Measuring similarity of mobile phone user trajectories- a Spatio-temporal Edit Distance method

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 496-520

  Yuan, Yihong ^a,b   Raubal, Martin ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

edit distance; human mobility patterns; mobile phone data sets; time series; trajectory similarity measure

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DATA SET; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES;

CHINA;

EID: 84895071664     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2013.854369     Document Type: Article

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