Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports

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This archive contains a collection of reports generated by the faculty and students of the Institute for Systems Research (ISR), a permanent, interdisciplinary research unit in the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland. ISR-based projects are conducted through partnerships with industry and government, bringing together faculty and students from multiple academic departments and colleges across the university.

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    The TV-tree -- an Index Structure for High-Dimensional Data
    (1994) Lin, King-Ip D.; Jagadish, H.V.; Faloutsos, Christos; ISR
    We propose a file structure to index high-dimensionality data, typically, points in some feature space. The idea is to use only a few of the features, utilizing additional features whenever the additional discriminatory power is absolutely necessary. We present in detail the design of our tree structure and the associated algorithms that handle such 'varying length' feature vectors. Finally we report simulation results, comparing the proposed structure with the R*-tree, which is one of the most successful methods for low-dimensionality spaces. The results illustrate the superiority of our method, with up to 80% savings in disk accesses.
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    Diamond-Tree: An Index Structure for High-Dimensionality Approximate Searching
    (1992) Faloutsos, Christos; Jagadish, H.V.; ISR
    A selection query applied to a database often has the selection predicate imperfectly specified. We present a technique, called the Diamond-tree, for indexing fields to perform similarity-based retrieval, given some applicable measures of approximation. Typically, the number of features (or dimensions of similarity) is large, so that the search space has a high-dimensionality, and most traditional methods perform poorly. As a test case, we show how the Diamond-tree technique can be used to perform retrievals based on incorrectly or approximately specified values for string fields. Experimental results show that our method can respond to approximately match queries by examining a small portion (1% - 5%) of the database.