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Efficiency of Local Search with Multiple Local Optima
Authors: Josselin Garnier, Leila Kallel
Venue: SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics (2002)

The first contribution of this paper is a theoretical investigation of combinatorial optimization problems. Their landscapes are specified by the set of neighborhoods of all points of the search space. The aim of the paper consists of the estimation of the number N of local optima and the distributions of the sizes $(\alpha_j)$ of their attraction basins. For different types of landscapes we give precise estimates of the size of the random sample that ensures that at least one point lies in each attraction basin. A practical methodology is then proposed for identifying these quantities ($N$ and $(\alpha_j)$ distributions) for an unknown landscape, given a random sample of starting points and a local steepest ascent search. This methodology can be applied to any landscape specified with a modification operator and provides bounds on search complexity to detect all local optima. Experiments demonstrate the efficiency of this methodology for guiding the choice of modification operators, eventually leading to the design of problem-dependent optimization heuristics.
Design guidelines for the lab component of objects-first CS1
Authors: Hamzeh Roumani
Venue: Proceedings of the 33rd SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education (2002)

We adopt the view that CS1 labs are not programming assignments, and that they should not be used for grading students or assessing their level of understanding. Instead, we think of them as teaching instruments that complement lectures by teaching the same material but in an exploratory fashion. But for labs to play this pedagogical role, certain conditions must be met in terms of how they are written and the complexity they expose. In this paper we present guidelines for designing the labs and the Java packages that must accompany them, with special emphasis on software engineering. Our own experience with implementing these guidelines, together with a few samples, is included.
The Breakdown of Superconductivity Due to Strong Fields for the Ginzburg--Landau Model
Authors: T. Giorgi, D. Phillips
Venue: SIAM Review (2002)

We study the behavior of a superconducting material subjected to a constant applied magnetic field, $\bH_a=h\bee$ with $|\bee|=1$, using the Ginzburg--Landau theory. We analytically show the existence of a critical field $\oh,$ for which, when $h>\oh,$ the normal states are the only solutions to the Ginzburg--Landau equations. We estimate $\oh$. As $\k\downarrow 0$ we derive $\oh=O(1)$, while as $\k\to\infty$ we obtain $\oh=O(\k)$.
Windows 2000 Enterprise Storage Solutions (The Mark Minasi Windows 2000 Series)
Authors: J. Peter Bruzzese, Chris Wolf
Venue:  (2002)

:If your organization's storage needs are modest, you'll benefit from this book. But if they're big, and if they're complicated, then you really can't afford to be without it. Windows 2000 Enterprise Storage Solutions helps you take advantage of all the storage technologies that Windows 2000 supports, teaching you, step-by-step, the standard and advanced techniques for managing data. Hundreds of clear, consistent examples illustrate these techniques in detail -- so you stay on track and accomplish all your storage goals.
Peter Norton's Guide to Access 2000 Programming
Authors: Peter Norton, Virginia Andersen
Venue:  (1999)

:Peter Norton's Guide to Access 2000 Programming provides a bridge between Access 2000 as an efficient front-end development tool and the intricate world of Visual Basic programming. It is intended to offer the necessary tools for managing information in all levels of business from large offices to entrepreneurs and consultants. Not only does this book address Access 2000 programming in a clear style full of illustrations and examples, it also presents four case studies of complete database applications development. Each case relates to a different use for databases ranging from a straightforward data storage and retrieval system to a complex decision support system with dynamic Web pages.
An Analysis of Smoothing Effects of Upwinding Strategies for the Convection-Diffusion Equation
Authors: Howard C. Elman, Alison Ramage
Venue: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (2002)

Using a technique for constructing analytic expressions for discrete solutions to the convection-diffusion equation, we examine and characterize the effects of upwinding strategies on solution quality. In particular, for grid-aligned flow and discretization based on bilinear finite elements with streamline upwinding, we show precisely how the amount of upwinding included in the discrete operator affects solution oscillations and accuracy when different types of boundary layers are present. This analysis provides a basis for choosing a streamline upwinding parameter which also gives accurate solutions for problems with non-grid-aligned and variable speed flows. In addition, we show that the same analytic techniques provide insight into other discretizations, such as a finite difference method that incorporates streamline diffusion and the isotropic artificial diffusion method.
C# in a Nutshell, 1st edition
Authors: Peter Drayton, Ben Albahari, Ted Neward
Venue:  (2002)

:C# in a Nutshell provides all C# programmers with a concise and thorough reference to the language in one straightforward and accessible volume. Designed as a handbook for daily use, this book is an essential guide to the C# language and the base class APIs of the .NET Framework. Programmers will want to keep this book next to their keyboards for years to come. The heart of this book is a succinct but detailed reference to the C# language and the .NET types most essential to C# programmers. Each chapter in the API reference begins with an overview of a .NET namespace and a diagram of its types, and provides a quick-reference entry for each type, with name, assembly, category, description, member availability, class hierarchy, and other relevant information, such as whether the type is part of the ECMA CLI specification.
WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows for Dummies, 2nd edition
Authors: Margaret Levine Young, David C. Kay
Venue:  (1994)

:WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows is loaded with great features to help you format documents attractively and do things like mail-merging and indexing more efficiently. Whether you're doing the basic stuff like composing letters or advanced things like creating newsletters, brochures, technical reports, or book manuscripts, WordPerfect 6.1 For Windows For Dummies shows you how to do what you need to do -- quickly. In true ...For Dummies style, this is one book you won1t have to plow through from beginning to end before you can get down to work.
PICCOLA---a small composition language
Authors: Franz Achermann, Markus Lumpe, Jean-Guy Schneider, Oscar Nierstrasz
Venue: Formal methods for distributed processing: a survey of object-oriented approaches (2001)

Although object-oriented languages are well-suited to implement software components, they fail to shine in the construction of component-based applications, largely because object-oriented design tends to obscure a component-based architecture. We propose to tackle this problem by clearly separating component implementation and composition. In particular, we claim that application development is best supported by consciously applying the paradigm 'Applications = Components + Scripts'. In this chapter we introduce PICCOLA, a small 'composition language' that embodies this paradigm. PICCOLA models components and compositional abstractions by means of communicating concurrent agents. Flexibility, extensibility and robustness are obtained by modelling both interfaces of components and the contexts in which they live by 'forms', a special notion of extensible records. Using a concrete example, we illustrate how PICCOLA offers explicit support for viewing applications as compositions of components and show that separating components from their composition improves maintainability.
Digital Dimensioning: Finding the Ebusiness in Your Business
Authors: Samuel C. Certo, Matthew W. Certo
Venue:  (2001)

:"Digital Dimensioning is designed to ensure that ebusiness initiatives introduced into an organization will work with, not against, its core strengths. This lively, timely book contains clear, pragmatic steps for determining which ebusiness characteristics best complement your organization, and for implementing those elements immediately in order to become or remain competitive. Its Survey for Improving Analysis of the Digital Environment, Survey for Improving Digital Support, and other practical, innovative tools will help you to: comprehend the critical hardware and software issues related to ebusiness; understand factors both inside and outside your organization that can impact its online presence; ensure that your current ebusiness efforts are headed in the right direction - and change course if they are not; coordinate management and workforce to ensure effective ebusiness implementation; set standards of acceptable ebusiness performance and determine if they are met; and build an organizational culture to ensure that ebusiness efforts will succeed over the long run."--BOOK JACKET.
10 Minute Guide to Internet Explorer 4, 1st edition
Authors: Joseph Lowery, Joseph W. Habraken
Venue:  (1998)

:The 10 Minute Guide to Internet Explorer 4 will help users quickly come up to speed on the new and existing features of the new release of Internet Explorer. The book will teach users the basics features and functions of Internet Explorer through mini-tutorials, each of which can be completed in 10 minutes or less. Timesaving Tips, Plain English definitions, and Panic Button advice help users throughout.The World Wide Web continues to be the #1 Internet application and is now more popular than e-mailMore than 2 million people have downloaded IE 4 in the month that it has been available.As Microsoft has stepped up its efforts to gain market share in the browser war, millions of users have moved to Internet Explorer, making it the fastest growing product in the category.
Hitman: Codename 47
Authors: Prima Temp Authors, Michael Knight
Venue:  (2000)

:The fine art of assassination never looked so good. Join 47, the genetically engineered hitman as he shadows marks and hunts down human prey in this stealthy FIRST PERSON SHOOTER. HITMAN: CODENAME 47PRIMAS OFFICIAL STRATEGY GUIDE gives away the best tricks of the trade when it comes to a well rehearsed hit. As 47, youll journey through five major world cities in search of your marks. Clean shots and a cleaner getaway earn you a reputation, and with the virtual world provided by the new Glacier game engine, its easy to get lost. HITMAN: CODENAME 47PRIMAS OFFICIAL STRATEGY GUIDE will keep you on your marks trails, with guides to guns, ammo, maps, targets, vehicles and sniping. Dont expect to survive long in this underworld without PRIMA.
"SGP": a simple graphics package
Authors: Richard E. Putnam, Ralph L. Carmichael
Venue: ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics (1976)

This paper presents a simple scheme for manipulating graphical information. The basic idea is to generate a user-readable, and therefore editable, file of device-independent picture descriptions. This file would typically be created by a set of FORTRAN-callable subroutines, each having a specific function (draw a vector, draw an axis, write text), but could be created in more direct ways by a user sufficiently familiar with the file structure. Once such a file has been created and perhaps examined and edited, a postprocessor may be selected to translate the file into the device-dependent instructions necessary to produce a picture on a specific device. If the file is saved, a different postprocessor could obviously be used later to generate the same picture on another device.
Professional Ado 2.5
Authors: David Sussman, McCarthy, James Conard, John Papa, Brian Matsik, Simon Robinson, Ian Blackburn
Venue:  (1999)

:The release of ADO revolutionized data access by providing a universal means of accessing data from both relational and non-relational sources. ADO has been growing steadily in functionality since its inception: ADO 2.1 added extensions for data definition and security, and support for multi-dimensional data. ADO 2.5, to be released with Windows 2000, adds even more functionality, including two completely new objects for manipulating streams of text or binary data, and for managing objects within the file system. It also includes a new data provider for accessing web resources. This book provides in-depth coverage of all aspects of programming with ADO 2.5, and provides you with all the information necessary to fully exploit this exciting new technology in your data-centric applications.
Principles of Information Systems: A Managerial Approach, 4th edition
Authors: Ralph M. Stair, George Walter Reynolds
Venue:  (1999)

:Principles of Information Systems, Fourth Edition brings to readers the cutting edge of technology, in a introductory framework that stresses the most current and common business applications of that technology.
Making Money with Your Computer at Home: The inside Information You Need to Know to Select and Operate a Full-Time, Part-Time, or Add-on Business That, 2nd edition
Authors: Paul Edwards, Sarah Edwards
Venue:  (1997)

:More than 24 million self-employed Americans work from home in income-producing businesses. Now "the gurus of the home office" (Computer Currents) show readers how they can make use of their computer to start and operate a successful home-based business.
Finite Wordlength Analysis and Adaptive Decoding for Turbo/MAP Decoders
Authors: Zhongfeng Wang, Hiroshi Suzuki, Keshab K. Parhi
Venue: Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems (2001)

Turbo decoders inherently require large hardware for VLSI implementation as a large amount of memory is required to store incoming data and intermediate computation results. Design of highly efficient Turbo decoders requires reduction of hardware size and power consumption. In this paper, finite precision effects on the performance of Turbo decoders are analyzed and the optimal word lengths of variables are determined considering tradeoffs between the performance and the hardware cost. It is shown that the performance degradation from the infinite precision is negligible if 4 bits are used for received bits and 6 bits for the extrinsic information. The state metrics normalization method suitable for Turbo decoders is also discussed. This method requires small amount of hardware and its speed does not depend on the number of states. Furthermore, we propose a novel adaptive decoding approach which does not lead to performance degradation and is suitable for VLSI implementation.
Wrox Visual Basic Enterprise Developer's Resource Kit
Authors: Rockford Lhotka, Joseph Moniz
Venue:  (1999)

:This bundle is for aspiring or competent VB developers who are looking to move their programming to another level and deploy workable enterprise level solutions. These books explore the issues involved when creating scalable enterprise level systems and they show you great design and coding techniques that will allow you to overcome many of the performance problems faced by developers today. All aspects of enterprise systems are covered, from design through development to deployment. Both authors have developed unique ways of designing and building enterprise level systems using Visual Basic business objects and combine together to provide a valuable enterprise resource.
A Differential Calculus for Random Matrices with Applications to (max, +)-Linear Stochastic Systems
Authors: Bernd Heidergott
Venue: Mathematics of Operations Research (2001)

We introduce the concept of weak differentiability for random matrices and thereby obtain closed-form analytical expressions for derivatives of functions of random matrices. More specifically, we develop a calculus of weak differentiation for random matrices that resembles the standard calculus of differentiation. Our formalism enables us to (algebraically) calculate derivatives of finite-horizon performance measures of stochastic event graphs. More precisely, we develop a theory of weak differentiation for (max, +)-linear systems. The resulting derivatives provide unbiased estimators for gradients of finite-horizon performance measures. For various types of (max, +)-linear systems, we compute these estimators explicitly and state the corresponding gradient estimation algorithm.
Ownership, encapsulation and the disjointness of type and effect
Authors: Dave Clarke, Sophia Drossopoulou
Venue: Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications (2002)

Ownership types provide a statically enforceable notion of object-level encapsulation. We extend ownership types with computational effects to support reasoning about object-oriented programs. The ensuing system provides both access control and effects reporting. Based on this type system, we codify two formal systems for reasoning about aliasing and the disjointness of computational effects. The first can be used to prove that evaluation of two expressions will never lead to aliases, while the latter can be used to show the non-interference of two expressions.
Access 2000 Programming for Dummies
Authors: Rob Krumm
Venue:  (1999)

:Code Samples Get You Up and Running  Fast! The Secrets of Professional Database Development  Made Simple Whether you're an Access novice or an experienced Access developer, Access 2000 Programming For Dummies® is all you need to give your Access database applications the power and functionality you're looking for. This indispensable resource cuts through the confusion with practical, plain-English coverage of all the newest Access 2000 capabilities and step-by-step instructions for creating and testing custom applications. The bonus CD-ROM includes hundreds of lines of useful code to help you get started! Valuable Bonus CD Includes:*Author-generated sample code to give you an Access programming jump startShareware programs are fully functional, free trial versions of copyrighted programs. If you like particular programs, register with their authors for a nominal fee and receive licenses, enhanced versions, and technical support. Freeware programs are free, copyrighted games, applications, and utilities. You can copy them to as many PCs as you like  free  but they have no technical support. System Requirements: Pentium 75 or faster PC running Windows 95 or later, or Windows NT 4.0 or later; Microsoft Access 2000 installed; 32 MB RAM; CD-ROM drive, double-speed (2X) or faster. Inside, get expert advice on how to:*Publish your database information as easy-to-browse Web pages*Create custom in-house applications for tables, forms, and reports*Test your code reliably and efficiently*Build your own dialog boxes and customized wizards*Package and deploy your custom applications with the Package and DeploymentWizard*Harness the power of Access features like OLE/DDE*Use the VBA Error Handler to make code correction a snap*Build supercharged database applications using ActiveX controls and SQL statements
A Fully Asynchronous Multifrontal Solver Using Distributed Dynamic Scheduling
Authors: Patrick R. Amestoy, Iain S. Duff, Jean-Yves L'Excellent, Jacko Koster
Venue: SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (2001)

In this paper, we analyze the main features and discuss the tuning of the algorithms for the direct solution of sparse linear systems on distributed memory computers developed in the context of a long term European research project. The algorithms use a multifrontal approach and are especially designed to cover a large class of problems. The problems can be symmetric positive definite, general symmetric, or unsymmetric matrices, both possibly rank deficient, and they can be provided by the user in several formats. The algorithms achieve high performance by exploiting parallelism coming from the sparsity in the problem and that available for dense matrices. The algorithms use a dynamic distributed task scheduling technique to accommodate numerical pivoting and to allow the migration of computational tasks to lightly loaded processors. Large computational tasks are divided into subtasks to enhance parallelism. Asynchronous communication is used throughout the solution process to efficiently overlap communication with computation.We illustrate our design choices by experimental results obtained on an SGI Origin 2000 and an IBM SP2 for test matrices provided by industrial partners in the PARASOL project.
Feature estimation for efficient streaming
Authors: Naveen Kumar Polapally, Raghu Machiraju, Dhabhaleshwar Panda
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE symposium on Volume visualization and graphics (2002)

In this paper we propose a method to estimate the number of primitives that are extracted from an iso-surface extraction procedure. A decimated version of the data is used to estimate the number of triangles at the finest resolution through a combinatorial audit of the features (iso-contours) and their changes across resolutions. The estimates allow for the efficient implementation of visualization pipelines across a spectrum of hardware platforms. We demonstrate the efficacy of our methods through suitable experiments with The Visible Woman dataset.
HTML 4 how to: With Cdrom with Cdrom
Authors: John Zakour, David Kerven
Venue:  (1997)

:HTML 4 How-To covers all aspects of HTML through version 4 including hot new topics such as Cascading Style Sheets, Dynamic HTML, and Dynamic Style Sheets. It provides in-depth information on HTML 4 in the practical, award winning How-To problem-solving format. HTML 4 How-To updates and enhances the highly successful HTML 3 How-To (1-57169-050-6) and HTML 3.2 Plus How-To. (1-57169-091-3). HTML 4 How-To covers the new HTML 4 specific authoring how-tos including rich forms and interactive documents, the ability for pages to be changed dynamically via scripting, frames and subsidiary windows, and multimedia objects. More than 240 HTML problems are presented in How Do I... format followed by a description of the problem and why it occurs, and detailed, step-by-step solutions including warnings and enhancements and alternate solutions as well as the actual code.Complete coverage of HTML 4 including hot topics such as Cascading Style Sheets, JavaScript Style Sheets, Dynamic HTML, and Dynamic Style Sheets (including layers)Provides over 240 practical, step-by-step solutions to HTML programming problemsThe CD-ROM includes all example documents, code, multimedia objects, Microsoft Internet Explorer, HTML editors, and easy-to-use Internet tools
Integrated Production Control Systems: Management, Analysis, Design, 2nd edition
Authors: David D. Bedworth, James E. Bailey
Venue:  (1999)

:Focuses on the quantitative approaches necessary to computer-integrated manufacturing systems, and integrates major topics covering all phases of the production control cycle: production information processing and flow, production planning, forecasting, material requirements planning and monetary control, and scheduling. This new edition features a compendium set of 11 user-friendly computer programs for the IBM PC that enhance the teaching power of the text, allowing readers to solve real-life problems. Among programs included are growth forecasting, aggregate planning, material requirements planning, lot sizing and inventory control, and limited-resource scheduling. The chapters on scheduling give particularly thorough coverage on this difficult subject. Solutions are clearly presented, with many examples and exercises included in the text.