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Efficiently Retrieving Top-k Trajectories by Locations via Traveling Time

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Databases Theory and Applications (ADC 2014)

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The flourishing industry of location-based services has collected a massive amount of users’ positions in the form of spatial trajectories, which raise many research problems. In this paper, we study a trajectory retrieving query, k-TLT, which aims at retrieving the top-k Trajectories by Locations and ranked by traveling Time. Given a set Q of query locations, a k-TLT query retrieves top-k trajectories that are close to Q with respect to traveling time. In contrast to existing works which consider only location information, k-TLT queries also consider the traveling time information, which have many applications, such as travel route planning and moving object study. To efficiently answer a k-TLT query, we first online compute a list L q of trajectories for each query location q ∈ Q, such that trajectories in L q are ranked by their traveling time to q. Based on the online generated lists L q corresponding to query locations, a small set of candidate trajectories that are close to Q is selected by iteratively retrieving trajectories from lists L q . Then, the set of candidate trajectories is refined and pruned to determine the top-k trajectories. We conduct extensive experiments on a real trajectory dataset and verify the efficiency of our approach.

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Han, Y., Chang, L., Zhang, W., Lin, X., Wang, L. (2014). Efficiently Retrieving Top-k Trajectories by Locations via Traveling Time. In: Wang, H., Sharaf, M.A. (eds) Databases Theory and Applications. ADC 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8506. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08608-8_11

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