Research on time series mining based on shape concept time warping

Time series is an important kind of complex data, while a growing attention has been paid to mining time series knowledge recently. Typically Euclidean distance measure is used for comparing time series. However, it may be a brittle distance measure because of less robustness. Dynamic time warp is a pattern matching algorithm based on nonlinear dynamic programming technique, however it is computationally expensive and suffered from the local shape variance. A modification algorithm named by shape DTW is presented, which uses linguistic variable concept to describe the slope feather of time series. The concept tree is developed by cloud models theory which integrates randomness and probability of uncertainty, so that it makes conversion between qualitative and quantitive knowledge. Experiments about cluster analysis on the basis of this algorithm, compared with Euclidean measure, are implemented on synthetic control chart time series. The results show that this method has strong robustness to loss of feature data due to piecewise segment preprocessing. Moreover, after the construction of shape concept tree, we can discovery knowledge of time series on different time granularity.