The raster model is widely used in Geographic Information Systems to represent data that vary continuously in space, such as temperatures, precipitations, elevation, among other spatial attributes. In applications like weather forecast systems, not just a single raster, but a sequence of rasters covering the same region at different timestamps, known as a raster time series, needs to be stored and queried. Compact data structures have proven successful to provide space-efficient representations of rasters with query capabilities. Hence, a naive approach to save space is to use such a representation for each raster in a time series. However, in this paper we show that it is possible to take advantage of the temporal locality that exists in a raster time series to reduce the space necessary to store it while keeping competitive query times for several types of queries.
Listing relevant patterns from graphs is becoming increasingly challenging as Web and social graphs are growing in size at a great rate. This scenario requires to process information more efficiently, including the need of processing data that cannot fit in main memory. Typical approaches for processing data using limited main memory include the streaming and external memory models. This paper addresses the problem of listing dense subgraphs from Web and social graphs using little memory.We propose an external memory algorithm based on K-way merge-sort for clustering and reordering input graphs. We also propose mining heuristics that work well with different stream orders such as URL, BFS, and cluster-based. Our experimental evaluation shows that on Web graphs, in comparison with the in-memory algorithm, the streaming mining heuristic is able to find between 70 and 96% of edges participating in dense subgraphs, uses only between 17 and 25% of the memory, and running times are between 34 and 65%. We further consider an application that uses these dense subgraphs for compressing Web graphs with a representation that enables querying the collection of subgraphs for pattern recovery and basic statistics without decompression.
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