Uncovering Interactions between Moving Objects

Movement data resulting from tracking positions of various moving objects (people, animals, goods, etc.) have recently got close attention of researchers. Methods for analysis of movement data have been developed in the areas of geographic information science (Buliung and Kanaroglou 2004), geovisualization (Dykes and Mountain 2003), information visualization (Kapler and Wright 2005), data mining (Giannotti and Pedreschi 2007), and visual analytics (Andrienko et al. 2007). The methods intended for analysis of large datasets include computational techniques, which either aggregate and summarize the data (Dykes and Mountain 2003, Buliung and Kanaroglou 2004, Nanni and Pedreschi 2006, Andrienko et al. 2007) or extract specific features, e.g. occurrences of certain types of relationships between moving objects (Laube et al. 2005).