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Guidebook to Multivariable Calculus with Maple V, 1st edition
Authors: Chi-Keung Cheung
Venue:  (1993)

:Designed as a supplement to any multivariable calculus texts in order to utilize Maple as an integral part of the instruction. Geared to helping students understand the calculus concepts while taking full advantage of the computing power and graphic capabilities of Maple. Contains 28 modules to guide readers through an array of examples which aid them in visualizing the problem at hand before or after learning the theory. All concepts are developed from the geometric viewpoint rather than abstract definition.
Essential Visual Basic 4, 1st edition
Authors: Mark Steven Heyman
Venue:  (1995)

:Packed with information for the novice and casual computer user, this book gives the reader the knowledge and real world experience needed to create Visual Basic programs. It begins by teaching the Visual Basic environment and continues with a more in-depth study of project management and the Windows API.Focuses only on topics essential for Visual Basic programmingTeaches project management, custom controls, file access, and more.Helps readers design their own Visual Basic applications 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
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night: Unauthorized Secrets and Solutions
Authors: Bart Farkas
Venue:  (1997)

:DraculaÆs castle has mysteriously reappeared. Explore the castle and face the ancient battle between good and evil. This guide includes maps of every level, complete walkthroughs, and it even reveals each secret level.
Windows NT 4 Complete
Authors: CORPORATE Sybex
Venue:  (1999)

:The best Windows NT 4 value ever! 1000 pages of valuable knowledge. For all users of Windows NT 4--Workstation or Server--this book is perfect for new corporate users, students, and NT novices. Containing valuable chapters from twelve Sybex best-sellers, Windows NT 4 Complete covers every area of importance for all computer users, including: interface coverage, essential PC upgrading and maintenance information, a user guide to Microsoft's Internet browser, a PC/Internet Dictionary, an Internet Hardware/Software Resource Directory, a Windows NT Command Reference, and much more!
On Time within Budget: Software Project Management Practices and Techniques
Authors: E. M. Bennatan
Venue:  (1992)

:A developer's survival guide packed with tips, tricks, and best practices for getting software projects in on time and within budgetWhile there are plenty of books offering to teach the principles of good software project management, virtually none provide developers with the expert, down-in-the-trenches tips, tricks, and proven strategies they will find in On Time, Within Budget. Author E. M. Bennatan steers clear of theory to zero in on proven methods for avoiding bottlenecks and overruns at every step in the development cycle--from cost estimating to product delivery. Readers learn to prepare estimates and contract bids, write winning presentations, schedule tasks, and much more. This new edition of the bestselling guide contains substantial revisions and additions, including coverage of recent advances in software engineering and prototyping; web development project management, risk and security management, the pros and cons of acquiring custom software from outside suppliers, managing multinational projects, and a variety of timely legal issues.A developers survival guide packed with real-life case studies, tips, techniques, and best practices for completing software projects on time and within budgetWhether you work at a large or small company, this book will provide you with expert, down-in-the-trenches tips, techniques, and strategies to deliver a software project in a cost-effective and timely way. Real-life case studies let you learn from the mistakes as well as the successes of others. Author E. M. Bennatan zeroes in on proven methods for avoiding bottlenecks and overruns at every step in the software development cyclefrom cost estimating toproduct delivery. The Third Edition of this bestselling guide routes you directly to what you need to know about: * Managing both small and large projects in a distributed environment * Common development problems and how to avoid them * Preparing estimates and proposals and bidding for contracts * Managing teams for maximum quality and productivity * Proven scheduling and project development planning techniquesNew to this edition: * How best to ensure an effective relationship with customers * Risk management and disaster prevention * The pros and cons of acquiring custom software from outside suppliers * Managing multinational projects * How to save time by reusing software components
A Discipline for Software Engineering
Authors: Watts S. Humphrey
Venue:  (1995)

:This new work from Watts Humphrey, author of the influential book, Managing the Software Process, broadens his orderly view of software process management, and lays the foundation for a disciplined approach to software engineering. In his earlier book, the author developed concrete methods for managing software development and maintenance. These methods, now commonly practiced in industry, provide programmers and managers with specific steps they can take to evaluate and improve their software capabilities. In this new book, Humphrey scales those methods down to a personal level, helping software engineers develop the skills and habits needed to plan, track, and analyze large, complex projects. Humphrey and others have used material from this book to train professionals and students around the world in a projects-oriented software engineering course. First establishing the need for discipline in software engineering, and the benefits to practitioners of learning how to manage their personal software process, Humphrey then develops a model that they can use to monitor, test, and improve their work. Examples drawn from industry enhance the practical focus of the book, while project exercises give readers the opportunity to practice software process management as they learn it. Features: presents concepts and methods for a disciplined software engineering process; scales down industrial practices for planning, tracking, analysis, and defect management to fit the needs of small-scale program development; and shows how small project disciplines provide a solid base for larger projects.
Mathematics for Computer Graphics Applications: An Introduction to the Mathematics and Geometry of CAD/Cam, Geometric Modeling, Scientific Visualizati, 2nd edition
Authors: Michael E. Mortenson
Venue:  (1999)

:This completely revised Second Edition of "Computer Graphics" includes valuable information on major organizational changes within the last few years and updated subject matter that includes new figures and exercises. This edition brings to the fore the basic mathematical tools of computer graphics. including vectors, matrices, and transformations. Each chapter contains an annotated suggested reading list with exercises and answers. This book provides a strong, comprehensive base in exploring math, computer science, physics, engineering, and in special subjects such as algebraic and computational geometry, geometric modeling, and CAD/CAM. A highly diversified book that can be utilized as a primary textbook, supplemental teaching resource, individual tutorial, or key reference text.
The Awesome Power of Direct3D/DirectX - DirectX 5 Version
Authors: Peter J. Kovach
Venue:  (1998)

:By showing how the various commands should be used and how they interact, this book teaches not just what Direct3D commands are available, but why they do what they do and how to put them to best use. The CD-ROM contains approximately 150 high quality 3D objects that when sold separately have a market value of $100 to $500 each. This book uses "MSVC++ 5 and DirectX5"
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Database Implementation Online Training Kit with Cdrom
Authors: Microsoft Corporation
Venue:  (1999)

:This Online Training Kit offers rich multimedia instruction for learning how to design and implement enterprise database solutions using SQL Server 7.0. Readers work at their own pace through this next-generation, interactive learning system-gaining practical experience writing Transact SQL-code and mastering the procedures for planning, configuring, and deploying a SQL Server database. As they develop this real-world expertise, they're also preparing for MCP Exam 70-029-a core credit for the Microsoft Certified Database Administrator certification and an elective for becoming a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. Kit also includes a copy of the SQL Server Database Implementation MCSE Readiness Review-an MCP exam readiness assessment book and CD.
Easy Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional: See It Done, Do It Yourself
Authors: Shelley O'Hara
Venue:  (2000)

:Easy Windows 2000 Professional is a task-based tutorial that gives you full color, step-by-step solutions to your Windows 2000 questions. Topics include using applications in Windows 2000, working with disks, folders, and files, printing, personalizing Windows 2000, setting up programs, using Windows accessories, and maintaining your system.
A Guide to SQL, 3rd edition
Authors: Philip J. Pratt
Venue:  (1995)

:This comprehensive reference to SQL teaches basic familiarity with SQL programming using straightforward instruction and hands-on projects. All screenshots and examples have been updated to Oracle 8i to provide the most current coverage possible. Two NEW appendices provide handy references for Oracle Commands and Tasks.
Using Java (Special Edition)
Authors: Edward B. Toupin
Venue:  (1995)

:Assuming that the reader has a basic understanding of C, this book describes the importance and origins of the World Wide Web as well as the existing browsers available for the Web today. Minimal object-oriented concepts are reviewed to provide a bridge into the rich development environment of Java for HotJava. The CD contains all the source code for Java applets and applications, plus HTML samples. (Communications/Networking)
Compiler prototyping using formal semantics
Authors: Uwe F. Pleban
Venue: ACM SIGPLAN Notices (1984)

The descriptive techniques of formal semantics can be used for the generation of complete prototype compilers. First, we review the essential characteristics of such semantics implementation systems, and discuss our experience with two existing experimental systems. Then, we show how to derive a complete conventional compiler for a small language from its denotational semantics. The compiler is specified in three phases consisting of a front-end (parser, tree builder, and semantic checker), a translator from syntax trees to prefix code, and a code generator which converts the prefix code into IBM/370 style assembly code. The translator component is obtained by modifying the standard semantics of the language in two steps: first, the semantic domains and the equations are rewritten in a straight forward way to achieve a normal form, and then the auxiliary semantic functions are interpreted as instructions for a prefix code machine. The entire three part specification has been implemented with the help of Paulson's semantics processing system.
Learn Internet Relay Chat with Cdrom, 2nd edition
Authors: Kathryn Toyer
Venue:  (1997)

:This second edition is an introduction to the popular and trendy interactive online communications forum found on the Internet. The unusual feature of IRC is the ability to immediately communicate through the multi-user, multi-channel communication system with many people. Advanced tricks and techniques have been added to this edition in how to more effectively use mIRC and Pirch.
The broadcast storm problem in a mobile ad hoc network
Authors: Yu-Chee Tseng, Sze-Yao Ni, Yuh-Shyan Chen, Jang-Ping Sheu
Venue: Wireless Networks (2002)

Broadcasting is a common operation in a network to resolve many issues. In a mobile ad hoc network (MANET) in particular, due to host mobility, such operations are expected to be executed more frequently (such as finding a route to a particular host, paging a particular host, and sending an alarm signal). Because radio signals are likely to overlap with others in a geographical area, a straightforward broadcasting by flooding is usually very costly and will result in serious redundancy, contention, and collision, to which we call the broadcast storm problem. In this paper, we identify this problem by showing how serious it is through analyses and simulations. We propose several schemes to reduce redundant rebroadcasts and differentiate timing of rebroadcasts to alleviate this problem. Simulation results are presented, which show different levels of improvement over the basic flooding approach.
FileMaker Pro 4 Bible
Authors: Steven A. Schwartz
Venue:  (1997)

:Venture into the wild world of online database publishing with FileMaker&reg; Pro 4 Bible, the most comprehensive resource currently available for FileMaker Pro users and developers. With FileMaker Pros new Instant Web Publishing capabilities, you can quickly and easily launch a database on the Web or a corporate intranet. For more advanced users, FileMaker Pro 4 offers Custom Web Publishing that allows you to create format files with HTML and CDML tags. FileMaker Pro 4 Bible is also a thorough cross-platform guide to the world of databases including chapters on creating and using FileMaker Pro templates, ScriptMaker, importing data from outside sources, and using menus to simplify your interface. Adding to the interactive learning experience, FileMaker Pro 4 Bible includes a bonus CD-ROM with over 100 templates, demos, and utilities. Youll find Organizer Pro, ISO Magazine, Word 97 Viewer, PracticeMaker, ClickHTML, and more.
Accountable-subgroup multisignatures: extended abstract
Authors: Silvio Micali, Kazuo Ohta, Leonid Reyzin
Venue: Proceedings of the 8th ACM conference on Computer and Communications Security (2001)

Formal models and security proofs are especially important for multisignatures: in contrast to threshold signatures, no precise definitions were ever provided for such schemes, and some proposals were subsequently broken.In this paper, we formalize and implement a variant of multi-signature schemes, Accountable-Subgroup Multisignatures (ASM). In essence, ASM schemes enable any subgroup, S, of a given group, G, of potential signers, to sign efficiently a message M so that the signature provably reveals the identities of the signers in S to any verifier.Specifically, we provide:The first formal model of security for multisignature schemes that explicitly includes key generation (without relying on trusted third parties);A protocol, based on Schnorr's signature scheme [33], that is both provable and efficient:Only three rounds of communication are required per signature.The signing time per signer is the same as for the single-signer Schnorr scheme, regardless of the number of signers.The verification time is only slightly greater than that for the single-signer Schnorr scheme.The signature length is the same as for the single signer Schnorr scheme, regardless of the number of signers.Our proof of security relies on random oracles and the hardness of the Discrete Log Problem.
Data Rearrangement and Real-Time Computation
Authors: Philip N. Armstrong
Venue:  (1993)

:This report displays special switching networks and memory systems that permit simultaneous storage and rearrangement of data so that the required difference between input and output data sequences can be accommodated without expenditure of time. 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
Website link structure evaluation and improvement based on user visiting patterns
Authors: Baoyao Zhou, Jinlin Chen, Jin Shi, Hongjiang Zhang, Qiufeng Wu
Venue: Proceedings of the 12th ACM conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (2001)

Link structure evaluation and improvement is a significant hard problem for Hypertext system. In this paper a novel approach for evaluating and improving website link structure based on User Visiting Patterns instead of complex semantic analysis is proposed. By optimizing and re-evaluating the link structure to increase the Average Connectivity, our approach can effectively improve website link structure. Experiments have shown satisfactory results.
The Little Book of Computer Wisdom: How to Make Friends with Your PC or MAC
Authors: Charles Rubin
Venue:  (1994)

:The Little Book of Computer Wisdom does for computers what Strunk and White did for the English language: it squeezes all the essentials into a few pages. It makes computers easy, not by telling you everything you need to know about any particular software or hardware but by showing you how to develop a general computer sense that lies beyond the thousands of details. The Little Book leads you step by step from novice to guru, beginning with "Which Computer?" and ending with advice on how (and whether) to upgrade. It reveals the essential secrets of successful word processing, spreadsheeting, databasing, and networking, everything from "Edit first, format later" to "Don't put two spaces after periods." It tells how to avert disaster and what to do when disaster strikes. In short, The Little Book tells you what you need to know to make your PC or Mac behave the way you always hoped it would. It's the one book every computer user ought to have.
Java Foundation Classes
Authors: Matthew T. Nelson
Venue:  (1998)

:Get a Jump on Java Foundation Classes. Go to the head of your classwith this first-ever,easy-to-use,inclusive guide to Java Foundation Classes (JFC). Replacing bulky pieces of Java's Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT) and Netscape's discontinued Internet Foundation Classes (IFC),JFC gives you what you want - the ability to write full-featured,fully functional,attractive user interfaces quickly This superb guide gives you a step-by-step tutorial on all JFC's exciting and empowering new programming tools,including trees,tables,toolbars,and tooktips,completely illustrated with coded examples - plus help with JFC's quirks and idiosyncrasies. you get in-depth discussions of the 100+ most important JFC classes,including:Instructions to help you start using each class quickly; Working code samples for each class; More advanced examples to demonstrate how to use the classes in complex of unusual ways. Plus: 5 practical examples showing how to implement different JFC's in real-world applications; Testing your application's accessibility with the JFC accessibility package; an introduction to Java 2D,Drag-and-Drop,and custom cursors. The bundled CD-ROM includes all of the book's source code examples,the latest version of the Java Development Kit (JDK) 1. 2,and 50 test questions relating to the JFC to help readers pass the Java 1. 2 certification exam 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
Comparison and optimization of packet loss repair methods on VoIP perceived quality under bursty loss
Authors: Wenyu Jiang, Henning Schulzrinne
Venue: Proceedings of the 12th international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video (2002)

Packet loss degrades the perceived quality of voice over IP (VoIP). In addition, packet loss in the Internet tends to come in bursts, which may further degrade audio quality. Using the Gilbert loss model, we infer that changing the packet interval affects loss burstiness, which in turn influences forward error correction (FEC) performance. Next, we perform subjective listening tests based on Mean Opinion Score (MOS) to evaluate the effect of bursty loss on VoIP perceived quality. Then, we compare the perceived quality achieved by two major loss repair methods: FEC and low bit-rate redundancy (LBR). Our MOS test results show that FEC is much preferred over LBR. In addition, our MOS results reveal that, under bursty loss, FEC quality is much better with a moderately large packet interval. Finally, because FEC introduces an extra delay proportional to the packet interval, we present a method of optimizing the packet interval to maximize FEC MOS by considering the delay impairment in ITU's E-model standard.
Traffic equivalence and substitution in a multiplexer with applications to dynamic available capacity estimation
Authors: Costas A. Courcoubetis, Antonis Dimakis, George D. Stamoulis
Venue: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON) (2002)

For a multiplexer fed by a large number of sources, we derive conditions under which a given subset of the sources can be substituted for a single source while preserving the buffer overflow probability and the dominant timescales of buffer overflows. This notion of traffic equivalence is stronger than simple effective bandwidth equality and depends on the multiplexing context. We propose several applications of the above traffic substitution conditions. First, we show that fractional Brownian motion as a single source substitute can effectively model a large number of multiplexed sources using information obtained purely from traffic traces; this has direct application to simple but accurate traffic generation. Second, we focus on dynamic (i.e., on-line) estimation of available capacity and buffer overflow probability. This requires the solution of a double optimization problem expressed in terms of functions whose values are obtained from time averages of the traffic traces over a large range of timescales. We show how to solve this problem on-line by reducing it to the calculation of a fixed-point equation that can be solved iteratively by combining traffic substitution using fractional Brownian motion with dynamic measurements of the actual traffic. We have validated this approach by extensive experimentation with large numbers or real traffic sources that are fed to a high bandwidth link, and comparing our on-line estimation of available capacity and the resulting dynamic call admission control with other existing approaches. The superior accuracy of our approach also suggests that taking the buffer size into account, as does our on-line algorithm, may be vital for achieving approximations of practical interest.
Individual-based simulation of the clustering behaviour of epidermal growth factor receptors.
Authors: Jacki P. Goldman, William J. Gullick, Dennis Bray, Colin G. Johnson
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing (2002)

This paper describes ongoing work on a project to simulate the behaviour of epidermal growth factor receptors. These are structures which can be found on the surface of cells in the body, which receive and process chemical signals concerned with cell growth. We describe the implementation of a program which simulates the stimulation and clustering behaviour of these structures, discuss how we scale up this simulation so that we can simulate a whole cell on a tractable timescale, and discuss ongoing work in which we are calibrating our simulation against results from experiments.