Visualization and Virtual Materialization of Large Databases and Data Simulation based on 3D Meme Media

科学和技术的各个研究领域现在正在数据库中积累大量数据，使用最近开发的计算机控制的有效数据采集工具进行测量，分析和观察。研究人员认为，数据库中如此庞大的数据积累将使他们能够在计算机上模拟各种物理，化学和/或生物现象，而无需进行任何耗时和/或昂贵的真实的实验。基于数据库的仿真信息可视化要求每个可视化记录都作为一个交互对象。当前的信息可视化系统可视化记录，而不是将它们具体化为交互式对象。这些领域的研究人员在他们的目标现象上发展他们的个人或社区心理模型，并且通常喜欢基于他们自己的心理模型来可视化信息。作为本项目的研究成果，我们基于1995年开发的3D应用组件架构IntelligentBox，提出了一个开发数据库记录虚拟物化的通用框架。该框架提供了可视化交互组件，用于（1）访问数据库，（2）指定和修改数据库查询，（3）定义交互式3D对象作为模板以在虚拟空间中具体化每个记录，以及（4）定义用于信息具体化的虚拟空间及其坐标系。这些组件表示为框，即，IntelligentBox架构中的组件。我们还将这个框架与统计数据挖掘和文本挖掘的研究成果相结合。

Various research fields in science and technology are now accumulating large amounts of data in databases, using recently developed computer controlled efficient data-acquisition tools for measurement, analysis, and observation. Researchers believe that such a huge extensive data accumulation in databases will allow them to simulate various physical, chemical, and/or biological phenomena on computers without carrying out any time-consuming and/or expensive real experiments. Information visualization for DB-based simulation requires each visualized record to work as an interactive object. Current information visualization systems visualize records without materializing them as interactive objects. Researchers in these fields develop their individual or community mental models on their target phenomena, and often like to visualize information based on their own mental models. As the research achievement of this program, we proposed a generic framework for developing virtual materialization of database records based on the component-ware architecture IntelligentBox that we developed in 1995 for 3D applications. This framework provides visual interactive components for (1) accessing databases, (2) specifying and modifying database queries, (3) defining an interactive 3D object as a template to materialize each record in a virtual pace, and (4) defining a virtual space and its coordinate system for the information materialization. These components are represented as boxes, i.e., components in the IntelligentBox architecture. We have also integrated this framework with statistical data mining and text mining research results.