-MAPS: from spatio-temporal data to a weighted and lagged network between functional domains.

In real physical systems the underlying spatial components might not have crisp boundaries and their interactions might not be instantaneous. To this end, we propose -MAPS; a method that identifies spatially contiguous and possibly overlapping components referred to as , and identifies the lagged functional relationships between them. Informally, a domain is a spatially contiguous region that somehow participates in the same dynamic effect or function.