A Problem Oriented Approach to Data Mining in Distributed Spatio-temporal Database

Recently, a fast increment of spatio-temporal data volume has been achieved and more importantly the data might distribute everywhere. So, there is a need for spatio-temporal data mining systems that are able to support such distributed spatio-temporal query and analysis operations. Distributed spatiotemporal data mining technologies were discussed in this paper. After discussing the process of spatio-temporal data mining in distributed environment, one actual DSTDMS (Distributed Spatio-Temporal Data Mining System) was designed and then implemented. The system is based on data model of sequent snapshot and accomplished through spatio-temporal extension on PostgreSQL. Various spatio-temporal analyses and mining queries could be carried out in the system through simple SQL statements. By using the system, effective mining of distributed spatio-temporal data were achieved.