Part I Metric Searching in a Nutshell Overview 3 1. FOUNDATIONS OF METRIC SPACE SEARCHING 5 1 The Distance Searching Problem 6 2 The Metric Space 8 3 Distance Measures 9 3.1 Minkowski Distances 10 3.2 Quadratic Form Distance 11 3.3 Edit Distance 12
Table of Contents 1. Introduction....................................................................................................................................................2 1.1 What's Special About UNIX?....................................