: In what sense, then, can it be said that contemporary societies are becoming more and more dependent on the production, dissemination and use of knowledge? Are we witnessing a ch...
We propose a technique for performing view-dependent geometry and topology simplifications for level-of-detailbased renderings of large models. The algorithm proceeds by preproces...
Emerging AI techniques will make possible new intelligent help features, such as ‘active help’ (interrupting the user when appropriate) and ‘back channel’ communication (a...
The conversion of scholarly journals to digital format is proceeding rapidly, especially of those from large commercial and learned society publishers. This conversion offers the ...
The development of the Semantic Web proceeds in layers. Currently the most advanced layer that has reached maturity is the ontology layer, in the form of the DAML+OIL language whic...