation]
Oscar Pedreira, Universidade da Coruna
Nieves Brisaboa, Universidade da Coruna
Ángeles Places, Universidade da Coruna
Luis Ares, Universidade da Coruna
Maria Esteller, Universidade da Coruna
Dynamic Spatial Approximation Trees for Massive Data [presentation]
Gonzalo Navarro, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Nora Reyes, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina

Session 3: Similarity Queries, Query-Evaluation Algorithms

Approximated direct and reverse nearest neighbor queries, and the k-nearest neighbor graph [presentation]
Karina Figueroa, Universidad Michoacana
Rodrigo Paredes, University of Chile
Principles of Information Filtering in Metric Spaces [presentation]
Paolo Ciaccia, DEIS - Universita di Bologna
Marco Patella, DEIS - Universita di Bologna
Speeding up permutation based indexing with indexing [presentation]
Karina Figueroa, Universidad Michoacana
Kimmo Fredriksson, University of Kuopio

Session 4: Distributed and Parallel Index Structures

Parallel dynamic batch loading in the M-tree [presentation]
Jakub Lokoc, Charles University in Prague
Dynamic P2P Indexing based on Compact Clustering [presentation](not presented on site)
Mauricio Marin, Yahoo! Research Latin America
Veronica Gil-Costa, University of San Luis
Cecilia Hernandez, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile
Query Routing Mechanisms in Self-organizing Search Systems [presentation]
Vlastislav Dohnal, Masaryk University
Jan Sedmidubsky, Masaryk University

Demo and poster session

Posters

Using tuneable fuzzy similarity in non-metric search [poster]
Peter Vojtas, Charles University in Prague
Alan Eckhardt, Charles University in Prague
On the Effectiveness of Distances Measuring Protein Structure Similarity [poster]
Jakub Galgonek, Charles University in Prague
David Hoksza, Charles University in Prague

Demos

OBSearch: A High Performance Similarity Search Engine for Java
Arnoldo Muller-Molina, Kyushu Institute of Technology
MiPai: using the PP-Index to build an efficient and scalable similarity search system
Andrea Esuli, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Italy
Searching by Similarity and Classifying Images on a Very Large Scale
Giuseppe Amato, ISTI-CNR
Pasquale Savino, ISTI-CNR
Img(Rummager): AN INTERACTIVE CONTENT BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL SYSTEM
Savvas Chatzichristofis, Democritus University of Thrace
Yiannis Boutalis, Democritus University of Thrace
Mathias Lux, Klagenfurt University
img(Anaktisi): A Web Content Based Image Retrieval System
Konstantinos Zagoris, Democritus University of Thrace
Savvas Chatzichristofis, Democritus University of Thrace
Nikos Papamarkos, Democritus University of Thrace
Yiannis Boutalis, Democritus University of Thrace
Text-Based and Content-Based Image Retrieval on Flickr: DEMO
Juan Manuel Barrios, University of Chile
Diego Díaz, University of Chile
Benjamín Bustos, University of Chile
MUFIN: A Multi-Feature Indexing Network
Michal Batko, Masaryk University
Vlastislav Dohnal, Masaryk University
David Novak, Masaryk University
Jan Sedmidubsky, Masaryk University