Computational and Methodological Developmentsn in Spatial Analisys within GIS.- A Variable Resolution Approach to Cluster Discovery in Spatial Data Mining.- PGIS, a Software for Paleogeographic Reconstruction in ArcGIS.- Spatial and Temporal Autocorrelation in Innovation Diffusion Analysis.- Testing Differences between Case and Control Point Patterns Using Nearest Neighbour Distances and Bootstrapping.- Assessment of Different Link Functions for Modeling Binary Data to Derive Sound Inferences and Predictions.- Partitioning Mesh-Based Applications for Computational Grids.- Improvements to the Helpful-Set Algorithm and a New Evaluation Scheme for Graph-Partitioners.- Mesh Partitioners for Computational Grids: A Comparison.- CONFIIT: A Middleware for Peer to Peer Computing.- Internet Communications Security.- On MARS’s s-boxes Strength against Linear Cryptanalysis.- A Secret Sharing Scheme Using Matrices.- A Modular Architecture for Distributed IDS in MANET.- Characterization of the Security Implications of Alternative E-procurement Topologies.- Protection of Multiagent Systems.- On the Number of Equivalence Classes in Certain Stream Ciphers.- Computational Finance.- Parallelization and Vectorization of Simulation Based Option Pricing Methods.- An Algorithm for Determining the Controllers of Supervised Entities at the First and Second Levels: A Case Study with the Brazilian Central Bank.- Two Factor Option Pricing with Uncertain Volatility.- Improved Monte Carlo Linear Solvers Through Non-diagonal Splitting.- Valuation of American Options Using Direct, Linear Complementarity-Based Methods.- Testing the Expectations Hypothesis for Interest Rate Term Structure: Some Australian Evidence.- A Fourth Order L-stable Method for the Black-Scholes Model with Barrier Options.- Ranking Decision Variants by Subjective Paired Comparisons in Cases with Incomplete Data.- Quantum Games and Minimum Entropy.- Distributed Solution of High-Order Compact Difference Schemes for Multidimensional Convection-Diffusion Equations.- Neural Network for Modeling Financial Time Series: A New Approach.- Theme: Scientific Visualization and Image Processing Illumination, Visualization, and Rendering.- Camera Models and Optical Systems Used in Computer Graphics: Part I, Object-Based Techniques.- Camera Models and Optical Systems Used in Computer Graphics: Part II, Image-Based Techniques.- Moment Based Transfer Function Design for Volume Rendering.- Information-Theory-Based Oracles for Hierarchical Radiosity.- A Hybrid Scheme for Interactive Rendering a Virtual Environment.- Fast Adaptive Selection of Best Views.- Perception-Based Illumination Information Measurement and Light Source Placement.- A Study on the Dynamic Painterly Stroke Generation for 3D Animation.- A Directional Stroke Generation Algorithm for Painterly Rendering.- A Simple Method for Ray Tracing Diffraction.- A Multiple Depth Buffer Implementation for Radiosity.- Geometry, Modeling, and Computer-Aided Geometric Design.- Solving Geometric Constraints Invariant Modulo the Similarity Group.- Triangular Bézier Surfaces of Minimal Area.- Projection Filling Based on Contour Structural Points.- A Graph Based Algorithm for Intersection of Subdivision Surfaces.- Implicit Polynomial Support Optimized for Sparseness.- “CONTOUR” Algorithm for Finding and Visualizing Flat Sections of 3D-Objects.- A Non-uniform Binary Space Partition Algorithm for 2D Implicit Curves.- Navigation, Compression, Meshes, Data Management.- Web Visualization of Function-Defined Shapes.- Planar Subdivisions by Radical Axes Applied to Structural Morphology.- Distribution of Vertex Indices in Edgebreaker.- A Comparison Study of Modern Heuristics for Solving the Partitioning Problem in Distributed Virtual Environment Systems.- Optimal Exploitation of Client Texture Hardware Capabilities on a Client-Server Remote Visualization Framework.- AIF - A Data Structure for Polygonal Meshes.- High Dynamic Range Image Texture Mapping Based on VRML.- CW Complexes: Topological Mainframe for Numerical Representations of Objects.- Reconstruction, Approximation, and Morphing.- Approximating 3D General Sweep Boundary Using Depth-Buffer.- Morphology-Based 3D Volume Metamorphosis.- Self-correctional 3D Shape Reconstruction from a Single Freehand Line Drawing.- 3D Primitive Reconstruction Using the Line Segment with Single Image.- CIGRO: A Minimal Instruction Set Calligraphic Interface for Sketch-Based Modeling.- Computer Art: Computer Graphics Applications.- MOTRICO Project: Geometric Construction and Mesh Generation of Blood Vessels in Coronary Bifurcation.- Analysis Tool for Cataloguing Textile and Tile Pattern Designs.- Animation and Motion.- Urban Site Modeling from LiDAR.- An Automatic Outline Fitting Algorithm for Arabic Characters.- Hardware-Accelerated Real-Time Rendering for 3D Sumi-e Painting.- Generation of Symmetrical Patterns Based on Text and Colour.- Reuse of Motion Capture Data in Animation: A Review.- A Real-Time Natural Motion Edit by the Uniform Posture Map Algorithm.- A Feature-Preserved Simplification for Autonomous Facial Animation from 3D Scan Data.- Human Motion Tracking by Combining View-Based and Model-Based Methods for Monocular Video Sequences.- Animating Behavior of Virtual Agents: The Virtual Park.- Computer Aided Design and Computer Aided Manufacturing.- A Curve Design Method with Shape Control.- Determination of Cutting Direction for Minimization of Tool Retraction Length in Zigzag Pocket Machining.- Digital Styling for Designers: Sketch Emulation in Computer Environment.- Digital Styling for Designers: 3D Plane-Symmetric Freeform Curve Creation Using Sketch Interface.- Directional Offset of a Spatial Curve for Practical Engineering Design.- Task-Level Assembly Modeling in Virtual Environments.- Design of a New Test Part for Benchmarking the Accuracy and Surface Finish of Rapid Prototyping Processes.- Automated Scan Plan Generation Using STL Meshes for 3D Stripe-Type Laser Scanner.- An Efficient Algorithm for Real-Time 3D Terrain Walkthrough.- Computational Geometry and Applications.- Geometric Graphs for Improving Nearest Neighbor Decision Rules.- Red-Blue Separability Problems in 3D.- Two-Dimensional Range Search Based on the Voronoi Diagram.- Computing a Closest Point to a Query Hyperplane in Three and Higher Dimensions.- Computing a Largest Empty Arbitrary Oriented Rectangle: Theory and Implementation.- An Approximate Morphing between Polylines.- Efficient Proximity Search for 3-D Cuboids.- An Explicit Solution for Computing the Euclidean d-dimensional Voronoi Diagram of Spheres in a Floating-Point Arithmetic.- Dynamically Maintaining a Hierarchical Planar Voronoi Diagram Approximation.- Voronoi Diagram of Circles in a Large Circle.- On Estimating Result Sizes of Multi-way Spatial Joins.- The Integer Hull of a Convex Rational Polytope.- Straight-Line Drawings of General Trees with Linear Area and Arbitrary Aspect Ratio.- Connected Guards in Orthogonal Art Galleries.- Four Colouring the Vertices of the Triangulation of a Polygon Containing a Hole.- Partitioning Polygons into Tree Monotone and Y -monotone Subpolygons.- Finding Coarse Grained Parallelism in Computational Geometry Algorithms.- On the Reliability of Triangle Intersection in 3D.- A Parametrically-Optimized Morphing Scheme of Polygonal Meshes.
