Data mining is concerned with analysing large volumes of (often unstructured) data to automatically discover interesting regularities or relationships which in turn lead to better understanding of the underlying processes. The field of temporal data mining is concerned with such analysis in the case of ordered data streams with temporal interdependencies. Over the last decade many interesting t...

In this chapter, a formalism for a specific temporal data mining task (the discovery of rules, inferred from databases of events having a temporal dimension), is defined. The proposed theoretical framework, based on first-order temporal logic, allows the definition of the main notions (event, temporal rule, confidence) in a formal way. This formalism is then extended to include the notion of te...

The goal of data mining is to discover nuggets. Spatial data mining discovers collocation rules. Especially in spatial data mining, when spatial data is relatively represented with time series, a spatio-temporal significance is inferred. In this context the collocation rule that is a quintessence for the spatial data, obtains changes to its size and shape with temporal influence. Thus, the chan...

The increment of spatial-temporal data (STD) collected in many domain areas, including bioinformatics, engineering, medicine, environment, telecommunication, computer vision and many more has leads towards the emergent of information technology initiatives that facilitate the knowledge acquisition, organization and dissemination among research community. The initiatives include but not exhaust ...