A temporal pattern search algorithm for personal history event visualization

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 799-812

  Wang, Taowei David ^a   Deshpande, Amol ^b   Shneiderman, Ben ^b  

^a PARTNERS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^b AV Williams Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Graphical user interfaces; Information visualization; Pattern matching; Temporal event data

Indexed keywords

BINARY SEARCH; BIT-PARALLEL; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS; NONDETERMINISTIC FINITE AUTOMATON; NOVEL ALGORITHM; RUNNING TIME; SEARCH PATTERNS; SHIFT-AND; TEMPORAL EVENT DATA; TEMPORAL PATTERN; TIME STAMPS;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATA THEORY; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ISOMERS; PATTERN MATCHING;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84859729497     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2010.257     Document Type: Article

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