Topological Methods in Data Analysis and Visualization II Theory, Algorithms, and Applications By: Ronald Peikert Publisher: Springer Print ISBN: 9783642231742, 3642231748 eText ISBN: 9783642231759, 3642231756 Copyright year: 2012 Format: PDF Available from $ 149.00 USD SKU: 9783642231759 When scientists analyze datasets in a search for underlying phenomena, patterns or causal factors, their first step is often an automatic or semi-automatic search for structures in the data. Of these feature-extraction methods, topological ones stand out due to their solid mathematical foundation. Topologically defined structures—as found in scalar, vector and tensor fields—have proven their merit in a wide range of scientific domains, and scientists have found them to be revealing in subjects such as physics, engineering, and medicine. Full of state-of-the-art research and contemporary hot topics in the subject, this volume is a selection of peer-reviewed papers originally presented at the fourth Workshop on Topology-Based Methods in Data Analysis and Visualization, TopoInVis 2011, held in Zurich, Switzerland. The workshop brought together many of the leading lights in the field for a mixture of formal presentations and discussion. One topic currently generating a great deal of interest, and explored in several chapters here, is the search for topological structures in time-dependent flows, and their relationship with Lagrangian coherent structures. Contributors also focus on discrete topologies of scalar and vector fields, and on persistence-based simplification, among other issues of note. The new research results included in this volume relate to all three key areas in data analysis—theory, algorithms and applications. SKU: 9783642231742 Download now: https://ebookscoffee.sellpass.io/products/Topological-Methods-in-Data-Analysis-and-Visualization-II
