Acknowledgments First and foremost, I want to thank my advisor Dr. Christopher Taylor. His endless support and wisdom helped me finish this dissertation. His enthusiasm for Bioinformatics was contagious—and I definitely caught it. His depth of knowledge and very precise academic guidance brought me to develop a web-based GUI distributed computational pipeline, which provides all-in-one function...

Computational science involves the use of tools for computing, interaction, and imaging in the process of scientific research. Important parts of the process to be supported are modeling and simulation of phenomena, and interpretation of data resulting from measurements and simulations. In this paper we present tools for visualization, numerical modeling, and computational steering. These tools...

We wish to thank Scott Nations for his many helpful comments on an early version of this paper. A theory for multiresolution signal decomposition: the wavelet representation, " IEEE Trans. Approximated Ocean Area Land (a) (b) Figure 7: Land and ocean areas in each data frame. (a) Ocean area in original data (white area). (b) Approximation of the ocean area using 88 blocks. This approximated ver...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First of all, I would like to express my special appreciation to my advisor, Dr. Ming Dong, for his guide of my professional development and an inexhaustible source of ideas through my Ph.D.program at Wayne State University. During these years, he has spent tremendous time and effort with me discussing research, teaching me to write papers, and answering my questions. Without hi...

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