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More Microsoft's Windows Millennium Edition for Dummies
Authors: Andy Rathbone
Venue:  (2000)

:There's more to Windows than file management and double clicking. There are plenty of new features in Windows Me Edition sure to appeal to users who are ready to move beyond Windows basics. MORE Microsoft Windows Me Edition For Dummies uses the same friendly and informative style that made Windows For Dummies an international best seller to show you how to handle additional Windows tasks. Author Andy Rathbone clues you in on Windows tricks like customizing icons, creating a Windows Web page, handling advanced multimedia features, adding helpful Windows software, and removing files and programs that clutter up a hard drive. He also covers the fun new features of Windows Me Edition like the online games, Movie Player, and My Pictures multimedia tool. MORE Microsoft Windows Me Edition For Dummies guides you beyond Windows basics and introduces Windows features and tasks that make computing simpler and more entertaining. Author Andy Rathbone shows you popular Windows shortcuts as well as how to handle advanced tasks like setting up a Windows home network and creating a Web page. Includes new material on fun tools included in the updated Windows Me Edition like Movie Player, My Pictures, the application manager, and online gaming tools. This updated edition helps Windows vets figure out how to use your old DOS applications with Windows Me Edition. About the Author Andy Rathbone (San Diego, CA) is the author of the best selling computer book of all time, Windows 95 For Dummies, as well as Windows 98 For Dummies, Upgrading & Fixing PCs For Dummies, and Dummies 101: Windows 98. Andy brings a mastery of the Dummies-way to help readers understand technology topics.
QuickBooks 6 (For Dummies Series), 1st edition
Authors: Stephen L. Nelson
Venue:  (1998)

:Take control of your business finances! With on-the-job advice from Stephen Nelson, CPA and bestselling author, you'll be able to use QuickBooks to manage vital business assets such as cash, inventory, and receivables - plus handle payroll, budgets, and taxes - quickly and accurately! 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
Oracle8i Administration and Management, 1st edition
Authors: Michael R. Ault
Venue:  (1999)

:The best methods, tools, and techniques to keep your Oracle(r) database running at peak performance Oraclesi Administration and Management In this update to his bestselling Oracle book, author Michael Ault provides you with all the necessary tools to run a fast, efficient, and reliable Oracle database. Loaded with practical case examples and real-world scenarios, this book will give you the best methods, tools, and techniques for working with Oracle database versions 8i and earlier. With its in-depth coverage of Oracle8i, you'll discover new objectoriented extensions that allow realworld modeling using the power of the relational engine. All new Oracle8i commands, packages, and database features are covered, including the management of resource plans, temporary tables, locally managed tablespaces, and row-level security. Packed with tips and techniques, this book will help you:*Administer the Oracle database using system features and third-party tools*Administer database objects*Set up and administer users*Use Oracle-provided packages, procedures, and utilities*Monitor the database and fix any problems*Tune the database for optimum efficiency*Manage distributed databases*Use the latest Oracle8i object extensions*Use the new space and security Oracle8i extensionsThe CD-ROM includes:*More than 200 software scripts for Oracle administration*Lite and demo versions of administration software*Useful management aids
Intelligent agents and financial risk monitoring systems
Authors: Huaiqing Wang, John Mylopoulos, Stephen Liao
Venue: Communications of the ACM (2002)

A society of intelligent agents can work together to monitor financial transactions and yield important information regarding potential financial calamities.
Issues in parallelizing multiobjective evolutionary algorithms for real world applications
Authors: David A. Van Veldhuizen, Jesse B. Zydallis, Gary B. Lamont
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing (2002)

The concepts of efficiency and effectiveness must be addressed in conducting research into using a Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) for optimization problems. The increased use of evolutionary approaches for real-world applications, containing multiple objectives and high dimensionality, has led to the design and generation of a number of Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms (MOEA). When analyzing these algorithms, the issues of effectiveness and efficiency are extremely important and typically drive the urge to parallelize these algorithms. The parallelization of MOEAs is a relatively new concept, with few researchers contributing work in this area. This parallelization process is not a simple task and involves the analysis of various parallel models and the parameters associated with these models. This paper presents a thorough analysis of the various parallel MOEA models, the issues associated with these models and recommendations for using these models in MOEAs. In particular, these parallelization concepts are applied to the Multiobjective Messy Genetic Algorithm II.
Compression of particle data from hierarchical approximate methods
Authors: Dow-Yung Yang, Ananth Grama, Vivek Sarin, Naren Ramakrishnan
Venue: ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS) (2001)

This article presents an analytical and computational framework for the compression of particle data resulting from hierarchical approximate treecodes such as the Barnes--Hut and Fast Multipole Methods. Due to approximations introduced by hierarchical methods, various parameters (such as position, velocity, acceleration, potential) associated with a particle can be bounded by distortion radii. Using this distortion radii, we develop storage schemes that guarantee error bounds while maximizing compression. Our schemes make extensive use of spatial and temporal coherence of particle behavior and yield compression ratios higher than 12:1 over raw data, and 6:1 over gzipped (LZ) raw data for selected simulation instances. We demonstrate that for uniform distributions with 2M particles, storage requirements can be reduced from 24 MB to about 1.8 MB (about 7 bits per particle per timestep) for storing particle positions. This is significant because it enables faster storage/retrieval, better temporal resolution, and improved analysis. Our results are shown to scale from small systems (2K particles) to much larger systems (over 2M particles). The associated algorithm is asymptotically optimal in computation time (O(n)) with a small constant. Our implementations are demonstrated to run extremely fast---much faster than the time it takes to compute a single time-step advance. In addition, our compression framework relies on a natural hierarchical representation upon which other analysis tasks such as segmented and window retrieval can be built.
Networking UNIX, 1st edition
Authors: Salim M. Douba
Venue:  (1995)

:Improve your networking expertise with this invaluable guide - a perfect combination of technical insights, real-world experience, theory, and practice from a veteran network consultant. With the increasing popularity of the Internet has come many new systems and networks. This book gives you expert advice for the expert, speaking directly to those involved in UNIX networking - from consultants and technicians to UNIX system administrators and MIS managers.
TCP performance over end-to-end rate control and stochastic available capacity
Authors: Sanjay Shakkottai, Anurag Kumar, Aditya Karnik, Ajit Anvekar
Venue: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON) (2001)

Motivated by TCP over end-to-end ABR, we study the performance of adaptive window congestion control, when it operates over an explicit feedback rate-control mechanism, in a situation in which the bandwidth available to the elastic traffic is stochastically time varying. It is assumed that the sender and receiver of the adaptive window protocol are colocated with the rate-control endpoints. The objective of the study is to understand if the interaction of the rate-control loop and the window-control loop is beneficial for end-to-end throughput, and how the parameters of the problem (propagation delay, bottleneck buffers, and rate of variation of the available bottleneck bandwidth) affect the performance.The available bottleneck bandwidth is modeled as a two-state Markov chain. We develop an analysis that explicitly models the bottleneck buffers, the delayed explicit rate feedback, and TCP's adaptive window mechanism. The analysis, however, applies only when the variations in the available bandwidth occur over periods larger than the round-trip delay. For fast variations of the bottleneck bandwidth, we provide results from a simulation on a TCP testbed that uses Linux TCP code, and a simulation/emulation of the network model inside the Linux kernel.We find that, over end-to-end ABR, the performance of TCP improves significantly if the network bottleneck bandwidth variations are slow as compared to the round-trip propagation delay. Further, we find that TCP over ABR is relatively insensitive to bottleneck buffer size. These results are for a short-term average link capacity feedback at the ABR level (INSTCAP). We use the testbed to study EFFCAP feedback, which is motivated by the notion of the effective capacity of the bottleneck link. We find that EFFCAP feedback is adaptive to the rate of bandwidth variations at the bottleneck link, and thus yields good performance (as compared to INSTCAP) over a wide range of the rate of bottleneck bandwidth variation. Finally, we study if TCP over ABR, with EFFCAP feedback, provides throughput fairness even if the connections have different round-trip propagation delays.
The Comprehensive Guide to Micrografx Webtricity, 10th edition
Authors: Robert Bixby
Venue:  (1997)

:Make your site soar with interactive excitement - and save time and money doing it! Micrografx Webtricity provides the drag-and-drop tool palette - this easy-to-follow, practical guide adds instructions, ideas, and professional guidelines. Put this powerful Web graphics suite through its paces, and learn to design sophisticated, eye-catching graphics, optimize your files for the Web, create dazzling 3D effects and animations, and maintain thousands of images at your fingertips, plus create a sample Web site, step by step, using all Webtricity components together.
A Practical Guide to Internet Filters
Authors: Karen G. Schneider
Venue:  (1997)

:What are filters and how do they work? Which ones are the most effective for school and public libraries? Are there legal ramifications to using filters? As more and more libraries offer Internet access to their patrons, filtering is becoming a hot topic with library boards, governing officials, and the community. Here is a practical guide that prepares and informs librarians in schools and public libraries about this sensitive issue. 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
Windows 3.1 Simplified, 1st edition
Authors: Ruth Maran
Venue:  (1994)

:For all the effort Microsoft put into making Windows 3.1 as user-friendly and intuitive as possible, learning to use it can still be a pain. Fortunately, with Windows 3.1 Simplified you can master this operating system quickly -- and enjoy doing it. Thanks to full-color illustrations and simple, step-by-step instructions, you'll soon be able to do everything from formatting disks and installing applications to sharing information among different applications and running DOS applications under Windows.
The quest for security in mobile ad hoc networks
Authors: Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Levente Buttyán, Srdan Capkun
Venue: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking computing (2001)

So far, research on mobile ad hoc networks has been forcused primarily on routing issues. Security, on the other hand, has been given a lower priority. This paper provides an overview of security problems for mobile ad hoc networks, distinguishing the threats on basic mechanisms and on security mechanisms. It then describes our solution to protect the security mechanisms. The original features of this solution include that (i) it is fully decentralized and (ii) all nodes are assigned equivalent roles.
Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research 1995, 1st edition
Authors: James M. Bower
Venue:  (1996)

:This volume includes papers presented at the Fourth Annual Computation and Neural Systems meeting ( CNS *95) held in Monterey California, July 11 - July 15, 1995. This collection includes 79 of the 124 papers presented at this year's meeting.Acceptance for meeting presentation was based on the peer review of preliminary papers by at least two referees. The papers in this volume, were submitted in final form after the meeting. As represented by this volume, CNS meeting continue to expand in quality, size and breadth of focus as increasing numbers of neuroscientists are taking a computational approach to understanding nervous system function.
Granular partitions and vagueness
Authors: Thomas Bittner, Barry Smith
Venue: Proceedings of the international conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Volume 2001 (2001)

There are some who defend a view of vagueness according to which there are intrinsically vague objects or attributes in reality. Here, in contrast, we defend a view of vagueness as a semantic property of names and predicates. All entities are crisp, on this view, but there are, for each vague name, multiple portions of reality that are equally good candidates for being its referent, and, for each vague predicate, multiple classes of objects that are equally good candidates for being its extension. We provide a new formulation of these ideas in terms of a theory of granular partitions. We show that this theory provides a general framework within which we can understand the relation between vague terms and concepts on the one hand and correlated portions of reality on the other. We also sketch how it might be possible to formulate within this framework a theory of vagueness which dispenses with the notion of truth-value gaps and other artifacts of more familiar approaches.
Hardware - Software Codesign and Co-Verification
Authors: Jean-Michel Berge
Venue:  (1997)

:Describing the latest tools available for both Co-Design and Co-Verification of systems. Hardware/Software Co-Design and Co-Verification offers a complete look at this evolving set of procedures for CAD environments. The book considers all trade-offs that have to be made when co-designing a system. Several models are presented for determining the optimum solution to any co-design problem, including partitioning, architecture synthesis and code generation. Hardware/Software Co-Design and Co-Verification will help designers and researchers to understand these latest techniques in system design and as such will be of interest to all involved in embedded system design.
Foundations of Information Systems
Authors: Vladimir Zwass
Venue:  (1997)

:The text is written for the Management Information Systems course taught either at undergraduate level in the Junior year,or at MBA-level. Many students will NOT be MIS majors,but need to know what IS can do for them as managers. Vladimir Zwass is a distinguished and respected author in the MIS field.
Knowledge encapsulation for focused search from pervasive devices
Authors: Yariv Aridor, David Carmel, Yoelle S. Maarek, Aya Soffer, Ronny Lempel
Venue: ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) (2002)

Mobile knowledge seekers often need access to information on the Web during a meeting or on the road, while away from their desktop. A common practice today is to use pervasive devices such as Personal Digital Assistants or mobile phones. However, these devices have inherent constraints (e.g., slow communication, form factor) which often make information discovery tasks impractical.In this paper, we present a new focused-search approach specifically oriented for the mode of work and the constraints dictated by pervasive devices. It combines focused search within specific topics with encapsulation of topic-specific information in a persistent repository. One key characteristic of these persistent repositories is that their footprint is small enough to fit on local devices, and yet they are rich enough to support many information discovery tasks in disconnected mode. More specifically, we suggest a representation for topic-specific information based on "knowledge-agent bases" that comprise all the information necessary to access information about a topic (under the form of key concepts and key Web pages) and assist in the full search process from query formulation assistance to result scanning on the device itself. The key contribution of our work is the coupling of focused search with encapsulated knowledge representation making information discovery from pervasive devices practical as well as efficient. We describe our model in detail and demonstrate its aspects through sample scenarios.
Just Enough UNIX, 3rd edition
Authors: Paul K. Andersen
Venue:  (1999)

:Just Enough UNIX provides a brief and inexpensive introduction to the UNIX operating system. The third edition of this text reflects changes and updates to the UNIX curriculum that have taken place since the publication of the second edition.
Using Speech Recognition
Authors: Judith A. Markowitz
Venue:  (2000)

:Speech recognition is becoming part of our daily lives. Hardware and software system developers, consumer product designers, researchers, and innovative computer users are creating speech recognition applications that range from voice control of dishwashers to meaningful human-computer dialogues. Using Speech Recognition is a comprehensive, unbiased examination of the speech recognition industry. It explains the technology using clear, understandable language and explores differences among existing commercial speech recognition products. Using Speech Recognition describes successful applications along with the technology and human factors involved in designing good speech recognition applications. Most chapters contain a "Technology Focus" section that explains aspects of the technology and an "Application Focus" section that addresses application-development issues.
Dictionary of Standard C, 1st edition
Authors: Rex Jaeschke
Venue:  (2000)

:it is suitable for all levels of C programmers and includes a broad range of subject matter including advanced topics. Because it does not deal with extensions, it is not aimed at any particular kind of application or set of platforms: it is generic and is applicable to anyone working with C using any mainstream implementation of C.
A mathematical modeling approach to the automatic selection of database designs
Authors: Salvatore T. March, Dennis G. Severance
Venue: Proceedings of the 1978 ACM SIGMOD international conference on management of data (1978)

This paper provides an overview of a methodology developed to support systems analysts in the process of database design. The design approach is built upon an analytic model composed of (1) parametric descriptions for components of a generalized database organization, (2) costing equations which can evaluate a proposed modular database design, (3) an analyst interface which accepts an arbitrary database organization for evaluation, and (4) search procedures which automatically generate and compare thousands of alternative designs. Performance is measured as the sum of storage, retrieval, and maintenance costs and is estimated from parameters of the proposed design, the problem description and the storage environment. A virtual, record-frame view of secondary storage has been developed in which data records are added, deleted and modified with minimal effect on existing data structures. Application of the modeling approach to a realistic design problem is described, and modeling accuracy to within four percent is claimed.
Creating Logos and Letterheads, 1st edition
Authors: Jennifer Place
Venue:  (1995)

:Virtually every business -- no matter how small or how new it is -- needs a logo, letterhead and business cards. And even companies that already have a letterhead system will periodically need it redesigned to updated. This all adds up to the fact that logos, letterheads, business cards and business forms are the items you'll most often be asked to design. "Creating Logos & Letterheads" shows you how to do it. Packed with professional, hands-on advice, this book will help you design these basic pieces to be useable -- and pack a visual punch. 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
Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet out of Idaho
Authors: Jon Katz
Venue:  (2000)

:Jesse and Eric were roommates in the tiny town of Caldwell, Idaho, nineteen-year-old working class kids eking out a living with their seven-dollar-an-hour jobs selling and fixing computers. College was never in the cards. Their families had been torn apart by divorce and hard times, separation and illness. They had almost no social lives, and little to look forward to. They spent every spare cent on their computers, and every spare moment on-line. Jesse and Eric were proud geeks-- suspicious or disdainful of authority figures, proud of their status as outsiders, fervent in their belief in the positive power of technology. They'd been outsiders as long as they could remember, living far from the mainstream of school or town life. Nobody spoke for them, they were on nobody's social or political agenda. Geeks is the story of how Jesse and Eric--and others like them--used technology to try and change their lives and alter their destiny. They rode the Internet out of Idaho to Chicago, a city they had ever set foot in, seeking the American Dream, a better life. Geeks describes this brave and difficult journey, as two self-described social misfits use the resources of the Internet to try to construct a new future for themselves, escape the boundaries of their dead-end lives, and find a community they could belong to.Geeks explores a growing subculture about which many of us know little, a world with its own language, traditions, and taboos. In telling the stories of Jesse, Eric, and others like them, Geeks is a story about the very human face of technology. Geek: A member of the new cultural elite, a pop culture-loving, techno-centered Community of Social Discontents.Most geeks rose above a suffocatingly unimaginative educational system, where they were surrounded by obnoxious social values and hostile peers, to build the freest and most inventive culture on the planet: the Internet and World Wide Web. Now running the systems that run the world. Tendency toward braininess and individuality, traits that often trigger resentment, isolation, or exclusion. Identifiable by a singular obsessiveness about the things they love, both work and play, and a well-honed sense of bitter, even savage, outsider humor. Universally suspicious of authority. In this era, the geek Ascension, a positive, even envied term. Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply. --Jon Katz