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: hf24e5b7889942514
Venue: PODS
Year: 1998
Pagerank: 0.00018638335
Overall Rank: 413 | 97.24%
DOI: 10.1145/275487.275488

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Ronald Fagin (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{fagin_pods98,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '98},
        title = {{Fuzzy Queries in Multimedia Database Systems}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/275487.275488},
        doi = {10.1145/275487.275488},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Fagin, Ronald},
        year = {1998}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 21 of 21 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
110	Optimizing Multi-Feature Queries for Image Databases	2000	VLDB	0.00032662513
344	The Onion Technique: Indexing for Linear Optimization Queries	2000	SIGMOD	0.00020463118
419	PREFER: A System for the Efficient Execution of Multiparametric Ranked Queries	2001	SIGMOD	0.00018558415
478	Automated Ranking of Database Query Results	2003	CIDR	0.00017612826
640	An Optimal and Progressive Algorithm for Skyline Queries	2003	SIGMOD	0.00015286314
647	Evaluating Top-k Selection Queries	1999	VLDB	0.00015165562
1,080	Multi-dimensional Selectivity Estimation Using Compressed Histogram Information	1999	SIGMOD	0.00012114187
1,162	A Framework for Expressing and Combining Preferences	2000	SIGMOD	0.00011729702
1,897	Probabilistic Ranking of Database Query Results	2004	VLDB	9.3988624e-05
1,914	EASE: An Effective 3-in-1 Keyword Search Method for Unstructured, Semi-structured and Structured Data	2008	SIGMOD	9.3684002e-05
2,566	Answering Top-k Queries Using Views	2006	VLDB	8.2679821e-05
3,078	Towards Robust Indexing for Ranked Queries	2006	VLDB	7.6577871e-05
3,330	Efficient k-NN Search on Vertically Decomposed Data	2002	SIGMOD	7.406702e-05
3,371	Conditional Selectivity for Statistics on Query Expressions	2004	SIGMOD	7.3493132e-05
3,391	Ad-hoc Top-k Query Answering for Data Streams	2007	VLDB	7.3290724e-05
3,578	Progressive and Selective Merge: Computing Top-K with Ad-hoc Ranking Functions	2007	SIGMOD	7.1743861e-05
4,015	On Computing Functions with Uncertainty	2001	PODS	6.8371729e-05
4,268	Primitives for Workload Summarization and Implications for SQL	2003	VLDB	6.6784565e-05
4,668	Answering Top-k Queries with Multi-Dimensional Selections: The Ranking Cube Approach	2006	VLDB	6.4622135e-05
4,730	Optimal Join Algorithms Meet Top-k	2020	SIGMOD	6.4313418e-05
7,348	Anytime Measures for Top-k Algorithms	2007	VLDB	5.5302579e-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
4	The R*-tree: An Efficient and Robust Access Method for Points and Rectangles	1990	SIGMOD	0.0011386412
170	Combining Fuzzy Information from Multiple Systems	1996	PODS	0.0002707332
687	Optimizing Queries over Multimedia Repositories	1996	SIGMOD	0.00014736766

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