Quality of similarity rankings in time series

  • Authors:
  • Thomas Bernecker;Michael E. Houle;Hans-Peter Kriegel;Peer Kröger;Matthias Renz;Erich Schubert;Arthur Zimek

  • Affiliations:
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany;National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan;Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany;Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany;Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany;Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany;Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany

  • Venue:
  • SSTD'11 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Advances in spatial and temporal databases
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Time series data objects can be interpreted as highdimensional vectors, which allows the application of many traditional distance measures aswell as more specialized measures. However, many distance functions are known to suffer from poor contrast in high-dimensional settings, putting their usefulness as similarity measures into question. On the other hand, shared-nearest-neighbor distances based on the ranking of data objects induced by some primary distance measure have been known to lead to improved performance in high-dimensional settings. In this paper, we study the performance of shared-neighbor similarity measures in the context of similarity search for time series data objects. Our findings are that the use of shared-neighbor similarity measures generally results in more stable performances than that of their associated primary distance measures.