Spatio-temporal Range Queries Research Articles

Visual spatio-temporal function-based querying

Visual interfaces are very important for human interactions in cyberworlds. Visual spatio-temporal querying should be one of the basic tools for data mining and retrieval in cyberworlds. In this paper, we propose a novel function-based query model for arbitrary shape spatio-temporal querying. The queries are defined as geometric shapes changing over time. In our model, data are interpreted geometrically as multidimensional points with time dimension or as moving points. The queries are formulated with geometric objects and operations over them to form the query solid changing over time. The proposed query model allows us to pose arbitrary shape spatio-temporal range queries. With the uniform geometric model we integrate visual mining and querying of time-dependent data employing 3D visualization tools. It allows for creating an intuitive visual interface using 2D projections of 3D query shapes. Our approach combines visualization of spatio-temporal data with visualization of the range query formulation employing very compact function-based query model. The implemented visual query system and its visual interface are proposed and described. An example of application of the system in analysis of simulation results in molecular dynamics is considered.

A Probabilistic Model Based Predictive Spatio-Temporal Range Query Processing

A probabilistic approach is proposed, which adopts filter-refinement framework for query processing. First, all objects that possibly satisfy a query are retrieved as candidate results. Then, probabilities that the candidates will satisfy the query are evaluated based on a probability model proposed in the paper. Finally, a user defined minimum probability threshold is used to filter unqualified candidates to get a final predictive result. The future location of a moving object is defined as a random variable in the probability model. Two modes are proposed to describe object's movement status in spatio-temporal query range, and the corresponding methods are presented to compute the probability that an object will satisfy the query in the proposed modes. A trajectory analyzing algorithm is proposed to estimate the probability density functions (PDF) from the historical trajectories. An index structure is designed to efficiently support the storing and accessing of the PDFs. The experimental result shows that the proposed solution can effectively process the predictive spatio-temporal range query and improve the correctness of the predictive results. It is suitable for processing the query with small spatial range and long-term future time interval.

도로 위에 존재하는 이동객체의 궤적에 대한 네트워크 기반의 색인 방법

최근 많은 연구들이 유클리디안 공간을 기반으로 대용량의 이동객체 궤적 데이터를 효율적으로 다루기 위해 진행되어 왔다. 그러나, 일반적으로 실제 응용분야에서는 이동객체가 움직일 수 있는 공간은 제한적이다. 예를 들어, 도로 위에 존재하는 자동차들은 서로 연결된 도로망을 통해서만 이동할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 도로 위의 이동객체 궤적에 대하여 시공간 영역 질의를 처리할 수 있는 네트워크 기반의 색인방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 질의 처리 과정에서 네트워크 상의 거리를 이용하기 위해서 도로 네트워크의 연결정보를 색인구조에 포함한다. 그리고, 이동객체의 위치 정보를 도로를 구성하는 도로 선분요소 정보를 이용하여 표현하고 이를 단위로 여러 개의 R-tree를 사용하여 이동객체 궤적들을 관리한다. 또한, 여러 개의 도로 선분요소 사이에 하나의 R-tree를 공유할 수 있는 구조를 가짐으로써, 큰 도로 네트워크 데이터에서도 적용할 수 있다. 우리는 실험을 통해서 네트워크 거리를 기반으로 시공간 영역질의를 처리하는 것은 기존의 유클리디안 거리 기반의 방법들 보다 대략 30%의 성능향상을 보임을 보여준다. Recently many researchers have focused on management of Historical trajectories of moving objects in Euclidean spaces due to numerous sizes of accumulated data over time. However, the movement of moving objects in real applications generally has some constraints, for example vehicles on roads can only travel along connected road networks. In this paper, we propose an indexing method for trajectories of moving objects on road networks in order to process the network-based spatiotemporal range query. Our method contains the connect information of road networks to use the network distance for query processing, deals with trajectories which are represented by road segments in road networks, and manages them using multiple R-trees assigned per each road segment. Furthermore, it has a structure to be able to share R-tree among several road segments in large road networks. Consequently, we show that our method takes about 30% less in node accesses for the network-based spatiotemporal range query processing than other methods based on the Euclidean distance by experiments.

Continuous Monitoring of Predictive Spatio-temporal Range Query

Continuous Monitoring of Predictive Spatio-temporal Range Query

Managing uncertainty in moving objects databases

This article addresses the problem of managing Moving Objects Databases (MODs) which capture the inherent imprecision of the information about the moving object's location at a given time. We deal systematically with the issues of constructing and representing the trajectories of moving objects and querying the MOD. We propose to model an uncertain trajectory as a three-dimensional (3D) cylindrical body and we introduce a set of novel but natural spatio-temporal operators which capture the uncertainty and are used to express spatio-temporal range queries. We devise and analyze algorithms for processing the operators and demonstrate that the model incorporates the uncertainty in a manner which enables efficient querying, thus striking a balance between the modeling power and computational efficiency. We address some implementation aspects which we experienced in our DOMINO project, as a part of which the operators that we introduce have been implemented. We also report on some experimental observations of a practical relevance.