Background information
In this first section, we are going to learn about the basic definitions and concepts related to iSAX. But first, we are going to mention the research paper that describes the operation of iSAX. iSAX and its operation are described in iSAX: disk-aware mining and indexing of massive time series datasets, which was written by Jin Shieh and Eamonn Keogh. You do not have to read this paper from start to finish but, as we mentioned for the SAX research paper, it would benefit you to read its abstract and introduction section.
Additionally, there have been various improvements to iSAX, mainly to make it faster, which are presented in the following research papers:
- iSAX 2.0: Indexing and Mining One Billion Time Series, written by Alessandro Camerra, Themis Palpanas, Jin Shieh, and Eamonn Keogh
- Beyond one billion time series: Indexing and mining very large time series collections with iSAX2+, written by Alessandro Camerra, Jin Shieh, Themis Palpanas, Thanawin...
