I am writing a paper about cutting, and I would like to know what is the SOFA Carving Plugin is based on, so I can reference it. Is it the following paper Cutting Simulation of Manifold Volumetric Meshes.
For sure, the reference paper is not this one (too old).
The simplest way to do is to reference the main SOFA paper: SOFA: A Multi-Model Framework for Interactive Physical Simulation
This plugin was also recently updated by Erik Pernod from InfinyTech3D