This book presents an insightful view of XML that places this emerging technology in the context of the ongoing Web revolution. Written for business and technical professionals, this book revals the true value of XML for distributed information systems. It explains how XML is transforming the way organizations manage data and build software systems details the opportunities the language offers for organizatoins that understand tis significance and potential impact and explains how XML and Web services reflect a fundamental shift in software construction-from monolithic applications to software based on the composition of simple parts.
his paper provides a tutorial and survey of methods for parameterizing
surfaces with a view to applications in geometric modelling and computer graphics.
We gather various concepts from di® erential geometry which are relevant to surface
mapping and use them to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the many
methods for parameterizing piecewise linear surfaces and their relationship to one
another.
We propose a simple and effective method for detecting view- and
scale-independent ridge-valley lines defined via first- and secondorder
curvature derivatives on shapes approximated by dense triangle
meshes.
From the point of view of quality management, it is an important issue to reduce the transmission time in
the network. The quickest path problem is to 6ndthe path in the network to senda given amount of data from
the source to the sink such that the transmission time is minimized.
