da Silva, Roberto; Stasiu, Raquel; Orengo, Viviane Moreira - In: Journal of Informetrics 1 (2007) 1, pp. 35-46
This paper presents a method for assessing the quality of similarity functions. The scenario taken into account is that … produce similar results. The output of such methods was used to design a grading function for similarity functions. This … grading function, called discernability, was used to compare a number of similarity functions applied to an experimental data …