Data Classification

Chapter 13

Time Series Data Classification

Dimitrios Kotsakos

Dept. of Informatics and TelecommunicationsUniversity of AthensAthens, Greece [e-mail]

Dimitrios Gunopulos

Dept. of Informatics and TelecommunicationsUniversity of AthensAthens, Greece [e-mail]

13.1 Introduction

Time-series data is one of the most common forms of data encountered in a wide variety of scenarios such as the stock markets, sensor data, fault monitoring, machine state monitoring, environmental applications, or medical data. The problem of classification finds numerous applications in the time series domain, such as the determination of predefined groups of entities that are most similar to a time series entity whose group is still unknown. Timeseries classification ...