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A Partial Join Approach for Mining Co-Location Patterns: A Summary of Results

Authors: Jin S. Yoo; Shashi Shekhar; MINNESOTA UNIV MINNEAPOLIS DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
Abstract:
Spatial co-location patterns represent the subsets of events whose instances are frequently located together in geographic space. The authors identified the computational bottleneck in the execution time of a current co-location mining algorithm. A large fraction of the join-based co-location miner algorithm is devoted to computing joins to identify instances of candidate co-location patterns. They propose a novel partial-join approach for mining co-location patterns efficiently. It transactionizes continuous spatial data while keeping track of the spatial information not modeled by transactions. It uses a transaction-based "a priori" algorithm as a building block and adopts the instance join method for residual instances not identified in transactions. The authors show that the algorithm is correct and complete in finding all co-location rules that have prevalence and conditional probability above the given thresholds. An experimental evaluation using synthetic data sets and a real data set shows that their algorithm is computationally more efficient than the join-based algorithm.

Limitations: APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
Description: Technical rept.
Pages: 12
Report Date: 29 DEC 2005
Contract Number: DAAD190120014, NASANCC21231
Report Number: A214444
Keywords relating to this report:
ALGORITHMS
BOOLEAN ALGEBRA
COST MODELS
DATA BASES
EFFICIENCY
GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION
INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
PATTERNS
POSITION LOCATION
PROBABILITY
SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION
TEST AND EVALUATION
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