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Advances in Image Understanding: A Festschrift for Azriel Rosenfeld
Authors: Kevin Bowyer, Narendra Ahuja
Venue:  (1996)

:This volume of original papers has been assembled to honor Azriel Rosenfeld, a dominant figure in the field of computer vision and image processing for over 30 years. Over this period he has made many fundamental and pioneering contributions to nearly every area in this field. Azriel Rosenfeld wrote the first textbook in the field in 1969 and was the founding editor of its first journal in 1972. The contributions in this book illustrate the changes that have occurred in dealing with crucial research problems and the methodologies employed to solve them. The 22 papers specifically written for this text are by only a handful of researchers who have known and worked with Azriel over the years. These papers address five major themes: image segmentation, feature extraction, 3D shape estimation from 2D images, object recognition, and applications technologies.
Middleware for managing a large, heterogeneous programmable network
Authors: A. Hughes
Venue: BT Technology Journal (2002)

The links between BTexact Technologies and the Department of Computing Science at University College London are becoming increasingly beneficial for the development of the middleware area for the management of programmable networks. This paper describes the work that has been done to date, and outlines the plans for future research.
Dynamic logic for reasoning about actions and agents
Authors: J.-J. Ch. Meyer
Venue: Logic-based artificial intelligence (2000)

Dynamic logic is a logic to reason about the dynamics of (natural or artificial) systems in general, ranging from the effects of actions of human agents to the behavior of artificial agents and software systems. Therefore it is to be expected that in AI it can be fruitfully employed both to represent knowledge about the dynamics of the domain at hand as well as to describe/specify (the dynamic behavior of) AI systems themselves. A typical example of the former is the description of the effects of actions (of humans, for example) in the commonsense world, while the specification of a particular reasoning system would be of the latter type. In this paper a number of examples are given to illustrate the usefulness (and wide scope!) of dynamic logic for AI.
Games Troubleshooting Guide; Simple Solutions to Common Problems
Authors: Bart Farkas, Govier
Venue:  (1997)

:Equipped with this handy little answer book, everyone will have the tools necessary for a great start in the world of gaming. Here is a book that gives answers to some common problems people have when they try to load a new PC game. It is also a resource that indicates how to contact different companies for help.
Central Schemes for Balance Laws of Relaxation Type
Authors: Salvatore Fabio Liotta, Vittorio Romano, Giovanni Russo
Venue: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (2000)

Several models in mathematical physics are described by quasi-linear hyperbolic systems with source term and in several cases the production term can become stiff. Here suitable central numerical schemes for such problems are developed and applications to the Broadwell model and extended thermodynamics are presented.The numerical methods are a generalization of the Nessyahu--Tadmor scheme to the nonhomogeneous case by including the cell averages of the production terms in the discrete balance equations. A second order scheme uniformly accurate in the relaxation parameter is derived and its properties analyzed. Numerical tests confirm the accuracy and robustness of the scheme.
Industrial Control System Design
Authors: Michael J. Grimble
Venue:  (2000)

:Demands are being placed on the manufacturing and process industries by their customers for better product quality and with reduced environmental impact. The accuracy of control and the safety of the resulting system is therefore becoming increasingly important.
MCSD: Visual Basic 5 Study Guide ( with CD-ROM)
Authors: Michael McKelvy
Venue:  (1998)

:Exam Preparation from an Expert -- Your Key to Better Job Opportunities The ultimate study guide and preparation for Exam 70-165: Developing Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0. This Microsoft Certified Professional Approved Study Guide provides full coverage of every exam objective -- all the information you need to know, hundreds of challenging review questions, in the book and on the CD, and hands-on exercises to try out the programming concepts that you have learned.
MCSE Windows 2000 Server Virtual Trainer (Sybex E-Trainer Series)
Authors: Lisa Donald, James Chellis
Venue:  (2000)

:The MCSE Windows 2000 Server e-trainer from Sybex® is the most affordable and effective way to prepare for the Windows 2000 Server exam (70-215). Filled with instruction from Windows 2000 experts, this dynamic software package also gives you all the tools you need to master the material and go into the exam with complete confidence. System requirements: Pentium 166 processor 64 MB RAM 4x speed CD-ROM drive 800x600 resolution, high-color mode Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4, Windows 2000, Linux Windows-compatible sound card 75MB free disk space Microsoft Internet Explorer 5
Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering XIII
Authors: P. Nolan, R. A. Adey, G. Rzevski
Venue:  (1998)

:This book contains the extended abstracts of the papers presented at the thirteenth International Conference on the Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, held at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) in July 1998. The papers represent the work of AI researchers from around the world and cover all the main branches of engineering including civil and environmental engineering, hydrology, architecture, manufacturing and process engineering, and control engineering.
Change on the Run: Competing Through E-Leadership
Authors: Michael Kay
Venue:  (2000)

:Provides a proven roadmap to navigate the process of change managementChange management is becoming part of the basic kit-bag of leadership and management within all organizations. But managing change is fraught with power plays and potential disasters, not the least of which is the negative financial impact on the company. Change by Design equips every manager to direct change successfully and to emerge from change initiatives victorious and unscathed. Providing a proven roadmap to navigate the process in a speedy and systematic way, the book offers practical advice for managers, including: obtaining a mandate, planning change, implementation, heading off the ambitious and the ruthless, maintaining support, and much more. Coverage also includes: creating the change management team, building the business case and budget for change, sequencing actions for maximum success, identifying appropriate tools and techniques, and measuring success.Michael Kay (Toronto, Canada) is a partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers' Strategic Change Practice.
Computer Fun Halloween
Authors: Lisa Trumbauer
Venue:  (1999)

:This fun, creative series helps kids explore a variety of school-related subjects and skills while becoming comfortable with many functions of the computer. Each book starts with a crash course in computer know-how and then follows up with fun projects that focus on a specific curriculum area or holiday with information and activities that relate to classwork. Other titles in the series include Computer Fun Math, Computer Fun Reading, Computer Fun Science, and Computer Fun Geography.
An Efficient Primal-Dual Interior-Point Method for Minimizing a Sum of Euclidean Norms
Authors: Knud D. Andersen, Edmund Christiansen, Andrew R. Conn, Michael L. Overton
Venue: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (2000)

The problem of minimizing a sum of Euclidean norms dates from the 17th century and may be the earliest example of duality in the mathematical programming literature. This nonsmooth optimization problem arises in many different kinds of modern scientific applications. We derive a primal-dual interior-point algorithm for the problem, by applying Newton's method directly to a system of nonlinear equations characterizing primal and dual feasibility and a perturbed complementarity condition. The main work at each step consists of solving a system of linear equations (the Schur complement equations). This Schur complement matrix is not symmetric, unlike in linear programming. We incorporate a Mehrotra-type predictor-corrector scheme and present some experimental results comparing several variations of the algorithm, including, as one option, explicit symmetrization of the Schur complement with a skew corrector term. We also present results obtained from a code implemented to solve large sparse problems, using a symmetrized Schur complement. This has been applied to problems arising in plastic collapse analysis, with hundreds of thousands of variables and millions of nonzeros in the constraint matrix. The algorithm typically finds accurate solutions in less than 50 iterations and determines physically meaningful solutions previously unobtainable.
Intellectual Capital: Navigating in the New Business Landscape
Authors: Johan Roos, Leif Edvinsson, Goran Roos
Venue:  (1998)

:Providing an organizational system that helps managers maximize the flow of intellectual capital in their companies, Intellectual Capital presents the insights gained by leading experts from the practice, research, and consulting side of business management. Starting with a definition of intellectual capital and its main components, the book offers a step-by-step "process model" to rooting out corporate inefficiency at all levels. Illustrated with vivid case studies, the book also covers the latest thinking and practices of the "second generation" of intellectual capital practices, from consolidating intellectual capital measures into a single "IC Index" to linking them with shareholder value creation systems.
Voice over IP Technologies: Building the Converged Network,2nd Edition, 2nd edition
Authors: Mark A. Miller
Venue:  (2002)

:Voice over IP TechnologiesBuilding the Converged NetworkYour Road Map to Network ConvergenceWritten to cover new applications and the latest IETF protocols and standards, this comprehensive guide delivers a lucid overview of VoIP technologies for voice, data, fax, and video transmissions  and helps you map out a converged network strategy for your organization. Packed with illuminating case studies (including in-depth examples of real-world multimedia applications), clear explanations of VoIP standards and topologies, and practical advice on applications and implementation, Voice over IP Technologies is all you need to start reaping the benefits of network convergence.Your One-Stop Guide to VoIP SolutionsUnderstand how Voice over IP compares to a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)Find out about VPN and international telephony, voice-enabled e-commerce, desktop video conferencing, Fax over IP, and other multimedia IP applicationsPerform a Voice over IP cost-benefit analysis for your organizationDiscover how VoIP protocols  MGCP, RTP, RTCP, RSVP  fit together with other protocols in an IP networkGet the lowdown on WAN transport for VoIP, including Signaling System 7 and the latest developments in Voice over Frame Relay, ATM, and DSLLearn how H.323, SIP, and other multimedia standards enable VoIP gateways, terminals, and client software to process callsTake a detailed, protocol-level look at how VoIP multimedia applications work in real-world internetworksGet up to speed on implementation issues: interoperability frameworks, H.323 alternatives, APIs, quality of serviceissues, and moreBonus CD-ROM includesKey Request for Comment (RFC) documentseRing Solutions itRings! client software trial versionWestbay Engineers Westplan demo versionSystem RequirementsPC running Windows 9x/2000/Me/XP. See the "Whats on the CD-ROM" appendix for details and complete system requirements.Author Biography: Mark A. Miller, P.E., is president of DigiNet(r) Corporation, a Denver-based data communications engineering firm specializing in the design of local and wide area networks. His other books include Troubleshooting TCP/IP, 3rd Edition, Managing Internetworks with SNMP, 3rd Edition, and Implementing IPv6, 2nd Edition.
On to Java, 3rd edition
Authors: Patrick Henry Winston, Sundar Narasimhan
Venue:  (2001)

:This book is written in the clear and concise style that has made Winston's C, C++, Smalltalk, and Lisp books popular among programmers who want to add new languages to their repertoires. Using this book, you learn Java quickly and effectively, and you learn why Java is the language of choice for writing programs for the World Wide Web. The Knowledge You Need Each section add new capabilities to a short, yet representative Java program. One such program displays the rating of a movie selected by a user, along with a movie poster. Any World-Wide-Web browser can fetch and run the program, on your computer, in response to a button click. As you see the program evolve, you learn to design class hierarchies impose requirements using interfaces follow the model-view approach to interface design access applets from network viewers use threads to implement dynamic applets and you learn to exploit the features of Java 1.2 to access files via resources exploit swing classes draw using the Graphics2D class generate Java beans for GUI builders and much, much more. Winston's proven approach Based on extensive teaching experience. Features easily digested segments . Illustrates ideas via short, yet complete programs. Answers your natural questions in a natural order. Stresses principles of good-programming practice. Recapitulates key points as if--then rules..
A concurrent migration extension to an end-to-end host mobility architecture
Authors: Sameer Tilak, Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh
Venue: ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review (2001)

With the proliferation of mobile devices and the emergence of the internet as a global communication and business medium, there is significant interest in providing robust, high-performance, internet connectivity to protable devices. This requires seamless delivery of data between the peers even as they change location. The accepted solution for mobility is Mobile IP, an IETF standard supporting mobility in the network layer. Recently, Snoren and Balakrishnan suggested an end-to-end implementation that uses dynamic DNS updates and transport layer connection migration to implement seamless mobility. This approach has several advantages and it is conceivable that it will replace (or co-exist) with Mobile IP to implement mobility. One of the restrictions in the proposed implementation is that it does not support the case where both peers can migrate. In this note, we propose an extension to the end-to-end implementation to allow concurrent peer migration.
The Brain-Like Sensorimotor Control System
Authors: Takamasa Koshizen, Yugo Ueda, Hiroshi Tsujino
Venue: Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (2002)

In this paper, we propose brain-like (BL) sensorimotor control system that is assumed to be composed of its unconscious and conscious part. The conscious part of BL sensorimotor control system is emerged when Prefrontal Cortex (PFC) acts with respect to spatiotemporal selective attention mechanism in particular. In our framework, the selective attention can be induced by Baye&apos;s rule comprising of PFC-based neural network where both unsupervised and supervised learning schemes are employed. A preliminary experiment is manually carried out to analyse human control mechanism for the stability of RC-helicopter. As a result, we suggest the relationship between the selective attention and the minimum variance theory. BL sensorimotor control system is favorably considered to build subject to suffice the minimum variance theory that is the key for computing spatiotemporal selective attention mechanism, computed by the PFC-based neural network. In this paper, the network is also examined with respect to control the RC-helicopter and the result shows the soundness of BL sensorimotor control system.
Outlook 2002 from a to Z: A Quick Reference of More than 300 Microsoft Outlook Tasks, Terms and Tricks
Authors: Stephen L. Nelson
Venue:  (2001)

:This reference helps users understand Outlook by providing more than 300 key terms and tasks arranged alphabetically. Allowing users to look up information by name rather than by menu command gives users new to Outlook quick and easy access, letting them troubleshoot problems more easily. The small size of the book also makes it ideal for mobile workers who want to take an Outlook reference onto a job site. Also included is information provided for passing the MOUS certification exam.Author Biography: Stephen L. Nelson is the author of MBA's Guide to Excel 2000 and Quicken 2001 for Dummies. He lives in Redmond, Washington. 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
Integrated networks that overflow speech and data between component networks
Authors: Susan Lincke-Salecker, Cynthia S. Hood
Venue: International Journal of Network Management (2002)

As cellular networks diversify by expanding the number of services, cell sizes, and generations of technologies supported, it becomes possible to overflow dual-mode terminals using vertical handovers to other cellular networks or &lsquo;component networks&rsquo;. This study varies call placement algorithms, by defining, modeling, and evaluating Overflow and Return policies.
Bisimulation indexes and their applications
Authors: Mingsheng Ying
Venue: Theoretical Computer Science (2002)

Bisimulation expresses the equivalence of processes whose external actions are identical. Sometimes we may meet two processes which are not exactly bisimilar but more or less bisimilar in the sense that whenever a process makes an action the other can make an action different from but very similar to the action performed by the first one. To describe this kind of looser bisimulations we propose the concept of bisimulation index in a labelled transition system and give its various properties, especially those properties related to the operations of transition systems. Furthermore, we establish a modal logical characterization of bisimulation indexes. This characterization is a generalization of Hennessy-Milner logic. We study strong and weak bisimulation indexes in the basic asynchronous process calculus, and some of their fundamental properties are derived. Bisimulation indexes are not substitutive under composition. To overcome this defect we introduce an approximate communication rule to replace the original rule in process calculus. This enables us to recover some useful properties of composition with respect to bisimulation indexes. Finally, we present three examples in timed CCS and real time ACP to demonstrate the usage of bisimulation indexes in the analysis of real time systems. These examples show that bisimulation indexes are suitable formal tools for describing approximate implementations of real time systems.
eMbedded Visual Basic: Windows CE and Pocketpc Mobile Applications
Authors: Christopher Tacke, Tim Bassett
Venue:  (2001)

:This book is an in-depth exploration into eVB's inherent features, and how to use them to solve likely mobile application programming tasks. After reading the book the reader will be able to write applications tackling a wide array of business problems for Windows CE-powered devices, both customized and for PocketPC and Handheld PC products. This book will help ease the transition into the language, and provide a reference for even more experienced developers.
Semantic Object Modeling with Salsa: A Casebook
Authors: Sandra Dewitz, Michael Olson
Venue:  (1994)

:This casebook teaches data modeling concepts and skills using the semantic object model, a new method for developing databases and database applications. The semantic object approach, using Salsa software, allows students to model data at a richer level, learn more intuitive techniques than in currently available software tools, and cover more advanced database concepts. The casebook includes Salsa software and a brief, easy-to-use tutorial. The tutorial is also available separately.
Probabilistic hierarchical clustering for biological data
Authors: Eran Segal, Daphne Koller
Venue: Proceedings of the sixth annual international conference on Computational biology (2002)

Biological data, such as gene expression profiles or protein sequences, is often organized in a hierarchy of classes, where the instances assigned to "nearby" classes in the tree are similar. Most approaches for constructing a hierarchy use simple local operations, that are very sensitive to noise or variation in the data. In this paper, we describe probabilistic abstraction hierarchies (PAH) [11], a general probabilistic framework for clustering data into a hierarchy, and show how it can be applied to a wide variety of biological data sets. In a PAH, each class is associated with a probabilistic generative model for the data in the class. The PAH clustering algorithm simultaneously optimizes three things: the assignment of data instances to clusters, the models associated with the clusters, and the structure of the PAH approach is that it utilizes global optimization algorithms for the last two steps, substantially reducing the sensitivity to noise and the propensity to local maxima. We show how to apply this framework to gene expression data, protein sequence data, and HIV protease sequence data. We also show how our framework supports hierarchies involving more than one type of data. We demonstrate that our method extracts useful biological knowledge and is substantially more robust than hierarchical agglomerative clustering.
Special Edition Using Microsoft Office 2000, 1st edition
Authors: Ed Bott, Woody Leonhard
Venue:  (1999)

:All-star author Ed Bott (PC Computing senior editor) understands business users and how they want to be productive without becoming hard core computer geeks. In this book, you'll quickly find all of the information you need to be productive in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, and Outlook, without extra information that you won't use. With this you'll easily create professional documents in Word, build powerful Excel spreadsheets, prepare killer PowerPoint presentations, and get your time and email organized with Outlook. Tame pesky Office 2000 features like the Office Assistant and clipboard to make Office 2000 applications work quickly and efficiently for you See how to detect and avoid dangerous and destructive macro viruses that destroy your data and waste your time Step up to the new features of Office 2000 that will be the most useful for you including better web publishing in all Office applications
Developments in optical access networks
Authors: K. A. James, S. Fisher
Venue: BT Technology Journal (2002)

Optical fibre access network technology has become more complex over the last few years with bit rates steadily increasing. PON systems are available with bit rates in the range 155 Mbit/s to, currently, 622 Mbit/s. Newly designed systems, both PON and point-to-point, will allow this trend to continue with 2.5 Gbit/s systems becoming practicable in the near future.With this increase in technology has come an increase in the opportunities for fibre systems to cost-reduce more of the network, including the &ldquo;metro&rdquo; space &ndash; a fact which increases the appeal of the technology.Some of the newer PON systems are being designed using Ethernet as the underlying technology with a promise of reducing the price of the technology still further. How this will occur in practice, however, is still unclear.What is certain is that optical access technologies are expanding and are sure to find openings in real networks in the foreseeable future.