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Splittable traffic partition in WDM/SONET rings to minimize SONET ADMs
Authors: Gruia Călinescu, Peng-Jun Wan
Venue: Theoretical Computer Science (2002)

SONET ADMs are the dominant cost factor in the WDM/SONET rings. Recently several articles (Belvaux et al., European J. Oper. Res. 108 (1) (1998) 26-35; Clinescu and Wan, Traffic partition in WDM/SONET rings to minimize SONET ADMs, submitted for publication; Gerstel et al., Proc. IEEE INFOCOM'98, vol. 1, pp. 94-101; Liu et al., Proc. INFOCOM, vol. 2, 2000, pp.~1020-1025; Sutter et al., Oper. Res. 46 (5) (1998) 719-728) proposed a number of heuristics for traffic partition so as to use as few SONET ADMs as possible. Most of these heuristics assumes wavelength-continuity, i.e., the same wavelength is allocated on all of the links in the path established for a traffic stream. It was first observed and argued by Gerstel et al. that the number of ADMs can be potentially reduced by allowing a traffic stream to be locally transferred from one ADM in a wavelength to another ADM in a different wavelength at any intermediate node, in other words, the traffic streams are splittable. In this paper, we study two variations of this minimum ADM problem with splittable traffic streams: all traffic streams have prespecified routings, and all traffic streams have no prespecified routings respectively. Both variations are shown to be NP-hard. For the former variation, a heuristic with approximation ratio at most 5/4 is proposed. For the latter variation, a similar heuristic with approximation ratio 3/2 is proposed.
Wireless Security
Authors: Merritt Maxim, David Pollino
Venue:  (2002)

:Get full details on major mobile/wireless clients and operating systemsincluding Windows CE,Palm OS,UNIX,and Windows. You'll learn how to design and implement a solid security system to protect your wireless network and keep hackers out. Endorsed by RSA Security  the most trusted name in e-security  this is your one-stop guide to wireless security.
Meta-recommendation systems: user-controlled integration of diverse recommendations
Authors: J. Ben Schafer, Joseph A. Konstan, John Riedl
Venue: Proceedings of the eleventh international conference on Information and knowledge management (2002)

In a world where the number of choices can be overwhelming, recommender systems help users find and evaluate items of interest. They do so by connecting users with information regarding the content of recommended items or the opinions of other individuals. Such systems have become powerful tools in domains such as electronic commerce, digital libraries, and knowledge management. In this paper, we address such systems and introduce a new class of recommender system called meta-recommenders. Meta-recommenders provide users with personalized control over the generation of a single recommendation list formed from a combination of rich data using multiple information sources and recommendation techniques. We discuss experiments conducted to aid in the design of interfaces for a meta-recommender in the domain of movies. We demonstrate that meta-recommendations fill a gap in the current design of recommender systems. Finally, we consider the challenges of building real-world, usable meta-recommenders across a variety of domains.
MCSE: Designing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure Readiness Review
Authors: Jill Spealman
Venue:  (2001)

:Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) Exam 70-219 measures the ability to analyze business requirements and design a directory service architecture for the Windows 2000 operating system. With Readiness Review, certification candidates can sharpen their test-taking skills, save valuable time and money, and build their confidence for the real exam with the help of this exclusive exam simulation on CD-ROM. The Readiness Review electronic assessment tool delivers randomly generated practice tests covering actual MCP exam objectives. Readers can test and retest with different question sets each time. After completing practice sessions, readers can consult the companion text for helpful explanations for all responses-right and wrong-and identify areas for further study.
MCSE Windows XP Professional Exam Cram: Exam: 70-270
Authors: Dan Balter, Derek Melber
Venue:  (2002)

:MCSE Windows XP Professional Exam Cram is the perfect study guide to help you pass the first exam in Microsoft's new core four OS exams-Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows XP Professional (exam 70-270). Hundreds of thousands of NT4 MCSEs will need to upgrade their credentials as well as system administrators, consultants, and new IT professionals. With this book, you will master the skills and concepts necessary to address examination objectives including: planning, installation, configuration, administration, support, security, and troubleshooting of Windows XP Professional. Learn how to analyze Microsoft's trick questions and distracters by taking practice exam questions arranged in a similar format to the ones found on the actual exam. This book also features a helpful Cram Sheet filled with key information on Windows XP as well as tips, acronyms, and memory joggers.
Professional SQL Server 2000 Dts
Authors: Mark Chaffin, Todd Robinson, Brian Knight
Venue:  (2000)

:Professional SQL Server 2000 DTS follows on from Professional SQL Server 7.0 Programming to drill down into this important and powerful feature of SQL Server 2000. This book begins with a complete introduction to DTS fundamentals and architecture. Building on this introduction we'll take a look at more complex data transformations and security issues involved in moving data between different servers, applications and providers (eg Oracle, DB2, Sybase). The book then focuses on DTS via the DTS object model, which enables developers to incorporate custom transformations and reporting capabilities into their applications. We use examples in both Visual Basic and scripting languages. More advanced topics are then explained including error handling, dynamic data loading, OLAP and Datawarehouses. With code and case studies this book provides a thorough guide to this new upcoming area of SQL Server 2000. Brian Knight currently writes for SQL Magazine and also has a weekly column at the database website Swynk (www.swynk.com), where he co-runs the SQL Server area. He also works as a Sr. SQL Server DBA and spends most of his time deep in DTS and SQL Server. Todd Robinson (MCP, MCP+I, MCP+SB, MCSE, MCSE+I, MCSD, MCDBA, MCT, CCNA) lives in Atlanta, GA where he is an internet application developer and data warehousing guru for Metlife. He specializes in MTS/COM+, ASP, XML, SQL Server and related Windows DNA technologies. In addition to his normal job duties at Metlife, he is President of GradesNow.com an internet application service for teachers, students and parents to allow access to grades online.
C++ FAQs, 2nd edition
Authors: Marshall P. Cline, Mike Girou, Greg Lomow
Venue:  (1998)

:In a concise and direct question-and-answer format, C++ FAQs, Second Edition brings you the most efficient solutions to more than four hundred of the practical programming challenges you face every day. In this book, the authors concentrate on those issues most critical to the professional programmer's work, and they present more explanatory material and examples than is possible on-line. This book focuses on the effective use of C++, helping programmers avoid combining seemingly legal C++ constructs in incompatible ways. Each question-and-answer section contains an overview of the problem and solution, fuller explanations of concepts, directions for proper use of language features, guidelines for best practices and practices to avoid, and plenty of working, stand-alone examples. This edition is thoroughly cross-referenced and indexed for quick access.
Communities in Cyberspace
Authors: Peter Kollock
Venue:  (1998)

:In cyberspace, communication and co-ordination is cheap, fast, and global. With powerful new tools for interacting and organizing in the hands of millions of people worldwide, what kinds of social spaces and groups are people creating? How is the Internet changing our basic concepts of identity, self-governance and community? Communities in Cyberspace investigates how the idea of community is being challenged and rewritten by the widespread use of online interaction. This edited volume is an essential introduction to the landscape of social life in cyberspace. It will appeal to academics, students and professionals, and to those concerned about the changing relationship between information technology and society.
HyperWars: Eleven Rules for Survival and Profit in the Era of on-Line Business
Authors: Bruce Judson, Kate Kelly
Venue:  (1998)

:For companies, the pressing need to continually create new, different, better products to stay one step ahead of the competition defines the new reality of business today, the world of "HyperWars." Drawing on extensive research and his pioneering experience in e-commerce, industry innovator Bruce Judson outlines eleven practical strategies for thriving in this hypercompetitive environment. Including "Use the Internet as the World's Most Sophisticated Telephone" and "The Magic in 'Free,'" these visionary strategies are illustrated with hundreds of examples of Internet initiatives real companiesfrom pool suppliers to major businesses like Cisco and Chryslerare implementing today. Not just for companies selling products over the Web, HyperWars explains how the Internet can and must be incorporated into all of a business's operations, to do everything from cutting procurement, marketing, and communication costs to deepening customer relationships.
Exploring the embodied-mind approach to user experience
Authors: Thomas Hoff, Trond A. Øritsland, Cato A. Bjørkli
Venue: Proceedings of the second Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction (2002)

This paper presents context-free and technology-free descriptions of basic elements of user experience from an embodied-mind perspective. The Ecological Interaction Properties suggested refer both to aspects of the user as well as aspects of the interface. Examples of the explanatory power of the approach compared to that of contemporary concepts in the HCI-litterature are provided.
Modeling the multi-sensory design space
Authors: Keith V. Nesbitt
Venue: Proceedings of the 2001 Asia-Pacific symposium on Information visualisation - Volume 9 (2001)

Research into the visualization of abstract data has resulted in a number of domain specific solutions as well as some more generic techniques for visualising information. Similarly, the field of sonification has explored the display of information to the human auditory sense. As haptic displays such as force-feedback devices become more readily available, the sense of touch is also being used to help understand information. While applications that use multi-sensory information 'displays' are becoming more common, frameworks to assist in design of these displays need to be developed. This paper extends a previously proposed structure of the 'visual' design space to include hearing and touch and hence define a multi-sensory design space. It then correlates this space with another classification of the design space based on metaphors. Metaphors are often used as a starting point in designing information displays. Metaphors allow the user to take advantage of existing cognitive models as well as ecologically-developed perceptual skills. Metaphors provide another useful structuring of this multi-sensory design space. Throughout the paper all discussions are illustrated using the UML modeling notation. UML is a standard notation frequently used to document the design of software systems.
Fuzzy Logic: Misconceptions and Clarifications
Authors: Carl W. Entemann
Venue: Artificial Intelligence Review (2002)

Some commonly accepted statements concerning the basic fuzzy logic proposed by Lotfi Zadeh in 1965, have led to suggestions that fuzzy logic is not a logic in the same sense as classical bivalent logic. Those considered herein are: fuzzy logic generates results that contradict classical logic, fuzzy logic collapses to classical logic, there can be no proof theory for fuzzy logic, fuzzy logic is inconsistent, fuzzy logic produces results that no human can accept, fuzzy logic is not proof-theoretic complete, fuzzy logic is too complex for practical use, and, finally, fuzzy logic is not needed. It is either proved or argued herein that all of the these statements are false and are, hence, misconceptions. A fuzzy logic with truth values specified as subintervals of the real unit interval [0.0, 1.0] is introduced. Proofs of the correctness, consistency, and proof theoretic completeness of the truth interval fuzzy logic are either summarized or cited. It is concluded that fuzzy logics deserve the accolade of logic to the same degree that the term applies to classical logics.
Multibody System Simulation: Numerical Methods, Algorithms, and Software
Authors: Reinhold Von Schwerin
Venue:  (2000)

:The book presents innovative methods for the solution of multibody descriptor models. It emphasizes the interdependence of modeling and numerical solution of the arising system of differential-algebraic equations (DAE). Here, it is shown that modifications of non-stiff ODE-solvers are very effective for a large class of multibody systems. In particular, implicit methods are found to dovetail optimally with the linearly implicit structure of the model equations, allowing an inverse dynamics approach for their solution. Furthermore, the book stresses the importance of software development in scientific computing and thus presents a complete example of an interdisciplinary problem solution for an important field of application from technical mechanics.
Tunable reliable multicast for periodic information dissemination
Authors: Tina Wong, Thomas Henderson, Randy H. Katz
Venue: Mobile Networks and Applications (2002)

Existing reliable transport protocols for periodic information dissemination ignore application semantics while attempting to be 100% reliable. "Application Level Framing" (ALF) suggests that taking application semantics into account when designing transport protocols can result in performance that is highly optimized for the network. We apply this principle in designing a policy-based TUNAble semi-reliable multicast protocol (TUNA) for periodic information dissemination. Specifically, TUNA is not constrained to guarantee full reliability, but allows the receiving application to selectively request retransmissions of lost portions of the data stream, based on user-level policies. TUNA uses statistical properties of the data stream to adaptively guide receivers in dynamically altering their reliability policies. This is particularly well matched for satellite systems, where end node to satellite bandwidth is limited, especially when shared by large community of end nodes. Our simulation results show that TUNA is made highly scalable by reducing the number of NACKs sent back to the information source, while keeping the staleness of received data within application-specified bounds. Under large session sizes, TUNA yields a factor of 1.5 to 6 improvement over a fully reliable scheme; for high loss rates, it results in a factor of 1.5 to 5 improvement. TUNA is also able to reduce contention for retransmission request bandwidth in a multiple access backchannel environment. We have implemented TUNA and a prototype application called InfoCaster in the MASH toolkit.
Modelling erroneous operator behaviours for an air-traffic control task
Authors: Peter Lindsay, Simon Connelly
Venue: Proceedings of the Third Australasian conference on User interfaces - Volume 7 (2002)

This paper introduces a new approach to formalising analysis of human errors in human-computer interaction. The approach takes account of the cognitive processes involved in a task, and how mistakes arise and how errors propagate through the task. It argues for modelling errors as behaviours rather than as events (the usual approach), at least for tasks involving highly interleaved concurrent, ongoing activities. The models are formalised using a combination of CSP and temporal logic, and the approach is illustrated on a case study from Air Traffic Control. By providing a richer modelling framework and being more expressive, the approach overcomes significant limitations of existing human-error identification techniques.
Assessment of metaphor efficacy in user interfaces for the elderly: a tentative model for enhancing accessibility
Authors: Muna Khalil Yousef
Venue: Proceedings of the 2001 EC/NSF workshop on Universal accessibility of ubiquitous computing: providing for the elderly (2001)

This paper describes the challenges faced by designers in creating accessible systems for the elderly. CARSE, an assessment tool, which has been synthesized and empirically validated of the semantic efficacy of interface metaphor, is used to evaluate two systems that were designed for elderly use. In addition, the paper outlines a tentative model for the design of accessible systems for the elderly.
Business Knowledge Repository: Consolidating and Accessing Your Ways of Working
Authors: Jud Breslin, John McGann
Venue:  (1997)

:How do we define the nature of our business, gather everything that we know about it, and then centralize our information in one, easily accessed place within the organization? Breslin and McGann call such knowledge "our ways of working" and the place where it will be found a "business knowledge repository." All of a company's accumulated operations data, its manuals and procedures, its records of compliance with myriad regulations, its audits, disaster recovery plans--are essential information that today's management needs at its fingertips, and information that tomorrow's management must be sure can easily be found. Breslin and McGann show clearly and comprehensively how business knowledge repositories can be established and maintained, what should go into them and how to get it out, who should have access, and all of the other details that management needs to make the most of this valuable resource and means of doing business. An essential study and guide for management at upper levels in all types of organizations, both public and private.
Microsoft Word 2000: Introductory Edition, 1st edition
Authors: Sarah E. Hutchinson, 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.
Retrieval of still images by content
Authors: John P. Eakins
Venue: Lectures on information retrieval (2001)

This chapter summarises the current state of the art in content based image retrieval (CBIR). It discusses the need for image retrieval by content, and the types of query which might be encountered. It describes the main techniques currently used to retrieve images by content at both primitive and semantic levels, describes the features of some commercial and experimental CBIR systems, assesses the capabilities of current technology, and outlines possible future development in the field.
Stabilized Explicit-Implicit Domain Decomposition Methods for the Numerical Solution of Parabolic Equations
Authors: Yu Zhuang, Xian-He Sun
Venue: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (2002)

We report a class of stabilized explicit-implicit domain decomposition (SEIDD) methods for the numerical solution of parabolic equations. Explicit-implicit domain decomposition (EIDD) methods are globally noniterative, nonoverlapping domain decomposition methods, which, when compared with Schwarz-algorithm-based parabolic solvers, are computationally and communicationally efficient for each simulation time step but suffer from small time step size restrictions. By adding a stabilization step to EIDD, the SEIDD methods retain the time-stepwise efficiency in computation and communication of the EIDD methods but exhibit much better numerical stability. Three SEIDD algorithms are presented in this paper, which are experimentally tested to show excellent stability, computation and communication efficiencies, and high parallel speedup and scalability.
Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer, 2nd edition
Authors: Paul Freiberger, Michael Swaine
Venue:  (1999)

:First released in 1984, Fire in the Valley remains one of the most sought-after and widely revered testaments to the dynamic visionaries of the PC era. Now updated and expanded, the second edition contains more photos and new chapters, revealing how the PC came to transform the world today and will shape the century ahead. The authors look at recent developments at Apple, Microsoft, and IBM and convey the exciting development of other companies such as Sun, Netscape, Lotus, and Oracle in the Internet age. Itself a milestone in the fascinating history of the personal computer, Fire in the Valley is the definitive account of how it all happened and why.
DVB-MHP/Java TV&trade; data transport mechanisms
Authors: John Jones
Venue: Proceedings of the Fortieth International Conference on Tools Pacific: Objects for internet, mobile and embedded applications (2002)

With the advent of digital television, more specifically interactive television, the emergence and adoption of the Java&trade; DVB-MHP standards here in Australia provides developers with a range of new technologies and issues.An appreciation of broadcast technologies, in particular MPEG-2 and the Object Carousel are required to understand the facilities and constraints of this new Java&trade; technology environment.This paper covers the embedded Java&trade; technology APIs related to the entire end-to-end broadcast chain: object carousel, the set-top-box environment, AWT GUI development, sending and handling data-updates return channel usage, connection, and back-end servers.The emphasis here is on the Java&trade; DVB-MHP APIs that support communication mechanisms within the interactive television environment.
Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 6.0
Authors: Tamar A. Granor, Steven Black, Ted Roche
Venue:  (1998)

:An irreverent look at how Visual FoxPro really works. Gives you the inside scoop on every command, function, event, property and method of Visual FoxPro 6 0. Especially the "gotchas!"
Windows 98 Multimedia: Lights! Camera Action!
Authors: Adam Vujic, Grace Buechlein, Gregory Harris
Venue:  (1998)

:Using "Windows 98 Multimedia Made Easy" empowers beginning to intermediate computer users to configure multimedia devices and resolve sound and video issues on their own, without having to consult a computer expert each time a problem is encountered. The CD-ROM includes multimedia utilities and attractions that relate to the text.
Trespasser: Official Strategy Guide
Authors: Greg Kramer, Brady Games
Venue:  (1998)

:The BradyGames Trespasser strategy guide will include complete maps of the Site B Island. Strategy for getting off the island and dealing with dinosaurs. Detailed statistics and information on every dinosaur. Interviews with the designers at Dreamworks Interactive.Set several years after The Lost World, this interactive sequel puts players in the role of Anne, a shipwreck survivor stranded on the dinosaur-infested island from the film. It is the player s job to survive long enough to get off the island.Dreamworks Producer Seamus Blackley has recruited beyond the normal industry gene pool to build a breakthrough game engine. The team includes a coder who wrote the software for the F22 fighter and an artist who designed Tomorrowland at Tokyo Disneyland.The music includes produced by John Williams exclusively for the game, voice-overs by Richard Attenborough, and a yet-to-be-named famous actress to voice the role of Anne.