References/Further Reading
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Berchtold & Böhm & Kriegel,
The Pyramid Technique: Towards breaking the curse of dimensionality,
ACM SIGMOD, 1998
[proposes a new data access technique which is optimized for high-dimensional
range queries]
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Gaede & Günther,
Multidimensional access methods,
Technical Report, Humboldt University, Berlin, 1995
[comprehensive survey of multidimensional database access methods]
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Hellerstein, Koutsoupias & Papadimitriou,
On the analysis of indexing schemes,
ACM PODS, 1997
[initial work on a general theory of "indexability", which is
analogous to complexity theory and describes how effective
data/query/access-method combinations are in terms
of disk access and storage cost]
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Kurniawati, Jin & Shepherd,
Techniques for supporting efficient content-based retrieval
in multimedia databases,
Australian Computer Journal, 1997
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Megiddo & Shaft,
Efficient nearest neighbour indexing based on a collection
of space-filling curves,
IBM Internal Research Report, 1997
[description of method to index multidimensional data based on
a multiple complementary "linearisations" of the data points]
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Weber & Blott,
An Approximation-Based Data Struture for Similarity Search,
Unpublished Report, Bell Labs, 1998
[provides reasonably formal argument that partitioning-based methods
degenerate to worse than linear search once dimensionality around
6..10; proposes VA-files as an alternative]
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White & Jain,
Algorithms and Strategies for Similarity Retrieval,
UCSD Visual Computing Lab Report, 1996
[survey and characterisation of a large number of approaches
to multidimensional access methods]
Plus numerous other papers downloaded into /home/jas/papers .
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