Efficient retrieval of similar time series

  • Authors:
  • Davood Rafiei;Alberto O. Mendelzon

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., Canada;Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., Canada

  • Venue:
  • Information organization and databases
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We propose an improvement of the known DFT-based indexing technique for fast retrieval of similar time series. We use the last few Fourier coefficients in the distance computation without storing them in the index since every coefficient at the end is the complex conjugate of a coefficient at the beginning and as strong as its counterpart. We show analytically that this observation can accelerate the search time of the index by more than a factor of two. This result was confirmed by our experiments, which were carried out on real stock prices and synthetic data.