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The Digital Multimedia Cross-Industry Guide
Authors: Lee E. Fitzpatrick
Venue:  (1995)

:Designed for architects and strategists of the new businesses that will emerge from the transformation to a digital information society, this book offers an understanding of the opportunities and obstacles facing eight major communications industries, important in maximizing success and minimizing risk during this conversation. These seasoned practitioners offer their candid views on the challenges facing everyone in these industries today.
Object projection views in the dynamic relational model
Authors: Victor Vianu
Venue: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD symposium on Principles of database systems (1984)

User views in a relational database obtained through a single projection ("projection views") are considered in a new framework. Specifically, such views where each tuple in the view represents an object ("object projection views") are studied using the dynamic relational model of [V1,V2], which captures the evolution of the database through consecutive updates. Attribute sets which yield object projection views are characterized using the static and dynamic functional dependencies satisfied by the database. Object projection views are then described using the static and dynamic fd's "inherited" from the original database, and the notion of age-closure [V1]. Finally, the impact of dynamic constraints on the view update problem is studied in a limited context. The paper demonstrates that new, useful information about views can be obtained by looking at the evolution of the database as captured by the dynamic relational model.
Introduction to QuickBooks, 1st edition
Authors: Douglas Sleeter
Venue:  (1999)

:This well-written and concise tutorial combined with a student template uses a generous number of screen captures to illustrate QuickBooks' features. Each chapter includes tutorial information, hands-on computer practice problems, objective end-of-chapter activities, and computer problems. 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
Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
Authors: Linus Torvalds
Venue:  (2001)

:Ten years ago, college student Linus Torvalds retreated to his own computer to write code. He quips, "I couldn't afford software that I liked, so I wrote my own operating system." Not only did he write the operating system, he gave it away and invited other software engineers to improve it.The rest is history. Today, Torvalds has become the key figure in the open source software movement. The powerful operating system he wrote, Linux, has grown into a major force in the computer industry, while its voluntary development model has made Linux the world's largest collaborative project. Hundreds of the world's best engineers contribute to the improvement of Linux. Over 12 million machines, including many of the servers that power the World Wide Web, now run on Linux, as do the top-of-the-line offerings from such hardware giants as IBM and Compaq.Just for Fun chronicles Torvalds's amazing lifefrom his eccentric childhood in Finland, to his gangly, geeky teenage years when his greatest joy was writing programs on his grandfather's VIC-20 computer, to his rise to world-wide fame with Linux. Brimming with Torvalds's candid observations and opinions, this is a must-read for anyone who wants to know where high tech and business are going in the future.
Train of Thoughts: Designing the Effective Web Experience
Authors: John C. Lenker
Venue:  (2002)

:In Train of Thoughts - Designing the Effective Web Experience, Web strategy and design consultant John Lenker provides insight for how Web enterprises must interact with people to be successful in the twenty-first century. This book is non-technical and is written not only for Web designers and developers, but also for any stakeholder in a Web enterprise that has a vested interest in ensuring that their online resources become more meaningful and valuable. In Train of Thoughts, you'll learn to: understand what motivates people's online behavior and then convert that motivation into online results; communicate with people effectively online so that they really understand what the value proposition of an online resource is; combine forward-thinking information design techniques with systems that pave experiential pathways for people to journey along in pursuit of their interests and goals; properly employ personalization to build relationships; understand the true role of creativity online; uncover screen-space designs that aid and inspire the mind; reconcile business objectives with stakeholder needs; approach process in a way that keeps projects on time, on budget, and on target; create online resources that actually work when they're completed; actualize creative vision appropriately for the Web.
Challenges in COTS decision-making: a goal-driven requirements engineering perspective
Authors: Carina Alves, Anthony Finkelstein
Venue: Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software engineering and knowledge engineering (2002)

This position paper outlines the problems and risks of selecting COTS products. In particular, we highlight the challenges of the decision-making process where requirements specification plays an essential role to evaluate and compare products features. It is necessary to perform a careful balancing between requirements and COTS features. Customers may have to compromise on requirements not satisfied by any available product or request products modifications. We analyse the problems and risks arising in the selection process and review related work. We argue that a goal-oriented approach can support an effective balancing between requirements and COTS feature during the decision-making.
Data Warehousing, 1st edition
Authors: Sean Kelly
Venue:  (1996)

:Though companies have amassed an enormous amount of data, they haven't always been able to use it because it is unstructured, unintegrated, or polluted. This book shows how to transform this vast pool of data into information of strategic significance. Taking up where database marketing leaves off, it offers practical ideas for businesses to realize staggering response rates from mailings, focused marketing campaigns, and more.
Get a Grip on Network Cabling
Authors: Frank Derfler, Les Freed
Venue:  (1993)

:A network can never be more reliable or perform any better than its cabling allows. Cabling is also likely to outlast all the other hardware and software on your network. In short, cabling is a vital long-term investment in your network and in the business it supports. And no one knows networking like Frank J. Derfler, Jr., and Les Freed.Proper cabling requires careful planning. Derfler and Freed will help you... Understand the economics of cabling decisionsDecipher cabling jargon and buzzwordsLearn about cabling standards and the codes you must followAnd cabling requires careful execution. You'll learn how to... Manage hubs and repeatersSet up and maintain the wiring closetChoose when to use fiber-optic cableTest and certify cableAlso included is a chapter that explores wireless alternatives to traditional networks.
MCSE Windows 98 Ace It!, 1st edition
Authors: Curt Simmons
Venue:  (1998)

:A Microsoft exam expert provides an exclusive insider's point of view on exam content and test-taking strategies for Exam #70-98 (Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Windows 98). A tear-out Ace Card distills key exam content for quick review.
Java for the World Wide Web, 1st edition
Authors: Dori Smith, Tom Negrino
Venue:  (1998)

:"Visual QuickStart Guides" are rapidly becoming the easiest, clearest and most sought-after titles for learning complex new Internet technologies. Even a quick glance at web design sites for the non-programmer (like C|net's Content Builder) shows that designers, graphic artists and content-creators want to use Java. The web is filled with content creators who have used a pre-built Java app., and probably not been 100% satisfied with the results. With just enough Java to get going doing something useful, a strict focus on visual Java (meaning using Java to make interface elements for web pages), and a quality guarantee that the Java in this book will work in most - if not all - web browsers, Java for the World Wide Web:Visual QuickStart Guide is sure to be an indispensable guide to the decade's most important new programming language for the web scripter.
Stability of Discrete Shocks for Difference Approximations to Systems of Conservation Laws
Authors: Daniel Michelson
Venue: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (2002)

The asymptotic stability of weak discrete stationary shocks for systems of conservation laws in one space dimension is proved. The difference approximation should be conservative, dissipative, and kth order accurate in space with odd k. The problem is considered in a finite interval $\vert x\vert\le\ell$ with appropriate boundary conditions, where $\ell$ is large compared with the width of the shock layer $\varepsilon^{-1}=\vert u_{_R}-u_{_L}\vert^{-1/k}$. The proof is based on the assumption that the corresponding continuous shocks for the scalar problem $u_t+uu_x=-(i\partial_x)^{k+1}u$ are stable. The latter is known to be true for k=1 and k=3.
An empirical study of factors impacting the size of object-oriented component code documentation
Authors: Parag C. Pendharkar, James A. Rodger
Venue: Proceedings of the 20th annual international conference on Computer documentation (2002)

In this paper, we identify a set of factors that may be used to forecast source code documentation for object oriented software components. Using field data on 152 object oriented (OO) software components and the multiple regression model, we empirically test the impact of proposed factors on the prediction of OO source code documentation. Our results indicate that the number of methods, the number of sub-classes, the number of GUI elements and the number of events handled all increase the number of lines of code for OO source code documentation. Additionally, we show that scale economies exist in OO source code documentation and use non-linear regression model Classification and Regression Tree (CART) to improve OO source code documentation forecasting accuracy.
Response time densities in generalised stochastic petri net models
Authors: Nicholas J. Dingle, Peter G. Harrison, William J. Knottenbelt
Venue: Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Software and performance (2002)

Generalised Stochastic Petri nets (GSPNs) have been widely used to analyse the performance of hardware and software systems. This paper presents a novel technique for the numerical determination of response time densities in GSPN models. The technique places no structural restrictions on the models that can be analysed, and allows for the high-level specification of multiple source and destination markings, including any combination of tangible and vanishing markings. The technique is implemented using a scalable parallel Laplace transform inverter that employs a modified Laguerre inversion technique. We present numerical results, including a study of the full distribution of end-to-end response time in a GSPN model of the Courier communication protocol software. The numerical results are validated against simulation.
A mixed-basis spectral projection method
Authors: F. Auteri, N. Parolini
Venue: Journal of Computational Physics (2002)

A new grid-less (no collocation) spectral projection method is presented. The unsteady Navier-Stokes equations are approximated according to the variational framework of Guermond and Quartapelle which accommodates two vector spaces for the velocity fields obtained in the two half-steps of the fractional-step method but retains only one in the final solution algorithm. Two different bases built on Legendre polynomials are used for the velocity and pressure to solve the corresponding Helmholtz and Poisson equations by direct spectral elliptic solvers. Interpolations PN and PN-2 are employed for velocity and pressure to satisfy the LBB stability requirement and a Gauss-Legendre quadrature formula with 3/2N integration points is used to prevent aliasing error in the pseudospectral evaluation of the nonlinear terms. A BDF second-order time stepping is implemented to provide accurate numerical results about the stability of the singular driven cavity problem.
Modern Digital and Analog Communication Systems 3e Osece, 3rd edition
Authors: B. P. Lathi
Venue:  (1998)

:Lathi's trademark user-friendly and highly readable text presents a complete and modern treatment of communication systems. It begins by introducing students to the basics of communication systems without using probabilistic theory. Only after a solid knowledge basean understanding of how communication systems workhas been built are concepts requiring probability theory covered. This third edition has been thoroughly updated and revised to include expanded coverage of digital communications. New topics discussed include spread-spectrum systems, cellular communication systems, global positioning systems (GPS), and an entire chapter on emerging digital technologies (such as SONET, ISDN, BISDN, ATM, and video compression). Ideal for the first communication systems course for electrical engineers, Modern Digital and Analog Communication Systems offers students a superb pedagogical style; it consistently does an excellent job of explaining difficult concepts clearly, using prose as well as mathematics. The author makes every effort to give intuitive insightsrather than just proofsas well as heuristic explanations of theoretical results wherever possible. Featuring lucid explanations, well-chosen examples clarifying abstract mathematical results, and excellent illustrations, this unique text is highly informative and easily accessible to students. Superb pedagogical style  The book consistently does an excellent job of explaining difficult concepts clearly, using prose as well as mathematics. Every effort is made to give an intuitive insight - rather than just proofs - as well as heuristic explanations of theoretical results,wherever possible. The clear explanations, the well-chosen examples to clarify the abstract mathematical results, and the excellent illustrations make this book highly informative and easily accessible to an average student.
Documenting software systems with views III: towards a task-oriented classification of program visualization techniques
Authors: Scott Tilley, Shihong Huang
Venue: Proceedings of the 20th annual international conference on Computer documentation (2002)

Documentation has long played a key role in aiding program understanding. Graphical forms of documentation rely on software visualization techniques to make complicated information easier to understand. However, it is an open question exactly which types of graphical documentation are most suitable for which types of program understanding tasks (and in which specific usage contexts). This paper describes preliminary work towards a task-oriented classification of program visualization techniques. The classification is currently descriptive in nature, and divides the visualization techniques into three classes (static, interactive, and editable) based on the level of end-user interaction with the generated graphical documentation. The primary advantage of a task-oriented classification is that it will ultimately map common activities related to program understanding to specific types of software visualization. A summary of how the descriptive classification was used to structure the selection of software visualization tools to support program understanding in an industrial context is provided.
More enhancements of the simplescalar tool set
Authors: Naraig Manjikian
Venue: ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News (2001)

An earlier paper described enhancements to the SimpleScalar tool set for functional multiprocessor simulation and visualization of cache coherence, and the software was made available at http://www.simplescalar.org. This paper describes additional enhancements to the SimpleScalar tool set. The enhancements include memory access visualization for uniprocessor and multiprocessor simulation, mnltiprocessor enhancement of the DLite! debugger that is included with SimpleScalar, modifications to the GNU tools to use conventional register names in assembly language, and a tool to embed C source code as comments in the assembly language output of the compiler. These enhancements were inspired in part by research needs and in part by a desire to improve the utility of the SimpleScalar tool set in education. Undergraduate and graduate students at Queen's University have used several of these enhancements in both coursework and research, and the software for the enhancements will be released for wider use in the computer architecture community.
Defensive climate in the computer science classroom
Authors: Lecia Jane Barker, Kathy Garvin-Doxas, Michele Jackson
Venue: ACM SIGCSE Bulletin (2002)

As part of an NSF-funded IT Workforce grant, the authors conducted ethnographic research to provide deep understanding of the learning environment of computer science classrooms. Categories emerging from data analysis included 1) impersonal environment and guarded behavior; and 2) the creation and maintenance of informal hierarchy resulting in competitive behaviors. These communication patterns lead to a defensive climate, characterized by competitiveness rather cooperation, judgments about others, superiority, and neutrality rather than empathy. The authors identify particular and recognizable types of discourse, which, when prevalent in a classroom, can preclude the development of a collaborative and supportive learning environment.
Techniques of Model Based Control with Cdrom, 1st edition
Authors: Coleman Brosilow, Babu Joseph
Venue:  (2001)

:The state-of-the-art publication in model-based process controlby leading experts in the field. In Techniques of Model-Based Control, two leading experts bring together powerful advances in model-based control for chemical-process engineering. Coleman Brosilow and Babu Joseph focus on practical approaches designed to solve real-world problems, and they offer extensive examples and exercises. Coverage includes: The nature of the process-control problem and how model-based solutions help to solve it Continuous time modeling: time domain, Laplace domain, and FOPDT models Feedforward, cascade, override, and single-variable inferential control approaches One and two degree of freedom Internal Model Control Model State Feedback and PI/PID Implementations of IMC Tuning and synthesis of 1DF and 2DF IMC for process uncertainty Estimation and inferential control using multiple secondary measurements Basic and advanced techniques of model identification and model-predictive control The appendices review the basics of Laplace transforms, feedback control, frequency response analysis, probability, random variables, and linear least-square regression. From start to finish, Techniques of Model-Based Control offers the real-world insight that professionals need to identify and implement the best control strategies for virtually any process.
India and the Computer: A Study of Planned Development
Authors: C. R. Subramanian
Venue:  (1992)

:Since its conception, the Indian computer industry has at different times been held up as a paragon of effective planning, public sector efficiency and private enterprise. The author, who has been closely associated with the electronics industry for over forty years, during which time he has been in close touch with the policy makers, argues that it has consistently failed to be any of these things. Rather than being an exemplar of effective planning, the plans themselves have suffered from laggard implementation and frequent changes of policy direction; the public sector has never been attuned to business needs; private enterprise has been more interested in kit assembly than building up an industry. With the installation of its first computer in 1955, India was an early starter in the field. The following couple of decades saw an emphasis on achieving self-reliance, culminating with the exit of IBM from the country in 1978. Thereafter, a prolonged period of indecision was only ended in 1981 with Rajiv Gandhi's push for the liberalization of computer imports. The 1991 New Industrial Policy has given further impetus in this direction. The author concludes by examining the dilemma now facing the industry, where economic liberalization has tended to eliminate the skills built up during the period of self-reliance without successfully establishing a new industry in its place. His conclusion is that liberalization has to go hand in hand with planned development if India is to become a major producer of electronics and computer equipment.
Requirements for photoware
Authors: David Frohlich, Allan Kuchinsky, Celine Pering, Abbe Don, Steven Ariss
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work (2002)

Eleven PC-owning families were interviewed at home about their use of conventional and digital photos. They also completed photo diaries and recorded photo-sharing conversations that occurred spontaneously over a three month period after the in-home interviews. From an analysis of the resulting materials we illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of past and present technology for photo sharing. These allow us to prioritise user requirements for a range of future photo-sharing technologies or 'photoware'.
The Domain Name Handbook
Authors: Ellen Rony, Peter Rony
Venue:  (1998)

:Learn how to get the domain name you need - and how to keep it! The Domain Name Handbook will guide you through the InterNIC registration procedures, warning you of the potential pitfalls, and presenting an up-to-the-minute report on the new top-level domain names and the competing registrars. You'll learn how to negotiate and protect your financial, legal, and operational interests, and you'll discover methods for preventing trademark intrusions and piracy. You'll also examine the debates, confusion, and conflicts people have faced while registering domain names - problems that you can avoid.
Gran Turismo Greatest Hits
Authors: Prima Publishing Staff
Venue:  (2000)

:Unlike any other racer, Gran Turismo's ultra-realistic handling will have drivers wincing as they squeal and slide through the turns. This strategy guide offers racing techniques to beat the pros and win the CASH! From mufflers to clutches to paint jobs, here is the inside line on selecting and customizing the best car for the track. 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
Predictive Modular Neural Networks: Applications to Time Series
Authors: Vassilios Petridis, Athansios Kehagias
Venue:  (1998)

:This book presents a unified methodology for designing modular neural networks. A family of online algorithms for time series classification, prediction and identification are developed; and a rigorous mathematical analysis of their properties is provided. Case studies involving a number of real world problems are also presented. Finally, an overview of the modular neural networks literature, including coverage of theoretical and experimental analysis, is provided. Predictive Modular Neural Networks: Applications to Time Series is an important reference work for engineers, computer scientists, and other researchers working in time series analysis, neural networks, control engineering, data mining and other intelligent and decision support areas. The book will also be of interest to researchers in biological and medical informatics.