“…An increasing number of applications across many diverse domains continuously produce very large amounts of data series 1 (such as in finance, environmental sciences, astrophysics, neuroscience, engineering, and others [1]- [3]), which makes them one of the most common types of data. When these sequence collections are generated (often times composed of a large number of short series [3], [4]), users need to query and analyze them (e.g., detect anomalies [5], [6]). This process is heavily dependent on data series similarity search (which apart from being a useful query in itself, also lies at the core of several machine learning methods, such as, clustering, classification, motif and outlier detection, etc.)…”