SISAP 2014 - 7th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications

The 7th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP) is an annual forum for researchers and application developers in the area of similarity data management. It aims at the technological problems shared by numerous application domains, such as data mining, information retrieval, computer vision, pattern recognition, computational biology, geography, biometrics, machine learning, forensics and many others that rely on similarity searching as a necessary supporting service.
The SISAP initiative (www.sisap.org) aims to become a forum to exchange real-world, challenging and innovative examples of applications, new indexing techniques, common test-beds and benchmarks, source code and up-to-date literature through its web page, serving the similarity search community. Traditionally, SISAP puts emphasis on the distance-based searching, but in general the conference concerns both the effectiveness and efficiency aspects of any similarity search problem.
The series started in 2008 as a workshop and has developed over the years into an international conference with Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) proceedings. As in previous editions, a small selection of the best papers presented at the conference will be recommended for inclusion in a special issue of Information Systems. In 2014, SISAP will take place in Los Cabos, Mexico.
Topics of interest
The specific topics include, but are not limited to:
Similarity queries ? k-NN, range, reverse NN, top-k, etc.
Similarity operations ? joins, ranking, classification, categorization, filtering, etc.
Evaluation techniques for similarity queries and operations
Merging/combining multiple similarity modalities
Cost models and analysis for similarity data processing
Indexing and access methods for similarity-based processing
Scalability issues and high-performance similarity data management
Feature extraction for similarity-based indexing and retrieval
Feature selection
Test collections and benchmarks
Performance studies, benchmarks, and comparisons
Similarity search over outsourced data repositories
Similarity search cloud services
Languages for similarity databases
New modes of similarity for complex data understanding
Applications of similarity-based operations
Visual analitics for similarity-based operations
Image, video, voice, and music (multimedia) retrieval systems
Similarity for forensics and security
Surveillance and defense