Shape Modeling International (SMI), also known as ''International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications'' is an annual

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whose goal is to promote the dissemination of new mathematical theories and novel computational techniques for modeling, simulating, and processing digital shape representations. Initiated in 1997 by Tosyiasu L. Kunii and

Bianca Falcidieno Bianca Falcidieno is an Italian applied mathematician whose research interests include computer graphics, geometric modeling, shape analysis, and mesh generation; she has been called a pioneer of semantics-driven shape representation. She is ret ...

, the symposium became an annual event in 2001 after its merge with the

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Workshop on Implicit Surfaces. The venue of the symposium rotates in turn among Asia, Europe and America.

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Since 2009, proceedings of SMI are published by

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as a special issue of the '' Computers & Graphics'' journal. Proceedings until the year 2010 are available at DPLP, computer.org, and IEEE Explore.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/1000664/all-proceedings

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