"Nov\u00E1k, David" . "With the increasing number of applications that base searching on similarity rather than on exact matching, novel index structures are needed to speedup execution of similarity queries. An important stream of research in this direction uses the metric space as a model of similarity. We explain the principles and survey the most important representatives of index structures. We put most emphasis on distributed similarity search architectures which try to solve the difficult problem of scalability of similarity searching. The actual achievements are demonstrated by practical experiments. Future research directions are outlined in the conclusions." . "504059" . . . . "Towards Scalability of Similarity Searching"@en . . . . "Amsterdam, The Netherlands" . "similarity search; scalability; distributed index structure; metric space; peer-to-peer network"@en . "P(1ET100300419)" . . "Global Data Management" . "Towards Scalability of Similarity Searching"@en . "24"^^ . "RIV/00216224:14330/06:00015366!RIV10-AV0-14330___" . "1-58603-629-7" . . . "14330" . . . "Towards Scalability of Similarity Searching" . . "With the increasing number of applications that base searching on similarity rather than on exact matching, novel index structures are needed to speedup execution of similarity queries. An important stream of research in this direction uses the metric space as a model of similarity. We explain the principles and survey the most important representatives of index structures. We put most emphasis on distributed similarity search architectures which try to solve the difficult problem of scalability of similarity searching. The actual achievements are demonstrated by practical experiments. Future research directions are outlined in the conclusions."@en . . . . "3"^^ . "359"^^ . "Volume 8 of Emerging Communication: Studies on..." . . "RIV/00216224:14330/06:00015366" . "3"^^ . . "Towards Scalability of Similarity Searching" . . "[40265D479616]" . . "Dohnal, Vlastislav" . "Zezula, Pavel" . "IOS Press" .