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Summary: PATTERN VECTOR BASED REDUCTION OF LARGE
MULTIMODAL DATA SETS FOR FIXED RATE INTERACTIVITY
DURING VISUALIZATION OF MULTIRESOLUTION MODELS
A Dissertation
Presented for the
Doctor of Philosophy
Degree
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Christopher S. Gourley
December 1998
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to thank the many people who have contributed in some way to the completion
of this dissertation. First, I would like to thank my parents, Alfred and Shirley Gourley, for their
support over the years. Thanks to my advisor, Dr. Mongi A. Abidi, for his guidance throughout
my program. Also I would like to thank all of my committee members, Dr. Mongi A. Abidi, Dr.
Donald W. Bouldin, Dr. Rajiv V. Dubey, Dr. Daniel B. Koch, and Dr. Philip W. Smith, for their
valuable inputs and suggestions. I would like to also thank Dr. Ross T. Whitaker for his advice in
the data structure development for this research. A special word of thanks goes to Dr. Christophe
Dumont for his daily recommendations and assistance during the research and preparation of
this dissertation. And I would like to thank God "For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his
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