Open to the Public grows out of concern with evaluation in the public arena and the struggle to understand how best to use the information it generates. Many concepts and models of evaluation, how to undertake it, and how to make it more useful, were developed before government performance became of so much interest to the public. In fact, it is arguable that recent changes in the forms, shapes, structures, and media through which the information developed in the process of evaluation becomes public, require new ways of thinking about its role in society.

What is the role...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2005, held in Lake Tahoe, NV, USA in December 2005.

The 33 revised full papers and 26 poster papers presented together with 5 keynote presentations and 1 invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions. The papers are rounded off by 32 presentations held at seven special tracks. The papers cover the four main areas of visual computing: vision, graphics, visualization, and virtual reality. Topics addressed are computer graphics, medical imaging, computer...