Emerging technologies of wireless and mobile communication enable people to accumulate a large volume of time-stamped locations,which appear in the form of a continuous moving object trajectory.How to accurately predi...Emerging technologies of wireless and mobile communication enable people to accumulate a large volume of time-stamped locations,which appear in the form of a continuous moving object trajectory.How to accurately predict the uncertain mobility of objects becomes an important and challenging problem.Existing algorithms for trajectory prediction in moving objects databases mainly focus on identifying frequent trajectory patterns,and do not take account of the effect of essential dynamic environmental factors.In this study,a general schema for predicting uncertain trajectories of moving objects with dynamic environment awareness is presented,and the key techniques in trajectory prediction arc addressed in detail.In order to accurately predict the trajectories,a trajectory prediction algorithm based on continuous time Bayesian networks(CTBNs) is improved and applied,which takes dynamic environmental factors into full consideration.Experiments conducted on synthetic trajectory data verify the effectiveness of the improved algorithm,which also guarantees the time performance as well.展开更多
Nearest Neighbor (κNN) search is one of the most important operations in spatial and spatio-temporal databases. Although it has received considerable attention in the database literature, there is little prior work...Nearest Neighbor (κNN) search is one of the most important operations in spatial and spatio-temporal databases. Although it has received considerable attention in the database literature, there is little prior work on κNN retrieval for moving object trajectories. Motivated by this observation, this paper studies the problem of efficiently processing κNN (κ≥ 1) search on R-tree-like structures storing historical information about moving object trajectories. Two algorithms are developed based on best-first traversal paradigm, called BFPκNN and BFTκNN, which handle the κNN retrieval with respect to the static query point and the moving query trajectory, respectively. Both algorithms minimize the number of node access, that is, they perform a single access only to those qualifying nodes that may contain the final result. Aiming at saving main-memory consumption and reducing CPU cost further, several effective pruning heuristics are also presented. Extensive experiments with synthetic and real datasets confirm that the proposed algorithms in this paper outperform their competitors significantly in both efficiency and scalability.展开更多
In recent years, management of moving objects has emerged as an active topic of spatial access methods. Various data structures (indexes) have been proposed to handle queries of moving points, for example, the well-...In recent years, management of moving objects has emerged as an active topic of spatial access methods. Various data structures (indexes) have been proposed to handle queries of moving points, for example, the well-known B^x-tree uses a novel mapping mechanism to reduce the index update costs. However, almost all the existing indexes for predictive queries are not applicable in certain circumstances when the update frequencies of moving objects become highly variable and when the system needs to balance the performance of updates and queries. In this paper, we introduce two kinds of novel indexes, named B^y-tree and αB^y-tree. By associating a prediction life period with every moving object, the proposed indexes are applicable in the environments with highly variable update frequencies. In addition, the αB^y-tree can balance the performance of updates and queries depending on a balance parameter. Experimental results show that the B^y-tree and αB^y-tree outperform the B^x-tree in various conditions.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.61100045,61165013,61003142,60902023,and 61171096)the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Nos.20090461346,201104697)+3 种基金the Youth Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences of Ministry of Education of China (No.10YJCZH117)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Nos.SWJTU09CX035,SWJTU11ZT08)Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.Y1100589,Y1080123)the Natural Science Foundation of Ningbo,China (No.2011A610175)
文摘Emerging technologies of wireless and mobile communication enable people to accumulate a large volume of time-stamped locations,which appear in the form of a continuous moving object trajectory.How to accurately predict the uncertain mobility of objects becomes an important and challenging problem.Existing algorithms for trajectory prediction in moving objects databases mainly focus on identifying frequent trajectory patterns,and do not take account of the effect of essential dynamic environmental factors.In this study,a general schema for predicting uncertain trajectories of moving objects with dynamic environment awareness is presented,and the key techniques in trajectory prediction arc addressed in detail.In order to accurately predict the trajectories,a trajectory prediction algorithm based on continuous time Bayesian networks(CTBNs) is improved and applied,which takes dynamic environmental factors into full consideration.Experiments conducted on synthetic trajectory data verify the effectiveness of the improved algorithm,which also guarantees the time performance as well.
文摘Nearest Neighbor (κNN) search is one of the most important operations in spatial and spatio-temporal databases. Although it has received considerable attention in the database literature, there is little prior work on κNN retrieval for moving object trajectories. Motivated by this observation, this paper studies the problem of efficiently processing κNN (κ≥ 1) search on R-tree-like structures storing historical information about moving object trajectories. Two algorithms are developed based on best-first traversal paradigm, called BFPκNN and BFTκNN, which handle the κNN retrieval with respect to the static query point and the moving query trajectory, respectively. Both algorithms minimize the number of node access, that is, they perform a single access only to those qualifying nodes that may contain the final result. Aiming at saving main-memory consumption and reducing CPU cost further, several effective pruning heuristics are also presented. Extensive experiments with synthetic and real datasets confirm that the proposed algorithms in this paper outperform their competitors significantly in both efficiency and scalability.
基金supported in part by Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (Grant No. IRT0652)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 60603044).
文摘In recent years, management of moving objects has emerged as an active topic of spatial access methods. Various data structures (indexes) have been proposed to handle queries of moving points, for example, the well-known B^x-tree uses a novel mapping mechanism to reduce the index update costs. However, almost all the existing indexes for predictive queries are not applicable in certain circumstances when the update frequencies of moving objects become highly variable and when the system needs to balance the performance of updates and queries. In this paper, we introduce two kinds of novel indexes, named B^y-tree and αB^y-tree. By associating a prediction life period with every moving object, the proposed indexes are applicable in the environments with highly variable update frequencies. In addition, the αB^y-tree can balance the performance of updates and queries depending on a balance parameter. Experimental results show that the B^y-tree and αB^y-tree outperform the B^x-tree in various conditions.