Fuzzy Queries in Multimedia Database Systems

Summary: Multimedia DBs require fuzzy similarity and ranked/top‑k retrieval semantics (answers not mere sets) to handle complex objects like images. Surveys design challenges and solutions—similarity metrics, indexing, and query processing—from IBM Almaden's Garlic system. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 1124
Venue: PODS
Year: 1998
Pagerank: 0.00038843975
Overall Rank: 171 | 98.82%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Ronald Fagin

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 21 of 21 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
17	Optimizing Multi-Feature Queries for Image Databases	2000	VLDB	0.00095799341
427	Automated Ranking of Database Query Results	2003	CIDR	0.0002350378
428	The Onion Technique: Indexing for Linear Optimization Queries	2000	SIGMOD	0.0002349868
464	PREFER: A System for the Efficient Execution of Multiparametric Ranked Queries	2001	SIGMOD	0.00022476798
746	An Optimal and Progressive Algorithm for Skyline Queries	2003	SIGMOD	0.00017212135
802	Evaluating Top-k Selection Queries	1999	VLDB	0.00016440813
1,079	A Framework for Expressing and Combining Preferences	2000	SIGMOD	0.00014219622
1,240	Multi-dimensional Selectivity Estimation Using Compressed Histogram Information	1999	SIGMOD	0.00013090678
1,996	Probabilistic Ranking of Database Query Results	2004	VLDB	9.8374939e-05
2,127	EASE: An Effective 3-in-1 Keyword Search Method for Unstructured, Semi-structured and Structured Data	2008	SIGMOD	9.4806381e-05
2,936	Answering Top-k Queries Using Views	2006	VLDB	7.8579393e-05
3,447	Towards Robust Indexing for Ranked Queries	2006	VLDB	7.082382e-05
3,574	Efficient k-NN Search on Vertically Decomposed Data	2002	SIGMOD	6.9520978e-05
3,656	Conditional Selectivity for Statistics on Query Expressions	2004	SIGMOD	6.8712579e-05
3,665	Ad-hoc Top-k Query Answering for Data Streams	2007	VLDB	6.8631567e-05
3,792	On Computing Functions with Uncertainty	2001	PODS	6.7566071e-05
3,911	Progressive and Selective Merge: Computing Top-K with Ad-hoc Ranking Functions	2007	SIGMOD	6.6343292e-05
4,280	Primitives for Workload Summarization and Implications for SQL	2003	VLDB	6.28375e-05
4,718	Answering Top-k Queries with Multi-Dimensional Selections: The Ranking Cube Approach	2006	VLDB	5.9664602e-05
5,845	Optimal Join Algorithms Meet Top-k	2020	SIGMOD	5.3057391e-05
7,133	Anytime Measures for Top-k Algorithms	2007	VLDB	4.8175888e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6	The R*-tree: An Efficient and Robust Access Method for Points and Rectangles	1990	SIGMOD	0.0016113151
72	Combining Fuzzy Information from Multiple Systems	1996	PODS	0.00058498396
195	Optimizing Queries over Multimedia Repositories	1996	SIGMOD	0.00035317524

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