Franco P. Preparata

15.7k total citations · 5 hit papers
94 papers, 10.3k citations indexed

About

Franco P. Preparata is a scholar working on Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Computer Networks and Communications and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Franco P. Preparata has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 10.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, 21 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 20 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Franco P. Preparata's work include Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (33 papers), Interconnection Networks and Systems (13 papers) and Algorithms and Data Compression (11 papers). Franco P. Preparata is often cited by papers focused on Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (33 papers), Interconnection Networks and Systems (13 papers) and Algorithms and Data Compression (11 papers). Franco P. Preparata collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Italy. Franco P. Preparata's co-authors include Michael Ian Shamos, Mikhail J. Atallah, Jean Vuillemin, Gernot Metze, R. T. Chien, Roberto Tamassia, David E. Muller, David S. Johnson, M. R. Garey and Robert E. Tarjan and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, Mathematics of Computation and ACM Transactions on Graphics.

In The Last Decade

Franco P. Preparata

90 papers receiving 9.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Computational Geometry--An Introduction.

1986 3.0k citations Franco P. Preparata et al. profile →
Computational Geometry

1985 2.2k citations Franco P. Preparata et al. profile →
Computational geometry. an introduction

1985 1.6k citations Franco P. Preparata et al. profile →
On the Connection Assignment Problem of Diagnosable Systems

1967 1.1k citations Franco P. Preparata et al. IEEE Transactions on Electronic Computers profile →
The cube-connected cycles: a versatile network for parallel computation

1981 719 citations Franco P. Preparata, Jean Vuillemin profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	On Contigs and Coverage 2013 ·Journal of Computational Biology ·Franco P. Preparata	1
2	Evaluating the cylindricity of a nominally cylindrical point set 2000 ·Symposium on Discrete Algorithms ·Olivier Devillers, Franco P. Preparata	20
3	Further results on arithmetic filters for geometric predicates 1999 ·Computational Geometry ·Olivier Devillers, Franco P. Preparata	6
4	Checking the convexity of polytopes and the planarity of subdivisions 1998 ·Computational Geometry ·Olivier Devillers, Giuseppe Liotta, Franco P. Preparata, Roberto Tamassia	14
5	Widest-corridor problems 1994 ·Nordic journal of computing ·Ravi Janardan, Franco P. Preparata	9
6	Widest-corridor Problems. 1993 ·Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry ·Ravi Janardan, Franco P. Preparata	1
7	A unified approach to dynamic point location, ray shooting, and shortest paths in planar maps 1993 ·Symposium on Discrete Algorithms ·Yi‐Jen Chiang, Franco P. Preparata, Roberto Tamassia	7
8	Deterministic P-RAM simulation with constant redundancy 1991 ·Information and Computation ·(unknown), Franco P. Preparata	4
9	Planar Point Location Revisited (Review Paper). 1990 ·International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science ·Franco P. Preparata	2
10	Randomness and computation 1989 ·JAI Press eBooks ·Franco P. Preparata	101
11	Parallel and distributed computing 1987 ·JAI Press eBooks ·Franco P. Preparata	4
12	The theory of databases 1986 ·JAI Press eBooks ·Franco P. Preparata	5
13	Advances in computing research, vol. 2: VLSI theory 1984 ·Franco P. Preparata	10
14	The cube-connected-cycles: A versatile network for parallel computation 1979 ·Franco P. Preparata, Jean Vuillemin	84
15	Introduction to Discrete Structures for Computer Science and Engineering 1973 ·CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) ·Franco P. Preparata, Raymond T. Yeh	43
16	Generation of near-optimal universal Boolean functions 1970 ·Journal of Computer and System Sciences ·Franco P. Preparata, David E. Muller	20
17	Weight and distance structure of Nordstrom-Robinson quadratic code 1968 ·Information and Control ·Franco P. Preparata	8
18	A class of optimum nonlinear double-error-correcting codes 1968 ·Information and Control ·Franco P. Preparata	84
19	Convolutional Transformations of Binary Sequences: Boolean Functions and Their Resynchronizing Properties 1966 ·IEEE Transactions on Electronic Computers ·Franco P. Preparata	6
20	State-Logic Relations for Autonomous Sequential Networks 1964 ·IEEE Transactions on Electronic Computers ·Franco P. Preparata	12

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