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: 5216
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 5.649535e-05
Overall Rank: 7,309 | 49.86%
DOI: 10.1145/2882903.2882963

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Authors

1. Jinglin Peng (Harbin Engineering University)
2. Hongzhi Wang (Harbin Engineering University)
3. Jianzhong Li (Harbin Engineering University)
4. Hong Gao (Harbin Engineering University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{peng_sigmod16,
        title = {{Set-based Similarity Search for Time Series}},
        author = {Peng, Jinglin and Wang, Hongzhi and Li, Jianzhong and Gao, Hong},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '16},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2882903.2882963},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2882903.2882963},
        year = {2016}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,541	Locality-Sensitive Hashing for Earthquake Detection: A Case Study of Scaling Data-Driven Science	2018	VLDB	8.4500033e-05
5,726	Pigeonring: A Principle for Faster Thresholded Similarity Search	2019	VLDB	6.1079184e-05
11,577	Fast Dataset Search with Earth Mover's Distance	2022	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
41	Fast Subsequence Matching in Time-Series Databases	1994	SIGMOD	0.00046675394
190	Locally Adaptive Dimensionality Reduction for Indexing Large Time Series Databases	2001	SIGMOD	0.00026105472
221	Robust and Fast Similarity Search for Moving Object Trajectories	2005	SIGMOD	0.00024224879
303	On The Marriage of Lp-norms and Edit Distance	2004	VLDB	0.00021956234
2,467	An Efficient and Accurate Method for Evaluating Time Series Similarity	2007	SIGMOD	8.5390765e-05
3,267	FTW: Fast Similarity Search under the Time Warping Distance	2005	PODS	7.5816553e-05

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