Cl´audio T. Silva
`Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Data Science
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`Tandon School of Engineering
`New York University
`Six MetroTech Center
`Brooklyn, NY 11201
`csilva@nyu.edu
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`Professional Preparation
`• Post-doc, Applied Mathematics and Statistics
`State University of New York at Stony Brook
`Concentration Area: Computational Geometry
`Mentor: Distinguished Professor Joseph S.B. Mitchell
`• Ph.D., Computer Science
`State University of New York at Stony Brook
`Dissertation Title: “Parallel Volume Rendering of Irregular Grids”
`Advisor: Distinguished Professor Arie E. Kaufman
`• M.S., Computer Science
`State University of New York at Stony Brook
`• B.S., Mathematics
`Universidade Federal do Cear´a (Brazil)
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`1996-7
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`December 1996
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`May 1993
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`July 1990
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`Professional Experience
`• Center for Data Science, New York University
`– Interim Director, (September 2016–)
`– Associated Faculty, (September 2013–)
`• Computer Science & Engineering, School of Engineering, New York University
`– Professor (July 2011–)
`– Research Professor (October 2010–June 2011)
`– Engineer-in-Residence, Incubator (December 2012–)
`• Center for Urban Science and Progress, New York University
`– Head of Disciplines (September 2012–August 2015)
`• Department of Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU
`– Affiliated Faculty (December 2011–)
`• Major League Baseball (MLB) Advanced Media
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`– Consultant (February 2012–)
`• Modelo, Inc.
`– Co-founder (2011)
`• School of Computing, University of Utah
`– Adjunct Professor (July 2011–)
`– Professor (July 2010–June 2011)
`– Associate Professor (October 2003–June 2010)
`• Guest Professor, Link¨oping University, Sweden, (January 2010–December 2012)
`• Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute, University of Utah
`– Associate Director (January 2008–May 2009)
`– Faculty Member (October 2003–June 2011)
`• Visiting Researcher, ETH Zurich, (November 2010)
`• VisTrails, Inc. (2007) [University of Utah startup company: www.vistrails.com]
`– Co-founder
`– Chief Scientist
`• Participating Guest Researcher (April 2003–), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
`• Faculty Scholar (January 2003–March 2003), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
`• Associate Professor (September 2002–April 2006; on leave starting October 2003), Department of
`Computer Science & Engineering, OGI School of Science & Engineering, Oregon Health & Science
`University.
`• Information Visualization Research Department, AT&T Labs-Research.
`– Principal Member of Technical Staff (April 2002–September 2002)
`– Senior Member of Technical Staff (July 1999–April 2002)
`• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, State University of
`New York at Stony Brook, July 1998–July 2000.
`• Research Staff Member, Visual and Geometric Computing, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, De-
`cember 1997–July 1999.
`• Research Associate, Computational Geometry Lab (Joseph S.B. Mitchell, Director). Department of
`Applied Mathematics and Statistics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, September 1996–
`December 1997.
`• Researcher, Visualization Group, Sandia National Laboratories, May 1995–December 1997.
`• Teaching and Research Assistant, Visualization Lab (Arie Kaufman, Director). Department of Com-
`puter Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1991–1995.
`• Summer Intern, Brookhaven National Laboratories, 1992.
`• Summer Intern, Philips Laboratories, 1991.
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`Honors, Distinctions, and Achievements
`• Best demo honorable mention award – SIGMOD 2017
`• (student award) 2017 Henning Biermann Award from the Courant Institute
`advisee: Dr. Bowen Yu (2017)
`• Best paper honorable mention award – IEEE Data Science and Advanced Analytics, 2016
`• Elected Chair of IEEE Technical Committee on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2015–2017)
`• (student award) Pearl Brownstein Doctoral Research Award (for PhD thesis),
`advisee: Dr. Nivan Ferreira (2015)
`• (student award) Courant’s Matthew Smosna Prize for excellence in computer science (for MS thesis),
`advisee: Yunzhe Jia (2015)
`• Alpha Award for Best Analytics Innovation/Technology for MLB Advanced Media’s Statcast player
`tracking system, 2015 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
`• 2014 IEEE VGTC Visualization Technical Achievement Award “in recognition of seminal advances in
`geometric computing for visualization and for contributions to the development of the VisTrails data
`exploration system.”
`• Outstanding Partnership, Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer for Ultrascale Vi-
`sualization Climate Data Analysis Tools (UV-CDAT), 2014
`• (student award) VPG Best Dissertation Finalist,
`advisee: Dr. Tiago Etiene (2013)
`• IBM Faculty Award, 2013.
`• Best paper honourable mention award – EuroVis 2013
`• 2013 IEEE Fellow “for contributions to geometric computing and visualization.”
`• Best paper award – SIBGRAPI 2012
`• Best panel award – IEEE VisWeek 2011
`• Best paper award – 2nd prize, EuroVis 2011
`• Best paper award, ACM Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization 2011.
`• Finalist, Executable Paper Grand Challenge, 2011.
`• 2011 IEEE Computer Society, Certificate of Appreciation “for outstanding service and performance
`as Co-Chairman of VisWeek 2010.”
`• Best paper award, EUROGRAPHICS 2010 Educator Program.
`• Best poster award, 24th Brazilian Symposium On Databases (SBBD 2009)
`• 2009 Utah Innovation Awards, VisTrails Provenance Plugin for Autodesk Maya.
`• IEEE Senior Member (since 2008).
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`• Best paper award, IEEE Shape Modeling International 2008.
`• Best paper award, IEEE Visualization 2007.
`• Best paper finalist, IEEE Shape Modeling International 2007.
`• Dean’s Teaching Commendation, Spring 2007.
`• IBM Faculty Award, 2007.
`• IBM Faculty Award, 2006.
`• IBM Faculty Award, 2005.
`• Best paper finalist, IEEE Visualization 2001.
`• Best paper finalist, IEEE Visualization 1999.
`• IBM First Plateau Invention Award, 1999.
`• IBM Research Division “accomplishment list” for MPEG-4 3D Model Coding, 1998.
`• National Science Foundation Post-Doctoral CISE Associateship Award, 1996–1997.
`• Best paper finalist, ACM/IEEE Volume Visualization 1996.
`• Doctoral Fellowship – Brazilian Research Council (CNPq – Brazil), 1991–1995.
`• 1st place, Entrance exam, Mathematics, Federal University of Ceara, Brazil.
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`Media Coverage
`• New York Times (online): Mapping the Shadows of New York City: Every Building, Every Block;
`https://goo.gl/dToiem
`• New York Times (print and online): To Create a Quieter City, Theyre Recording the Sounds of New
`York; https://goo.gl/oimnsK
`• Economist (print and online): Listen to the music of the traffic in the city; https://goo.gl/jIfvc2
`• Economist (print and online): Every step they take; https://goo.gl/pEZNGj
`• Vice Sports, Future of the game: The era of wearables (video); http://goo.gl/D6XGRC
`• Vice Sports, Future of the game: Baseball’s latest statistical revolution (video); http://goo.gl/N4f3sh
`• NetworkWorld, How the cloud gives Major League Baseball a new world of stats; http://goo.gl/1uJfkO
`• Interview at archspeech (in Russian); http://goo.gl/sBquLO
`• Claudio Silva: The future of the interdisciplinary approach, capable of solving complex problems of
`cities (in Russian); http://goo.gl/vngUOI
`• Do not spoil the unsuccessful city buildings (in Russian); http://goo.gl/zolzs8
`• (ABC News, USA Today, Sun Times, ...), Data Deluge: MLB Rolls out Statcast Analytics on Tuesday;
`http://goo.gl/m0HXEm
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`• PR Newswire, McGraw-Hill Education Takes Important Step in Open Technology, Enabling Educators
`to Build Personalized Learning Experiences; http://goo.gl/waklJU
`• MLB News, Statcast wins prestigious Alpha Award for innovation; http://goo.gl/u0745S
`• Newsweek, Can baseball get more interesting to watch with Big Data?; http://goo.gl/vWK5jm
`• Wall Street Journal, Billy Beane Expects Big Things from MLBs Big Data Play; http://goo.gl/mGrBj9
`• MLB.com, Statcast interview (video); http://goo.gl/TVQ9Hy
`• MLB News, MLBAM introduces new way to analyze every play; http://goo.gl/DW52zW
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`Publications
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`Google Scholar h-index: 55; total citations: 13,436 (date: 6/25/17)
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`Book (1)
`[1] An Introduction to Verification of Visualization Techniques, T. Etiene, R. Kirby and C. Silva, Morgan
`& Claypool Publishers, 2015.
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`Journal Publications (110)
`[2] Dynamic Scene Graph: Enabling Scaling, Positioning, and Navigation in the Universe, E. Axelsson,
`A. Bock, J. Costa, C. Emmart, C. Silva, and A. Ynnerman, Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings
`of EuroVis 2017), accepted with minor revisions.
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`[3] ARIES: Enabling Visual Exploration and Organization of Art Image Collections, L. Crissaff, L. Ruby,
`S. Deutch, L. DuBois, J.-D. Fekete, J. Freire, and C. Silva, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications,
`accepted.
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`[4] TopKube: A Rank-Aware Data Cube for Real-Time Exploration of Spatiotemporal Data, F. Miranda,
`L. Lins, J.T. Klosowski, C. Silva, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, to
`appear.
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`[5] STaRS: Simulating Taxi Ride Sharing at Scale, M. Ota, H. Vo, C. Silva, and J. Freire, IEEE Transac-
`tions on Big Data, to appear.
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`[6] State of the Art in Surface Reconstruction from Point Clouds, M. Berger, A. Tagliasacchi, L. Seversky,
`P. Alliez, G. Guennebaud, J. Levine, A. Sharf and C. Silva, Computer Graphics Forum, 36(1):301–329,
`2017.
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`[7] Urban Pulse: Capturing the Rhythm of Cities, F. Miranda, H. Doraiswamy, M. Lage, K. Zhao, B.
`Gonc¸alves, L. Wilson, M. Hsieh, and C. Silva, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer
`Graphics (SCIVIS 2016), 23(1): 791-800 (2017).
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`[8] VisFlow - Web-based Visualization Framework for Tabular Data with a Subset Flow Model, B. Yu and
`C. Silva, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VAST 2016), 23(1): 251-260
`(2017).
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`[9] Bijective Maps from Simplicial Foliations, M. Campen, C. Silva, and D. Zorin, ACM Transactions on
`Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2016), 35(4):74, 2016.
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`[10] Statcast Dashboard: Exploration of Spatiotemporal Baseball Data, M. Lage J. Piazentin Ono, D.
`Cervone, J. Chiang, C. Dietrich, and C. Silva, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 36(5):
`28–37, 2016.
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`[11] Visual Analysis of Bike-Sharing Systems, G. Oliveira, J. Sotomayor, R. Torchelsen, C. Silva, and J.
`Comba, Computers & Graphics, 60: 119-129, 2016.
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`[12] Reducing the Analytical Bottleneck for Domain Scientists: Lessons from a Climate Data Visualization
`Case Study, A. Dasgupta, J. Poco, E. Bertini, and C. Silva, Computing in Science and Engineering,
`18(1): 92–100, 2016.
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`[13] Visually Exploring Transportation Schedules, C. Palomo, Z. Guo, C. Silva, and J. Freire, IEEE Trans-
`actions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 22(1):170–179, 2016.
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`[14] Topology-based Catalogue Exploration Framework for Identifying View-Enhanced Tower Designs,
`H. Doraiswamy, N. Ferreira, M. Lage, H. Vo, L. Wilson, H. Werner, M. Park, and C. Silva, ACM
`Transactions on Graphics, 34(6):230, 2015.
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`[15] Exploring Traffic Dynamics in Urban Environments Using Vector-Valued Functions, J. Poco, H. Do-
`raiswamy, H. Vo, J. Comba, J. Freire, and C. Silva, Computer Graphics Forum, 34(3):161–170, 2015.
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`[16] Bridging Theory with Practice: An Exploratory Study of Visualization Use and Design for Climate
`Model Comparison, A. Dasgupta, J. Poco, Y. Wei, B. Cook, E. Bertini and C. T. Silva, IEEE Transac-
`tions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 21(9):996–1014, 2015.
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`[17] Riding from Urban Data to Insight Using New York City Taxis, J. Freire, C. Silva, Huy T. Vo, H.
`Doraiswamy, N. Ferreira, J. Poco, IEEE Data Eng. Bull. 37(4):43–55, 2014.
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`[18] Structured Open Urban Data: Understanding the Landscape, L. Barbosa, K. Pham, C. Silva, M.
`Vieira, and J. Freire, Big Data Journal, 2:(3), 144–154, 2014.
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`[19] Using Physically Based Rendering to Benchmark SL Scanners, E. Medeiros, H. Doraiswamy, M.
`Berger, and C. Silva, Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Pacific Graphics 2014), 33(7):71–
`80, 2014.
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`[20] Visual Reconciliation of Alternative Similarity Spaces in Climate Modeling, J. Poco, A. Dasgupta, Y.
`Wei, W. Hargrove, C. Schwalm, D. Huntzinger, R. Cook, E. Bertini, and C. Silva, IEEE Transactions
`on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 20(12):1923–1932, 2014.
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`[21] Genotet: An Interactive Web-based Visual Exploration Framework to Support Validation of Gene
`Regulatory Networks, B. Yu, H. Doraiswamy, X. Chen, E. Miraldi, M. Arrieta-Ortiz, C. Hafemeister,
`A. Madar, R. Bonneau, and C. Silva, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics,
`20(12):1903–1912, 2014.
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`[22] Using Topological Analysis to Support Event-Guided Exploration in Urban Data, H. Doraiswamy,
`N. Ferreira, T. Damoulas, J. Freire, and C. Silva, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer
`Graphics, 20(12):2634–2643, 2014.
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`[23] A Weighted Delaunay Triangulation Framework for Merging Triangulations in a Connectivity Obliv-
`ious, L.F. Silva, L.F. Scheidegger, T. Etiene, J. Comba, L. Nonato, and C. Silva, Computer Graphics
`Forum, 33(6):18–30, 2014.
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`[24] SimilarityExplorer: A Visual Inter-comparison Tool for Multifaceted Climate Data, J. Poco, A. Das-
`gupta, Y. Wei, W. Hargrove, C. Schwalm, R. Cook, E. Bertini, and C. Silva, Computer Graphics
`Forum, 33(3):341-350, 2014.
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`[25] Fast Adaptive Blue Noise on Polygonal Surfaces, Esdras medeiros, Lis Ingrid, Sinesio Pesco, and
`Claudio Silva, Graphical Models, 76(1):17–29, 2014.
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`[26] Verifying Volume Rendering Using Discretization Error Analysis, Tiago Etiene, D. Jonsson, T. Ropin-
`ski, C. Scheidegger, J. Comba, L. G. Nonato, R. M. Kirby, A. Ynnerman, and C. T. Silva, IEEE
`Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 20(1):140–154, 2014.
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`[27] Visual Exploration of Big Spatio-Temporal Urban Data: A Study of New York City Cab Trips, Nivan
`Ferreira, Jorge Poco, Huy T. Vo, Juliana Freire and Claudio Silva, IEEE Transactions on Visualization
`and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of VAST), 19(12):2149–2158, 2013.
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`[28] Practical considerations on Marching Cubes 33 topological correctness, Lis Custodio, Tiago Etiene,
`Sinesio Pesco, Claudio T. Silva, Computers & Graphics 37(7):840–850, 2013.
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`[29] Vector Field k-Means: Clustering Trajectories by Fitting Multiple Vector Fields, N. Ferreira, J.T.
`Klosowski, C. Scheidegger, and C. Silva, Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EuroVis 2013).
`Best paper honourable mention award.
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`[30] Ultrascale Visualization of Climate Data, D. Williams, T. Bremer, C. Doutriaux, J. Patchett, S. Williams,
`G. Shipman, R. Miller, D. Pugmire, B. Smith, C. Steed, E. Wes Bethel, H. Childs, H. Krishnan, P. Prab-
`hat, M. Wehner, C. Silva, E. Santos, D. Koop, T. Ellqvist, J. Poco, B. Geveci, A. Chaudhary, A. Bauer,
`A. Pletzer, D. Kindig, G. Potter, and T. Maxwell, IEEE Computer, 46(9): 68-76, 2013.
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`[31] UV-CDAT: Analyzing Climate Datasets from a User’s Perspective, E. Santos, J. Poco, Y. Wei, S. Liu,
`B. Cook, D. Williams and C. Silva, Computing in Science & Engineering, 15(1):94–103, 2013.
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`[32] VisTrails SAHM: visualization and workflow management for species habitat modeling, J.T. Morisette,
`C.S. Jarnevich, T.R. Holcombe, C.B. Talbert, D. Ignizio, M.K. Talbert, C. Silva, D. Koop, A. Swanson,
`and N.E. Young, Ecography, 36(2):129-135, 2013.
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`[33] A Benchmark for Surface Reconstruction, M. Berger, J. Levine, L. G. Nonato, G. Taubin, and C. Silva,
`ACM Transactions on Graphics, 32(2):20, 2013.
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`[34] Quad-Mesh Generation and Processing: a survey, D. Bommes, B. L´evy, N. Pietroni, E. Puppo,
`C. Silva, M. Tarini, and D. Zorin, Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics 2012),
`32(6):51-76, 2013.
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`[35] Nonrigid Matching of Undersampled Shapes via Medial Diffusion, M. Berger and C. Silva. Computer
`Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Symposium on Geometry Processing 2012), 31(5):1587–1596, 2012.
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`[36] Making Computations and Publications Reproducible with VisTrails, J. Freire and C. Silva, Computing
`in Science and Engineering, 14(4):18–25, 2012.
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`[37] Medial Kernels, M. Berger and C. Silva. Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics
`2012), 31(2):795–804, 2012.
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`[38] ISP: An Optimal Out-Of-Core Image-Set Processing Streaming Architecture for Parallel Heteroge-
`neous Systems, L. Ha, J. Krueger, J. Comba, C. Silva, and S. Joshi, IEEE Transactions on Visualization
`and Computer Graphics), 18(6):838–851, 2012.
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`[39] Simple and Efficient Mesh Layout with Space-filling Curves, H. Vo, L. Scheidegger, V. Pascucci, and
`C. Silva, Journal of Graphics Tools, GPU, and Game Tools, 16(1):25–39, 2012.
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`[40] Interactive Quadrangulation with Reeb Atlases and Connectivity Textures, J. Tierny, J. Daniels II, L.
`G. Nonato, V. Pascucci and C. Silva, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics),
`18(10):1650–1663, 2012.
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`[41] HyperFlow and ITK v4 Integration: Exploring the use of a modern parallel dataflow architecture in
`ITK, H. Vo, L. Lins, and C. Silva, The Insight Journal, 04-2012.
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`[42] Inspired Quadrangulation, J. Tierny, J. Daniels II, L. G. Nonato, V. Pascucci and C. Silva, Computer-
`Aided Design (Proceedings of SIAM Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling), 43(11):1516–
`1526, 2011.
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`[43] Efficient Probabilistic and Geometric Anatomical Mapping using Particle Mesh Approximation on
`GPUs, L. Ha, M. Prastawa, G. Gerig, J. Gilmore, C. Silva and S. Joshi, International Journal of
`Biomedical Imaging, 2011.
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`[44] Template-Based Quadrilateral Mesh Generation from Imaging Data, M. Lizier, M. Siqueira, J. Daniels
`II, C. Silva and L. Nonato, The Visual Computer, 27(10):887–903, 2011.
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`[45] Managing Data for Visual Analytics: Opportunities and Challenges, J.-D. Fekete and C. Silva, IEEE
`Data Eng. Bull. 35(3): 27-36, 2012.
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`[46] Topology Verification for Isosurface Extraction, T. Etiene, L. Nonato, C. Scheidegger, J. Tierny, T.
`Peters, V. Pascucci, R. M. Kirby, and C. Silva, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer
`Graphics, 18(6):952–965, 2012. Spotlight paper.
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`[47] BirdVis: Visualizing and Understanding Bird Populations, N. Ferreira, L. Lins, D. Fink, S. Kelling, C.
`Wood, J. Freire, and C. Silva, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceed-
`ings of InfoVIS 2011), 17(12):2374-2383, 2011.
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`[48] Streaming-Enabled Parallel Data Flow Framework in the Visualization ToolKit, H. Vo, J. Comba, B.
`Geveci, and C. Silva, Computing in Science and Engineering, 13(3):72-83, 2011.
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`[49] A User Study of Visualization Effectiveness Using EEG and Cognitive Load, E. Anderson, K. Potter,
`L. Matzen, J. Shepherd, G. Preston, and C. Silva, Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EuroVis
`2011). Best paper award – 2nd prize.
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`[50] Template-based Quadrilateral Meshing,, J. Daniels II, M. Lizier, M. Siqueira, C. Silva and L.G.
`Nonato, Computers and Graphics (Proceedings of Shape Modeling International 2011), 35(3), 2011.
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`[51] The ALPS project release 2.0: Open source software for strongly correlated systems, B. Bauer, L. D.
`Carr, H.G. Evertz, A. Feiguin, J. Freire, S. Fuchs, L. Gamper, J. Gukelberger, E. Gull, S. Guertler, A.
`Hehn, R. Igarashi, S.V. Isakov, D. Koop, P.N. Ma, P. Mates, H. Matsuo, O. Parcollet, G. Pawlowski,
`J.D. Picon, L. Pollet, E. Santos, V.W. Scarola, U. Schollwck, C. Silva, B. Surer, S. Todo, S. Trebst,
`M. Troyer, M.L. Wall, P. Werner, S. Wessel, Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
`(JSTAT), 5:P05001, 2011.
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`[52] Using VisTrails and Provenance for Teaching Scientific Visualization, C. Silva, E. Anderson, E. Santos,
`and J. Freire, Computer Graphics Forum, 30(1):75–84, 2011. (Presented at EUROGRAPHICS 2010
`Educator Program, 2010). Best paper award.
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`[53] PedVis: A Structured, Space Efficient Technique for Pedigree Visualization, C. Tuttle, L. G. Nonato,
`and C. Silva. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of IEEE In-
`formation Visualization 2010), 16(6):1063–1072, 2010.
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`[54] Two-Phase Mapping for Projecting Massive Data Sets, F. V. Paulovich, L. G. Nonato, and C. Silva.
`IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2010),
`16(6):1281-1290, 2010.
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`[55] Interactive Vector Field Feature Identification, J. Daniels, E. W. Anderson, L. G. Nonato, and C. Silva.
`IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2010),
`16(6):1560–1568, 2010.
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`[56] Using Python for Signal Processing and Visualization. E. Anderson, G. Preston, and C. Silva. IEEE
`Computing in Science and Engineering 12(4) pp 90–95, 2010.
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`[57] Fiedler Trees for Multiscale Surface Analysis, M. Berger, L. G. Nonato, V. Pascucci, and C. Silva,
`Computer & Graphics (Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Shape Modeling and Appli-
`cations (SMI) 2010).
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`[58] Streaming-Enabled Parallel Dataflow Architecture for Multicore Systems, H. Vo, B. Summa, D. Os-
`mari, J. Comba, V. Pascucci, and C. Silva, Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EuroVis 2010).
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`[59] Effects of 10Hz rTMS on the neural efficiency of working memory, G. A. Preston, E. W. Anderson, E.
`Wassermann, T. Goldberg, and C. Silva, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22(3):447–456, 2010.
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`[60] Verifiable Visualization for Isosurface Extraction, T. Etiene, C. Scheidegger, L. G. Nonato, R. M.
`Kirby, and C. Silva.
`IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of
`IEEE Visualization 2009).
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`[61] VisMashup: Streamlining the Creation of Custom Visualization Applications, E. Santos, L. Lins, J.
`Ahrens, J. Freire, and C. Silva. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceed-
`ings of IEEE Visualization 2009).
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`[62] Semi-Regular Quadrilateral Remeshing from Simplified Base Domains, J. Daniels, E. Cohen, and
`C. Silva. Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Symposium on Geometry Processing 2009),
`28(5):1427–1435, 2009.
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`[63] Localized Quadrilateral Coarsening, J. Daniels, E. Cohen, and C. Silva. Computer Graphics Forum
`(Proceedings of Symposium on Geometry Processing 2009), 28(5):1436–1444, 2009.
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`[64] Robust Topology-Based Multiscale Analysis of Scientific Data, A. Gyulassy, L. G. Nonato, P.-T. Bre-
`mer, C. Silva, and Valerio Pascucci. Computing in Science and Engineering, 11(5):88–95, 2009.
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`[65] Fast 4-way parallel radix sorting on GPUs, L. Ha, J. Krueger, and C. Silva. Computer Graphics
`Forum, 28(8):2368–2378, 2009.
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`[66] Image-Space Acceleration for Direct Volume Rendering of Unstructured Grids using Joint Bilateral
`Upsampling, S. P. Callahan and C. Silva, Journal of Graphics, GPU, & Game Tools, 14(1):115, 2009.
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`[67] Bandwidth Selection and Reconstruction Quality in Point-Based Surfaces, H. Wang, C. E. Scheideg-
`ger, and C. Silva, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 15(4):572–582, 2009.
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`[68] Marching Cubes without Skinny Triangles, C. Dietrich, J. Comba, L. Nedel, C. Scheidegger, J. Schreiner,
`and C. Silva. Computing in Science and Engineering, 11(2):82–87, 2009.
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`[69] Improving Mesh Quality of Marching Cubes Using Edge Transformations, C. Dietrich, J. Comba, L.
`Nedel, C. Scheidegger, J. Schreiner, and C. Silva. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer
`Graphics, 15(1):150–159, 2009.
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`[70] Quadrilateral Mesh Simplification, J. Daniels, C. Silva, J. Shepherd, and E. Cohen, ACM Transactions
`on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia 2008).
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`[71] The Need for Verifiable Visualization, R. M. Kirby and C. Silva. IEEE Computer Graphics and Appli-
`cations, 28(5):78–83, 2008.
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`[72] Interactive Transfer Function Specification for Direct Volume Rendering of Disparate Volumes, F.
`Bernardon, L. Ha, S. Callahan, J. Comba, and C. Silva. Computing in Science and Engineering,
`10(6):82–89, 2008.
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`[73] VisComplete: Automating Suggestions for Visualization Pipelines, D. Koop, C. Scheidegger, S. Calla-
`han, J. Freire, and C. Silva. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings
`of IEEE Visualization 2008), 14(6):1691–1698, 2008.
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`[74] Edge Groups: A New Approach to Understanding the Mesh Quality of Marching Methods, C. Dietrich,
`J. Comba, L. Nedel, C. Scheidegger, and C. Silva. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer
`Graphics (Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2008), 14(6):1651–1658, 2008.
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`[75] Revisiting Histograms and Isosurface Statistics, C. Scheidegger, J. Schreiner, B. Duffy, H. Carr and
`C. Silva. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of IEEE Visual-
`ization 2008), 14(6):1659-1666, 2008.
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`[76] Spline-Based Feature Curves from Point-Sampled Geometry, J. Daniels, T. Ochotta, L. Ha, and C. Silva.
`The Visual Computer, 24(6):449–462, 2008.
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`[77] Scientific Exploration in the Era of Ocean Observatories, A. Baptista, B. Howe, J. Freire, D. Maier,
`and C. Silva. Computing in Science and Engineering, 10(3):53-58, 2008.
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`[78] Provenance for Computational Tasks: A Survey, J. Freire, D. Koop, E. Santos, and C. Silva. Computing
`in Science and Engineering, 10(3):11-21, 2008.
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`[79] Provenance in Comparative Analysis: A Study in Cosmology, E. W. Anderson, J. Ahrens, K. Heitmann,
`S. Habib, and C. Silva. Computing in Science and Engineering, 10(3):30-37, 2008.
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`[80] Robust Soft Shadow Mapping with Depth Peeling, L. Bavoil, S. Callahan, and C. Silva. Journal of
`Graphics Tools, 13(1):19-30, 2008.
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`[81] Tackling the Provenance Challenge One Layer at a Time, C. Scheidegger, D. Koop, E. Santos, H.
`Vo, S. Callahan, J. Freire, and C. Silva. Concurrency And Computation: Practice And Experience,
`20(5):473–483, 2008.
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`[82] Direct Volume Rendering: A 3D Plotting Technique for Scientific Data , S. P. Callahan, J. H. Callahan,
`C. E. Scheidegger, and C. Silva, Computing in Science and Engineering, 10(1):88-92, 2008.
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`[83] Special Issue: The First Provenance Challenge, L. Moreau et al., Concurrency and Computation:
`Practice and Experience, 20(5):409–418, 2008.
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`[84] Provenance for Visualization: Reproducibility and Beyond, C. Silva, J. Freire, and S. P. Callahan,
`Computing in Science and Engineering, 9(5):82-89, 2007.
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`[85] Querying and Creating Visualizations by Analogy, C. E. Scheidegger, H. T. Vo, D. Koop, J. Freire, and
`C. Silva. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of IEEE Visual-
`ization 2007), 13(6):1560-1567. Best paper award.
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`[86] An Adaptive Framework for Visualizing Unstructured Grids with Time-Varying Scalar Fields, F. Bernar-
`don, S. Callahan, J. Comba, and C. Silva. Parallel Computing, 33(6):391–405, 2007.
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`[87] Streaming Simplification for Tetrahedral Meshes, H. Vo, S. Callahan, P. Lindstrom, V. Pascucci, and
`C. Silva. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 13(1):145-155, 2007.
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`[88] GPU-based Tiled Ray Casting using Depth Peeling, F. Bernardon, C. Pagot, J. Comba, and C. Silva,
`Journal of Graphics Tools, 11(4):1–16, 2006.
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`[89] High-Quality Extraction of Isosurfaces from Regular and Irregular Grids, J. Schreiner, C. Scheideg-
`ger, and C. Silva. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of IEEE
`Visualization 2006), 12(5):1205–1212, 2006.
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`[90] Progressive Volume Rendering of Large Unstructured Grids, S. Callahan, L. Bavoil, V. Pascucci, and
`C. Silva. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of IEEE Visual-
`ization 2006), 12(5):1307-1314, 2006.
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`[91] Direct (Re)Meshing for Efficient Surface Processing, J. Schreiner, C. Scheidegger, S. Fleishman, and
`C. Silva. Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics 2006), 25(3):527–536, 2006.
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`[92] A Survey of GPU-Based Volume Rendering of Unstructured Grids, C. Silva, J. Comba, S. Callahan,
`and F. Bernardon, Brazilian Journal of Theoretic and Applied Computing (RITA), 12(2):9–29, 2005.
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`[93] Image-Space Visibility Ordering for Cell Projection Volume Rendering of Unstructured Data, R. Cook,
`N. Max, C. Silva, and P. Williams, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics,
`10(6):695–707, 2004.
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`[94] Computing and Rendering Point Set Surfaces, M. Alexa, J. Behr, D. Cohen-Or, S. Fleishman, D. Levin,
`and C. Silva, 9(1):3–15, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2003.
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`[95] Out-Of-Core Sort-First Parallel Rendering for Cluster-Based Tiled Displays, W. Corrˆea, J. Klosowski,
`and C. Silva, Parallel Computing, Vol 29, pp. 325–338, 2003.
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`[96] Robust Moving Least-squares Fitting with Sharp Features, S. Fleishman, D. Cohen-Or, and C. Silva.
`ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2005), 24(3):544–552, 2005.
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`[97] Hardware-Assisted Visibility Sorting for Unstructured Volume Rendering, S. Callahan, M. Ikits, J.
`Comba, and C. Silva, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 11(3):285–295,
`2005.
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`[98] Progressive Point Set Surfaces, S. Fleishman, M. Alexa, D. Cohen-Or, and C. Silva, ACM Transactions
`on Graphics, 22(4):997–1011, 2003.
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`[99] A Survey of Visibility for Walkthrough Applications, D. Cohen-Or, Y. Chrysanthou, C. Silva, and F.
`Durand, 9(3):412-431, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2003.
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`[100] Modeling and Rendering of Real Environments, W. Corrˆea, M. Oliveira, C. Silva, and J. Wang,
`9(2):127–156, Brazilian Journal of Theoretic and Applied Computing (RITA), 2002.
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`[101] Efficient Conservative Visibility Culling Using The Prioritized-Layered Projection Algorithm, J. Klosowski
`and C. Silva, 7(4):365–379, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2001.
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`[102] Out-Of-Core Rendering of Large Unstructured Grids, R. Farias and C. Silva, 21(4):42–50, IEEE Com-
`puter Graphics and Applications, 2001.
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`[103] Surface Reconstruction using Lower Dimensional Incremental Delaunay Triangulation, M. Gopi, S.
`Krishnan, and C. Silva, Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics 2000), 19:467–478,
`2000.
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`[104] Visualization Research with Large Displays, B. Wei, C. Silva, E. Koutsofios, S. Krishnan, and S. North,
`20(4):50–54, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 2000.
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`[105] Approximate Volume Rendering for Curvilinear and Unstructured Grids by Hardware-Assisted Poly-
`hedron Projection, N. Max, P. Williams, and C. Silva, 11:53–61, International Journal of Imaging
`Systems and Technology, 2000.
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`[106] Fast Polyhedral Cell Sorting for Interactive Rendering of Unstructured Grids, J. Comba, J. Klosowski,
`N. Max, J. Mitchell, C. Silva, and P. Williams, Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurograph-
`ics 1999), 18:367–376, 1999.
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`[107] The Ball-Pivoting Algorithm for Surface Reconstruction, F. Bernardini, J. Mittleman, H. Rushmeier,
`C. Silva, and G. Taubin, 5(4):349–359, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics,
`1999.
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`[108] Efficient Compression of Non-Manifold Polygonal Meshes, A. Gueziec, F. Bossen, G. Taubin, and
`C. Silva, 14(1-3):137–166, Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications, 1999.
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`[109] The Prioritized-Layered Projection Algorithm for Visible Set Estimation, J. Klosowski and C. Silva,
`6(2):108–123, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2000.
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`[110] The Lazy Sweep Ray Casting Algorithm for Rendering Irregular Grids, C. Silva and J. Mitchell,
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`[111] PVR: High Performance Volume Rendering, C. Silva, A. Kaufman, and C. Pavlakos, pp. 18–28, IEEE
`Computational Science and Engineering (Special Issue on Visual Supercomputing), Winter 1996.
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`[112] Querying and Exploring Polygamous Relationships in Urban Spatio-Temporal Data Sets, Y.-Y. Chan,
`F. Chirigati, H. Doraiswamy, C. Silva and J. Freire, ACM SIGMOD, to appear.
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`[113] Anonymizing NYC Taxi Data: Does It Matter?, M. Douriez, H. Doraiswamy, C. Silva and J. Freire, In
`Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA) pp.
`140–148, 2016.
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`[114] A GPU-Based Index to Support Interactive Spatio-Temporal Queries over Historical Data, H. Do-
`raiswamy, H. Vo, C. Silva, and J. Freire. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Data
`Engineering (ICDE), pp. 1086–1097, 2016.
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`[115] A Scalable Approach for Data-Driven Taxi Ride-Sharing Simulation, M. Ota, H. Vo, C. Silva, and J.
`Freire. In Proceedings of IEEE BigData 2015, pp. 888–897, 2015.
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`[116] Visualizing the Evolution of Module Workflows, M. Hlawatsch, M. Burch, F. Beck, J. Freire, C. Silva,
`and D. Weiskopf. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Information Visualisation,
`pp. 40–49, 2015.
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`[117] Using Maximum Topology Matching to Explore Differences in Species Distribution Models, J. Poco,
`H. Doraiswamy, M. Talbert, J. Morisette, and C. Silva, Proceedings of SciVis 2015, pp. 9–16, 2015.
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`[118] Wavelet-based visualization of time-varying data on graphs, P. Valdivia, F. Dias, F. Petronetto, C. Silva,
`and L. Nonato, Proceed