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Debunking Four Long-Standing Misconceptions of Time-Series Distance Measures

Summary: Comprehensive re-evaluation of time-series distance measures; debunks four long-standing misconceptions. Assesses 71 measures over 128 datasets with 8 normalizations, 52 lock-step, 4 sliding, 7 elastic, 4 kernel, 4 embedding, plus rigorous statistics. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
5976
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2020
Pagerank
5.8707943e-05
Overall Rank
4,854 | 66.27%
DOI
10.1145/3318464.3389760

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159 LOF: Identifying Density-Based Local Outliers 2000 SIGMOD 0.00040135453
243 Locally Adaptive Dimensionality Reduction for Indexing Large Time Series Databases 2001 SIGMOD 0.00031052437
251 Robust and Fast Similarity Search for Moving Object Trajectories 2005 SIGMOD 0.00030589775
358 On The Marriage of Lp-norms and Edit Distance 2004 VLDB 0.00026059337
362 Fast Similarity Search in the Presence of Noise, Scaling, and Translation in Time-Series Databases 1995 VLDB 0.00025758421
537 Fast Time Sequence Indexing for Arbitrary L_p Norms 2000 VLDB 0.00020650291
689 Efficiently Supporting Ad Hoc Queries in Large Datasets of Time Sequences 1997 SIGMOD 0.00018069077
999 Similarity-Based Queries for Time Series Data 1997 SIGMOD 0.00014726031
1,157 A Data-adaptive and Dynamic Segmentation Index for Whole Matching on Time Series 2013 VLDB 0.00013600695
1,164 Querying and Mining of Time Series Data: Experimental Comparison of Representations and Distance Measures 2008 VLDB 0.00013572951
1,373 Indexing Spatio-Temporal Trajectories with Chebyshev Polynomials 2004 SIGMOD 0.00012326961
1,510 k-Shape: Efficient and Accurate Clustering of Time Series 2015 SIGMOD 0.00011588558
2,045 Indexable PLA for Efficient Similarity Search 2007 VLDB 9.6950855e-05
2,644 Locality-Sensitive Hashing for Earthquake Detection: A Case Study of Scaling Data-Driven Science 2018 VLDB 8.3849568e-05
2,946 An Efficient and Accurate Method for Evaluating Time Series Similarity 2007 SIGMOD 7.8331623e-05
3,033 A Decade of Progress in Indexing and Mining Large Time Series Databases 2006 VLDB 7.6737668e-05
3,340 Fast Time-Series Searching with Scaling and Shifting 1999 PODS 7.1987694e-05
3,524 BRAID: Stream Mining through Group Lag Correlations 2005 SIGMOD 7.0075162e-05
3,544 Scalable, Variable-Length Similarity Search in Data Series: The ULISSE Approach 2018 VLDB 6.98759e-05
3,629 The Lernaean Hydra of Data Series Similarity Search: An Experimental Evaluation of the State of the Art 2019 VLDB 6.8997167e-05
4,062 GRAIL: Efficient Time-Series Representation Learning 2019 VLDB 6.4792249e-05
4,792 YADING: Fast Clustering of Large-Scale Time Series Data 2015 VLDB 5.9132429e-05
5,675 Rare Time Series Motif Discovery from Unbounded Streams 2015 VLDB 5.3774215e-05
5,763 Top-k Nearest Neighbor Search In Uncertain Data Series 2015 VLDB 5.3358283e-05
7,417 Uncertain Time-Series Similarity: Return to the Basics 2012 VLDB 4.7309512e-05
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