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Components of Testbed Resulting from R&D Team Research

Information Systems Team
Interoperability and distributed processing:
The team has written and developed Java program objects to read Aerial photographs stored as TIFF files in the Alexandria collection. These Java programs are able to read, display, and resize archive images.

Materialized Views:
The team implemented the proposed materialized views in the ADL web prototype system. A translation module has been built to analyze and translate user queries to equivalent ones that use the materialized views. The module was demonstrated during the site visit. In addition to improvement in performance of earlier queries, some queries that were not handled by the earlier database due to the unreasonable response time can now be issued. The answers are returned within a few seconds or a few minutes at the most. This supports the possibility of making a fully populated ADL operational.

Parallel Processing Team
The Performance and Parallel Processing team have interacted with the ADL testbed developers in installing and running the ADL server on their workstation cluster, and collecting test trace data based on the ADL web server. They have given their wavelet subregion browsing C code to the testbed developers who have incorporated it in their system. They are in the process of completing the documents for their new Java codes for image browsing and will make it available this quarter or next.

Image Processing Team
The image segmentation routines developed have been incorporated into the Alexandria Testbed. The team's image pattern matching search method is demonstrated via a set of Java applets integrated into the current version of the ADL testbed demo version.



Terence R. Smith
Tue Jul 21 09:26:42 PDT 1998