. Contrast this with a ringshaped network, in which all actors are equally central. In the VC market, greater centrality may translate into better access to information, deal flow, deeper pools of capital, expertise, contacts, and so on. Network analysis uses a branch of mathematics called graph theory

is also characteristic of this technological paradigm is the use of knowledgebased, information technologies to enhance and accelerate the production of knowledge and information, in a self-expanding, virtuous circle. Because information processing is at the source of life, and of social action, every

. Finding these distances relies on a branch-and-prune technique that iteratively eliminates from the space of distances entire regions which cannot contain any solution. This elimination is accomplished by applying redundant necessary conditions derived from the theory of Distance Geometry

Figure 1: A clay elephant statue (left) was modeled using sketch-based implicit-surface modeling software. Then, a lapped base texture and 25 feature textures were extracted from 22 images taken with a digital camera and composited on the surface. Photography, image creation, and texture

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First, I would like to thank to Dimka Karastoyanova and Mariano Cilia for all the fruitful discussions, their guidance and support through the course of this project. Thanks also to Prof. Alejandro Buchmann who sponsored my stay at Technische Universität Darmstadt during the spring of 2004. The special thanks go to my advisor, Mariano Cilia, who has made all this possible. Finally, I’d like to thank to my family for all these years of support.

NVEs. The unstructured P2P system BubbleStorm offers flexible and scalable means and is therefore used as a fundamental base for the developed Pub/Sub system. As the evaluation of the subscription is performed

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and octtant representations of graphical data for post processing purposes, or for fractal image compression techniques, as shown in Hebert [23]. Finally, n-volume subdivision techniques are used for numerical integration purposes, as shown in Georg and Widmann [22], Allgower et al. [3] and Zumbusch in [49