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Generalized and geometric Ramsey numbers for cycles
Authors: Gyula Károlyia, Vera Rosta
Venue: Theoretical Computer Science (2001)

Let Cn denote the cycle of length n. The generalized Ramsey number of the pair (Cn , Ck) denoted by; R(Cn, Ck)is the smallest positive integer Rsuch that any complete graph with R vertices whose edges are coloured with two di/erent colours contains either a monochromatic cycle of length n in the 1rst colour or a monochromatic cycle of length k in the second colour. Generalized Ramsey numbers for cycles were completely determined by Faudree-Schelp and Rosta, based on earlier works of Bondy, Erd&ohuml;s and Gallai. Unfortunately, both proofs are quite involved and di9cult to follow. In the present paper we treat this problem in a uni1ed, self-contained and simpli1ed way. We also extend this study to a related geometric problem, where we colour the straight-line segments determined by a 1nite number of points in the plane. In this case, the monochromatic subgraphs are required to satisfy an additional (non-crossing) geometric condition.
Becoming a Teacher, 4th edition
Authors: Forrest W. Parkay
Venue:  (1999)

: Substantially revised, this book highlights 21st century teaching practices and issues to help readers discover what it takes to become professional teachers. Becoming a Teacher expands its emphasis on "mentoring" and contemporary trends and topics, giving greater coverage to technology and social issues. Case studies and discussions of teacher leadership encourage interactions with the concepts presented. The fifth edition of Becoming a Teacher provides the tools and information necessary to answer the questions "What does it take to become a professional teacher?" and "Do I want to teach?" For pre-service and in-service teachers.
The Penn State computing condominium scheduling system
Authors: Pawan Agnihotri, Vijay K. Agarwala, Jeffrey J. Nucciarone, Kevin M. Morooney, Chita Das
Venue: Proceedings of the 1998 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing (CDROM) (1998)

The Penn State RS/6000 SP is a uniquely acquired and operated computing facility. This 143 CPU machine, centrally located and jointly owned, is a result of collaboration between academic departments, research groups, and the central academic computing facility. It is the largest on-campus resource at Penn State for meeting the high performance computing needs.Due to the joint ownership structure of the machine, the job scheduling requirements are significantly different from the usual methods of job processor allocation in distributed memory parallel machines. After several years of adapting different queuing systems, primarily the Distributed Queuing System, to our needs, it became obvious that the conventional scheduling systems did not serve the machine scheduling requirements unique to the Penn State SP. We concluded that a robust and easily configurable system needs to be developed to meet our unique needs. We have drawn inspiration from and modeled our system on EASY. As with EASY, we use the application programming interface of LoadLeveler to implement our scheduler. Our scheduler is named Penn State Condominium Scheduler (PSCS). PSCS does policy implementation and job execution on the machine is done by LoadLeveler.PSCS is written to facilitate easier configuration and administration. It does not have any processor architecture dependence. It is similar to the native scheduler in LoadLeveler in this regard. PSCS has incorporated three unique features: (i) node owner affinity which ensures fairness by allocation based on ownership, (ii) backfilling which ensures efficient utilization of resources, and (iii) affinity for services provided which ensures proper matching of jobs to the processors based on memory, software and other requirements. Jobs from users who own nodes in the SP complex have affinity to those particular processors owned by them. They also have preferences granted to them depending on their ownership level. Once the demand from the node owners is met, the next important goal is to keep the machine as fully occupied with running jobs as possible. This is accomplished by backfilling. This scheduler incorporates these features which are most important to successful implementation of multi-owner, centrally located, heterogeneous computing facilities.
Rescued by Personal Computers, 1st edition
Authors: Kris Jamsa
Venue:  (1997)

:To complement our best-selling Rescued By Upgrading Your PC, Jamsa Press is pleases to present Rescued By Personal Computers, which introduces all aspects of computing. This book makes extensive use of full-color illustrations and an easy-to-read format that increases reader understanding and confidence while minimizing reader fears.Rescued by Personal Computers is the ideal book for users who have just purchased a new PC or notebook computer, as well as for the employee whose new job requires computer literacy. 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
The emerging power crisis in embedded processors: what can a poor compiler do?
Authors: L. N. Chakrapani, P. Korkmaz, V. J. Mooney,  III, K. V. Palem, K. Puttaswamy, W. F. Wong
Venue: Proceedings of the 2001 international conference on Compilers, architecture, and synthesis for embedded systems (2001)

It is widely acknowledged that even as VLSI technology advances, there is a looming crisis that is an important obstacle to the widespread deployment of mobile embedded devices, namely that of power. This problem can be tackled at many levels like devices, logic, operating systems, micro-architecture and compiler. While there have been various proposals for specific compiler optimizations for power, there has not been any attempt to systematically map out the space for possible improvements. In this paper, we quantitatively characterize the limits of what a compiler can do in optimizing for power using precise modeling of a state-of-the-art embedded processor in conjunction with a robust compiler. We provide insights to how compiler optimizations interact with the internal workings of a processor from the perspective of power consumption. The goal is to point out the promising and not so promising directions of work in this area, to guide the future compiler designer.
Toward automated exploration of interactive systems
Authors: Mark O. Riedl, Robert St. Amant
Venue: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces (2002)

The ease with which a user interface can be navigated strongly contributes to its usability. In this paper we describe preliminary results of a project aimed at making the evaluation of user interfaces from this perspective more routine. We have designed a system to carry out an autonomous, exploratory navigation through the graphical user interface of interactive, off-the-shelf software applications. The system is not a robust tool, but rather a proof of concept that can exhibit interesting behaviors. The traversal process generates a representation of the connectivity of the user interface, as well as navigational paths to specific commands. The reasoning component of the system is based on the ACT-R architecture, while the perceptual and motor components of the system are built on top of the SegMan perception/action substrate. We present the design of the system and its use in exploring a simple user interface.
PC Magazine Guide to Client - Server Databases
Authors: Joe Salemi
Venue:  (1992)

:Computer expert Joe Salemi shares the inside scoop on the emerging Client/Server database technology which is flooding the market. The comprehensive overview provides information on Client/Server systems on various platforms, a sampling of front-end products, an evaluation of present and future trends in database systems and technology.
Possible Worlds: The Social Dynamic of Virtual Reality Technology
Authors: Ralph Schroeder
Venue:  (1996)

:Virtual reality has rapidly become one of the most exciting new computer technologies - exercising a strong hold on the popular imagination, attracting hundreds of researchers, and spawning a booming industry. This study explores the social implications of VR technology. It traces the history of VR and then relates it to general issues in the study of the effects of new information and communication technologies. The book examines VR's relationship to advanced research and development, to education and the entertainment industries, and finally to cyberpunk and youth culture. It also challenges conventional ideas in the sociology of science and technology and develops a realist and Weberian approach to the social dynamic of new technologies. Possible Worlds is the first book to examine the social aspects of virtual reality and provides a comprehensive understanding of this complex technology.
Losing Control?: Sovereignty in an Age of Globalization, 1st edition
Authors: Saskia Sassen
Venue:  (1996)

:What determines the flow of labor and capital in this new global information economy? Who has the capacity to coordinate this new system, to create a measure of order? And what happens to territoriality and sovereignty, two fundamental principles of the modern state? Losing Control? is a major addition to our understanding of these questions. Examining the rise of private transnational legal codes and supranational institutions such as the World Trade Organization and universal human rights covenants, Saskia Sassen argues that sovereignty remains an important feature of the international system, but that it is no longer confined to the nation-state. Sassen argues that a profound transformation is taking place, a partial denationalizing of national territory seen in such agreements as NAFTA and the European Union. Two arenas stand out in the new spatial and economic order: the global capital market and the series of codes and institutions that have mushroomed into an international human rights regime. As Sassen shows, these two quasi-legal realms now have the power and legitimacy to demand accountability from national governments, with the ironic twist that both depend upon the state to enforce their goals. 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
Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating an HTML Web Page, 2nd edition
Authors: Paul McFedries
Venue:  (1997)

:The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating an HTML Web Page, Second Edition, is your ticket to the exciting world of Web publishing. In a light-hearted and comprehensive approach, you'll learn everything you need to know to get your first page on to Web, including all of the basics of adding text, images, and sounds, creating links, and more. You'll quickly overcome your intimidation and, before you know it, you'll be a full-fledged Web weaver!
Alternative Medicine Online: A Guide to Natural Remedies on the Internet
Authors: Ralph W. Moss
Venue:  (1997)

:The easy-to-use format directs you to the most useful, intriguing, and sometimes off-beat sites on-line. 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
The Eight New Rules of Real Estate: Doing Business in a Consumer-Centric, Techno-Savy World
Authors: John Tuccillo
Venue:  (1999)

:Real estate licensees are looking for new ways to profit in their business and this book shows them how. John Tuccillo directs the reader to eight business rules that will make the difference between success and failure for real estate professionals in the next decade.
PowerPoint for Windows 95 (Mastering), 2nd edition
Authors: Katherine Murray
Venue:  (1995)

:Prepare stunning presentations faster and more effectively than ever before with Mastering PowerPoint for Windows 95. This comprehensive, beginner-through-expert guide will help you create compelling presentations with PowerPoint, from text-based slide shows to masterful multimedia productions. Learn the basics in an evening. Explore essential PowerPoint features, from design selection to adding text and art, displaying different views, and running the slide show. You'll finish your first presentation in just minutes. Master PowerPoint's many tools. Learn to handle text formatting and enhancement tasks, create and import graphs, add clip art from PowerPoint or other programs - even design your own art. Turn your presentation into a multimedia event. With PowerPoint and your multimedia PC, you can incorporate background music, voice-overs, animation, and video clips to make your message come alive. Look like a pro every time. Find out what makes a presentation truly exceptional, from careful consideration of color schemes, to high-quality slide printing, effective audience handouts, and successful presentation techniques.
Self-stabilizing l-exclusion
Authors: Uri Abraham, Shlomi Dolev, Ted Herman, Irit Koll
Venue: Theoretical Computer Science (2001)

Our work presents a self-stabilizing solution to the l-exclusion problem. This problem is a well-known generalization of the mutual-exclusion problem in which up to l, but never more than l, processes are allowed simultaneously in their critical sections. Self-stabilization means that even when transient failures occur and some processes crash, the system finally resumes its regular and correct behavior. The model of communication assumed here is that of shared memory, in which processes use single-writer multiple-reader regular registers. Copyright 2001 Elsevier Science B.V.
Pareto-optimal formulations for cost versus colorimetric accuracy trade-offs in printer color management
Authors: D. J. Littlewood, P. A. Drakopoulos, G. Subbarayan
Venue: ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) (2002)

Color management for the printing of digital images is a challenging task, due primarily to nonlinear ink-mixing behavior and the presence of redundant solutions for print devices with more than three inks. Algorithms for the conversion of image data to printer-specific format are typically designed to achieve a single predetermined rendering intent, such as colorimetric accuracy. In the present paper we present two CIELAB to CMYK color conversion schemes based on a general Pareto-optimal formulation for printer color management. The schemes operate using a 149-color characterization data set selected to efficiently capture the entire CMYK gamut. The first scheme uses artificial neural networks as transfer functions between the CIELAB and CMYK spaces. The second scheme is based on a reformulation of tetrahedral interpolation as an optimization problem. Characterization data are divided into tetrahedra for the interpolation-based approach using the program Qhull, which removes the common restriction that characterization data be well organized. Both schemes offer user control over trade-off problems such as cost versus reproduction accuracy, allowing for user-specified print objectives and the use of constraints such as maximum allowable ink and maximum allowable &Delta;E&ast;ab. A formulation for minimization of ink is shown to be particularly favorable, integrating both clipping and gamut compression features into a single methodology. Codes developed as applications of these schemes were used to convert several CIELAB Tiff images to CMYK format, providing both qualitative and quantitative verification of the Pareto-optimal approach. Prints of the MacBeth ColorCheckertm chart were accurate within approximately to 3 &Delta;E&ast;ab for in-gamut colors. Modifications to this approach are presented that offer user control over grey component replacement and provide additional options for rendering intent.
Regression test selection for Java software
Authors: Mary Jean Harrold, James A. Jones, Tongyu Li, Donglin Liang, Alessandro Orso, Maikel Pennings, Saurabh Sinha, S. Alexander Spoon, Ashish Gujarathi
Venue: Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications (2001)

Regression testing is applied to modified software to provide confidence that the changed parts behave as intended and that the unchanged parts have not been adversely affected by the modifications. To reduce the cost of regression testing, test cases are selected from the test suite that was used to test the original version of the software---this process is called regression test selection. A safe regression-test-selection algorithm selects every test case in the test suite that may reveal a fault in the modified software. Safe regression-test-selection technique that, based on the use of a suitable representation, handles the features of the Java language. Unlike other safe regression test selection techniques, the presented technique also handles incomplete programs. The technique can thus be safely applied in the (very common) case of Java software that uses external libraries of components; the analysis of the external code is note required for the technique to select test cases for such software. The paper also describes RETEST, a regression-test-selection algorithm can be effective in reducing the size of the test suite.
Convert OPS: Nuclear Dawn Official Strategy Guide
Authors: Phillip Marcus
Venue:  (2000)

:BradyGames-Covert Ops: Nuclear Dawn Official Strategy Guide Features. Complete Walkthrough - provides the best path through the Blue Harvest, and highlights key areas that lead to story branches. Enemies, Allies and Armament profiles who is with you, who is against you, and what weapons and items are at your disposal. Game Secrets reveals hidden missions, how to access them, and MORE!
Cisco IP routing: packet forwarding and intra-domain routing protocols
Venue:  (2002)

As a networking professional, you will find this practical guide an invaluable resource for understanding routing technologies and configuring and troubleshooting Cisco routers, as well as for studying for the CCIE exam. Cisco IP Routing presents the most thorough information available on the inner workings of Cisco routers. Focusing on intra-domain dynamic routing protocols, the book provides an in-depth understanding of IP routing and forwarding technologies, and their implementation within Cisco routers. You will find essential background information on IP addressing, general routing and forwarding processes, and routing table maintenance. The book discusses static routing and details the specific mechanisms inside the dynamic routing protocols, covering both the distance vector and link-state routing protocols. Routing Information Protocol (RIP), Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), and Enhanced IGRP (EIGRP), Cisco's proprietary routing protocol, are covered in depth within the context of Cisco's implementation.
MCSE Exam Notes: Internet Information Server 4
Authors: Matthew Strebe
Venue:  (1998)

:Here's the book you need to review for Exam 70-087, Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0. Focused objective-by-objective coverage provides a quick and thorough review of all the information you need to know for this hot elective exam, together with challenging questions for testing and reinforcing your knowledge.
The Painter 4 Wow!: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for Fractal Painter 4, 2nd edition
Authors: Cher Threinen-Pendarvis
Venue:  (1996)

:Today's most exciting paint program is now profiled in a stunning full-color book. Fractal Design Painter 4 has garnered the highest honors from industry and users for its groundbreaking "natural media" capabilities. The Painter Wow! Book shows the breathtaking array of artistic possibilities available to artists, illustrators, graphic designers, and photographers for creating new fine art pieces or adding pizzaz to existing designs.
Lessons learned about one-way, dataflow constraints in the Garnet and Amulet graphical toolkits
Authors: Bradley T. Vander Zanden, Richard Halterman, Brad A. Myers, Rich McDaniel, Rob Miller, Pedro Szekely, Dario A. Giuse, David Kosbie
Venue: ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS) (2001)

One-way, dataflow constraints are commonly used in graphical interface toolkits, programming environments, and circuit applications. Previous papers on dataflow constraints have focused on the design and implementation of individual algorithms. In contrast, this article focuses on the lessons we have learned from a decade of implementing competing algorithms in the Garnet and Amulet graphical interface toolkits. These lessons reveal the design and implementation tradeoffs for different one-way, constraint satisfaction algorithms. The most important lessons we have learned are that (1) mark-sweep algorithms are more efficient than topological ordering algorithms; (2) lazy and eager evaluators deliver roughly comparable performance for most applications; and (3) constraint satisfaction algorithms have more than adequate speed, except that the storage required by these algorithms can be problematic.
Database programming with Visual Basic.NET
Authors: Carsten Thomsen
Venue:  (2001)

Although Database Programming with VisualBasic.NET can be used as a reference book - thanks to its many listings and tables, it's really intended to be a book that any serious VB programmer who needs to do database programming should read cover-to-cover.
A commentary on Frank Halasz's "Reflections on NoteCards: Seven Issues for the Next Generation of Hypertext Systems"
Authors: Elli Mylonas
Venue: ACM Journal of Computer Documentation (JCD) (2001)

Although hypertext research and development didn't continue exactly in the directions that Frank Halasz predicted in 1988 and 1991, much of his analysis and agenda is still valid. The most interesting development is the shift away from hypertext systems as applications software to either embedded functionality or information structuring. The focus on standards and protocols has led to progress on Halasz's issues and has made hypertext almost universal. On the other hand, the ubiquity of hypertext on the Web is a force that works against some of Halasz's agenda. It is difficult to tailor or extend a hypertext because the task requires knowledge of the tools, the information structures, and the content.
Diffusing information in organizational settings: learning from experience
Authors: Dave Snowdon, Antonietta Grasso
Venue: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: Changing our world, changing ourselves (2002)

Recommender systems selectively circulate information enriched with comments and feedback based on people's experience. These systems filter information in a semi-automatic and high-quality way in order to support a community during their work or leisure practices. However recommender systems are usually separate tools that require a degree of effort to be used, both when receiving information and to insert new feedback. In this paper we present our informal experiences with the use of multiple user interfaces (interactive large screen, email, paper and PDA) as means to improve the diffusion of information through an organizational unit and to improve access to information stored within an existing recommender system