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Developing single source content: in search of the XML pot-of-gold
Authors: James T. Stewart
Venue: Proceedings of the 19th annual international conference on Computer documentation (2001)

In this workshop we present an approach for applying the Information Mapping method for designing Single Source Content to be stored as XML formatted files. The method helps writers plan, design and develop effective single source content. Information Mapping's XML tool, Formatting Solutions XML, will be demonstrated as a means of simplifying the XML creation process.
Space-efficient approximate Voronoi diagrams
Authors: Sunil Arya, Theocharis Malamatos, David M. Mount
Venue: Proceedings of the thiry-fourth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing (2002)

(MATH) Given a set $S$ of $n$ points in $\IR^d$, a {\em $(t,\epsilon)$-approximate Voronoi diagram (AVD)} is a partition of space into constant complexity cells, where each cell $c$ is associated with $t$ representative points of $S$, such that for any point in $c$, one of the associated representatives approximates the nearest neighbor to within a factor of $(1+\epsilon)$. Like the Voronoi diagram, this structure defines a spatial subdivision. It also has the desirable properties of being easy to construct and providing a simple and practical data structure for answering approximate nearest neighbor queries. The goal is to minimize the number and complexity of the cells in the AVD.(MATH) We assume that the dimension $d$ is fixed. Given a real parameter $\gamma$, where $2 \le \gamma \le 1/\epsilon$, we show that it is possible to construct a $(t,\epsilon)$-AVD consisting of \[O(n \epsilon^{\frac{d-1}{2}} \gamma^{\frac{3(d-1)}{2}} \log \gamma) \] cells for $t = O(1/(\epsilon \gamma)^{(d-1)/2})$. This yields a data structure of $O(n \gamma^{d-1} \log \gamma)$ space (including the space for representatives) that can answer $\epsilon$-NN queries in time $O(\log(n \gamma) + 1/(\epsilon \gamma)^{(d-1)/2})$. (Hidden constants may depend exponentially on $d$, but do not depend on $\epsilon$ or $\gamma$).(MATH) In the case $\gamma = 1/\epsilon$, we show that the additional $\log \gamma$ factor in space can be avoided, and so we have a data structure that answers $\epsilon$-approximate nearest neighbor queries in time $O(\log (n/\epsilon))$ with space $O(n/\epsilon^{d-1})$, improving upon the best known space bounds for this query time. In the case $\gamma = 2$, we have a data structure that can answer approximate nearest neighbor queries in $O(\log n + 1/\epsilon^{(d-1)/2})$ time using optimal $O(n)$ space. This dramatically improves the previous best space bound for this query time by a factor of $O(1/\epsilon^{(d-1)/2})$.(MATH) We also provide lower bounds on the worst-case number of cells assuming that cells are axis-aligned rectangles of bounded aspect ratio. In the important extreme cases $\gamma \in \{2, 1/\epsilon\}$, our lower bounds match our upper bounds asymptotically. For intermediate values of $\gamma$ we show that our upper bounds are within a factor of $O((1/\epsilon)^{(d-1)/2}\log \gamma)$ of the lower bound.
MetaMuse: a novel control metaphor for granular synthesis
Authors: Ashley Gadd, Sidney Fels
Venue: CHI '02 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (2002)

Traditional musical intruments have a direct connection between the way they are played or controlled and the properties of the sound produced. This connectedness has, in general, been lacking in computer-based musical instruments. We present a prop-based synthesis controller that uses a metaphor to create a connection between the control and the sound. Specific to granular synthesis, the metaphor is one of falling particles striking a surface to create a sound. The concept is extensible to other metaphors and other synthesis techniques.
The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
Authors: Howard Rheingold
Venue:  (2000)

:Praised as "one of the ten best books of the year" by Business Week, this lively and provocative look inside the development, inner workings and future of the Internet is a must-read for anyone hoping to understand the next wave of human culture and communication."Read, learn, smile, weep, enjoy: managers, policy-makers, and fellow citizens, this book is worth your time."--Tom PetersA
Peter Norton's DOS Guide
Authors: Peter Norton
Venue:  (1993)

:Another essential guide from the author who helped start the PC revolution! More than one million users have turned to Peter Norton for confident and productive computing-and he covers all the latest about DOS 6.2 in this edition.Shows readers how to maximize their effectiveness on the PC with tips, tricks, and advice on a variety of topicsA-to-Z coverage in a highly readable, lesson-filled formatAdvice on hard disk management, security, and system customization-plus a complete command reference 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
High performance computing: delivering valuable and valued services at colleges and universities
Authors: Craig A. Stewart, Christopher S. Peebles, Mary Papakhian, John Samuel, David Hart, Stephen Simms
Venue: Proceedings of the 29th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference on User services (2001)

Supercomputers were once regarded as being of very limited use - of interest to a very few national centers and used by a small fraction of researchers at any given university. As scientific research becomes more and more dependent upon management and analysis of massive amounts of data, advances in human knowledge will become increasingly dependent upon use of high performance computers and parallel programming techniques. Indiana University has undergone a transformation over the past four years, during which the capacity, use, and number of users of High Performance Computing (HPC) systems has dramatically increased. HPC systems are widely viewed as valuable to the scholarly community of Indiana University - even by those researchers who do not use parallel programming techniques. Economies of scale and vendor partnerships have enabled Indiana University to amass significant HPC systems. Carefully implemented strategies in delivery of consulting support have expanded the use of parallel programming techniques. Such techniques are of critical value to advancement of human knowledge in many disciplines, and it is now possible for any institution of higher education to provide some sort of parallel computing resource for education and research.
It's Time to Clean Your Windows: Designing GUIs That Work
Authors: Wilbert O. Galitz
Venue:  (1994)

:Let's Face it, some of the best application developers and multi-media programmers are also some of the worst graphical user interface (GUI) designers. You can't really blame them though. With such powerful tools offering so many terrific options at their disposal it's hard for developers to resist the temptation to use as many as possible. Unfortunately, the end result is usually a cluttered screen with an interface that is unfriendly and functionally useless. In this book, internationally celebrated ergonomics expert Wilbert O. Galitz does for the art of GUI design what Leonardo did for the art of Renaissance painting - he explains what works and what doesn't and why. Galitz explains how the eye reacts to colors, cascading windows, overlays, and text placement. With the help of dozens of examples of well-designed as well as poorly designed screens, he lays out clear and easy-to-follow guidelines that enable all programmers and multimedia developers to design functional, picture-perfect GUIs.
Master Windows 95 Visually with Cdrom, 1st edition
Authors: Ruth Maran
Venue:  (1997)

:Microsoft went to so much trouble giving Windows 95 a great graphical user interface, it seems a shame to rely on words alone to explain how to use it. That's why Master Windows 95 VISUALLY is the ideal guide to quickly and easily taking advantage of all of the operating system's features, from the most basic to the most advanced. In Master Windows 95 VISUALLY, maranGraphics' renowned illustrations combine with clear, concise explanations and step-by-step instructions to show you how to do things like Create new files and folders and open existing ones Quickly look inside of documents without having to open them in an application Format and print documents from local and networked printers Customize Windows 95 to suit the way you like to work Organize files on your hard disk Connect to a local area network, the Internet, or remotely to an enterprise network when you're on the road Exchange e-mail and send and receive faxes Share information across networks and monitor network performance Exchange information among various Windows 95 applications Install new hardware and software Best of all, Master Windows 95 VISUALLY is organized so that you can efficiently and effectively perform any Windows 95 task: Each two-page spread guides you step-by-step, showing you where to click, where to drag and drop, and where to scroll. Plus, Master Windows 95 VISUALLY includes a bonus CD-ROM containing the complete book in searchable, electronic format, along with shareware, demos, Web links, and more.
E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Can't Work and What to Do about It, 1st edition
Authors: Michael E. Gerber
Venue:  (1995)

:A completely revised edition of the groundbreaking bestseller that provides the key ingredients to developing a prosperous small business venture.
Multimedia information services enabling: an architectural approach
Authors: Erik Boertjes, Willem Jonker, Jeroen Wijnands
Venue: Proceedings of the 2001 ACM workshops on Multimedia: multimedia information retrieval (2001)

This paper presents a scalable and extendable architecture consisting of the essential building blocks for multimedia information services. It provides building blocks for multimedia transport, storage, retrieval, filtering, and presentation, together with their interdependencies. After presenting the overall architecture, we focus in more detail on the 3-level modeling and querying of multimedia data. Emphasis is placed on the support for a wide variety of modeling and querying techniques in the context of a coherent architecture. The description of the architecture is followed by a description of a possible implementation of the architecture focusing on specific modeling and querying techniques. Finally, the use of the architectural components in a number of example multimedia information retrieval is show.
Upgrading and Repairing PCs with CD-ROM, 6th edition
Authors: Scott Mueller
Venue:  (1996)

:Upgrading and Repairing PCs, Linux Edition addresses Linux-specific hardware issues that do not arise with Windows or DOS. Based on Upgrading and Repairing PCs, 11th Edition, this book covers Linux information such as system requirements, installation and setup, drive partitioning, kernel parameters, memory, and compatibility between Linux and components and components with each other. While Windows has a slick installation that automatically determines most of the hardware in a PC, Linux users still must struggle to identify, configure, and install the hardware in their PCs. This book is an essential reference to understand how your PC hardware works, how it interacts with Linux, and how to troubleshoot, repair, and upgrade the components in a Linux system. The Linux General Store hosts an Internet site for information, discussion and questions related to the book CD-ROM contains a version of Linux, a Special Edition of Partition Magic, various Linux applications, and more
On the effective evaluation of TCP
Authors: Mark Allman, Aaron Falk
Venue: ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (1999)

Understanding the performance of the Internet's Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is important because it is the dominant protocol used in the Internet today. Various testing methods exist to evaluate TCP performance, however all have pitfalls that need to be understood prior to obtaining useful results. Simulating TCP is difficult because of the wide range of variables, environments, and implementations available. Testing TCP modifications in the global Internet may not be the answer either: testing new protocols on real networks endangers other people's traffic and, if not done correctly, may also yield inaccurate or misleading results. In order for TCP research to be independently evaluated in the Internet research community there is a set of questions that researchers should try to answer. This paper attempts to list some of those questions and make recommendations as to how TCP testing can be structured to provide useful answers.
Mesh Partitioning for Efficient Use of Distributed Systems
Authors: Jian Chen, Valerie E. Taylor
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (2002)

Mesh partitioning for homogeneous systems has been studied extensively; however, mesh partitioning for distributed systems is a relatively new area of research. To ensure efficient execution on a distributed system, the heterogeneities in the processor and network performance must be taken into consideration in the partitioning process; equal size subdomains and small cut set size, which results from conventional mesh partitioning, are no longer the primary goals. In this paper, we address various issues related to mesh partitioning for distributed systems. These issues include the metric used to compare different partitions, efficiency of the application executing on a distributed system, and the advantage of exploiting heterogeneity in network performance. We present a tool called PART, for automatic mesh partitioning for distributed systems. The novel feature of PART is that it considers heterogeneities in the application and the distributed system. Simulated annealing is used in PART to perform the backtracking search for desired partitions. While it is well-known that simulated annealing is computationally intensive, we describe the parallel version of simulated annealing that is used with PART. The results of the parallelization exhibit superlinear speedup in most cases and nearly perfect speedup for the remaining cases. Experimental results are also presented for partitioning regular and irregular finite element meshes for an explicit, nonlinear finite element application, called WHAMS2D, executing on a distributed system consisting of two IBM SPs with different processors. The results from the regular problems indicate a 33 to 46 percent increase in efficiency when processor performance is considered as compared to the conventional even partitioning. The results indicate a 5 to 15 percent increase in efficiency when network performance is considered as compared to considering only processor performance; this is significant given that the optimal improvement is 15 percent for this application. The results from the irregular problem indicate up to 36 percent increase in efficiency when processor and network performance are considered as compared to even partitioning.
Desktop Publishing: Dollars and Sense, 1st edition
Authors: Scott Anderson
Venue:  (1992)

:If you're considering your own desktop publishing business... This is the nitty gritty on making your business work. It's not about boardrooms and fancy offices. It's about succeeding -- and enjoying it -- with a sane small business. Many books discuss how to use the new technology, but too few delve into the realities of getting that technology to pay for itself. The author's farreaching interviews reveal the hard won lessons of those already in the business. This is hands-on stuff.
Parallel volume rendering on a single-chip SIMD architecture
Authors: M. Meißner, S. Grimm, W. Straßer, J. Packer, D. Latimer
Venue: Proceedings of the IEEE 2001 symposium on parallel and large-data visualization and graphics (2001)

Volume rendering has great potential for parallelization due to the tremendous number of computations necessary. Besides the enormous computational power needed, the memory interface is usually of crucial importance and frequently the bottleneck.This paper presents an implementation of a parallel ray casting algorithm for orthogonal projections on a new single-chip SIMD architecture. Concurrent processing of rays is scheduled such that redundant memory accesses of the individual processing elements can be detected by the channel controller. Hence, data can be read efficiently in block-wise manner. For improved image quality, a permutation of the Shear-Warp algorithm with trilinear interpolation is used. The steps of the ray casting algorithm are carefully mapped onto the architecture avoiding expensive floating point operation, giving superior performance over previously reported results. A detailed analysis illustrates the timing of the individual computations and memory accesses, identifying the costliest parts of the implementation.
Supporting the collaborative meeting place
Authors: Craig Ganoe
Venue: CHI '02 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (2002)

The combination of an interactive large screen display and wireless handheld devices in a meeting room setting can augment and enhance collaborative activities. This work examines the issues in developing applications to support such a collaborative meeting place.
Digital Image Processing: Concepts, Algorithms, and Scientific Applications, 4th edition
Authors: Bernd Jahne
Venue:  (1997)

:Now in its fourth edition, this well-established and heavily illustrated book provides natural scientists with ready access to the state-of-the-art of digital image processing and shows them how to use it to gather and analyze data in their research. The book includes a CD-ROM containing numerous color illustrations and a test version of image processing software. 222 illus. 574 pp. Pub: 12/97.
Futurize Your Enterprise: Business Strategy in the Age of the E-Customer, 1st edition
Authors: David Siegel
Venue:  (1999)

From the Book:If you had visited Madagascar in 1850, you might have run into Charles Darwin, who was there studying orchids. One day he found an unusual orchid with a 15-inch tube, at the bottom of which a sweet nectar emerged every night. Darwin hypothesized the existence of a hawk moth with a 15-inch tongue to pollinate the plant. People laughed at him - no one had ever heard of a moth with a tongue that long. In 1903 - 21 years after Darwin's death - biologists in Madagascar discovered the elusive nocturnal moth. In nature, the food shapes the organism. If the environment changes, the food usually changes, and all the species that have coevolved in that environment must respond or die. In business, the customer shapes the corporation. People's needs, tastes, and desires shape what a company can offer. Very few companies today sell the same products or services they sold just ten years ago. Yet almost all companies are still organized the same way. Over the next ten years, the Internet will drive changes in consumer behavior that will lay waste to all the corporate re-engineering and cost reduction programs that have kept so many MBAs and programmers burning the midnight oil. These changes will be so profound that companies will have to realign themselves with an even sharper focus on the customer than they have now. Even the emphasis on quality - espoused by such experts as W Edwards Deming, Malcolm Baldridge, and Jim Collins - will be less important in the face of new and rapidly changing demands. The Internet is behind this change in the business landscape. It is either your worst nightmare or your next big opportunity. The question is: How will you respond? You couldleap headlong into e-commerce with an arsenal of tactical tools for online sales and marketing. Or you could take a more holistic approach, one that starts by changing the way you view the Internet itself Which do you think will benefit your company more in the long run? In consulting with Fortune 500 companies and start-ups, conducting seminars for business audiences around the world, and writing two books that influenced the first generation of web designers, I have learned a lot about what works and what doesn't work online. In my collaboration with many companies on web strategy, I've found that go percent of the problems companies have online are caused by management, not technology. In this book, I'll present a comprehensive strategy that asks you to rethink your corporate structure and your relationship with your customers. The concepts are unorthodox. No company currently embraces all the principles and processes I describe. But by 2005, 1 believe they will be commonplace. My goal in this book is to give you a clear understanding of what it will take for your business not only to survive, but to succeed in the coming decade.
Inside Microsoft Windows CE, 1st edition
Authors: John Murray
Venue:  (1998)

:Inside Microsoft Windows CE reveals the innovative system architecture that enables you, the developer or technology champion, to capitalize on new markets in consumer and industrial electronics, including: handheld PCs, palm-sized PCs, computers for automobiles, Web televisions and Web telephones, game consoles, DVD and multimedia devices, and the undisclosed and the uninvented. You'll also find conceptual frameworks to help you understand your design options and see real-world examples that demonstrate the flexibility and potential of this remarkable operating system.
Statistical tools for simulation design and analysis II: nonparametric adaptive importance sampling for rare event simulation
Authors: Yun Bae Kim, Deok Seon Roh, Myeong Yong Lee
Venue: Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation (2000)

Simulating rare events in telecommunication networks such as estimation for cell loss probability in Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networks requires a major simulation effort due to the slight chance of buffer overflow. Importance Sampling (IS) is applied to accelerate the occurrence of rare events. Importance Sampling depends on a biasing scheme to make the estimator from IS unbiased. Adaptive Importance Sampling (AIS) employs an estimated sampling distribution of IS to the system of interest during the course of simulation. In this study, we propose a Nonparametric Adaptive Importance Sampling (NAIS) technique, a non-parametrically modified version of AIS, and estimate the probability of rare event occurrence in an M/M/1 queueing model. Compared with classical Monte Carlo simulation and AIS, the computational efficiency and variance reductions gained via NAIS are reasonable. A possible extension of NAIS with regards to random number generation is also discussed.
Virtual Reality and Beyond
Authors: Charles A. Jortberg
Venue:  (1997)

:In 1953 a scientist predicted there would only be the need for 100 computers in the whole world. How wrong could he be?Today, with microprocessors in every car, airplane, office, laboratory and school it is estimated there are in excess of 100 million computers. Compare the old, 30 ton computers to the postage stamp-size minicomputers of today. Study the first "computer", the abacus. Move forward and discover the roots of fiber optics, virtual reality, and the internet. This series explores everything kids want to know about computers. 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