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Motif Discovery

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A recurring problem in the second part of this book is the problem of discovering recurrent patterns in long multidimensional time-series. This chapter introduces some of the algorithms that can be employed in solving this kind of problems for both discrete and continuous time-series.

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Mohammad, Y., Nishida, T. (2015). Motif Discovery. In: Data Mining for Social Robotics. Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25232-2_4

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