On The Marriage of Lp-norms and Edit Distance

Summary: Introduces ERP, a metric combining L1 distance with edit operations to support local time shifting. A B+-tree-indexable lower bound combined with triangle-inequality pruning enables highly effective, state-of-the-art time-series similarity search. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 9378
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2004
Pagerank: 0.00021956234
Overall Rank: 303 | 97.93%
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50070-X

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Authors

1. Lei Chen (University of Waterloo)
2. Raymond Ng (University of British Columbia)

BibTeX Citation

@article{chen_vldb04,
        title = {{On The Marriage of Lp-norms and Edit Distance}},
        author = {Chen, Lei and Ng, Raymond},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '04},
        pages = {792},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50070-X},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50070-X},
        year = {2004}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 51 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,371	Effective Data Co-Reduction for Multimedia Similarity Search	2011	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
41	Fast Subsequence Matching in Time-Series Databases	1994	SIGMOD	0.00046675394
46	A Quantitative Analysis and Performance Study for Similarity-Search Methods in High-Dimensional Spaces	1998	VLDB	0.00044853085
56	M-tree: An Efficient Access Method for Similarity Search in Metric Spaces	1997	VLDB	0.00040719947
190	Locally Adaptive Dimensionality Reduction for Indexing Large Time Series Databases	2001	SIGMOD	0.00026105472
221	Robust and Fast Similarity Search for Moving Object Trajectories	2005	SIGMOD	0.00024224879
468	Fast Time Sequence Indexing for Arbitrary Lp Norms	2000	VLDB	0.00017986163
601	Exact Indexing of Dynamic Time Warping	2002	VLDB	0.00015870156
610	Efficiently Supporting Ad Hoc Queries in Large Datasets of Time Sequences	1997	SIGMOD	0.00015783259
1,046	Warping Indexes with Envelope Transforms for Query by Humming	2003	SIGMOD	0.00012440091
1,318	Querying Shapes of Histories	1995	VLDB	0.00011178588

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