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COMPGEOM
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Envelope surfaces
We construct a class of envelope surfaces in Rd , more precisely envelopes of balls. An envelope surface is a closed C1 (tangent continuous) manifold wrapping tightly around the u...
Nico Kruithof, Gert Vegter
HRI
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Teaching robots by moulding behavior and scaffolding the environment
Programming robots to carry out useful tasks is both a complex and non-trivial exercise. A simple and intuitive method to allow humans to train and shape robot behaviour is clearl...
Joe Saunders, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Kerstin Daut...
WIKIS
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
WikiTrails: augmenting Wiki structure for collaborative, interdisciplinary learning
Wikis are currently in high demand in a large variety of fields, due to their simplicity and flexible nature. Documentation, reporting, project management, online glossaries and d...
Silvan Reinhold
JCDL
2005
ACM
152views Education» more  JCDL 2005»
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In the company of readers: the digital library book as "practiced place"
Most digital libraries (DLs) necessarily focus on the complex issues that arise when library collections are freed from their physical anchors in buildings and on paper. Typical i...
Nancy Kaplan, Yoram Chisik
MIR
2005
ACM
137views Multimedia» more  MIR 2005»
14 years 3 months ago
A content-based image retrieval system for fish taxonomy
It is estimated that less than ten percent of the world’s species have been discovered and described. The main reason for the slow pace of new species description is that the sc...
Yixin Chen, Henry L. Bart Jr., Fei Teng