This paper describes the need for mining complex relationships in spatial data. Complex relationships are defined as those involving two or more of: multi-feature colocation, self-colocation, one-to-many relationships, self-exclusion and multi-feature exclusion. We demonstrate that even in the mining of simple relationships, knowledge of complex relationships is necessary to accurately calculate the significance of results. We implement a representation of spatial data such that it contains known 'weak-monotonic' properties, which are exploited for the efficient mining of complex relationships, and discuss the strengths and limitations of this representation.
Citation:
Robert Munro, Sanjay Chawla, Pei Sun, "Complex Spatial Relationships," icdm, pp.227, Third IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'03), 2003