Geometric Objects and Queries: Someone once defined a computer game as a “database with a fun interface”. Large games involve the storage and maintenance of a huge number of geometric objects, many of which change dynamically over time, and the game software needs to be able to access this information efficiently. Access to these structures takes form of queries (asking questions about the obje...

Presented in this article is the Indiana Network for Patient Care, an integrated citywide medical record system that promotes health quality by enabling efficient access to clinical information. It begins with a description of the system's infrastructure, which includes an explanation of how the system accomplishes data integration. This is followed by a series of descriptions and rationales be...

The participants of non-industrial private forest (NIPF) planning typically include the forest owner and the planning consultant. The computer interface of the forest planning software may also be seen as a participant that quickly answers computational questions related to the production of the forest. When additional human participants are involved the process may be called participatory plan...

This Technical Report is presented as a starting point of the User’s Manual for Aware Home visual perception system. The potential audience will be anyone who want to understand the implementation details or want to learn the interface for building their own applications based on this system.

We describe Paper Code Explorer, a paper based interface for code exploration. This augmented reality system is designed to offer active exploration tools for programmers confronted with the problem of getting familiar with a large codebase. We first present an initial qualitative study that proved to be useful for informing the design of this system and then describe its main characteristics. ...

Recent experimental developments showed that the use of the radiation pressure, induced by a continuous laser wave, to control fluid-fluid interface deformations at the microscale, represents a very promising alternative to electric or magnetic actuation. In this article, we solve numerically the dynamics and steady state of the fluid interface under the effects of buoyancy, capillarity, optica...

Geometric Objects and Queries: Someone once defined a computer game as a “database with a fun interface”. Large games involve the storage and maintenance of a huge number of geometric objects, many of which change dynamically over time, and the game software needs to be able to access this information efficiently. Access to these structures takes form of queries (asking questions about the obje...

The following individuals read and discussed the thesis submitted by student Michael L. Pook, and they evaluated his presentation and response to questions during the final oral examination. They found that the student passed the final oral examination. iv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank Dr. Sin Ming Loo for his guidance and support throughout this process and my academic career. I truly ...

Generalized semantic roles, variously known as semantic macroroles or proto-roles, play a central role in the syntax-semantics interface in many monostratal syntactic theories. This paper reviews the major phenomena which have motivated the postulation of generalized semantic roles and evaluates critically some of the specific proposals that have been made, with special focus on the function th...