Management information systems.

There is now more data being created than ever before and this data can be any
form of data, textual, multimedia, spatial etc. To process this data, several big data
processing platforms have been developed including Hadoop, based on the MapReduce
model and LexisNexis’ HPCC systems.
In this thesis we evaluate the HPCC Systems framework with a special interest in
multimedia data analysis and propose a framework for multimedia data processing.
It is important to note that multimedia data encompasses a wide variety of data including
but not limited to image data, video data, audio data and even textual data. While
developing a unified framework for such wide variety of data, we have to consider
computational complexity in dealing with the data. Preliminary results show that HPCC
can potentially reduce the computational complexity significantly.

The novel Animalia is the representation of not just human relationships, but
also, of human beings’ relationships to other animals. While the story revolves around
a family, the narrative as a whole is meant to bring the reader into a microcosmic
ecosystem. Essentially, I am examining an ecosystem. An ecosystem, not in the
traditional sense, but an ecosystem nonetheless, because the narrative is a study of how
varying species of heterotrophs interact with one another for both physical and
emotional sustenance. Russell Water’s story is paramount, but the animals’ affect on
one another is what lies below the peak and forms the mountain (an unintentional
Hemingway reference). “It has often been observed that an object in a story does not
derive its density of existence from the number and length of descriptions devoted to it,
but from the complexity of its connections with the different characters” (Sartre 1210).
Essentially, through complex and multiple connections between the human species and
other species within Kingdom Animalia, I am attempting to develop an “ecosystem” that allows for narrative progression and the interconnection of relationships and
thematic elements which range from the capitalistic class system to natural selection.