Efficient Similarity Search In Sequence Databases
FODO '93 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Foundations of Data Organization and Algorithms
Efficient Retrieval of Similar Time Sequences Under Time Warping
ICDE '98 Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Data Engineering
Variable Length Queries for Time Series Data
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Data Engineering
Approximate Query Processing Using Wavelets
VLDB '00 Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Fast Similarity Search in the Presence of Noise, Scaling, and Translation in Time-Series Databases
VLDB '95 Proceedings of the 21th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Efficient Searches for Similar Subsequences of Different Lengths in Sequence Databases
ICDE '00 Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Data Engineering
Similarity search of time-warped subsequences via a suffix tree
Information Systems
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VLDB '02 Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Very Large Data Bases
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Reliable measure of similarity between symbolic sequences is an important problem in the fields of database and data mining. A lot of distance functions have been developed for symbolic sequence data in the past years. However, most of them are focused on the distance between complete symbolic sequences while the distance measurement for incomplete symbolic sequences remains unexplored. In this paper, we propose a method to process similarity search over incomplete symbolic sequences. Without any knowledge about the positions and values of the missing elements, it is impossible to get the exact distance between a query sequence and an incomplete sequence. Instead of calculating this exact distance, we map a pair of symbolic sequences to a real-valued interval, i.e, we propose a lower bound and an upper bound of the underlying exact distance between a query sequence and an incomplete sequence. In this case, similarity search can be conducted with guaranteed performance in terms of either recall or precision. The proposed method is also extended to handle with real-valued sequence data. The experimental results on both synthetic and real-world data show that our method is both efficient and effective.