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Data mining for improving the solder bumping process in the semiconductor packaging industry: Research Articles
Authors: Chen-Fu Chien, Huan-Chung Li, Angus Jeang
Venue: International Journal of Intelligent Systems in Accounting and Finance Management (2006)

Modern semiconductor manufacturing is very complex and expensive. Maintaining high quality and yield enhancement have been recognized as important factors to build core competences for semiconductor manufacturing companies. Data mining can find potentially useful information from huge databases. This paper proposes a data-mining framework based on decision-tree induction for improving the yield of the solder bumping process in which the various (physical and chemical) input variables that affect the bumping process exhibit highly complex interactions. We conducted an empirical study in a semiconductor fabrication facility in Taiwan to validate this approach. The results show that the proposed approach can effectively derive the causal relationships among controllable input process factors and the target class to enhance the yield. Copyright &copy; 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Mobile content enrichment
Authors: Karen Church, Barry Smyth
Venue: Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces (2007)

Delivering an effective mobile search service is challenging for many reasons. Certainly small-screen mobile handsets with limited text input capabilities do not make ideal search devices. In addition, the brevity of Mobile Internet content hampers effective indexing and limits retrieval opportunities. In this paper we focus on this indexing issue and describe an approach that leverages Web search engines as a source of content enrichment. We present an evaluation using a mobile news service that demonstrated significant improvements in search performance compared to a standard benchmark system.
An agent-based architecture for managing the provision of community care - the INCA (Intelligent Community Alarm) experience
Authors: Martin Beer, Richard Hill, Wei Huang, Andrew Sixsmith
Venue: AI Communications (2003)

Community care is an area that requires extensive cooperation between independent agencies, each of which needs to meet its own objectives and targets. None are engaged solely in the delivery of community care, and need to integrate the service with their other responsibilities in a coherent and efficient manner.Agent technology provides the means by which effective cooperation can take place without compromising the essential security of both the client and the agencies involved as the appropriate set of responses can be generated through negotiation between the parties without the need for access to the main information repositories that would be necessary with conventional collaboration models. The autonomous nature of agents also means that a variety of agents can cooperate together with various local capabilities, so long as they conform to the relevant messaging requirements. This allows a variety of agents, with capabilities tailored to the carers to which they are attached to be developed so that cost-effective solutions can be provided.
IBM System Storage Solutions Handbook
Venue:  (2006)

This IBM Redbook provides overviews and pointers for information about the most current IBM System Storage and TotalStorage products, showing how IBM delivers the right mix of products for nearly every aspect of business continuance and business efficiency. IBM TotalStorage products can help you store, safeguard, retrieve, and share your data. - First we introduce the basic storage solutions areas: information lifecycle management, infrastructure simplification, and business continuity. - Part 1 describes disk products, including the entire Disk Storage (DS) Series, from entry-level offerings to mid-range with the DS4000 family and DS6000, to high end with the DS8000. It also includes the DR550. - Part 2 is an overview of tape products, covering tape drives, tape libraries, and virtualization products, including LTO and 3590, and 3592 technology. - Part 3 starts by describing storage networking infrastructure and protocols, and then presents the switches and directors to form SAN solutions. - Part 4 discusses the IBM System Storage software portfolio for open systems and includes Storage Virtualization products, such as the SAN Volume Controller, TotalStorage Productivity Center, Tivoli Storage Manager, and ETL Expert. - Part 5 describes the z/OS storage management software: DFSMS and DFSORT. - Part 6 is the appendixes, which cover standards, such as Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S), Common Information Model (CIM), and Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM); also discussed is redundant array of independent disks (RAID). This redbook is intended as a reference for basic and comprehensive information about the IBM System Storage and TotalStorage products portfolio. This book provides a starting point when establishing your own enterprise storage environment. 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
General purpose emulation using the Hewlett-Packard 2100 minicomputer
Authors: Daniel W. Lewis
Venue: ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter (1979)

A taxanomy of methods for the implementation of general-purpose emulation projects on the Hewlett-Packard 2100 minicomputer is presented. The HP2100 is intended to be microprogrammed for instruction set extensions rather than general emulation. Problems encountered and solutions found through experience are discussed.
Specifying and simulating modern warfare scenarios with ITSimBw
Authors: Philipp Hügelmeyer, Timo Steffens, Thomas Zöller
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

The aim of this paper is the presentation of the military multi-agent simulation system ITSimBw. Its decisive features include a strictly agent-based approach to modeling, in which every entity in a simulated environment can potentially become an active element. Technologically, ITSimBw is based on the Flip-Tick-Architecture. Moreover, a focus on IT and communication aspects is one of its important characteristics. Additionally, the impact of scaling aspects in the design of scenarios and their support by the simulation system is addressed.As the utility of simulation strongly depends upon the quality of the employed scenarios, ITSimBw also contains a unique approach to scenario description, termed LAMPS (Language for Agent-based Modeling of Processes and Scenarios). LAMPS is based on high-level Petri-Nets and enables the specification of individual agent behavior as well as complex scenarios in a uniform way.
Foreword
Authors: Peter Sanders, Aravind Srinivasan, Berthold Voecking
Venue: Theory of Computing Systems (2006)

This special issue is devoted to selected papers that were presented at the 16th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), held in Barcelona, Spain, June 27-30, 2004. These papers represent subjects of classical and emerging interest in the broad area of parallelism, including fault-tolerance, adversarial queueing networks, peer-to-peer networks, graph partitionings, and distributed algorithms.
Database replication policies for dynamic content applications
Authors: Gokul Soundararajan, Cristiana Amza, Ashvin Goel
Venue: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Conference on Computer Systems 2006 (2006)

The database tier of dynamic content servers at large Internet sites is typically hosted on centralized and expensive hardware. Recently, research prototypes have proposed using database replication on commodity clusters as a more economical scaling solution. In this paper, we propose using database replication to support multiple applications on a shared cluster. Our system dynamically allocates replicas to applications in order to maintain application-level performance in response to either peak loads or failure conditions. This approach allows unifying load and fault management functionality. The main challenge in the design of our system is the lime taken to add database replicas. We present replica allocation policies that take this time delay into account and also design an efficient replica addition method that has minimal impact on other applications.We evaluate our dynamic replication system on a commodity cluster with two standard benchmarks: the TPC-W e-commerce benchmark and the RUBIS auction benchmark. Our evaluation shows that dynamic replication requires fewer resources than static partitioning or full overlap replication policies and provides over 90% latency compliance to each application under a range of load and failure scenarios.
SCoPE: an AspectJ compiler for supporting user-defined analysis-based pointcuts
Authors: Tomoyuki Aotani, Hidehiko Masuhara
Venue: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development (2007)

This paper proposes an approach called SCoPE, which supports user-defined analysis-based pointcuts in aspect-oriented programming (AOP) languages. The advantage of our approach is better integration with existing AOP languages than previous approaches. Instead of extending the language, SCoPE allows the programmer to write a pointcut that analyzes a program by using a conditional (if) pointcut with introspective reflection libraries. A compilation scheme automatically eliminates runtime tests for such a pointcut. The approach also makes effects of aspects visible to the analysis, which is essential for determining proper aspect interactions. We implemented a SCoPE compiler for the AspectJ language on top of the AspectBench compiler using a backpatching technique. The implementation efficiently finds analysis-based pointcuts, and generates woven code without runtime tests for those pointcuts. Our benchmark tests with JHotDraw and other programs showed that SCoPE compiles programs with less than 1% compile-time overhead, and generates a program that is as efficient as an equivalent program that uses merely static pointcuts.
802.11 Wireless Network Site Surveying and Installation (Networking Technology)
Authors: Bruce Alexander
Venue:  (2004)

The definitive guide to performing wireless network site surveys, selecting the right wireless equipment, and installing 802.11 wireless LANs Prepare for a WLAN installation with this definitive guide Perform a proper site survey to ensure the maximum performance of your 802.11 WLAN Compare and choose the right WLAN technologies to match application and users needs Install WLAN products properly taking the unique needs of the users and environment into accountPerforming a wireless LAN (WLAN) site survey before installing a wireless network is the key to any successful WLAN deployment. Yet each location and company have unique needs that must be taken into account. 802.11 Wireless Network Site Surveying and Installation helps you understand the challenges associated with any site survey, including multipath mitigation, reflection, absorption, and radio wave interference, plus the added complexity of user and application demands. This book helps you identify obstacles to a successful deployment and guides your equipment decisions to ensure that your WLAN reaches its maximum potential. Use this complete guide to understand the following components of any thorough site survey: The architecture of the access points, cable routes, and electrical needs The proper site survey technique and usage of appropriate utilities The structural and installation obstacles, including building construction, transmission coverage area, building contents, present cable configuration, area regulations, and building codes The documentation that outlines the necessary parts and equipment, and diagrams exhibiting the proper placement of the equipment802.11 Wireless Network Site Surveying and Installation begins with an introduction to WLAN architectures and definitions and then moves on to site survey methodologies, helping you assess and address your site's specific needs. The book delves into the installation process for WLAN equipment, including the rules and regulations to which WLANs must adhere, various obstacles that arise when installing WLAN equipment, and ways to connect WLAN products to the wired network.802.11 Wireless Network Site Surveying and Installation is your complete guide to performing a WLAN site survey and successfully installing your 802.11 wireless network.This book is part of the Networking Technology Series from Cisco Press"ï¾ which offers networking professionals valuable information for constructing efficient networks, understanding new technologies, and building successful careers. 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
Transformation Rules and Strategies for Functional-Logic Programs: Thesis
Authors: Ginés Moreno
Venue: AI Communications (2002)

This paper abstracts the contents of a PhD dissertation entitled &lsquo;Transformation Rules and Strategies for Functional-Logic Programs&rsquo; which has been recently defended. These techniques are based on fold/unfold transformations and they can be used to optimize integrated (functional-logic) programs for a wide class of applications. Experimental results shows that typical examples in the field of Artificial Intelligence are successfully enhanced by our transformation system SYNTH. The thesis presents the first approach of these methods for declarative languages that integrate the best features from functional and logic programming.
Improving the prediction accuracy of recommendation algorithms: Approaches anchored on human factors
Authors: George Lekakos, George M. Giaglis
Venue: Interacting with Computers (2006)

Recommender systems are a special class of personalized systems that aim at predicting a user's interest on available products and services by relying on previously rated items or item features. Human factors associated with a user's personality or lifestyle, although potential determinants of user behavior are rarely considered in the personalization process. In this paper, we demonstrate how the concept of lifestyle can be incorporated in the recommendation process to improve the prediction accuracy by efficiently managing the problem of limited data availability. We propose two approaches: one relying on lifestyle alone and another integrating lifestyle within the nearest neighbor approach. Both approaches are empirically tested in the domain of recommendations for personalized television advertisements and are shown to outperform existing nearest neighborhood approaches in most cases.
Efficient modeling of linear circuits to perform qualitative reasoning tasks
Authors: Juan J. Flores, Jaime Cerda
Venue: AI Communications (2000)

Modeling a system is the first step in reasoning about physical devices. By restricting our domain to linear circuits, we can find an efficient algorithm to solve that task.The algorithm presented in this article is an efficient implementation of the star&dash;mesh reductions used in Electrical Engineering. By choosing the right representation and based on simple data structures, we can reduce considerably the process of modeling a circuit.The algorithm has three main sources of efficiency gain&colon; An efficient cluster representation reduces the complexity of the produced model&semi; a simple data structure reduces the search for parallel regions&semi; in the last step, we generate a circuit model where the principle of superposition does not need to be applied. Those three points reduce dramatically both the complexity of the modeling process and the size of the model. The reduction in the size of the model favorably impacts its use in any reasoning task to be performed. Finally, avoiding superposition will allow us to treat this class of circuits more efficiently.
Biomimetic navigation models and strategies in animats
Authors: Olivier Trullier, Jean&dash;Arcady Meyer
Venue: AI Communications (1997)

This paper describes a hierarchy of four navigation strategies &ndash; guidance, place recognition&dash;triggered response, topological navigation and metric navigation. Such a hierarchy can be used to categorize models that are inspired by current knowledge about the way animals navigate in their environments. The main mechanisms implemented in each model are described, together with the basic adaptive capacities that the corresponding strategy affords. Because biomimetic models have seldom been implemented in real robots, it is premature to compare their merits with those of traditional engineering solutions to the navigation problem. Nevertheless, the methodological options that such implementations would entail are discussed in the text.
Rule-based cleanup of on-line English ink notes
Authors: Zhouchen Lin, Rongrong Wang, Heung-Yeung Shum
Venue: Pattern Recognition (2006)

Recently, many pen-based devices have enabled people to input digital ink naturally. Often, there is smear and correction when writing. This not only makes the document dirty and look unpleasant, but also affects the handwriting recognition when recognition is called for. As the first paper to address the ink cleanup problem, we present our ink cleanup system that removes the smear and correction, so that the document becomes cleaner and more legible and the handwriting recognition rate could also be improved. The algorithms are rule-based and are capable of dealing with the most common cases that may happen during writing, including self-overtracing of a single stroke, inter-overtracing between strokes, correction, touch-up, insertion and wrong writing order. Experimental results show that our system is effective in cleaning the ink note and is promising in increasing the recognition rate as well.
Learning Programming Using Visual Basic .NET w/ 5-CD VB .NET 2003 software, 4 edition
Authors: William E. Burrows
Venue:  (2003)

Learning Programming Using Visual Basic.NET, by William Burrows, teaches students programming while using VB to illustrate the concepts and techniques. This text uses Windows Forms for Visual Basic programming. Beginning with fundamental programming concepts and gradually moving toward complex methods, this text guides students through realistic end-user applications that they will encounter in the real world.Table of contents Chapter 1 – Problem Solving and the Object-Oriented Paradigm Chapter 2 – Creating Simple Visual Basic .NET Windows Applications Chapter 3 – Representing Data – Constants and Variables Chapter 4 – Performing Calculations and Manipulating Data:Expressions Chapter 5 – Specifying Alternate Courses of Action: Selection Statements Chapter 6 – Reducing Program Complexity:General Sub Procedures and Developer-Defined Functions Chapter 7 – Repeating Processing Tasks: Loop Structures Chapter 8 – Accessing Data: Processing Databases Chapter 9 – Accessing Data: Using XML Chapter 10 – Working with Arrays and Collections Chapter 11 – Using Visual Basic .NET to Create Web Applications Comprehensive ProjectsAppendix A: DebuggingAppendix B: Configuring and Using Internet Information Services(IIS)ServerAppendix C: Configuring and Using MSDE and the SQL Select StatementAppendix D: XSLTAppendix E: Answers to Selected Exercises
Implementing Linux with IBM Disk Storage
Authors: Bertrand Dufrasne
Venue:  (2003)

Your guide to Linux implementations on IBM eServers Use Linux efficiently with FAStT and ESS Explore options relating to Linux in SANs This IBM Redbook explains considerations, requirements, pitfalls, and possibilities when implementing Linux with IBM disk storage products. This redbook presents the reader with a practical overview of the tasks involved in installing Linux on a variety of IBM eServer platforms, and also introduces people familiar with Linux to the powerful IBM TotalStorage servers: ESS and FAStT. The book also provides the steps required to prepare the storage system for Linux host attachment. Among other things, we review the recently added support for FCP attachment when running SuSE Linux (SLES 8) in an LPAR on a zSeries machine. On pSeries we cover the implementation of SLES 8 , either natively or in an LPAR on a p690, and explain how to configure the Emulex Host Bus Adapter for attachment to FAStT and ESS. For Intel based machines, we look at the implementation of Red Hat Enterprise AS 2.1 and SLES 8 on xSeries servers and BladeCenter; in addition, we explain how to set up the Red Hat High Availability cluster using shared external storage. This book also contains a chapter on the VMware ESX Server, focusing on the practical aspects of its implementation and configuration with external storage.
Emotionally reactive television
Authors: Chia-Hsun Jackie Lee, Chaochi Chang, Hyemin Chung, Connor Dickie, Ted Selker
Venue: Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces (2007)

When is an interface simple? Is it when it is invisible or very obvious, even intrusive? From the time TV was created, watching TV is considered as a static activity. TV audiences have very limited choices to interact with TV, such as turning on/off, increasing/decreasing volume, and traversing among different channels. This paper suggests that TV program should have social responses to people, such as affording and accepting audience's emotional feeling with the growth of technologies. This paper presents HiTV, an Emotionally-Reactive TV system using a digitally augmented soft ball as affect-input interfaces that can amplify TV program's video/audio signals. HiTV transforms the original video and audio into effects that intrigue and fulfill people's emotional expectation.
Information systems outsourcing: a literature analysis
Authors: Reyes Gonzalez, Jose Gasco, Juan Llopis
Venue: Information and Management (2006)

Outsourcing has become one of the strategies adopted by businesses to manage their IS. During the last few years, the use of outsourcing has resulted in an increase in the volume of literature devoted to it. We decided therefore to analyse the literature with the aim of identifying the main topics, the methodologies most often applied and the authors and countries that have contributed most to the area of IS outsourcing. We also intended to offer suggestions on improving research in this field. The paper thus provides a review of articles about IS outsourcing published in the most prestigious journals of the IS area and journals of Management or Business.
Rapid and Brief Communication: Fuzzy discriminant analysis with kernel methods
Authors: Xiao-Hong Wu, Jian-Jiang Zhou
Venue: Pattern Recognition (2006)

A novel fuzzy nonlinear classifier, called kernel fuzzy discriminant analysis (KFDA), is proposed to deal with linear non-separable problem. With kernel methods KFDA can perform efficient classification in kernel feature space. Through some nonlinear mapping the input data can be mapped implicitly into a high-dimensional kernel feature space where nonlinear pattern now appears linear. Different from fuzzy discriminant analysis (FDA) which is based on Euclidean distance, KFDA uses kernel-induced distance. Theoretical analysis and experimental results show that the proposed classifier compares favorably with FDA.