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Computer Science in Perspective

Essays Dedicated to Thomas Ottmann

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 2598)

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
  2. Multimedia Lectures for Visually Oriented Medical Disciplines

    • Jürgen Albert, Holger Höhn
    Pages 1-12
  3. Systematic Development of Complex Web-Based User Interfaces

    • Henrik Behrens, Thorsten Ritter, Hans-Werner Six
    Pages 22-38
  4. On the Pagination of Complex Documents

    • Anne Brüggemann-Klein, Rolf Klein, Stefan Wohlfeil
    Pages 49-68
  5. On Predictive Parsing and Extended Context-Free Grammars

    • Anne Brüggemann-Klein, Derick Wood
    Pages 69-87
  6. Area and Perimeter Derivatives of a Union of Disks

    • Ho-Lun Cheng, Herbert Edelsbrunner
    Pages 88-97
  7. Fast Merging and Sorting on a Partitioned Optical Passive Stars Network

    • Amitava Datta, Subbiah Soundaralakshmi
    Pages 115-127
  8. Route Planning and Map Inference with Global Positioning Traces

    • Stefan Edelkamp, Stefan Schrödl
    Pages 128-151
  9. The Aircraft Sequencing Problem

    • Torsten Fahle, Rainer Feldmann, Silvia Götz, Sven Grothklags, Burkhard Monien
    Pages 152-166
  10. On the Computational Complexity of Hierarchical Radiosity

    • Robert Garmann, Heinrich Müller
    Pages 167-178
  11. Yes,Trees May Have Neurons

    • Alois P. Heinz
    Pages 179-190
  12. Java Applets for the Dynamic Visualization of Voronoi Diagrams

    • Christian Icking, Rolf Klein, Peter Köllner, Lihong Ma
    Pages 191-205
  13. Online Courses Step by Step

    • Kandzia Paul-Th.
    Pages 206-215
  14. Spatial Data Management for Virtual Product Development

    • Hans-Peter Kriegel, Martin Pfeifle, Marco Pötke, Matthias Renz, Thomas Seidl
    Pages 216-230
  15. On the Containment of Conjunctive Queries

    • Georg Lausen, Fang Wei
    Pages 231-244
  16. Important Aspect of Knowledge Management

    • Hermann Maurer
    Pages 245-254

About this book

By presenting state-of-the-art aspects of theoretical computer science and practical applications in various fields, this book commemorates the 60th birthday of Thomas Ottmann.

The 26 research papers presented span the whole range of Thomas Ottmann's scientific career, from formal languages to algorithms and data structures, from topics in practical computer science like software engineering or database systems to applications of Web technology, groupware, and e-learning.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Universität Bonn, Informatik I, Bonn, Germany

    Rolf Klein

  • Praktische Informatik III, FernUniversität Hagen, Hagen, Germany

    Hans-Werner Six

  • Praktische Informatik - Datenbanken, Universität Kassel, Kassel, Germany

    Lutz Wegner

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