Cover Contents Abstract, Zusammenfassung, Acknowledgements 1\. Introduction 1.1 Shape Matching 1.2 Frechet Distance 1.3 Overview of the Thesis 2\. Preliminaries 2.1 Curves and Surfaces 2.2 Hausdorff Distance 2.3 Frechet Distance 2.4 Model of Computation 3\. Semi-Computability 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Computability of Real-valued Functions 3.3 Approximating the Homeomorphisms 3.4 Discrete Frechet Distance 3.5 Semi-Computing the Frechet Distance 3.6 Discussion 4\. Weak Frechet Distance 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Weak Frechet Distance 4.3 Free Space Diagram of Triangulated Surface 4.4 Characterizing the Weak Frechet Distance 4.5 Deciding the Weak Frechet Distance 4.6 Computing the ...