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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
h36c4adf17403351a
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2020
Pagerank
6.4621968e-05
Overall Rank
4,703 | 68.39%
DOI
10.1145/3318464.3389760

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{paparrizos_sigmod20,
        title = {{Debunking Four Long-Standing Misconceptions of Time-Series Distance Measures}},
        author = {Paparrizos, John and Liu, Chunwei and Elmore, Aaron J. and Franklin, Michael J.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '20},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3318464.3389760},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3318464.3389760},
        year = {2020}
}

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829 Similarity-Based Queries for Time Series Data 1997 SIGMOD 0.00013611445
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