Algorithms for Querying by Spatial Structure
Summary: Proposes a multi-resolution framework for structural queries—configurations of spatial constraints over n variables—and three CSP-enhanced algorithms that integrate constraint satisfaction with R-tree indexing, plus automatic similarity measures. Relates structural queries to relative-location image retrieval, notes worst-case search exponentiality (N!/(N−n)!), O(N^n) for inexact matching, and provides optimization techniques with real-data experiments. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Dimitris Papadias
- 2. Nikos Mamoulis
- 3. Vasilis Delis
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 7,729 | Processing and Optimization of Multiway Spatial Joins Using R-trees | 1999 | PODS | 4.6660821e-05 |
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| 2 | R-Trees: A Dynamic Index Structure For Spatial Searching | 1984 | SIGMOD | 0.0032169493 |
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| 47 | Nearest Neighbor Queries | 1995 | SIGMOD | 0.0007015885 |
| 76 | Spatial Query Processing in an Object-Oriented Database System | 1986 | SIGMOD | 0.00057303551 |
| 148 | Efficient Processing of Spatial Joins Using R-trees | 1993 | SIGMOD | 0.00041182766 |
| 478 | Multi-Step Processing of Spatial Joins | 1994 | SIGMOD | 0.0002222104 |
| 2,900 | Spatial Joins Using R-trees: Breadth-First Traversal with Global Optimizations | 1997 | VLDB | 7.9405413e-05 |
| 3,107 | Topological Relations in the World of Minimum Bounding Rectangles: A Study with R-trees | 1995 | SIGMOD | 7.550885e-05 |
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