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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2001
Yasuhiko Morimoto, Yamato, JP;
Harunobu Kubo, Yamato, JP;
Yasuhiko Morimoto, Yamato, JP;
Harunobu Kubo, Yamato, JP;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A spatial data mining apparatus for calculating an optimal distance from a database, wherein spatial information, such as addresses, is stored, includes an input mechanism, for the input of an objective function required for the optimization of a distance, an intermediate table generator, for employing in the database starting point data and query point data for calculating the distances between each starting point and each query point and for generating an intermediate table, and an optimal distance calculator for calculating a distance based on the intermediate table generated by the intermediate table generator, in order to optimize the value of the objective function that is entered by the input mechanism.