Closest-Point-of-Approach Join for Moving Object Histories

  • Authors:
  • Subramanian Arumugam;Christopher Jermaine

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Florida;University of Florida

  • Venue:
  • ICDE '06 Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In applications that produce a large amount of data describing the paths of moving objects, there is a need to ask questions about the interaction of objects over a long recorded history. In this paper, we consider the problem of computing joins over massive moving object histories. The particular join that we study is the "Closest-Point-Of- Approach" join, which asks: Given a massive moving object history, which objects approached within a distance 'd' of one another? We carefully consider several relatively obvious strategies for computing the answer to such a join, and then propose a novel, adaptive join algorithm which naturally alters the way in which it computes the join in response to the characteristics of the underlying data.