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Global Memory Net Offers New Innovative Access to Tsurumi's Old Japanese Waka Poems and Tales, and Maps
This paper describes how Global Memory Net (GMNet) has been able to provide new kind of innovative access to the invaluable content of the classical Japanese ancient poems and maps at Tsurumi University that was not available for public access before. The collaboration began with the development of a prototype collection, based on images included in two publications of the Tsurumi University Library – the Eighty Selections of Waka Poems and Tales from the Classical Japanese Literature and the Japanese Maps in the Old Age. As the project developed, coinciding with the technology development of GMNet in bilingual retrieval as well as with sound presentations, the inclusion of sound files for each of the Waka selection was considered a very desirable feature since Waka poems are generally only readable by very small number of specialists. 
 
The paper will present a bird's eye view of how Tsurumi's rare collection is organized, presented with much enhanced access in GMNetsystem. Through this project, the Tsurumi team has gained considerable important experiences. The overall process for them was very time consuming even though the technology of GMNet was already in place. These valuable experiences will be discussed and shared.
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Thai's Invaluable Memory Celebrated Via Global Memory Net
In this digital era, the mode of universal access for information seeking and knowledge acquisition differs greatly from the traditional ways. We have witnessed the exciting convergence of content, technology, and global collaboration in the development of digital libraries, which has offered us unbounded opportunities for dynamic information access and delivery. This author has experienced much of the transformations from analog to digital in the last two decades through her own R&D activities – from the creation of interactive videodiscs and multimedia CDs on the First Emperor of China's terracotta warriors and horses in the 1980s and 1990s to leading a current international digital library project, Global Memory Net (GMNet), supported by the US National Science Foundation. In presenting her vision for linking world digital resources together for universal access, she will share with the audience the latest development of Global Memory Net In honor of H.R.H. Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn at the special occasion of her 50th Birthday. The invaluable images of H.R.H. Princess and the Royal Family, as well as some of the most attractive sites of Thailand, such as the Grand Palace, etc. are included in GMNet as a part of the rare Thai Memory.
8200860
Digital imagery for significant cultural and historical materials
Digital imagery for significant cultural and historical materials is an emerging research field that bridges people, culture, and technologies. In this paper, we first discuss the great importance of this field. Then we focus on its four interrelated subareas: (1) creation and preservation, (2) retrieval, (3) presentation and usability, and (4) applications and use. We propose several mechanisms to encourage collaboration and argue that the field has high potential impact on our digital society. Finally, we make specific recommendations on what to pursue in this field.
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Evaluation of 3D face analysis and synthesis techniques
The reconstruction of 3D face models is mostly achieved by using 2D images. We compare the strengths and weaknesses of different image processing techniques for 3D face generation. It is anticipated that the optimal solution will be applied in the future for 3D face analysis and synthesis. As approaches to 3D face modelling, the paper presents: binocular stereo, using a stereo correspondence algorithm or manual triangulation; orthogonal views; photometric stereo. Photometric stereo and orthogonal views seem to provide the best rendering while keeping a reasonable time efficiency, implementation difficulty and cumbersomeness. However, 3D face acquisition techniques have not closed the gap between accuracy and cumbersomeness
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Query translation scheme for heterogeneous XML data sources
In order to formulate a meaningful XML query, a user must have some knowledge of the schema of the XML documents to be queried. The query will succeed only if the schema of the actual documents is consistent with the user's information. When a user queries a collection of documents collected from heterogeneous XML data sources, there is a high possibility that these documents do not all conform to the same schema assumed by the user, thus causing the query to fail. In this paper, we try to solve this query and data schema mismatching problem by proposing a query translation scheme. Without attempting to solve the general problem of schema integration, we present an inclusion mapping algorithm that decides how compatible the schema of the query and the schema of the target XML documents are. Based upon the compatibility, the query will be executed directly, or translated according to the target schema and then executed, or rejected.
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Detecting and mapping thematic changes in transient networks
Research fronts are the forefront of a scientific field timely identifying emerging trends and abrupt changes in scientific literature is not only beneficial for users of digital libraries, but also instrumental for users to trace the movement of a research front. A research front can be seen as a dynamic and transient mapping from the state of the art to its immediate prior art - the intellectual base. Citation and co-citation analysis primarily focuses on the structure and dynamics of the intellectual base, information retrieval and related research mainly focuses on intrinsic properties of text documents. In this article, we describe a novel approach that enables us to detect and visualize the transient relationship over time. Temporal associations between content words connected to a surge of interest in scientific papers and high-impact articles in the intellectual base are identified and visualized as a time-variant network. We apply the approach to the detection of thematic changes over time in information visualization and research in terrorism.
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Web-based simulation experiments
The use of the World Wide Web and Java-based mobile code provides new opportunities for distributed simulation. First, the infrastructure provided by the Internet eliminates the need for multiprocessor hardware, making it feasible to distribute simulation models over different hardware platforms through the Internet. Second, "Internet-aware" mobile Java code makes the applications fully portable and reusable. These enabling technologies are already exploited for distributed simulation modeling. This paper reports on the preliminary results of an on-going effort to construct a parallel discrete event simulation support system to distribute simulation experiments over the Internet with a view on simulation optimization. A research prototype for ranking and selection problems is described. The overall project goals are discussed.
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Combining models and guided empirical search to optimize for multiple levels of the memory hierarchy
This paper describes an algorithm for simultaneously optimizing across multiple levels of the memory hierarchy for dense-matrix computations. Our approach combines compiler models and heuristics with guided empirical search to take advantage of their complementary strengths. The models and heuristics limit the search to a small number of candidate implementations, and the empirical results provide the most accurate information to the compiler to select among candidates and tune optimization parameter values. We have developed an initial implementation and applied this approach to two case studies, matrix multiply and Jacobi relaxation. For matrix multiply, our results on two architectures, SGI R10000 and Sun UltraSparc IIe, outperform the native compiler, and either outperform or achieve comparable performance as the ATLAS self-tuning library and the hand-tuned vendor BLAS library. Jacobi results also substantially outperform the native compilers.