INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME 5 : 2007

Introduction to Volume 5 Issue 2

Introduction to Volume Ii

The writings that have been collected in this volume are closely related to Wilhelm Dilthey’s efforts to complete the second volume of the Introduction to the Human Sciences. Dilthey himself pub­ lished the first volume (Books One and Two) of his Einleitung in die Geisteswissenschaften in 1883. He never completed Books Three to Six. Drafts for Books Four to Six did exist, but were only publishe...

Introduction to Volume Graphics

This paper is a survey of volume graphics. It includes an introduction to volumetric data and to volume modeling techniques, such as voxelization, texture mapping, amorphous phenomena, block operations, constructive solid modeling, and volume sculpting. A comparison between surface graphics and volume graphics is given, along with a consideration of volume graphics advantages and weaknesses. Th...

Introduction to the Volume

Public opinion surveys provide insights into a very large range of social, economic, and political phenomena. In this book, we look at the survey itself as the means by which the scholarly community seeks to understand those phenomena. A survey can be understood as a collection of ideas at the forefront both of what the scholarly community believes to be important for understanding opinion and ...

Introduction to OSS 2007 Tutorial Program

We are very pleased to introduce Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation, the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2007). Open source software (free software, libre software) has emerged as a major field of scientific inquiry across a number of disciplines (software engineering, information systems, business, economics, law, sociology, just to n...