Abstract Projects using geographic information tools involve a large variety of data objects, represented in different formats. Many efforts pursue standards to represent each kind...
During grouping tasks for data exploration and sense-making, the criteria are normally not well-defined. When users are bringing together data objects thought to be similar in som...
Xiaohua Sun, Patrick Chiu, Jeffrey Huang, Maribeth...
We introduce a shared data object, called a composite register, that generalizes the notion of an atomic register. A composite register is an array-like shared data object that is...
There have been many interpolation methods developed over the years, each with their own problems. One of the biggest limitations in many applications is the non-correspondence of...
Placing numerous data objects and their corresponding labels in limited screen space is a challenging problem in information visualization systems. Extending map-oriented techniqu...
Among the advantages of visual dataflow programming is that it can give the user a sense of location for the data in a computation. This can help novices build a mental picture of...
As storage systems scale to thousands of disks, data distribution and load balancing become increasingly important. We present an algorithm for allocating data objects to disks as...