Reading Assignment 1

Due Date: Jan. 28, 2004

Assigned Paper

“R. Weber, H. Schek, and S. Blott. A quantitative analysis and performance study for similarity-search methods in high-dimensional spaces.” In Proc. of the 24^th VLDB Conference, pages 194-205, 1998.

Report format:

1. A typed 5-7 page report (double-spaced)
2. The report will include a summary and a critical review. The summary should be self-contained and should provide a general idea of how the problem was addressed.
3. The approach’s drawbacks, advantages, and assumptions (explicit and implicit).
4. Suggestions of how the identified weaknesses might be overcome.
5. Comments on the credibility of the experiments, and the presentation of the paper