Contents

• PROJECT DESCRIPTION
  • INTRODUCTION: The Alexandria Project
    • The Structure of the Proposal
  • AN OVERVIEW OF THE APPROACH OF THE ALEXANDRIA PROJECT
    • A Focus on Spatially-Indexed Information and its Unique Problems
    • Related Research and the Project Investigators
  • THE DETERMINATION OF USER REQUIREMENTS
    • An Initial Characterization of User Requirements in Terms of Queries
    • Research Issues
  • COLLECTIONS OF SPATIALLY-INDEXED INFORMATION TO BE SUPPORTED
  • THE ALEXANDRIA ARCHITECTURE
    • Overview
    • Details of the Architecture
    • Research Issues
  • THE ALEXANDRIA TESTBED FACILITY
    • Overview
    • The Alexandria Prototype
    • The Alexandria Testbed
    • Evaluation of the Testbed
  • THE INGEST COMPONENT: Support for the Capture and Preprocessing of Data
    • Image Storage and Browsing Using Wavelets
    • Research Issues
  • THE USER INTERFACE: Support for Easy User Access
    • Discussion of Text and Visual Query Languages
    • Design of Query Languages and User Interface
    • Utilities to Support the Visual Interface
    • Query Processing at the Interface
    • Research Issues
  • THE CATALOGUE COMPONENT: Support for Search and Access
    • Characterizing Data: Geographical Data and Metadata
    • Conceptual data model and schema design
    • Content-based Indexing
    • Data Access and Distribution
    • Research issues
  • THE STORAGE COMPONENT: Hierarchical Storage
  • THE NETWORK COMPONENT: Fast Access Over the Network
    • Research Issues
  • RESEARCH ON PARALLEL COMPUTING SUPPORT
    • The Need for Parallel Processing
    • Parallel Computer as a Server for Multiprocessing of Information Query
    • Parallel Algorithms and Data Structures
    • Image Organization Strategies for Efficient Parallel Access
    • Research Issues
  • RAPID PROTOTYPE AND TESTBED HARDWARE
    • Rapid Prototype
    • Testbed
    • Research Issues
  • EXTRACOMPUTATIONAL ISSUES
    • Charging for Data and Alternative Incentives
    • Legal and Spatial Information Policy Issues
    • Research Issues
  • EXPECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS
  • RESULTS FROM PRIOR NSF SUPPORT
    • OSCAR H. IBARRA
    • Research Topics in Parallel Computing and Complexity Theory
      NSF CCR 89-18409, $231,012, 4/1/90-3/31/94, PI: O.H. Ibarra
    • Systolic Systems and Automata-Based Computational Complexity
      NSF DCR-9096221, $102,300, 5/1/90-4/30/91, PI: O.H. Ibarra
    • Systolic Systems and Automata-Based Computational Complexity
      NSF DCR-8604603, $150,000, 1986-1990, PI: O.H. Ibarra
    • An Infrastructure Facility for Parallel Processing Research
      NSF CDA92-16202, $1,050,000, 5/1/93-4/30/98, co-PI's: J. Bruno and O.H. Ibarra
    • Experimental Research in Computer Algorithms
      NSF CER DCR-8420935, $2,600,000, 1985-1990, co-PI's: O.H. Ibarra, J.B. Rosen, S. Sahni
    • Summary of Results
    • Selected Papers
    • MICHAEL F. GOODCHILD
    • TERENCE R. SMITH
    • Towards A System That Supports Conceptual Modeling In Data Intensive Scientific Investigation
      NSF IRI-9117094, $610,808, 9/1/91-8/31/94, co-PI's D. Agrawal, A.El Abbadi, T.R.Smith, J.Su
    • Summary of Results
  • Selected Papers
• References
• ORGANIZATIONAL ROLES
  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA (UCSB)
  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF LIBRARY AUTOMATION
  • STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO
  • UNIVERSITY OF MAINE
  • DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION
  • ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
  • ConQuest CORPORATION
  • XEROX CORPORATION
  • USGS LIBRARY
  • LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
  • OTHER LIBRARIES
  • COST SHARING
  • MANAGEMENT PLAN
    • Project Oversight
    • Management of Research
    • Management of Testbed Development
    • Management of Test and Evaluation Program
  • THE RESEARCH PLAN
    • Year I
    • Year II
    • Year III
    • Year IV
• BIOGRAPICAL SKETCHES
• BUDGET
• DISCUSSION OF SELECTED BUDGET ITEMS
• COST SHARING
• SUPPORTING FACILITIES
  • The University of California Map and Imagery Laboratory - Library
    • Facility Descriptions:
  • National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis
  • UCSB Department of Computer Science and Center for Computational Modeling and Systems
  • UCSB Department of Electrical Engineering and Center for Information Processing and Research
  • UCSB Center for Remote Sensing and Environmental Optics
• CURRENT AND PENDING SUPPORT
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