摘要: Aggregate similarity search, a.k.a. aggregate nearest neighbor (Ann) query, finds many useful applications in spatial and multimedia databases. Given a group Q of M query objects, it retrieves the most (or top-k) similar object to from database P, where is an aggregation (e.g., sum, max) distances between retrieved p all objects Q. In this paper, we propose added flexibility definition, over any subset AEM for some support 0