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In silico analogues of epithelial cell growth and morphogenesis
Authors: Sean Kim, Mark Grant, Sunwoo Park, C. Anthony Hunt
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

We present simulation models of in vitro cell culture systems and their application in systematic exploration of the simulated cell growth mechanisms and their impairment in epithelial morphogenesis. Our referent systems are in vitro cell cultures commonly used for studies of morphogenetic processes that underlie the development of the embryo and its organ systems. We have constructed discrete event, agent-based models with agent rules that capture posited processes of cell proliferation and death involved in the formation of multicellular epithelial structures such as cysts and tubules. We report on their application in exploring the phenotypic consequences of disabling the simulated processes, and show that varying degrees of the disablement cause different growth patterns to emerge, including a cancer-like phenotype.
Clarifying the effects of internet monitoring on job attitudes: the mediating role of employee trust
Authors: G. Stoney Alder, Terry W. Noel, Maureen L. Ambrose
Venue: Information and Management (2006)

The Internet is a fast growing mechanism for providing workplace monitoring. We examined how its implementation affects employees' trust in the organization. We hypothesized that giving employees advance notice of monitoring and providing them a justification for it would enhance their trust. We investigated how employees' perceptions of organizational support prior to monitoring moderated these relationships by conducting a longitudinal field experiment. We found that advance notice and perceived organizational support exerted significant main and interactive effects on post-implementation trust. In turn, trust significantly affected employees' job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and turnover intentions.
A theory of formal microprograms
Authors: T. Ito
Venue: ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter (1973)

This paper attempts to formulate a mathematical theory of microprogramming, along with Glushkov's approach on formal microprogram transformations. In particular, we have attempted to construct an algebraic theory of formal microprograms.
Information Development: Managing Your Documentation Projects, Portfolio, and People
Authors: JoAnn T. Hackos
Venue:  (2006)

A revolutionary new resource that brings documentation product management ideas up to dateThe 1994 bestselling classic Managing Your Documentation Projects set the industry standard for technical documentation. However, since then, much has changed in the world of information development. With this new title, JoAnn Hackos looks beyond the structured project of the 1980s and 1990s. Instead, she focuses on the rapidly changing projects of the 21st century and addresses how to introduce agile information development without neglecting the central focus of planning information design and development around the needs of information users.As an information-development manager, you are expected to reduce costs and project time, do more work with fewer resources and less money, and increase the value of the information you deliver. Recognizing this, Hackos has carefully designed this book to help you do precisely that. She helps you make strategic decisions about information development and directs the discussion of project management toward smarter decision-making.An update of the original 1994 Information Process Maturity Model (IPMM) presents you with a method by which you can compare the state of your organization to others, evaluate your current status, and then consider what is necessary in order to move to the next level.Information Development offers a completely new look at best practices for all phases of the document development lifecycle, including: Managing a corporate information portfolio Evaluating process maturity Partnering with customers and developing user scenarios Developing team effectiveness and collaboration Planning and monitoring information projects Managing translation and production Evaluating project performance Managing for quality, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness The companion Web site includes electronic versions of the templates and checklists featured in the book.Wiley Technology Publishing Timely. Practical. Reliable.Visit our Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/
More About Software Requirements: Thorny Issues and Practical Advice
Authors: Karl E. Wiegers
Venue:  (2005)

A must-have for software developers and architects, this brief follow-up to the bestselling Software Requirements, Second Edition, gives practical, proven, real-world techniques for gathering and managing software requirements.
Single trial-based prediction of a go/no-go decision in monkey superior colliculus
Authors: Ryohei P. Hasegawa, Yukako T. Hasegawa, Mark A. Segraves
Venue: Neural Networks (2006)

While some decision-making processes often result in the generation of an observable action, for example eye or limb movements, others may prevent actions and occur without an overt behavioral response. To understand how these decisions are made, one must look directly at their neuronal substrates. We trained two monkeys on a go/no-go task which requires a saccade to a peripheral cue stimulus (go) or maintenance of fixatior (no-go). We performed binary regressions on the activity of single neurons in the superior colliculus (SC), with the go/no-go decision as a predictor variable, and constructed a virtual decision function (VDF) designed to provide a good estimation of decision content and its timing in a single trial decision process. Post hoc analyses by VDF correctly predicted the monkey's choice in more than 80% of trials. These results suggest that monitoring of SC activity has sufficient capacity to predict go/no-go decisions on a trial-by-trial basis.
Single-dimension software pipelining for multidimensional loops
Authors: Hongbo Rong, Zhizhong Tang, R. Govindarajan, Alban Douillet, Guang R. Gao
Venue: ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO) (2007)

Traditionally, software pipelining is applied either to the innermost loop of a given loop nest or from the innermost loop to outer loops. This paper proposes a three-step approach, called single-dimension software pipelining (SSP), to software pipeline a loop nest at an arbitrary loop level that has a rectangular iteration space and contains no sibling inner loops in it. The first step identifies the most profitable loop level for software pipelining in terms of initiation rate, data reuse potential, or any other optimization criteria. The second step simplifies the multidimensional data-dependence graph (DDG) of the selected loop level into a one-dimensional DDG and constructs a one-dimensional (1D) schedule. Based on the one-dimensional schedule, the third step derives a simple mapping function that specifies the schedule time for the operation instances in the multidimensional loop. The classical modulo scheduling is subsumed by SSP as a special case. SSP is also closely related to hyperplane scheduling, and, in fact, extends it to be resource constrained. We prove that SSP schedules are correct and at least as efficient as those schedules generated by traditional modulo scheduling methods. We extend SSP to schedule imperfect loop nests, which are most common at the instruction level. Multiple initiation intervals are naturally allowed to improve execution efficiency. Feasibility and correctness of our approach are verified by a prototype implementation in the ORC compiler for the IA-64 architecture, tested with loop nests from Livermore and SPEC2000 floating-point benchmarks. Preliminary experimental results reveal that, compared to modulo scheduling, software pipelining at an appropriate loop level results in significant performance improvement. Software pipelining is beneficial even with prior loop transformations.
Identity verification through finger matching: A comparison of Support Vector Machines and Gaussian Basis Functions classifiers
Authors: R. Brunelli
Venue: Pattern Recognition Letters (2006)

The paper presents a people identity verification system based on the matching of top view finger snapshots, supplementing purely geometrical finger shape comparison with textural information. Low dimensional feature vectors are used to train binary classifiers based on small Gaussian Basis Functions networks which, in this task, are able to match Support Vector Machines performance while outperforming them in runtime efficiency, thereby exposing a different facet in the comparison which complements available literature reports.
Using simulation, data mining, and knowledge discovery techniques for optimized aircraft engine fleet management
Authors: Michael K. Painter, Madhav Erraguntla, Gary L. Hogg,  Jr., Brian Beachkofski
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

This paper presents an innovative methodology that combines simulation, data mining, and knowledge-based techniques to determine the near- and long-term impacts of candidate aircraft engine maintenance decisions, particularly in terms of life-cycle cost (LCC) and operational availability. Simulation output is subjected to data mining analysis to understand system behavior in terms of subsystem interactions and the factors influencing life-cycle metrics. The insights obtained through this exercise are then encapsulated as policies and guidelines supporting better life-cycle asset ownership decision-making.
Localized Credit Based QoS Routing: Performance Evaluation Using
Authors: Saad H. Alabbad, M. E. Woodward
Venue: Proceedings of the 39th annual Symposium on Simulation (2006)

Localized Quality of Service (QoS) routing has recently been proposed as a viable alternative approach to traditional QoS routing algorithms that use global state information. In this approach, problems associated with maintaining global state information and the staleness of such information are avoided by having the source nodes to infer the network QoS state based on flow blocking statistics collected locally, and perform flow routing using this localized view of the network QoS state . In this paper we introduce a credit based routing algorithm (cbr) which is a simple yet effective localized QoS routing algorithm. We compare its performance against the localized proportional sticky routing (psr) algorithm same time complexity. using different types of network topologies, QoS requirements and traffic patterns and under a wide range of traffic loads. Extensive simulations show that our algorithm outperforms the psr algorithm with the
A colorization algorithm based on local MAP estimation
Authors: Hideki Noda, Jin Korekuni, Michiharu Niimi
Venue: Pattern Recognition (2006)

This paper presents a colorization algorithm which adds color to monochrome images. In this paper, the colorization problem is formulated as the maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation of a color image given a monochrome image. Markov random field (MRF) is used for modeling a color image which is utilized as a prior for the MAP estimation. The MAP estimation problem for a whole image is decomposed into local MAP estimation problems for each pixel. Using 0.6% of whole pixels as references, the proposed method produced pretty high quality color images with 25.7-32.6dB PSNR values for eight images.
An efficient numerical quadrature for the calculation of the potential energy of wavefunctions expressed in the Daubechies wavelet basis
Authors: A. I. Neelov, S. Goedecker
Venue: Journal of Computational Physics (2006)

An efficient numerical quadrature is proposed for the approximate calculation of the potential energy in the context of pseudo potential electronic structure calculations with Daubechies wavelet and scaling function basis sets. Our quadrature is also applicable in the case of adaptive spatial resolution. Our theoretical error estimates are confirmed by numerical test calculations of the ground state energy and wavefunction of the harmonic oscillator in one dimension with and without adaptive resolution. As a byproduct we derive a filter, which, upon application on the scaling function coefficients of a smooth function, renders the approximate grid values of this function. This also allows for a fast calculation of the charge density from the wavefunction.
Cross-layer adaptive techniques for throughput enhancement in wireless OFDM-based networks
Authors: Iordanis Koutsopoulos, Leandros Tassiulas
Venue: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON) (2006)

Although independent consideration of layers simplifies wireless system design, it is inadequate since: 1) it does not consider the effect of co-channel user interference on higher layers; 2) it does not address the impact of local adaptation actions on overall performance; and 3) it attempts to optimize performance at one layer while keeping parameters of other layers fixed. Cross-layer adaptation techniques spanning several layers improve performance and provide better quality of service for users across layers. In this study, we consider a synergy between the physical and access layers and address the joint problem of channel allocation, modulation level, and power control in a multicell network. Since performance is determined by channel reuse, it is important to handle co-channel interference appropriately by constructing co-channel user sets and by assigning transmission parameters so that achievable system rate is maximized. The problem is considered for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing, which introduces novel challenges to resource allocation due to different quality of subcarriers for users and existing transmit power constraints. We study the structure of the problem and present two classes of centralized heuristic algorithms. The first one considers each subcarrier separately and sequentially allocates users from different base stations in the subcarrier based on different criteria, while the second is based on water-filling across subcarriers in each cell. Our results show that the first class of heuristics performs better and quantify the impact of different parameters on system performance.
Special Edition Using Office Microsoft FrontPage 2003
Authors: Paul Colligan, Jim Cheshire
Venue:  (2003)

Special Edition Using Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 captures the reality of designing Web sites with FrontPage today. The emphasis is on how to design professional looking sites, how to keep them current with effective content management techniques, and how to do both while working toward the crucial goals of strong communication and interaction.Elements exist in each chapter that have been crafted to make your reading experience as easy and useful as possible and also to make this book truly serve as the only reference you need for FrontPage 2003. Everything about the software is covered, with increased emphasis in this edition on advanced topics such as scripting, databases, and the design of site interaction. The creation of effective interaction is featured throughout the book, as are the principles of effective communication.The "Front and Center" area of each chapter is used to interject the authors' real-world experiences and provide that extra piece of knowledge that will help you see the whole picture. They also attempt to have a little fun in this section, showing the personal side to the product they have spent so much time with.In addition to some sample files and source code from the book, the CD-ROM contains: supplemental FrontPage software (a $100 value!), Internet marketing service trials from a top Internet marketing firm worth $54.95, several popular FrontPage add-ins, including one from Jimco Add-ins called SnipView available exclusively to readers of this book, and more!
Optimizing web search using social annotations
Authors: Shenghua Bao, Guirong Xue, Xiaoyuan Wu, Yong Yu, Ben Fei, Zhong Su
Venue: Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web (2007)

This paper explores the use of social annotations to improve websearch. Nowadays, many services, e.g. del.icio.us, have been developed for web users to organize and share their favorite webpages on line by using social annotations. We observe that the social annotations can benefit web search in two aspects: 1) the annotations are usually good summaries of corresponding webpages; 2) the count of annotations indicates the popularity of webpages. Two novel algorithms are proposed to incorporate the above information into page ranking: 1) SocialSimRank (SSR)calculates the similarity between social annotations and webqueries; 2) SocialPageRank (SPR) captures the popularity of webpages. Preliminary experimental results show that SSR can find the latent semantic association between queries and annotations, while SPR successfully measures the quality (popularity) of a webpage from the web users' perspective. We further evaluate the proposed methods empirically with 50 manually constructed queries and 3000 auto-generated queries on a dataset crawledfrom delicious. Experiments show that both SSR and SPRbenefit web search significantly.
Interactive animation of dynamic manipulation
Authors: Yeuhi Abe, Jovan Popović
Venue: Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics symposium on Computer animation (2006)

Lifelike animation of object manipulation requires dynamic interaction between animated characters, objects, and their environment. These interactions can be animated automatically with physically based simulations but proper controls are needed to animate characters that move realistically and that accomplish tasks in spite of unexpected disturbances. This paper describes an efficient control algorithm that generates realistic animations by incorporating motion data into task execution. The end result is a versatile system for interactive animation of dynamic manipulation tasks such as lifting, catching, and throwing.
A study of factors that affect user intentions toward email service switching
Authors: Gimun Kim, Bongsik Shin, Ho Geun Lee
Venue: Information and Management (2006)

Internet portals have long been using email services to attract new members and retain existing customers. Recent announcements by major Internet portals of increases in email storage capacity demonstrate this strategy. It is, however, uncertain how people react to such announcements. We wished to understand the mechanisms associated with users' intention to switch their current email service provider. Key variables pertaining to customer satisfaction with email service, attractive alternatives, and switching cost were examined to explain the dynamics of switching. An empirical study based on 1408 survey responses confirmed the importance of user satisfaction for service continuation. The variables attractive alternatives and continuity cost also demonstrated strong association with intention to switch. We found that the variable attractive alternatives moderated the relationship between customer satisfaction and intention to switch, but a moderating effect of switching cost was not found. Our investigation indicated that the findings of extant studies on the dynamics of service switching or re-purchase also apply to email services.
HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide (6th Edition)
Authors: Chuck Musciano, Bill Kennedy
Venue:  (2006)

"...lucid, in-depth descriptions of the behavior of every HTML tag on every major browser and platform, plus enough dry humor to make the book a pleasure to read." --Edward Mendelson, PC Magazine "When they say 'definitive' they're not kidding." --Linda Roeder, About.comPut everthing you need to know about HTML & XHTML at your fingertips. For nearly a decade, hundreds of thousands of web developers have turned to HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide to master standards-based web development. Truly a definitive guide, the book combines a unique balance of tutorial material with a comprehensive reference that even the most experienced web professionals keep close at hand. From basic syntax and semantics to guidelines aimed at helping you develop your own distinctive style, this classic is all you need to become fluent in the language of web design.The new sixth edition guides you through every element of HTML and XHTML in detail, explaining how each element works and how it interacts with other elements. You'll also find detailed discussions of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), which is intricately related to web page development. The most all-inclusive, up-to-date book on these languages available, this edition covers HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, and CSS2, with a preview of the upcoming XHTML2 and CSS3. Other topics include the newer initiatives in XHTML (XForms, XFrames, and modularization) and the essentials of XML for advanced readers. You'll learn how to:Use style sheets to control your document's appearanceWork with programmatically generated HTMLCreate tables, both simple and complexUse frames to coordinate sets of documentsDesign and build interactive forms and dynamic documentsInsert images, sound files, video, Java applets, and JavaScript programsCreate documents that look good on a variety of browsersThe authors apply a natural learning approach that uses straightforward language and plenty of examples. Throughout the book, they offer suggestions for style and composition to help you decide how to best use HTML and XHTML to accomplish a variety of tasks. You'll learn what works and what doesn't, and what makes sense to those who view your web pages and what might be confusing. Written for anyone who wants to learn the language of the Web--from casual users to the full-time design professionals--this is the single most important book on HTML and XHTML you can own.Bill Kennedy is chief technical officer of MobileRobots, Inc. When not hacking new HTML pages or writing about them, "Dr. Bill" (Ph.D. in biophysics from Loyola University of Chicago) is out promoting the company's line of mobile, autonomous robots that can be used for artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic research, and education.Chuck Musciano began his career as a compiler writer and crafter of tools at Harris Corporations' Advanced Technology Group and is now a manager of Unix Systems in Harris' Corporate Data Center.
Combining inductive and deductive tools for data analysis
Authors: Sergio Greco, Elio Masciari, Luigi Pontieri
Venue: AI Communications (2001)

In this paper we propose the combined use of different methods to improve the data analysis process. This is obtained by combining inductive and deductive techniques. We also use different inductive techniques such as clustering algorithms, to derive data partition, and decision trees induction, characterizing classes in terms of logical rules. Inductive techniques are used for generating hypotheses from data whereas deductive techniques are used to derive knowledge and to verify hypotheses. In order to guide users in the analysis process, we have developed a system which integrates deductive tools and data mining tools such as classification algorithms, features selection algorithms, visualization tools and tools to manipulate data sets easily. The system developed is currently used in a large project whose aim is the integration of information sources containing data concerning the socio&dash;economic aspects of Calabria and its subsequent analysis. Several experiments on the socio&dash;economic data have shown that the combined use of different techniques improves both the comprehensibility and the accuracy of models.