In this paper we introduce an approach to objectively validate visual performance of a cognitive pilot model using benchmarks of human performance. A study with 16 human airline pilots and two competing models has been conducted in order to validate visual performance of the models applying these benchmarks. The study shows that human performance benchmarks can support analysts with a powerful ...

Finishing is the final phase of the gene sequencing process employed in the Human Genome Project. During the finishing process, analysts inspect and resolve ambiguous regions of DNA. While other phases of gene sequencing have evolved into high-volume, automated processes, finishing has remained manual, time-consuming, and costly. This thesis studies finishing as an example of a broader class of...

Visual analysts are engaged with the arduous task of scrutinizing increasingly larger datasets. Where conventional desktop displays are reaching their limits in terms of performance efficiency with large datasets, analysts can turn to larger displays. In a world of extensive multi-scale datasets, large high-resolution displays have the potential to show both more overview and detail for a given...

I hereby declare that I am the sole author of this thesis. This is a true copy of the thesis, including any required final revisions, as accepted by my examiners. I understand that my thesis may be made electronically available to the public. iii Abstract Performance regression refers to the phenomena where the application performance degrades compared to prior releases. Performance regressions...

Geospatial information systems are used to analyze spatial data to provide decision makers with relevant, up-to-date, information. The processing time required for this information is a critical component to response time. Despite advances in algorithms and processing power, we still have many “human-in-theloop” factors. Given the limited number of geospatial professionals, analysts using their...

Natural language analysis of patents holds promise for the development of tools designed to assist analysts in the monitoring of emerging technologies. One component of such tools is the identification of technology terms. We describe an approach to the discovery of technology terms using supervised machine learning and evaluate its performance on subsets of patents in three languages: English,...