CHAPTER 5
SPATIO-TEMPORAL STRUCTURES
We are surrounded by changes in all dimensions of our existence. All changes require time to become something else, to transform, to remodel, to reorganize, to disappear, and so on. Several fields use time-varying data to understand patterns in natural and social phenomena as well as to help make predictions. Examples range from studies in meteorology and economics to assessment of brain activity.
The chapter focuses on spatio-temporal phenomena and processes inherent to the dimensions of space and time. Data belonging to both space and time are found in diverse domains and include mobility, dispersion, proliferation, and diffusion, to mention a few. Our lives are immersed in time and space, and we constantly ...
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