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Spatio-temporal benchmarking; Spatio-temporal data generator
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In the area of mobile and ubiquitous data management, real and synthetic test datasets are used for experimental investigations of performance and robustness. Typical applications are the examination of access methods for spatio-temporal databases and the simulation of mobility for location-based services. Besides synthetic and real datasets, combinations of these two types of data are often used that integrate a predefined infrastructure.
Historical Background
Beginning in the mid 1990s, the development of algorithms and data structures for spatio-temporal data took place of the research in the field of pure (geo-)spatial applications. Previous spatial test datasets were not sufficient for investigating the performance and robustness of those algorithms and data structures. Consequently, first data generators for spatio-temporal test datasets were published in the end of the 1990s.
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Brinkhoff, T. (2018). Real and Synthetic Test Datasets. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_1357
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