@STRING{JASA = {J. of the Acoustical Society of America}}
@STRING{JAES = {J. of the Audio Engineering Society}}
@STRING{JSV = {J. of Sound and Vibration}}
@STRING{ITVT = {IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology}}

@BOOK{Han81,
	EDITOR = "Robert C. Hansen",
	TITLE = "Geometrical Theory of Diffraction",
	PUBLISHER = "IEEE Press",
	YEAR = 1981
}

@BOOK{MPM90,
	AUTHOR = "D.A. McNamara and C.W.I. Pistorius and J.A.G. Malherbe",
	TITLE = "Introduction to the Uniform Geometrical Theory of Diffraction",
	PUBLISHER = "Artech House",
	YEAR = 1990 
}
	
@BOOK{He87,
    TITLE={Optics, 2nd edition},
    AUTHOR={E. Hecht},
    PUBLISHER={Addison Wesley},
    YEAR={1987}
}

@BOOK{He98,
    TITLE={Optics},
    AUTHOR={E. Hecht},
    PUBLISHER={3rd edition, Addison Wesley},
    YEAR={1998}
}

@BOOK{BW99,
	TITLE={Principles of Optics},
	AUTHOR={Max Born and Emil Wolf},
	PUBLISHER ={7th edition, Pergamon Press},
	YEAR={1999}
}

@BOOK{LS97,
	TITLE="Propagation des ondes radioelectriques - introduction",
	AUTHOR = "J. Lavergnat and M. Sylvain",
	PUBLISHER = "Masson ed.",
	YEAR = "1997"
}

@article {Son69,
    AUTHOR="M. M. Sondhi",
    TITLE="Reconstruction of Objects from Their Sound-Diffraction
    Patterns",
    JOURNAL=JASA,
    VOLUME="46",
    NUMBER="5 (part 2)",
    PAGES="1158-1164",
    YEAR="1969" }
                                                                               
@article {Da78,
    AUTHOR = "A. Daumas",
    TITLE = "Etude de la diffraction par un {\'e}cran mince pos{\'e} sur le sol",
    JOURNAL = "Acustica",
	Number = "4",
	volume = "40",
    YEAR = "1978"
}

@article {Kel62,
    AUTHOR = "J.B. Keller",
    TITLE = "Geometrical theory of Diffraction",
    JOURNAL = "J. of the Optical Society of America",
	Number = "2",
	Volume = "52",
	Pages = "116-130",
    YEAR = "1962"
}

@article {Mae68,
    AUTHOR = "Z. Maekawa",
    TITLE = "Noise reduction by screens",
    JOURNAL = "Applied Acoustics",
	Volume = "1",
    YEAR = "1968"
}

@BOOK{Pe92,
	TITLE="Wave optics",
	AUTHOR = "J. Petykiewicz",
	PUBLISHER = "Kluwer Academic Publishers",
	YEAR = "1992"
}

@article {Da96,
	AUTHOR = "D. Dauger",
	TITLE = "Simulation and study of {F}resnel diffraction for arbitrary 
	         two-dimensional apertures",
	JOURNAL = "Computer in Physics",
	PAGES = "591-604",
	VOLUME = 10,
	NUMBER = 6,
	MONTH = nov/dec,
	YEAR = "1996"
}

@article {Wr97,
	AUTHOR = "J.R. Wright",
	TITLE = "Fundamentals of Diffraction",
	JOURNAL = JAES,
	Volume=  "45",
	number = "5",
	pages = "347-356",
	month = may,
	YEAR = "1997"
}


@article {Fu90,
	AUTHOR = "Y. Furue",
	TITLE = "Sound propagation from the inside to the outside 
		of a room through an aperture",
	JOURNAL = "Applied Acoustics",
	volume = "31",
	number = "1",
	pages = "133-146",
	year = "1990"
}

@article {Ka81,
    AUTHOR = "T. Kawai",
    TITLE = "Sound diffraction by a many sided barrier or pillar",
    JOURNAL = JSV,
    volume = "79",
    number = "2",
    pages = "229-242",
    year = "1981"
}

@article {KP74,
    AUTHOR = "Robert G. Kouyoumjian and Prabhakar H. Pathak",
    TITLE = "A Uniform Geometrical Theory of Diffraction for 
             an Edge in a Perfectly Conducting Surface",
    JOURNAL = "Proc. of IEEE",
    VOLUME = "62",
    PAGES = "1448-1461",
    MONTH = nov,
    YEAR = "1974"
}

@article {HCH91,
   AUTHOR = "D.C. Hothersall and S.N. Chandler-Wilde and M.N. Hajmirzae",
   TITLE = "Efficiency of single noise barriers",
   JOURNAL = JSV,
   VOLUME = "146",
   NUMBER = "2",
   PAGES = "303-322",
   YEAR = 1991
}

@article {Ber88,
	editor = "Henry L. Bertoni",
	key = "Bertoni",
	title = "Coverage Prediction for Mobile Radio Systems Operating in the 
		800/900 {MHz} Frequency Range",
	journal = {IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology (Special Issue on Mobile Radio Propagation)},
	organization = "IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Committee on Radio
		Propagation",
	volume = "37",
	number = "1",
	month = feb,
	year = "1988"
}

@article {RAOR91:prop,
	author = "A. J. Rustako and Noach Amitay and G. J. Owens and R. S. Roman",
	title = "Radio Propagation at Microwave Frequencies for Line-of-Sight
		Microcellular Mobile and Personal Communications",
	journal = ITVT,
	volume = "40",
	number = "1",
	pages = "203-210",
	month = feb,
	year = "1991"
}

@article {RAOR91:diff,
	author = "A. J. Rustako and Noach Amitay and G. J. Owens and R. S. Roman",
	title = "Attenuation and Diffraction Effects from Truck Blockage of an 
11-{GHz}
		Line-of-Sight Microcellular Mobile Radio Path",
	journal = ITVT,
	volume = "40",
	number = "1",
	pages = "211-215",
	month = feb,
	year = "1991"
}

@article {Lee90,
	author = "William C. Y. Lee",
	title = "Estimate of Channel Capacity in {R}ayleigh Fading Environment",
	journal = ITVT,
	volume = "39",
	number = "3",
	pages = "187-189",
	month = aug,
	year = "1990"
}

@article {Bul77,
	author = "Kenneth Bullington",
	title = "Radio Propagation for Vehicular Communication",
	journal = ITVT,
	volume = "VT-26",
	number = "4",
	pages = "295-308",
	month = nov,
	year = "1977"
}

@article {Dur77,
	author = "J. Durkin",
	title = "Computer Prediction of Service Areas for {VHF} and {UHF}
		Land Mobile Radio Services",
	journal = ITVT,
	volume = "VT-26",
	number = "4",
	pages = "323-327",
	month = nov,
	year = "1977"
}

@BOOK{BK94,
    TITLE={Geometrical theory of diffraction},
    AUTHOR={V.A. Borovikov and B.Ye. Kinber },
    PUBLISHER={{IEE} (The {I}nstitution of {E}lectrical {E}ngineers) electromagnetic waves series \#37},
    YEAR={1994}
}

@article {Kur74,
    AUTHOR = "U.J. Kurze",
    TITLE =  "Noise reduction by barriers",
    JOURNAL = JASA,
    MONTH = mar,
    VOLUME="55",
        number="3",
    pages = "504-518",
    YEAR = 1974
}

@article {IEP80,
    AUTHOR = "T. Isei and T.F.W. Embleton and J.E. Piercy",
    TITLE =  "Noise reduction by barriers on finite impedance ground",
    JOURNAL = JASA,
    MONTH = jan,
    VOLUME="67",
        number="1",
    pages = "46-58",
    YEAR = 1980
}

@article {Sch70,
	AUTHOR = "M.R. Schr{\"o}der",
	TITLE = "Digital Simulation of Sound Transmission in Reverberant Spaces",
	JOURNAL = JASA,
	VOLUME = "47",
	NUMBER = "2 (part 1)",
	pages = "424-431",
	YEAR = 1970
}

@article {Pie74,
	AUTHOR = "Allan D. Pierce",
	TITLE = "Diffraction of sound around corners and over wide barriers",
	JOURNAL = JASA,
	VOLUME = "55",
	NUMBER = "5",
	month = may,
	pages = "941-955",
	YEAR = 1974
}

@article {CR87,
	AUTHOR = "J. Canny and J.H. Reif",
	TITLE = "New lower bound techniques for robot motion planning problems",
	JOURNAL = "Proc. 28th IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science",
	pages = "49-60",
	YEAR = 1987
}

@article {Pap85,
	AUTHOR = "C. Papdimitriou",
	TITLE = "An algorithm for shortest-path motion in three dimensions",
	JOURNAL = "Information Processing Letters",
	VOLUME = "20",
	pages = "259-296",
	YEAR = 1985
}

@article {CSY97,
        AUTHOR = "Joonsoo Choi and J{\"u}rgen Sellen and Chee-Keng Yap",
	TITLE = " Approximate {E}uclidean shortest paths in 3~space",
	JOURNAL = "Int. J. of Computational Geometry and Applications",
	pages = "271-296",
	MONTH = aug,
	YEAR = 1997
}

@article {CSY95,
        AUTHOR = "Joonsoo Choi and J{\"u}rgen Sellen and Chee-Keng Yap",
	TITLE = "Precision-Sensitive Shortest Path in 3-Space",
	JOURNAL = "Proc. 11th ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry",
	pages = "350-359",
	YEAR = 1995
}

@article {HS99,
	AUTHOR = "John Hershberger and Subhash Suri",
	TITLE = "An optimal algorithm for {E}uclidean shortest paths in the plane",
	JOURNAL = "Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Journal on Computing",
	VOLUME = "28",
	NUMBER = "6",
	pages = "2215-2256",
	YEAR = 1999
}


@techreport {TF+2K,
        AUTHOR="Nicolas Tsingos and Thomas Funkhouser and Addy Ngan and
	Ingrid Carlbom",
        TITLE="Geometrical Theory of Diffraction for Modeling Acoustics
	in Virtual Environments",
        INSTITUTION="Bell Laboratories",
        number="10009662-000802-03TM",
        month=jan,
        YEAR="2000"
}

@techreport {TS2K,
        AUTHOR="Nicolas Tsingos",
        TITLE="A Geometrical Approach to Modeling Reflectance
	Functions of Diffracting Surfaces",
        INSTITUTION="Bell Laboratories",
        number="",
        month=mar,
        YEAR="2000"
}

@article {SU72,
    AUTHOR = "T.B.A. Senior and  P.L.E. Uslenghi",
    TITLE = "Experimental detection of the edge diffraction cone",
    JOURNAL = "Proc. of the {IEEE} (Letters)",
    VOLUME = "60",
    number = "11",
    PAGES = "1448",
    MONTH = nov,
    YEAR = "1972"
}

@BOOK{Som54,
        Author = "A.J.W. Sommerfeld",
        TITLE = "Optics",
        PUBLISHER = "Academic Press, Inc., New York",
        YEAR = 1954
}