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The Language Complexity Game
Authors: Eric Sven Ristad
Venue:  (1994)

: "How can language be both complex and subtle, yet simple and effortless? Eric Ristad's book tackles this deepest of questions with all the power and precision of modern computer science, coming up with the best analysis of human language complexity since Chomsky's famous demonstrations that natural languages cannot be described via simple linear patterns." -- Robert C. Berwick, MIT "Eric Ristad's carefully reasoned and penetrating study brings together the theories of language structure and computational complexity in a most productive way, providing much new insight into the nature and use of language." -- Noam Chomsky, MIT This monograph establishes a conceptually coherent and technically sound framework for the computational study of human language. The fundamental method of this framework is an adversarial game between two players, the first of whom attempts to establish that language is more complex than previously thought, and the second who tries to establish that language is less complex than previously thought. The expected outcome of such a language complexity game is a precise computational theory of language, that is empirically correct in all computationally significant respects. Ristad exemplifies this powerful framework with a far-ranging and detailed investigation of language computations related to anaphora. Artificial Intelligence series
High Performance Algorithms and Software in Nonlinear Optimization
Authors: Renato De Leone, Panos M. Pardalos, Gerardo Toraldo
Venue:  (1999)

:This book contains a selection of papers presented at the conference on High Performance Software for Nonlinear Optimization (HPSNO97) which was held in Ischia, Italy, in June 1997. The book provides an overview of the nonlinear optimization field including algorithms, software evaluation, implementation issues, applications, and areas of research through authoritative papers by some of the most active and well-known researchers in the field. The papers of the Proceedings can be recommended to mathematicians, physicists, and engineers working in the field mentioned above, as well as recommended further reading within graduate studies.
Building Dynamic HTML GUIs, 1st edition
Authors: Steven Champeon, David S. Fox
Venue:  (1999)

:Leverage the convergence of ubiquitous, HTML-based Web applications with the advanced features of HTML 4.0, including Dynamic HTML, client-side scripting languages, Cascading Style Sheets, and the Document Object Model. The book shows how to provide user-friendly, efficient, well-designed user interfaces for the next generation of Web-based applications.
Macromedia Studio Illustrated Director 8: Shockwave Complete
Authors: Steven Johnson
Venue:  (2000)

:As part of the Illustrated Series, this text offers a quick, visual, and step-by-step approach for learning this software authoring tool. Macromedia Director incorporates sound and moving images to create Web sites, CD-ROMs, and other multimedia applications. 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
PalmPilot: The Ultimate Guide, 2nd edition
Authors: David Pogue
Venue:  (1999)

:Dense with undocumented information, this bible for PalmPilot users contains hundreds of timesaving tips and surprising tricks, plus a CD-ROM containing over 900 PalmPilot programs that runs on Windows 9x, NT, and the Macintosh. The book covers the PalmPilot, PalmPilot Professional, and the new software and features of the 1998 PalmPilot model, the Palm III, as well as OEM models such as the IBM WorkPad.
High-quality unstructured volume rendering on the PC platform
Authors: Stefan Guthe, Stefan Roettger, Andreas Schieber, Wolfgang Strasser, Thomas Ertl
Venue: Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS conference on Graphics hardware (2002)

For the visualization of volume data the application of transfer functions is used widely. In this area the pre-integration technique allows high quality visualizations and the application of arbitrary transfer functions. For regular grids, this approach leads to a two-dimensional pre-integration table which easily fits into texture memory. In contrast to this, unstructured meshes require a three-dimensional pre-integration table. As a consequence the available texture memory limits the resolution of the pre-integration table and the maximum local derivative of the transfer function. Discontinuity artifacts arise if the resolution of the pre-integration table is too low. This paper presents a novel approach for accurate rendering of unstructured grids using the multi-texturing capabilities of commodity PC graphics hardware. Our approach achieves high quality by reconstructing the colors and opacities of the pre-integration table using the high internal precision of the pixel shader. Since we are using standard 2D multi-texturing we are not limited in the size of the pre-integration table. By combining this approach with a hardware-accelerated calculation of the pre-integration table, we achieve both high quality visualizations and interactive classification updates.
Visual Basic 6 Object-Oriented Programming: Gold Book
Authors: Ramesh Chandak, Steve Alvarez, Purshottam Chandak
Venue:  (1998)

:Offers an in-depth explanation of object-oriented programming (OOP), public interface design and Visual Basic OOP code construction. Details how to encapsulate and reuse special Visual Basic objects, such as ActiveX controls. Demonstrates how to add a class library without changing the public interface. Addresses the paradigm shift from inheritance-based to component-based methodologies. Covers important tips and tricks that will improve productivity. Revision of the wildly popular Visual Basic 5 Object-Oriented Programming, which sold more than 15,000 copies. Beats the competition with an extensive updated class library of reusable objects and a broad applicability to Windows programming environments. Satisfies even the most discerning Visual Basic programmer with exhaustive examples, as well as ActiveX DLL, EXE class library, and Help files. Includes example code for each reusable member of the class library Contains the EFS.HLP file documenting the book's class library Contains all ActiveX add-ins, controls and documents Includes a Rich Text Editor application
The Internet Age of Competitive Intelligence
Authors: John J. McGonagle, Carolyn M. Vella
Venue:  (1999)

:Combining a scholarly approach with hands-on advice, McGonagle and Vella, have written the first work to guide CI professionals through the emerging literature of their field. Their book explores the major body of work from the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals, now that more businesses worldwide are using CI and either writing about their experiences with it, or joining in new benchmarking studies. The result is the latest information on what really works, what doesn't work, and who is doing what with it. The book is thus a starting point for people new to the field of CI as well as a resource to help experienced professionals do their jobs better.
Stable Finite Element Box Methods for Hyperbolic Equations
Authors: Gerard R. Richter
Venue: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (2001)

We formulate and analyze a discontinuous finite element method for hyperbolic equations in R2, applicable over a rectangular mesh, and show that the method can be extended to RN, N>2, in a stable manner. An optimal O(hn+1) error estimate is derived for nth degree approximation over a mesh of size h. The R2 method is closely related to a continuous tensor product finite element method of Winther [Math. Comp., 36 (1981), pp. 65--86] which, though stable in two dimensions, allows polynomially growing instabilities when extended to higher dimension. The methods under consideration can be viewed as finite element generalizations of a box scheme of Wendroff [J. Soc. Indust. Appl. Math., 8 (1960), pp. 549--555].
Web Design Studio Secrets with Cdrom, 2nd edition
Authors: Deke McClelland, Terri Stone, Katrin Eismann
Venue:  (2000)

:Fourteen of today's most prominent Web designers share with Photoshop guru Deke McClelland and Katrin Eismann some of the most effective ideas and techniques they use to develop their work - from basic type and color principles to site management tricks to the latest Web design capabilities offered by JavaScript, Dynamic HTML, VRML, Flash, and other tools.
FORTRAN 95 Handbook, 1st edition
Authors: Jeanne C. Adams, Brian T. Smith, Jeanne T. Martin, Walter S. Brainerd, Jerrold L. Wagener
Venue:  (1997)

:The Fortran 95 Handbook, a comprehensive reference work for the Fortran Programmer and Implementor, contains a complete description of the Fortran 95 programming language. The chapters follow the same sequence of topics as the Fortran 95 standard, but contain a more thorough and informal explanation of the language's features and many more examples. Appendices describe all the intrinsic features, the deprecated features, and the complete syntax of the language. In addition to an unusually thorough topical index, there is an index of examples. Major new features added in Fortran 95 are the FORALL statement and construct, pure and elemental procedures, and structure and pointer default initialization.
Dual-Bounded Generating Problems: Partial and Multiple Transversals of a Hypergraph
Authors: Endre Boros, Vladimir Gurvich, Leonid Khachiyan
Venue: SIAM Journal on Computing (2001)

We consider two generalizations of the notion of transversal to a finite hypergraph, the so-called multiple and partial transversals. Multiple transversals naturally arise in 0-1 programming, while partial transversals are related to data mining and machine learning. We show that for an arbitrary hypergraph the families of multiple and partial transversals are both dual-bounded in the sense that the size of the corresponding dual hypergraph is bounded by a polynomial in the cardinality and the length of description of the input hypergraph. Our bounds are based on new inequalities of extremal set theory and threshold Boolean logic, which may be of independent interest. We also show that the problems of generating all multiple and all partial transversals for a given hypergraph are polynomial-time reducible to the generation of all ordinary transversals for another hypergraph, i.e., to the well-known dualization problem for hypergraphs. As a corollary, we obtain incremental quasi-polynomial-time algorithms for both of the above problems, as well as for the generation of all the minimal binary solutions for an arbitrary monotone system of linear inequalities.
Critical Control Systems: Theory, Design, and Applications
Authors: J. F. Whidborne, G. P. Lui, G. P. Liu
Venue:  (1993)

:Describes the analysis and design regarding various classes of critical control systems including continuous time, discrete time and sampled-data systems. Numerous examples and detailed case studies demonstrate how the theory can be applied to practical control system design. Also features several useful numerical algorithms.
Macworld MAC Secrets, 5th edition
Authors: David Pogue, Joseph Schorr
Venue:  (1998)

:Completely revised and updated, this new edition of the international Macintosh bestseller brings you authoritative, thorough coverage of Mac OS 8.5, the red-hot IMac, USB, G3 Macs and PowerBooks, Office 98, and the Internet explosion. Overhauled and fatter than ever, this new edition packs over 650 new tips, productivity pointers, and troubleshooting techniques. Complete with a CD-ROM crammed with over 500MB of software and shareware, Macworld Mac Secrets, 5th Edition, will keep you - and your Macsmiling!
The Practical Performance Analyst
Authors: Neil J. Gunther
Venue:  (2000)

:The Practical Performance Analyst teaches rapid application of performance predication for informed decisions.
MCSE Core+2 Certification Exam Guide 6-in-1 with Cdrom
Authors: Emmett Dulaney, Jeff Durham
Venue:  (2000)

:MCSE Core+1 Certification Exam Guide is a strictly exam-related tutorial that helps you fully understand the topic. This book facilitates memorizationthe most important aspect of exam preparationthrough repetition, summary and practice. The Quick Study bonus booklet aids retention before, during and after each chapter is read. Chapter summaries reiterate important points and help you draw conclusions about what you have learned. A self-assessment test/answer key helps you gauge your learning progress and helps you review. This book also provides additional information, such as addresses for on-line help and supplemental sample tests, testing locations, test-taking tips and strategies, and emotional preparation.
Object Lessons: Lessons in Object-Oriented Development Projects
Authors: Tom Love
Venue:  (1993)

:Object Lessons was written to encourage software professionals to build higher quality, yet innovative software products with less risk by avoiding mistakes that plague the industry. The volume focuses on building commercial software products and addresses fundamental issues and trends as opposed to specific products and services. Bringing to the reader over a decade of the author's depth of experience and wisdom in regard to building commercial software products using objects, the volume addresses many questions that technical leaders and managers face as they venture into this important new area of modern software development. The edition supplies valuable insight into the development and management of large-scale commercial software and will prove to be a desirable reference guide for software managers, analysts, designers, implementors, applications programmers, project leaders, and technical managers in the field of object-oriented software engineering.
Semidefinite Programs: New Search Directions, Smoothing-Type Methods, and Numerical Results
Authors: Christian Kanzow, Christian Nagel
Venue: SIAM Journal on Optimization (2002)

Motivated by some results for linear programs and complementarity problems, this paper gives some new characterizations of the central path conditions for semidefinite programs. Exploiting these characterizations, some smoothing-type methods for the solution of semidefinite programs are derived. The search directions generated by these methods are automatically symmetric, and the overall methods are shown to be globally and locally superlinearly convergent under suitable assumptions. Some numerical results are also included which indicate that the proposed methods are very promising and comparable to several interior-point methods. Moreover, the current method seems to be superior to the smoothing method recently proposed by Chen and Tseng [Non-interior continuation methods for solving semidefinite complementarity problems, {Technical report}, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, 1999].
Pro Pilot 99
Authors: Prima Publishing, Douglas Kiang
Venue:  (1998)

:DonÆt take to the air without reading this guide! With informative breakdowns of flight instruments, guidance for a safe landing every time, and must-know emergency survival procedures, Pro Pilot 99: PrimaÆs Official Strategy Guide will be your Pro Pilot co-pilot.
Human factors influencing the command, control and communication functions of a timesharing system
Authors: Jon A. Stewart
Venue: Proceedings of the 4th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference on User services (1976)

The intent of this paper is to explore various human factors which influence the design of a timesharing system and its processors; to examine characteristics of existing systems; and, to propose solutions which more nearly suit the requirements of the timesharing user. Most illustrations will be drawn from extensive personal use and observations of users of two particular systems --- the XEROX CP-V system on a Sigma 9 and TOPS10 on the DECSystem-10. Both these systems are characterized by extremely flexible command capabilities, almost if not complete compatibility with their batch facilities and very crisp response (for both the CPU resource and file system functions) when under proper administrative controls. 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
Advantage Series: Microsoft Access 2000 Introductory Edition, 1st edition
Authors: Sarah Hutchinson-Clifford, Glen Coulthard
Venue:  (1999)

:The Advantage Series presents the Why,What and How of computer application skills to today's students. Each lab in this series is built upon an efficient learning model,which provides students and faculty with complete coverage and enhances critical thinking skills.
A Data-Bounded Quadratic Interpolant on Triangles and Tetrahedra
Authors: Martin Berzins
Venue: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (2000)

Many real-world problems are successfully modeled by partial differential equations. Many numerical solvers for these problems use triangular and tetrahedral meshes to accurately model complex geometries. Such problems often involve shocks and discontinuities, and it is important to devise interpolation methods that can accurately approximate solutions containing such features. These interpolants are required for the postprocessing of the solution, e.g., for visualization and to recover solution values at arbitrary points over the numerical domain. This paper describes a triangle-based quadratic interpolant that is "data-bounded" and so will not create any values outside of the range of the existing data points. The method is compared with the standard quadratic interpolant and extended to the case of quadratic tetrahedral elements.
A system for graph clustering based on user hints
Authors: Hugo A. D. do Nascimento, Peter Eades
Venue: Selected papers from the Pan-Sydney workshop on Visualisation - Volume 2 (2000)

This paper presents a system for graph clustering where users can visualize the clustering and give "hints" that help a computing method to find better solutions. Hints include a variety of constraints, as well as direct manipulation of the previously computed clustering. The framework is flexible: it can accommodate several kinds of hints, clustering algorithms, and visualization techniques
Integration of Fenchel Subdifferentials of Epi-Pointed Functions
Authors: Joël Benoist, Aris Daniilidis
Venue: SIAM Journal on Optimization (2002)

It is shown that in finite dimensions Rockafellar's technique of integrating cyclically monotone operators, applied to the Fenchel subdifferential of an epi-pointed function, yields the closed convex hull of that function.
Teach Yourself Microsoft FrontPage 2000, 1st edition
Authors: David L. Crowder, Rhonda Crowder
Venue:  (1999)

:Create your own dynamic Web page without programming skills; easily integrate files from other Office 2000 programs into your Web page; maintain a consistent look on your pages with custom themes and style sheets; add useful elements, including hit counters, search functions, and hover buttons; and test your Web pages for reliable operation.
Managing and querying multi-version XML data with update logging
Authors: Raymond K. Wong, Nicole Lam
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Document engineering (2002)

With the increasing popularity of storing content on the WWW and intranet in XML form, there arises the need for the control and management of this data. As this data is constantly evolving, users want to be able to query previous versions, query changes in documents, as well as to retrieve a particular document version efficiently. This paper proposes a version management system for XML data that can manage and query changes in an effective and meaningful manner.
The Business Case for Web-Based Training, 1st edition
Authors: Tammy Whalen, David Wright, Bell Nexxia
Venue:  (2000)

:Web-based learning in academia and private industry  for both in-house training and as product offered to customers  is a rapidly expanding segment of the IT arena. This book gives you the business knowledge and tools you need to decide if web-based training can be a viable and profitable enterprise for your organization. This new book helps you achieve effective implementation of web-based learning by examining the required infrastructures, management tactics, business ramifications, and economic considerations you need to be aware of. It evaluates web-based learning as the emerging vehicle of distance learning, and it also addresses cost-benefit issues of implementing a web-based learning solution, how to market web-based learning, and the business process reengineering associated with web-based learning implementation.
An intelligent zone-based delivery scheduling approach
Authors: H. Wang, D. Xue
Venue: Computers in Industry (2002)

This paper introduces a zone-based delivery scheduling approach developed using artificial intelligence techniques. In this approach, delivery scheduling is conducted at three different levels: (1) classification of past delivery demand patterns and prediction of future delivery demand using a multi-level pattern clustering and matching method, (2) creation of delivery zones, including their center locations, delivery frequencies, and delivery cost rates, for each of these delivery demand patterns, and (3) identification of the optimal delivery methods, sequence, and timing parameters of delivery tasks. The system was implemented using Smalltalk, an object oriented programming language.
FoxPro 2.5 Programmer's Reference
Authors: John L. Hawkins, B. House, T. Granor
Venue:  (1993)

:The comprehensive encyclopedia for advanced users who want to develop powerful, effective database programs!Arranged by topic with explanations of every FoxPro commandCovers tools, programming data manipulation, database operations, printing, and moreNumerous examples show the best way to use each command and function
Synthesis of complex dynamic character motion from simple animations
Authors: C. Karen Liu, Zoran Popović
Venue: Proceedings of the 29th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques (2002)

In this paper we present a general method for rapid prototyping of realistic character motion. We solve for the natural motion from a simple animation provided by the animator. Our framework can be used to produce relatively complex realistic motion with little user effort.We describe a novel constraint detection method that automatically determines different constraints on the character by analyzing the input motion. We show that realistic motion can be achieved by enforcing a small set of linear and angular momentum constraints. This simplified approach helps us avoid the complexities of computing muscle forces. Simpler dynamic constraints also allow us to generate animations of models with greater complexity, performing more intricate motions. Finally, we show that by learning a small set of key parameters that describe a character pose we can help a non-skilled animator rapidly create realistic character motion.
Wireless Infrared Communications
Authors: John R. Barry
Venue:  (1994)

:Wireless Infrared Communications provides the first comprehensive description of the technical challenges inherent in wireless communications using diffuse infrared radiation. The potential for broadband data rates has sparked an explosion of recent research in wireless infrared communications. The focus is on the physical layer problem of establishing a robust point-to-point link. The author explores the fundamental limitations of the medium, identifies the dominant impediments to achieving high data rates, and proposes design strategies to counter them. Wireless Infrared Communications introduces the reader to a wide range of topics, including optical design, multipath propagation, electronics design, modulation, and equalization. Wireless Infrared Communications serves as a valuable reference to both design engineers and communications theorists, and can also be used as a text for advanced courses on the subject.