Set-based Similarity Search for Time Series

Summary: STS3 converts time series into sets and uses Jaccard similarity for k-NN search. With indexing, pruning, and approximation techniques, it achieves faster queries and competitive accuracy versus DTW on large datasets. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5154
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 4.799457e-05
Overall Rank: 7,210 | 49.85%
DOI: 10.1145/2882903.2882963

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,641	Locality-Sensitive Hashing for Earthquake Detection: A Case Study of Scaling Data-Driven Science	2018	VLDB	8.3905374e-05
6,074	Pigeonring: A Principle for Faster Thresholded Similarity Search	2019	VLDB	5.2242306e-05
11,379	Fast Dataset Search with Earth Mover’s Distance	2022	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
65	Fast Subsequence Matching in Time-Series Databases	1994	SIGMOD	0.00062029383
243	Locally Adaptive Dimensionality Reduction for Indexing Large Time Series Databases	2001	SIGMOD	0.00031074984
251	Robust and Fast Similarity Search for Moving Object Trajectories	2005	SIGMOD	0.00030644658
358	On The Marriage of Lp-norms and Edit Distance	2004	VLDB	0.0002599481
2,943	An Efficient and Accurate Method for Evaluating Time Series Similarity	2007	SIGMOD	7.8399495e-05
3,518	FTW: Fast Similarity Search under the Time Warping Distance	2005	PODS	7.0153323e-05

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