Conference Background:
The International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications
(SISAP) is an annual conference devoted to similarity searching,
with an emphasis on metric space searching. It aims to fill in the
gap left by the various scientific venues devoted to similarity
searching in spaces with coordinates, by providing a common forum
for theoreticians and practitioners around the problem of similarity
searching in general spaces (metric and non-metric) or using distance-based
(as opposed to coordinate-based) techniques in general. SISAP aims
to become an ideal forum to exchange real-world, challenging and
exciting examples of applications, new indexing techniques, common
test beds and benchmarks, source code, and up-to-date literature
through a web page serving the similarity searching community. Authors
are expected to use the test beds and code from the SISAP web site
for comparing new applications, databases, indexes and algorithms.
The Fifth SISAP conference will be hosted by the Fields Institute
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on August 9-10, 2012. The proceedings
of SISAP 2012 will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer
Science series. A small selection of best papers will be recommended
for inclusion in a special issue of Information Systems journal
(Elsevier) dedicated to this conference.
The topics of interest include, but are
not limited to:
Range search
knn search
Limited-range knn search
Reverse knn search
New complex similarity query types
Similarity joins
Clustering (applied to indexing)
Indexing based on hashing
Parallelism & distributed algorithms
Approximate searching
Computation of intrinsic dimension
Cost models
Embeddings
Languages for similarity databases
Conference structure:
Contributions to the conference fall into three categories: full
papers, posters, and demos. All submissions are subjected to rigorous
refereeing process and papers are published in a volume of proceedings
made available to participants at the start of the conference.
SISAP 2008 and 2009 were organized in cooperation with IEEE, while
SISAP 2010 was organized in cooperation with the ACM Special Interest
Group on Spatial Information (SIGSPATIAL) and the papers were
indexed in the ACM Digital Library.
http://www.sisap.org/Metric
Space Library.html
Previous SISAPs:
2008, Cancun, Mexico
(ICDE+IEEE, J. of Discrete Algorithms)
2009, Prague, Czech
Republic (IEEE+ACM, Information Systems)
2010, Istanbul, Turkey
(ACM, J. of Discrete Algorithms)
2011, Lipari, Italy (ACM,
Information Systems)
