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Similarity in (spatial, temporal and) spatio-temporal datasets

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Abstract

Similarity among mobile entities is an important type of query for many application domains. This tutorial provides a comprehensive overview of the different challenges related to assessing the similarity of spatio-temporal objects, along with the corresponding results/techniques.

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