“…Distance and similarity measures between data and patterns are the key elements in a variety of applications in different fields, including classification and clustering (Finch, 2005;Stanujkic et al, 2013), signal analysis, image analysis and retrieval (Androutsos et al, 1998;Baušys and Kriukovas, 2012;Berman and Shapiro, 1997), speech recognition (Akila and Chandra, 2013; Lileikytė and Telksnys, 2013), time series analysis (Vlachos et al, 2003;Ding et al, 2008), probability density functions (Cha, 2007). Comprehensive surveys of various distance measures are included in Eiter and Mannila (1997), Monev (2004), Cha (2007Cha ( , 2008, Seung-Seok et al (2010).…”