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A locality-aware similar information searching scheme

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In a database, a similar information search means finding data records which contain the majority of search keywords. Due to the rapid accumulation of information nowadays, the size of databases has increased dramatically. An efficient information searching scheme can speed up information searching and retrieve all relevant records. This paper proposes a Hilbert curve-based similarity searching scheme (HCS). HCS considers a database to be a multidimensional space and each data record to be a point in the multidimensional space. By using a Hilbert space filling curve, each point is projected from a high-dimensional space to a low-dimensional space, so that the points close to each other in the high-dimensional space are gathered together in the low-dimensional space. Because the database is divided into many clusters of close points, a query is mapped to a certain cluster instead of searching the entire database. Experimental results prove that HCS dramatically reduces the search time latency and exhibits high effectiveness in retrieving similar information.

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This research was supported in part by US NSF Grants IIS-1354123, CNS-1254006, CNS-1249603, CNS-1049947, CNS-0917056 and CNS-1025652, and Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship 8300751.

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    Ting Li

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    Yuhua Lin & Haiying Shen

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Li, T., Lin, Y. & Shen, H. A locality-aware similar information searching scheme. Int J Digit Libr 17, 79–93 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-014-0128-9

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