RANDOM  INTERPOLATION

2003 NSF Proposal

Our firm had submitted a proposal, titled "INTERPOLATION SOLVER", to National Science Foundation (NSF) in June 2003 requesting for SBIR Phase I funding in support of research & development of our interpolation technology. In October 2003, we were notified that NSF would not fund our proposed effort. We appreciate and respect the proposal evaluation effort of NSF. Not withstanding NSF's decision, we decide to publish the complete technical portion of our proposal together with the entire, technical reviews provided by NSF. [All interested parties are welcome to download these materials. For download, click here.] By publishing our proposal, not only we demonstrate to investors what we had done before, but also we believe that more facts of the true value of the proposed technology will be examined and determined by the vast, numerical computation community. The summary of this proposal is displayed below. Further development of interpolation technology is currently in progress. Our effort is focused to extend the application to non-Cartesian (3-Dimension) coordinates, e.g., spherical coordinates & cylindrical coordinates. Explicit 3-D surface reconstructions and area/volume estimations will be carried out.

Summary of Proposal "INTERPOLATION SOLVER"

Part (1)

This SBIR Phase I project is to expand an existing multi-dimension interpolation software (up to 4D) developed by FANG, INC. The intellectual merits (IM) of the proposed activity are, (a) To provide a breakthrough in interpolation application; (b) To promote software development by use of Internet web technology. It is known in the interpolation field that approximation of high-dimension space is difficult to handle and quite often computationally unwieldy and intractable. Most of the available software, if not all, are restricted to or less than 5-dimension. The interpolation method proposed in this project can be extended in a straightforward manner to more than 10 or 100 dimension and far beyond. The project proposed is focused on the software development to scale up the capability of the existing software to 10-dimension and the capacity of accommodating up to 3,000 input data locations. Standard software design and coding work will be performed with the use of HTML and JavaScript languages. Software testing will be done to assure the correctness of software operation. It is anticipated that the produced software can be directly applied to, engineering design, information data mining, environmental modeling, social studies, econometrics, geostatistics, etc.

Part (2)

The innovation of interpolation method proposed in SBIR Phase I provides an easy way to construct an interpolant formula which can be applied with the use of irregular, random data points as well as regularly spaced data points. The interpolant can be extended to any higher dimension with huge amount of input data points. The broader impacts of the proposed work are described in the following areas, (a) It gives an unified treatment which covers the interpolation application in arbitrary dimension. It deals with the so- called "curse of dimension" directly and efficiently. The interpolant does not require any further intensive computing to search for coefficients; or root, contrary to other methods; (b) The interpolant is derived through mathematical analysis and can be applied to different application areas, weather analysis, social and demographic study, geological survey, etc. Furthermore, the interpolant can be used in obtaining volume estimate in 3D surface reconstruction, and support optimization study of engineering design as discussed in the proposal; (c) Teaming with visualization graphics (to be developed in Phase II) plus the technical niche, the interpolation software shall be an attractive and competitive software product in the commercial market.

 
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