Spatial And Spatio Temporal Clustering
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Spatial and Spatio-temporal Clustering
Due to the advances in technology, such as smart phones, general mobile devices, remote sensors, and sensor networks, different types of spatial data become increasingly available. These data can also integrate multiple other types of information, such as temporal information, social information, and scientific measurements, which provide a tremendous potential for discovering new useful knowledge, as well as new research challenges. In this research, we focus on clustering and analyzing spatial and spatio-temporal data. We have addressed several important sub-problems in polygon-based spatial and spatio-temporal clustering and post-processing analysis techniques. We have developed (1) two distance functions that measure the distances between polygons, especially overlapping polygons; (2) a density-based spatial clustering algorithm for polygons; (3) two post-processing analysis techniques to extract interesting patterns and useful knowledge from spatial clusters; (4) two density-based spatio-temporal clustering algorithms for polygons; (5) a box plot based post-processing analysis technique to identify interesting spatio-temporal clusters of polygons; (6) a change-pattern-discovery algorithm to detect and analyze patterns of dynamic changes within spatio-temporal clusters of polygons; and (7) a formal definition of the task of finding uniform regions in spatial data and an algorithm to identify such uniform regions. Our algorithms and techniques are demonstrated and evaluated in challenging real-world case studies involving ozone pollution events in the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria area and the building data of Strasbourg, France. The results show that our algorithms are effective in finding compact clusters in spatial and spatio-temporal domains and in extracting interesting patterns and useful information from spatial and spatio-temporal data.
Spatiotemporal Analytics
This book introduces readers to spatiotemporal analytics that are extended from spatial statistics. Spatiotemporal analytics help analysts to quantitatively recognize and evaluate the spatial patterns and their temporal trends of a set of geographic events or objects. Spatiotemporal analyses are very important in geography, environmental sciences, economy, and many other domains. Spatiotemporal Analytics explains in very simple terms the concepts of spatiotemporal data and statistics, theories, and methods used. Each chapter introduces a case study as an example application for an in-depth learning process. The software used and the codes provided enable readers not only to learn statistics but also to use them effectively in their projects. • Provides a comprehensive understanding of spatiotemporal analytics to readers with minimum knowledge in statistics. • Written in simple, understandable language with step-by-step instructions. • Includes numerous examples for all theories and methods explained in the book covering a wide range of applications from different disciplines. • Each application includes a software code needed to follow the instructions. • Each chapter also has a set of prepared PowerPoint slides to help spatiotemporal analytics instructors explain the content. Undergraduate and graduate students who use Geographic Information Systems or study Geographical Information Science will find this book useful. The subject matter is also pertinent to an array of disciplines such as agriculture, anthropology, archaeology, architecture, biology, business administration and management, civic engineering, criminal justice, epidemiology, geography, geology, marketing, political science, and public health.
Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2014
The six-volume set LNCS 8579-8584 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2014, held in Guimarães, Portugal, in June/July 2014. The 347 revised papers presented in 30 workshops and a special track were carefully reviewed and selected from 1167 initial submissions. The 289 papers presented in the workshops cover various areas in computational science ranging from computational science technologies to specific areas of computational science such as computational geometry and security.