| August 8 (Wednesday) | |
| 16:30 - 18:00 | Reception and materials pick-up (Fields institute) |
| August 9 (Thursday) | |
| 8:30 - 9:15 | On-site registration and materials pick-up |
| 9:15 - 9:30 | Welcome |
| 9:30 - 10:30 | Keynote talk: Pavel Zezula, "Future Trends in Similarity Searching" |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Coffee |
| 10:50 - 12:05 | Session 1: New Scenarios and Approaches |
| | Snake Table: A Dynamic Pivot Table for Streams of k-NN Searches
Juan Manuel Barrios, Benjamin Bustos and Tomas Skopal |
| | Algorithmic Exploration of Axiom Spaces for Efficient Similarity Search at Large Scale
Tomas Skopal and Tomas Bartos |
| | Polyphasic Metric Index: Reaching the Practical Limits of Proximity Searching
Eric Sadit Tellez, Edgar Chavez and Karina Figueroa |
| 12:05 - 13:35 | Lunch (included) |
| 13:35 - 14:50 | Session 2: Improving Metric Data Structures |
| | Efficient Similarity Search in Metric Spaces with Cluster Reduction
Luis G. Ares, Nieves R. Brisaboa, Alberto Ordonez Pereira and Oscar Pedreira |
| | Cut-region: A Compact Building Block for Hierarchical Metric Indexing
Jakub Lokoc, Premysl Cech, Jiri Novak and Tomas Skopal |
| | Static-to-dynamic Transformation for Metric Indexing Structures
Bilegsaikhan Naidan and Magnus Lie Hetland |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | Coffee |
| 15:10 - 16:25 | Session 3: New Similarity Spaces |
| | Revisiting Techniques for Lowerbounding the Dynamic Time Warping Distance
Tomas Bartos and Tomas Skopal |
| | A Multivariate Correlation Distance for Vector Spaces
Richard Connor and Robert Moss
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| | Fast Similarity Computation in Factorized Tensors
Michael E. Houle, Hisashi Kashima and Michael Nett |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Demo Session (Stewart Library, Fields Institute 3rd floor) |
| | SIR: The Smart Image Retrieval Engine
Jakub Lokoc, Tomas Grosup and Tomas Skopal |
| | SimTandem: Similarity Search in Tandem Mass Spectra
Jiri Novak, Jakub Galgonek, David Hoksza and Tomas Skopal |
| 18:00 | Drinks and Conference Dinner (L’Espresso by
Bar Mercurio)
) |
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| August 10 (Friday) | |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Keynote talk: Santosh Vempala, "Effective Principal Component Analysis" |
| 10:00 - 10:50 | Session 4: Searching in Specific Spaces |
| | Super-linear Indices for Approximate Dictionary Searching
Leonid Boytsov |
| | Visual Image Search: Feature Signatures or/and Global Descriptors
Jakub Lokoc, David Novak, Michal Batko and Tomas Skopal |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Coffee |
| 11:10 - 12:25 | Session 5: Facing Scalability Issues |
| | DSACL+-tree: A Dynamic Data Structure for Similarity Search in Secondary Memory
Luis Britos, A. Marcela Printista and Nora Reyes |
| | Scalable Distributed Algorithm for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search Problem in High Dimensional General Metric Spaces
Yury Malkov, Alexander Ponomarenko, Andrey Logvinov and Vladimir Krylov |
| | Parallel Approaches to Permutation-Based Indexing using Inverted Files
Hisham Mohamed and Stephane Marchand-Maillet |
| 12:25 | Farewell |
| 12:30 (sharp!) | Lunch pickup + Niagara Tour |