Invited seminar abstracts

The main motivation for this tutorial is that one particular property of the mobile entities - their similarity, has been of interest in wide range of application domains where some form of location-based awareness is needed. The objective of this tutorial is to give an overview of the different facets of the problem of detecting the similarity among moving objects' trajectories. Specifically, different techniques are presented for assessing the similarity and identify the implications that different applications context(s) have on the specific approaches. The article also discuss the impact of the similarity-based mining/clustering of spatiotemporal data on applications that have large societal impacts, such as efficient traffic management and disaster remediation.