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SQL Server 7 Administration, 1st edition
Authors: Shane Stigler, M. Shane Stigler, Mark Linsenbardt
Venue:  (1999)

:Maintain high-performance,mission-critical SQL Server databases Install,manage,and troubleshoot SQL Server 7 From discussions of simple-machine installations to complex replication models able to handle linked machines on multiple continents,this book is filled with real-world examples and expert advice. Written by professional SQL Server administrators for professional SQL Server administrators,the book features the authors' own real-world experience and helps you address the problems you confront most often. No SQL Server DBA should be without this authoritative,hands-on resource. Install SQL Server and handle unattended installationsUnderstand the construction and usage of all the system databases,including the Master,Model,MSDB,Distribution,and TempDB databasesImplement security measuresmapping logins,permissions,application roles,stored procedures,and viewsHandle data storage,manipulation,and backup,including the use of DTS,new stored procedures,and Enterprise Manager wizardsMonitor,troubleshoot,and achieve blazing performance with various tools,including event viewer,query analyzer,SQL Profiler,Windows NT Performance Monitor,and moreAutomate SQL Server to perform simple and complex tasks at regular intervalsImplement real-world data replication.
IS consultants and the change agent role
Authors: Elaine R. Winston
Venue: ACM SIGCPR Computer Personnel (2002)

Markus and Benjamin (1996) proposed a change agentry model that identifies three change agent roles for the information system (IS) specialist: the traditional, the facilitator, and the advocator. This study explores these roles for IS consultants who are engaged as independent contractors by small businesses. Presented here is a field study of twenty-five cases to test these three roles. In general, the results of the study suggest that IS consultants' view themselves as change agents and can identify a role that they prefer to follow. Key relationships emerged between the change agent role selected by an IS consultant for an engagement and the quality of the IS implementation. A main finding indicates that the advocator role model is most effective when resistance to change is encountered. The study concludes with suggestions to help IS consultants improve their effectiveness as change agents, such as acquiring the broader type of skills to adopt an advocator role and attaining the flexibility to follow different change agent roles.
Policies for online privacy in the United States and the European Union
Authors: Jared Strauss, Kenneth S. Rogerson
Venue: Telematics and Informatics (2002)

This article examines how public and private sector institutions in the United States and the European Union have reacted to public demand for increased and improved online privacy protection. We argue that self-regulatory attempts do not adequately protect privacy online and that legislative intervention, as is happening in the European Union, is not only a good idea for the United States, but may be necessary to secure future online exchange of personal information.
Model checking software architecture specifications in SAM
Authors: Xudong He, Junhua Ding, Yi Deng
Venue: Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software engineering and knowledge engineering (2002)

In the past decade, software architecture research has mainly focused on the concept formulation and the development of various architecture description languages. This field has matured enough and thus requires more emphasis on validation techniques. Symbolic model checking has been a highly successful automatic validation technique for hardware systems. We are interested in whether symbolic model checking can be effectively applied to software architecture validation. In this paper, we present our approach to apply the symbolic model checking technique to verify software architecture specifications written in SAM.
PC Concepts 2e, 2nd edition
Authors: Edward G. Martin, Charles S. Parker
Venue:  (1999)

:The basic PC concepts you need to know.
Moving markup: repositioning freeform annotations
Authors: Gene Golovchinsky, Laurent Denoue
Venue: Proceedings of the 15th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (2002)

Freeform digital ink annotation allows readers to interact with documents in an intuitive and familiar manner. Such marks are easy to manage on static documents, and provide a familiar annotation experience. In this paper, we describe an implementation of a freeform annotation system that accommodates dynamic document layout. The algorithm preserves the correct position of annotations when documents are viewed with different fonts or font sizes, with different aspect ratios, or on different devices. We explore a range of heuristics and algorithms required to handle common types of annotation, and conclude with a discussion of possible extensions to handle special kinds of annotations and changes to documents.
Special Edition Using Microsoft Excel 2000, 1st edition
Authors: Patrick Blattner, Laurie Ulrich, Ken Cook, Timothy Dyck
Venue:  (1999)

:Special Edition Using Microsoft Excel 2000 puts a renewed emphasis on realistic applications and uses of the program features. This book does NOT take the cradle to grave approach in coverage. You get the most focused content and value of the essential intermediate to advanced level coverage. Additional coverage of undocumented features, often ignored topics, and practical advice on how to set up a "designer" look spreadsheet is provided. There is no waste of spaceor your timeon beginner level coverage.
Synchronization of Elliptic Bursters
Authors: Eugene M. Izhikevich
Venue: SIAM Review (2001)

Periodic bursting behavior in neurons is a recurrent transition between a quiescent state and repetitive spiking. When the transition to repetitive spiking occurs via a subcritical Andronov--Hopf bifurcation and the transition to the quiescent state occurs via fold limit cycle bifurcation, the burster is said to be of elliptic type (also known as a "subHopf/fold cycle" burster). Here we study the synchronization dynamics of weakly connected networks of such bursters. We find that the behavior of such networks is quite different from the behavior of weakly connected phase oscillators and resembles that of strongly connected relaxation oscillators. As a result, such weakly connected bursters need few (usually one) bursts to synchronize, and synchronization is possible for bursters having quite different quantitative features. We also find that interactions between bursters depend crucially on the spiking frequencies. Namely, the interactions are most effective when the presynaptic interspike frequency matches the frequency of postsynaptic oscillations. Finally, we use the FitzHugh--Rinzel, Morris--Lecar, and Hodgkin--Huxley models to illustrate our major results.
Illustrator 9 for Dummies
Authors: Ted Alspach, Matt Leclair
Venue:  (2000)

From the Book:Did you ever consider sending in a drawing of that little guy on the matchbook cover from one of those art school come-ons? Do you still remember how much fun you had finger-painting in second grade? Do you ever dream of using your computer to realize a new kind of creative freedom and expression, but you struggle even to draw a straight line? If you're like me, you sometimes see in your mind's eye something you wish you could share with others, but somehow you were standing in the snack line when God handed out raw drawing ability. Luckily, drawing-and-painting programs can help anyone draw a straight line and a whole lot more and Adobe Illustrator 9.0 is the best. Illustrator's wealth of features may seem daunting at first. I know I was a bit intimidated. But with Illustrator 9 For Dummies, that feeling quickly disappears. Before long, the tools that made me nervous were opening my mind to a new creative freedom. In no time at all, I was using transparency to create graphics for the Web; the Styles palette to create consistent artwork across related projects; and Pixel preview mode to know right away whether the color I chose was going to look good on my Web page, rather than relying on trial and error. Charting a clear path through the complexity of Adobe Illustrator, Ted and Matt have created a book that can help anyone get comfortable with the program. Step-by-step instructions and explanations on how to use the tools - along with tips that make using Illustrator easier - give you a boost in accomplishing the most with this software. Illustrator 9 For Dummies won't overwhelm you with everything there is to know about Illustrator. Instead, this book gives you a reliable foundation upon which to build. And that, my friends, is the key. Whether you're an experienced graphic designer or a newbie, this book can help you realize and share your artistic vision.
Data Structures and Other Objects Using C++, 2nd edition
Authors: Michael Main, Walter J. Savitch
Venue:  (2000)

:Where will you be ten years from now? How will a course in data structures help you? Perhaps you will be a software engineer writing large software in specialized areas such as computer graphics. The authors of such programs, today and in the future, require a ready knowledge of proven methods for representing data. For example, the graphics program that generated the cover of this book uses a collection of three-dimensional objects--and a programmer must use the knowledge of data structures to make decisions on how to represent such collections. As a programmer, you must also possess an unshakable understanding of fundamental programming techniques and algorithms to manipulate the data structures. The graphics program is again a good example, using recursion to generate beautiful fractal patterns, and using efficient sorting algorithms in the process of removing hidden objects. With many accessible examples, this book provides the knowledge of data representations and algorithms in a way that will be immediately useful to you with C++. This book also focuses on foundational material that will continue to be useful to you over the next ten years and beyond.
Experiments in high-dimensional text categorization
Authors: Fred J. Damerau, Tong Zhang, Sholom M. Weiss, Nitin Indurkhya
Venue: Proceedings of the 25th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (2002)

We present results for automated text categorization of the Reuters-810000 collection of news stories. Our experiments use the entire one-year collection of 810,000 stories and the entire subject index. We divide the data into monthly groups and provide an initial benchmark of text categorization performance on the complete collection. Experimental results show that efficient sparse-feature implementations of linear methods and decision trees, using a global unstemmed dictionary, can readily handle applications of this size. Predictive performance is approximately as strong as the best results for the much smaller older Reuters collections. Detailed results are provided over time periods. It is shown that a smaller time horizon does not diminish predictive quality, implying reduced demands for retraining when sample size is large.
Compatible attributes in a universal relation
Authors: Catriel Beeri, Henry F. Korth
Venue: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD symposium on Principles of database systems (1982)

The problem of entities that play multiple roles in a relational database is studied, with an emphasis on the universal relation view of the database. A tree structure is used to describe the compatibilities among attributes. The compatibility information for an attribute encodes role playing information that cannot be described by traditional data dependencies. This structure is used to define the semantics of a QUEL-like (Stonebraker et al. [1976]) query language that uses special naming rules to permit easy use of attribute compatibility
Excel 2000 VBA Programmer's Reference
Authors: Felipe Martins, Stephen Bullen, John Green
Venue:  (1999)

:Excel 2000 is an import part of the Office 2000 program suite, and will be available in the Premium, Professional, Standard and Small Business editions of Office 2000. Excel has traditionally been the Office suite spreadsheet program par excellence. It still remains that way, but with Office 2000 there is a strong emphasis on between-application automation, ease of use, and the smart new bells and whistles that 2000 brings. Using VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), the user can program his or her own programs in what is essentially a subset of the Visual Basic programming languages. This is tremendously powerful, as it allows you to create great User Interfaces (forms etc), as a front end to actual spreadsheet and database storage and manipulation. This continues to be one of the great strengths of programming Excel VBA. This book presents a full reference to the Excel object model- which is essentially the object-oriented system of organizing the functional capacities that make up the Excel program. There will be a short introduction to VBA itself, and the rest of the book will document aspects of programming Excel through that object model. This book will be in three broad sections: the first part introduces Excel and VBA; the second offers interesting, thematic discussions of some of the capacities available to Excel VBA. The third and final part offers a full reference to the object model of Excel.
Design of field wrappers for mobile field data collection
Authors: Peisheng Zhao, Sarah Nusser, Leslie Miller
Venue: Proceedings of the 10th ACM international symposium on Advances in geographic information systems (2002)

In mobile field data collection, data gatherer requires to get geospatial information service to support in navigating to the right locations, describing context of observed object and providing thematic information for sampling or analysis. The framework how to get this information is subject to the variation in users with different levels of knowledge about information services, applications with different need of information, and limitations of field computing environments. In this paper, we present a new concept--field wrapper, which is an extension of wrapper concepts to the field data collection environments as a means of isolating the heterogeneity of field users, applications, and computing environments from infrastructure functions. The goal of our approach of field wrapper, which is as an important part of the mediator-based framework for collecting and using geospatial data in the field, is to enable any device with any user in the field to readily and easily interact with a larger computing infrastructure to search, retrieve, and get geospatial and other kinds of data. The key idea is to characterize the field environments to get an abstract field view. From this view, the system generates a field wrapper that facilitates query translation from user general request to the precise syntax statement accepted by mediator and result translation from native result to the specific result accepted by field user.
Internet Shopping Yellow Pages: 2001 Edition
Authors: Barbara Kasser
Venue:  (2002)

:Online shopping is surging in popularity throughout the world. In the United States alone,35 million households this year are expected to spend more than $50 billion online. And,spending on the Internet is projected to soar upward from there. Provides guidance on using the Internet to shop,including "best of" listings,interesting sidebars,and alerts on making the reader's experience smooth and secure. Find out what's for sale online AND where to buy it! Discover thousands of exciting and fun sites with this organized,easy-to-use online shopping directory! You'll find everything from airline tickets to zippers in this complete resource,which lists the very best shopping sites on the Web. The author has scoured every corner to buy millions of familiar and not-so familiar items. Whether you're an avid shopper or just exploring what the Web has to offer,you're bound to find an exciting item to keep for yourself or to send as a gift. With helpful advice for secure and safe shopping,tips for locating exactly what you want,and information on controlling personal and credit card information,this comprehensive shopping guide is great fun to read and an important resource for everyone who shops online. As a bonus,visit the companion Web site for links to new and exciting stores,more helpful shopping tips,and a chance to share the details of your own shopping adventures.
A fully abstract denotational semantics for the π-calculus
Authors: Matthew Hennessy
Venue: Theoretical Computer Science (2002)

This paper describes the construction of two set-theoretic denotational models for the &pgr;-calculus. The models are obtained as initial solutions to domain equations in a functor category. By associating with each syntactic construct of the &pgr;-calculus a natural transformation over these models we obtain two interpretations for the language. We also show that these models are fully abstract with respect to natural behavioural preorders over terms in the language. By this we mean that two terms are related behaviourally if and only if their interpretations in the model are related. The behavioural preorders are the standard versions of may and must testing adapted to the &pgr;-calculus.
Principles of Web Design, 1st edition
Authors: David K. Farkas, Jean B. Farkas
Venue:  (2001)

:This textbook teaches Web design skills within a framework of information architecture, rhetoric, and hypertext theory. The book leads students through the design process and offers a great deal of practical, mainstream design guidance. But in contrast to many trade books, students learn a coherent set of principles that help them reason about each new design challenge they face. Also, many experienced Web designers will find value in the systematic, conceptually rich discussion offered here. The book presents Web design in a broad cultural context that includes a brief history of the Internet and a chapter on the societal implications of the Web and the Internet. The book is clearly written and includes over 150 illustrations. Each chapter concludes with a broad range of intellectually stimulating discussion items. A set of 25 "quick start" design guidelines enable readers to begin using ideas from the book immediately.
Visibility-based interest management in collaborative virtual environments
Authors: Mojtaba Hosseini, Steve Pettifer, Nicolas D. Georganas
Venue: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Collaborative virtual environments (2002)

One of the challenges facing developers of large-scale and content-rich Collaborative Virtual Environments is the lack of bandwidth to support the exchange of information between participants. It is usually not feasible for all participants to receive all the data produced by all other participants. It is therefore necessary to filter out some of such data for every user according to their interest. This paper presents an interest management mechanism based on each user's visibility of others. Its main features include occlusion awareness and visibility-based filtering, no need for a server and renderer-based visibility calculation.
Jxta in a Nutshell
Authors: Scott Oaks, Li Gong
Venue:  (2002)

O'Reilly's pioneering reference is the first and last word on this powerful distributed computing technology. JXTA in a Nutshell delivers all the information you need to get started, including an overview of P2P distributed computing, an explanation of the JXTA Project's new platform, and ways that developers can become a part of the development effort. JXTA in a Nutshell introduces major concepts in a hands-on way by explaining them in context to the shell, and contains a complete reference to the JXTA application bindings. Also included is the full JXTA protocol specification. The book covers important topics such as security, and how the JXTA technology fits into the standard Java classes.
A New Property and a Faster Algorithm for Baseball Elimination
Authors: Kevin D. Wayne
Venue: SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics (2001)

In the baseball elimination problem, there is a league consisting of n teams. At some point during the season, team i has wi wins and gij games left to play against team j. A team is eliminated if it cannot possibly finish the season in first place or tied for first place. The goal is to determine exactly which teams are eliminated. The problem is not as easy as many sports writers would have you believe, in part because the answer depends not only on the number of games won and left to play but also on the schedule of remaining games. In the 1960's, Schwartz showed how to determine whether one particular team is eliminated using a maximum flow computation.This paper indicates that the problem is not as difficult as many mathematicians would have you believe. For each team i, let gi denote the number of games remaining. We prove that there exists a value W* such that team i is eliminated if and only if wi + gi W*. Using this surprising fact, we can determine all eliminated teams in time proportional to a single maximum flow computation in a graph with n nodes; this improves upon the previous best known complexity bound by a factor of n.
An ethical evaluation of web site linking
Authors: Richard A. Spinello
Venue: ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society (2000)

As the World Wide Web has grown in popularity, the propriety of linking to other web sites has achieved some prominence as an important moral and legal issue. Hyperlinks represent the essence of Web-based activity, since they facilitate navigation in a unique and efficient fashion. But the pervasive activity of linking has generated notable controversies. While most sites welcome and support incoming links, others block them or seek to license them in some way. Particularly problematic are so-called 'deep links,' which bypass the home page along with the extensive advertising and promotional material that is usually found there. While some contend that a site's mere presence on the web is implicit permission for virtually any form of linking, others argue that at least in some circumstances deep linking is unfair and constitutes misappropriation of intellectual property.In this paper we will explore the issue of deep linking from a distinctly moral vantage point. While legal scholars have vigorously debated this issue, it has received little attention from moralists. But deep linking raises a plethora of complex property issues with subtle moral implications, and hence it deserves our careful scrutiny. The most fundamental question concerns the appropriate scope of property rights for a web site and how those rights can be properly balanced against the common good of free and open communications on the Web. It is our contention that there is no presumptive claim to the liberty of deep linking at will, since it may be disrespectful of property rights in certain situations. In order to defend this position we first make the case that a web site is a form of intellectual property, drawing support from the major theories that justify property ownership. Once we have established that a web site is really property, we consider the specific rights implied by such ownership. We conclude that on the basis of those rights, a prima facie case can be made that because of the potential for negative effects, users should not presume that deep linking is acceptable unless they first seek out the permission of the target web site.We also fully appreciate the dangers inherent in propertizing the web and the need to encourage the most flexible forms of linking. Therefore, we argue that any arbitrary or unnecessary restrictions against deep linking should be eschewed for the sake of the common good of open communications, flexibility, and maximum porosity in the Internet environment. While web site authors may indeed have a property right in their creative work they have a correlative obligation to promote the sharing and free flow of information when their specific ownership rights are not put in jeopardy by deep linking.