Advances in biological experiments, such as DNA microarrays, have produced large multidimensional data sets for examination and retrospective analysis. Scientists however, heavily rely on existing biomedical knowledge in order to fully analyze and comprehend such datasets. Our proposed framework relies on the Gene Ontology for integrating a priori biomedical knowledge into traditional data anal...

Understanding of the nitrogen (N) cycle and its spatial variability is important for managing ecosystems. Soil δ15N, as an important indicator of different soil nitrogen cycling processes, may provide critical information about the spatial variability in soil N cycling. The objective of this study was to examine the dominant landscape scale variability of δ15N, the location of the variability a...

In Electronic Commerce applications such as stock trading, there is a need to consult sources available on the web for informed decision making. Because information such as stock prices keep changing, the web sources must be queried continually to maintain temporal coherency of the collected data, thereby avoiding decisions based on stale information. However, because network infrastructure has...

In this work, the authors present observations of enhanced temporal coherency beyond that expected using the observations of the standard deviation of the Doppler velocities and the assumption of a family of exponentially decaying autocorrelation functions. The purpose of this paper is to interpret these observations by developing the complex amplitude autocorrelation function when both incoher...

This paper presents a 3D, volumetric, seismic fault detection system that relies on a novel set of nonlinear filters combined with a GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) implementation, which makes interactive nonlinear, volumetric processing feasible. The method uses a 3D structure tensor to robustly measure seismic orientations. These tensors guide an anisotropic diffusion, which reduces noise in t...

As faults grow over time and become more “mature,” some of their geometrical mechanical properties evolve, these changes modify earthquake behavior. It is thus prime importance to know the degree structural maturity a fault that likely produce large earthquakes. Although this concept extensively used, there no common definition or metric measure fault. We analyzed heterogeneity surface traces 1...