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Syncml: Synchronizing Your Mobile Data
Authors: Uwe Hansmann, Peter Thompson, Riku M. Mettala, Apratim Purakayastha
Venue:  (2002)

:Discover SyncML, the new global standard for synchronizing virtually any mobile device Covers both the technical and business issues Covers personal and enterprise applications, new mobile services, security, device management, and more Includes practical guidance for coding and integrating SyncML solutions By four leaders of the SyncML standards community"The authors have in-depth, firsthand knowledge of the inner workings of SyncML technology. This is an essential guide for anyone building or implementing data synchronization and device management applications."Douglas HeintzmanDirector and Chairman of the Board, SyncML Initiative, Ltd.Introducing SyncML: the new XML-based standard for universal synchronization.Effective, standards-based data synchronization will make possible a new generation of breakthrough mobile services. Now, there's an XML-based standard that enables synchronization across virtually any device, platform, application, or service: SyncML. In this book, four leaders of the SyncML community offer an insider's guide to SyncML from both a technical and business standpoint. You'll discover why SyncML offers advantages available through no other technology; how SyncML overcomes the traditional obstacles to universal synchronization, and how SyncML can be integrated into end-to-end solutions that deliver a first-class "out of the box" experience. SyncML solutions for personal information management, enterprise data management, and mobile services SyncML clients, servers, synchronization/representaprotocols, DTDs, transport bindings, and more Synchronization for one-to-one, many-to-one, many-to-many, and hybrid topologies Security and authentication in SyncML applications and services Using SyncML to provision and manage mobile devices The SyncML API, Reference Implementation, and SyncML Conformance and Interoperability ProcessSyncML is designed for every business and technology professional concerned with mobile applications and synchronization. Decision-makers will learn how SyncML will drive new business models and the delivery of entirely new products and services. Software architects and project managers will discover how SyncML components can be integrated into complete solutions; and developers will learn how to maximize the performance, reliability, and scalability of those solutions.
A case study of LEGO Mindstorms'&trade; suitability for artificial intelligence and robotics courses at the college level
Authors: Frank Klassner
Venue: Proceedings of the 33rd SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education (2002)

This paper examines LEGO Mindstorms'&trade; suitability as a hardware platform for integrating robotics into an Artificial Intelligence course organized around the agent paradigm popularized by Russell and Norvig. This evaluation discusses how kits and projects based on Mindstorms supported students' exploration of the issues behind the design of agents from three classes in Russell and Norvig's intelligent agent taxonomy. The paper's investigation also examines several popularly-perceived limitations of the Mindstorms package for college-level robotics projects and shows that most of these "limitations" are not serious impediments to Mindstorms' use, while certain other of these "limitations" do indeed present challenges to the platform's use.
Mastering and Using Microsoft Office 2000 Integrated Projects: Book with CD Package, 1st edition
Authors: H. Albert Napier, Philip J. Judd
Venue:  (1999)

:People learn best by doing, therefore, this book asks users to act as the executive assistant to the president of an international travel adventure company. Using Windows, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, Internet Explorer, NetMeeting, FrontPage, and the Internet, users are asked to set up a marketing conference spanning several days. Step-by-step instructions and illustrations reinforce the real-world demands of the chapters.
Sams Teach Yourself Office 97 in 10 Minutes, 1st edition
Authors: Greg Perry
Venue:  (1998)

:Sams Teach Yourself Office 97 in 10 Minutes is a tutorial-based book, organized into a series of easy-to-follow, 10-minute lessons. These well-targeted lessons teach you in 10 minutes what some books take several hours or days to teach. You ll learn: How to manage files and work areas easily Navigate applications using the Office Web Toolbar Work with Wizards and multiple documents Set up hyperlinks to and from files Share data between applications Create your own Web content Manage your e-mail, contacts, and schedule through OutlookCompact, portable tutorial teaches just the basics in a simple, tasked based approachAny task can be completed in less than ten minutes to get you back to work quickly!Perfect first choice for anyone who s used similar software in the past, newcomers to a subject or infrequent users of software or technology
Personal Computer Essentials, 4th edition
Authors: Suzanne Weixel, David Clark
Venue:  (1999)

:Essentials are hands-on tutorials with a orientation designed to give readers a through knowledge of software applications in a short period of time. Essentials texts are four color with oversized screen shots so users can follow along. Getting Started with the Internet. Using E-Mail. Other Ways to Connect with People. Still More Ways to Connect with People. Searching the World Wide WebGetting the Information You Need. Downloading Files. Fun and Games on the Internet. Creating Your Own Homepage. For anyone interested in learning about Internet browsers.
Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance
Authors: Larry Downes, Chunka Mui
Venue:  (2000)

:When technologies, products, and services converge in radical, creative new ways, a 'killer app' can emerge -- a new application so powerful that it transforms industries, redefines markets, and annihilates the competition. The compass, the steam engine, the cotton gin, and the Model T were all killer apps that sent shock waves through the social, political, and economic systems of their time. Today's killer apps spring from the digital realm: the personal computer, e-mail, and the World Wide Web have profoundly influenced and even altered society far beyond their intended use. Tempted by the promise of such devastating power, companies large and small, from vast multinationals to lean entrepreneurial start-ups, are remaking themselves into organizations that nurture killer apps rather than succumb to them.With Unleashing the Killer App, Downes and Mui offer a progressive guide to transforming your company into a place where killer apps are born. Drawing from their experience and research with leading global businesses, the authors identify the 12 fundamental design principles for building killer apps; illustrate these principles with classic stories from history and examples from a wide range of industries that have successfully developed killer apps; examine the economic consequences of the diminishing transaction costs in cyberspace; and describe how to integrate digital strategy into an organization's planning process to create new markets, form new customer relationships, and change the product line.
Best Near-Interpolation by Curves: Existence
Authors: Scott Kersey
Venue: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (2000)

The conditions derived in [K. Scherer and P. W. Smith, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 20 (1989), pp. 160--168] for the existence of minimizers to the nonlinear problem of best "interpolation" by curves are extended to the problem of best "near-interpolation" by curves that meet arbitrary sets, such as closed balls (as in [S. Kersey, Best Near-Interpolation by Curves: Optimality Conditions, Technical Report 99-05, Center for the Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 1999]). The minimizers are spline curves with breakpoints at the data sites at which the curves meet the sets, and the nonlinearities arise as these data sites vary from curve to curve. The results here apply to Hermite-type interpolation conditions, with the possibility of repeated data sites.
Parallel scheduling problems in next generation wireless networks
Authors: L. Becchetti, S. Diggavi, S. Leonardi, A. Marchetti-Spaccamela, S. Muthukrishnan, T. Nandagopal, A. Vitaletti
Venue: Proceedings of the fourteenth annual ACM symposium on Parallel algorithms and architectures (2002)

Next generation 3G/4G wireless data networks allow multiple codes (or channels) to be allocated to a single user, where each code can support multiple data rates. Providing fine-grained QoS to users in such networks poses the two dimensional challenge of assigning both power (rate) and codes for every user. This gives rise to a new class of parallel scheduling problems. We abstract general downlink scheduling problems suitable for proposed next generation wireless data systems. This includes a communication-theoretic model for multirate wireless channels. In addition, while conventional focus has been on throughput maximization, we attempt to optimize the maximum response time of jobs, which is more suitable for stream of user requests. We present provable results on the algorithmic complexity of these scheduling problems. In particular, we are able to provide very simple, online algorithms for approximating the optimal maximum response time. This relies on resource augmented competitive analysis. We also perform an experimental study with realistic data of channel conditions and user requests to show that our algorithms are more accurate than our worst case analysis shows, and they provide fine-grained QoS to users effectively.
Power Graphics Using Turbo C++, 2nd edition
Authors: Loren Heiny, Keith Weiskamp
Venue:  (1994)

:This updated and improved book has been revised to make tips, notes and function descriptions more prominent and accessible. New coverage includes the latest features of Borland's Turbo C++, Super VGA graphics (which allows for 32,000 colors), solid modeling and virtual reality, animation techniques, methods for printing graphic images, principles of object-oriented programming and a greatly expanded treatment of graphics file formats.
How to Use Word
Authors: Eric Stone
Venue:  (1993)

:A uniquely visual approach puts the basics of Microsoft's latest Windows-based word processor right before your eyes. Colorful examples invite you to explore every page and begin producing right away. Truly innovative!
Automatic extraction of document keyphrases for use in digital libraries: evaluation and applications
Authors: Steve Jones, Gordon W. Paynter
Venue: Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (2002)

This article describes an evaluation of the Kea automatic keyphrase extraction algorithm. Document keyphrases are conventionally used as concise descriptors of document content, and are increasingly used in novel ways, including document clustering, searching and browsing interfaces, and retrieval engines. However, it is costly and time consuming to manually assign keyphrases to documents, motivating the development of tools that automatically perform this function. Previous studies have evaluated Kea's performance by measuring its ability to identify author keywords and keyphrases, but this methodology has a number of well-known limitations. The results presented in this article are based on evaluations by human assessors of the quality and appropriateness of Kea keyphrases. The results indicate that, in general, Kea produces keyphrases that are rated positively by human assessors. However, typical Kea settings can degrade performance, particularly those relating to keyphrase length and domain specificity. We found that for some settings, Kea's performance is better than that of similar systems, and that Kea's ranking of extracted keyphrases is effective. We also determined that author-specified keyphrases appear to exhibit an inherent ranking, and that they are rated highly and therefore suitable for use in training and evaluation of automatic keyphrasing systems.
Bayesian Multiple Target Tracking, 1st edition
Authors: Lawrence D. Stone, Thomas L. Corwin, Carl A. Barlow
Venue:  (1999)

:Get the solutions to your most challenging tracking problems with this up-to-date resource. Using the Bayesian inference framework, the book helps you design and develop mathematically sound algorithms for dealing with tracking problems involving multiple targets, multiple sensors, and multiple platforms. The book shows you how non-linear Multiple Hypothesis Tracking and the Theory of Unified Tracking are successful methods when multiple target tracking must be performed without contacts or association. With detailed examples illustrating the developed concepts, algorithms, and approaches  the book helps you: >Track when observations are non-linear functions of target site, when the target state distributions or measurement error distributions are not Gaussian, in low data rate and low signal to noise ratio situations, and when notions of contact and association are merged or unresolved among more than one target >Detect and track when a single sensor response is not strong enough to call a contact >Determine bounds on tracker performance from the characteristics of the targets and sensors >Set optimal threshold levels for calling contacts in likelihood ratio detection and tracking, and compute association probabilities of joint observations and non-geometric information
Windows CE 2 Programming for Dummies
Authors: Idg Publishing, Nick Gratten
Venue:  (1998)

:Start writing and building great Windows CE 2 applications now -- whether you're new to Windows programming or are an experienced developer. Find out how to use both the Application Programming Interface (API) calls and the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC). Windows CE 2 Programming For Dummies mixes reference material with how-to steps to guide you through the entire application development process. Inside, find helpful advice on how to Use the Windows CE API or MFC to build applications Figure out the differences between Windows 95/NT programming and Windows CE programming Create and access Windows CE databases and object store files Work within the constraints of the Windows CE memory model User serial communications to transfer data with other computers Use network support to hook into corporate networks Integrate Windows CE applications with your desktop PC Write setup programs that install your application on a Windows CE device from your desktop computer
UNIX-Hater Handbook
Authors: Simson Garfinkle, Daniel Weise, Steven Strassmann
Venue:  (1994)

:In the tradition of 12-step programs that help people overcome their addictions by sharing stories, The UNIX-Haters Handbook is the self-help guide for people affected by the world's most esoteric and most widely used operating system. Turn here for answers to all-important questions, such as... Why does the online documentation lie to us? Why does the operating system overwrite valuable files with garbage? Why does the user's guide bear no relationship to reality? Why do the commands have cryptic names that have no bearing on their function? What is a grep? What is vi? Do troffs live under bridges, or are they inverted trons? WHERE ARE THEY SENDING ALL THE UPPERCASE LETTERS? UNIX: It won't go away, so you'd better learn to laugh at it.
Using Microsoft Word 97, 3rd edition
Authors: Jane Calabria, Rob Kirkland, Dorothy Burke
Venue:  (1998)

:Covers the skills and activities for a Microsoft Excel Proficient and Expert user detailed in the Microsoft Office User Specialist Program guidelines. Complete coverage of relevant topics and tasks for becoming a proficient Microsoft Word 97 userMicrosoft Word 97 is part of Office 97 - the fastest selling application suite ever. Word is the most widely used word processor. Word books are the best selling of any of the Office applicationsNew and unique "also known as" indexing technique make Using Windows Word 97, Third Edition gives the reader the fastest method of finding informationExpert author is a teacher, independent consultant and a Certified Microsoft User Specialist.
Dreamweaver 4: Introduction (Windows) (Paperback & CD), 1st edition
Authors: Len Sitnick
Venue:  (2001)

:Dreamweaver 4 Introduction is a hands-on instruction book that will introduce you to the basics of the Macromedia Dreamweaver 4.0 Web development application.
How to Use Microsoft Office 2000
Authors: Sherry Kinkoph
Venue:  (1999)

:How to Use Microsoft Office 2000 covers all Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, and Internet Explorer). The focus of coverage is on the core features that you need to understand on an ongoing basis. The book also covers the new features, such as web collaboration, to give you a feel for the power of this new suite and whet your appetite to learn more.
A communication library to support concurrent programming courses
Authors: Steve Carr, Changpeng Fang, Tim Jozwowski, Jean Mayo, Ching-Kuang Shene
Venue: ACM SIGCSE Bulletin (2002)

A number of communication libraries have been written to support concurrent programming. For a variety of reasons, these libraries generally are not well-suited for use in undergraduate courses. We have written a communication library uniquely tailored to an academic environment. The library provides two levels of communication abstraction (topology and channel) and supports communication among threads, processes on the same machine, and processes on different machines, via a unified interface. The routines facilitate controlled message loss along channels and can be integrated with an existing graphical tool that supports visualization of the communication that occurs. An editor has been developed for automatic code generation for arbitrary topologies via a graphical interface. All these tools run over Solaris, Linux, and Windows.
Flash 5 in an Instant, 1st edition
Authors: Marangraphics, Marangraphics Staff
Venue:  (2001)

:Are you a visual learner who needs results  right away? Do you prefer to focus on the essentials  and skip the bells and whistles? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you'll find extra-large, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle over 100 key Flash 5 tasks, from drawing a custom line and adding text to creating a motion tween and assigning button actions.Fast coverage of the essentials helps you get right to workFocused two-page lessons cover a single taskVisual format shows you step by step how it's donein an instant "Your books are extraordinary. I buy them for friends, family, and colleagues." Christine J. Manfrin (Castle Rock, CO)Author Biography: Michael S. Toot is an author and software program manager in the Seattle area. He is an MCSE and MCP+I and has been involved with Microsoft operating systems since 1992. He has written a book on Windows 2000 Server and enjoys learning new programs and operating systems, even those not from Microsoft. When not working or writing books, he is reading, sailing, writing movie reviews, fiction, and nonfiction, and conducting adventures in home renovation and repair on his ninety-three year old home.
Micro Focus Workbench: Developing Mainframe COBOL Applications on the PC
Authors: Alida M. Jatich, Phil Nowak
Venue:  (1992)

:This vital programming tool is a COBOL application development environment that includes an editor, a debugger, SQL support and utilities all in addition to a mainframe-compatible COBOL/2 compiler. Offers a complete, step-by-step overview of such Workbench fundamentals as installation, main menus, editing and more. Details the use of Checker and Animator for syntax checking and fast code debugging and provides comprehensive guidance for creating, down-loading, converting and testing applications from PC to mainframe.
MCSE, Internet Information Server 4 Study Guide, 3rd edition
Authors: Matthew Strebe, Charles Perkins
Venue:  (2000)

:Here's the book you need to prepare for Exam 70-087, Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0. This Microsoft Certified Professional Approved Study Guide provides: Full coverage of every exam objective--all the information you need to know Practical information on implementing IIS in a real-world environment Hundreds of challenging review questions in the book and on the CD Cutting-edge exam prep software, including product simulations and electronic flashcards
Building and supporting a massive data infrastructure for the masses
Authors: Anurag Shankar, Gustav Meglicki, Jeff Russ, Haichuan Yang, E. Chris Garrison
Venue: Proceedings of the 30th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference on User services (2002)

On a typical university campus, the words "massive data storage" (MDS) usually bring to mind technology high-end, high performance computing (HPC) users might use. This is because academic supercomputer sites have traditionally provided a tightly interwoven HPC and high performance, MDS fabric to their users for decades. However, a new paradigm in data storage is now emerging where large, central, hierarchical storage management (HSM) services may play an increasingly important role in the non-HPC, general, academic user environment. For this user segment, information technology (particularly storage) is beginning to play a vital role in research. Personal computers or departmental storage systems are no longer adequate to store or to back up data. In fact, data volumes today are growing exponentially, without a concomitant increase in the human resources required to manage them. At Indiana University (IU), with around 100,000 users distributed geographically over eight campuses throughout the state of Indiana, we have started tackling these issues head on. Considerable thought, planning, and recent experiences lead us to conclude that extending a traditionally high-end, MDS system to "the masses" is a viable model for a large, research institution. Using the High Performance Storage System (HPSS) HSM software at IU, we have built a scalable storage infrastructure with a current capacity of 500 terabytes (TB hereafter; 1 TB = 1,000 gigabytes). Using a combination of secure, file system interface to HPSS and gateway software, we have extended the reach of this high-end HSM system over the network to all eight campuses of IU. It is now possible for a user at IU to easily and securely store and to retrieve terabytes of data from their Unix, Linux, Windows, Macintosh desktops or via the Web from anywhere. We have also developed a geographically distributed storage system that operates over a wide area network (WAN) between our Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses, located nearly fifty miles apart. We have recently implemented remote mirroring of data across this WAN for disaster recovery.In this paper, we provide an overview of Indiana University's distributed, massive data storage service infrastructure. We also discuss how it is being used and supported today at IU and how it is making an impact in research areas that have been poorly represented or un-represented among high-end information technology (IT) users in the past.
Illustrator 9 Bible
Authors: Ted Alspach, Kelly Murdock
Venue:  (2000)

:This definitive guide, written by the Adobe's Illustrator product manager, covers every new feature of the product and includes a new chapter focusing on techniques from selected Illustrator artists, whose original artwork is featured in 32 full-color pages.