Dieses Buch gibt eine kompakte Einfuhrung sowohl in den Aufbau und die Funktionsweise von Computersystemen, als auch in deren Programmierung in einer problemorientierten Programmiersprache (PASCAL). Es wendet sich in erster Linie an Studierende, die Informatik lediglich in Form einer praxisorientierten Einfuhrung benotigen. Gleichwohl bietet es den Studenten der Informatik die Moglichkeit, sich fruhzeitig einen Uberblick uber wichtige Gebiete der Informatik zu verschaffen, die im Laufe ihres Studiums noch vertieft werden."

This book is based on lectures presented at an international workshop on geometric modeling held at Hewlett Packard GmbH in Boblingen, FRG, in June 1990. International experts from academia and industry were selected to speak on the most interesting topics in geometric modeling. The resulting papers, published in this volume, give a state-of-the-art survey of the relevant problems and issues. The following topics are discussed: - Methods for constructing surfaces on surfaces: four different solutions to the multidimen sional problem of constructing an interpolant from surface data are...

Moderne Losungsansatze fur eine effiziente Anpassungs- und Variantenkonstruktion, die in den letzten Jahren entwickelt wurden und in verschiedenen Formen in CAD-Systemen der neuen Generation zum Einsatz kommen."

Geometric constraint programming increases flexibility in CAD design specifications and leads to new conceptual design paradigms. This volume features a collection of work by leading researchers developing the various aspects of constraint-based product modeling. In an introductory chapter the role of constraints in CAD systems of the future and their implications for the STEP data exchange format are discussed. The main part of the book deals with the application of constraints to conceptual and collaborative design, as well as state-of-the-art mathematical and algorithmic methods for...

Future computer aided design systems will themselves be designed using tools and methods that are still under development. This book presents the latest progress in research on the tools and methods needed to develop those CAD systems. The topics covered include algorithmic aspects, the product data and development process, future CAD architectures, feature based modeling and automatic feature recognition, complex surface design, and system implementation issues. The book contains contributions by the world's leading experts in the field of CAD technology from both universities and industry....