Computational Science – ICCS 2008: 8th International Conference, Kraków, Poland, June 23-25, 2008, Proceedings, Part II

Front Matter....Pages -
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
VII International Workshop on Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling – CGGM’2008....Pages 3-4
Sliding-Tris: A Sliding Window Level-of-Detail Scheme....Pages 5-14
Efficient Interference Calculation by Tight Bounding Volumes....Pages 15-24
Modeling of 3D Scene Based on Series of Photographs Taken with Different Depth-of-Field....Pages 25-34
A Simple Method of the ${\rm\kern-.15em T\kern-.1667em\lower.7ex\hbox{E}\kern-.125emX}$ Surface Drawing Suitable for Teaching Materials with the Aid of CAS....Pages 35-45
Family of Energy Conserving Glossy Reflection Models....Pages 46-55
Harmonic Variation of Edge Size in Meshing CAD Geometries from IGES Format....Pages 56-65
Generating Sharp Features on Non-regular Triangular Meshes....Pages 66-75
A Novel Artificial Mosaic Generation Technique Driven by Local Gradient Analysis....Pages 76-85
Level-of-Detail Triangle Strips for Deforming Meshes....Pages 86-95
Triangular Bézier Approximations to Constant Mean Curvature Surfaces....Pages 96-105
Procedural Graphics Model and Behavior Generation....Pages 106-115
Particle Swarm Optimization for Bézier Surface Reconstruction....Pages 116-125
Geometrical Properties of Simulated Packings of Spherocylinders....Pages 126-135
Real-Time Illumination of Foliage Using Depth Maps....Pages 136-145
On-Line 3D Geometric Model Reconstruction....Pages 146-152
Implementation of Filters for Image Pre-processing for Leaf Analyses in Plantations....Pages 153-162
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Simulation of Multiphysics Multiscale Systems, 5th International Workshop....Pages 165-166
A Hybrid Model of Sprouting Angiogenesis....Pages 167-176
Particle Based Model of Tumor Progression Stimulated by the Process of Angiogenesis....Pages 177-186
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
A Multiphysics Model of Myoma Growth....Pages 187-196
Computational Implementation of a New Multiphysics Model for Field Emission from CNT Thin Films....Pages 197-206
A Multiphysics and Multiscale Software Environment for Modeling Astrophysical Systems....Pages 207-216
Dynamic Interactions in HLA Component Model for Multiscale Simulations....Pages 217-226
An Agent-Based Coupling Platform for Complex Automata....Pages 227-233
A Control Algorithm for Multiscale Simulations of Liquid Water....Pages 234-241
Multiscale Models of Quantum Dot Based Nanomaterials and Nanodevices for Solar Cells....Pages 242-250
Multi-scale Modelling of the Two-Dimensional Flow Dynamics in a Stationary Supersonic Hot Gas Expansion....Pages 251-260
Multiscale Three-Phase Flow Simulation Dedicated to Model Based Control....Pages 261-270
Simulation of Sound Emitted from Collision of Droplet with Shallow Water by the Lattice Boltzmann Method....Pages 271-280
Multiscale Numerical Models for Simulation of Radiation Events in Semiconductor Devices....Pages 281-290
Scale-Splitting Error in Complex Automata Models for Reaction-Diffusion Systems....Pages 291-300
Wavelet Based Spatial Scaling of Coupled Reaction Diffusion Fields....Pages 301-310
Domain Decomposition Methodology with Robin Interface Matching Conditions for Solving Strongly Coupled Problems....Pages 311-320
Transient Boundary Element Method and Numerical Evaluation of Retarded Potentials....Pages 321-330
A Multiscale Approach for Solving Maxwell’s Equations in Waveguides with Conical Inclusions....Pages 331-340
Front Matter....Pages 341-341
3 rd Workshop on Computational Chemistry and Its Applications (3 rd CCA)....Pages 343-343
First Principle Gas Phase Study of the Trans and Gauche Rotamers of 1,2-Diisocyanoethane, 1,2-Diisocyanodisilane and Isocyano(isocyanomethyl)silane....Pages 344-352
A Density Functional Theory Study of Oxygen Adsorption at Silver Surfaces: Implications for Nanotoxicity....Pages 353-359
Mechanism of Influenza A M2 Ion-Channel Inhibition: A Docking and QSAR Study....Pages 360-368
Front Matter....Pages 341-341
A Java Tool for the Management of Chemical Databases and Similarity Analysis Based on Molecular Graphs Isomorphism....Pages 369-378
Noncanonical Base Pairing in RNA: Topological and NBO Analysis of Hoogsteen Edge - Sugar Edge Interactions....Pages 379-386
Design of Optimal Laser Fields to Control Vibrational Excitations in Carboxy-myoglobin....Pages 387-395
Computations of Ground State and Excitation Energies of Poly(3-methoxy-thiophene) and Poly(thienylene vinylene) from First Principles....Pages 396-404
Front Matter....Pages 405-405
Workshop on Computational Finance and Business Intelligence....Pages 407-407
Parallelization of Pricing Path-Dependent Financial Instruments on Bounded Trinomial Lattices....Pages 408-415
Heterogeneity and Endogenous Nonlinearity in an Artificial Stock Model....Pages 416-425
Bound for the L 2 Norm of Random Matrix and Succinct Matrix Approximation....Pages 426-435
Select Representative Samples for Regularized Multiple-Criteria Linear Programming Classification....Pages 436-440
A Kernel-Based Technique for Direction-of-Change Financial Time Series Forecasting....Pages 441-449
An Optimization-Based Classification Approach with the Non-additive Measure....Pages 450-458
A Selection Method of ETF’s Credit Risk Evaluation Indicators....Pages 459-465
Estimation of Market Share by Using Discretization Technology: An Application in China Mobile....Pages 466-475
A Rough Set-Based Multiple Criteria Linear Programming Approach for Classification....Pages 476-485
Predictive Modeling of Large-Scale Sequential Curves Based on Clustering....Pages 486-493
Estimating Real Estate Value-at-Risk Using Wavelet Denoising and Time Series Model....Pages 494-503
The Impact of Taxes on Intra-week Stock Return Seasonality....Pages 504-513
A Survey of Formal Verification for Business Process Modeling....Pages 514-522
Front Matter....Pages 523-523
Network Modeling of Complex Dynamic Systems....Pages 525-526
Clustering Organisms Using Metabolic Networks....Pages 527-534
Front Matter....Pages 523-523
Influence of Network Structure on Market Share in Complex Market Structures....Pages 535-544
When the Spatial Networks Split?....Pages 545-550
Search of Weighted Subgraphs on Complex Networks with Maximum Likelihood Methods....Pages 551-558
Spectral Properties of Adjacency and Distance Matrices for Various Networks....Pages 559-567
Simplicial Complexes of Networks and Their Statistical Properties....Pages 568-575
Movies Recommendation Networks as Bipartite Graphs....Pages 576-583
Dynamical Regularization in Scalefree-Trees of Coupled 2D Chaotic Maps....Pages 584-592
Physics Based Algorithms for Sparse Graph Visualization....Pages 593-600
Front Matter....Pages 601-601
High Performance Geocomputation - Preface....Pages 603-604
Study on Implementation of High-Performance GIServices in Spatial Information Grid....Pages 605-613
Numerical Simulation of Threshold-Crossing Problem for Random Fields of Environmental Contamination....Pages 614-621
A Context-Driven Approach to Route Planning....Pages 622-629
InterCondor: A Prototype High Throughput Computing Middleware for Geocomputation....Pages 630-637
Discrete Spherical Harmonic Transforms: Numerical Preconditioning and Optimization....Pages 638-645
A Data Management Framework for Urgent Geoscience Workflows....Pages 646-654
Front Matter....Pages 655-655
Second Workshop on Teaching Computational Science WTCS 2008....Pages 657-658
Using Metaheuristics in a Parallel Computing Course....Pages 659-668
Improving the Introduction to a Collaborative Project-Based Course on Computer Network Applications....Pages 669-677
Supporting Materials for Active e-Learning in Computational Models....Pages 678-686
Improving Software Development Process Implemented in Team Project Course....Pages 687-696
Front Matter....Pages 655-655
An Undergraduate Computational Science Curriculum....Pages 697-705
Cryptography Adapted to the New European Area of Higher Education....Pages 706-714
An Introductory Computer Graphics Course in the Context of the European Space of Higher Education: A Curricular Approach....Pages 715-724
Collaborative Environments through Dialogues and PBL to Encourage the Self-directed Learning in Computational Sciences....Pages 725-734
The Simulation Course: An Innovative Way of Teaching Computational Science in Aeronautics....Pages 735-744
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