時空間資料的頻繁樣式探勘嘗試找出未知的、人們可能覺得有趣的或有用的事件序列，這些事件序列裡的各個事件發生在特定的時間間格內，而且在地理上彼此的座落位置相近。過去的研究使用切割原始資料或是不完整的資料表示方法來進行資料探勘，也因此忽略存在於原始資料中的某些空間關聯性。再者，傳統的頻繁序列探勘方法並不適用於非交易形式的時空間資料。在這篇論文我們指出時空間資料的空間關聯性會因為不適當的資料表示方式而消失，並提出了一個直觀的時空間頻繁樣式探勘方法。論文最後我們利用兩個真實世界資料做犯罪型態的個案研究。

Spatiotemporal pattern mining tried to discover unknown, potentially interesting and useful event sequences where events occur within a specific time interval and locate geographic close to each others. Previous works use partition or ill-defined representation of spatial objects and neglect some spatial properties exist in original spatiotemporal data. Moreover, traditional sequential pattern mining methods don't suit the non-transactional spatialtemporal database. In this paper we expose the disappearance of spatial correlation due to improper data representation and propose a naive approach to mine frequent sequential spatiotemporal pattern. The end of the paper is a case study of crime pattern analysis.

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