Querying about the Past, the Present, and the Future in Spatio-Temporal Databases

  • Authors:
  • Jimeng Sun;Dimitris Papadias;Yufei Tao;Bin Liu

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICDE '04 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Data Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Moving objects (e.g., vehicles in road networks)continuously generate large amounts of spatio-temporalinformation in the form of data streams. Efficientmanagement of such streams is a challenging goal due tothe highly dynamic nature of the data and the need forfast, on-line computations. In this paper we present anovel approach for approximate query processing aboutthe present, past, or the future in spatio-temporaldatabases. In particular, we first propose an incrementallyupdateable, multi-dimensional histogram for present-timequeries. Second, we develop a general architecture formaintaining and querying historical data. Third, weimplement a stochastic approach for predicting the resultsof queries that refer to the future. Finally, weexperimentally prove the effectiveness and efficiency ofour techniques using a realistic simulation.