Title
Capturing Data Uncertainty in High-Volume Stream Processing
Abstract
We present the design and development of a data stream system that captures data uncertainty from data collection to query processing to final result generation. Our system focuses on data that is naturally modeled as continuous random variables. For such data, our system employs an approach grounded in probability and statistical theory to capture data uncertainty and integrates this approach into high-volume stream processing. The first component of our system captures uncertainty of raw data streams from sensing devices. Since such raw streams can be highly noisy and may not carry sufficient information for query processing, our system employs probabilistic models of the data generation process and stream-speed inference to transform raw data into a desired format with an uncertainty metric. The second component captures uncertainty as data propagates through query operators. To efficiently quantify result uncertainty of a query operator, we explore a variety of techniques based on probability and statistical theory to compute the result distribution at stream speed. We are currently working with a group of scientists to evaluate our system using traces collected from the domains of (and eventually in the real systems for) hazardous weather monitoring and object tracking and monitoring.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2009
CIDR
data collection,probabilistic model,object tracking,stream processing
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/0909.1777
28
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.84
56
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yanlei Diao12234108.95
Boduo Li22028.65
Anna Liu344134.75
Liping Peng41077.50
Charles Sutton51723107.23
Thanh T. L. Tran62068.09
Michael Zink758751.13