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Spatial Technologies for Coastal Management
This demonstration will be presented at the 2004 National Conference on Digital Government Research. The third year results of the project "Digitalization of Coastal Management and Decision Making Supported by Multi-Dimensional Geospatial Information and Analysis" will be presented. Mobile wireless communications, internet web services, and web GIS are integrated into a web-based decision-making system for coastal management. Employing three-dimensional visualization technology, athe system also provides a visualization tool for multisource spatial-temporal data integration and uncertainty analysis. Also demonstrated is an interactive QuickBird image processing subsystem used for high resolution DEM and three-dimensional shoreline extraction of Tampa Bay.The goal of this project is to develop technologies to enhance the operational capabilities of federal, state, and local agencies responsible for coastal management and decision making. The pilot test site is along the Lake Erie coastline from Port Clinton to East Cleveland, Ohio. Research strategies are currently being applied to Painesville, OH and Tampa Bay, Florida. The demonstration will include the following sections.
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Evaluation of the Geopositioning Accuracy of QuickBird Imagery
QuickBird satellite imagery, provided by DigitalGlobe Inc., has the highest resolution, among the satellite imaging systems that are commercially available. The QuickBird imaging system simultaneously collects 67-72 centimeter resolution stereo panchromatic and 2.44-2.88 meter resolution multispectral images. In this research, a QuickBird stereo pair of basic imagery product that was taken over Tampa Bay, FL, was acquired and its geopositioning accuracy evaluated based on Rational Function (RF) models.
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Integration of multidimensional geospatial information for coastal management and decision-making
Coastal management and decision-making requires timely and accurate multidimensional geospatial data that often reside in government agencies, organizations, and institutions on various levels. Integration of such data involves research on the spatial and temporal characteristics of coastal geospatial information, interoperability of spatial databases and tools, and distributed and mobile technologies. This demonstration will present a system we have developed in last four years, which aims at integrating multidimensional coastal spatial data and information technology to enhance the operational capabilities of federal, state, and local agencies responsible for coastal management and decision making.
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A time interval based consistency control algorithm for interactive groupware applications
Traditional concurrency control methods such as locking and serialization are not suitable for distributed interactive applications that demand fast local response. Operational transformation (OT) is the standard solution to concurrency control and consistency maintenance in group editors, an important class of interactive groupware applications. It generally trades consistency for local responsiveness, because human users can often tolerate temporary inconsistencies but do not like their interactions be lost or nondeterministically blocked. This paper presents a time interval based operational transformation algorithm (TIBOT) that overcomes the various limitations of previous related work. Our approach guarantees content convergence and is significantly more simple and efficient than existing approaches. This is achieved in a pure replicated architecture by using a linear clock and by posing some constraints on communication that are reasonable for the application domain.
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Every 3-connected distance claw-free graph is Hamilton-connected
A graph G is said to be distance claw-free (in DC) if for each vertex v in V(G) the independence number of the subgraph of G induced by the set of vertices at distance i from v is at most 2 for each i>=0. It is shown that every 3-connected graph in DC is hamilton-connected, answering affirmatively a question of Shepherd.
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Towards a Visual Programming Environment Based on ITK for Medical Image Analysis
Medical image analysis experiments usually require a certain level of programming skills and are often time-consuming. Visual programming can address these issues by providing a high-level user interface to visually access and combine underlying medical image analysis functionalities. This paper describes the ITKBoard, an extension of the Insight Toolkit for Registration and Segmentation (ITK). Unlike traditional approaches, ITKBoard, a visual tool for experimentation and prototyping, allows rapid visual construction of filter pipelines, via a graphical user interface. An overview of the main functionalities and the system design is presented in this paper. The approaches that we have developed to resolving critical issues such as pipeline handling, automatic object wrapping and plugin mechanism are discussed in detail. This is a first step towards a visual programming environment designed for medical image analysis, in which the specific needs in terms of visual data-flow and control-flow programming will be progressively addressed. It is envisaged that when the software is released in the near future it will be significantly beneficial to the medical image analysis community.
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Hamiltonicity of 2-connected quasi-claw-free graphs
A graph G is called quasi-claw-free if it satisfies the property: d(x,y)=2 ⇒ there exists u∈N(x)∩N(y) such that N[u]⊆N[x]∪N[y]. Let G be a 2-connected quasi-claw-free graph of order n. If δ(G)⩾n/4, then G is hamiltonian or G∈F, where F is a family of nonhamiltonian graphs of connectivity 2.
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Schema Mapping for Interoperability in XML-based multidatabase
The main aim of a multidatabase system (MDBS) is to achieve data integration and interoperability among distributed and heterogeneous database systems. But data model heterogeneity and schema make this a challenging task. Multidatabase users can only view the global schemas whose real data come from local database systems. Thus, mappings from global schemas to local schemas should be established. At the same time, the recent emergence of XML has shown great intractability as a new standard for data representation and exchange on the Web. A data model based on XML becomes more suitable for integrating different types of systems. This paper firstly introduces a multidatabase common data model based on XML, named XML-based Integration Model (XIDM). Then, an approach of schema mappings based on XIDM in MDBSs has been presented. Finally, the illustration and implementation of schema mappings in a multidatabase prototype - Panorama are also discussed.