Call for Participation for the International Conference THEORY AND PRACTICE OF GEOMETRIC MODELING Blaubeuren II October 14-18, 1996 University of Tuebingen, WSI/GRIS, Germany Chair W. Strasser, Tuebingen Program Committee W. Boehm, TU Braunschweig B. Falcidieno, University of Genova G. Farin, ASU Tempe E. Gschwind, HP B"oblingen H. Hagen, University of Kaiserslautern Ch. Hoffmann, Purdue University J. Hoschek, TH Darmstadt R. Klass, Mercedes-Benz M. Maentylae, Helsinki University of Technology H. Nowacki, TU Berlin M. Pratt, Rensselaer/NIST A. Rappoport, Hebrew University of Jerusalem J. Rossignac, IBM Watson Research Center T. Sederberg, Brigham Young University H. P. Seidel, University of Erlangen T. Strotman, SDRC Organizing Chairs R. Klein, R. Rau, Tuebingen Preliminary Program Monday Oct. 14 Arrival and Dinner Tuesday Oct. 15 Mathematical Tool for Geometric Modeling I 9-12 Invited Talk: T. Strotman, J. Eisenlohr, SDRC, Applying Variational Design to Free Form Surfaces H. Hagen, S. Heinz, Variational Design and Parameter Optimization T. Hermann, Z. Kovacs, T.Varady, Special Applications in Surface Fitting H. Nowacki, F. Jin, X. Ye, A Synthesis Process for Fair Free-Form Surfaces B. Eberhard, Computing Minimal Surfaces Using Particle Systems 14-17 U. Reif, Orthogonality of B-Splines and Applications W. Weiss, G. Greiner, H.-P. Seidel, Spline Approximation and Data Reduction for CNC Programs G. Vatant, B. Peroche, Connection Problems Raised by Generalized Cylinders I.-K. Lee, M.-S. Kim, G. Elber, New Approximation Methods of Planar Offset and Convolution Curves Y. Yamaguchi, Detection and Computation for Degenerate Normal Vectors on Tensor Product Polynomial Surfaces Wednesday Oct. 16 Mathematical Tools for Geometric Modeling II 9-12 Invited Talk: G. Greiner, Surface Reconstruction with B-Splines: New Approaches for Interpolating/Approximating 3D Scattered Data S. Foufou, J.M. Brun, A. Bouras, Surface Intersection in Solids Algebra: A Classification Algorithm C. L. Bajaj, F. Bernardini, J. Chen, D. R. Schikore, Automatic Generation of 3D CAD Models from Scans C. Hsu, B. D. Br"uderlin, A Graph Approach to Geometric Constraint Solving Afternoon: Social Event Thursday Oct. 16 9-12 Representations Invited Talk: C. Hoffmann, Representations in Solid Modeling and Conversion Problems R"udiger Klein, A Knowledge Representation Perspektive on Geometric Modeling A. Pasko, V. Pilyugin, V. Savchenko, Projection Operation for Multidimensional Geometric Modeling with Real Functions A. Rappaport, A Functional Study of Boundary Representations in Interactive Geometric Design A. J. P. Gomes, On the Shape of Polyhedra and Its Computational Representations A. Sheffer, T. Blacker, J. Clements, M. Bercovier, Virtual Topology Construction and Applications 14-17 Representation Conversion R. Joan-Arinyo,J. Sole, Boundary Generation from Voxel-Based Bolume Representations J. Comba, Conversion of Binary Space Partitioning Trees (BSP) to Boundary Representation (BRep) L. De Floriani, E. Puppo, A Formal Approach to Multiresolution Modeling N. Hitschfeld, Generalization of Modified Octrees for Geometric Modeling Reinhard Klein, Generation of Multiresolution Models from CAD - Data R. Rau, Piecewise Linear Approximation for Scientific Data Friday Oct. 18 9-12 Systems Invited Talk: E. Kaufmann, Requirements To Be Met By A Surface Modeler For The Car Industry M. J. Pratt, Provision of an Explicit Constraints Schema for the STEP Standard B. Peters, MicroStation Modeler: The Design and Implementation of an Extensible Solid Modeling System R. Rossignac, MAGISET: Architecture and Programming Interface for a Universal Modeler L. Kettner, Contour Edge Analysis for Polyhedron Projections 14-17 Automated Assembly B. Romney, Atlas: An Automatic Assembly Sequencing and Fixturing System J. L. Wang, H. L. Zou, K. A. Adel-Malek, J.-Y. Wang, C. S. Tsai, W.T. Lin, Change Propagation for Maintaining Assembly Design Intent / A 3D Variational Design for Model Assembly newpage ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registration Fill out the attached registration form and send it to the Blaubeuren II mail address as soon as possible but not later than september 13. At the same time pay the registration/ accomodation fee (cheque or bank transfer). Payment should be made in German currency (DM) only. Send a cheque payable to Blaubeuren II (Prof. Strasser) or transfer the amount to Volksbank T"ubingen Acc. No. 41 606 000 (Blaubeuren II) Bank Sorting Code 641 901 10 Blaubeuren is located between Stuttgart (Airport) and Ulm (Intercity connection). You will receive detailed travel info after receipt of your registration or find it on our WWW-server. 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