Query Distance
q1 and qn are two queries.
Let f1, ..., fn-1 be
n-1 transformations such that
f1(q1) = q2,
f2(q2) = q3, ...,
fn-1(qn-1) = qn.
The distance d(q1,qn) between two queries
q1 and qn is defined as:
where wj is the weight for transformation step fj