Computational Science — ICCS 2002: International Conference Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 21–24, 2002 Proceedings, Part II

Inverse Direct Lighting with a Monte Carlo Method and Declarative Modelling....Pages 3-12
Light Meshes—Original Approach to Produce Soft Shadows in Ray Tracing....Pages 13-21
Adding Synthetic Detail to Natural Terrain Using a Wavelet Approach....Pages 22-31
The New Area Subdivision Methods for Producing Shapes of Colored Paper Mosaic....Pages 32-41
Fast Algorithm for Triangular Mesh Simplification Based on Vertex Decimation....Pages 42-51
Geometric Determination of the Spheres which Are Tangent to Four Given Ones....Pages 52-61
Metamorphosis of Non-homeomorphic Objects....Pages 62-71
Bézier surfaces of minimal area....Pages 72-81
Transformation of a Dynamic B-spline Curve Into Piecewise Power Basis Representation....Pages 82-91
Rapid Generation of C 2 Continuous Blending Surfaces....Pages 92-101
Interactive Multi-volume Visualization....Pages 102-110
Efficient Implementation of Multiresolution Triangle Strips....Pages 111-120
The Hybrid Octree: Towards the Definition of a Multiresolution Hybrid Framework....Pages 121-130
Interactive Hairstyle Modeling Using a Sketching Interface....Pages 131-140
Orthogonal Cross Cylinder Using Segmentation Based Environment Modeling....Pages 141-150
Helping the Designer in Solution Selection: Applications in CAD....Pages 151-160
Polar Isodistance Curves on Parametric Surfaces....Pages 161-170
Total Variation Regularization for Edge Preserving 3D SPECT Imaging in High Performance Computing Environments....Pages 171-180
Computer Graphics Techniques for Realistic Modeling, Rendering and Animation of Water. Part I: 1980–88....Pages 181-190
Computer Graphics Techniques for Realistic Modeling, Rendering and Animation of Water. Part II: 1989–1997....Pages 191-200
A Case Study in Geometric Constructions....Pages 201-210
Interactive versus Symbolic Approaches to Plane Loci Generation in Dynamic Geometry Environments....Pages 211-218
Deformations Expressed as Displacement Maps An Easy Way to Combine Deformations....Pages 219-228
A Property on Singularities of NURBS Curves....Pages 229-238
Interactive Deformation of Irregular Surface Models....Pages 239-248
Bandwidth Reduction Techniques for Remote Navigation Systems....Pages 249-257
OSCONVR: An Interactive Virtual Reality Interface to an Object-Oriented Database System for Construction Architectural Design....Pages 258-267
Internet Client Graphics Generation Using XML Formats....Pages 268-274
The Compression of the Normal Vectors of 3D Mesh Models Using Clustering....Pages 275-284
Semi-metric Formal 3D Reconstruction from Perspective Sketches....Pages 285-294
Reconstruction of Surfaces from Scan Paths....Pages 295-304
Extending Neural Networks for B-Spline Surface Reconstruction....Pages 305-314
Computational Geometry and Spatial Meshes....Pages 315-324
A Combinatorial Scheme for Developing Efficient Composite Solvers....Pages 325-334
Parallel and Fully Recursive Multifrontal Supernodal Sparse Cholesky....Pages 335-344
Parallel Iterative Methods in Modern Physical Applications....Pages 345-354
Solving Unsymmetric Sparse Systems of Linear Equations with PARDISO....Pages 355-363
A Multipole Approach for Preconditioners....Pages 364-373
Orthogonal Method for Linear Systems. Preconditioning....Pages 374-382
Antithetic Monte Carlo Linear Solver....Pages 383-392
Restarted Simpler GMRES Augmented with Harmonic Ritz Vectors....Pages 393-402
A Projection Method for a Rational Eigenvalue Problem in Fluid-Structure Interaction....Pages 403-411
On Implementation of Vector Gauss Method for Solving Large-Scale Systems of Index 1 Differential-Algebraic Equations....Pages 412-421
One Class of Splitting Iterative Schemes....Pages 422-431
Filtration-Convection Problem: Spectral-Difference Method and Preservation of Cosymmetry....Pages 432-441
A Comparative Study of Dirichlet and Neumann Conditions for Path Planning through Harmonic Functions....Pages 442-451
Adaptation and Assessment of a High Resolution Semi-Discrete Numerical Scheme for Hyperbolic Systems with Source Terms and Stiffness....Pages 452-460
The Computational Modeling of Crystalline Materials Using a Stochastic Variational Principle....Pages 461-469
Realization of the Finite Mass Method....Pages 470-479
Domain Decomposition Using a 2- Level Correction Scheme....Pages 480-489
Computational Models for Materials with Shape Memory: Towards a Systematic Description of Coupled Phenomena....Pages 490-499
Calculation of Thermal State of Bodies with Multilayer Coatings....Pages 500-509
An Irregular Grid Method for Solving High- Dimensional Problems in Finance....Pages 510-519
On Polynomial and Polynomial Matrix Interpolation....Pages 520-527
Comparing the Performance of Solvers for a Bioelectric Field Problem....Pages 528-537
Iteration Revisited Examples From a General Theory....Pages 538-547
A New Prime Edge Length Crystallographic FFT....Pages 548-557
TopoMon: A Monitoring Tool for Grid Network Topology....Pages 558-567
Logistical Storage Resources for the Grid....Pages 568-577
Towards the Design of an Active Grid....Pages 578-587
An Active Reliable Multicast Framework for the Grids....Pages 588-597
A Parallel Quasi-Monte Carlo Method for Solving Systems of Linear Equations....Pages 598-608
Mixed Monte Carlo Parallel Algorithms for Matrix Computation....Pages 609-618
Numerical Experiments with Monte Carlo Methods and SPAI Preconditioner for Solving System of Linear Equations....Pages 619-627
Measuring the Performance of a Power PC Cluster....Pages 628-634
Monte Carlo Techniques for Estimating the Fiedler Vector in Graph Applications....Pages 635-645
Peer-to-Peer Computing Enabled Collaboration....Pages 646-654
Working Towards Strong Wireless Group Communications: The Janus Architecture....Pages 655-664
Towards Mobile Computational Application Steering: Visualizing The Spatial Characteristics of Metropolitan Area Wireless Networks....Pages 665-670
Hungarian Supercomputing Grid....Pages 671-678
The Construction of a Reliable Multipeer Communication Protocol for Distributed Virtual Environments.....Pages 679-686
Process Oriented Design for Java: Concurrency for All....Pages 687-687
Collaborative Computing and E-learning....Pages 688-694
CSP Networking for Java (JCSP.net) ....Pages 695-708
The MICROBE Benchmarking Toolkit for Java: a Component-Based Approach....Pages 709-719
Distributed Peer-to-Peer Control in Harness....Pages 720-728
A Comparison of Conventional Distributed Computing Environments and Computational Grids....Pages 729-738
Developing Grid Based Infrastructure for Climate Modeling....Pages 739-747
A Real Application of the Model Coupling Toolkit....Pages 748-757
Simplifying the Task of Generating Climate Simulations and Visualizations....Pages 758-766
On the Computation of Mass Fluxes for Eulerian Transport Models from Spectral Meteorological Fields....Pages 767-776
Designing a Flexible Grid Enabled Scientific Modeling Interface....Pages 777-786
Parallel Contact Detection Strategies for Cable and Membrane Structures....Pages 787-796
A Parallel Domain Decomposition Algorithm for the Adaptive Finite Element Solution of 3-D Convection-Diffusion Problems....Pages 797-805
Parallel Performance in Multi-physics Simulation....Pages 806-815
A Parallel Finite Volume Method for Aerodynamic Flows....Pages 816-823
An Extensible Compiler for Creating Scriptable Scientific Software....Pages 824-833
Guard: A Tool for Migrating Scientific Applications to the .NET Framework....Pages 834-843
Lithium: A Structured Parallel Programming Environment inJa va....Pages 844-853
Using the TrustME Tool Suite for Automatic Component Protocol Adaptation....Pages 854-863
Integrating CUMULVS into AVS/Express....Pages 864-873
Monitoring System for Distributed Java Applications....Pages 874-883
A Concept of Portable Monitoring of Multithreaded Programs....Pages 884-893
dproc - Extensible Run-Time Resource Monitoring for Cluster Applications....Pages 894-903
A Comparison of Counting and Sampling Modes of Using Performance Monitoring Hardware....Pages 904-912
Debugging Large-Scale, Long-Running Parallel Programs....Pages 913-922
Performance Prediction for Parallel Iterative Solvers....Pages 923-932
Improving Data Locality Using Dynamic Page Migration Based on Memory Access Histograms....Pages 933-942
Multiphase Mesh Partitioning for Parallel Computational Mechanics Codes....Pages 943-952
The Shared Memory Parallelisation of an Ocean Modelling Code Using an Interactive Parallelisation Toolkit....Pages 953-962
Dynamic Load Equilibration for Cyclic Applications in Distributed Systems....Pages 963-971
3G Medicine - The Integration of Technologies....Pages 972-981
Architecture of Secure Portable and Interoperable Electronic Health Records....Pages 982-994
Designing for change and reusability - Using XML, XSL, and MPEG-7 for developing professional health Information systems....Pages 995-1002
Personal LocationMessaging....Pages 1003-1011
The E-CARE Project - Removing the Wires....Pages 1012-1018
Automatic Generation of Efficient Adjoint Code for a Parallel Navier-Stokes Solver....Pages 1019-1028
Switchback: Profile-Driven Recomputation for Reverse Mode....Pages 1029-1038
Reducing the Memory Requirement in Reverse Mode Automatic Differentiation by Solving TBR Flow Equations....Pages 1039-1048
The Implementation and Testing of Time-minimal and Resource-optimal Parallel Reversal Schedules....Pages 1049-1058
Automatic Differentiation for Nonlinear Controller Design....Pages 1059-1068
Computation of Sensitivity Information for Aircraft Design by Automatic Differentiation....Pages 1069-1076
Performance Issues for Vertex Elimination Methods in Computing Jacobians using Automatic Differentiation....Pages 1077-1086
Making Automatic Differentiation Truly Automatic: Coupling PETSc with ADIC....Pages 1087-1096
Improved Interval Constraint Propagation for Constraints on Partial Derivatives....Pages 1097-1105