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Advantage Series: Microsoft Word 2000 Complete Edition, 1st edition
Authors: Sarah Hutchinson-Clifford, Glen Coulthard
Venue:  (2000)

: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. This text contains intro level content plus 5 to 6 additional chapters of advanced level content.
Neural methods for dynamic branch prediction
Authors: Daniel A. Jiménez, Calvin Lin
Venue: ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS) (2002)

This article presents a new and highly accurate method for branch prediction. The key idea is to use one of the simplest possible neural methods, the perceptron, as an alternative to the commonly used two-bit counters. The source of our predictor's accuracy is its ability to use long history lengths, because the hardware resources for our method scale linearly, rather than exponentially, with the history length. We describe two versions of perceptron predictors, and we evaluate these predictors with respect to five well-known predictors. We show that for a 4 KB hardware budget, a simple version of our method that uses a global history achieves a misprediction rate of 4.6&percnt; on the SPEC 2000 integer benchmarks, an improvement of 26&percnt; over gshare. We also introduce a global/local version of our predictor that is 14&percnt; more accurate than the McFarling-style hybrid predictor of the Alpha 21264. We show that for hardware budgets of up to 256 KB, this global/local perceptron predictor is more accurate than Evers' multicomponent predictor, so we conclude that ours is the most accurate dynamic predictor currently available. To explore the feasibility of our ideas, we provide a circuit-level design of the perceptron predictor and describe techniques that allow our complex predictor to operate quickly. Finally, we show how the relatively complex perceptron predictor can be used in modern CPUs by having it override a simpler, quicker Smith predictor, providing IPC improvements of 15.8&percnt; over gshare and 5.7&percnt; over the McFarling hybrid predictor.
XSL Essentials
Authors: Michael Fitzgerald
Venue:  (2001)

:Part of XML's popularity and power is in its ability to add flexibility to structured documents and data. The World Wide Web Consortium's Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) is a language that provides a way to transform and format XML documents. With the help of detailed XML source and stylesheet examples, author Michael Fitzgerald shows you how to transform XML documents using XSL Transformations (XSLT). He then explains how to use XSL Formatting Objects (XSLFO) to format XML documents and apply specific properties. Along the way, you'll also learn how to take advantage of other features of XSL including XML Path Language (XPath), numbering and sorting lists, conditional processing, multiple stylesheets, and much more.
Exploring the Internet with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0, 1st edition
Authors: Robert T. Grauer, Gretchen Marx, Margaret Marx
Venue:  (1998)

:This book is written at a level that assumes no prior knowledge or experience with the Internet. Concepts are presented in non-technical terms with step-by-step instructions so that students will find the book informative and easy to understand. Provides hands-on experience in addition to the rationale behind what is being done and why. Includes coverage of the newest topics, including push technology, Active X, multimedia, and cyber commerce. Offers extensive coverage of HTML with an emphasis on creating your own home page. Supported by website. Useful for anyone utilizing Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 to access the World Wide Web and/ or is looking to design home pages. Professionals, individuals with personal computers, students will find this a user-friendly source of information.
Integrating a simulation case study into CS2: developing design, empirical and analysis skills
Authors: Kay A. Robbins, Catherine Sauls Key, Keith Dickinson
Venue: ACM SIGCSE Bulletin (2002)

Case studies are widely used in business and medicine to help students learn from the successes and failures of practitioners in the field. This paper discusses the potential benefits of case studies in computer science and how case studies differ from projects. We describe our preliminary experience with developing a network simulation case study for an object-oriented CS2 course and present some of ideas for teaching such a case study through close coupling of lectures with laboratories. The teaching materials for this case study are available on the web.
Perceptron, Winnow, and PAC Learning
Authors: Rocco A. Servedio
Venue: SIAM Journal on Computing (2002)

We analyze the performance of the widely studied Perceptron and Winnow algorithms for learning linear threshold functions under Valiant's probably approximately correct (PAC) model of concept learning. We show that under the uniform distribution on boolean examples, the Perceptron algorithm can efficiently PAC learn nested functions (a class of linear threshold functions known to be hard for Perceptron under arbitrary distributions) but cannot efficiently PAC learn arbitrary linear threshold functions. We also prove that Littlestone's Winnow algorithm is not an efficient PAC learning algorithm for the class of positive linear threshold functions, thus answering an open question posed by Schmitt [ Neural Comput., 10 (1998), pp. 235--250]. Based on our results we conjecture that no "local" algorithm can learn linear threshold functions efficiently.
Powerful Page Design: Top Designers Layout their Concepts to Reveal their Insprations
Authors: Lisa Buchanan
Venue:  (2001)

:Great designs work on two levels. First, they draw attention to themselves. Second, (and this is the tricky part), they reveal layers of meaning to communicate moods, ideas or emotions. Powerful Page Design shows you how to convey multi-dimensional messages in your own work, complete with eye-opening examples, in-depth commentaries and insights into the effective use of concept, type, image and layout. It's all the information you need to create brochures, books, magazines, flyers and CD packages that reveal more than just a pretty picture. You'll learn how to elicit exactly the reactions you want -- immediate evidence of just how powerful your designs can be.
MCSE TestPrep: Networking Essentials, 1st edition
Authors: Michael W. Barry, David Yarashus, Mark D. Hall, Joe Casad, Robert J. Cooper, Howard Hilliker, Ron Milione
Venue:  (1997)

:The MCSE TestPrep series is a unique way of preparing for MCSE exams. The book is divided into seven chapters. Each chapter covers a different exam objective. Each objective is further broken down into manageable sections. The information will be presented in a brief, outline format and will include an abundance of tables, figures, screen shots, and lists. Following each section will be a series of review questions, exercises, and answer explanations. Two complete practice exams and a glossary will be located at the end of the book.Includes only the ESSENTIAL information needed organized like the successful Test Prep tools created by ARCO.PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE rather than read pages of text everything written in concise chunks.Learn insider tips and notes from a distinguished team of MCSEs and Microsoft Certified Trainers.
Artificial Intelligence: A Guide to Intelligent Systems, 1st edition
Authors: Michael Negnevitsky
Venue:  (2001)

:Virtually all the literature on artificial intelligence is expressed in the jargon of commuter science, crowded with complex matrix algebra and differential equations. Unlike many other books on computer intelligence, this one demonstrates that most ideas behind intelligent systems are simple and straightforward. The book has evolved from lectures given to students with little knowledge of calculus, and the reader needs no prerequisites associated with knowledge of any programming language. The methods used in the book have been extensively tested through several courses given by the author. The book provides an introduction to the field of computer intelligence, covering rule-based expert systems, fuzzy expert systems, frame-based expert systems, artificail neural networks, evolutionary computation, hybrid intelligent systems, knowledge engineering, data mining. In a university setting the book can be used as an introductory course within computer science, information systems or engineering departments. The book is also suitable as a self-study guide for non-computer science professionals, giving access to the state of the art in knowledge-based systems and computational intelligence. Everyone who faces challenging problems and cannot solve them using traditional approaches can benefit
On distribution-free tests for the multivariate two-sample location-scale model
Authors: Valentin Rousson
Venue: Journal of Multivariate Analysis (2002)

In this paper, we propose simple exact procedures for testing both a location shift and/or a scale change between two multivariate distributions. Our tests are strictly distribution-free and can be made either scale invariant or rotation invariant. Our approach combines a generalization of the Wilcoxon test based on projections of the data onto the first principal component, a generalization of the Siegel-Tukey test based on the concept of data depth, and a bivariate test for the location problem proposed by K. V. Mardia (1967, J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. B 29, 320-342). In addition, we show that the limiting null distribution of a test statistic proposed by R.Y. Liu and K. Singh (1993, J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 88, 252-260) does not depend on the depth considered.
Cyberpolitics: Citizen Activism in the Age of the Internet
Authors: Kevin A. Hill, John E. Hughes
Venue:  (1998)

:Is the Internet poised to replace television as the central means of political communication? Will the advent of computer communication create a new era of citizen activism? Will the Internet ultimately lend itself more to political accountability and access or to exclusion and extremism? Is cyberspace truly the domain of the ideological right? In answering these questions, "Cyberpolitics" goes beyond the hype to analyze the content of political discussion on the Internet and to see how the Internet is being used politically. Empirical research translated into dozens of graphically compelling figures and tables illuminates for the first time Internet characteristics heretofore only speculated about: Who are the "cybercitizens" using the Internet, how do they participate in the political process, and who uses the Internet most effectively to accomplish political ends? The bottom line the authors reach should be reassuring to Internet utopians and dystopians alike: As the Internet grows, it will change the nature of political action, discourse, and effect less than it will itself be changed by politics. Along the way, we learn a lot about politics on the Internet and off-in the U.S. and around the world; left, right, and center.Author Biography: Kevin A. Hill is assistant professor of political science at Florida International University. John E. Hughes is assistant professor of political science at Monmouth University.
Worldwide Intelligent Systems: Approaches to Telecommunications and Network Management, 1st edition
Authors: David S. Prerau, Janet Liebowitz
Venue:  (1994)

:Telecommunications firms worldwide are actively involved in AI applications for resolving network management and telecommunications problems. This book adresses the folllowing major functional areas: planning, scheduling, monitoring, control, fault classification and diagnosis, training and help desks. Recent and emerging AI techniques are applied, including neural networks, expert systems, integrating rule-based systems with case-based reasoning systems, genetic algorithms, distribited AI and intelligent tutoring systems. Readers: researchers and professionals in telecommunication, AI experts and graduate students.
Approximate XML joins
Authors: Sudipto Guha, H. V. Jagadish, Nick Koudas, Divesh Srivastava, Ting Yu
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data (2002)

XML is widely recognized as the data interchange standard for tomorrow, because of its ability to represent data from a wide variety sources. Hence, XML is likely to be the format through which data from multiple sources is integrated.In this paper we study the problem of integrating XML data sources through correlations realized as join operations. A challenging aspect of this operation is the XML document structure. Two documents might convey approximately or exactly the same information but may be quite different in structure. Consequently approximate match in structure, in addition to, content has to be folded in the join operation. We quantify approximate match in structure and content using well defined notions of distance. For structure, we propose computationally inexpensive lower and upper bounds for the tree edit distance metric between two trees. We then show how the tree edit distance, and other metrics that quantify distance between trees, can be incorporated in a join framework. We introduce the notion of reference sets to facilitate this operation. Intuitively, a reference set consists of data elements used to project the data space. We characterize what constitutes a good choice of a reference set and we propose sampling based algorithms to identify them. This gives rise to a variety of algorithmic approaches for the problem, which we formulate and analyze. We demonstrate the practical utility of our solutions using large collections of real and synthetic XML data sets.
Using MS Excel 97 (Special Edition), 2nd edition
Authors: Bruce A. Hallberg, Sherry Kinkoph, Bill Ray
Venue:  (1997)

:This new book edition will go beyond the current version to reach a rapidly growing audience offering the latest comprehensive reference to Microsoft Excel 97. The mission of this book is to offer quick solutions with up-to-date content. New approaches to deliver this material include: Real world solutions and techniques from the pros to increase productivity Index and table of content enhancements i.e. separate tip and toolbar indexes Electronic index online download to hard drive and search offline i.e. want to know to use a pivot table search for pivot tables; index will provide summary and reference pages in book Lycos web mini-directory content as part of value-added commitment Bottomless Book promise of additional content delivered/available every month (until next edition pubs) Added value templates/wizards for placement on the Online Resource Center Vertical content (electronic) for placement on the Online Resource CenterMicrosoft Excel is the #1 selling Windows spreadsheet with a user base of over 30 million (Microsoft Web Site, April 20, 1997)Sales of Microsoft Office 97 application licenses are selling at three times the rate of any previous version of Office for a comparable time period (Microsoft Press Release, April 17, 1997)This sales trend is expected to continue, if not increase, for the duration of 1997 (Wall Street Journal, Friday, April 18, 1997, pp. A3)
Least squares conformal maps for automatic texture atlas generation
Authors: Bruno Lévy, Sylvain Petitjean, Nicolas Ray, Jérome Maillot
Venue: ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) (2002)

A Texture Atlas is an efficient color representation for 3D Paint Systems. The model to be textured is decomposed into charts homeomorphic to discs, each chart is parameterized, and the unfolded charts are packed in texture space. Existing texture atlas methods for triangulated surfaces suffer from several limitations, requiring them to generate a large number of small charts with simple borders. The discontinuities between the charts cause artifacts, and make it difficult to paint large areas with regular patterns.In this paper, our main contribution is a new quasi-conformal parameterization method, based on a least-squares approximation of the Cauchy-Riemann equations. The so-defined objective function minimizes angle deformations, and we prove the following properties: the minimum is unique, independent of a similarity in texture space, independent of the resolution of the mesh and cannot generate triangle flips. The function is numerically well behaved and can therefore be very efficiently minimized. Our approach is robust, and can parameterize large charts with complex borders.We also introduce segmentation methods to decompose the model into charts with natural shapes, and a new packing algorithm to gather them in texture space. We demonstrate our approach applied to paint both scanned and modeled data sets.
Publish/subscribe scheme for mobile networks
Authors: Emmanuelle Anceaume, Ajoy K. Datta, Maria Gradinariu, Gwendal Simon
Venue: Proceedings of the second ACM international workshop on Principles of mobile computing (2002)

The information dissemination in mobile networks is an important but complex and challenging problem. Designing suitable communication primitives for these systems is critical. One of these primitives is the publish/subscribe paradigm. The publish/subscribe is a strategy to establish communication between the information providers (publishers) and information consumers (subscribers) in a distributed system. Our work focuses on an appropriate distributed infrastructure suitable for a scalable implementation of a publish/subscribe system. We present a formal model which is adapted for the peer-based particular subscription criteria of publish/subscribe systems. Moreover, we propose a general deterministic information diffusion scheme for mobile systems. The three main features of our communication scheme are the following: First, our scheme is well-adapted to scalable systems without compromising any subscription criteria or network reorganization. Second, we maintain the anonymity of the distributed system --- in order to maintain the network structure, we need only local information. Third, our solution is fully decentralized and modular, thus making it appropriate for practical implementations.
Active Platform; A Developer's Guide, 1st edition
Authors: John Omahen
Venue:  (1997)

:Make sense of the component software tools and protocols that compose the Active Platform, Microsofts Internet environment. Active Platform&#153: A Developers Guide supplies you with a comprehensive overview of the technologies involved, a step-by-step tour of the development cycle, and valuable expert advice. You learn how to make Microsoft client and server components work together efficiently, program within the Active Platform, troubleshoot and solve problems, use the BackOffice Server products with dynamic Web sites, create secure commercial sites, and much more. Active Platform: A Developers Guide includes a bonus CD-ROM featuring code samples and a complete Web site created in the book. The site serves as a reference and can be customized by the reader. 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
Ticket-based service access scheme for mobile users
Authors: Hua Wang, Jinli Cao, Yanchuan Zhang
Venue: Proceedings of the twenty-fifth Australasian conference on Computer science - Volume 4 (2002)

Security is one of the important issues in mobile computing, especially in mobile database systems since mobile environments are dynamic and traditional protection mechanisms do not work very well in such environments. For mobile database access across multiple service domains, the traditional access mechanisms rely on the concept of starting home location and cross domain authentication using roaming agreements. However, the cross domain authentications will involve many complicated authentication activities when the roam path is long. This limits the future mobile applications.This paper presents a global solution for all kinds of mobile services, by a ticket-based service access model that allows anonymous service usage in mobile application and access. The service provider can avoid roaming to multiple service domains, only contacting the Credential Centre to check the user's certification. The user can preserve anonymity and read a clear record of charges in the Credential Centre at anytime. Furthermore, the identity of misbehaving users can be revealed by a Trusted Centre.
Using RoboCup to teach multiagent systems and the distributed mindset
Authors: José M. Vidal, Paul Buhler
Venue: Proceedings of the 33rd SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education (2002)

We present our experiences using the RoboCup soccerserver simulator and Biter, our own agent platform, for the teaching of a graduate multiagent systems' class. The RoboCup simulator and Biter are both described. We argue that the combination of RoboCup and Biter forms an effective platform for the teaching of multiagent systems and the distributed mindset. Results from two semesters using these tools are presented. These results confirm our claims. Finally, we characterize this work within the framework provided by the STEELMAN Draft of the Computing Curricula 2001 initiative.
Java Servlets, 2nd edition
Authors: Karl Moss
Venue:  (1999)

:Java Servlets is the most comprehensive guide to the Java Servlet API available. With an appendix containing the complete servlet API classes, this professional guide is all you need to get servlets up, running - and performing every trick in the book - in record time.
The "mighty mouse" multi-screen collaboration tool
Authors: Kellogg S. Booth, Brian D. Fisher, Chi Jui Raymond Lin, Ritchie Argue
Venue: Proceedings of the 15th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (2002)

Many computer operating systems provide seamless support for multiple display screens, but there are few cross-platform tools for collaborative use of multiple computers in a shared display environment. Mighty Mouse is a novel groupware tool built on the public domain VNC protocol. It is tailored specifically for face-to-face collaboration where multiple heterogeneous computers (usually laptops) are viewed simultaneously (usually via projectors) by people working together on a variety of applications under various operating systems. Mighty Mouse uses only the remote input capability of VNC, but enhances this with various features to support flexible movement between the various platforms, "floor control" to facilitate smooth collaboration, and customization features to accommodate different user, platform, and application preferences in a relatively seamless manner. The design rationale arises from specific observations about how people collaborate in meetings, which allows certain simplifying assumptions to be made in the implementation.
Peter Norton's Complete Guide to Microsoft Office 2000, 1st edition
Authors: Jill T. Freeze, Wayne S. Freeze
Venue:  (1999)

:This book provides the expert advice that intermediate and expert users needs using a friendly hands-on approach. Understand how each of the upgraded applications of Office has been designed for greater ease of use, enhanced creation of documents, and increased efficiency. Focusing on getting the most out of Office 2000, this guide goes into greater depth on the most useful features such as mail merge, tables, Word templates, and data analysis and charting in Excel. Peter Norton's Complete Guide to Office 2000 dives into the difficult steps that otherwise cause a lull in productivity. Customize your office installation, assign shortcut keys, and customize toolbars to maximize your Office efficiency and automate and integrate Office applications with ease with VBA Share files with people using previous versions of Office while avoiding translation pitfalls View data from different points of view with PivotTables in Excel. Build your own Access database and applications simply with wizards