Integrated Energy Monitoring and Visualization System for Smart Green City Development
Sung Ah Kim, Dongyoun Shin, Yoon Choe, Thomas Seibert, Steffen P. Walz, http://e-citations.ethbib.ethz.ch/view/pub:73623Grammar-based Encoding of Facades
Simon Haegler, Peter Wonka, Stefan Mueller Arisona, Van Luc Gool, Pascal Mueller,In this paper we propose a real-time rendering approach for procedural cities. Our first contribution is a new lightweight grammar representation that compactly encodes facade structures and allows fast per-pixel access. We call this grammar F-shade. Our second contribution is a prototype rendering system that renders an urban model from the compact representation directly on the GPU. Our suggested approach explores an interesting connection from procedural modeling to real-time rendering. Evaluating procedural descriptions at render time uses less memory than the generation of intermediate geometry. This enables us to render large urban models directly from GPU memory.
http://e-citations.ethbib.ethz.ch/view/pub:36218Augmenting Generative 3D City Models with Behavior-based Agents
Gideon Aschwanden, Simon Haegler, Frédéric Bosché, Gerhard Schmitt, http://e-citations.ethbib.ethz.ch/view/pub:46742Visualization Summit 2007
Remo Aslak Burkhard, Gennady Andrienko, Natalia Andrienko, Jason Dykes, Alexander Koutamanis, Wolfgang Kienreich, Robert Phaal, Alan Blackwell, Martin Eppler, Jeffrey Huang, Mark Meagher, Armin Grün, Silke Lang, Daniel Perrin, Wibke Weber, Vande Andrew Moere, Bruce Herr, Katy Börner, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Dominique Brodbeck,At the first international Visualization Summit, more than 100 international researchers and practitioners defined and assessed nine original and important research goals in the context of Visualization Science, and proposed methods for achieving these goals by 2010. The synthesis of the whole event is presented in the 10th research goal. This article contributes a building block for systemizing visualization research by proposing mutually elaborated research goals with defined milestones. Such a consensus on where to go together is only one step toward establishing visualization science in the long-term perspective as a discipline with comparable relevance to chemistry, mathematics, language, or history. First, this article introduces the conference setting. Second, it describes the research goals and findings from the nine workshops. Third, a survey among 62 participants about the originality and importance of each research goal is presented and discussed. Finally, the article presents a synthesis of the nine research goals in the form of a 10th research goal, namely 'Visualizing Future Cities'. The article is relevant for visualization researchers, trend scouts, research programme directors who define the topics that get funds.
http://e-citations.ethbib.ethz.ch/view/pub:14775Visual representations in knowledge management
Martin J. Eppler, Remo A. Burkhard,Purpose – The purpose of this article is to explore the potential of visualization for corporate knowledge management. Design/methodology/approach – The employed methodology consists of a taxonomy of visualization formats that are embedded in a conceptual framework to guide the application of visualization in knowledge management according to the type of knowledge that is visualized, the knowledge management objective, the target group, and the application situation. This conceptual framework is illustrated through real-life examples. Findings – The findings show that there is much room for knowledge management applications based on visualization beyond the mere referencing of experts or documents through knowledge maps. Research limitations/implications – The research implications thus consist of experimenting actively with new forms of visual knowledge representation and evaluating their benefits or potential drawbacks rigorously. Practical implications – The authors encourage managers to look beyond simple diagrammatic representations of knowledge and explore alternative visual languages, such as visual metaphors or graphic narratives. Originality/value – This paper consists of two elements: first, the systematic, descriptive and prescriptive approach towards visualization in knowledge management, and second the innovative examples of how to harness the power of visualization in knowledge management.
http://e-citations.ethbib.ethz.ch/view/pub:15126