special issue on
Formalization of Geometry, Automated and Interactive Geometric Reasoning
Geometry is a privileged field of investigation for various domains of
computer science from image processing to geometric modeling via
artificial intelligence in education and automated proof in geometry or
semantic indexation of multimedia databases and so on.
This special issue of AMAI is devoted to formal computational aspects of
geometry. Formalizing geometry can be investigated in several different
ways. At the beginning of the 1960s, the seminal work of Gelernter in
the domain of automated proof was about synthetic geometry as taught in
school. Then, in the late 1970s, a kind of revolution occurred with the
work of Wu consisting in translating geometry into algebra and in using
pseudo-division to perform proofs of a high-level theorem in both
Euclidean and hyperbolic geometries.
Subsequently, much work has been done continuing that geometry/algebra
relation by considering other aspects of geometry, like differential
geometry, distance geometry, discovering geometric theorems in figures
with dynamic geometry software or from graphical figures, etc.
Moreover, several researchers studied the foundations of geometry
through various set of axioms; this way, the classical axiomatic
approaches of Hilbert and Tarski have been formalized, as well as
computational origami or incidence geometry. Outside the domain of
automated proof, formalization of geometry is also encountered almost
everywhere in geometric modeling --for instance with geometric
constraint solving, declarative modeling or topological modeling-- and
also in computational geometry or combinatorial geometry.
Call-for-Papers
For this special issue of AMAI, we are seeking original contributions on
various aspects of formalization of geometry having in view
computational applications mainly oriented to proof but also to modeling
in geometry. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to):
* Polynomial algebra, invariant and coordinate-free methods,
probabilistic, synthetic, and logical approaches, techniques for
automated geometric reasoning from discrete mathematics,
combinatorics, and numerics;
* Symbolic and numeric methods for geometric computation, geometric
constraint solving, automated generation/reasoning and manipulation
with diagrams;
* Design and implementation of geometry software, special-purpose tools,
automated theorem provers, experimental studies;
* Applications of formalization of geometry to mechanics, geometric
modeling, CAGD/CAD, computer vision, robotics, and education.
Important dates:
September 1, 2017: paper submission
via http://www.editorialmanager.com/amai/
selecting the issue: S688 Formalization of Geometry and Reasoning
January 1, 2018: author notification
March 1, 2018: revisions and camera-ready paper submission
Guest Editors:
Pascal Schreck <schreck@unistra.fr>,
Tetsuo Ida <ida@cs.tsukuba.ac.jp>,
Laura Kovacs <lkovacs@forsyte.tuwien.ac.at>
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