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Bibliography: The integration of visualization with databases, data mining, spatial analysis and geocomputation


Data Mining: general references and resources

A good glossary of Data Mining Terminology can be found on the World Wide Web at: http://www.pilotsw.com/r_and_t/whtpaper/datamine/dmglos.htm

Defining Data Mining - The Hows and Whys of Data Mining, and How It Differs From Other Analytical Techniques by Bruce Moxon, DBMS Online, http://www.dbmsmag.com/9608d53.html.

KDNuggets Directory: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Internet Newsletter. http://www.kdnuggets.com/.

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Journal Web Site: http://www.research.microsoft.com/datamine/

Product information on Silicon Graphics Inc.'s MineSet can be found at: http://www.sgi.com/Products/software/MineSet/products/index.html

Future Generation Computer Systems, (Special edition on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 1997, Vol. 13, Nos. 2-3:

  • Using neural networks for data mining, Craven, M. W. and Shavlik, J. W., p.211-229.
  • Systems for KDD: From concepts from Practice, Dunkel, B., Soparkar, N., Szaro, J. and Uthurusamy R., p.231-242.
  • A comparative study of clustering methods, Zait, M. and Messatfa, H., p.149-159.
  • A statistical perspective on data mining, Hosking, J. R. M., Pednault, E. P. D., Sudan, M., p.117-134.
  • Data Mining and KDD: Promise and challenges, Fayyad, U. and Stolorz, P., p.99-115.

Spatial Data Mining: examples specifically using spatial data

Ester, M., Kriegel, H. P. and XU, X. W. (1995). Knowledge Discovery in Large Spatial Databases ñ Focussing Techniques for Efficient Class Identification. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 951, pp. 67-82.

The following papers are available for download from: http://www.cs.sfu.ca/research/groups/DB/sections/publication/smmdb/smmdb.html

Han, J., Koperski, K. and Stefanovic, N. (1997). GeoMiner: A System Prototype for Spatial Data Mining, Proc. 1997 ACM-SIGMOD Int'l Conf. on Management of Data(SIGMOD'97), Tucson, Arizona.

Han, J. (1999). Data Mining. In: Urban, J. and Dasgupta, P. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Distributed Computing , Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Zaïane, O. R., Han, J., Li, Z.-N., and Hou, J. (1998). Mining Multimedia Data, Proc. CASCON'98: Meeting of Minds, Toronto, Canada.

Han, J. (1997). Data Mining: Where Is It Heading?'', Proc. of 1997 International Conference. on Data Engineering (ICDE'97), Birmingham, England, , pp. 508.

Gahegan, M. N. (1994). Support for the contextual interpretation of data within an object-oriented GIS. Proc. 6th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, (Ed. Waugh, T. C. and Healey, R. G.), Edinburgh, Scotland, pp. 988-1001.

Hassen, K. and Beard, K. A. (1996). Reference model framework to evaluate visualization of positional change in spatial databases.. Computers Environment and Urban Systems, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 43-62.


Visual Data Exploration:

Carter, J. and Dykes, J., 1998, Developing a visualisation gateway for the UK census of population. Proc: 6th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling (Eds. Poiker, T. and Chrisman, N.), (Vancouver, Canada: International Geographical Union), pp. 543-556.

Chernoff, H. (1973). The use of faces to represent points in k-dimensional space graphically. Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 68, pp. 361-368.

Chernoff, H. (1978). Graphical representations as a discipline. In: Graphical Representations of Multivariate Data (Ed. Wang, P. C. C.), Academic Press, New York, USA.

The following two papers, on Selective Dynamic Manipulation, are available for download from: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mei/

Chuah, M. C., Roth, S. F., Mattis, J. and Kolojejchick, J. (1995). SDM: Malleable Information Graphics, Proc: Information Visualization, Atlanta, GA, pp. 36-42.

Chuah, M. C., Roth, S. F., Mattis, J. and Kolojejchick, J. (1995). SDM: Selective Dynamic Manipulation of Visualizations, Proc. ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, Pittsburgh, PA, pp. 61-70.

Dykes, J. A. (1997). Exploring spatial data representation with dynamic graphics. Computers & Geosciences, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp.345-370.

Gahegan, M. N., (1998). Scatterplots and scenes: visualisation techniques for exploratory spatial analysis. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 43-56.

Rennison, E. and Strausfeld, L. (1995). The millennium project: constructing a dynamic 3+D virtual environment for exploring geographically, temporally and categorically organised historical information. In: Spatial Information Theory (Eds. Frank, A. U. and Kuhn, W.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany.

Tufte, E. R. (1990). Envisioning Information, Graphics Press, Cheshire, Connecticut, USA.


Visual Data Mining

The following papers by D. A. Keim are all available as postscript downloads from the following site: http://www.dbs.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/~daniel/publication.html

Boyle J., Eick S., Hemmje M., Keim D. A., Lee J. P., Sumner E. (1994). Database Issues for Data Visualization: Interaction, User Interfaces, and Presentation , in: Database Issues in Data Visualization, Springer, pp. 210-229.

Keim D. A. (1997). Visual Data Mining, Tutorial, Int. Conf. on Very Large Databases (VLDB'97), Athens, Greece, 1997.

Keim D. A. (1996). Pixel-oriented Database Visualizations , Sigmod Record, Special Issue on Information Visualization, Dec. 1996.

Keim D. A. (1996) Databases and Visualization , Tutorial, Proc. ACM SIGMOD Int. Conf. on Management of Data, Montreal, Canada.

Keim D. A., Lee J. P., Thuraisinghaman B., Wittenbrink C. (1995). Database Issues for Data Visualization: Supporting Interactive Database Exploration , Proc. Workshop on Database Issues for Data Visualization, Atlanta, GA, 1995, Springer Lecture Notes, 1996.

Keim D. A. (1996). TestVis: A Test Data Generation Tool for Comparing Visual Database Exploration Techniques, Workshop on Foundations of Advanced Information Visualization, Gubbio, Italy.

Keim, D. and Kriegel, H.-P.(1996) Visualisation techniques for mining large databases: a comparison. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (Special Issue on Data Mining),

Lee, H. Y. and Ong, H. L. (1996). Visualization support for data mining. IEEE Expert Intelligent Systems and their Applications, Vol. 11, No. 5, pp. 69-75.

MacEachren, A. M., Wachowicz, M., Edsall, R. and Haug, D. (1999). Constructing knowledge from multivariate spatiotemporal data: integrating geographic visualisation with knowledge discovery in database (KDD) methods. International Journal of Geographic Information Science, in press.


Visually-Based Analysis and Geocomputation

Cleveland, W. S. and McGill, M. E. (1988). Dynamic Graphics for Statistics, Wadsworth & Brookes/Cole, Belmont, California, USA.

Haslett, J., Bradley, R., Craig, P., Unwin, A. and Wills, G. (1991). Dynamic graphics for exploring spatial data with application to locating global and local anomalies. The American Statistician, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 234-242.

Holt, A. and Benwell, G. (1997). Using spatial similarity for exploratory spatial data analysis: some directions. Proc. Second International Conference on GeoComputation (ed. Pascoe, R.), SIRC, Otago, New Zealand, pp. 279-288.

MacDougall, E. B. (1992). Exploratory analysis, dynamic statistical visualisation and geographic information systems. Cartography and Geographical Information Systems, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 237-246.

MacEachren, A. M. and Ganter, J. H. (1990). A pattern identification approach to cartographic visualisation. Cartographica, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 64-81.

Monmonier, M. S., 1990, Strategies for the interactive exploration of geographic correlation. Proc. 4th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling (Ed. Brassel, K. & Kishimoto, H.), (Zurich, Switzerland: Dept. of Geography), Vol. 1, pp. 381-389.

Tang, Q., 1992, A Personal Visualisation System for Visual Analysis of Area-Based Spatial Data: Proc. GIS/LISí 92. Vol. 2, (Bethesda, Maryland, USA: American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing), 767-776.

Walker, G. (1995). Advanced Applications and Technology. British Telecommunications Engineering, Vol. 14, pp. 17-25, April 1995. URL: http://btlabs1.labs.bt.com/library/on-line/challenges/

Wise, S., Haining, R. and Signoretta, P. (1998). The role of visualisation for exploratory spatial data analysis of are-based data. Proc. GeoComputationí98: URL http://www.geog.port.ac.uk/geocomp/geo98/


Visualization: Automated / Knowledge-Based Schema Generation (integration of database schema and visualization system

Bertin, J. (1985). Graphical Semiology. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

Beshers, C. and Feiner, S. (1993). AutoVisual: Rule-Based Design of Interactive Multivariate Visualisations. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. pp. 41-49.

Duclos, A. M. and Grave, M. (1993). Reference Models and Formal Specification for Scientific Visualisation. In: Palamidese, P. (Ed) Scientific Visualisation: Advanced Software Techniques, pp. 3-14.

Gahegan, M. N. and OíBrien, D. L. (1997). A strategy and architecture for the visualisation of complex geographical datasets. International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 239-261.

Jung, V., 1995, Knowledge-based visualisation design for geographic information systems. Proc. 3rd ACM Workshop on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. (New York, USA: ACM Press), pp. 101-108.

Jung, V., 1996, Fuzzy effectiveness evaluation for intelligent user interfaces to GIS visualisation. Proc. First International Conference on GeoComputation, (Eds. Openshaw, S. and Abrahart, R.) (Leeds, UK: Department of Geography).

Mackinlay J. D. (1986). Automating the Design of Graphical Presentations of Relational Information. ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 110-141.

Palamidese, P. (Ed), 1993, Scientific Visualisation: Advanced Software Techniques. (location?: Ellis-Horwood.

Robertson, P. K. (1990). A methodology for scientific data visualisation: choosing representations based on a natural scene paradigm. Proc. IEEE. Visualisation ë90, pp. 114-123.

Robertson P.K. (1997). Visualizing spatial data: The problem of paradigms. International Journal of Pattern recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 11, No. 2, p. 263-273.

Rogowitz, B. E. and Treinish, L. A., 1993, An Architecture for Rule-Based Visualisation. In: Proc. IEEE Visualisation ë93, IEEE publications, pp. 236-243.

Senay, H. and Ignatius, E. (1994). A knowledge-Based System for Visualisation Design. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, pp. 36-47.

Senay, H. and Ignatius, E., 1991, Compositional Analysis and Synthesis of Scientific Data Visualisation Techniques. In: Patrikalakis (Ed) Scientific Visualisation of Physical Phenomena, (Hong Kong: Springer-Verlag), pp. 269-281.

Spitaleri, R., 1993, Reference models for computational visual simulations. In: (Ed. Palamidese, P.). Scientific Visualisation: Advanced Software Techniques. (location?: Ellis-Horwood), pp. 3-14.

Turk, A. (1994). Cogent GIS visualisations. In: Visualisation in Geographical Information Systems (Eds. Hearnshaw, H. M. and Unwin, D. J.), Wiley, Chichester, England, pp. 26-33.


Visualization of database schema and metadata and queries

(Note that several databases and some GIS now routinely support a visual mode of schema browsing and editing. Notably, Smallworld GIS has supported a visual schema interface since 1994.)

The following 2 references describe the Database Visualisation Tool ëDoodleíósupporting graphical interaction with an object-oriented database schema). See the URL for more details: http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/ifc/IEEE/test/test.html

Cruz, F. (1992). DOODLE: A Visual Language for Object-Oriented Databases. In ACM-SIGMOD International. Conference on Management of Data, pp. 71-80.

Cruz, F. (1994). User-defined Visual Query Languages. Proc: IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages (VL '94), pp. 224-231.

Friedell, M. Kochhar, S. LaPolla, M. V. and Marks, J., 1992, Integrated software, process, algorithm and application visualisation. Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation, 3, 210-218.

McCrickard, D. S. and Kehoe, C. M. (1999).Visualizing Search Results using SQWID, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology. Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center. URL: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/grads/m/Scott.McCrickard/sqwid/Doc/www6.html

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