Abstract
The series of International Workshops on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP) is devoted to similarity searching, with emphasis on the metric space model of similarity. It aims to fill in the gap left by various scientific venues specialized in similarity searching in spaces with coordinates.
It provides a common forum for theoreticians and practitioners around the problem of similarity searching in general spaces (metric and non-metric) or using the distance-based (as opposed to coordinate-based) techniques in general. SISAP aims to become an ideal forum to exchange real-world, challenging and exciting examples of applications, new indexing techniques, common testbeds and benchmarks, source code, and up-to-date literature through a Web page serving the similarity searching community.
Researchers can use the testbeds and code from the SISAP Web site for comparing new applications, databases, indexes and algorithms.