Discovering interesting sub-paths in spatiotemporal datasets: a summary of results

  • Authors:
  • Xun Zhou;Shashi Shekhar;Pradeep Mohan;Stefan Liess;Peter K. Snyder

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Minnesota;University of Minnesota;University of Minnesota;University of Minnesota;University of Minnesota

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Given a spatiotemporal (ST) dataset and a path in its embedding spatiotemporal framework, the goal is to to identify all interesting sub-paths defined by an interest measure. Sub-path discovery is of fundamental importance for understanding climate changes, agriculture, and many other application. However, this problem is computationally challenging due to the massive volume of data, the varying length of sub-paths and non-monotonicity of interestingness throughout a sub-path. Previous approaches find interesting unit sub-paths (e.g., unit time interval) or interesting points. By contrast, we propose a Sub-path Enumeration and Pruning (SEP) approach that finds collections of long interesting sub-paths. Two case studies using climate change datasets show that SEP can find long interesting sub-paths which represent abrupt climate change. We provide theoretical analyses of correctness, completeness and computational complexity of the proposed approach. We also provide experimental evaluation of two traversal strategies for enumerating and pruning candidate sub-paths.