Neural, Parallel & Scientific Computations

Volume 5, 1997


CONTENTS

Ruibin Qu and Ravi P. Agarwal
Developments and applications of the Gregory surface patches
1
Xuefu Wang and Fuhua (Frank) Cheng
Surface design based on Hermite spline Interpolation with tension control and optimal twist vectors
37
Helmut Pottmann
General offset surfaces
58
D. Blackmore, M.C. Lue, L.P.Wang, and H.Jiang
Swept volumes: a retrospective and prospective view
81
Luiz Velho, Jonas de Miranda Gomes, and Demetri Terzopoulos
Implicit manifolds, triangulations and dynamics
103
Ching-Kuang Shene
Blending with affine and projective Dupin cyclides
121
Claudia Bangert and Hartmut Prautzsch
Circle and sphere as rational splines
153
Kenji Ueda
Circular Bezier arcs as rational Pythagorean-hodograph curves
163
Joab R. Winkler
An ill-conditioned problem in computer aided geometric design
179
Marco D'Apuzzo and Lucia Maddalena
A parallel algorithm for parametric cubic B-spline curves interpolation
201
Ruibin Qu, M. Sarfraz, and D. Liu
A new approach to the improvement of surface triangulations using local algorithms
221
Qin-Zhong Ye
An O(N) algorithm for computing the convex hull of a finite set of planer points
239
P. Gonzalez-Casanova
A Hilbertian approach to quasi interpolation methods
257
Ruibin Qu and M. Sarfraz
Efficient method for curve interpolation with monotonicity preservation and shape control
275
Otto Roschel
Remarks on CG1-continuity of adjacent rational Bezier patches
289
D. J. Evans and Z.. Zainuddin
Acceleration of the backpropagation through dynamic adaptation of the momentum
297
M. Beheshti, A. Berrashed, A. de Korvin, C. Hu & O. Sirisaengtaksin
Fuzzy Petri Nets for decision making in uncertain and variable environments
309
G. I. Mousadis, T. A. Tsiligirides and M. P. Bekakos
Analysis of some adaptive, feedback based schemes
with applications to high speed data networks
325
B. K. S. Cheung and Albert C. L. Ng
An efficient search method for nonsmooth nonlinear
optimization problems with mostly simple constraints
335
J. Wang, J. Dodds and W. Miranker
Principal component analysis for place recognition
347
N. R. Pal and K. K. Chitalapudi
A connectionist system for feature selection
359
Bruce E. Rosen and James M. Goodwin
Optimizing neural networks using very fast simulated reannealing
383
J. W. Mooney
A computational study of criticality in a degenerate quenching
problem using a non-standard three point finite difference scheme
393
C. H. Chen and Liwen Yu
A learning algorithm for modified recurrent neural networks
409
M. B. Zaremba, W. J. Bock and E. Porada
Building approximation networks through combined
numerical and qualitative geometric analysis
419
I-Cheng Yeh
Modeling chaotic dynamical systems using extended-neuron networks
429
G. A. Anastassiou
Weak convergence of squashing neural network operators studied asymptotically
441
G. E. Haramis
A study on information systems reliability
451
Q. Song and J. Xiao
On the convergence performance of multilayered NN tracking controller
461
M. Vajtersic
Massively parallel algorithms for a multiplication of matrices
471
I. Popescu
Artificial neural network model for solution space control in KBES
481
W. Pedrycz
Neural networks and uncertainty: A study in system interfaces
497
H. Lin, G. Chen and M. Wang
Program transformation from unity to gamma based on temporal semantics
513
M. M. Chawla and M. A. Al-Zanaidi
Double-stride methods for oscillatory problems
537
K. Goulianas, M. Adamopoulos and K. G. Margaritis
Structured artificial neural networks for fast batch LMS Algorithms
551
Volume Index
567
Author Index
 
571