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Multi-location transshipment problem with capacitated production and lost sales
Authors: Deniz Özdemir, Enver Yücesan, Yale T. Herer
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

We consider coordination among stocking locations through replenishment strategies that explicitly take into account lateral transshipments, i.e., transfer of a product among locations at the same echelon level. The basic contribution of our research is the incorporation of supply capacity into the traditional emergency transshipment model. We formulate the capacitated production case as a network flow problem embedded in a stochastic optimization problem. We develop a solution procedure based on infinitesimal perturbation analysis (IPA) to solve the stochastic optimization problem numerically. We analyze the impact on system behavior and on stocking locations' performance when the supplier may fail to fulfill all the replenishment orders and the unmet demand is lost. We find that depending on the production capacity, system behavior can vary drastically. Moreover, in a production-inventory system, we find evidence that either capacity flexibility (i.e., extra production) or transshipment flexibility is required to maintain a certain level of service.
PLSE-based generic simulation training platform for typical weapon equipments
Authors: Ying Liu
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

With the development of simulation technologies, virtual training for the military has become more and more important. Combining system and software engineering theory, based on the PLSE (Product Line Software Engineering) idea and method, we analyze and design simulation training characteristics for typical field equipment. We set up the domain-oriented system architecture and implement the domain framework. The research involves: putting forward the conceptual simulation platform based on PLSE, applying the domain engineering method, analyzing commonalities in the training for typical equipment, and implementing a general architecture. Using relevant technologies, we develop reusable core assets systematically and strategically, and build the object-oriented development platform and the platform-based developing models. 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 Office Access 2003 Intro, 1 edition
Authors: Glen Coulthard, Sarah Hutchinson-Clifford
Venue:  (2004)

The Advantage Series presents the Feature-Method-Practice approach to computer software applications to today's technology and business students. This series implements an efficient and effective learning model, which enhances critical thinking skills and provides students and faculty with complete application coverage.Table of contentsMICROSOFT OFFICE ACCESS 2003CHAPTER 1: WORKING WITH ACCESS 2003CHAPTER 2: CREATING A DATABASECHAPTER 3: ORGANIZING AND RETRIEVING DATACHAPTER 4: PRESENTING AND MANAGING DATACHAPTER 5: WORKING WITH TABLESCHAPTER 6: CREATING SELECT QUERIESCHAPTER 7: CREATING ADVANCED QUERIESCHAPTER 8: CREATING FORMS, REPORTS, AND PAGES
What am I gonna wear?: scenario-oriented recommendation
Authors: Edward Shen, Henry Lieberman, Francis Lam
Venue: Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces (2007)

Electronic Commerce on the Web is thriving, but consumers still have trouble finding products that will meet their needs and desires. AI has offered many kinds of Recommender Systems [11], but they are all oriented toward searching based on concrete attributes of the product (e.g. price, color) or the user (as in Collaborative Filtering). Based on commonsense reasoning technology, we introduce a novel recommendation technique, Scenario-Oriented Recommendation, which helps users by mapping their daily scenarios to product attributes, and works even when users don't know exactly what products they are looking for.
An adaptive system for the personalized access to news
Authors: Liliana Ardissono, Luca Console, Ilaria Torre
Venue: AI Communications (2001)

Personalization is one of the keys for the success of web services. In this paper we present SeAN (Server for Adaptive News), an adaptive system for the personalized access to news servers on the WWW. The aims of the system are (i) to select the sections (topics) and news in the server that are most relevant for each user, (ii) to customize the detail level of each news item to the user's characteristics and (iii) to select the advertisements that are most appropriate for each page and user. In the paper we discuss the functionalities of the system and we present the choices we made in its design. In particular, we focus on the techniques we adopted for structuring the news archive, for creating and maintaining the user model and for generating the personalized hypertext for browsing the news server.
Tracking of deformable human hand in real time as continuous input for gesture-based interaction
Authors: Xiying Wang, Xiwen Zhang, Guozhong Dai
Venue: Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces (2007)

Gesture input is a natural and effective interactive model. The tracking of deformable hand gesture is a very important task in gesture-based interaction. A novel real-time tracking approach is proposed to capture hand motion with single camera. It combines the characters of model-based and appearance-based method. The presented approach achieves auto-initialization by posture recognition and matching with image features. It solves the problem of interference among fingers successfully by the integration of K-Means clustering and Particle Filters. Moreover, tracking detection realizes resumption from tracking failure and automatic update of hand model. Experiments show that, the proposed method can achieve continuous real-time tracking of deformable hand gesture, and meets the requirements for gesture-based Human-Computer Interaction.
Show Me Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003
Authors: Steve Johnson
Venue:  (2003)

See it done, do it yourself! Spend less time reading and more time doing with this simple, step-by-step approach to learning the new version of PowerPoint. PowerPoint 2003 provides powerful new tools with which to create presentations more easily, illustrate ideas more powerfully, and share it all in any setting, from meeting rooms to the Web. Based on a proven, successful series format, this book uses a visual page design with easy-to-read text to teach beginning to intermediate level PowerPoint tasks. Troubleshooting guides, "see also" referencing, sample projects, and MOS objectives add even more for the ambitious learner. Author Steve Johnson is a professional trainer and author of several best-selling books. 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
MCSE Core Elective Exams in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))
Authors: Pawan K. Bhardwaj, Roger Grimes
Venue:  (2006)

For Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 administrators preparing for Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) core exam 70-270, and core exams 70-297, and 70-298, this book is invaluable. Not only does it provide the resources you need to succeed on the exams, but to succeed in the real world as well. Think of this book as the notes you would have taken if you were to capture every essential nugget of information related to the skills measured in the core elective exams. To begin with, MCSE Core Elective Exams in a Nutshell allows you to see all of the topics expected for mastery in each of the exams. Each exam is covered in three parts: Exam Overview, Study Guide and Test Your Knowledge sections. This makes for easy reference and a great study aid. The Exams covered include: EXAM 70-270: Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows XP Professional EXAM 70-297: Designing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory and Network Infrastructure EXAM 70-298: Designing Security for a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Once you have completed the exams successfully, you will find the book to be a valuable reference to core Windows administration and security skills. This book uses the same successful format found in MCSE Core Required Exams in a Nutshell by William Stanek, and together they satisfy all of the Core exam requirements for your MCSE certification.
Family relationships: should consensus reign?---consensus clustering for protein families
Authors: Macha Nikolski, David J. Sherman
Venue: Bioinformatics (2007)

Motivation: Reliable identification of protein families is key to phylogenetic analysis, functional annotation and the exploration of protein function diversity in a given phylogenetic branch. As more and more complete genomes are sequenced, there is a need for powerful and reliable algorithms facilitating protein families construction. Results: We have formulated the problem of protein families construction as an instance of consensus clustering, for which we designed a novel algorithm that is computationally efficient in practice and produces high quality results. Our algorithm uses an election method to construct consensus families from competing clustering computations. Our consensus clustering algorithm is tailored to serve the specific needs of comparative genomics projects. First, it provides a robust means to incorporate results from different and complementary clustering methods, thus avoiding the need for an a priori choice that may introduce computational bias in the results. Second, it is suited to large-scale projects due to the practical efficiency. And third, it produces high quality results where families tend to represent groupings by biological function. Availability: This method has been used for Génolevures project to compute protein families of Hemiascomycetous yeasts. The data are available online at http://cbi.labri.fr/Genolevures/fam/ Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at http://cbi.labri.fr/Genolevures/fam/ Contact: macha@labri.fr
Optimal convex error estimators for classification
Authors: Chao Sima, Edward R. Dougherty
Venue: Pattern Recognition (2006)

A cross-validation error estimator is obtained by repeatedly leaving out some data points, deriving classifiers on the remaining points, computing errors for these classifiers on the left-out points, and then averaging these errors. The 0.632 bootstrap estimator is obtained by averaging the errors of classifiers designed from points drawn with replacement and then taking a convex combination of this ''zero bootstrap'' error with the resubstitution error for the designed classifier. This gives a convex combination of the low-biased resubstitution and the high-biased zero bootstrap. Another convex error estimator suggested in the literature is the unweighted average of resubstitution and cross-validation. This paper treats the following question: Given a feature-label distribution and classification rule, what is the optimal convex combination of two error estimators, i.e. what are the optimal weights for the convex combination. This problem is considered by finding the weights to minimize the MSE of a convex estimator. It also considers optimality under the constraint that the resulting estimator be unbiased. Owing to the large amount of results coming from the various feature-label models and error estimators, a portion of the results are presented herein and the main body of results appears on a companion website. In the tabulated results, each table treats the classification rules considered for the model, various Bayes errors, and various sample sizes. Each table includes the optimal weights, mean errors and standard deviations for the relevant error measures, and the MSE and MAE for the optimal convex estimator. Many observations can be made by considering the full set of experiments. Some general trends are outlined in the paper. The general conclusion is that optimizing the weights of a convex estimator can provide substantial improvement, depending on the classification rule, data model, sample size and component estimators. Optimal convex bootstrap estimators are applied to feature-set ranking to illustrate their potential advantage over non-optimized convex estimators.
A Private and Consistent Data Retrieval Scheme with Log-Squared Communication
Authors: Satoshi Nakayama, Maki Yoshida, Shingo Okamura, Toru Fujiwara
Venue: IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences (2007)

Data retrieval is used to obtain a particular data item from a database. A user requests an item in the database from a database server by sending a query, and obtains the item from an answer to the query. Security requirements of data retrieval include protecting the privacy of the user, the secrecy of the database, and the consistency of answers. In this paper, a data retrieval scheme which satisfies all the security requirements is defined and an efficient construction is proposed. In the proposed construction, the size of a query and an answer is O((log N)2), and the size of data published by the database server when the database is updated is only O(1). The proposed construction uses the Merkle tree, a commitment scheme, and Oblivious Transfer. The proof of the security is given under the assumption that the used cryptographic schemes are secure.
On an extremal problem of Selberg
Authors: Jyoichi Kaneko
Venue: Journal of Approximation Theory (2006)

We consider the minimum value mp of the product ∏i=1p (1 + yi) under the conditions that yi > O, y1...yp = e1-P and |∏1 ≤i > j ≤ p (1/yi-1/yj)| = 1. This problem stems from estimation of the Selberg integral appeared in the study of integral-valued entire functions [A. Selberg, Übereinen Satz von A. Gelfond, Arch. Math. Naturvid. 44 (1941) 159-170]. We give upper and lower estimates of mp: pċ 0.48479902863... > log mp > pċ0.3328392748...This, in particular, slightly improves the earlier lower estimate given by Selberg: logmp > pċ0.31654924....
Ontology based representations of simulation models following the process interaction world view
Authors: Gregory A. Silver, Lee W. Lacy, John A. Miller
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

The Discrete Event Simulation (DES) process interaction world view describes models that focus on simulated entities that progress through a series of temporally related activities. DES formalisms and vendor approaches for representing DES models serve as a basis for developing an open neutral representation of models that can be encoded into ontologies. This paper reviews world views, formal foundations, and ontologies as background. The process for creating ontologies for the process interaction DES domain is discussed. Next an approach to ontology based simulation model representation is presented and last conclusions and recommendations for future work are provided.
Gaussian fields for semi-supervised regression and correspondence learning
Authors: Jakob J. Verbeek, Nikos Vlassis
Venue: Pattern Recognition (2006)

Gaussian fields (GF) have recently received considerable attention for dimension reduction and semi-supervised classification. In this paper we show how the GF framework can be used for semi-supervised regression on high-dimensional data. We propose an active learning strategy based on entropy minimization and a maximum likelihood model selection method. Furthermore, we show how a recent generalization of the LLE algorithm for correspondence learning can be cast into the GF framework, which obviates the need to choose a representation dimensionality.
The case for a systematic approach to wireless mobile network simulation
Authors: J. Jobin, Michalis Faloutsos, Satish K. Tripathi
Venue: Journal of High Speed Networks (2005)

The goal of this paper is to develop a systematic approach to conducting simulations in wireless cellular networks. Performance analysis in such networks is a non-trivial task for the following reasons. First, there are a lot of parameters whose combined effect needs to be understood. Second, there are no benchmarks or widely accepted realistic values. As a result, different studies use different scenarios, and this makes the results of these studies incomparable. How can we make network scenarios and results easier to interpret and compare? We start with the observation that absolute parameter values are meaningless. Instead, we propose the use of relative parameters. These parameters combine multiple parameters into fewer parameters; e.g., user speed and diameter of cell are combined into the cell latency parameter. Thus, we reduce the total parameter space, but more importantly, we capture the combined effect of parameters that affect the performance. We show how using relative units of time and space and relative parameters such as cell latency and average number of cells visited can provide better insight than absolute parameters such as session duration or absolute units such as seconds, miles, etc. In addition, we propose the use of steady state utilization, a novel metric that captures the inherent capacity of a mobile network. We show that steady state utilization can become the reference point with which we can conduct meaningful simulations and interpret results more effectively. Finally, we describe a case study to illustrate our methodology. We evaluate the effect of bandwidth reservations on network performance. Our results show how reservations can actually hurt network performance.
Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003 Kick Start
Authors: Kate Gregory
Venue:  (2003)

Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003 Kick Start is targeted toward developers interested in making the jump to .NET, working programmers already familiar with another programming language or the previous version of VS. Visual C++ .NET 2003 Kick Start speeds through basic concepts and focuses on practical examples and benefits of moving to VC++ .NET. This book explains how VC++ code interacts with the .NET Framework, the extra capabilities of VC++ compared to VB.NET and C# in .NET code interoperability, how to use Windows Forms (a new feature for VC++ .NET in the 2003 edition), and how to migrate from Visual Studio 6 and COM. The author covers the use of managed and unmanaged Visual C++ code, using both types for most examples. Full of code examples, tips, and professional insights, this book provides maximum learning with minimum investment of time and effort.
Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 Administrator's Companion (Pro-Administrator's Companion)
Authors: Charlie Russel, Sharon Crawford
Venue:  (2006)

Get comprehensive information to deploy, manage, and troubleshoot Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 for messaging and collaboration, Internet access, database storage, printing, faxing, support for line-of-business applications, and end-to-end network administration.
A dynamic business model for component-based simulation software
Authors: Stephan Onggo, Didier Soopramanien, Mike Pidd
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

Firms, investors, venture capitalists, market analysts and the government, amongst others, are interested in the future evolution and dynamics of a market as it defines their role/participation or future role/participation. This paper proposes a business model showing how the interactions of various actors in the market influence the "demand" and "supply" interaction for an application based software; more specifically component based simulation. In the process we also show how the main stakeholders may gain some financial benefits by adopting the component-based simulation for business decisions in the long run. We identify four main stakeholders: component users, component providers, certification providers, and repository providers. A system dynamic model is built to show the interaction between the two main stakeholders.
Asymptotic optimality of threshold control in a stochastic network based on a fixed-point approximation
Authors: David D. Yao, Heng-Qing Ye
Venue: ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review (2006)

In Li and Yao [5], a stochastic network with simultaneous resource occupancy is studied, and a threshold control policy is proposed based on a fixed-point approximation. Here, we establish the asymptotic optimality of this control policy under fluid and diffusion scaling.
A concept prototype for integrated gaming and simulation for incident management
Authors: Sanjay Jain, Charles R. McLean
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

This paper describes a prototype that has been developed to demonstrate the concept of integrated gaming and simulation for incident management. An architecture for the purpose was developed and presented at the last conference. A hypothetical emergency incident scenario has been developed for demonstrating the applicability of integrated simulation and gaming. A number of simulation and gaming modules have been utilized to model the major aspects of the hypothetical scenario. The modules demonstrate the value of utilizing simulation for incident management applications. They can be used to highlight the value of simulation and gaming for training applications in particular. Two of the simulation modules have been integrated using a modified implementation of the High Level Architecture to give an idea of the advantages. Technical issues in integration are identified.
IBM @server Certification Study Guide: @server P5 and Pseries Enterprise Technical Support AIX 5L V5.3
Venue:  (2005)

This IBM Redbook is designed as a study guide for professionals wanting to prepare for the certification exam to achieve IBM Certified Systems Expert - eServer p5 and pSeries Enterprise Technical Support AIX 5L V5.3. This technical support certification validates a broad scope of configuration, installation, and planning skills. In addition, it covers administrative and diagnostic activities needed to support logical partitions and virtual resources. This publication helps IBM eServer p5 and pSeries professionals seeking a comprehensive and task-oriented guide for developing the knowledge and skills required for the certification. It is designed to provide a combination of theory and practical experience needed for a general understanding of the subject matter. This publication does not replace the practical experience you should have, but is an effective tool that, when combined with education activities and experience, should prove to be a very useful preparation guide for the exam. Due to the close association with the certification content, this publication might reflect older software and firmware levels of the IBM eServer p5 systems and available features. If you are planning to take the eServer p5 and pSeries Enterprise Technical Support AIX 5L V5.3 certification exam, this book is for you. 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