When a metaprogram automatically creates rules, some created rules are useless because they can never apply. Some metarules, that we call impossibility metarules, are used to remov...
There is an increasingly large demand for software systems which are able to operate effectively in dynamic environments. In such environments, automated software engineering is e...
Abstract In ethical discourse, it is common practice to distinguish between normative commitments and descriptive commitments. Normative commitments reflect what a person ought to ...
Line-art illustrations are effective tools for conveying shapes and shading of complex objects. We present a set of new algorithms to render line-art illustrations of dynamic and s...
We describe a simple and robust method for surface mesostructure acquisition. Our method builds on the observation that specular reflection is a reliable visual cue for surface me...