TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schneider, Johannes
A1  - Wenig, Phillip
A1  - Papenbrock, Thorsten
T1  - Distributed detection of sequential anomalies in univariate time series
JF  - The VLDB journal : the international journal on very large data bases
N2  - The automated detection of sequential anomalies in time series is an essential task for many applications, such as the monitoring of technical systems, fraud detection in high-frequency trading, or the early detection of disease symptoms. All these applications require the detection to find all sequential anomalies possibly fast on potentially very large time series. In other words, the detection needs to be effective, efficient and scalable w.r.t. the input size. Series2Graph is an effective solution based on graph embeddings that are robust against re-occurring anomalies and can discover sequential anomalies of arbitrary length and works without training data. Yet, Series2Graph is no t scalable due to its single-threaded approach; it cannot, in particular, process arbitrarily large sequences due to the memory constraints of a single machine. In this paper, we propose our distributed anomaly detection system, short DADS, which is an efficient and scalable adaptation of Series2Graph. Based on the actor programming model, DADS distributes the input time sequence, intermediate state and the computation to all processors of a cluster in a way that minimizes communication costs and synchronization barriers. Our evaluation shows that DADS is orders of magnitude faster than S2G, scales almost linearly with the number of processors in the cluster and can process much larger input sequences due to its scale-out property.
KW  - Distributed programming
KW  - Sequential anomaly
KW  - Actor model
KW  - Data mining
KW  - Time series
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00778-021-00657-6
SN  - 1066-8888
SN  - 0949-877X
VL  - 30
IS  - 4
SP  - 579
EP  - 602
PB  - Springer
CY  - Berlin
ER  -