Jakob Gonczarowski's Publications

Ph.D. Thesis

• Developmental Languages, the Selective Substitution Grammar Model - Properties and Applications, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1982.

Papers Published in Journals

• Closure Properties of Selective Substitution Grammars, Part I, International Journal of Computer Mathematics, 14 (1983), 19-42. Coauthored with H.C.M. Kleijn and G. Rozenberg.
• Closure Properties of Selective Substitution Grammars, Part II, International Journal of Computer Mathematics, 14 (1983), 109-135. Coauthored with H.C.M. Kleijn and G. Rozenberg.
• Grammatical Constructions in Selective Substitution Grammars, Acta Cybernetica, 6 (1983), 239-269. Coauthored with H.C.M. Kleijn and G. Rozenberg.
• Pattern Selector Grammars and Several Parsing Algorithms in the Context-Free Style, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 30 (1985), 249-273. Coauthored with E. Shamir.
• Decidable Properties of Monadic Recursive Schemas with a Depth Parameter, Acta Informatica XXX (1985), 277-310.
• DITROFF/FFORTID, An Adaption of the UNIX DITROFF for Formatting Bi-Directional Text, ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems, 3 (1985), 380-397. Coauthored with Cary Buchman and D. M. Berry.
• Applications of Scheduling Theory to Formal Language Theory, Theoretical Computer Science, Special Issue on Fundamental Studies, 37 (1985), 217-243. Coauthored with M. Warmuth.
• Manipulating Derivation Forests with Scheduling Techniques, Theoretical Computer Science, Special Issue on Fundamental Studies, 45 (1986), 87-119. Coauthored with M. Warmuth.
• Scattered versus Context-Sensitive Rewriting, Acta Informatica, 29 (1989), 81-95. Coauthored with M. Warmuth.
• InScript - A C-like Front-End for the PostScript Language, Electronic Publishing - Origin, Dissemination and Design, 3 (1990), 143-153. Coauthored with O. Paradise.
• Improved Techniques for Ray-Tracing Parametric Surfaces, The Visual Computer, 6 (1990), 134-152. Coauthored with D. Lischinski.
• Propagation of Action Potentials along Complex Axonal Trees: Model and Implementation, Biopysical Journal, 60 (1991), 1411-1423. Coauthored with Y. Manor and I. Segev.
• A Physically Based Model for Icicle Growth, The Visual Computer, 10 (1994), 88-101. Coauthored with D. Kharitonsky.
• Coherent Processing of Character Skeletal Forms, Computer and Graphics, 21 (1997), 727-736. Coauthored with J. Herz and R. D. Hersch.

Edited Books

• Proc. Int. Conf. on Raster Imaging and Digital Typography, Darmstadt, April 11-13, 1994, J. Andre, J. Gonczarowski, and R. Southall, eds., Electronic Publishing, Origination, Dissemination, and Design, 6 (1993).

Papers Presented at Conferences

• Decidable Properties of Monadic Recursive Schemas with a Depth Parameter, Proc. CAAP 83, Trees in Algebra and Programming, L'Aquila, Italy, 1983, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 159 (1983).
• Structure in Text Formatting, Proc. IEEE 1987 Symposium on Office Systems, Gaithersburg, MD, April 1987. Coauthored with R. Wilhelm.
• An Integrated Approach to Solving Visual Programming's Problems, Proc. 2nd Int. Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Honolulu, August 10-14, 1987. Coauthored with E. P. Glinert and C. D. Smith.
• A (Formal) Model for (Iconic) Programming Environments, Proc. INTERACT' 87, 2nd IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Stuttgart, September 1-4, 1987. Coauthored with E. P. Glinert.
• Fast Generation of Unfilled and Filled Outline Characters, Proc. Int. Conference on Raster Imaging and Digital Typography, Lausanne, October 11-13, 1989. Cambridge University Press, 1989.
• A fast approach to auto-tracing (with parametric cubics), Proc. Int. Conference on Raster Imaging and Digital Typography, Boston, October 14-16, 1991. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
• Curve Techniques for Autotracing, in: Visual and Technical Aspects of Type, R. D. Hersch, ed., Cambridge University Press, 1993.
• Industry Standard Font Formats, in: Visual and Technical Aspects of Type, R. D. Hersch, ed., Cambridge University Press, 1993.
• Producing the Skeleton of a Character, Proc. Int. Conference on Raster Imaging and Digital Typography, Saint Malo, March 30-April 3, 1998. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1375 (1998).
• A Window-Based Mathod for Automatic Typographic Parameter Extraction, Proc. Int. Conference on Raster Imaging and Digital Typography, Saint Malo, March 30-April 3, 1998. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1375 (1998).