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Resources for instructors of capstone courses in computing
Authors: Tony Clear, Michael Goldweber, Frank H. Young, Paul M. Leidig, Kirk Scott
Venue: ACM SIGCSE Bulletin (2001)

Most computing programs now have some form of integrative or capstone course in which students undertake a significant project under supervision. There are many different models for such courses and conducting these courses is a complex task. This report is intended to assist instructors of capstone courses, particularly those new to the model of teaching and learning inherent in the capstone course.This paper discusses important issues that must be addressed when conducting capstone courses. These issues are addressed through a series of questions, with answers reflecting the way that different institutions have chosen to handle them, and commentary on the impact of these different choices. These questions include: Goals of the Course; Characteristics of Projects; Project Deliverables; Sponsors; Teams; Prerequisites and Preparation; Grading and Assessment; Administration and Supervision; and Reflection, Analysis and Review.Subsequently we present information about the companion Web site, intended as an active repository of best practice for instructors of capstone projects. The Web site will have examples of information about capstone courses and materials used by instructors. Readers are invited to contribute content to this site. The paper concludes with a bibliography of additional reference material and resources.
Using Visual InterDev 6
Authors: Michael Amundsen
Venue:  (1998)

:Learn to use Visual InterDev 6 to create dynamic Web applications, design practical and efficient Web pages and Web sites, learn to create and maximize the use of databases on your Web site - discover both ADO and ODBC database access, utilize ActiveX Technologies to their fullest and, in return, create more exciting Web pages, enhance your Web site by adding Dynamic HTML, security, scriptlets, and more.
Critical Depth: The Official Strategy Guide
Authors: Anthony James, Melissa Tyler
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.
Using Microsoft PowerPoint 97, 3rd edition
Authors: Laurie Ann Ulrich, Steve Rindsberg, Edward C. Willett
Venue:  (1998)

:Book Description The key features of the content and approach of this book are: It anticipates the needs of the average user and supports the user ergonomically. The book is designed to enable the reader to navigate and utilize the information in the text--no matter what their ultimate productivity goal may be. Readers benefit from this book as a well-organized reference, while increasing their skill set and productivity through its task-based tutorials. Navigation and accessibility of relevant content: Through a series of augmented indices, jump tables, margin notes, and exercise tracks, the consumer easily can find and put to use ALL of the information provided in the text. This book helps users become productive fast. The right price/content value proposition this book s page count, content approach, and price fill a real gap in the market for thorough, easily usable, productivity answers at an economical price.Microsoft PowerPoint 97 is part of Office 97 the fastest selling application suite ever. PowerPoint is one of the world s most popular presentation software packagesAt 600 pages and $29.99, this book offers thorough coverage of PowerPoint essentials, at a good value for the itermediate PowerPoint userNew and unique also known as indexing technique gives the reader the fastest method of finding information about PowerPoint 97
Defining Functions for Multiple Hopf Bifurcations
Authors: W. Govaerts, J. Guckenheimer, A. Khibnik
Venue: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (1997)

Let $A(u,\alpha)=F_u(u,\alpha)$ ($u \in R^n, \alpha \in R^k$) be a family of real $n \times n$ matrices arising as the Jacobian matrices of equilibrium solutions to the dynamical system $ \stackrel{.}{u}=F(u,\alpha)$. An equilibrium point is called a Hopf point if $A$ has a conjugate pair of pure imaginary eigenvalues $\pm i\omega$, $\omega> 0$. It is called a double Hopf point if there are two such pairs $\pm i\omega_1, \pm i\omega_2$ and a 1:1 resonant double Hopf point if, in addition, $\omega_1=\omega_2$.Defining functions are obtained for the numerical detection, computation, and continuation of Hopf, double Hopf, and 1:1 resonant double Hopf points. They are based on a combination of matrix biproduct and bordered matrix methods.Example computations are done in a fairly realistic and complicated neural model problem with $n=13$ and $k=29$. However, to make the methods applicable to large-scale problems (e.g., discretized boundary value problems) we reduce the state space to a subspace that essentially contains the generalized eigenspaces of the eigenvalues with largest real part.
Sams Teach Yourself Apache 2 in 24 Hours
Authors: Daniel Lopez Ridruejo, Ian Kallen
Venue:  (2002)

:Sams Teach Yourself Apache in 24 Hours covers the installation, configuration, and ongoing administration of the Apache Web server, the most popular Internet Web server. It covers both the 1.3 and the new 2.0 versions of Apache.Using a hands-on, task-oriented format, it concentrates on the most popular features and common quirks of the server. The first part of the book helps the reader build, configure, and get started with Apache. After completing these chapters the reader will be able to start, stop, and monitor the Web server. He also will be able to serve both static content and dynamic content, customize the logs, and restrict access to certain parts of the Web server. The second part of the book explains in detail the architecture of Apache and how to extend the server via third-party modules like PHP and Tomcat. It covers server performance and scalability, content management, and how to set up a secure server with SSL.
PHP Developer's Cookbook
Authors: Sterling Hughes, Andrei Zmievski
Venue:  (2000)

:Provides a complete, solutions-oriented guide to the challenges most often faced by PHP developers Written specifically for experienced Web developers, the book offers real-world solutions to real-world needs PHP is the major open source alternative to Microsoft's Active Server Pages, and is currently in use on over 1.5 million Web sites The authors are both directly involved with the development of the PHP project
A versatile 3D model representation for cultural reconstruction
Authors: Sven Havemann, Dieter Fellner
Venue: Proceedings of the 2001 conference on Virtual reality, archeology, and cultural heritage (2001)

This paper describes the a simple, yet very efficient and powerful mesh representation, called Combined BRep, and its application to virtual reconstruction of detailed building geometry. Utilizing the expressive power of the new mesh representation buildings can be modeled more faithfully while still warranting interactive rendering rates.
Mastering SIMULINK 4, 1st edition
Authors: James B. Dabney, Thomas L. Harman
Venue:  (2001)

:Mastering Simulink® presents readers with in-depth coverage of programming using Simulink. This book is intended to serve as a detailed tutorial for all new users of Simulink and as a reference for experienced users. The book presents an overview of Simulink and describes in detail the procedures for building, editing, and running a Simulink model. Provides explanations for debugging techniques, including the interactive debugger. Introduces Stateflow, a Simulink extension which adds the capability to model finite state machines subsystems using a variant of the popular Statecharts formalism. Covers subsystems, masking, callbacks, graphical animations, and S-functions. For anyone interested in Control Theory and Operational Amplifiers.
AutoCAD 2000 Instructor, 1st edition
Authors: Leach, James A. Leach
Venue:  (1999)

:AutoCAD 2000 Instructor is intended for instructor-lead instruction and self-instruction in AutoCAD software. AutoCAD is the market leader for all CAD software and is used by nearly two million students and professionals in architecture,engineering,construction,and design. Developed from teaching techniques used in an authorized AutoCAD Training Center and in instruction for engineering colleges,AutoCAD 2000 Instructor covers all features and capabilities of AutoCAD. The text is command-oriented so chapters are centered around groups of related commands. This feature makes the text very effective as a reference text. The chapters are structured in a practical/pedagogical sequence beginning with instruction in general procedures for using the computer interface,setting up and creating drawings,and then progressing to advanced features such as dimensioning,special drawing applications and AutoCAD features,three-dimensional modeling and rendering,and software customization. McGraw-Hill is proud to be one of the first and few publishers to have a text on AutoCAD 2000.
Data mining for design and manufacturing: methods and applications
Authors: Dan Braha
Venue: Kluwer Massive Computing Series; Vol. 524 (2001)

Data Mining for Design and Manufacturing: Methods and Applications is the first book that brings together research and applications of data mining within design and manufacturing. Book objectives are 1) to clarify the integration of data mining in engineering design and manufacturing, 2) to present a wide range of domains to which data mining can be applied, 3) to demonstrate the essential need for symbiotic collaboration of expertise in design and manufacturing, data mining and information technology, 4) to illustrate how to overcome central problems in design and manufacturing environments. The book also presents formal tools required to extract valuable information from design and manufacturing data and facilitates interdisciplinary problem solving for enhanced decision making.
Accounting Information Systems, 7th edition
Authors: George H. Bodnar, William S. Hopwood
Venue:  (1997)

: The most current and up-to-date treatment of ERP, SAP, and electronic commerce Comprehensive treatment of internal control Hundreds of CPA exam questions integrated throughout the text Texts and/or software to support Peachtree, Excel, Access, and QuickBooks
Cisco LAN/WAN Little Black Book
Authors: John R. Vacca
Venue:  (1999)

:Step-by-step coverage on planning, designing, installing, managing, and troubleshooting a high-performance Cisco LAN/WAN system.Dives into Cisco's next generation LAN/WAN technologies, including high-speed Internet service and the Year 2000 Compliance Program. Solves, in the popular Little Black Book style, the issues behind internetworking, standards, interfaces, design, data compression, development, testing, and optimizing performance.Must-see detailed diagrams of Cisco LAN/WAN configuration examples!No other book on the market has the down-and-dirty, easy-to-find solutions to the daily router troubles administrators encounter-and at a price not seen on other Cisco books. Administrators need this book.Includes a tear-out, quick-reference card summarizing the hot information on installing a LAN/WAN, handy troubleshooting tips, and a road map to Cisco's Internetworking Operation System (IOS), the Cisco system software that provides common functionality, scalability, and security for all products under the Cisco architecture.Covers the latest technology behind installing copper, fiber, and wireless network systems.
CNE Service and Support Exam Cram
Authors: Gary Novosel, Clark, Melanie Hoag
Venue:  (1999)

:Includes an exclusive tear-out Cram Sheet with tips, acronyms, and memory joggers (mnemonics) to improve recall immediately before the exam. Features sections on proven test-taking strategies, time-saving study tips, shortcuts, and more. Written by cross-certified networking professionals who provide the reader with a balance of accurate technical facts and real-world skills. Includes resource sections at the end of each chapter to help the reader make the best use of study aids available. The Service and Support exam (#50-635) is one of five core requirements for CNE certification (new candidates). 600,000 networking professionals worldwide have been trained through Novell channels290,000 Certified Novell Administrators (CNAs) and 135,000 Certified Novell Engineers (CNEs). Provides all the tools necessary to troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve network snafus. Novell is putting together a program to assist with job placement for certified individuals, which will be an enticement for Novell certification candidates and a convenience for employers seeking qualified personnel. Guarantees a long shelf-life because the book is focused on the newest exams for Novell certification.
Existence of Minimizers for Nonconvex, Noncoercive Simple Integrals
Authors: P. Celada, S. Perrotta
Venue: SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (2002)

We consider the problem of minimizing autonomous, simple integrals such as \min\,\left\{ \int_0^T f\left(x(t)\,,x^\prime(t)\right)\,dt\colon\,\, \text{$x\in AC{([0\,,T])}$, $x(0)=x_0$, $x(T)=x_T$} \right\}, \tag{$\cal{P}$} where $f:{\mathbb R}\times{\mathbb R} \to [0,\infty]$ is a possibly nonconvex function with either superlinear or slow growth at infinity. Assuming that the relaxed problem ($\cal{P}^{\ast\ast}$)---obtained from ($\cal{P}$) by replacing f with its convex envelope f ** with respect to the derivative variable $x^\prime$---admits a solution, we prove attainment for ($\cal{P}$) under mild regularity and growth assumptions on f and f **. We discuss various instances of growth conditions on f that yield solutions to the corresponding relaxed problem ($\cal{P}^{\ast\ast}$), and we present examples that show that the hypotheses on f and f ** considered here for attainment are essentially sharp.
Boosting Algorithms for Parallel and Distributed Learning
Authors: Aleksandar Lazarevic, Zoran Obradovic
Venue: Distributed and Parallel Databases (2002)

The growing amount of available information and its distributed and heterogeneous nature has a major impact on the field of data mining. In this paper, we propose a framework for parallel and distributed boosting algorithms intended for efficient integrating specialized classifiers learned over very large, distributed and possibly heterogeneous databases that cannot fit into main computer memory. Boosting is a popular technique for constructing highly accurate classifier ensembles, where the classifiers are trained serially, with the weights on the training instances adaptively set according to the performance of previous classifiers. Our parallel boosting algorithm is designed for tightly coupled shared memory systems with a small number of processors, with an objective of achieving the maximal prediction accuracy in fewer iterations than boosting on a single processor. After all processors learn classifiers in parallel at each boosting round, they are combined according to the confidence of their prediction. Our distributed boosting algorithm is proposed primarily for learning from several disjoint data sites when the data cannot be merged together, although it can also be used for parallel learning where a massive data set is partitioned into several disjoint subsets for a more efficient analysis. At each boosting round, the proposed method combines classifiers from all sites and creates a classifier ensemble on each site. The final classifier is constructed as an ensemble of all classifier ensembles built on disjoint data sets. The new proposed methods applied to several data sets have shown that parallel boosting can achieve the same or even better prediction accuracy considerably faster than the standard sequential boosting. Results from the experiments also indicate that distributed boosting has comparable or slightly improved classification accuracy over standard boosting, while requiring much less memory and computational time since it uses smaller data sets.
Imaging in Esthetic Dentistry, 1st edition
Authors: Cary E. Goldstein, Ronald E. Goldstein, David Garber
Venue:  (1998)

:Text, for dentists and their auxiliaries, on improving their standard of patient satisfaction. Gives advice for the pre-purchase stage of computer imaging technology and step-by-step techniques and tips for the initial use of imaging. Full-color illustrations.
Principal Angles between Subspaces in an A-Based Scalar Product: Algorithms and Perturbation Estimates
Authors: Andrew V. Knyazev, Merico E. Argentati
Venue: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (2001)

Computation of principal angles between subspaces is important in many applications, e.g., in statistics and information retrieval. In statistics, the angles are closely related to measures of dependency and covariance of random variables. When applied to column-spaces of matrices, the principal angles describe canonical correlations of a matrix pair. We highlight that all popular software codes for canonical correlations compute only cosine of principal angles, thus making impossible, because of round-off errors, finding small angles accurately. We review a combination of sine and cosine based algorithms that provide accurate results for all angles. We generalize the method to the computation of principal angles in an A-based scalar product for a symmetric and positive definite matrix A. We provide a comprehensive overview of interesting properties of principal angles. We prove basic perturbation theorems for absolute errors for sine and cosine of principal angles with improved constants. Numerical examples and a detailed description of our code are given.
Space-optimal multi-writer snapshot objects are slow
Authors: Panagiota Fatourou, Faith Fich, Eric Ruppert
Venue: Proceedings of the twenty-first annual symposium on Principles of distributed computing (2002)

We consider the problem of wait-free implementation of a multi-writer snapshot object with m &ge; 2 components shared by n > m processes. It is known that this can be done using m multi-writer registers. We give a matching lower bound, slightly improving the previous space lower bound. The main focus of the paper, however, is on time complexity. The best known upper bound on the number of steps a process has to take to perform one operation of the snapshot is O(n). When m is much smaller than n, an implementation whose time complexity is a function of m rather than n would be better. We show that this cannot be achieved for any space-optimal implementation: We prove that &Omega;(n) steps are required to perform a SCAN operation in the worst case, even if m = 2. This significantly improves previous &Omega;(min(m, n)) lower bounds. Our proof also yields insight into the structure of any space-optimal implementation, showing that processes simulating the snapshot operations must access the registers in a very constrained way.
Beginning ASP.NET Databases using VB.NET, 1st edition
Authors: John Kauffman, Brian Matsik, Matt Butler, Kent Tegel, Jan Narkewicz, Fabio Claudio Ferrachiati
Venue:  (2002)

:One of the most important requirements for any web site or web server is to be able to accurately and safely transmit and store information. This information could be in any form from credit card details stored in a credit company's website database to recording the results of a straw poll on a marketing site. Whatever you need to use asp.NET Web Pages for, you will find that sooner or later you are going to need to learn how to access, read, write, and generally master operations involving a database.If this is you, then this is the book for you.
Into the Future: The Foundations of Library and Information Services in the Post-Industrial Era
Authors: Michael H. Harris, Stan A. Hannah
Venue:  (1993)

:This work is a general and synthetic study of the Post-Industrial era and its implications for library and information services in the United States. Since Daniel Bell promulgated his "post-industrial" metaphor in the early 1970s, it has become one of the most dominant metaphors in contemporary America. His ideas on the nature of the era, especially his articulation of what he refers to as the "information society", have influenced the ways in which government officials, corporate leaders, and average citizens think about the future of social, political, and economic life in America. This influence has also been felt in the library and information science field. Yet, while there exists a massive critical literature on Bell's metaphor in the social, political and economic literature, librarians have failed to systematically grapple with it. As a result, they appear to be carrying on their own debate about the future in relative isolation from the most significant contributions to this intensely contested idea.
Gay and Lesbian Online: Your Indispensable Guide to Cruising the Queer Web, 4th edition
Authors: Jeff Dawson
Venue:  (2000)

:Gay and Lesbian Online is a fascinating, funny, enlightening tour of the queer web; encyclopedic in scope but full of down-to-earth advice, and hilarious insights. From Activism to Zines, Dawson has explored every byway of the information superhighway, and reports back on his findings. For gay men and lesbians, Gay and Lesbian Online represents the opportunity to find an instant community, full of intriguing people, ideas, and interests. Readers will find sites that match their interests or curiosities, and sites they never even imagined. From lesbian literature to queer skinheads, from aging to sports, from piercing to hate-groups, Gay and Lesbian Online is a user-friendly travel guide to a worldwide gay and lesbian community. And let's not forget sex! From HunkHunter to DykesWorld, Gay and Lesbian Online will get you revved up and ready to rove! Gay and Lesbian Online -- 3rd Edition has been thoroughly revised to eliminate inactive web sites, and hundreds of new sites have been added. If you have not visited the queer web lately, it's a whole new world out there, and only one book covers it all.
Nonreflecting boundary condition for the wave equation
Authors: Usaf E. Aladl, A. S. Deakin, H. Rasmussen
Venue: Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (2002)

To solve the time-dependent wave equation in an infinite two (three) dimensional domain a circular (spherical) artificial boundary is introduced to restrict tile computational domain. To determine the nonreflecting boundary we solve the exterior Dirichlet problem which involves the inverse Fourier transform. The truncation of the continued fraction representation of the ratio of Hankel function, that appear in the inverse Fourier transform, provides a stable and numerically accurate approximation. Consequently, there is a sequence of boundary conditions in both two and three dimensions that are new. Furthermore, only the first derivatives in space and time appear and the coefficients are updated in a simple way from the previous time step. The accuracy of the boundary conditions is illustrated using a point source and the finite difference solution to a Dirichlet problem.
Chememetrics for Analyhtical Chemistry: PC-Aided Statistical Data Analysis, 1st edition
Authors: Milan Meloun, Michele Forina, Jiri Militky
Venue:  (1992)

:Explores the use of robust and confirmatory statistical techniques for the investigation of chemometric data in a wide range of experimental approaches using IBM or compatible machines. For researchers in analytical, physical, general and inorganic chemistry, and chemical engineering, plus practitioners and researchers of biochemistry, environmental chemistry, forensic science, clinical chemistry and pharmaceutical analysis. PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED IN 11/91 PTR AGENCY CATALOG.
Inside AutoCAD Map 2000 with Cdrom, 1st edition
Authors: Dylan Vance, David Walsh, Ray Eisenberg
Venue:  (2000)

:One of the first how-to books available on AutoCAD Map, the standard for map creation and maintenance in a CAD environment.Companion CD-ROM contains data files in support of exercises. Detailed index makes this book an ideal, comprehensive desktop reference for AutoCAD Map users of all abilities.