The Truncated Tornado in TMBB: A Spatiotemporal Uncertainty Model for Moving Objects

  • Authors:
  • Shayma Alkobaisi;Petr Vojtěchovský;Wan D. Bae;Seon Ho Kim;Scott T. Leutenegger

  • Affiliations:
  • College of Information Technology, UAE University, UAE;Department of Mathematics, University of Denver, USA;Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA;Department of Computer Science, University of Denver, USA;Department of Computer Science, University of Denver, USA

  • Venue:
  • DEXA '08 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The uncertainty management problem is one of the key issues associated with moving objects (MOs). Minimizing the uncertainty region size can increase both query accuracy and system performance. In this paper, we propose an uncertainty model called the TruncatedTornadomodel as a significant advance in minimizing uncertainty region sizes. The TruncatedTornadomodel removes uncertainty region sub-areas that are unreachable due to the maximum velocity and acceleration of the MOs. To make indexing of the uncertainty regions more tractable we utilize an approximation technique called TiltedMinimumBoundingBox(TMBB) approximation. Through experimental evaluations we show that TruncatedTornadoin TMBBresults in orders of magnitude reduction in volume compared to a recently proposed model called the Tornadomodel and to the standard "Cone" model when approximated by axis-parallel MBB.