We are looking at how new forms of document interface can be used to support new forms of scholarly discourse, and ultimately, new models of scholarly publishing. Towards this end, we have been using specially designed computer-meditated conferencing technology to realize an innovative peer review model within an academic e-journal – The Journal of Interactive Media in Education. In essence, th...

Issues of digital preservation of shapes and internal structures of historical cultural objects are discussed. An overview of existing approaches to digital preservation related to shape modeling is presented and corresponding problems are considered. We propose a new digital preservation paradigm based on both constructive modeling reflecting the logical structure of the objects and open stand...

The structural complexity of culture cannot be characterized by simply modeling cultural beliefs or inherited ideas. Formal computational and algorithmic models of culture have focused on the inheritance of discrete cultural units, which can be hard to define and map to practical contexts. In cultural anthropology, research involving structuralist and post-structuralist perspectives have helped...

Recently, a laser scanner has been receiving more attention as a useful tool for real-time 3D data acquisition, and various applications such as city modeling, DTM generation and 3D modeling of cultural heritage were proposed. However, 3D Representation of historical structures from point cloud 3D data collected by laser scanner is still issues. In order to reduce the time, labor and skill for ...

The structural complexity of culture cannot be characterized by simply modeling cultural beliefs or inherited ideas. Formal computational and algorithmic models of culture have focused on the inheritance of discrete cultural units, which can be hard to define and map to practical contexts. In cultural anthropology, research involving structuralist and post-structuralist perspectives have helped...

Cultural Algorithms (CA) are a class of computational models derived from observing the cultural evolution process in nature. The Cultural Algorithm is a dual inheritance system that characterizes evolution in human culture at both the macro-evolutionary level, which takes place within the belief space, and at the micro-evolutionary level, which occurs at the population space. Cultural algorith...

Embedded hardware design is important in real world applications, but with the increase of the hardware scale the traditional methods can not design them well. Cultural Algorithms are a class of computational models derived from observing the cultural evolution process in nature. Aiming at the disadvantages of basic Cultural Algorithms like being trapped easily into a local optimum, this paper ...

Electronic circuit optimization design is important research field in engineering applications. Circuit scale and the time of evaluate the circuit are the challenge problems for circuit optimization design algorithm and the traditional optimization algorithms cannot solve the two problems very well. Cultural Algorithms are a class of computational models derived from observing the cultural evol...