The concept of emergence has its roots in 19th-century philosophy. Today it is central to many computational systems which retain the hallmarks of emergence laid out much earlier. The role of emergence in creative design and its unique embodiment in shape grammars have been emphasized by March,...

Mobile cellular communication has already entered the mass market, and mobile Internet services will soon become a reality. The frequent use of mobile radio technologies wherever people are has a direct impact on the deployment of base stations or radio access points, including antennas. Put...

The authors begin the paper with the question 'Do mountains exist?' They show that providing an answer to this question is surprisingly difficult and that the answer that one gives depends on the context in which the question is posed. Mountains clearly exist as real correlates of everyday human...

This paper is an attempt to understand the relationship between power and space constituted in traditional Korean society, a strictly status-oriented society. The author speculates on two traditional villages and houses within them. The analysis of the villages shows not only different patterns...

The measurement of spatial pattern is often undertaken using one of a number of single-number indices, such as the Gini coefficient, which may not illuminate certain aspects of the pattern involved -- especially the degree to which the members of the reference group are spatially concentrated....

We propose a multiagent model in which developers and suppliers negotiate and generate proposals for developing a site, given multiple candidate locations in an urban area. In the model, the developer takes the initiative and coordinates the negotiation process with the aim of obtaining...

Visibility computation was crucial for computer graphics from its very beginning. The first visibility algorithms in computer graphics aimed to determine visible surfaces in a synthesized image of a three-dimensional scene. Nowadays there are many different visibility algorithms for various...