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On Real Solutions of the Equation $\Phi^t(A)=\frac1\n J_n$
Authors: Yuming Chen
Venue: SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (2000)

For a class of n× n-matrices, we get related real solutions to the matrix equation $\Phi^t(A)=\frac{1}{n}J_n$ by generalizing the approach of and applying the results of Zhang, Yang, and Cao [SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl., 21 (1999), pp. 642--645]. These solutions contain not only those obtained by Zhang, Yang, and Cao but also some which are neither diagonally nor permutation equivalent to those obtained by Zhang, Yang, and Cao. Therefore, the open problem proposed by Zhang, Yang, and Cao in the cited paper is solved.
Modeling, Verification, and Exploration of Task-Level Concurrency of Real-Time Embedded Systems
Authors: Filip Thoen, Francky Catthoor
Venue:  (2000)

:The combination of VLSI process technology and real-time digital signal processing (DSP) has brought a break-through in information technology. This rapid technical (r)evolution allows the integration of ever more complex systems on a single chip. However, these technology and integration advances have not been matched by an increase in design productivity, causing technology to leapfrog the design of integrated circuits (ICs). The success of these emerging `systems-on-a-chip' (SOC) can only be guaranteed by a systematic and formal design methodology, possibly automated in computer-aided design (CAD) tools, and effective re-use of existing intellectual property (IP). In this book, a contribution is made to the modeling, timing verification and analysis, and the automatic synthesis of integrated real-time DSP systems. Existing literature in these three domains is extensively reviewed, making this book the first to give a comprehensive overview of existing techniques. The emphasis throughout the book is on the support and guaranteeing of the real-time aspect and constraints of these systems, which avoids time consuming design iterations and safeguards the ever shrinking time-to-market. The proposed `Multi-Thread Graph' (MTG) system model features two-layers, unifying a (timed) Petri net and a control-data flow graph. Its unique interface between both models offers the best of two worlds and introduces an extra abstraction level hiding the operation-level details which are unnecessary during global system exploration. The formulated timing analysis and verification approach supports the calculation of temporal separation between different MTG entities as well as realisticperformance metrics for highly concurrent systems. The synthesis methodology focuses on managing the task-level concurrency (i.e. task scheduling), as part of a proposed overall system design meta flow. It emphasizes performance and timing aspects (`timeliness'), while minimizing processor cost overhead as driven by high-level cost estimators. The approach is new in the abstraction level it employs, and in its optimal hybrid dynamic/static scheduling policy which, driven by cost estimators, selects the scheduling policy for each behavior. At the low-level, RTOS synthesis generates an application-specific scheduler for the software component. The proposed synthesis methodology (at the task-level) is asserted to yield most optimal results when employed before the hardware/software partition is made. At this level, the distinction between these two is minimal, such that all steps in the design trajectory can be shared, thereby reducing the system cost significantly and allowing tighter satisfaction of timing/performance constraints.
PC Hardware in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference, 1st edition
Authors: Robert Bruce Thompson, Barbara Fritchman Thompson
Venue:  (1999)

:PC Hardware in a Nutshell is a comprehensive guide to buying, building, upgrading, and repairing Intel-based PCs, presented in O'Reilly's concise "In a Nutshell" format. The three major thrusts of the book are: Buying guidelines. In supplying advice on how to choose optimum systems and components, the book focuses on teaching the reader how to evaluate alternatives rather than on recommending specific products. How-to advice. The book is loaded with practical, hands-on information about how to install, configure, and troubleshoot specific components. Reference. Numerous tables and the topical organization let novices and professionals alike consult the book for the specifications and steps they need in order to perform discrete tasks. In addition to covering the fundamentals and general tips about working on PCs, the book includes chapters focusing on motherboards, processors, memory, disks (floppies, hard drives, and optical drives), tape devices, video devices, input devices, audio components, communications, power supplies, and maintenance. The last chapter is a complete case study in building a PC from components. PC Hardware in a Nutshell is supported by a web site that provides: A depository of obsolescent or arcane material that didn't make the book but may still be useful to some New and updated material that will appear in updated editions Errata A Mail drop for reader feedback and suggestions PC Hardware in a Nutshell is a compact guide, accessible to the ordinary reader and invaluable for the seasoned professional.
Sap R/3 and Windows NT
Authors: Stefan Huth, Hans Mayer, Robert Kolbinger
Venue:  (1999)

From the Book:The history of R/3 under Windows NT has been a triumph. Since its availability as a new platform for R/3 in 1994, Microsoft Windows NT has become the largest single platform. Today, Windows NT can post nearly half of all new shipments of R/3 to its account. This has also led to enormous changes in the hardware manufacturing scene. New R/3 hardware partners, such as Compaq, have suddenly appeared, while others have lost their importance. This development was not guaranteed. In the beginning, many long-term R/2 customers looked at it with suspicion, having just got acquainted with the idea of giving up well-proven mainframe solutions in favor of seemingly much less secure R/3 UNIX platforms. When in Summer 1993 SAP began to port R/3 to Microsoft Windows NT, it came as a cultural shock for many of them. At that time, Microsoft still had a kind of jeans and sneakers image. I very well remember an IT manager who traveled across half of Germany to convince himself of the functionality on site. Unfortunately  and how could it have been otherwise?  the only active system was not available for a demo because of a transport order. What were the advantages that made many SAP customers rethink? In the end, all the advantages boil down to aspects of cost  the Total Cost of Ownership. The opportunity to work in a homogeneous system environment was and still is one of the main arguments in favor of R/3 under Windows NT. I have always called this the 1 for 3 formula. Windows NT can be employed for all three levels of a client/server infrastructure. This applies to the PCs (also known as the front-end or presentation) as well as to the R/3application and database levels. A factor of at least equal importance was the cost of acquisition. In some cases, there were dramatic differences of up to two thirds between the traditional platforms and the more recent R/3 NT platforms. These advantages for our SAP customers have always been the determining factor for my commitment. Never have I led, nor will I ever lead, crusades for esoteric operating system philosophies. The actual customer advantage due to lower acquisition and operation costs, together with the simplified administration of the system environment, have always been important enough for me to commit myself personally and vigorously in favor of this development. The success of R/3 under Windows NT rests on many shoulders. Above all, I think of the first pilot customers who shared our vision of a simpler, more cost-effective R/3 world. It was their confidence which allowed us to start in the first place. On the other hand, many partners have paved the way to success with much conviction, motivation, and personal commitment. Also, iXOS has made a decisive contribution to this success with its contribution to quality assurance and assistance and service for the first customers. Ingo Nicolay Director SAPCompaq Competence Center
MCSE: Windows 2000 Network Security Design Exam Notes
Authors: Gary Govanus, Robert King
Venue:  (2000)

:MCSE: Windows 2000 Network Security Design Exam Notes provides the fastest and most effective way to make sure you're ready to pass the Windows 2000 Network Security Design exam. The unique, innovative Exam Notes approach helps you gain and retain the knowledge you need, objective by objective.
Natural Boundary Element Methods for the Electric Field Integral Equation on Polyhedra
Authors: R. Hiptmair, C. Schwab
Venue: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (2002)

We consider the electric field integral equation on the surface of polyhedral domains and its Galerkin discretization by means of divergence-conforming boundary elements. With respect to a Hodge decomposition, the continuous variational problem is shown to be coercive. However, this does not immediately carry over to the discrete setting, as discrete Hodge decompositions fail to possess essential regularity properties. Introducing an intermediate semidiscrete Hodge decomposition, we can bridge the gap and come up with asymptotically optimal a priori error estimates. Until now, those had been elusive, in particular for nonsmooth boundaries.
A Design Diversity Metric and Analysis of Redundant Systems
Authors: Subhasish Mitra, Nirmal R. Saxena, Edward J. McCluskey
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Computers (2002)

Redundant systems are designed using multiple copies of the same resource (e.g., a logic network or a software module) in order to increase system dependability. Design diversity has long been used to protect redundant systems from common-mode failures. The conventional notion of diversity relies on independent generation of different implementations. This concept is qualitative and does not provide a basis for comparing the reliabilities of two diverse systems. In this paper, for the first time, we present a metric to quantify diversity among several designs and illustrate its effectiveness using several examples. Applications of this metric in analyzing reliability and availability of diverse redundant systems, and deriving simple relationships between diversity, system failure rate, and mission time are also demonstrated.
On Minimizing and Critical Sequences in Nonsmooth Optimization
Authors: L. R. Huang, K. F. Ng, J.-P. Penot
Venue: SIAM Journal on Optimization (1999)

Let f be a bounded below, lower semicontinuous function from a Banach space into $R\cup \{+\infty \}.$ We study the relationships between minimizing and critical sequences of f, where the criticality condition is given in terms of some subdifferential $\partial.$ Here the objective function f is not supposed to be convex or smooth. Our work extends that of Auslender and Crouzeix and that of Chou, Ng, and Pang.
The Mother of All Windows Book: Being a Compendium of Incantations, Imprecations, Supplications, and Modifications Known to Appease the Deamons Within, 1st edition
Authors: Woody Leonhard, Barry Simon, Barry Leonhard
Venue:  (1993)

:CD-MOM: The Mother Of All Windows Books CD Version ventures where no Windows book and companion disk have gone before: into the heart of the beast, to reveal the hard Windows facts of life. Read the book and learn how Windows really works - not how its designers thought it should work - and find hundreds of ways to make it work better for you. On your computer. Day in and day out. Run the CD's software and find out which Windows products will let you work better and faster, and make it more fun. The CD contains the WinSleuth Gold Windows system snooper. CompuServe's WinCIM and a free sign-up worth $25, working models of major Windows applications - Ami Pro, ClarisWorks, Freelance Graphics, Quark XPress, IntelliDraw, PhotoStyler, and many more - in addition to the latest Windows printer and video drivers; hundreds of megabytes of video clips and video viewing software; dozens of newsletters; the new "safe" SmartDrive; the top 100 shareware Windows programs; and a hundred fonts, thousands of icons, games, utilities, and much more. CD-MOM includes detailed, step-by-step instructions on assessing and using the CD's, software, even if you don't own a CD drive. As long as you can beg, borrow, or steal a CD drive for just a few minutes you can put this incredible collection to work. Mystified by the "Use Fast Access" check box? Or why your machine locks up unexpectedly? Can't get your sound card to work? Does your modem hate you? Want to make Windows run faster? Want to make Windows run, PERIOD? Need some new hardware? Is it time to get a CD-ROM drive? MOM steps you through it all, with insight and wit. It's all here in plain English: the concepts, the practicalities, gotchas and glitches, tricks and advice, plus hundreds of previously undocumented, or worse, incorrectly documented, settings. If you want the straight scoop on Windows - no pulled punches, no warmed-over user's manuals - just ask MOM.
Novell's CNE Study Guide for Netware 5.0, 1st edition
Authors: David James Clarke
Venue:  (1999)

:Real Training for Real Jobs That Earn Real MoneyIn the lively style well-known to the thousands of CNA and CNE candidates whove used his study guides to prepare for the tests or learn about NetWare, David Clarke takes you on a new journey through the Infobahn in the NetWare 5 supercar. As youre traveling along, youll find word searches and puzzles throughout the book to help you the learn the information and gain the practical experience you need to succeed.Cover Objectives for Courses 565, 570, 575, and 580NetWare 5 upgrade and migrationIP ServicesNetscape FastTrack Server for NetWareFile and print managementNDS designNDSA implementationSupporting NICsTroubleshooting hard drives, workstations, and printersNetwork managementNetwork communications
Making Microchips: Policy, Globalization, and Economic Restructuring in the Semiconductor Industry
Authors: Jan Mazurek
Venue:  (1998)

:In Making Microchips, Jan Mazurek examines the environmental and economic implications of the computer microchip industry's exodus from California's Silicon Valley to New Mexico, Virginia, Ireland, and Taiwan. Globalization, economic restructuring, and changing manufacturing processes in this rapidly growing industry present difficult new questions for environmental policy. Mazurek challenges the assumptions of US policies designed to promote the competitiveness of domestic microchip makers. She argues that, although these initiatives focus on the economic effects of environmental regulation, they fail to acknowledge how economic and organizational changes within the industry collide with and often confound efforts to monitor and manage pollution from chemicals used in microchip manufacturing.
Easy Lingo with Cdrom
Authors: Jennifer Bennett
Venue:  (1996)

:Easy Lingo covers important Lingo commands and their uses, Director 5.0, cross-platform Lingo Xtras, and Shockwave with HTML. Learn to create non-linear presentations using frame scripts, cast scripts, and sprite scripts, pull-down menus, movies in windows, puppets, control digital video, and move graphics. Practice with Lingo using the CD-ROM which follows the examples in the book. 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
Storage Area Network Fundamentals
Authors: Meeta Gupta, C. Anita Sastry
Venue:  (2002)

:Plan, implement, manage, and use SANs to increase the efficiency of your network infrastructureAn in-depth coverage of SAN fundamentals, topologies, implementation and management techniques, and productsScenario-based questions and hands on exercises facilitate real-life problem solvingPost-chapter assessment questions test the reader's understandingStorage Area Network Fundamentals looks at the various areas and technologies associated with SANs, the available SAN technology, its limitations, expenditures and ways to minimize them, and the forthcoming technology, so that organizations can deploy real operational storage in data centers without further delay. Designed as an introduction to SANs, Storage Area Network Fundamentals develops an understanding of SAN basics and how to plan, implement, and manage a storage area network. The book covers the different topologies, protocols, and products required to implement and manage efficient SANs, as well as chapter-ending questions to test your knowledge.
Using 'endowed props' in scenario-based design
Authors: Steve Howard, Jennie Carroll, John Murphy, Jane Peck
Venue: Proceedings of the second Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction (2002)

We have developed a form of scenario-based design that aims to increase stakeholders' sense of 'immersion' in the happenings and situations depicted in the scenarios. In our approach, scenarios are 'acted out' by actors and/or candidate users during participatory design sessions, rather than being 'walked through' by designers and users. In form, our scenarios are bare and malleable and load on the context of use more than the activities and objectives of the candidate users. In usage, our scenarios play a role similar to stage directions in theatrical performance. Props are a vital accompaniment to such scenarios. Props focus the attention of the design team and stakeholders during participatory design sessions and this paper describes their form and usage.
Sams Teach Yourself E-Music Today: Playing, Recording, Researching, and Promoting Mp3 and Online Music, 1st edition
Authors: Brandon Barber, James Maguire, Lara Gifford, Joe Rosenthal, Steve Allen
Venue:  (2000)

:Sams Teach Yourself e-Music Today is an easily accessible resource to the online music industry and MP3 players. You will learn the basics of MP3, including how to install, find and download software and files. The book also teaches you how to edit and manage files in order to create custom effects. But the book goes beyond merely discussing the technology and its applications; it also shows how to launch a music career by posting MP3 files to leading Web sites. Further, the book will show you how to use the Internet as a resource to learn more about your favorite artists and styles of music.
Javabeans Unleashed
Authors: Donald Doherty, Rick Leinecker
Venue:  (1999)

:JavaBeans Unleashed is a practical, professional, and comprehensive guide to JavaBeans. It assumes you are an experienced Java programmer but have little experience developing network and client/server applications. This book also contains an introduction to Enterprise JavaBeans, a new Java specification from Sun. JavaBeans works with the most popular distributed object protocols, so CORBA (the distributed object leading protocol from the Object Management Group), Java IDL (Interface Definition Language allows Java apps access to CORBA), and JNDI (Java Naming and Directory Interface which allows Java applications to access files on any network server) are also covered.
On the Convergence of Grid-Based Methods for Unconstrained Optimization
Authors: I. D. Coope, C. J. Price
Venue: SIAM Journal on Optimization (2000)

The convergence of direct search methods for unconstrained minimization is examined in the case where the underlying method can be interpreted as a grid or pattern search over successively refined meshes. An important aspect of the main convergence result is that translation, rotation, scaling, and shearing of the successive grids are allowed.
SQL Server 6.5 Administration Study Guide with Cdrom
Authors: Lance Mortensen, Rick Sawtell
Venue:  (1997)

:Get a headstart on one of the most popular elective exams for MCSE certification. With this Microsoft Certified Professional Approved Study Guide, you'll learn how to administer SQL Server 6.5, Microsoft's database server and a vital component of Microsoft's BackOffice solution. The proven study-guide format provides real-world implementation and troubleshooting information, together with hands-on exercises and practice questions. The companion CD includes sample test questions similar to those found on the SQL Server 6.5 Administration exam.
Broadband Wireless Communications: Transmission, Access, and Services, 1st edition
Authors: M. Louise, S. Pupolin
Venue:  (1998)

:Broadband Wireless Access is a highly challenging and fast changing area of multimedia radio communications. These papers on the subject are the proceedings of the 9th Tyrrhenian Workshop, held in Lerici, Italy, September 1997. They provide a prospect on the state of the art and future development, with a sufficiently wide focus to cover technological, architectural and regulatory issues. Emphasis is given to those advances of digital signal processing techniques, microwave mono lithic integrated circuits and smart antennae that will allow the design of low cost user terminals with advanced capabilities. Specific attention is also devoted to the protocols these new terminals will use to access the radio medium, and to the kind of services that will eventually be provided to the end-user in the future. With contributions from worldwide experts, the material presented here is a timely and high-level overview of the field, and as well as being informative is a useful tool for promoting further investigation into the area of multimedia radio communications.
Official Strategy Guide to Zork Grand Inquisitor
Authors: Margaret Stohl, Margie Stohl
Venue:  (1997)

:Using Brady s popular hints and solutions approach, Official Guide to Zork Grand Inquisitor provides gamers with walkthroughs for each quest, maps of the most important areas of the game, lists of useful items and where to find them, and complete puzzle solutions. With this practical guide in hand, players embark on an epic adventure to save the Dungeon Master, restore magic to the world of Zork, and defeat the Grand Inquisitor once and for all. In Zork Grand Inquisitor, players will experience both the tongue-in-cheek humor of the original Zork games and the high quality graphics of Zork Nemesis.Fans of the popular Zork game series, whidch dates back to pre-IBM PCActivision expects strong sell-in of 250,000 unitsThe game release is already being supported by a national advertising campaign (two-page spreads) in major game industry magazines
Computational Models of Electromagnetic Resonators: Analysis of Edge Element Approximation
Authors: D. Boffi, P. Fernandes, L. Gastaldi, I. Perugia
Venue: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (1999)

The purpose of this paper is to address some difficulties which arise in computing the eigenvalues of Maxwell's system by a finite element method. Depending on the method used, the spectrum may be polluted by spurious modes which are difficult to pick out among the approximations of the physically correct eigenvalues. Here we propose a criterion to establish whether or not a finite element scheme is well suited to approximate the eigensolutions and, in the positive case, we estimate the rate of convergence of the eigensolutions. This criterion involves some properties of the finite element space and of a suitable Fortin operator. The lowest-order edge elements, under some regularity assumptions, give an example of space satisfying the required conditions. The construction of such a Fortin operator in very general geometries and for any order edge elements is still an open problem.Moreover, we give some justification for the spectral pollution which occurs when nodal elements are used. Results of numerical experiments confirming the theory are also reported.