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Web Works: Norton Pocket Guide, 1st edition
Authors: Martin Irvine
Venue:  (1996)

:This book covers the topics all Web users need to know. Learn what the Net and Web are and how they work, how to read Net and Web addresses, how front-end software like Netscape and search engines like Yahoo work, and much more. Use this book as a convenient launchpad for tracking all the newest and best features of the Web. The ACM Portal is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Copyright © 2010 ACM, Inc. Terms of Usage Privacy Policy Code of Ethics Contact Us Useful downloads: Adobe Acrobat QuickTime Windows Media Player Real Player
Supporting articulation with the reconciler
Authors: Gloria Mark, Victor Gonzalez, Marcello Sarini, Carla Simone
Venue: CHI '02 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (2002)

A problem in distributed collaboration is the difficulty in resolving different perspectives. We conducted an experiment to test the Reconciler, a system designed to aid communicating partners in developing and using negotiated meanings of terms in text-based online communication. We found that with the system, groups used fewer clarifications and explanations for technical terms, which suggests that the system aided the memory of negotiated meanings. The results suggest that technology use can benefit articulation.
Linux: The Complete Reference, 2nd edition
Authors: Richard Petersen
Venue:  (1998)

:The most comprehensive Linux reference available! Covers all major upgrades including the latest kernel version 2. 4 and new versions of Red Hat,Caldera,and SuSE. Also includes 2 bonus CDs containing Red Hat Linux and Caldera's OpenLinux eServer. The Ultimate In-Depth Linux Resource!Take advantage of the powerful capabilities of Linux using this comprehensive and easy-to-use reference. Featuring up-to-date coverage of everything from installation and configuration to system administration and programming,this valuable reference covers all the latest distributions of Linux and the Linux 2. 4 kernel. New chapters include full details on system,network,and security setup tasks as well as coverage of the KOffice and Evolution office suites. The 2 CD-ROMs contain Red Hat Linux 7 and Caldera OpenLinux eDesktop 2. 4. For anyone wanting to learn to install,administer,or program using the latest Linux platform,this is your one-stop guide. Learn to install Linux including latest versions of RedHat and CalderaConfigure settings for network,system,security,and kernel 2. 4Master KDE 2. 0,Gnome,KOffice,Evolution,and the ShellSet up and manage serversFTP,Apache,news,proxy,and moreUse network administration tools,SAMBA,and SendmailManage users,file systems,and devicesEnsure network security using firewall and encryption methodsDeploy powerful database,office,and desktop applicationsLearn to program on Linux using BASH shell scripts,Perl,Tcl/TK,Gawk,and LaTec,along with programming tools such as the gcc compiler,RCS,and more
Creatures Official Strategies and Secrets
Authors: Toby Simpson
Venue:  (1997)

:Creatures is the latest and greatest entry in the popular new pastime of raising "virtual pets." With reatures, computer gamers can go way beyond the options offered by simple toys such as Tamagotchi and Nano Pets. Creatures lets players raise their pet "Norns," teach them language, modify their behavior, and even breed them for special characteristics. Comparable to SimCity in its appeal, Creatures is a game that will be played over and over again for a long time to come.
An application of fault tolerance patterns and coordinated atomic actions to a problem in railway scheduling
Authors: D. M. Beder, A. Romanovsky, B. Randell, C. R. Snow, R. J. Stroud
Venue: ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review (2000)

Developing and applying advanced approaches for system structuring is vital for fighting ever-increasing complexity of modern and future software systems. The concept of Coordinated Atomic (CA) actions has been developed at Newcastle University for designing and structuring complex concurrent and distributed applications. Certain successful experience has been gained in applying them in several application areas. The purpose of the research, some initial results of which we report here, is twofold: to show how CA actions can be used in a new application area (a railway control system) and to analyse how the design patterns which have been developed using our previous experience can help in designing such system using CA actions.
The Agent-based Programming Language: APL
Authors: Chang-Hyun Jo, Allen J. Arnold
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing (2002)

Agent-based programming has been emerged as a new programming paradigm for the near future. There have been many research work in agent computing. However, the software engineering methodology and programming languages for agent computing are not yet sufficient and practical.This paper proposes a new programming language concept based on the BDI-agent model. The new concept has been prototyped by Agent-based Programming Language (APL). The prototype system for APL translates the APL source into the Java source codes, which can be run on the Java Virtual Machine. This paper also describes our implementation scheme of the APL system. Examples are also shown to utilize APL for the real-world banking application.
AFS and the web: competitors or collaborators?
Authors: M. Satyanarayanan, Mirjana Spasojevic
Venue: Proceedings of the 7th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: Systems support for worldwide applications (1996)

Over the last few years, the World-Wide Web [2] has risen to dominance as a mechanism for wide-area information access. Each day brings new reports of the growth of the Web, and this trend shows no signs of abating any time soon. To many people, the Web and the Internet are synonymous. Unfortunately, success has exposed many limitations of the Web such as its tendency to overload the network and servers, its limited ability to control access to sensitive data, its lack of mechanisms for data consistency, and its susceptibility to network and server failures. It is now widely recognized that these problems must be solved for the continued growth of the Web.With much less fanfare, another world-wide information system, AFS, has also been operational on the Internet. AFS was originally designed to support the file sharing needs of a campus-sized community of five to seven thousand workstations [11, 15]. In current parlance, AFS was conceived as an information sharing mechanism for the Intranet of an organization. Since then, AFS has been evolved to function effectively over the Internet [17, 21]. Many organizations have been part of a single distributed Unix file name space supported by AFS. As of 1994, this system spanned well over 100 organizations world-wide, with each organization typically containing many tens or hundreds of clients. Measurements reported in a recent paper [20] confirm that AFS does indeed function effectively at this scale.The goal of this paper is to critically compare these two mechanisms for world-wide information access. We begin by asking the following questions: What are the relative strengths and weaknesses of the two mechanisms? Which of these differences are superficial, and which are deep? Why is the Web so much more visible and popular? In performing this comparison, it is important to keep in mind that the two mechanisms are not addressing precisely the same problem. While AFS has the relatively narrow and well-defined goal of provided distributed Unix file access, the goal of the Web is broader and less explicit. Further, AFS is now stable and mature while many aspects of the Web are still evolving. In spite of these caveats, we believe that a comparison of the two mechanisms will provide useful insights.Our comparison shows that the Web and AFS are not really competing technologies. Rather, they represent complementary technologies that may be used together for mutual advantage. We present real-life examples to confirm that this potential can indeed be realized in practice.
Structural proximity searching for large collections of semi-structured data
Authors: Michael Barg, Raymond K. Wong
Venue: Proceedings of the tenth international conference on Information and knowledge management (2001)

The richness of the XML data format allows data to be structured in a way which precisely captures the semantics required by the author. It is the structure of the data, however, which forms the basis of all XML query languages. Without at least some notion of the structure, a user cannot meaningfully query the data. This problem is compounded when one considers that heterogeneous data adhering to different schema are likely to exist in the database(s) being queried. This paper proposes a solution based on an efficient proximity index. In particular, we describe a family of encoding and compression schemes which enable us to build an index to efficiently implement the proximity search. Our index is extremely small, and can reflect updates in the underlying database in modest time. Experiments show that our algorithm and implementation are fast and scale well.
The Coming Internet Depression: Why the High-Tech Boom Will Go Bust, Why the Crash Will Be Worse Than You Think, and How to Prosper Afterwards
Authors: Michael J. Mandel
Venue:  (2000)

:The economist most renowned for predicting the New Economy of the 1990s now returns  just as books like The Long Boom and Dow 36,000 are turning the idea of perpetual prosperity into conventional wisdom  to say that the dominating economic event of the next few years is likely to be a deep recession, perhaps even a depression. Michael J. Mandel begins The Coming Internet Depression by explaining why just such a depression is not only possible but increasingly likely. His explanation is based in a comparison of the present period with the 1920s: both saw tremendous growth in GDP that was largely centered on the "hypergrowth" of a single industry  automobiles in the 1920s, information technology today. When this "hypergrowth" reverts to a normal growth pattern, as the automobile industry did in 1929, the resulting overcapacity will slow down the entire economy.Mandel addresses three key questions: When will the Internet Depression start? How will we know when it's coming? How bad will it be? Finally, he shows how investors, workers, and businesses can navigate the bad times safely and prosper in the long recovery that will follow. The ACM Portal is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Copyright © 2010 ACM, Inc. Terms of Usage Privacy Policy Code of Ethics Contact Us Useful downloads: Adobe Acrobat QuickTime Windows Media Player Real Player
Data mining techniques to improve forecast accuracy in airline business
Authors: Christoph Hueglin, Francesco Vannotti
Venue: Proceedings of the seventh ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining (2001)

Predictive models developed by applying Data Mining techniques are used to improve forecasting accuracy in the airline business. In order to maximize the revenue on a flight, the number of seats available for sale is typically higher than the physical seat capacity (overbooking). To optimize the overbooking rate, an accurate estimation of the number of no-show passengers (passengers who hold a valid booking but do not appear at the gate to board for the flight) is essential. Currently, no-shows on future flights are estimated from the number of no-shows on historical flights averaged on booking class level. In this work, classification trees and logistic regression models are applied to estimate the probability that an individual passenger turns out to be a no-show. Passenger information stored in the reservation system of the airline is either directly used as explanatory variable or used to create attributes that have an impact on the probability of a passenger to be a no-show. The total number of no-shows in each booking class or on the total flight is then obtained by accumulating the individual no-show probabilities over the entity of interest. We show that this forecasting approach is more accurate than the currently used method. In addition, the selected models lead to a deepened insight into passenger behavior.
America Online for Dummies, 7th edition
Authors: John Kaufeld
Venue:  (2000)

:Whether you're interested in e-mail or chat rooms, investments or the Internet, America Online is the place to find it. To make the most of your online adventures, keep America Online For Dummies, 4th Edition, by your side. This lighthearted, easy-to-use reference is your personal guide to the coolest information, the best shopping, and the zaniest chats on the world's largest online service. Featuring goodies for first-timers, old-timers, and all the 'timers in between, this down-to-earth reference delivers the information you need to make online life fun! Inside, find helpful advice on how to Make the most of your America Online time with the software's built-in navigational aids Unearth the secrets of customizing your member profile, adding new buttons to the toolbar, and much more Collect incredible amounts of free (or nearly free) software from America Online's many software libraries Traverse the World Wide Web, newsgroups, and other digital resources through America Online's Internet connections Find out which tweaks, tunings, and upgrades turn your computer into an online access powerhouse Solve the most common AOL problems and get back to work (or play) faster than ever Find, join, and enjoy the many online hobby, interest, professional, and gaming communities inside America Online Take AOL on the road with traveler-tested tips from a real road warrior
Excel 97 Programming for Windows for Dummies, 1st edition
Authors: John Walkenbach
Venue:  (1997)

:Looking for a fast, easy way to figure out how VBA works with Excel? If so, Excel 97 Programming For Windows For Dummies is your ticket. Acquaint yourself with macro programming and pick up lots of practical examples along the way. This entertaining book removes the mystery from VBA programming and offers dozens of useful tips and tricks to automate your Excel workbooks. Inside, find helpful advice on how to Discover how VBA works with Excel Uncover programming concepts Explore new techniques to automate common tasks that will save time and reduce errors Design custom dialog boxes by using Excel's dialog editing tools Customize Excel's toolbars and menus to meet your specific needs Create custom worksheet functions to add new power to worksheet formulas Design add-ins, access Windows API, and define custom data types Plus, John's Top Ten Lists for Excel programmers: Ten VBA tricks Ten VBA questions and answers Ten Excel resources on the Internet and elsewhere
Sams Teach Yourself Paint Shop Pro 5 in 24 Hours
Authors: T. Michael Clark
Venue:  (1998)

:In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you will be up and running with Paint Shop Pro 5. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds upon the previous one, allowing you to learn the essentials of Paint Shop Pro 5 from the ground up.
Visual Reference for Microsoft Excel 97
Authors: Karl Schwartz
Venue:  (1997)

:Written for Microsoft's latest spreadsheet application component of Office 97, this book's new features include an Office Assistant, Web toolbar, and graphic filters. It presents 100 features that every user must understand to perform the basic functions of Excel 97. Each function is presented graphically. Unique hardcover spiral allows the title to be displayed on the spine.
Identities for the associator in alternative algebras
Authors: Murray Bremner, Irvin Hentzel
Venue: Journal of Symbolic Computation (2002)

The associator is an alternating trilinear product for any alternative algebra. We study this trilinear product in three related algebras: the associator in a free alternative algebra, the associator in the Cayley algebra, and the ternary cross product on four-dimensional space. This last example is isomorphic to the ternary subalgebra of the Cayley algebra which is spanned by the non-quaternion basis elements. We determine the identities of degree 7 satisfied by these three ternary algebras. We discover two new identities in degree 7 satisfied by the associator in every alternative algebra and five new identities in degree 7 satisfied by the associator in the Cayley algebra. For the ternary cross product we recover the ternary derivation identity in degree 5 introduced by Filippov. Copyright 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd.
Computers and Technical Communication: Pedogoical and Programmatic Perspectives, 1st edition
Authors: Stuart A. Selber
Venue:  (1997)

:The essays collected in this volume address the full range of pedagogical and programmatic issues specifically facing technical communication teachers and program directors in the computer age. The authors locate computers and computing activities within the richly textured cultural contexts of a technological society, focusing on the technical communication instructional issues that remain most important as old versions of hardware and software are endlessly replaced by new ones.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cool Ways to Communicate Online with Cdrom
Authors: Preston Gralla
Venue:  (2000)

:The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cool Ways to Communicate Online is the only comprehensive guide to learning everything there is to know about the most popular use of the Internet. You will learn about email, Web cams, faxing and voice mail services, message boards, videoconferencing, and moreeven setting up your own personal email newsletters. This book explains it all, from learning about the hardware and software, to the proper etiquette and best ways to communicate, to finding the best places and ways to communicate with others.
MAP: an open multidatabase system architecture
Authors: Jari Veijalainen, Radu Popescu-Zeletin
Venue: Proceedings of the 3rd workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: Autonomy or interdependence in distributed systems? (1988)

In this position paper basic concepts for an open architecture of a world-wide financial multidatabase system are presented. The environment, international banking, is first discussed and the key concept, autonomy is refined. In this extremely autonomous environment traditional multidatabase concepts must be revised. An architecture based on a new nested transaction concept, called semantic transaction (s-transaction), is outlined. Basic properties of these transactions and the requirements for an architecture that supports them are described.
Microcomputer Industry in Brazil: The Case of a Protected High Technology Industry
Authors: Eduardo Luzio
Venue:  (1996)

:In 1977 Brazil initiated the "market reserve policy" to protect and reserve its domestic market for its own computer manufacturing companies. The basic assumptions on which its plans rested were fatally flawed, however, and the experiment failed to a large degree. This work investigates to what extent the policy, so carefully fashioned, fell short of its target and left Brazil with expensive and poorly made products. The author also evaluated the important and influential role of Brazil's bureaucracy and military. Scholars of economic development, industrial organization, economic history, and technology should find this well-documented work valuable. The ACM Portal is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Copyright © 2010 ACM, Inc. Terms of Usage Privacy Policy Code of Ethics Contact Us Useful downloads: Adobe Acrobat QuickTime Windows Media Player Real Player
Windows 95 Game SDK Strategy Guide: With Cdrom
Authors: Clayton Walnum
Venue:  (1995)

:This complete guide focuses on learning the techniques of game programming using Microsoft's new Windows 95 Game SDK. Readers will learn how the Game SDK libraries are implemented under both Windows 95 and Windows NT and will be able to produce their own stunning games in no time at all!Readers will be able to write hot Windows computer games, build 3D dungeon adventure games, and build a dungeon editor for creating game levelsCovers leading and displaying bitmaps, creating animation sequences, generating and playing sound effects, and moreCD-ROM contains all the source code, project files, executable files, and bitmaps for the programs presented in the book
Using simulation and critical points to define states in continuous search spaces
Authors: Marc S. Atkin, Paul R. Cohen
Venue: Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation (2000)

Many artificial intelligence techniques rely on the notion of a "state" as an abstraction of the actual state of the world, and an "operator" as an abstraction of the actions that take you from one state to the next. Much of the art of problem solving depends on choosing the appropriate set of states and operators. However, in realistic, and therefore dynamic and continuous search spaces, finding the right level of abstraction can be difficult. If too many states are chosen, the search space becomes intractable; if too few are chosen, important interactions between operators might be missed, making the search results meaningless. We present the idea of simulating operators using critical points as a way of dynamically defining state boundaries; new states are generated as part of the process of applying operators. Critical point simulation allows the use of standard search and planning techniques in continuous domains, as well as the incorporation of multiple agents, dynamic environments, and non-atomic variable length actions into the search algorithm. We conclude with examples of implemented systems that show how critical points are used in practice.
Windows Hothouse: Creating Artificial Life with Visual C++, 1st edition
Authors: Mark Clarkson
Venue:  (1993)

:Windows Hothouse teaches you how to use Microsoft's powerful Visual C++ programming environment to create a menagerie of animated organisms and a variety of synthetic environments. Windows Hothouse blends the cool science stuff - genetic algorithms, cellular automata, and neural networks - with a hands-on primer on Visual C++ and Windows programming.
Safeguarding Your Child Online
Authors: Larry Haas
Venue:  (2000)

:This book is a must-read for every parent, whether you own a personal computer or not. Your child may be vulnerable to online stranger contact, or unwittingly exposed to online pornography. He or she is unprotected just the same, in school, at the public library, or at home, wherever he or she signs on to one computer that "talks" to another. You, the parent, are in the best position to help protect your children from the perils online. Our government and private industry are pouring billions of dollars into building the Information Superhighway, better known by its street name, the Internet. It is the fastest growing social phenomenon in the country, indeed the world. As a parent, you should be aware that dark, seamy byways exist alongside the Information Superhighway. Men and women who prowl these seedy electronic back alleys around the globe, may prey on unsuspecting children, and produce and distribute pornography. The Internet is only one of many places where your child can access graphic pornographic material online without having to show proof of age. Not only that, but also he or she can do it from the comfort and privacy of his or her bedroom, often free of charge. Equally alarming is the number of cases where children online have been lured into face-to-face encounters with child molesters. These online pedophiles are reaching out to children on all manner of electronic networks. The ACM Portal is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Copyright © 2010 ACM, Inc. Terms of Usage Privacy Policy Code of Ethics Contact Us Useful downloads: Adobe Acrobat QuickTime Windows Media Player Real Player