Title
SPARTAN: Semantic integration of big spatio-temporal data from streaming and archival sources
Abstract
An ever-increasing number of applications in critical domains, such as maritime and aviation, generate, collect, manage and process spatio-temporal data related to the mobility of entities. This wealth of data can be exploited for various purposes, towards improving the safety of operations, reducing economical costs, and increasing dependability: The major issue to achieve these objectives is increasing predictability of moving objects’ trajectories and events. To achieve this purpose in a data-driven way we need to exploit in integrated manners data from a variety of disparate and heterogeneous data sources, both streaming and archival, regarding – among other – surveillance, weather, and contextual data. Motivated by this fact, in this paper, we propose a framework for semantic integration of big mobility data with other data sources that are necessary to data analytics tasks, providing a unified representation of such data. Notable features of our framework include the real-time generation of data synopses of moving entities’ trajectories, the efficient and flexible transformation of data from heterogeneous and big data sources in RDF, and the spatio-temporal link discovery between spatio-temporal entities in diverse data sources. The design and implementation of our framework uses big data technologies (Apache Flink and Kafka), and our experimental evaluation demonstrates the efficiency and scalability of the proposed framework using large, real-life datasets.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.future.2018.07.007
Future Generation Computer Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
RDF generation,Semantic stream generation,Semantic integration,Trajectory summarization,Spatio-temporal link discovery,Big spatio-temporal data
Journal
110
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0167-739X
1
0.40
References 
Authors
17
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Georgios M. Santipantakis1159.18
Apostolos Glenis263.58
Kostas Patroumpas332730.03
Akrivi Vlachou475139.95
Christos Doulkeridis589955.91
George A. Vouros681987.44
Nikos Pelekis788159.28
Yannis Theodoridis83155266.14