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Synchronization as a framework for distributed system fault-tolerance design
Authors: Alexander B. Romanovsky
Venue: Proceedings of the 5th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: Models and paradigms for distributed systems structuring (1992)

We shall regard a computer system as a whole which comprises software, hardware and mixed components each of which can, in its turn, present a system. Then the entire system is a multilevel hierarchy.The purpose of this paper is to single out and generalize about the essential features and properties of synchronization and to argue in favour of the idea of designing and developing fault-tolerance (FT) for distributed systems on the basis of a multilevel synchronization system. Getting aware of and constructing a synchronization system like this can be, and often is, a basis for providing system FT (with masking, recovery, voting, reconfiguration, migration, warm-starting, etc. subsequently built over). The synchronization system controls and coordinates the operation of all main and redundant components and it is by controlling redundancy that FT is achieved. Thus, error recovery can be done precisely at that system level where there is some redundancy; to do this, the operation of the main component and of the redundant ones has to be synchronized. Besides, for that purpose all those components have to be in a certain known state (e.g. active, backup, fault, identical, alive, etc.) and providing this is just what synchronization is meant to do.We propose to consider designing and developing a hierarchical system of synchronizing (HSS) redundant components in distributed systems the first and foremost stage in providing FT in application systems. In this way the entire FT system can be structuralized naturally. HSS can be used as a basis underlying the implementation of any of the known FT schemes in which redundant components are controlled by different CPUs or can be active on their own (disk-drivers, plants, processes, etc.).Our idea and approach is a special case of the approach developed in [1]. We hope to add to the practical applicability of the latter (for FT design, particularly in Distributed OSs - DOSs) and at the same time to single out and analyse the most essential, underlying feature (i.e. component synchronization) in providing FT.
Microsoft Office 2000 Complete, 1st edition
Authors: Sybex
Venue:  (1999)

:The best Office value ever! 1000 pages of valuable knowledge for only $19.99. This book is perfect for price-sensitive novice users. Containing vital chapters from many Sybex bestsellers, Office 98 Complete covers every area of importance for all Office users, including topics that go beyond the Office product: full coverage of Office 2000 essential features, Internet browsers and e-mail functionality, Web site planning and creation, Windows 98 tips and procedures, critical PC upgrading and maintenance information, and much more!
A computerized health and nutrition assessment for school children
Authors: Gerald N. Pitts, Martha W. Davis, Barry Bateman
Venue: Proceedings of the 16th annual Southeast regional conference (1978)

A comprehensive school health and nutrition program requires an interdisciplinary (team) approach to the delivery of services. To achieve this, a management system requiring participation of project components (mental, physical, educational, and nutritional) was implemented. The project required a comprehensive effort to assess the student's health status. The decisions were basically limited to set levels or values less than normal. This was accomplished by comparison of data collected with the charts shown in Tables 1 and 2 (all comparison charts are not shown in this paper). It is the intent of this health record to place emphasis on areas of weakness for individual students as well as strong areas.
A uniform meta-model for modeling integrated cooperation
Authors: Guangxin (Gavin) Yang
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing (2002)

Process modeling is a central topic of research on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). Uniformity and flexibility in work representation and process enactment are two primary goals. We develop a novel meta-model capable of modeling uniformly a wide range of cooperation scenarios. We will discuss the key elements of the model and its computerized formalism, the Cova programming language, and its runtime system. We will describe in this language several typical cooperation scenarios to illustrate how integrated cooperation and other cooperation scenarios can be described and supported with our model.
How to deal with software stability
Authors: Mohamed E. Fayad
Venue: Communications of the ACM (2002)

All that exist are heuristics for determining an EBT, a BO, or an industrial object.
Quicken 6 for Windows for Busy People, 1st edition
Authors: Peter Weverka
Venue:  (1997)

:With its easy-to-understand format, you'll learn how to organize your finances, stick to your budget, plan for the future, analyze investments, and see exactly where you stand financially. Whether you're starting from scratch or have used Quicken before, you will master the latest features - electronic banking, downloading credit card data and stock quotes, transferring funds, checking your account balances, and even paying bills online.
Application Specific Processors
Authors: Earl E. Swartzlander
Venue:  (1997)

:Application Specific Processors consists of eight chapters which provide a mixture of techniques and examples that relate to application specific processing. The inclusion of techniques is expected to suggest additional research and to assist those who are faced with the requirement to implement efficient application specific processors. The examples illustrate the application of the concepts and demonstrate the efficiency that can be achieved via application specific processors. The chapters were written by members and former members of the application specific processing group at the University of Texas at Austin.
Inventing the Internet
Authors: Janet Abbate
Venue:  (2000)

:In Inventing the Internet, Janet Abbate focuses on the social and cultural factors that influenced the Internet's design and use. She unfolds an often twisting tale of collaboration and conflict among a remarkable variety of players, including government and military agencies, computer scientists in academia and industry, graduate students, telecommunications companies, standards organizations, and network users.
The Painter 5 Wow! Book, 1st edition
Authors: Cher Threinen-Pendarvis
Venue:  (1997)

:Painter users of all levels will benefit from this hands-on guide to MetaCreations' award-winning program. Beginners will love the step-by-step instructions, which assume no prior knowledge of Painter. Intermediate and advanced users will gain valuable insight from the author's explanations of a wide variety of advanced techniques. The book includes basic information about Painter's tools, functions and preferences; loads of real-world tips and techniques to make your work quicker and easier; dazzling images and inspiring techniques by renowned Painter artists, including John Dismukes, Philip Howe, Dorothy Krause, Pedro Meyer, Chet Phillips, Dennis Orlando, Dewey Reid, Chelsea Sammel, Nancy Stahl, Lynda Weinman, Trici Venola, plus innovative projects from the broadcast designers at FOX Television; step-by-step descriptions of how prominent professionals have used Painter in commercial illustration, fine art, design, photography, multimedia, film and on the World Wide Web; a resource guide to tools, images and other products that can make Painter more Powerful and easier to use; and a CD-ROM that includes custom brushes and papers, recorded scripts, high-resolution stock photographs, and video clips, filters and software demos.
Process-Centered Requirements Engineering
Authors: Klaus Pohl
Venue:  (1997)

:This book presents frameworks, models, and tool environments for process-centered requirements engineering. First, it gives a comprehensive overview of the state of research and practice in the field. Then, a two-pronged solution strategy is developed. A conceptual modelling framework describes the process along the three dimensions of representation (from informal to formal), specification completeness, and stakeholder agreement. From the special problems found in creative processes such as requirements engineering, the book derives a novel characterization of process-centered engineering environments and elaborates the architecture of a new generation of process-integrated CASE tools. The concepts have been validated in PRO-ART, a prototypical process-centered requirements engineering environment developed in the Esprit project NATURE.
The importance of translucence in mobile computing systems
Authors: Maria R. Ebling, Bonnie E. John, M. Satyanarayanan
Venue: ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) (2002)

Mobile computing has been an active area of research for the past decade, but its importance will increase substantially in the decade to come. One problem faced by designers of mobile systems is that of maintaining the illusion of connectivity even when network performance is poor or non-existent. The Coda file system uses its cache to maintain this illusion. Extensive experience with the system suggests that, although users find the functionality provided by the system extremely valuable, new users face an arduous learning curve and even experienced users are sometimes confused by the system's behavior. The fundamental problem is that the lack of a strong network connection causes the system to violate a key property of caching: transparency. To overcome this problem, we have built an interface, called the CodaConsole, that makes caching translucent to users through controlled exposure of cache management internals. The interface exposes critical aspects of caching to support the mobile user while hiding noncritical details to preserve usability. This article presents the design, implementation, and usability evaluation of this interface. The CodaConsole successfully makes caching translucent in the presence of disconnected or weakly connected operation. The most surprising result was that novice Coda users performed almost as well as experienced Coda users.
Information Warfare Principles and Operations, 1st edition
Authors: Edward L. Waltz
Venue:  (1998)

:Here's a systems engineering-level introduction to the growing field of Information Warfare (IW)  the battlefield where information is both target and weapon. This comprehensive book provides engineers, system operators, and information technology users with an understandable overview of rapidly emerging threats to commercial, civil, and military information systems  and shows how these threats can be identified and systems protected. Authored by a leading expert in advanced information-based technologies, this is the first book to detail the component principles, technologies, and tactics critical to success in the three key areas of IW: Information Dominance, Information Defense, and Information Offense. The author explains the quantification of information, describes the deductive, inductive and abductive processes that create knowledge, and provides essential technical background on:  The knowledge creation processes of data fusion and data mining  Information security technologies, including: encryption, authentication, authorization, and attack detection  Information attack technologies, including: physical, infrastructure, and perceptual methods Adding to the book's value are extensive citations to relevant unclassified literature, numerous examples of practical defense-related systems, clear explanations of basic IW theory, and much deeper and broader coverage of security issues than found in typical Internet security books.
Troubleshooting NetWare Systems, 2nd edition
Authors: Logan G. Harbaugh
Venue:  (1996)

:Troubleshooting NetWare Systems offers practical solutions to your network problems. Use it to pinpoint and resolve problems on your NetWare 4.x, 3.x, and 2.x networks. Know your network. Understand how your network operates, so you can fix it when it doesn't. Learn how to handle memory conflicts, interrupt conflicts, and other common problems; isolate physical breaks in the cabling; avoid or solve printing problems; troubleshoot UNIX, Mac, and IBM mainframe links; and solve network application problems. Master your system's problems. Develop an effective recovery plan. Learn how to prevent disasters - in advance. Document, baseline, and back up your network. Maximize data recovery. Simplify hardware and software upgrades. Plan and execute upgrades without disrupting work flow. Save yourself mountains of work. Learn from others' experiences, featured in the book's case studies. Use the Snap Shot sections for a quick overview of specific procedures. Pick up dozens of timesaving tips and techniques, and learn where to find the latest networking information, tools, and utilities.
Color by Correlation: A Simple, Unifying Framework for Color Constancy
Authors: Graham D. Finlayson, Steven D. Hordley, Paul M. Hubel
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (2001)

This paper considers the problem of illuminant estimation: how, given an image of a scene, recorded under an unknown light, we can recover an estimate of that light. Obtaining such an estimate is a central part of solving the color constancy problem¿that is of recovering an illuminant independent representation of the reflectances in a scene. Thus, the work presented here will have applications in fields such as color-based object recognition and digital photography, where solving the color constancy problem is important. The work in this paper differs from much previous work in that, rather than attempting to recover a single estimate of the illuminant as many previous authors have done, we instead set out to recover a measure of the likelihood that each of a set of possible illuminants was the scene illuminant. We begin by determining which image colors can occur (and how these colors are distributed) under each of a set of possible lights. We discuss in the paper how, for a given camera, we can obtain this knowledge. We then correlate this information with the colors in a particular image to obtain a measure of the likelihood that each of the possible lights was the scene illuminant. Finally, we use this likelihood information to choose a single light as an estimate of the scene illuminant. Computation is expressed and performed in a generic correlation framework which we develop in this paper. We propose a new probabilistic instantiation of this correlation framework and we show that it delivers very good color constancy on both synthetic and real images. We further show that the proposed framework is rich enough to allow many existing algorithms to be expressed within it: the gray-world and gamut-mapping algorithms are presented in this framework and we also explore the relationship of these algorithms to other probabilistic and neural network approaches to color constancy.
Troubleshooting and Repairing Computer Printers, 2nd edition
Authors: Stephen J. Bigelow
Venue:  (1996)

:In this best-selling manual for electronics technicians,students,and advanced hobbyists,you will find complete up-to-date information on diagnosing and repairing today's popular impact,thermal,inkjet,and electrophotographic printers. With the help of new flowcharts and technical illustrations throughout,you will learn to troubleshoot and solve 150 specific printer problems,while gaining the experience to resolve many other malfunctions on your own. Complete coverage of printing under Windows and Windows 95 is included,as well as a coupon for a companion disk filled with essential troubleshooting tools.
Microsoft Windows NT Scripting Administrator's Guide
Authors: William R. Stanek
Venue:  (1999)

:Windows scripting can double or even quadruple your productivity by automating the repetitive tasks required to manage a Windows NT system network. From creating new user accounts to scheduling jobs to installing software remotely, Windows NT Scripting Administrator's Guide gives you the tools to "write once and run always"- freeing up your time for troubleshooting and other more challenging tasks. With ready-to-use shell command, VBScript, and JSCript examples, expert author William Stanek shows you how to create a wide range of scripts, from the simple to highly sophisticated. Get Working Solutions for Scripting Challenges: Master the fundamentals of scripting in the native Windows NT shell scripting language as well as VBScript and JScript Understand how the new Windows Script Host works- and when to use it Efficiently solve administrative problems on a client or a network Write scripts to capture user information, manage network resources, and configure groups, permissions, and trusts Get up to speed with the Windows NT shell command language Quick Reference Includes more than 150 shell command, VBScript and Jscript scripts you can start using today
Adaptive interfaces for ubiquitous web access
Authors: Daniel Billsus, Clifford A. Brunk, Craig Evans, Brian Gladish, Michael Pazzani
Venue: Communications of the ACM (2002)

Allowing mobile users to access any information at any time from any location.
Non-repudiation in electronic commerce
Venue:  (2001)

Non-repudiation in Electronic Commerce shows professionals how to create, collect, validate and maintain cryptographic evidence, such as digital signatures, in order to support the settlement of possible electronic transaction disputes. It presents a systematic description of non-repudiation services, examples of the integration of these services into specific e-commerce applications, and a detailed analysis and comparison of typical non-repudiation mechanisms.
Comparing paper and tangible, multimodal tools
Authors: David R. McGee, Philip R. Cohen, R. Matthews Wesson, Sheilah Horman
Venue: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: Changing our world, changing ourselves (2002)

In command posts, officers maintain situational awareness using paper maps, Post-it notes, and hand-written annotations. They do so because paper is robust to failure, it is portable, it offers a flexible means of capturing information, it has ultra-high resolution, and it readily supports face-to-face collaboration. We report herein on an evaluation comparing maps and Post-its with a tangible multimodal system called Rasa. Rasa augments these paper tools with sensors, enabling it to recognize the multimodal language (both written and spoken) that naturally occurs on them. In this study, we found that not only do users prefer Rasa to paper alone, they find it as easy or easier to use than paper tools. Moreover, Rasa introduces no discernible overhead in its operation other than error repair, yet grants the benefits inherent in digital systems. Finally, subjects confirmed that by combining physical and computational tools, Rasa is resistant to computational failure
Design of a generalized balanced multiple-valued file organization scheme of order two
Authors: Sumiyasu Yamamoto, Shinsei Tazawa, Kazuhiko Ushio, Hideto Ikeda
Venue: Proceedings of the 1978 ACM SIGMOD international conference on management of data (1978)

A file organization scheme in an information storage and retrieval system which will be called a generalized Hiroshima University balanced multiple-valued file organization scheme of order two (GHUBMFS2) is presented, where the information about the records is indexed by m attributes having n values. The number of buckets to be organized and the redundancy of the file are the same as those of an inverted file. The number of pointer fields to be attached to the accession number stored in a bucket is reduced to a minimum in this scheme. It can answer for all second order as well as first order queries by the access to one bucket and the traversal of its contents without any set operations.
iMovie: The Missing Manual
Authors: David Pogue
Venue:  (2000)

:Built into each of Apple's wildly popular iMac DV computers is the circuitry needed to record pro-quality video from a digital camcorder, and then send the edited movies back to TV or tape with zero picture-quality loss. The crown jewel is the pre-installed editing software: iMovie. The program comes with almost everything you need to produce pro-quality videoexcept a manual. iMovie:The Missing Manual takes you through every step of iMovie video production, from choosing a digital camcorder to burning finished films onto CDs. The book's philosophy: Giving someone iMovie without also teaching basic film technique is like giving a map to a teenager without teaching him to drive.
Learn Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition in a Weekend
Authors: Lois Lowe
Venue:  (2000)

:Windows Millennium Edition, or Windows Me, is the latest consumer operating system from Microsoft and includes enhancements in digital media, home networking, and online capabilities. Windows Me promises some great new features, but with that comes new end user challenges. Learn Windows Millennium Edition In a Weekend covers getting started, working with programs, configuring accessories, customizing the system, and working with Internet connections and dial-up networking features. Along with the basics, you will find lots of information on the extras Microsoft has incorporated into this version. You will be able to explore home movie making, building a home network, and much more! Whether you find yourself needing to brush up on old skills, are upgrading to the latest version, or are buying a new computer, this book provides maximum information with a minimal investment of time. 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
Hypertext and knowledge management
Authors: Francisco J. Ricardo
Venue: Proceedings of the 12th ACM conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (2001)

This paper is a functional survey of knowledge management systems and characteristics from the standpoint of the contribution and relevance of hypertext to this discipline. There is the description of a typical KM architecture as well as some of the current KM and KM-like systems deployed in production at large corporations. This discussion will introduce the perceptions of KM and then emphasize the role of hypertext systems in tackling problems in processing distributed and collaborative knowledge. Although at the moment, hypertext is not seen as an architectural component of KM systems, its potential as an epistemic aid presents opportunities. Finally, I will show the appropriateness of hypertext research to KM development.