Everything about Object composition

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Object compositionA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: EpNet: Power lines foreign object detection with Edge Proposal Network and data compositionInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The reading-writing connectionThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Nonlinear Finite-Element Analysis Software Architecture Using Object CompositionCited 843 times
5. Go sideways: Comparison of programming languages (basic instructions)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Union typeA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Nonlinear Finite-Element Analysis Software Architecture Using Object Composition

  Frank McKenna, Michael H. Scott, Gregory L. Fenves · 2010 · Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering · 843 citations

• The Chemical Composition of an Extrasolar Kuiper-Belt-Object*

  S. Xu (许偲艺), B. Zuckerman, P. Dufour · 2017 · The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 130 citations

• Network considerations for distributed multimedia object composition and communication

  T.D.C. Little, A. Ghafoor · 1990 · IEEE Network · 121 citations

• Color, composition, and thermal environment of Kuiper Belt object (486958) Arrokoth

  W. M. Grundy, M. K. Bird, D. T. Britt · 2020 · Science · 85 citations

• THE SURFACE COMPOSITION OF LARGE KUIPER BELT OBJECT 2007 OR10

  M. E. Brown, A. J. Burgasser, W. C. Fraser · 2011 · The Astrophysical Journal · 51 citations

• Surface Composition of Kuiper Belt Object 1993SC

  Robert H. Brown, Dale P. Cruikshank, Yvonne Pendleton · 1997 · Science · 41 citations

• Object replacement and object composition in a creative cognitive system. Towards a computational solver of the Alternative Uses Test

  Ana-Maria Olteţeanu, Zoe Falomir · 2016 · Cognitive Systems Research · 40 citations

• Improving Human-Object Interaction Detection via Phrase Learning and Label Composition

  Zhimin Li, Cheng Zou, Yu Zhao · 2022 · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 31 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• EpNet: Power lines foreign object detection with Edge Proposal Network and data composition

  Junyu Su, Yukun Su, Yu Zhang · 2022 · Knowledge-Based Systems · 20 citations

• Object detection and segmentation by composition of fast fuzzy C-mean clustering based maps

  Mehmood Nawaz, Rizwan Qureshi, Mansoor Ali Teevno · 2022 · Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing · 18 citations

• POMDP Planning Under Object Composition Uncertainty: Application to Robotic Manipulation

  Joni Pajarinen, Jens Lundell, Ville Kyrki · 2023 · IEEE Transactions on Robotics · 9 citations

• What Makes You Unique? Attribute Prompt Composition for Object Re-Identification

  Yingquan Wang, Pingping Zhang, Chong Sun · 2026 · IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology · 6 citations

• Object Placement Across Robotics, Image Composition, and XR: A Mixed Reality Framework Proposal

  Jalal Safari Bazargani, Abolghasem Sadeghi-Niaraki, Soo-Mi Choi · 2025 · IEEE Access · 6 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The reading-writing connectionNancy Nelson, Robert C. Calfee · 1998
• Mezhdunarodnai͡a konferent͡sii͡a Sloistye kompozit͡sionnye materialy-98Mezhdunarodnai͡a konferent͡sii͡a Sloistye kompozit͡sionnye materialy-98 (1998 Volgograd, Russia) · 1996
• An Elementary English GrammarAlma Blount, Clark Sutherland Northup · 1911
• Standards for the assessment of reading and writingIRA/NCTE Joint Task Force on Assessment., National Council of Teachers of English. · 1994
• Working with Faculty WritersAnne Ellen Geller, Michele Eodice · 2013
• Whose goals? Whose aspirations?Stephen M. Fishman · 2002
• 📕Predmet i formaI. G. Sapego · 1984
• The Roswell legacyJesse Marcel · 2008

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