Title
A conceptual view on trajectories
Abstract
Analysis of trajectory data is the key to a growing number of applications aiming at global understanding and management of complex phenomena that involve moving objects (e.g. worldwide courier distribution, city traffic management, bird migration monitoring). Current DBMS support for such data is limited to the ability to store and query raw movement (i.e. the spatio-temporal position of an object). This paper explores how conceptual modeling could provide applications with direct support of trajectories (i.e. movement data that is structured into countable semantic units) as a first class concept. A specific concern is to allow enriching trajectories with semantic annotations allowing users to attach semantic data to specific parts of the trajectory. Building on a preliminary requirement analysis and an application example, the paper proposes two modeling approaches, one based on a design pattern, the other based on dedicated data types, and illustrates their differences in terms of implementation in an extended-relational context.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1016/j.datak.2007.10.008
Data Knowl. Eng.
Keywords
Field
DocType
city traffic management,movement data,countable semantic unit,spatio-temporal databases,current dbms support,moving objects,conceptual view,semantic annotation,trajectories,semantic data,gis,trajectory data,direct support,dedicated data type,conceptual modeling,requirement analysis,conceptual model,design pattern,data type
Data mining,Countable set,Information retrieval,Conceptual model,Computer science,Requirements analysis,Data type,First class,Database,Trajectory,Design pattern,Semantic data model
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
65
1
0169-023X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
244
9.00
22
Authors
6
Search Limit
100244
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stefano Spaccapietra12603565.28
Christine Parent21391203.77
Maria Luisa Damiani3108460.13
José Antônio Fernandes de Macêdo446551.40
Fabio Porto528916.31
Christelle Vangenot638925.17