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Conference
2019
By Deb Paul, Yanqing Peng, Feifei Li
In Proceedings of 34th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2019), pages 1370-1381, April, 2019.
Abstract
The widespread use of social media and the active trend of moving towards more web- and mobile-based reporting for traditional media outlets have created an avalanche of information streams. These information streams bring in first-hand reporting on live events to massive crowds in real time as they are happening. It is important to study the phenomenon of burst in this context so that end-users can quickly identify important events that are emerging and developing in their early stages. In this paper, we investigate the problem of bursty event detection where we define burst as the acceleration over the incoming rate of an event mentioning. Existing works focus on the detection of current trending events, but it is important to be able to go back in time and explore bursty events throughout the history, while without the needs of storing and traversing the entire information stream from the past. We present a succinct probabilistic data structure and its associated query strategy to find bursty events at any time instance for the entire history. Extensive empirical results on real event streams have demonstrated the effectiveness of our approach.
2018
By Yanqing Peng, Jinwei Guo, Feifei Li, Weining Qian, Aoying Zhou
In Proceedings of 37th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2018), pages 1037-1052, June, 2018.
Abstract
Membership testing is the problem of testing whether an element is in a set of elements. Performing the test exactly is expensive space-wise, requiring the storage of all elements in a set. In many applications, an approximate testing that can be done quickly using small space is often desired. Bloom filter (BF) was designed and has witnessed great success across numerous application domains. But there is no compact structure that supports set membership testing for temporal queries, e.g., has person A visited a web server between 9:30am and 9:40am? And has the same person visited the web server again between 9:45am and 9:50am? It is possible to support such ``temporal membership testing'' using a BF, but we will show that this is fairly expensive. To that end, this paper designs persistent bloom filter (PBF), a novel data structure for temporal membership testing with compact space.