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Table 1:
List of Commonly Used Nonmetric Proximity Measures in Various Domains.
MeasureApplication field
Dynamic time warping (DTW) (Sakoe & Chiba, 1978) Time series or spectral alignment 
Inner distance (Ling & Jacobs, 2005) Shape retrieval (e.g., in robotics) 
Compression distance (Cilibrasi & Vitányi, 2005) Generic used also for text analysis 
Smith Waterman alignment (Gusfield, 1997) Bioinformatics 
Divergence measures (Cichocki & Amari, 2010) Spectroscopy and audio processing 
Generalized Lp norm (Lee & Verleysen, 2005) Time series analysis 
Nonmetric modified Hausdorff (Dubuisson & Jain, 1994) Template matching 
(Domain-specific) alignment score (Maier, Klebel, Renner, & Kostrzewa, 2006) Mass spectrometry 
MeasureApplication field
Dynamic time warping (DTW) (Sakoe & Chiba, 1978) Time series or spectral alignment 
Inner distance (Ling & Jacobs, 2005) Shape retrieval (e.g., in robotics) 
Compression distance (Cilibrasi & Vitányi, 2005) Generic used also for text analysis 
Smith Waterman alignment (Gusfield, 1997) Bioinformatics 
Divergence measures (Cichocki & Amari, 2010) Spectroscopy and audio processing 
Generalized Lp norm (Lee & Verleysen, 2005) Time series analysis 
Nonmetric modified Hausdorff (Dubuisson & Jain, 1994) Template matching 
(Domain-specific) alignment score (Maier, Klebel, Renner, & Kostrzewa, 2006) Mass spectrometry 
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