Nearest Neighbor Search: A Database Perspective

Apostolos N. Papadopoulos9780387229638, 0-387-22963-9

This monograph explores the way spatial database management systems aim at supporting queries that involve the space characteristics of the underlying data and discusses query processing techniques for nearest neighbor queries. It provides both basic concepts and state-of-the-art results in spatial databases and parallel processing research and studies numerous applications of nearest neighbor queries. It is an excellent reference for researchers, postgraduate students, and practitioners in computer science concerned with nearest neighbor search and related issues.