Final Report on Massive Data Sets: Visualization and Analysis

Abstract : This project argued that the downsizing of U.S. Army implies a profound change in the way the Army carries out its war-fighting mission. There will be an increased reliance on technology. Because these are technology based warfare areas, there will be massive data sets generated electronically as part of the normal operations. The ability to analyze such data sets is crucial to the prosecution of a military engagement in 2000 and beyond since it is in the structure of these data sets that crucial information about the timing, size and nature of enemy attacks is likely to be found. We have developed several methods for carrying out the analysis of massive data sets, in particular we have carried out research to reduce the computational complexity of clustering algorithms, to reduce the complexity of visualization methods and to increase the ability of visualization methods to handle massive data sets, and research on quantization methods for massive data sets.