Goal and Fields

The concept of the Voronoi diagram as well as its dual structure, the Delaunay diagram, is one of the most fundamental geometric big ideas, and has been discovered and re-discovered repeatedly in the history of many fields of science and engineering. This concept has become even more important because recent development of computational methods enables us to compute large-scale Voronoi diagrams in a robust manner, and consequently enables us to apply this idea to practical problems arising in real worlds.

The goal of this symposium is to exchange ideas among different disciplines and different fields of science and engineering, in particular between theoreticians and practitioners and among practitioners in various fields of applications, through the common tool "Voronoi/Delaunay diagram", and thus to stimulate research activities in an interdisciplinary manner. Expected topics include, but are not restricted to,

• Theoretical aspects of Voronoi/Delaunay diagrams
• Computational and implementational aspects of Voronoi/Delaunay diagrams
• Generalizaion of the Voronoi/Delaunay diagrams
• Applications of the Voronoi/Delaunay diagrams to
Biology
Chemistry
Physics
Material science
Geography
Location science
Geographic information systems
Mesh generation
Geometric algorithms
Solid modeling
Computer graphics
Pattern analysis and recognition
Space analysis
Motion analysis and planning
Collision detection and avoidance
Interpolation
Operations research
and others