From Federico.Carminati at cern.ch Thu Oct 1 22:11:55 1998 From: Federico.Carminati at cern.ch (Federico Carminati) Date: Mon Jan 9 13:40:54 2006 Subject: Shuttle geometry In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980219093442.007f4480@shore.net> Message-ID: Dear All, I am desperately trying to assemble all the geometrical and material information (composition and density) I can find on the space shuttle. Can you help me with drawings, plans, cad databases and so on? Thank you in advance for the attention and best regards, Federico Carminati ============================================================================== || || || _/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ || || _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ || || _/ _/ _/ _/ || || _/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ || || _/ _/ _/ _/ || || _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/_/ || || _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ || || _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ || || || ============================================================================== || Federico Carminati || Tel.: +41.22.767.4959 || || CERN-EP || Fax.: +41.22.767.9075 || || 1211 Geneva 23 || || || Switzerland || || ============================================================================== ------------- The compgeom mailing lists: see http://netlib.bell-labs.com/netlib/compgeom/readme.html or send mail to compgeom-request@research.bell-labs.com with the line: send readme From mount at cs.umd.edu Fri Oct 2 16:46:15 1998 From: mount at cs.umd.edu (Dave Mount) Date: Mon Jan 9 13:40:54 2006 Subject: Vision Geometry VIII: Call for Papers Message-ID: <199810021946.PAA20029@polygon.cs.umd.edu> Vision Geometry VIII (SD90) Part of SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation 18-23 July 1999 * Colorado Convention Center * Denver, Colorado USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Conference Chairs: Longin J. Latecki, Univ. Hamburg (Germany); Robert A. Melter, Long Island Univ. (Retired); David M. Mount, Univ. of Maryland/College Park; Angela Y. Wu, American Univ. Program Committee: Gilles Bertrand, Lab. PSI (France); Ari D. Gross, CUNY/Queens College; Atsushi Imiya, Chiba Univ. (Japan); Reinhard Klette, Univ. of Auckland (New Zealand); T. Y. Kong, CUNY/Queens College; Jack Koplowitz, Clarkson Univ.; Ivan Stojmenovic, Univ. of Ottawa (Canada) Keynote Speaker: Robert M. Haralick, Univ. of Washington This conference is designed to bring together workers who use geometric theory and techniques to solve problems related to computer vision. Specific solutions as well as overviews of more general topics are welcome. Topics of interest are: * digital geometry and topology * geometry-based image segmentation * morphology related to vision * computational geometry related to vision * convexity problems in vision * shape description and similarity measures. 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PROCEEDINGS These conferences will result in volumes published in the Proceedings of SPIE that can be ordered through the Advance Technical Program. Camera-ready manuscripts are required of all accepted applicants and must be submitted in English by 21 June 1999. Copyright to the manuscript is expected to be released for publication in the Proceedings of SPIE. **Note: If an author does not attend the meeting and make a presentation, the chair may choose not to publish the author's manuscript in the conference volume. Papers published are indexed in leading scientific databases including INSPEC, Compendex Plus, Physics Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts, International Aerospace Abstracts, and Index to Scientific and Technical Proceedings. PARTICIPANT REGISTRATION FEE Authors and coauthors are accorded a reduced symposium registration fee. Participants who attend the symposium and pay the author fee may also apply for a six-month, nonvoting membership in SPIE if never before a member (membership includes OE Reports and choice of SPIE's journals). Details are available at the on-site registration desk or by contacting SPIE Member Services: membership@spie.org; or call 360/676-3290. ------------- The compgeom mailing lists: see http://netlib.bell-labs.com/netlib/compgeom/readme.html or send mail to compgeom-request@research.bell-labs.com with the line: send readme From isaac98 at jupiter.kaist.ac.kr Thu Oct 8 23:20:53 1998 From: isaac98 at jupiter.kaist.ac.kr (ISAAC '98) Date: Mon Jan 9 13:40:54 2006 Subject: [ISAAC98] Call for Participation Message-ID: <19981008222053.A8226@jupiter.kaist.ac.kr> ============================================================================ Ninth Annual International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation ============================================================================ December 14-16, 1998 Riviera Hotel, Taejon, Korea Hosted by KAIST(Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) and KISS(Korea Information Science Society) Sponsored by MIC (Ministry of Information and Communication) and KOSEF (Korea Science and Engineering Foundation) This symposium is intended to provide a forum for researchers working in algorithms and theory of computation. It will be held in Taejon which is famous with hot spring resort and historical landmarks of the ancient(18 B.C-A.D.660) civilization. Taejon is also surrounded by beautiful mountains - Kyeryoung, Daedoon and Pomun. Co-host KISS has been the professional organization in Korea for those in computer and information sciences since 1973. The symposium is hosted in celebration of KISS's 25th anniversary. Organization ------------ o Program Committee Chair * Kyung-Yong Chwa (Co-Chair; KAIST, Korea) * Oscar Ibara (Co-Chair; UC Santa Barbara, USA) o Program Committee * Takao Asano (Chuo U., Japan) * Ding-Zhu Du (U. of Minnesota, USA) * Susanne Hambrusch (Purdue U., USA) * Hiroshi Imai (U. of Tokyo, Japan) * Tao Jiang (McMaster U., Canada) * Sam Kim (Kyungpook Nat. U., Korea) * D.T. Lee (Northwestern U., USA) * Ming Li (U. of Waterloo, Canada) * Pandu Rangan (IIT, Madras, India) * Sartaj Sahni (U. of Florida, USA) * P. Spirakis (Comp. Tech. Inst., Patras, Greece) * Roberto Tamassia (Brown U., USA) * Shanghua Teng (U. of Illinois, USA) * Osamu Watanabe (Tokyo Inst. Tech., Japan) * Peter Widmayer (ETH, Zurich, Switzerland) * Chee K. Yap (Courant Inst. NYU, USA) * Hsu-Chun Yen (National Taiwan U., Taiwan) o Organizing Committee Chair * Jik Hyun Chang (Sogang U., Korea) o Organizing Committee * Hee-Chul Kim (Hankuk U. of Foreign Studies, Korea) * Sang-Ho Lee (Ewha Womans U., Korea) * Kunsoo Park (Seoul National U., Korea) Invited Speaker --------------- o Bernard Chazelle(Princeton University and Ecole Polytechnique) "The Discrepancy Method" o Roberto Tamassia(Brown University) "Implementing Algorithms and Data Structures: an Educational and Research Perspective" Preliminary Program ------------------- Sunday, December 13, 1998 6:00 Early Registration 8:00 Welcome Reception Monday, December 14, 1998 8:30 Registration 9:20 Opening Address Invited Presentation 9:30 The Discrepancy Method - Abstract Bernard Chazelle (Princeton and Ecole Polytechnique) Coffee Break: 10:30 -- 11:00 Session 1A: Geometry I 11:00 $L_\infty$ Voronoi Diagrams and Applications to VLSI Layout and Manufacturing Evanthia Papadopoulou 11:30 Facility Location on Terrains Boris Aronov, Marc van Kreveld, René van Oostrum, Kasturirangan Varadarajan 12:00 Computing Weighted Rectilinear Median and Center Set in the Presence of Obstacles Joonsoo Choi, Chan-Su Shin, Sung Kwon Kim Session 1B: Complexity I 11:00 Maximizing Agreement with a Classification by Bounded or Unbounded Number of Associated Words Hiroki Arimura, Shinichi Shimozono 11:30 Disjunctions of Horn Theories and their Cores Thomas Eiter, Toshihide Ibaraki, Kazuhisa Makino 12:00 Checking Programs Discreetly: Demonstrating Result-Correctness Efficiently While Concealing It Giovanni Di Crescenzo, Kouichi Sakurai, Moti Yung Lunch: 12:30 --- 2:00 Session 2A: Graph Drawing 2:00 Two-Layer Planarization in Graph Drawing Petra Mutzel, René Weiskircher 2:30 Computing Orthogonal Drawings in a Variable Embedding Setting Walter Didimo, Giuseppe Liotta 3:00 Dynamic Grid Embedding with Few Bends and Changes Ulrik Brandes, Dorothea Wagner Session 2B: On-line Algorithm and Scheduling 2:00 Two New Families of List Update Algorithms Frank Schulz 2:30 An Optimal Algorithm for On-line Palletizing at Delivery Industry J. Rethmann, E. Wanke 3:00 On-Line Scheduling of Parallel Jobs with Runtime Restrictions Stefan Bischof, Ernst W. Mayr Coffee Break: 3:30 -- 4:00 Session 3A: CAD/CAM and Graphics 4:00 Testing the Quality of Manufactured Disks and Cylinders Prosenjit Bose, Pat Morin 4:30 Casting with Skewed Ejection Direction Hee-kap Ahn, Siu-Wing Cheng, Otfried Cheong 5:00 Repairing Flaws in a Picture Based on a Geometric Representation of a Digital Image Tetsuo Asano, Hiro Ito, Souichi Kimura, Shigeaki Shimazu Session 3B: Graph Algorithm I 4:00 k-Edge and 3-Vertex Connectivity Augmentation in an Arbitrary Multigraph Toshimasa Ishii, Hiroshi Nagamochi, Toshihide Ibaraki 4:30 Polyhedral Structure of Submodular and Posi-modular Systems Hiroshi Nagamochi, Toshihide Ibaraki 5:00 Maximizing the Number of Connections in Optical Tree Networks Thomas Erlebach, Klaus Jansen Tuesday, December 15, 1998 Invited Presentation 9:00 Implementing Algorithms and Data Structures: an Educational and Research Perspective - Abstract Roberto Tamassia (Brown) Session 4: Best Paper Presentation 10:00 Selecting the k Largest Elements with Parity Tests Tak Wah Lam, Hing Fung Ting Coffee Break: 10:30 -- 11:00 Session 5A: Randomized Algorithm 11:00 Randomized K-Dimensional Binary Search Trees Amalia Duch, Vladimir Estivill-Castro, Conrado Martínez 11:30 Randomized O(log log n)-Round Leader Election Protocols in Packet Radio Networks Koji Nakano, Stephan Olariu 12:00 Random Regular Graphs with Edge Faults: Expansion through Cores Andreas Goerdt Session 5B: Complexity II 11:00 A Quantum Polynomial Time Algorithm in Worst Case for Simon's Problem Takashi Mihara, Shao Chin Sung 11:30 Generalized Graph Colorability and Compressibility of Boolean Formulae Richard Nock, Pascal Jappy, Jean Sallantin 12:00 On the Complexity of Free Monoid Morphisms Klaus-Jörn Lange, Pierre McKenzie Lunch: 12:30 --- 2:00 Session 6A: Graph Algorithm II 2:00 Characterization of Efficiently Solvable Problems on Distance-Hereditary Graphs Sun-Yuan Hsieh, Chin-Wen Ho, Tsan-Sheng Hsu, Ming-Tat Ko, Gen-Huey Chen 2:30 Fast Algorithms for Independent Domination and Efficient Domination in Trapezoid Graphs Yaw-Ling Lin 3:00 Finding Planar Geometric Automorphisms in Planar Graphs Seok-Hee Hong, Peter Eades, Sang-Ho Lee Session 6B: Combinatorial Problem 2:00 A New Approach for Speeding Up Enumeration Algorithms Takeaki Uno 2:30 Hamiltonian Decomposition of Recursive Circulants Jung-Heum Park 3:00 Convertibility among Grid Filling Curves Tetsuo Asano, Naoki Katoh, Hisao Tamaki, Takeshi Tokuyama Coffee Break: 3:30 -- 4:00 Session 7A: Geometry II 4:00 Generalized Self-Approaching Curves Oswin Aichholzer, Franz Aurenhammer, Christian Icking, Rolf Klein, Elmar Langetepe, Günter Rote 4:30 The Steiner Tree Problem in $\lambda_4$-geometry Plane Guo-Hui Lin, Guoliang Xue Session 7B: Computational Biology 4:00 Approximation and Exact Algorithms for RNA Secondary Structure Prediction and Recognition of Stochastic Context-free Languages Tatsuya Akutsu 4:30 On the Multiple Gene Duplication Problem Michael Fellows, Michael Hallett, Ulrike Stege 7:00 Conference Banquet Wednesday, December 16, 1998 Session 8A: Geometry III 9:00 Visibility Queries in Simple Polygons and Applications Boris Aronov, Leonidas J. Guibas, Marek Teichmann, Li Zhang 9:30 Quadtree Decomposition, Steiner Triangulation, and Ray shooting Siu-Wing Cheng, Kam-Hing Lee 10:00 Optimality and Integer Programming Formulations of Triangulations in General Dimension Akira Tajima Session 8B: Approximation Algorithm 9:00 Space-efficient Approximation Algorithms for MAXCUT and COLORING Semidefinite Programs Philip N. Klein, Hsueh-I Lu 9:30 A Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem on a Tree Shin-ya Hamaguchi, Naoki Katoh 10:00 Approximation Algorithms for Some Optimum Communication Spanning Tree Problems Bang Ye Wu, Kun-Mao Chao, Chuan Yi Tang Coffee Break: 10:30 -- 11:00 Session 9A: Complexity III 11:00 The Edge-Disjoint Paths Problem is NP-Complete for Partial k-Trees Xiao Zhou, Takao Nishizeki 11:30 Inapproximability Results for Guarding Polygons without Holes Stephan Eidenbenz 12:00 The Inapproximability of Non NP-hard Optimization Problems Liming Cai, David Juedes, Iyad Kanj Session 9B: Parallel and Distributed Algorithm 11:00 An Efficient NC Algorithm for a Sparse $k$-Edge-Connectivity Certificate Hiroshi Nagamochi, Toru Hasunuma 11:30 A Parallel Algorithm for Sampling Matchings from an Almost Uniform Distribution J. Diaz, J. Petit, P. Psycharis, M. Serna 12:00 Optimal Approximate Agreement with Omission Faults Richard Plunkett, Alan Fekete 12:30: Lunch Proceedings ----------- Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the symposium(Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag). Some selected papers will appear in Theoretical Computer Science as special issues. Further Information ------------------- If you have any question and request, do not hesitate to ask us. Fax number is +82-42-869-3510 and e-mail address is isaac98@jupiter.kaist.ac.kr. The detailed information for transportation(including time tables for buses and trains), conference site map, and tourist attractions can be found at our web site: http://jupiter.kaist.ac.kr/~isaac98/ General Information ------------------- * Location ISAAC'98 will be held at Riviera Hotel in Taejon. Taejon city is situated in the geographical center of South Korea. The city of 1.3 million is also surrounded by historical landmarks of the ancient Paekche civilization(18B.C - A.D.660) Mt.Daedoon Provincial Park, Mt.Kyeryoung National Park, Mt.Pomun Park and Yusung, Korea's famous hot spring resort are all within a 30 minute drive. * Weather Weather in December is mostly cold with occasional snows. Temperature ranges between -5 degrees Centigrade and -2.5 degrees Centigrade(23F - 27.5F). * Currency Exchange US $1 is about 1350 won. But nowadays, the exchange rate is fluctuating very much. You can get the current exchange rate from internet. (http://www.koexbank.co.kr/exchange_rating/newexchange2.html) The unit of Korean currency is the "won". Coin denominations are 10 won, 50 won, 100 won, 500 won. Bank notes are 1,000 won, 5,000 won, 10,000 won. Foreign bank notes and traveler's checks can be converted into Korean won at foreign exchange banks and other authorized money changers. Credit cards, including VISA and Master Cards are accepted at hotels, department stores and restaurants. * Passport and Visa Every foreign visitor entering Korea must present a valid passport. Delegates from countries requiring visas should apply at the Korean consular offices of diplomatic missions in their respective countries before their departure. Visitors from some countries may stay 15 days without VISA. For the details, participants are advised to contact their local travel agent, carrier or Korean diplomats. Accommodation ------------- Two hotels have been chosen as standard lodging for the conference. One is Riviera hotel(the conference venue), and the other is Top hotel (within easy walking distance to Riviera Hotel). We have arranged for special conference rates at these hotels. You can find more detailed information in the registration/accommodation form below. Transportation -------------- o Conference Location The conference location, Taejon city, is located at the center of Korea's transportation network - about 100 miles south from Seoul and 200 miles north from Pusan. Seoul(Kimpo) airport and Pusan(Kimhae) airport are two major airports, but there is no direct public transportation to the conference venue. o How to get there Refer to the Web page at http://jupiter.kaist.ac.kr/~isaac98/ In the Web page, you can obtain the detail information about the tranportation. Registration ------------ You can register ISAAC'98 early by FAX or postal mail. There is also Hotel reservation form in this registration form. * Pre-registration Deadline: November 6, 1998 * Hotel information -- here * Registration fee ------------------------------------------------------------------ Before November 6,1998 After November 6, 1998/On-site ------------------------------------------------------------------ Regular US $300 US $360 Student US $200 US $240 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Please, complete the form(with the payment) and send it to the following address(FAX or postal mail only): Fax: +82-2-360-2306 Address:Ms. Cho, Tae-Nam Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering College of Engineering, Ewha Womans University 11-1 Daehyun-dong, Seodaemun-ku, Seoul, Korea 120-750 (E-Mail:isaac98@mm.ewha.ac.kr) ------------------------------ cut here ----------------------------------- ======================================================================= ISAAC'98 REGISTRATION/ACCOMMODATION FORM ======================================================================= Mail or fax to: Ms. Cho, Tae-Nam, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering College of Engineering, Ewha Womans University, 11-1 Daehyun-dong, Seodaemun-ku, Seoul, Korea 120-750 Fax: +82-2-360-2306 __ Male __ Female __ Dr. __ Prof. __ Researcher & Engineer __ Student __ Other (please specify)_________________ Family name:_________________ Given name:_________________ Affiliation:_________________________________________ Address:_____________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ Phone:_________________ Fax:________________________ Email:_______________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------ Registration Before Nov. 6 After Nov. 6 ====================================================== Regular US $300 ___ US $360 ___ Student US $200 ___ US $240 ___ ------------------------------------------------------ Registration covers a copy of proceedings, reception on Dec. 13, 3 lunches, coffee and banquet on Dec. 15. The student fee does not include the banquet. ----------------------------------------------------- Additional Tickets Number Amount ===================================================== Banquet(US $50 each) ______ ______ ----------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- Hotel Rates(Daily rates in US dollars per room (incl.tax).) =========================================================== Category Riviera (4 star) Top =========================================================== Single(1) 95,000 won ___ 39,000 won ___ Double(2) 105,000 won ___ 48,000 won ___ Ondol(2) 95,000 won ___ 39,000 won ___ ----------------------------------------------------------- (Ondol means a Korean traditional room which is heated by Korean under-floor heating system. There are no beds in the Ondol room. US $1 is about 1350 won. The exchange rate is fluctuating very much.) Arrival Date:_____________ Departure Date:_____________ I wish to share my room with:____________________________ (We will make a hotel reservation for you. To guarantee your reservation, a nonrefundable deposit(US $50) is required. The remaining hotel charge should be paid directly to the hotel.) Grand Total ============ Registration fee + Room deposit + Banquet tickets (optional) = _______________ Payment ======== All payments should be made in US dollar through one of the following means. Bank transfer is highly recommended. * Bank transfer ---------------- Name of the bank: Korea Exchange Bank Pangbaidong branch, Seoul, Korea Account number: 099-JSD-100740 Name of Account holder : KISS Please enclose a copy of the bank transfer when sending the registration form. * By credit card. Please complete ----------------- ___ VISA ___ MASTER Card Number:_____________________________________________ Card Holder Name:________________________________________ Card Holder Address:_____________________________________ _________________________________________________________ Expires:_____________ Signature:________________________ Registration/reservation will be confirmed only after payment has been received. Cancellation ============= In case of the cancellation, written notification should be sent to Ms. Cho, Tae-Nam. Registration fee, excluding 20% of the fee, will be refunded only for cancellations made before November 6, 1998. No refunds will be given for cancellations made after this date. ------------- The compgeom mailing lists: see http://netlib.bell-labs.com/netlib/compgeom/readme.html or send mail to compgeom-request@research.bell-labs.com with the line: send readme From jarek at gvu.gatech.edu Wed Oct 7 18:36:58 1998 From: jarek at gvu.gatech.edu (Jarek Rossignac) Date: Mon Jan 9 13:40:54 2006 Subject: October 29 submission deadline for ACM I3DG Message-ID: Every two years, the ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics (I3DG) brings together students, young researchers, pioneers, and industry decision makers in interactive 3D graphics technologies and applications. It gives you the opportunity to present your work, check on the latest trends, to recruit, to find jobs, and to establish new collaborations. The I3DG'99 Symposium will take on April 26-28, 1999 in Atlanta and will be hosted by the GVU Center. Further information is available at http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/i3dg/. Please note that the deadline for paper submission is October 29, 1998 with en Email abstract requested by October 15. Please do the effort now to submit your best work in this area and be so kind as to remind your colleagues of this opportunity. Thank you - Jarek Rossignac, Chair __________________________________________ Jarek Rossignac, Professor and Director GVUCenter College of Computing, Room 241 Georgia Institute of Technology 801 Atlantic Drive, NW Atlanta, GA 30332-0280 Phone: 404/894-0671, Fax: 404/894-0673 mailto:jarek@cc.gatech.edu http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/people/faculty/jarek.rossignac/ For schedule related issues, please ontact and CC: Vicky Skelton, 404/894-0075, mailto:vskelton@cc.gatech.edu Note that GVU will host the 1999 ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics: http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/i3dg/ Papers should be submitted before October 29, 1998. Also note that the International Conference on Visual Computing (ICVC99) will be held in Goa, India, February 23-26, 1999: http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~icvc99 Papers should be submitted before October 15, 1998. ------------- The compgeom mailing lists: see http://netlib.bell-labs.com/netlib/compgeom/readme.html or send mail to compgeom-request@research.bell-labs.com with the line: send readme From bern at parc.xerox.com Thu Oct 8 13:11:27 1998 From: bern at parc.xerox.com (Marshall Bern) Date: Mon Jan 9 13:40:54 2006 Subject: Call for Papers - ACM Symp. on Computational Geometry Message-ID: <98Oct8.121127pdt."12184"@redstart.parc.xerox.com> CALL FOR PAPERS Fifteenth Annual ACM Symposium on COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY June 13--16, 1999 Miami Beach, Florida http://www.cs.miami.edu/events/SCG99/ Sponsored by ACM SIGACT & SIGGRAPH The 1999 ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, featuring an applied track, a theoretical track, and a video review, will be held at the Radisson Deauville Resort in Miami Beach, Florida. We invite submissions that address applications of geometric computing, for the applied track, or fundamental problems of geometric computing, for the theoretical track. During the conference, sessions of presentations will alternate between the two tracks, rather than being in parallel. The proceedings, with the papers of both tracks, will be distributed at the symposium and will subsequently be available for purchase from ACM. A selection of papers will be invited to special issues of journals. The conference will accept electronic submissions of postscript files; guidelines will be available via the conference homepage, given above. Topics for the applied track include, but are not limited to experimental analysis of algorithms and data structures; robotics and virtual worlds; computer graphics, simulation and visualization; image processing; geometric and solid modeling; computer aided geometric design; manufacturing; geographical information systems. Electronic submissions are preferred, but authors may instead mail 14 copies of an extended abstract to arrive by December 4, 1998 to: John Canny Computer Science Division 529 Soda Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-1776 Phone: (510) 642-9955 jfc@cs.berkeley.edu Topics for the theoretical track include, but are not limited to: theoretical analysis of geometric algorithms and data structures; discrete and combinatorial geometry; mathematical and numerical issues arising from implementations. Electronic submissions are preferred, but authors may instead mail 8 copies of an extended abstract to arrive by December 4, 1998 to: Marshall Bern Xerox PARC 3333 Coyote Hill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304-1314 Phone: (650) 812-4443 bern@parc.xerox.com Important Dates December 4, 1998: Extended abstract due, both tracks February 13, 1999: Video submissions due February 15, 1999: Notification of acceptance or rejection of papers March 1, 1999: Notification of acceptance or rejection of videos March 15, 1999: Camera-ready papers due April 15, 1999: Final versions of videos due June 13-16, 1999: Symposium Papers that primarily address practical issues and implementation experience, even if not tied to a particular application domain, should be submitted to the applied track. Papers that primarily prove theorems should be submitted to the theoretical track. Most experimental work should be submitted to the applied track; an exception would be experiments in support of mathematical investigations. Submissions to one track may be forwarded to the other for consideration, unless the authors have explicitly stated interest in one track only. An extended abstract sent to a program committee should begin with a succinct statement of the problems and goals of the paper, the main results, and the significance of the work in the context of previous research. The abstract should provide sufficient detail to allow the program committee to evaluate the validity, quality, and relevance of the contribution. The entire extended abstract should not exceed 10 pages at a reasonable font size. An optional appendix may be included, but this will be used at the program committee's discretion. Abstracts in hard copy must be received by December 4, 1998, or postmarked by November 27 and sent airmail. Electronic submissions are also due December 4. These are firm deadlines: late submissions will not be considered. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by February 15, 1999. A full version of each contribution in final form will be due by March 15, 1999 for inclusion in the proceedings. Conference Chair: Victor Milenkovic (U Miami) vjm@cs.miami.edu Applied Track Program Committee: Pankaj Agarwal (Duke) Nina Amenta (U Texas) Amy Briggs (Middlebury College) John Canny, Chair (Berkeley) David Dobkin (Princeton) Dan Halperin (Tel Aviv) Yan-Bin Jia (Carnegie-Mellon) Lydia Kavraki (Rice) Jean-Claude Latombe (Stanford) Dinesh Pai (U British Columbia) Jonathan Shewchuk (Berkeley) Jack Snoeyink (U British Columbia) Frank van der Stappen (Utrecht) Theoretical track Program Committee: Marshall Bern, Chair (Xerox PARC) Herve Bronnimann (INRIA Sophia-Antipolis) Timothy Chan (U Miami) David Eppstein (UC-Irvine) Bernd Gaertner (ETH Zuerich) Jacob E. Goodman (City College, CUNY) Anna Lubiw (U Waterloo) CALL FOR VIDEOS 8th Annual Video Review of Computational Geometry Background: This video review showcases the use of visualization in computational geometry for exposition and education, as an interface and a debugging tool in software development, and for the visual exploration of geometry in research. Algorithm animations, visual explanations of structural theorems, descriptions of applications of computational geometry, and demonstrations of software systems are all appropriate. Videos that accompany papers or communications submitted to the technical program committee are encouraged. Submissions: Authors should send one preview copy of a videotape to the address below by February 13, 1999. The videotape should be at most eight minutes long (three to five minutes, preferred), and be in VHS NTSC or VHS PAL format. Each video tape must be accompanied by a one- or two-page description of the material shown in the video, and where applicable, the techniques used in the implementation. Please format descriptions following the guidelines for ACM proceedings. Additional material describing the contents of the videos, such as the full text of accompanying papers, may also be included. Textual material may be submitted electronically by e-mailing either the URL of a PostScript file (preferred) or the PostScript file itself to jeffe@cs.uiuc.edu. If electronic submission is impossible, authors should include 5 hardcopies of the accompanying text with their video. Videotapes and accompanying text should be sent to: Jeff Erickson Department of Computer Science University of Illinois 1304 W. Springfield Ave. Urbana, IL 61801 Phone: (217) 333-6769 For customs purposes, it is best to declare a value of $5. If you have questions, please contact the committee chair at jeffe@cs.uiuc.edu or (217) 333-6769. Notification: Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection, and given reviewers' comments by March 1, 1999. For each accepted video, the final version of the textual description will be due by March 15, 1999 for inclusion in the proceedings. Final versions of accepted videos will be due April 15, 1999 in the best format available. The accepted videos will be edited onto one tape, which will be shown at the conference, distributed to the participants, and available from ACM after the conference. Video Program Committee: Danny Chen (Notre Dame) Jeff Erickson, Chair (U Illinois) John Sullivan (U Illinois) Subhash Suri (Washington U) Shang-Hua Teng (U Illinois) ------------- The compgeom mailing lists: see http://netlib.bell-labs.com/netlib/compgeom/readme.html or send mail to compgeom-request@research.bell-labs.com with the line: send readme From bern at parc.xerox.com Thu Oct 8 13:15:56 1998 From: bern at parc.xerox.com (Marshall Bern) Date: Mon Jan 9 13:40:54 2006 Subject: Call for Papers -- ACM Symp. Comp. Geometry (LaTeX version) Message-ID: <98Oct8.121556pdt."12184"@redstart.parc.xerox.com> \documentclass{article} \usepackage{multicol} \pagestyle{empty} \textwidth=6.5in \textheight=9in \oddsidemargin=0in \evensidemargin=0in \topmargin -.5in \begin{document} \vskip 1.5cm \begin{center} {\large \bf CALL FOR PAPERS} \\[4mm] {\Large \bf Fifteenth Annual ACM Symposium on} \\[2mm] {\Large \bf COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY} \\[7mm] {\large \bf June 13--16, 1999}\\ {\large \bf Miami Beach, Florida}\\ {\large \tt http://www.cs.miami.edu/events/SCG99/}\\[4mm] {\large Sponsored by ACM SIGACT \& SIGGRAPH} \end{center} \noindent The 1999 ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, featuring an applied track, a theoretical track, and a video review, will be held at the Radisson Deauville Resort in Miami Beach, Florida. We invite submissions that address \begin{itemize} \setlength{\parskip}{0pt} \setlength{\parsep}{0pt} \setlength{\itemsep}{0pt} \item applications of geometric computing, for the applied track, or \item fundamental problems of geometric computing, for the theoretical track. \end{itemize} During the conference, sessions of presentations will alternate between the two tracks, rather than being in parallel. The proceedings, with the papers of both tracks, will be distributed at the symposium and will subsequently be available for purchase from ACM. A selection of papers will be invited to special issues of journals. %\smallskip \noindent The conference will accept electronic submissions of postscript files; guidelines will be available via the conference homepage, given above. \noindent \setlength{\columnseprule}{0.5pt} \begin{multicols}{2} \raggedcolumns Topics for the applied track include, but are not limited to: % {\em experimental analysis of algorithms and data structures; robotics and virtual worlds; computer graphics, simulation and visualization; image processing; geometric and solid modeling; computer aided geometric design; manufacturing; geographical information systems. } Electronic submissions are preferred for the applied track, but authors may instead mail 14 copies of an extended abstract to arrive by {\bf December 4, 1998} to: \begin{center} John Canny \\* Computer Science Division \\* 529 Soda Hall \\* Berkeley, CA 94720-1776\\* Phone: (510) 642-9955 \\* {\tt jfc@cs.berkeley.edu}\\* \end{center} Topics for the theoretical track include, but are not limited to: % {\em theoretical analysis of geometric algorithms and data structures; discrete and combinatorial geometry; mathematical and numerical issues arising from implementations. } Electronic submissions are preferred for the theoretical track, but authors may instead mail 8 copies of an extended abstract to arrive by {\bf December 4, 1998} to: \begin{center} Marshall Bern\\ Xerox PARC \\ 3333 Coyote Hill Road\\ Palo Alto, CA 94304-1314\\ Phone: (650) 812-4443\\ {\tt bern@parc.xerox.com} \end{center} \end{multicols} \vfill \medskip\noindent {\sc Important Dates}\\ {\bf December 4, 1998:} Extended abstract due, both tracks\\ {\bf February 13, 1999:} Video submissions due\\ {\bf February 15, 1999:} Notification of acceptance or rejection of papers \\ {\bf March 1, 1999:} Notification of acceptance or rejection of videos \\ {\bf March 15, 1999:} Camera-ready papers due\\ {\bf April 15, 1999:} Final versions of videos due\\ {\bf June 13--16, 1999:} Symposium \newpage% in 10pt \medskip\noindent Papers that primarily address practical issues and implementation experience, even if not tied to a particular application domain, should be submitted to the applied track. Papers that primarily prove theorems should be submitted to the theoretical track. Most experimental work should be submitted to the applied track; an exception would be experiments in support of mathematical investigations. Submissions to one track may be forwarded to the other for consideration, unless the authors have explicitly stated interest in one track only. An extended abstract sent to a program committee should begin with a succinct statement of the problems and goals of the paper, the main results, and the significance of the work in the context of previous research. The abstract should provide sufficient detail to allow the program committee to evaluate the validity, quality, and relevance of the contribution. The entire extended abstract should not exceed 10 pages at a reasonable font size. An optional appendix may be included, but this will be used at the program committee's discretion. Abstracts in hard copy must be received by December 4, 1998, or postmarked by November 27 and sent airmail. Electronic submissions are also due December 4. These are firm deadlines: late submissions will not be considered. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by February 15, 1999. A full version of each contribution in final form will be due by March 15, 1999 for inclusion in the proceedings. \\[1mm] %\newpage % for 11point % \begin{tabbing} \noindent{\bf Conference Chair:} \=Victor Milenkovic (U Miami)\+\\ {\tt vjm@cs.miami.edu}\\[2mm] \end{tabbing} % {\bf Program Committees:} \setlength{\columnseprule}{0pt} \begin{multicols}{2} \raggedcolumns \noindent {\bf Applied track:}\\[2mm] {%\small Pankaj Agarwal (Duke)\\* Nina Amenta (U Texas)\\* Amy Briggs (Middlebury College)\\* John Canny, Chair (Berkeley)\\* David Dobkin (Princeton)\\* Dan Halperin (Tel Aviv)\\* Yan-Bin Jia (Carnegie-Mellon)\\* Lydia Kavraki (Rice)\\* Jean-Claude Latombe (Stanford)\\* Dinesh Pai (U British Columbia)\\* Jonathan Shewchuk (Berkeley)\\* Jack Snoeyink (U British Columbia)\\* Frank van der Stappen (Utrecht)\\ } \noindent {\bf Theoretical track:}\\[2mm] {%\small Marshall Bern, Chair (Xerox PARC)\\ Herv\'e Br\"onnimann (INRIA Sophia-Antipolis)\\ Timothy Chan (U Miami)\\ David Eppstein (UC-Irvine)\\ Bernd G\"artner (ETH Z\"urich)\\ Jacob E. Goodman (City College, CUNY)\\ Anna Lubiw (U Waterloo)\\ } \setcounter{unbalance}{2} \end{multicols} \newpage%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{center}{\bf CALL FOR VIDEOS\\ \vskip 8pt {\sc 8th Annual Video Review of Computational Geometry}\\ \vskip 8pt to be presented at the\\ \vskip 8pt Fifteenth Annual ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry\\ June 13--16, 1999\\ Miami Beach, Florida } \end{center} \vskip 9pt \noindent Videos are sought for a video review of computational geometry. \smallskip\noindent {\bf Background:} This video review showcases the use of visualization in computational geometry for exposition and education, as an interface and a debugging tool in software development, and for the visual exploration of geometry in research. Algorithm animations, visual explanations of structural theorems, descriptions of applications of computational geometry, and demonstrations of software systems are all appropriate. Videos that accompany papers or communications submitted to the technical program committee are encouraged. \smallskip\noindent {\bf Submissions:} Authors should send one preview copy of a videotape to the address below by {\bf February 13, 1999}. The videotape should be at most eight minutes long (three to five minutes, preferred), and be in VHS NTSC or VHS PAL format. Each video tape must be accompanied by a one- or two-page description of the material shown in the video, and where applicable, the techniques used in the implementation. Please format descriptions following the guidelines for ACM proceedings. Additional material describing the contents of the videos, such as the full text of accompanying papers, may also be included. Textual material may be submitted electronically by e-mailing either the URL of a PostScript file (preferred) or the PostScript file itself to {\tt jeffe@cs.uiuc.edu}. If electronic submission is impossible, authors should include 5 hardcopies of the accompanying text with their video. \smallskip\noindent Videotapes and accompanying text should be sent to: \begin{center} Jeff Erickson\\ Department of Computer Science\\ University of Illinois\\ 1304 W. Springfield Ave.\\ Urbana, IL 61801\\ Phone: (217) 333-6769 \end{center} \smallskip\noindent For customs purposes, it is best to declare a value of \$5. If you have questions, please contact the committee chair at {\tt jeffe@cs.uiuc.edu} or (217) 333-6769. \smallskip\noindent {\bf Notification:} Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection, and given reviewers' comments by March 1, 1999. For each accepted video, the final version of the textual description will be due by March 15, 1999 for inclusion in the proceedings. Final versions of accepted videos will be due April 15, 1999 in the best format available. The accepted videos will be edited onto one tape, which will be shown at the conference, distributed to the participants, and available from ACM after the conference. \medskip\noindent \begin{multicols}{2}[{\noindent {\bf Video Program Committee:}}] \raggedcolumns \noindent Danny Chen (Notre Dame)\\ Jeff Erickson, Chair (U Illinois)\\ John Sullivan (U Illinois)\\ Subhash Suri (Washington U)\\ Shang-Hua Teng (U Illinois)\\ %\setcounter{unbalance}{2} \end{multicols} \end{document} ------------- The compgeom mailing lists: see http://netlib.bell-labs.com/netlib/compgeom/readme.html or send mail to compgeom-request@research.bell-labs.com with the line: send readme From Steve.Owen at ansys.com Thu Oct 8 16:24:51 1998 From: Steve.Owen at ansys.com (Steve Owen) Date: Mon Jan 9 13:40:54 2006 Subject: Symposium on Trends in Unstructured Mesh Generation Message-ID: <7D70697C0E38D111B4FF080036B39A03894773@ntdevexc.ansys.com> =========================================================== Fifth US National Congress on Computational Mechanics 2nd Symposium on Unstructured Mesh Generation University of Colorado, Boulder August 4-6, 1999 =========================================================== Abstracts and papers are invited dealing with all aspects of unstructured mesh generation, including, but not limited to: all-hex or hex-dominant meshing, mesh sweeping, tet meshing, tri or quad surface meshing, mesh strategies for shape optimization, mesh control schemes, adaptive meshing algorithms, a priori mesh quality improvement, geometry decomposition, repair and/or simplification techniques for CAD geometry, parallel implementations, p-element (coarse) meshing, mesh smoothing, and large mesh manipulation and storage. Additional information on the symposium can be found at: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/sowen/usccm99/ Information on the Fifth US National Congress on Computational Mechanics can be found at: http://bechtel.colorado.edu/usccm99/ Abstracts are required for the conference and will be included in the conference proceedings. For format information, see: http://bechtel.colorado.edu/usccm99/Abstracts.d/Instructions.html Submit a one page electronic version of your abstract by JANUARY 5, 1999 to Dr. Scott A. Canann, scott.canann@ansys.com. Feel free to call (724) 514-2981, if you have any questions. You can also ftp them to anonymous ftp: ftp.ansys.com (login: anonymous password: email address Place the file in /pub/mesh) and send an email to Dr. Scott Canann to let know him that it is there. For inclusion in this symposia, full length papers (in addition to the one page abstract) are requested, but not required. A collection of the final papers are planned to be combined into a special edition of the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (IJNME). Papers should all be submitted using the formatting and submission guidelines given in that journal. Instructions for authors and information about IJNME may be found at: http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/0029-5981/ All papers must be submitted to Dr. Cannan by email or anonymous ftp by MARCH 29, 1999. EMAIL OR FTP SUBMISSION OF A POSTSCRIPT FILE IS REQUIRED FOR BOTH THE ABSTRACT AND THE PAPER. Symposium Co-Chairs Scott A. Canann, Ansys, Inc. scott.canann@ansys.com Sunil Saigal, Carnegie Mellon University saigal+@andrew.cmu.edu Steven J. Owen, Ansys, Inc. steve.owen@ansys.com ------------- The compgeom mailing lists: see http://netlib.bell-labs.com/netlib/compgeom/readme.html or send mail to compgeom-request@research.bell-labs.com with the line: send readme From skala at kiv.zcu.cz Sat Oct 10 09:30:26 1998 From: skala at kiv.zcu.cz (Vaclav Skala) Date: Mon Jan 9 13:40:54 2006 Subject: REMINDER WSCG99 Deadline 15.10.98 Int.Conf.in Plzen, Close Prague, Czech Republic Message-ID: <004701bdf41f$da334ac0$362be493@uk426-kiv-pc4.zcu.cz> Dear friends, please, find enclosed information on 7-th WSCG Int.Conf. in Plzen close to Prague Czech Republic Fundamental algorithms Rendering and visualization Virtual reality Parallel and distributed graphics Viewing dynamic worlds Surface meshing Geometric modelling Animation Computer aided geometric design Morphing and warping Computational geometry WWW technologies Medical imaging Graphical interaction and standards Multimedia Object-oriented graphics Image processing&computer vision Fractals CAD/CAM, DTP and GIS systems Deadline October 15, 1998 Venue: February 8-12, 1999, Plzen, Czech Republic More info http://wscg.zcu.cz select WSCG99 Vaclav Skala ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Prof. Ing.Vaclav Skala,CSc. University of West Bohemia, Univerzitni 8, Box 314 306 14 Plzen-Bory Czech Republic Tel.: +420-19-7491-188, Fax: +420-19-7491-213 Secretary: Tel.: +420-19-7491-212 skala@kiv.zcu.cz, http://iason.zcu.cz/~skala >> for WSCG conferences: http://wscg.zcu.cz << Affiliated with: Multimedia Technology Research Centre, University of Bath BATH BA2 7AY, UNITED KINGDOM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Marshall Bern To: compgeom-announce@research.bell-labs.com Date: p?tek, ??jen 09, 1998 4:13 Subject: Call for Papers - ACM Symp. on Computational Geometry > > CALL FOR PAPERS > > Fifteenth Annual ACM Symposium on > COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY > > June 13--16, 1999 > Miami Beach, Florida > > http://www.cs.miami.edu/events/SCG99/ > > Sponsored by ACM SIGACT & SIGGRAPH > > >The 1999 ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, featuring >an applied track, a theoretical track, and a video review, >will be held at the Radisson Deauville Resort in Miami Beach, Florida. >We invite submissions that address > applications of geometric computing, for the applied track, or > fundamental problems of geometric computing, for the theoretical track. >During the conference, sessions of presentations will alternate between >the two tracks, rather than being in parallel. The proceedings, >with the papers of both tracks, will be distributed at the symposium >and will subsequently be available for purchase from ACM. A selection >of papers will be invited to special issues of journals. >The conference will accept electronic submissions of postscript files; >guidelines will be available via the conference homepage, given above. > > >Topics for the applied track include, but are not limited to > experimental analysis of algorithms and data structures; > robotics and virtual worlds; > computer graphics, simulation and visualization; > image processing; > geometric and solid modeling; > computer aided geometric design; > manufacturing; > geographical information systems. >Electronic submissions are preferred, but authors may instead >mail 14 copies of an extended abstract to arrive by December 4, 1998 to: > > John Canny > Computer Science Division > 529 Soda Hall > Berkeley, CA 94720-1776 > Phone: (510) 642-9955 > jfc@cs.berkeley.edu > >Topics for the theoretical track include, but are not limited to: > theoretical analysis of geometric algorithms and data structures; > discrete and combinatorial geometry; > mathematical and numerical issues arising from implementations. >Electronic submissions are preferred, but authors may instead >mail 8 copies of an extended abstract to arrive by December 4, 1998 to: > > Marshall Bern > Xerox PARC > 3333 Coyote Hill Road > Palo Alto, CA 94304-1314 > Phone: (650) 812-4443 > bern@parc.xerox.com > > >Important Dates > > December 4, 1998: Extended abstract due, both tracks > February 13, 1999: Video submissions due > February 15, 1999: Notification of acceptance or rejection of papers > March 1, 1999: Notification of acceptance or rejection of videos > March 15, 1999: Camera-ready papers due > April 15, 1999: Final versions of videos due > June 13-16, 1999: Symposium > > >Papers that primarily address practical issues >and implementation experience, even if not tied to >a particular application domain, should be submitted to >the applied track. Papers that primarily prove theorems >should be submitted to the theoretical track. >Most experimental work should be submitted to the >applied track; an exception would be experiments >in support of mathematical investigations. >Submissions to one track may be forwarded >to the other for consideration, unless the authors have explicitly >stated interest in one track only. > >An extended abstract sent to a program committee >should begin with a succinct statement of the problems and goals of >the paper, the main results, and the significance of the work in the >context of previous research. The abstract should provide sufficient detail to >allow the program committee to evaluate the validity, quality, and >relevance of the contribution. The entire extended abstract should not >exceed 10 pages at a reasonable font size. >An optional appendix may be included, but this >will be used at the program committee's discretion. > >Abstracts in hard copy must be received by December 4, 1998, or >postmarked by November 27 and sent airmail. Electronic submissions are >also due December 4. These are firm deadlines: late submissions will >not be considered. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection >by February 15, 1999. A full version of each contribution in final >form will be due by March 15, 1999 for inclusion in the proceedings. > > > Conference Chair: Victor Milenkovic (U Miami) > vjm@cs.miami.edu > >Applied Track Program Committee: > > Pankaj Agarwal (Duke) > Nina Amenta (U Texas) > Amy Briggs (Middlebury College) > John Canny, Chair (Berkeley) > David Dobkin (Princeton) > Dan Halperin (Tel Aviv) > Yan-Bin Jia (Carnegie-Mellon) > Lydia Kavraki (Rice) > Jean-Claude Latombe (Stanford) > Dinesh Pai (U British Columbia) > Jonathan Shewchuk (Berkeley) > Jack Snoeyink (U British Columbia) > Frank van der Stappen (Utrecht) > >Theoretical track Program Committee: > > Marshall Bern, Chair (Xerox PARC) > Herve Bronnimann (INRIA Sophia-Antipolis) > Timothy Chan (U Miami) > David Eppstein (UC-Irvine) > Bernd Gaertner (ETH Zuerich) > Jacob E. Goodman (City College, CUNY) > Anna Lubiw (U Waterloo) > > > > CALL FOR VIDEOS > > 8th Annual Video Review of Computational Geometry > >Background: This video review showcases the use of visualization in >computational geometry for exposition and education, as an interface >and a debugging tool in software development, and for the visual >exploration of geometry in research. Algorithm animations, visual >explanations of structural theorems, descriptions of applications of >computational geometry, and demonstrations of software systems are all >appropriate. Videos that accompany papers or communications submitted >to the technical program committee are encouraged. > >Submissions: Authors should send one preview copy of a videotape to the >address below by February 13, 1999. The videotape should be at most eight >minutes long (three to five minutes, preferred), and be in VHS NTSC >or VHS PAL format. > >Each video tape must be accompanied by >a one- or two-page description of the material >shown in the video, and where applicable, the techniques used >in the implementation. >Please format >descriptions following the guidelines for ACM proceedings. >Additional material describing the contents of the videos, such as the full >text of accompanying papers, may also be included. > >Textual material may be submitted electronically by e-mailing either >the URL of a PostScript file (preferred) or the PostScript file >itself to jeffe@cs.uiuc.edu. >If electronic submission is impossible, authors should include >5 hardcopies of the accompanying text with their video. > >Videotapes and accompanying text should be sent to: > > Jeff Erickson > Department of Computer Science > University of Illinois > 1304 W. Springfield Ave. > Urbana, IL 61801 > Phone: (217) 333-6769 > >For customs purposes, it is best to declare a value of $5. If you have >questions, please contact the committee chair at >jeffe@cs.uiuc.edu or (217) 333-6769. > >Notification: Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection, and >given reviewers' comments by March 1, 1999. For each accepted >video, the final version of the textual description will be due by >March 15, 1999 for inclusion in the proceedings. Final versions of >accepted videos will be due April 15, 1999 in the best format >available. The accepted videos will be edited onto one tape, which >will be shown at the conference, distributed to the participants, and >available from ACM after the conference. > >Video Program Committee: > > Danny Chen (Notre Dame) > Jeff Erickson, Chair (U Illinois) > John Sullivan (U Illinois) > Subhash Suri (Washington U) > Shang-Hua Teng (U Illinois) > > >------------- >The compgeom mailing lists: see >http://netlib.bell-labs.com/netlib/compgeom/readme.html >or send mail to compgeom-request@research.bell-labs.com with the line: >send readme > -------------- next part -------------- You have the very last opportunity to present your paper before the year 2000 ----------------------------------------------------------- W S C G'99 The 7-th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Digital Interactive Media 99 in cooperation with EUROGRAPHICS and IFIP working group 5.10 on Computer Graphics and Virtual Worlds will be held in February 8 - 12, 1999 in Plzen at the University of West Bohemia close to PRAGUE, the capital of the Czech Republic ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> If you are willing to help us as a REVIEWER, please, << >> fill in the form at the http://wscg.zcu.cz/reviewer.htm << ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >>Spare WSCG'98 proceedings are still available - ask your librarian << >>to order one - form is available from http://wscg.zcu.cz & WSCG99 << ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Chairs ================= Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, MIRALab-CUI, Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland Vaclav Skala, Univ. of West Bohemia, Czech Republic International Programme Committee ================================= Bergougnoux,P.(F) Chalmers,A.(UK) Chen,J.(USA) Fellner,D.(D) Ferko,A.(SK) Groeller,E.(A) Hubbold,R.(UK) Iones,A.(RU) Jensen,W.H.(D) Klein,R.(D) Mockrzycki,V.(PL) Peroche,B.(F) Pratt,M.(USA) Rossignac,J.(USA) Sbert, M.(ES) Seidel,H.-P.(D) Sillion,F.(F) Slavik,P.(CR) Slusalek,P.(D) Sochor, J.(CR) Strasser,W.(D) Stuerzlinger,W.(USA) Szirmay-Kalos,L.(H) Tokuta,A.(USA) Willis, P.(UK) Wuetrich,C.(D) Yagel, R.(USA) Yukita,S.(J) Zara, J.(CR) Sponsors and supporting organizations ===================================== Digital Equipment, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Silicon Graphics, Intergraph, Bentley Systems, Microsoft Information for authors ======================== Deadline for contributions: October 15, 1998 original(full affiliation) +3 copies(non-affiliated) +electronic form in CORRECT Postscript to be compressed to gz format format A4 (strictly NOT B4, properly formated), 8 pages including figures, tables etc. Posters: same format, length restricted to 2 pages including pictures, tables etc. If presented by an author will be printed in separate volume. For details, please, see http://wscg.zcu.cz select WSCG'99 Topics included --------------- Fundamental algorithms, rendering and visualization, virtual reality, animation and multimedia, medical imaging, geometric modelling and fractals, graphical interaction, object-oriented graphics, WWW technologies, standards, computer vision, parallel and distributed graphics, computational geometry, computer aided geometric design, CAD/CAM, DTP and GIS systems, educational aspects of related fields, usage of graphics within mathematical software (Maple, Mathematica, MathCAD etc.) in education The program includes international books exhibition and video show, too. --------------------------------------------- W S C G '99 International Exhibition ------------------------------------ Information for exhibitors: Please contact the organiser as soon as possible -------------------------- for detailed information and conditions. The WSCG98 Exhibition will be held in parallel. Top leading European and Czech companies active in computer graphics, visualization and computer vision, CAD/CAM and GIS systems, virtual reality, multimedia systems and others will be presenting their latest products. Special programme will be available, too. ----------------- Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings with ISBN. They are reviewed by INSPEC, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, InfoStore, IEEE , ISI , AIMS , INIST and others for citations index and other purposes. The best papers will be considered for possible publication in the Journal of Visualisation and Computer Animation, Computers&Graphics, The Visual Computer, Machine Graphics & Vision and others journals. Organizer and conference secretariat ------------------------------------ Vaclav Skala c/o Computer Science Dept., Univ.of West Bohemia Univerzitni 8, Box 314, 306 14 Plzen, Czech Republic e-mail: skala@kiv.zcu.cz Subject: INFO WSCG99 tel.:+420-19-7491-188 fax:+420-19-7491-188 fax:+420-19-7822-578 The latest information is available at: http://wscg.zcu.cz select WSCG'99 Information on all WSCG conferences: http://wscg.zcu.cz In case of any problems: http://147.228.63.9 From orourke at grendel.csc.smith.edu Mon Oct 12 23:14:57 1998 From: orourke at grendel.csc.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke) Date: Mon Jan 9 13:40:54 2006 Subject: Book Announcement: Computational Geometry in C (2nd Ed.) Message-ID: COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY IN C (SECOND EDITION) Joseph O'Rourke Cambridge University Press. Printed 28 September 1998; shipping as of 2 October 1998. Hardback: ISBN 0521640105, $69.95 (55.00 PST) Paperback: ISBN 0521649765, $29.95 (19.95 PST) Some highlights: 1. 376+xiii pages, 270 exercises, 210 figures, 259 references. 2. Although I've retained the title "...in C," all code has been translated to Java, and both C and Java code is available via links from http://cs.smith.edu/~orourke. 3. A Java Applet permits interactive use of the code. See previous URL. 4. First Edition code improved: Postscript output, more efficient, more robust. 5. New code (see below). 6. Expanded coverage of randomized algorithms, ray-triangle intersection, and other topics (see below). Basic statistics: 1. approx. 50 pages longer 2. 31 new figures. 3. 49 new exercises. 4. 74 new references 5. 4 new programs. New code: 1. To compute the Delaunay triangulation from the 3D hull in O(n^2). 2. To intersect a ray with a triangle. 3. To decide if a point is inside a polyhedron. 4. To compute the convolution (Minkowski sum) of a convex polygon with a general polygon. 5. To generate regularly distributed points on the surface of a sphere. Significant code improvements: 1. Triangulation code now O(n^2) rather than n^3. Uses lists rather than arrays. 2. Graham scan handles collinear points more cleanly. 3. Convex hull in 3D starts with double-covered triangle. Volume determinant computations much faster. Overflow handled better. 4. Segment-segment intersection code handles special cases cleanly. 5. Point-in-polygon code classifies all boundary points correctly. 6. Intersection of convex polygons handles special cases more uniformly. 7. Robot arm configuration more robust. New coverage of these topics: 1. Partition into monotone mountains (for triangulation). 2. Randomized trapezoid decomoposition. 3. Randomized triangulation. 4. The ultimate convex hull algorithm. 5. Randomized 3D hull construction. 6. Twin edge data structure. 7. Furthest-point Voronoi diagram figure. 8. Red-blue matching. 9. Intersection of segment and triangle. 10. Point-in-polyhedron. 11. The Bentley-Ottmann algorithm for intersecting segments. 12. Boolean operations between two polygons. 13. Segment search tree. 14. Sources and further reading: annotated bibliography. ------------- The compgeom mailing lists: see http://netlib.bell-labs.com/netlib/compgeom/readme.html or send mail to compgeom-request@research.bell-labs.com with the line: send readme From wads at turing.scs.carleton.ca Sat Oct 31 16:59:37 1998 From: wads at turing.scs.carleton.ca (Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures) Date: Mon Jan 9 13:40:54 2006 Subject: WADS'99 call for papers Message-ID: <9810312159.AA11216@turing> A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text Size: 2659 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://compgeom.poly.edu/pipermail/compgeom-announce/attachments/19981031/5a568c8a/attachment.bat