Graphical analysis is one of the primary methods in the study of networks. While the traditional approach uses a two-dimensional (2D) visualization, once the networks become complex, obtaining anything but superficial...
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(纸本)9781665417709
Graphical analysis is one of the primary methods in the study of networks. While the traditional approach uses a two-dimensional (2D) visualization, once the networks become complex, obtaining anything but superficial observations from 2D graphs becomes very difficult, mainly due to the so-called hairball effect, caused by a large number of overlapping nodes and edges. This problem can be effectively addressed with three-dimensional (3D) visualization. The power of modern web browsers' scripting engines can be utilized to provide 3D visualization without a hassle of installing platform-specific software. Consequently, a number of tools serving this purpose were developed, dedicated to the analysis of various types of networks in domains such as biology, social sciences, or engineering. Quite surprisingly, till now there were no free open-source tools of this kind dedicated to the analysis of networks representing bibliographic data. This paper introduces 3dSciLi, a web tool capable of 3D visualization of five types of such networks (work citations and co-citations, author citations and co-authorship, as well as keyword co-occurrence). The tool requires only an input of a set of bibliographic database search results, freeing the researchers from using a pipeline of programs and manual processing of data for the sake of their 3D visualization.
Benchmarking to characterize specific software or hardware features is an error-prone, arduous and repetitive task. Designing a specialized experimental setup frequently requires writing new scripts or ad-hoc programs...
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(纸本)9781665459549
Benchmarking to characterize specific software or hardware features is an error-prone, arduous and repetitive task. Designing a specialized experimental setup frequently requires writing new scripts or ad-hoc programs in order to properly exhibit interesting performance effects, using code changes and hardware events measurements. These artifacts may have limited reusability for subsequent experiments, since they are dependent on specific problems and, in some cases, platforms. To improve productivity and reproducibility of such experiments, which are often investigative in nature, we introduce MARTA: a fully customizable toolkit that aims to increase productivity by generating benchmark templates, compiling them, and profiling the regions of interest (RoI) specified using hardware events, and performing static code analysis. MARTA can also be applied on existing code regions of interest, it only requires to write a simple configuration file. In an orthogonal dimension, the system is able to run various statistical analyses on the measurements collected. MARTA uses data mining and machine learning or AI-based techniques for classification and regression, automatically extracting the features of the experimental setup which have the most impact on performance or whichever other metric of interest, given a large set of experiments and dimensions to consider. These post-processing tasks are valuable for deriving knowledge from experiments and are not included in most profiling tools. We also provide a set of cases of study to illustrate the ability of MARTA to conveniently create a reliable and reproducible setup for high-performance computing experiments, investigating three vastly different performance effects on modern processors.
Existing gait recognition systems have achieved success by extracting robust gait features from silhouette images, but gait can be sensitive to appearance features such as clothing and carried items. As a more promisi...
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Throughout the course of careers, a large number of employees encounter a variety of normal life events that can have an impact on their performance and job environment satisfaction. Under these circumstances, some em...
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The contour tree is a tool for understanding the topological structure of a scalar field. Recent work has built efficient contour tree algorithms for shared memory parallel computation, driven by the need to analyze l...
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(纸本)9781728184685
The contour tree is a tool for understanding the topological structure of a scalar field. Recent work has built efficient contour tree algorithms for shared memory parallel computation, driven by the need to analyze largedata sets in situ while the simulation is running. Unfortunately, methods for using the contour tree for practical dataanalysis are still primarily serial, including single isocontour extraction, branch decomposition and simplification. We report data parallel methods for these tasks using a data structure called the hyperstructure and a general purpose approach called a hypersweep. We implement and integrate these methods with a Cinema database that stores features as depth images and with a web server that reconstructs the features for direct visualization.
Three-dimensional geospatial thinking is an important skillset used by earth scientists and students to analyze and interpret data [1]. This method of inquiry is useful in glaciology, where traditional geophysical sur...
Three-dimensional geospatial thinking is an important skillset used by earth scientists and students to analyze and interpret data [1]. This method of inquiry is useful in glaciology, where traditional geophysical survey techniques have been adapted to map three-dimensional (3D) ice sheet structures and inform studies of ice flow, mass change, and history in both Greenland and Antarctica. Ice-penetrating radar images the ice in two-dimensional (2D) cross-sections from the surface to the base. analysis of this data often requires visual inspection and 3D interpretation, but is hindered by datavisualization tools and techniques that rarely transcend the two-dimensionality of the computer screen [2]. Recent advances in Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), together referred to as Extended Reality (XR), offer a glimpse into the future of 3D ice-sheet dataanalysis [3]. These technologies offer users an immersive experience where 3D geospatial datasets can be understood more immediately than with 2D maps, and gestural user interfaces can enhance understanding. Here we present Pol-XR, an XR application that supports both visualization and interpretation of ice-penetrating radar in Antarctica and Greenland.
Information visualization applications have become ubiquitous, in no small part thanks to the ease of wide distribution and deployment to users enabled by the web browser. Scientific visualization applications, relyin...
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(纸本)9781728184685
Information visualization applications have become ubiquitous, in no small part thanks to the ease of wide distribution and deployment to users enabled by the web browser. Scientific visualization applications, relying on native code libraries and parallel processing, have been less suited to such widespread distribution, as browsers do not provide the required libraries or compute capabilities. In this paper, we revisit this gap in visualization technologies and explore how new web technologies, WebAssembly and WebGPU, can be used to deploy powerful visualization solutions for large-scale scientific data in the browser. In particular, we evaluate the programming effort required to bring scientific visualization applications to the browser through these technologies and assess their competitiveness against classic native solutions. As a main example, we present a new GPU-driven isosurface extraction method for block-compressed data sets, that is suitable for interactive isosurface computation on large volumes in resource-constrained environments, such as the browser. We conclude that web browsers are on the verge of becoming a competitive platform for even the most demanding scientific visualization tasks, such as interactive visualization of isosurfaces from a 1TB DNS simulation. We call on researchers and developers to consider investing in a community software stack to ease use of these upcoming browser features to bring accessible scientific visualization to the browser.
SUMMARY & CONCLUSIONSWarranty dataanalysis (WDA) is generally performed through life dataanalysis using warranty claims and sales data [1]. While we can automate most of the activities involved in WDA, the warra...
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SUMMARY & CONCLUSIONSWarranty dataanalysis (WDA) is generally performed through life dataanalysis using warranty claims and sales data [1]. While we can automate most of the activities involved in WDA, the warranty analyst performs the remaining steps manually, making the analysis time intensive. In today’s competitive environment, there is an inevitable need to efficiently analyze a large number of products in a shorter time. This paper explains how each step involved in WDA can be effectively automated using data science techniques and derive meaningful insights in real time.
Improving the accuracy, reliability and performance of high-speed technological systems is one of the most pressing challenges in modern industry. These technologies are implemented at high speeds of tool movement and...
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Intercorporate investment has a large impact in financial performance and long-term development of a corporate. Among all the concerns for a company's investment strategy, complementary and substitutable investmen...
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(纸本)9781665450997
Intercorporate investment has a large impact in financial performance and long-term development of a corporate. Among all the concerns for a company's investment strategy, complementary and substitutable investments are two fundamental factors. However, these two relations are implicit and entangled in the complex corporate network, requiring extra caution before investment. To this end, in this paper, we proposed a novel graph convolutional network called Series-Parallel decomposed Graph Convolutional Network (SPGCN). We first decompose the complementary and substitutable relations as two information propagating directions in company dependency graph, producing multifaceted node features. Then, with an Attentive Aggregation Module, we are able to further measure the impact of both features to the final investment decision making, producing an interpretable analysis for investment strategy. Finally, we conduct experiments on a real-world dataset, to show the effectiveness of decomposing two concerns on investment recommendation task. With visualization and case studies, our method also shows great potential to help understand and conduct complementary and substitutable investment decisions. We open source our code to support future research: https://***/lem0nle/SPGCN.
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