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Power Tools for the as/400
Authors: Frederick Dick
Venue:  (1995)

:Power Tools for the AS/400, Volume II follows in the footsteps of the popular Volume I, offering you a multitude of articles from recent issues of NEWS 3X/400. You'll find ready-to-use programming solutions and up-to-date pointers and procedures on topics such as working with files, programming with UIM, handling errors, using system APIs, automating system operations, managing system resources, using communications techniques, and utilizing PC Support. No AS/400 programmer should be without this valuable resource. Includes a diskette with load-and-go programming code.
C++ for Java Programmers, 1st edition
Authors: Timothy A. Budd
Venue:  (1999)

:In C++ for Java Programmers, the student gets an introduction to C++ that enlists their Java programming skills to get them comfortably programming in C++. This title is an appropriate supplement for any upper level course in which students are required to program in C++, or for anyone with experience in Java who is interested in an introduction to C++. The text first walks the Java programmer through features controlled by the Java language but left to the programmer in C++ (e.g., the use of pointers, controlling memory management). It then builds upon their Java experience to teach language features that are slightly different (e.g., the structure of a class definition, polymorphism). Characteristics of C++ that have no correlation in Java are then presented.
High-Tech Practice: Thriving in Dentistry's Computer Age, 1st edition
Authors: Cheryl Farr
Venue:  (1996)

:This book from Cheryl Farr focuses on the evolution of the dental office into a high-tech environment. She provides strategies for the dental team anticipating or using technology to improve the workplace, increase case acceptance, accelerate productivity, and improve patient care. Specific technologies such as on-line patient record-keeping, intra-oral cameras, digital radiology, multi-media electronic claims, and periodontal charting through voice actuation are explained in detail. Dentists will learn how technology can help meet challenges in the dental environment and how to begin to develop a "paperless practice." 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
Multi-agent oriented constraint satisfaction
Authors: Jiming Liu, Han Jing, Y. Y. Tang
Venue: Artificial Intelligence (2002)

This paper presents a multi-agent oriented method for solving CSPs (Constraint Satisfaction Problems). In this method, distributed agents represent variables and a two-dimensional grid-like environment in which the agents inhabit corresponds to the domains of the variables. Thus, the positions of the agents in such an environment constitute the solution to a CSP. In order to reach a solution state, the agents will rely on predefined local reactive behaviors; namely, better-move, least-move, and random-move. While presenting the formalisms and algorithm, we will analyze the correctness and complexity of the algorithm, and demonstrate the proposed method with two benchmark CSPs, i.e., n-queen problems and coloring problems. In order to further determine the effectiveness of different reactive behaviors, we will examine the performance of this method in deriving solutions based on behavior prioritization and different selection probabilities.
CorelDRAW 8 F/X, 10th edition
Authors: Shane Hunt
Venue:  (1997)

:"CorelDRAW 8 f/x avoids the tool-oriented approach of typical user manuals, plunging readers directly into the world of sophisticated graphics and multimedia. Covering images for print, Web, and CD-ROM projects, the book helps readers push CorelDRAW's power to create trendsetting, "edgy" effects. Each project is broken down into a series of easy-to-follow steps, enabling readers to digest concepts and techniques before moving on. Special troubleshooting notes throughout help avoid problems and roadblocks." "Spotlights dazzling special effects and state-of-the-art trends and techniques like classic comic book, fish-eye lenses, and even tattoos!" "Breaks each project into simpler components, with instructions, screenshots of dialogs, menus, and developing artwork." "Presents an array of effects divided into ancient, contemporary, and futuristic images." Features a 96-page Color Studio, integrated with tutorials. Highlights key projects with full-color illustrations. Examples and lessons from the book, ready for manipulation "Custom Palette files, PreSet files, Pattern files created by the author" Freeware, shareware utilities, fonts "Shane Hunt (San Dimas, CA) has been a CorelDRAW expert since version 1 and is a member of the beta-test team for versions 7 and 8. Author of The CorelDRAW Wow! Book, he has been a monthly contributor to Corel Magazine for more than four years and a consultant for numerous CorelDRAW books."
Online Travel: Your Guide to the Best Travel Resources, Services, and Deals - on Line and Off!
Authors: Ed Perkins
Venue:  (2000)

:Where are the best travel deals on line? How can you traverse the fine print of travel industry rules and restrictions to your advantage? Where can you get the most reliable advice? No mere Yellow Pages of travel-related Web sites, Online Travel focuses on helping do-it-yourself travel planners thoroughly understand and exploit their best options on line. Written by syndicated national columnist and travel expert Ed Perkins, Online Travel takes readers inside the travel industry before unloosing them on the Internet. A winner of the Traveler's Advocate Award from the American Society of Travel Agents, Perkins decodes much of the arcana of industry terminology and practices, arming consumers with the whats, whys, and how-to's for getting the best deals-and avoiding mistakes. He guides the Online Travel buyer through recommended resources-everything from sites for individual airlines and hotels to independent booking services, including Expedia.com-explaining their advantages and limitations, and offering "Inside-the-system" tips for getting the best service and prices. With Online Travel, anyone can plan and book their next excursion like a pro!
VLSI Custom Microelectronics: Digital, Analog, and Mixed-Signal
Authors: Stanley L. Hurst
Venue:  (1999)

:This innovative reference/text focuses on the design and production of integrated circuits specifically designed for particular applications from original-equipment manufacturers. Containing over 900 references, tables, equations, and figures, VLSI Custom Microelectronics is a versatile reference for electrical, electronics, design, computer, mechanical, and control engineers; computer architects and scientists; and circuit and systems designers; and an excellent text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.
The Computer Glossary, 8th edition
Authors: Alan Freedman
Venue:  (1998)

:This classic computer volume - long the reference of choice for computer users at all levels - is now completely updated to contain more useful and current information than ever before, including brand new information on Internet and Web terminology. With 2,000 new and revised entries (for a grand total of more than 6,000) and more than 200 photographs and illustrations, The Computer Glossary is easily the most comprehensive source for computer terms and information ever compiled. It's really more than a dictionary - not only does it include computer concepts and terminology, but it also covers jargon, companies, products, and industry history. Perfect for wet-behind-the-ears Web surfers, techno nerds, and anybody in between, The Computer Glossary addresses everything from personal computers to mainframes, from networking to vendors to operating systems, and much more.
Practical CM: Best Configuration Management Practices for the 21st Century
Authors: David D. Lyon
Venue:  (2000)

From the Book:Configuration Management (CM) today is a struggle, both for those who are trying to impose some degree of control over the design, production and support phases of programs and for those who are trying to resist CM in a misguided attempt to save time and money. Each element of CM, i.e., Identification, Change Control, Status Accounting, and Audits is inexorably linked to and interwoven with Engineering design methodologies plus Quality Assurance inspections and audits and Manufacturing production processes, no matter how simple or complex the program, and is thus integral to the process. Tradeoffs exist every step along the way. These tradeoffs involve cost versus control of the design and visibility into how the hardware and software products relate to the design at any given point in time. Manual, labor intensive CM activities involving baseline capture and control with change approval and incorporation processes employing multiple forms, databases and meetings induce images of wasteful, expensive pillaging of program coffers to Program and Functional Managers. Thus proposals are often trimmed of CM-related quotes and activities even before the program or project begins. This usually results in additional costs down the line from excessive changes to the design package, non-conforming hardware, repairs to or reworking of the product hardware and software, and failures experienced in product performance after delivery to the customer. Take heart, though. Help is on the way! For each specific CM activity, we will first examine the conventional, classical CM as it is practiced today in large businesses and corporations. Next we will implement, in a step-by-step manner, those processes necessary to achieve our ultimate goals. Excerpted from Practical CM: Best Configuration Management Practices for the 21st Century by David Douglas Lyon. Copyright 1999. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Managing in the New Economy: A Harvard Business Review Book
Authors: Joan Magretta
Venue:  (1999)

:As the Harvard Business Review's strategy editor, Joan Magretta has helped readers to see beyond the hype that surrounds the much-discussed but frequently misunderstood "new economy." Her work with the world's most influential business thinkers and executives has shaped our understanding of the practical issues of leadership, organization, and strategy that every manager must confront in this emerging era. Now, Magretta selects some of the most perceptive articles and interviews from the Review in a collection that will help readers make sense of the new managerial agenda. With its balanced coverage, Managing in the New Economy helps us sort out what is truly new about the new economy and what endures from the old. The articles are organized around important managerial issues, revealing how the dynamics shaping the new economy are changing both managers' priorities and the tools they use to make decisions. Part I addresses the principal issues of strategy, analysis, and competition. In Part II, Magretta turns our attention to the new realities of leadership and organization. Part III brings these issues to life as three CEOs describe how their organizations are tackling the challenges of managing in the new economy. With renowned contributors--from writers such as Michael Porter, C.K. Prahalad, and Peter Drucker to business leaders such as Michael Dell--this invaluable collection explores the new mind-set executives in every industry must embrace in order to keep pace with the trends in technology, networks, knowledge, and globalization that are shaping the new economy.
Architectural Programming: Creative Techniques for Design Professionals, 1st edition
Authors: Robert R. Kumlin
Venue:  (1995)

:Architectural programming is the key to successful design. It is the crucial process of gathering, organizing, and assessing a client's building-use information. This process includes design concepts and program objectives ... staff and employee projections ... current and future space requirements ... adjacencies and relationships ... equipment and utility requirements ... project cost ... and more. This unique book and diskette provide architects, engineers, facilities managers, corporate and institutional administrators, and others with an effective method for gathering and assessing data needed to successfully design virtually any type of building - from office towers and educational facilities to laboratories and medical facilities. 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
Networking Fundamentals Using NOVELL NetWare (4.11), 1st edition
Authors: Ann Beheler
Venue:  (1998)

:Consisting of the second half of Data Communications and Networking Fundamentals Using Novell NetWare, this introduction to networking focuses on Novell's NetWare version 4.11 to illustrate local area network applications. The book features "how-to"and hands-on tutorials in the use of NetWare 4.11, the most popular LAN product. It explores the full spectrum of Novell NetWare 4.11 topics -- ranging from overview, through user creation, login script creation, printing, file system rights, Novell Directory Services rights, and troubleshooting. The book assumes a basic level of computer literacy equivalent to that gained in an introductory computer science course and for anyone interested in networking.
QCDSP: a Teraflop scale massively parallel supercomputer
Authors: Dong Chen, Ping Chen, Norman H. Christ, Robert G. Edwards, George Fleming, Alan Gara, Sten Hansen, Chulwoo Jung, Adrian Kahler, Stephen Kasow, Anthony D. Kennedy, Greg Kilcup, Yu Bing Luo, Catalin Malureanu, Robert D. Mawhinney, John Parsons, Jim Sexton, ChengZhong Sui, Pavlos Vranas
Venue: Proceedings of the 1997 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing (CDROM) (1997)

We discuss the work of the QCDSP collaboration to build an inexpensive Teraflop scale massively parallel computer suitable for computations in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). The computer is a collection of nodes connected in a four dimensional toroidial grid with nearest neighbor bit serial communications. A node is composed of a Texas Instruments Digital Signal Processor (DSP), memory, and a custom made communications and memory controller chip. An 8192 node computer with a peak speed of 0.4 Teraflops is being constructed at Columbia University for a cost of $1.8 Million. A 12,288-node machine with a peak speed of 0.6 Teraflops is being constructed for the RIKEN Brookhaven Research Center. Other computers have been built including a 50 Gigaflop version for Florida State University.
Antifaces: A Novel, Fast Method for Image Detection
Authors: Daniel Keren, Margarita Osadchy, Craig Gotsman
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (2001)

This paper offers a novel detection method, which works well even in the case of a complicated image collection¿for instance, a frontal face under a large class of linear transformations. It is also successfully applied to detect 3D objects under different views. Call the collection of images, which should be detected, a multitemplate. The detection problem is solved by sequentially applying very simple filters (or detectors), which are designed to yield small results on the multitemplate (hence, ¿antifaces¿), and large results on ¿random¿ natural images. This is achieved by making use of a simple probabilistic assumption on the distribution of natural images, which is borne out well in practice. Only images which passed the threshold test imposed by the first detector are examined by the second detector, etc. The detectors are designed to act independently so that their false alarms are uncorrelated; this results in a false alarm rate which decreases exponentially in the number of detectors. This, in turn, leads to a very fast detection algorithm. Typically, $(1+\delta)N$ operations are required to classify an N-pixel image, where $\delta
Local search with annealing-like restarts to solve the vehicle routing problem with time windows
Authors: Haibing Li, Andrew Lim
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing (2002)

In this paper, we propose a metaheuristic based on annealing-like restarts to diversify and intensify local searches for solving the vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW). Using the Solomon's benchmark instances for the problem, our method obtained 7 new best results and equaled 19 other best results. Extensive comparisons indicate that our method is comparable to the best published literatures.
Standardising the business vocabulary of standards
Authors: Eva Söderström
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing (2002)

In the area of standardisation for inter-organisational business processes, terminology confusion is slowly emerging. The meaning of the concept "standard" is not as clear as many people and organisations seem to assume. This paper looks into the various definitions of a standard and four similarly used concepts: specification, recommendation, framework and pattern. When examining the various definitions, four different definitions types were identified: the item itself; the process of creating the item; the document describing how to create the item; and the process of creating this particular document. Furthermore, the standardisation efforts described in this paper for the most cases do not define their business vocabulary, meaning that there is some risk for terminology confusion. The conclusion is that there is a need to perform thorough concepts definitions and conceptual modelling in this area.
Word 2000, 1st edition
Authors: Moira Stephen
Venue:  (2000)

:Time is precious,especially when learning software on the job! Moira Stephen leads readers through Access 2000,one of the most popular database programs today. Practical examples and user-friendly language speed learning and productivity. Included are timesaving shortcuts and helpful on-screen illustrations. 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
Mastering Linux, 1st edition
Authors: Arman Danesh
Venue:  (1999)

:Join the Linux Revolution! Newly revised and updated, Mastering Linux is the best all-in-one Linux resource available anywhere. Inside, you'll find everything you need to know to install, configure, use, and optimize this increasingly popular and respected operating system. You'll even find the operating system itself-the Publisher's Edition of Red Hat Linux 7, absolutely free on the enclosed CD! Whatever you want to achieve with Linux, Mastering Linux makes it easy, providing the clear instruction and unique insights of a Linux expert who understands the needs of the non-Unix world. Coverage includes: * Installing Linux * Configuring and using the GNOME and KDE graphical user interfaces * Configuring and using X-Windows v. 4 * Using Linux commands * Managing files in Linux * Connecting to the Internet and e-mailing with Linux * Using Netscape Communicator 6 for Linux * Faxing from Linux * Using Linux on a LAN * Using Linux as part of a Windows network * Connecting and configuring USB peripherals * Creating a Linux Web server * Setting up and using a Linux mail server * Running DOS and Windows applications using Wine * Configuring your Linux system with LinuxConf * Re-compiling the Linux kernel CD Description On the enclosed CD, you'll find the Publisher's Edition of Red Hat Linux 7, the world's most popular Linux distribution. This is a non-expiring version that you can install and use for as long as you like.
LetterWise: prefix-based disambiguation for mobile text input
Authors: I. Scott MacKenzie, Hedy Kober, Derek Smith, Terry Jones, Eugene Skepner
Venue: Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (2001)

A new technique to enter text using a mobile phone keypad is described. For text input, the traditional touchtone phone keypad is ambiguous because each key encodes three or four letters. Instead of using a stored dictionary to guess the intended word, our technique uses probabilities of letter sequences --- "prefixes" --- to guess the intended letter. Compared to dictionary-based methods, this technique, called LetterWise, takes significantly less memory and allows entry of non-dictionary words without switching to a special input mode. We conducted a longitudinal study to compare LetterWise to Multitap, the conventional text entry method for mobile phones. The experiment included 20 participants (10 LetterWise, 10 Multitap), and each entered phrases of text for 20 sessions of about 30 minutes each. Error rates were similar between the techniques; however, by the end of the experiment the mean entry speed was 36% faster with LetterWise than with Multitap.
Improving heuristic regression analysis
Authors: Floyd A. Miller
Venue: Proceedings of the 6th annual Southeastern regional meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery and national meeting of Biomedical Computing - Volume 1 (1967)

Heuristic Regression Analysis, a new probabilistic predictor selection concept that allows a computer to automatically "learn" the best regression model, has become a practical and economical tool for profit-oriented industry replacing the usual stepwise regression approach. Wide experience with this computer substitute of human problem solving effort has led to substantial improvements of the technique. Starting with forty variables, simple models having three, four or five predictor terms are rapidly located. An "editor" routine, which has been developed to printout only the best three models generated during the learning iterations, significantly reduces the time required by the user to analyse the final models.
Access Power Programming 1997: With Cdrom, 3rd edition
Authors: F. Scott Barker
Venue:  (1996)

:Written by one of the most well-known Access developers and trainers, this is the ultimate authority for the Access programmer, providing great insight into the inner workings of Access. Programmers will use this guide to become more proficient in many important areas, including 32-bit OLE controls, OLE/DDE automation, and more. No Access power user or programmer should be without Access 97 Power Programming.Contains valuable routines that Access programmers can use in their own programs to save timeFilled with practical examples that give direct explanations of tough conceptsPrevious edition of this book won a Reader's Choice award from Visual Basic Programmer's Journal 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
From Pascal to Delphi to Object Pascal-2000
Authors: Alexander Gofen
Venue: ACM SIGPLAN Notices (2001)

The evolution of Pascal to Delphi, the powerful and elegant features of that language and RAD environment are discussed. Yet the evolution was not smooth, some inconsistencies and glitches built up. So the next version of the language named Object Pascal 2000 is suggested. It eliminates the inconsistencies, improves the language and sets the fundamentals for standardizing it.
HTML Visual Quick Reference, 2nd edition
Authors: Dean Scharf
Venue:  (1996)

:The millions of Web users have created a demand for a simple reference for casual users who want to publish their own Web pages. This easy-to-use visual guide covers all of the necessary HTML codes to create functional Web pages with graphics, hyperlinks, lists, and more!Shows how to write and design good Web pages and how to get them on the Web and get them noticedFully explains all of the key HTML elementsCovers the best HTML editor software for Windows, Mac, and UNIX 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