Recursive evaluation procedures based on spherical linear interpolation and stationary subdivision algorithms based on geodesic midpoint averaging are used to construct the analogues on spheres of arbitrary dimension of Lagrange and Hermite interpolation and Bezier and B-spline approximation.

This invited contribution first reviews basic features of multivariate interpolation by radial basis functions, before selected of its advanced topics are addressed, including recent results concerning local polyharmonic spline interpolation. The latter is one main ingredient of a novel class of adaptive meshfree semi-Lagrangian methods for transport problems. The construction of these particle...

Recently, two novel schemes have been proposed for hierarchical threshold secret sharing, one based on Birkoff interpolation and another based on bivariate Lagrange interpolation. In this short paper, we propose a much simpler solution for this problem.