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Patterns of movement

Mobility is a key element of many processes and activities, and the understanding of movement is important in many areas of science and technology such as meteorology, biology, sociology, transpor-tation engineering, to name but a few. Hence, in-creasing amounts of movement tracking data and other data about the dynamics of mobile objects or agents are being collected. In order to study the movement behavior of dynamic objects, it is important to take a closer look at movement itself. In other words, it is necessary to know what exactly the variables are that define movement, what constraints and external factors affect movement and most importantly to under-stand what types of movement patterns can be composed from these primitives of movement. Generally, movement patterns include any recog-nizable spatial and temporal regularity or any inter-esting relationship in a set of movement data, whereas the proper definition (i.e. the instantiation) of “pattern interestingness” depends on the applica-tion domain.