"A Pictorial Database Management System which uses Histogram Classification as a Similarity Measure", M. O. Ward and Y. T. Chien, Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Software and Applications, p. 153-156, 1979.
"Analysis of Time-Varying Imagery through the Representation of Position and Shape Changes", M. O. Ward and Y. T. Chien, Proc. of International Conference on Pattern Recognition, pp. 1236-1244, 1980.
"Occlusion Analysis in Time-Varying Imagery", with Y. T. Chien, Proc. IEEE Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Processing, pp. 504 - 511, 1981.
"The Automated Design of Task-Specific Parallel Processing Architectures", Proc. of International Parallel Processing Conference, pp. 298-300, 1982.
"Assigning Parallel-Executable, Intercommunicating Subtasks to Processors", M. O. Ward and D. J. Romero, Proc. of International Parallel Processing Conference, pp. 392-399, 1984.
"Rule-Based Inspection of Leadframes", G. A. Dainis and M. O. Ward, Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 580 - 585, 1988. ( abstract)
"Exploring N-Dimensional Databases", J. LeBlanc, M. O. Ward, and N. Wittels, Proc. of First IEEE Conference on Visualization (Visualization '90), pp. 230 - 237, 1990. Reprinted in Designing a Visualization Interface for Multidimensional, Multivariate Data, (J. Beddow, C. Beshers), Tutorial Notes at Visualization 92. ( abstract)
"Lighting Design for Automated Pavement Surface Distress Evaluation", T. El-Korchi, M.A. Gennert, M. O. Ward, and N. Wittels, Transportation Research Record, No. 1311, pp. 144-148, 1991. ( abstract)
"The Visual Comparison of Three Sequences", K. Hinckley and M. O. Ward, Proc. of Second IEEE Conference on Visualization, pp. 179-186, October, 1991. ( abstract)
"Testing Pavement Image Processing Systems: An Engineering Approach", M. O. Ward, N. Wittels, T. El-Korchi, and M. Gennert, Proc. of Conference on Road and Airport Pavement Response Monitoring Systems, pp. 41-62, 1991. ( abstract)
"Shadow Identification", C. Jiang and M. O. Ward, Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 606-612, June, 1992. ( abstract)
"Providing Temporal Support in Data Base Management Systems for Global Change Research ", K. Qiu, N. Hachem, M. Gennert, and M. O. Ward, Proc. Sixth International Working Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, pp. 274-289, June, 1992. ( abstract) ( full paper )
"Shadow Segmentation and Classification in a Constrained Environment", C. Jiang and M. O. Ward, CVGIP: Image Understanding, Vol. 59, No. 2, pp. 213-225, March 1994. ( abstract) ( full paper )
"Visualizing Relationships between Nucleic Acid Sequences using Correlation Images", D. Nedde and M. O. Ward, Computer Applications in the Biosciences, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 331 - 336, June, 1993. ( abstract)
"A Visual Programming Environment for Supporting Scientific Data Analysis", Y. Zhang, M. O> Ward, N. Hachem, and M. Gennert, Proc. 1993 Symposium on Visual Languages, pp. 368-370, August, 1993. ( abstract) ( full paper )
"Managing Derived Data in the GAEA Scientific DBMS", N. Hachem, K. Qiu, M. Gennert, and M. O. Ward, Proc. 1993 VLDB Conference, pp. 1-12, 1993. ( abstract) ( full paper )
"Peer Learning in an Introductory Computer Science Course", C. Wills, D. Finkel, M. Gennert, and M. O> Ward, Proc. SIGCSE conference, pp. 309-313, March, 1994. ( abstract)
"N-Land: a Graphical Tool for Exploring N-Dimensional Data", M. O. Ward, J. LeBlanc and R. Tipnis, Proc. CG International Conference, June, 1994. ( abstract) ( full paper )
"XmdvTool: Integrating Multiple Methods for Visualizing Multivariate Data", Proc. Visualization '94, pp. 326-333, October, 1994. ( abstract) ( full paper )
"From Databases to Visualization - Providing a User Friendly Visual Environment for Creating 3D Solid Geology Models", T. Lin, M. O. Ward, W.L. Power, and D.M. Landy, Proc. APCOM '95 (published in AusIMM Bulletin), pp. 11-20, July, 1995. ( abstract) ( full paper )
"High Dimensional Brushing for Interactive Exploration of Multivariate Data", A. R. Martin and M. O. Ward, Proc. Visualization '95, pp. 271 - 278, November, 1995. ( abstract) ( full paper )
"Animating Multidimensional Scaling to Visualize N-Dimensional Data Sets ", C. Bentley and M. O. Ward, Proc. InfoVis '96, pp. 72-73, October, 1996. ( abstract) ( full paper )
"A Computational Environment for the Management, Processing, and Analysis of Geological Data ", M. O. Ward, W. L. Power and P. Ketelaar, Computers & Geosciences, Vol. 22, No. 10, pp. 1123-1131, December 1996. ( abstract) ( full paper )
"Visualization of Cyclic Multivariate Data ", B. Lipchak and M. O. Ward, Proc. Visualization '97 Late Breaking Hot Topics, pp. 61-64, October 1997. ( full paper )
"FED - a Framework for Iterative Data Selection in Exploratory Visualization ", R. Resnick, M. O. Ward, and E. A. Rundensteiner, Proc. of Tenth International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 98), pp. 180-189, July, 1998. ( abstract) ( full paper )
"Matching Fires and Simulations ", J. R. Barnett, M. O. Ward, and J. Govindarajan, NIST Annual Conference on Fire Research, pp. 13-14, November, 1998. ( full paper-ascii ) ( full paper-Word)
"A Visualization Tool for Exploratory Analysis of Cyclic Multivariate Data ", M. O. Ward and B. N. Lipchak, Metrika, Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 27-38, 2000. ( full paper)
"Graphical Simulation of Early Development of the Cerebral Cortex", E. F. Ryder, L. Bullard, J. Hone, J. Olmstead, and M. O. Ward, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, Vo. 59, pp. 107-114, 1998. ( full paper)
"Visualizing Simulated Room Fires ", J. Govindarajan, M. O. Ward, and J. R. Barnett, Proc. IEEE Conference on Visualization, pp. 475-478, October, 1999.
"Hierarchical Parallel Coordinates for Visualizing Large Multivariate Data Sets ", Y. Fua, M. O. Ward, and E. A. Rundensteiner, Proc. IEEE Conference on Visualization, pp. 43-50, October, 1999.
" Navigating Hierarchies with Structure-Based Brushes ", Y. Fua, M. O. Ward, and E. A. Rundensteiner, Proc. IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, pp. 58-64, October, 1999.
" Scalable Visual Hierarchy Exploration ", D. Stroe, E. A. Rundensteiner, and M. O. Ward, Proc. DEXA '2000, September, 2000.
" Structure-Based Brushes: A Mechanism for Navigating Hierarchically Organized Data and Information Spaces ", Y. Fua, M. O. Ward, and E. A. Rundensteiner, IEEE Trans. Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2000.
" Hierarchical Exploration of Large Multivariate Data Spaces ", M. O. Ward, Y. Jing, and E. A. Rundensteiner, Proc. Dagstuhl Seminar on Scientific Visualization, May, 2000.
" Computational methods for single-point and multipoint analysis of genetic variants associated with a simulated complex disorder in a general population ", C. Shoemaker, M. Pungliya, M. Sao Pedro, C. Ruiz, S. Alvarez, M. Ward, E. Ryder, and J. Krushkal, Genetic Epidemiology Vo. 21, pp. S738-S745, 2001.
``A particle visualization framework for clustering and anomaly detection,'' I. Davidson and M. Ward, Proc. KDD Workshop on Visual Data Mining, Sept. 2001.
"Introduction to Data Visualization ", G. Grinstein and M. Ward, invited chapter in ``Information Visualization in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery,'' edited by U. Fayyad, G. Grinstein, and A. Wierse (2002)
``XmdvTool: Visual Interactive Data Exploration and Trend Discovery of High-dimensional Data Sets,'' E. Rundensteiner, M. Ward, J. Yang, and P. Doshi, ACM SIGMOD CONFERENCE 2002, demonstration paper, Wisconsin, June 2002.
``Interring: a radial, space-filling hierarchy visualization system with a set of navigation, modification, and selection tools,'' J. Yang, M. Ward, and E. Rundensteiner, IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, pp. 77-84, 2002
``A taxonomy of glyph placement strategies for multidimensional data visualization,'' M. Ward, Information Visualization, Vol. 1, pp. 194-210 (2002).
``InterRing: an interactive tool for visually navigating and manipulating hierarchical structures,'' J. Yang, M. Ward, and E. Rundensteiner, Proc. Information Visualization '02, pp. 77--84 (October, 2002).
``Interactive hierarchical displays: a general framework for visualization and exploration of large multivariate data sets,'' J. Yang, M. Ward, and E. Rundensteiner, Computers and Graphics, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 265-283 (2003).
"Visual Hierarchical Dimension Reduction for Exploration of High Dimensional Datasets", J. Yang, M. O. Ward, E. A. Rundensteiner and S. Huang, Proc. Eurographics Visualization Symposium (VisSym '03), pp. 19-28 (May, 2003).
``InterRing: a visual interface for navigating and manipulating hierarchies,'' J. Yang, M. Ward, E. Rundensteiner, and A. Patro, Information Visualization, Vol. 2, pp. 16--30 (2003).
"A Strategy Selection Framework for Adaptive Prefetching in Data Visualization", P. Doshi, G. Rosario, E. Rundensteiner and M. Ward, Proc. 15th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2003)}, pp 107-116 (July, 2003).
``Multiresolution visualization for exploratory data analysis,'' M. Ward, Proc. Joint Statistical Meeting (August, 2003).
``Visual Data Mining Techniques,'' D. Keim and M. Ward, invited chapter in {\bf Intelligent Data Analysis: An Introduction}, edited by Michael Berthold and David Hand (2003).
"Interactive Hierarchical Dimension Ordering, Spacing and Filtering for Exploration of High Dimensional Datasets", Jing Yang, Wei Peng, Matthew O. Ward and Elke A. Rundensteiner, Proc. IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2003 (InfoVis 2003), pp. 105-112 (October, 2003).
"Mapping Nominal Values to Numbers for Effective Visualization", Geraldine E. Rosario, Elke A. Rundensteiner, David C. Brown and Matthew O. Ward, Proc. IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2003 (InfoVis 2003), pp. 113-120 (October, 2003). ``QuenchMiner: decision support for optimization of heat treating processes,'' A. Varde, M. Takahashi, E. Rundensteiner, M. Ward, M. Maniruzzaman, and R. Sisson, Proc. IEEE IICAI '03 (December, 2003).
``Hierarchical visual data mining for large-scale data,'' M. Ward, W. Peng, and X. Wang, Computational Statistics, V. 19, pp. 147 - 158 (2004).
``Interaction spaces in data and information visualization,'' M. Ward and J. Yang, Proc. Joint Eurographics - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization, pp. 137--146 (May, 2004).
``Finding needles in large-scale multivariate data haystacks,'' M. Ward, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, V. 24, No. 5, pp. 16-19, 2004.
``Mapping nominal values to numbers for effective visualization,'' G. Rosario, M. Ward, E. Rundensteiner, D. Brown, and S. Huang, Information Visualization, V. 3, pp. 80-95, 2004.
``Clutter reduction in multi-dimensional data visualization using dimension reordering,'' W. Peng, M. Ward, and E. Rundensteiner, Proc. IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, pp. 89--96, 2004.
``Value and relation display for interactive exploration of high dimensional datasets,'' J. Yang, A. Patro, S. Huang, N. Mehta, M. Ward, and E. Rundensteiner, Proc. IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, pp. 73--80, 2004.
M. Ward, contributing author to Illuminating the Path: the Research and Development Agenda for Visual Analytics (J. Thomas and K. Cook, editors), IEEE Computer Society, 2005
``Multivariate Data Glyphs: Principles and Practice,'' M. Ward, in CSC Handbook on Data Visualization, (Chun-houh Chen, Wolfgang Hardle, and Antony Unwin, editors), in press.
M. Ward, contributor to {\bf NSF/NIH Visualization Research Challenges Report}, by Chris Johnson, Robert Moorhead, Tamara Munzner, Hanspeter Pfister, Penny Rheingans, and Terry Yoo, IEEE Computer Society, 2005.
``Exploration of dimensionality reduction for text visualization,'' S. Huang, M. Ward, and E. Rundensteiner, Proc. Int. Conference on Coordinated and Multiple Views in Exploratory Visualization, pp. 63-71, July, 2005.
"Enhancing scatterplot matrices for data with ordering or spatial attributes,'' Q. Cui, M. Ward, and E. Rundensteiner, Proc. Visualization and Data Analysis 2006, January, 2006.
``UbiWave: Ubiquitous Multiresolution Graphics using Wavelets,'' F. Wu, E. Agu, and M. Ward, Proc. International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence (ICAT) 2006.
``Exploratory visualization of multivariate data with variable quality,'' Z. Xie, S. Huang, M. Ward, and E. Rundensteiner, Proc. Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology}, pp. 183-190, October, 2006.
``Visualizing information loss in large-scale data visualization,'' Q. Cui, M. Ward, and E. Rundensteiner, Proc. IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, pp. 709-716, October, 2006.
``Semantic Image Browser: Bridging Information Visualization with Automatic Intelligent Image Analysis,'' J. Yang, J. Fan, D. Hubball, Y. Gao, H. Luo, W. Ribarsky, and M. Ward, Proc. Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, October, 2006.
"Analysis Guided Visual Exploration to Multivariate Data", D. Yang, E. A. Rundensteiner, M. O. Ward, Proc. IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, October 2007.
"Integrating Data and Quality Space Interactions in Exploratory Visualizations", Z. Xie, M. O. Ward, E. A. Rundensteiner, S. Huang, Proc. Fifth International Conference on Coordinated and Multiple Views in Exploratory Visualization (CMV 2007), July 2007.
"XmdvTool Q: Quality-Aware Interactive Data Exploration", E. Rundensteiner, M. Ward, Z. Xie, Q. Cui, C. Wad, D. Yang, S. Huang, Proc. ACM SIGMOD 2007, demonstration paper, pp 1109-1112, June 2007
``UbiWave: Ubiquitous Multiresolution Graphics using Wavelets,'' F. Wu, E. Agu, and M. Ward, International Journal of Virtual Reality (to appear)
"Value and Relation Display: Interactive Visual Exploration of Large Datasets with Hundreds of Dimensions," J. Yang, W. Ribarsky, and M. Ward, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (to appear)
"QoS: Quality-driven data abstraction generation for large databases", Charudatta Wad, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Matthew O. Ward, 5th Int. Workshop on Quality in Databases (QDB), VLDB 2007, Vienna, Austria, Sept. 2007.
"Nugget Discovery in Visual Exploration Environments by Query Consolidation", Di Yang, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Matthew O. Ward, ACM CIKM 2007 - Lisbon, Portugal, November, 2007.