• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.358-366
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• 2002

Feature-based similarity retrieval become an important research issue in image database systems. The features of image data are useful to discrimination of images. In this paper, we propose the high speed k-Nearest Neighbor search algorithm based on Self-Organizing Maps. Self-Organizing Maps(SOM) provides a mapping from high dimensional feature vectors onto a two-dimensional space and generates a topological feature map. A topological feature map preserves the mutual relations (similarities) in feature spaces of input data, and clusters mutually similar feature vectors in a neighboring nodes. Therefore each node of the topological feature map holds a node vector and similar images that is closest to each node vector. We implemented a k-NN search for similar image classification as to (1) access to topological feature map, and (2) apply to pruning strategy of high speed search. We experiment on the performance of our algorithm using color feature vectors extracted from images. Promising results have been obtained in experiments.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.34 no.6
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• pp.503-517
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• 2007

In this paper we address the MBR-safe property of Piecewise Aggregation Approximation(PAA), and propose an of efficient subsequence matching method based on the MBR-safe PAA. A transformation is said to be MBR-safe if a low-dimensional MBR to which a high- dimensional MBR is transformed by the transformation contains every individual low-dimensional sequence to which a high-dimensional sequence is transformed. Using an MBR-safe transformation we can reduce the number of lower-dimensional transformations required in similar sequence matching, since it transforms a high-dimensional MBR itself to a low-dimensional MBR directly. Furthermore, PAA is known as an excellent lower-dimensional transformation single its computation is very simple, and its performance is superior to other transformations. Thus, to integrate these advantages of PAA and MBR-safeness, we first formally confirm the MBR-safe property of PAA, and then improve subsequence matching performance using the MBR-safe PAA. Contributions of the paper can be summarized as follows. First, we propose a PAA-based MBR-safe transformation, called mbrPAA, and formally prove the MBR-safeness of mbrPAA. Second, we propose an mbrPAA-based subsequence matching method, and formally prove its correctness of the proposed method. Third, we present the notion of entry reuse property, and by using the property, we propose an efficient method of constructing high-dimensional MBRs in subsequence matching. Fourth, we show the superiority of mbrPAA through extensive experiments. Experimental results show that, compared with the previous approach, our mbrPAA is 24.2 times faster in the low-dimensional MBR construction and improves subsequence matching performance by up to 65.9%.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.69-88
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• 2003

In high dimensional data, most of clustering algorithms tend to degrade the performance rapidly because of nature of sparsity and amount of noise. Recently, partial dimensional clustering algorithms have been studied, which have good performance in clustering. These algorithms select the dimensional data closely related to clustering but discard the dimensional data which are not directly related to clustering in entire dimensional data. However, the traditional algorithms have some problems. At first, the algorithms employ grid based techniques but the large amount of grids make worse the performance of algorithm in terms of computational time and memory space. Secondly, the algorithms explore dimensions related to clustering using k-medoid but it is very difficult to determine the best quality of k-medoids in large amount of high dimensional data. In this paper, we propose an efficient partial dimensional clustering algorithm which is called CLIP. CLIP explores dense regions for cluster on a certain dimension. Then, the algorithm probes dense regions on a next dimension. dependent on the dense regions of the explored dimension using incremental projection. CLIP repeats these probing work in all dimensions. Clustering by Incremental projection can prune the search space largely and reduce the computational time considerably. We evaluate the performance(efficiency, effectiveness and accuracy, etc.) of the proposed algorithm compared with other algorithms using common synthetic data.

• The Journal of Information Technology and Database
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.91-101
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• 2001

Previous research efforts on performance evaluation of multidimensional indexes typically have used synthetic data sets distributed uniformly or normally over multidimensional space. However, recent research research result has shown that these hinds of data sets hardly reflect the characteristics of multimedia database applications. In this paper, we discuss issues on generating high dimensional data and query sets for resolving the problem. We first identify the features of the data and query sets that are appropriate for fairly evaluating performances of multidimensional indexes, and then propose HDDQ_Gen(High-Dimensional Data and Query Generator) that satisfies such features. HDDQ_Gen supports the following features : (1) clustered distributions, (2) various object distributions in each cluster, (3) various cluster distributions, (4) various correlations among different dimensions, (5) query distributions depending on data distributions. Using these features, users are able to control tile distribution characteristics of data and query sets. Our contribution is fairly important in that HDDQ_Gen provides the benchmark environment evaluating multidimensional indexes correctly.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.86-94
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• 2001

구형 피라미드 기법[1,2]은 d-차원의 공간을 2d개의 구형 피라미드들로 분할하는 특별한 공간 분할 방식을 이용하여 고차원 데이터를 효율적으로 색인할 수 있는 새로운 색인 방법으로 제안되었다. 구형 피라미드 기법은 구형태의 영역질의를 처리하는 알고리즘을 제안하였으나 유사 검색에 많이 사용되는 또 다른 종류의 질의인 최근접 질의를 처리하는 알고리즘을 제안하지 못했다. 본 논문에서는 점진적 최근접 질의 처리 알고리즘을 확장하여 구형피라미드 기법 상에서 효율적으로 최근접 질의를 처리하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 마지막으로, R*-tree와 X-tree 상에서 구현된 점진적 k-최근접 질의 처리 방법과 다양한 비교 실험을 통하여 구형 피라미드 기법을 이용한 k-최근접 질의 처리 방법이 더 효율적임을 보인다.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.58-71
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• 2002

Generally, multi-dimensional data such as image and spatial data require large amount of storage space. There is a limit to store and manage those large amount of data in single workstation. If we manage the data on parallel computing environment which is being actively researched these days, we can get highly improved performance. In this paper, we propose a parallel high-dimensional index structure that exploits the parallelism of the parallel computing environment. The proposed index structure is nP(processor)-n$\times$mD(disk) architecture which is the hybrid type of nP-nD and lP-nD. Its node structure increases fan-out and reduces the height of a index tree. Also, A range search algorithm that maximizes I/O parallelism is devised, and it is applied to K-nearest neighbor queries. Through various experiments, it is shown that the proposed method outperforms other parallel index structures.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.35 no.9
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• pp.572-587
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• 2008

The Self-organizing Feature Map(SOFM) that is one of unsupervised neural networks is a very powerful tool for data clustering and visualization in high-dimensional data sets. Although the SOFM has been applied in many engineering problems, it needs to cluster similar weights into one class on the trained SOFM as a post-processing, which is manually performed in many cases. The traditional clustering algorithms, such as t-means, on the trained SOFM however do not yield satisfactory results, especially when clusters have arbitrary shapes. This paper proposes automatic clustering on trained SOFM, which can deal with arbitrary cluster shapes and be globally optimized by graph cuts. When using the graph cuts, the graph must have two additional vertices, called terminals, and weights between the terminals and vertices of the graph are generally set based on data manually obtained by users. The Proposed method automatically sets the weights based on mode-seeking on a distance matrix. Experimental results demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method in texture segmentation. In the experimental results, the proposed method improved precision rates compared with previous traditional clustering algorithm, as the method can deal with arbitrary cluster shapes based on the graph-theoretic clustering.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.71-81
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• 2010

The problem of finding clusters is widely used in numerous applications, such as pattern recognition, image analysis, market analysis. The important factors that decide cluster quality are the similarity measure and the number of attributes. Similarity measures should be defined with respect to the data types. Existing similarity measures are well applicable to numerical attribute values. However, those measures do not work well when the data is described by categorical attributes, that is, when no inherent similarity measure between values. In high dimensional spaces, conventional clustering algorithms tend to break down because of sparsity of data points. To overcome this difficulty, a subspace clustering approach has been proposed. It is based on the observation that different clusters may exist in different subspaces. In this paper, we propose a new similarity measure for clustering of high dimensional categorical data. The measure is defined based on the fact that a good clustering is one where each cluster should have certain information that can distinguish it with other clusters. We also try to capture on the attribute dependencies. This study is meaningful because there has been no method to use both of them. Experimental results on real datasets show clusters obtained by our proposed similarity measure are good enough with respect to clustering accuracy.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.526-535
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• 2005

Ontology is a methodology on describing specific concepts and their relationships, and it is being considered important more and more as semantic web and variety of knowledge management systems are being highlighted. Ontology uses the relationships among concerts to represent some concrete semantics of specific concept. When we want to get some useful information from ontology, we severely have to process the transitive relationships because most of relationships among concepts represent transitivity. Technically, it causes recursive calls to process such transitive closure queries with heavy costs. This paper describes the efficient technique for processing transitive closure queries in ontology. To the purpose of it, we examine some approaches of current systems for transitive closure queries, and propose a technique by graph labeling scheme. Basically, we assume large size of ontology, and then we show that our approach gives relative efficiency in processing of transitive closure, queries.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.632-642
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• 2001

The nearest neighbor query is an important operation widely used in multimedia databases for finding the object that is most similar to a given object Most of techniques for processing nearest neighbor queries employ multidimensional indexes for effective indexing of objects. However, the performance of previous multidimensional indexes, which use N-dimensional rectangles or spheres for representing the capsule of the object cluster, deteriorates seriously as th number of dimensions gets higher, In this paper we first point out the fact that the simple representation of capsuler incurs performance degradation in processing nearest neighbor queries. For alleviating this problem,. we propose(1) adopting new axis systems appropriate to a given cluster (2) representing various shapes of capsules by combining rectangles and spheres, and (3) maintaining outliers separately, We also verify the superiority of our approach through performance evaluation by performing extensive experiments.