Smart Graphics 4th International Symposium, SG 2004, Banff, Canada,

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Editorial Board: Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Oscar Nierstrasz University of Berne, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen Dortmund University, Germany Demetri Terzopoulos New York University, NY, USA Doug Tygar University of California at Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

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Smart Graphics 4th International Symposium, SG 2004 Banff, Canada, May 23-25, 2004 Proceedings

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Volume Editors Andreas Butz Antonio Kr¨uger Department of Computer Science, Saarland University Stuhlsatzenhausweg, Bau 36.1 66123 Saarbr¨ucken, Germany E-mail: {butz,krueger}@cs.uni-sb.de Patrick Olivier Lexicle Ltd. Innovation Center, York Science Park, York, YO10 5DG, UK E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2004105605 CR Subject Classification (1998): I.3, I.2.10, I.2, I.4, I.5, H.5, I.7 ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 3-540-21977-3 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer-Verlag. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer-Verlag is a part of Springer Science+Business Media springeronline.com c Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004  Printed in Germany Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by Boller Mediendesign Printed on acid-free paper SPIN: 11005919 06/3142 543210

Preface

The International Symposium on Smart Graphics 2004 was held on May 23–25, 2004 in Banff, Canada. It was the fifth event in a series which originally started in 2000 as a AAAI Spring Symposium. In response to the overwhelming success of the 2000 symposium, its organizers decided to turn it into a self-contained event in 2001. With the support of IBM, the first two International Symposia on Smart Graphics were held at the T.J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, NY in 2001 and 2002. The 2003 symposium moved to the European Media Lab in Heidelberg to underline the international character of the Smart Graphics enterprise and its community. The 2004 symposium particularly emphasized the contribution of arts and design to the interdisciplinary field of Smart Graphics and was therefore held at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada, an internationally recognized center of creative excell