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Ill-Conditioning and Computational Error in Interior Methods for Nonlinear Programming
Authors: Margaret H. Wright
Venue: SIAM Journal on Optimization (1998)

Ill-conditioning has long been regarded as a plague on interior methods, but its damaging effects have rarely been documented. In fact, implementors of interior methods who ignore warnings about the dire consequences of ill-conditioning usually manage to compute accurate solutions. We offer some insight into this seeming contradiction by analyzing ill-conditioning within a primal-dual method in which the full, usually well-conditioned primal-dual matrix is transformed to a "condensed," inherently ill-conditioned matrix Mpd. We show that ill-conditioning in the exact condensed matrix closely resembles that known for the primal barrier Hessian, and then examine the influence of cancellation in the computed constraints. Using the structure of Mpd, various bounds are obtained on the absolute accuracy of the computed primal-dual steps. Without cancellation, the portion of the computed x step in the small space of Mpd (a subspace close to the null space of the Jacobian of the active constraints) has an absolute error bound comparable to machine precision, and its large-space component has a much smaller error bound. With cancellation (the usual case), the absolute error bounds for both the small- and large-space components of the computed x step are comparable to machine precision. In either case, the absolute error bound for the computed multiplier steps associated with active constraints is comparable to machine precision; the computed multiplier steps for inactive constraints, although converging to zero, retain (approximately) full relative precision.Because of errors in forming the right-hand side, the absolute error in the computed solution of the full, well-conditioned primal-dual system is shown to be comparable to machine precision. Thus, under quite general conditions, ill-conditioning in Mpd does not noticeably impair the accuracy of the computed primal-dual steps. (A similar analysis applies to search directions obtained by direct solution of the primal Newton equations.)
Energy Efficient Adiabatic Multiplier-Accumulator Design
Authors: Dusan Suvakovic, C. Andre T. Salama
Venue: Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems (2002)

This paper presents a strategy for minimizing non-adiabatic dissipation in adiabatic arithmetic units. The non-adiabatic dissipation is minimized by architectural design involving a small number of complex logic gates. Circuit design of complex adiabatic gates, based on ordered binary decision diagrams (OBDD), is introduced. An optimized architecture for adiabatic parallel multipliers is proposed and savings in energy dissipation over competing architectures are estimated. Experimental results obtained from implementation of an adiabatic multiply-accumulate (MAC) unit suggest that the proposed strategy provides substantial improvement in energy efficiency over equivalent non-adiabatic and alternative adiabatic implementations, while achieving a competitive operating speed.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Microsoft Access 2000
Authors: Joe Habraken
Venue:  (1999)

:Here, you will explore some of the new features related to queries and reports, the areas that often seem mysterious for new and casual users. You will learn the relationship between the software and the World Wide Web and be able to utilize it confidently.
A Cost-Effective Design for MPEG-2 Audio Decoder with Embedded RISC Core
Authors: Tsung-Han Tsai, Ren-Jr Wu, Liang-Gee Chen
Venue: Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems (2001)

MPEG-2 audio decoding algorithms are involved of several complex coding techniques and therefore difficult to be implemented by an efficient dedicated architecture design. In this paper, we present an effective architecture for the MPEG-2 audio decoder. The MPEG-2 audio algorithms can be roughly divided into two types of operations. The first type is regular but computation-intensive such as filtering, matrixing, degrouping, and transformation operations. The second type is not regular but computation-intensive such as parsing bitstream, setting operation mode and controlling of all system operations. A RISC core with variable instruction length is designed for the decision-making part, and the dedicated hardware such as special divider, and synthesis filterbank is designed for the computation-intensive part. Based on the standard cell design technique, the VLSI chip consists of 27000 gate counts with the chip size of 6.4 &times; 6.4 mm2. The chip can run at maximum 43.5 MHz clock rate, with the power dissipation of 150 mW at 3 V power supply.
Using Information Technology, 3rd edition
Authors: Brian K. Williams, Sarah E. Hutchinson, Stacey C. Sawyer
Venue:  (1998)

:The third edition will retain the key strengths of the second edition, while decreasing the length, adding a separate Internet chapter, refining the hands-on Internet exercises, and implementing a coherent Web strategy. We will continue to publish the Brief Edition as a distillation (as opposed to a cut-down) of the big book.
Novell's Zenworks for Desktops: Administrator's Handbook
Authors: Ron Tanner, Brad Dayley
Venue:  (2000)

:Novell's ZENworks for Desktops 3 Administrator's Handbook is the official guide to Novell's flagship ZENworks product  ZENworks for Desktops 3. This convenient guide is the perfect resource for network administrators and IT workers responsible for administering multiple desktops. ZENworks (Zero Effort Networking) is a powerful tool which allows administration of the entire network from a single point.
Information Warfare: Chaos on the Electronic Superhighway
Authors: Winn Schwartau
Venue:  (1995)

:As the National Information Infrastructure grows and evolves into everyman's electronic superhighway, are we opening the doors to an electronic cold war? Or are we on the edge of a brave new precipice overlooking the dawn of the information revolution? With over 125,000,000 computers inextricably tying our economy together through complex land and satellite-based communications systems, a major portion of our domestic 6 trillion dollar economy depends on their consistent and reliable operation. In a serious and inviting manner, Information Warfare: Chaos on the Electronic Superhighway examines the awesome potential for industrial and international espionage. Through sabotage, theft, data manipulation, and other means, our economy could be crippled beyond anything in recent history. Currently within the banking community it is common practice for banks to use creative accounting to hide millions of dollars lost every year through Information Warfare. In Information Warfare the "digital persona" plays the role of victim and perpetrator. The wrong hands could extract the most personal information about the "digital you," not the least of which could be medical, financial, business, legal, and criminal documentation. An individual could alter his/her own records to eradicate nefarious histories. Or an individual could alter anyone's electronic documentation for any reason. Information Warfare outlines almost every kind of informational disaster imaginable leaving the reader to think there may be no way out of the quagmire that is the new information age. However, author Winn Schwartau details current trends in Information Warfare and inspires the dialogue necessary to establish a National Information Policy, a constitution for Cyberspace and an Electronic Bill of Rights.
S+: Efficient 2D Sparse LU Factorization on Parallel Machines
Authors: Kai Shen, Tao Yang, Xiangmin Jiao
Venue: SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (2000)

Static symbolic factorization coupled with supernode partitioning and asynchronous computation scheduling can achieve high gigaflop rates for parallel sparse LU factorization with partial pivoting. This paper studies properties of elimination forests and uses them to optimize supernode partitioning/amalgamation and execution scheduling. It also proposes supernodal matrix multiplication to speed up kernel computation by retaining the BLAS-3 level efficiency and avoiding unnecessary arithmetic operations. The experiments show that our new design with proper space optimization, called S+, improves our previous solution substantially and can achieve up to 10 GFLOPS on 128 Cray T3E 450MHz nodes.
P2p: How Peer-to-Peer Technology Is Revolutionizing the Way We Do Business
Authors: Hassan M. Fattah
Venue:  (2002)

:It's been little more than a year since the name Napster began rolling off people's tongues and peer to peer, or P2P, became standard new economy jargon. But P2P is far more than Napster. It's a new way of thinking and computing that lets companies leverage their existing network infrastructure to boost value, cut costs, and maximize resources in an entirely new way.To understand and implement revolutionary peer-to-peer technologies, managers, executives, entrepreneurs, and investors need to understand the business implications and application of the technology outlined by Hassan M. Fattah in P2P. Part technology analysis, part case study, and part management guide, P2P examines the key issues businesses face in implementing P2P and presents the opportunities and challenges that accompany this new technology. Among the topics covered in P2P: *The essentials of P2P technology *How P2P can ease transactions and redefine customer relationships *Immediate and long-term applications of P2P *How P2P applications can increase efficiency and speed up business
Access paths in the "Abe" statistical query facility
Authors: Anthony Klug
Venue: Proceedings of the 1982 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data (1982)

An increasingly important part of information processing today involves the taking of counts, sums, averages, and other statistical or aggregate quantities. The "Abe" query language is designed to make formulation of complicated aggregations simple. Access path selection in Abe finds efficient ways to execute these complicated queries. Access paths for Abe queries perform "aggregate joins", that is, they compute aggregate quantities at the same time as they join subqueries with parent queries. This can be done using index scans or merging scans depending on how many "partitions" need to be accessed.
Standards for network graphics communications
Authors: Ira W. Cotton
Venue: Proceedings of the 1st annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques (1974)

Common protocols provide a means for the interchange of information between dissimilar systems in a computer network. This paper discusses the background and philosophy of the common graphics protocol currently under development for the ARPANET and outlines the details of its design. Other applications for such a protocol are suggested.
Making compiler design relevant for students who will (most likely) never design a compiler
Authors: Saumya Debray
Venue: Proceedings of the 33rd SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education (2002)

Compiler Design courses are a common component of most modern Computer Science undergraduate curricula. At the same time, however, compiler design has become a highly specialized topic, and it is not clear that a significant number of Computer Science students will find themselves designing compilers professionally. This paper argues that the principles, techniques, and tools discussed in compiler design courses are nevertheless applicable to a wide variety of situations that would generally not be considered to be compiler design. Generalizing the content of compiler design courses to emphasize this broad applicability can make them more relevant to students.
IBM Smalltalk Programming for Windows and OS/2/Book and Disk
Authors: Daniel Shafer, Scott Herndon
Venue:  (1994)

:Smalltalk programmer Dan Shafer provides insight into design and coding techniques that are specific to the IBM Smalltalk environment. The book completely explains programming logic through examples, and demonstrates when and how to reuse code. Shafer's goal is to make each reader a more efficient and better Smalltalk programmer.
The Multiplicative Inverse Eigenvalue Problem over an Algebraically Closed Field
Authors: Joachim Rosenthal, Xiaochang Wang
Venue: SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (2001)

Let M be an n &times; n square matrix and let $p(\lambda)$ be a monic polynomial of degree n. Let $\mathcal{Z}$ be a set of n &times; n matrices. The multiplicative inverse eigenvalue problem asks for the construction of a matrix $Z\in\mathcal{Z}$ such that the product matrix MZ has characteristic polynomial $p(\lambda)$. In this paper we provide new necessary and sufficient conditions when $\mathcal{Z}$ is an affine variety over an algebraically closed field.
Multimedia and Imaging Databases, 1st edition
Authors: Setrag Khoshfian, A. Brad Baker
Venue:  (1994)

:Affordable and mainstream manipulation of multimedia data types will lead to tremendous growth in imaging and multimedia data in general computing environments. Multimedia and imaging applications can now provide benefits to common business applications by integrating voice, sound, images, animation and digitized video. Ultimately, it will be possible to convert all information that is currently stored on paper, video and film into a digitized environment. This will allow users to organize, search and route multimedia objects over local and wide area networks in real time. The authors' introductory level presentation of this new class of data types supplies the database technology required for effective manipulation and storage. Multimedia and database experts, Khoshafian and Baker aptly illustrate the ability of multimedia database systems to concurrently share, access, and query large collections of multimedia information. They introduce the elemental concepts of object and relational databases and then apply them to multimedia and imaging databases. Fundamental database topics discussed include querying, transaction support, recovery, security, and storage. This book provides information essential to the incorporation of multimedia databases that will improve the quantity and quality of information manipulated by computer users in many areas including medicine, computer aided design, and information retrieval systems.
Internet Business Models and Strategies: Text and Cases, 1st edition
Authors: Allan Afuah, Christopher L. Tucci
Venue:  (2000)

:Despite the Internet's phenomenal impact on business and its reach across all sectors,no model has emerged for thoughtfully valuing companies' Internet efforts. In addition,strategies for effectively competing in this environment are just beginning to materialize. This book addresses both of these critical aspects of the Internet and offers business models and strategies for better understanding this important phenomenon. In the words of the authors,"The framework (presented here) allows users of the text to make more informed theory-based arguments as to how successful an Internet-based firm is likely to be,how much it might be worth,and the relative merits of formulating and implementing an Internet strategy for an established firm. "
Introducing .NET
Authors: James Conard, Patrick Dengler
Venue:  (2001)

:NET is Microsoft's vision of "software as a service", a development environment in which you can build, create, and deploy your applications and the next generation of components, termed Web Services. All of Microsoft's major flagship products from Visual Studio to Windows and eventually Office are gradually being integrated into the vision and they will all offer services that will allow greater integration between products. .NET will allow developers to develop in whatever language they are comfortable with, via the introduction of a common language runtime, whilst at the same time provide "building block services" to ease application development.Introducing .NET is designed to tell you exactly what you need to know, to cut through the fog and to bring you a clear picture of what .NET is, and what you can expect to be able to do using it.
Support for teaching formal methods
Authors: Vicki L. Almstrum, C. Neville Dean, Don Goelman, Thomas B. Hilburn, Jan Smith
Venue: ACM SIGCSE Bulletin (2001)

This report describes a growth path for the area referred to as formal methods within the computing education community. We define the term formal methods and situate it within our field by highlighting its role in Computing Curricula 1991, Computing Curricula 2001, and the SoftWare Engineering Body Of Knowledge (SWEBOK). The working group proposes an enhancement to an existing web resource, which is a rich collection of materials and links related to formal methods. The new resource is designed to provide a bridge between the general computing education community and the formal methods community. The goal is to allow the latter to provide useful support for the former for the ultimate benefit of all of our students. Eventually, the working group aspires to see the concepts of formal methods integrated seamlessly into the computing curriculum so that it is not necessary to separate them in our discussions.
On scalable information retrieval systems
Authors: Ophir Frieder
Venue: Proceedings of the eleventh international conference on Information and knowledge management (2002)

Implementing scalable information retrieval systems requires the design and development of efficient methods to ingest data from multiple sources, search and retrieve results from both English and foreign language document collections and from collections comprising of multiple data types, harness high performance computer technology, and accurately answer user questions. Some recent efforts related to the development of scalable information retrieval systems are described. Particular emphasis is placed on those efforts that were adopted into commercial use.
Decision Criteria and Optimal Inventory Processes
Authors: Baoding Liu, Augustine O. Esogbue
Venue:  (1999)

:Decision Criteria and Optimal Inventory Processes provides a theoretical and practical introduction to decision criteria and inventory processes. Inventory theory is presented by focusing on the analysis and processes underlying decision criteria. Included are many state-of-the-art criterion models as background material. These models are extended to the authors' newly developed fuzzy criterion models which constitute a general framework for the study of stochastic inventory models with special focus on the real world inventory theoretic reservoir operations problems. The applications of fuzzy criterion dynamic programming models are illustrated by reservoir operations including the integrated network of reservoir operation and the open inventory network problems.An interesting feature of this book is the special attention it pays to the analysis of some theoretical and applied aspects of fuzzy criteria and dynamic fuzzy criterion models, thus opening up a new way of injecting the much-needed type of non-cost, intuitive, and easy-to-use methods into multi-stage inventory processes. This is accomplished by constructing and optimizing the fuzzy criterion models developed for inventory processes.
Complete Idiot's Guide to Online Genealogy
Authors: Rhonda R. McClure
Venue:  (1999)

:You're no idiot, of course. You know that back in the "old country", wherever that may be, there are probably ancient parchments listing your ancestorsand if you could go back, you could trace your lineage to its source. But when it comes to setting off on your personal expedition, time and finances keep you "rooted" in the here and now. Don't give up on discovering where you came from! The Complete Idiot's Guide to Online Genealogy is a fun, easy-to-follow guide to sleuthing around cyberspace to learn about your pasta cost-effective alternative to packing a trunk and setting sail. In this Complete Idiot's Guide, you get:
Digital Video Tape Recorder
Authors: John Watikinson, John Watkinson
Venue:  (1994)

:The world of video tape recording is moving very fast, with many new recording formats having been added by all the major manufacturers over the past few years. This book will pull all these formats together to enable users of the equipment to get a thorough grounding in the principles behind digital recording and a thorough overview of what formats are currently available.Starting with an introduction to digital VTRs the book covers what is currently happening in the important field of video data reduction, the problems of interfacing, the different types of video--component, composite and HDTV--and in-depth information on all the current digital formats--D1, D2, D3, D5, DCT, Digital Betacam and HD formats. Also included is the latest 1/4'' DVC format.
QuickBASIC: An Introduction to Computer Programming on the IBM PC
Authors: Robert J. Bent, George C. Sethares
Venue:  (1993)

:From the same authors who have taught nearly half a million readers BASIC programming... Robert J. Bent and George C. Sethares' new book, Microsoft QuickBASIC: An Introduction to Computer Programming on the IBM PC, is an easy-to-read text that teaches sound programming and problem-solving methods, taking full advantage of the power and flexibility of QuickBASIC. No prior experience with computers or computer programming languages is assumed. A working knowledge of elementary algebra is the only mathematical skill needed to understand most of the material and to complete the assignments successfully. You'll find: Step-by-step instruction on how to solve problems by breaking them into discrete, manageable, and logical steps; Problem Statements, Problem Analysis, Remarks, Comments, and Solutions in examples throughout the text; expanded coverage of algorithms (Chapter 2); numerous long-term programming projects in exercise sets throughout the text; complete coverage of the use of Procedures (Chapter 12); and much, much more!
Improving interpretation of remote gestures with telepointer traces
Authors: Carl Gutwin, Reagan Penner
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work (2002)

Gestural communication is an important part of shared work, both in face-to-face settings and distributed environments. However, gestures in groupware are often difficult to see and interpret because of disruptions to their motion caused by network jitter. One way to improve the visibility of remote gestures is by using traces-visualizations of the last few moments' of a remote pointer's motion. We carried out an experiment to test the effectiveness of traces in helping people interpret gestures. We found that telepointer traces dramatically improved people's accuracy and confidence in their decisions as jitter delays grew larger. Our results suggest that telepointer traces and other visualizations of interaction history can be used to enrich communication among remote collaborators.
Core Concepts of Accounting Information Systems, 7th edition
Authors: Stephen A. Moscove, Mark G. Simkin, Nancy A. Bagranoff
Venue:  (2000)

:Based on the authors' bestselling AIS: Concepts and Practice for Effective Decision Making, this dramatically shorter text is entirely updated to reflect recent changes in technology and AIS practice. Covers such subjects as EDI, reengineering, neural networks, client/server, and events accounting. In addition to examples included throughout every chapter, a special "AIS at Work" feature demonstrates how actual companies make use of the AIS concepts presented in each chapter. Contains two chapters on control and one each on information systems auditing and computer security and crime.