Geometric Computation

This chapter introduces the concept of expansion of a geometric theory and develops some basic theory about it; it proves in particular that expansions of geometric theories induce...

Abstract Machine vision is the study of how to build intelligent machines which can understand the environment by vision. Among many existing books on this subject, ...

This book is about media, mediation, and meaning. It focuses on a set of interrelated processes whereby seemingly human-specific modes of meaning become automated by machines, form...

This chapter deals with Dehn twists, the simplest infinite-order elements of Mod(S). It first defines Dehn twists and proves that they are nontrivial elements of the mapping class ...

Abstract The geometric approach to quantization was introduced by Kostant and Souriau more than twenty years ago. It has given valuable and lasting insights into the...

Assembly of industrial products is one of the most difficult and responsible stages of modern discrete manufacturing. Many modern products consist of a large number of parts and ar...

The fifteenth British Combinatorial Conference took place in July 1995 at the University of Stirling. This volume consists of the papers presented by the invited lecturers at the m...