We describe our investigations in generating textual summaries of physiological time series data to aid medical personnel in monitoring babies in neonatal intensive care units. Our studies suggest that summarization is a communicative task that requires data analysis techniques for determining the content of the summary. We describe a prototype system that summarizes physiological time series.

Businesses are recognizing the value of data as a strategic asset. This is reflected by the high degree of interest in new technologies such as data mining. Corporations in banking, insurance, retail, and healthcare are harnessing aggregated operational data to help understand and run their businesses (Brockett et al., 1997; Delmater & Hamcock, 2001). Analysts use data-mining techniques to extr...

An increasing number of algorithms for biochemical network inference from experimental data require discrete data as input. For example, dynamic Bayesian network methods and methods that use the framework of finite dynamical systems, such as Boolean networks, all take discrete input. Experimental data, however, are typically continuous and represented by computer floating point numbers. The tra...

The purpose of this document is to create a data model and its serialization for expressing generic time series data. Already existing IVOA data models are reused as much as possible. The model is also made as generic as possible to be open to new extensions but at the same time closed for modifications. This enables maintaining interoperability throughout different versions of the data model. ...

In almost every scientific field, measurements are performed over time. These observations lead to a collection of organized data called time series. The purpose of time series data mining is to try to extract all meaningful knowledge from the shape of data. Even if humans have a natural capacity to perform these tasks, it remains a complex problem for computers. In this paper we intend to prov...

Big data time series data streams are ubiquitous in finance, meteorology and engineering. It may be impossible to process an entire “big data” continuous data stream or to scan through it multiple times due to its tremendous volume. In Heraclitus’s well-known saying, “you never step in the same stream twice,” and so it is with “big data” temporal data streams. Unlike traditional data sets, big ...

Time series data is usually generated by measuring and monitoring applications, and accounts for a large fraction of the data available for analysis purposes. A time series is typically a sequence of values that represent the state of a variable over time. Each value of the variable might be a simple value, or might have a composite structure, such as a vector of values. Time series data can be...

Time series data is of interest to most science and engineering disciplines and analysis techniques have been developed for hundreds of years. There have, however, in recent years been new developments in data mining techniques, such as frequent pattern mining, which take a different perspective of data. Traditional techniques were not meant for such pattern-oriented approaches. There is, as a ...