Interval-focused similarity search in time series databases

  • Authors:
  • Johannes Aßfalg;Hans-Peter Kriegel;Peer Kröger;Peter Kunath;Alexey Pryakhin;Matthias Renz

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute for Computer Science, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Munich, Germany;Institute for Computer Science, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Munich, Germany;Institute for Computer Science, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Munich, Germany;Institute for Computer Science, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Munich, Germany;Institute for Computer Science, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Munich, Germany;Institute for Computer Science, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Munich, Germany

  • Venue:
  • DASFAA'07 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Database systems for advanced applications
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Similarity search in time series databases usually deals with comparing entire time series objects or subsequence search. In this paper, we formalize the notion of interval-focused similarity queries which take a set of intervals specifying relevant time frames as additional parameter and compare the time series objects only within this user-defined time focus. We propose an original method to efficiently support interval-focused distance range and k-nearest neighbor queries implementing a filter/refinement architecture. In our broad experimental evaluation we show the superiority of our novel approach compared to existing approaches on several real-world data sets.