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Inside AutoCAD 2002
Authors: David Harrington, David Pitzer, Bill Burchard
Venue:  (2001)

:This edition provides rock solid information on the latest changes and enhancements of the past two AutoCAD releases. The book guides you through the newest enhancements and shows you how to apply them to real projects. The great thing about this book is that it gets you up to speed fast and clearly outlines what is new from the previous versions. The CD-ROM has all the files to complete the tutorials. From Attributes to Xrefs, Inside AutoCAD 2002 details the features that put you on the fast track to AutoCAD success. Find out how to use dimensions, explore 3D modeling, learn how to plot, and learn about dozens of other features just waiting to be utilized.
The multilingual thesaurus of LAURIN
Authors: Diego Calvanese, Tiziana Catarci, Maurizio Lenzerini, Giuseppe Santucci
Venue: Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software engineering and knowledge engineering (2002)

Among the wide range of digital libraries, an interesting, yet quite neglected, subclass is constituted by those exclusively dealing with newspaper clippings. Compared with book-oriented digital libraries, clipping libraries are more difficult to seize, since they are wide and unstructured, and the subjects and content of a clipping are completely heterogeneous. LAURIN is an EU-funded project involving seventeen participants from several countries, including two software companies and a large group of libraries, whose main purpose is to set up a network of digitalized newspaper clipping archives that can be easily accessed through the Internet, for searching and retrieving clippings. The project also provides the libraries with models and methodologies to be used for scanning, digitalizing, storing, indexing, and making accessible newspaper clippings. The core of the LAURIN system is an integrated multilingual Thesaurus. In this paper we illustrate how to express the thesaurus in terms of a knowledge base, and how to exploit such a knowledge base to improve the fundamental task of clipping retrieval.
Patterns for logging diagnostic messages
Authors: Neil B. Harrison
Venue: Design patterns in communications software (2001)

Every SOFTWARE SYSTEM must deal with errors. Most systems report errors to the user in some manner, and many provide additional diagnostic information to assist the user in tracking down the problem. Transaction-oriented systems lend themselves to common approaches to logging diagnostic messages. These approached are embodied in three general software patterns. The first pattern, Diagnostic Logger, seperates logging from the rest of the software, and lays the groundwork for the other patterns. The second pattern, Diagnostic Context, provides association of diagnostics with the correct transactions. The third pattern, Typed Diagnostics, helps ensure uniformity of presentation for all diagnostics. It also allows the software to handle various diagnostics differently, depending on characteristics such as severity
On Time within Budget: Software Project Management Practices and Techniques, 3rd edition
Authors: E. M. Bennatan
Venue:  (2000)

:A developer's survival guide packed with real-life case studies, tips, techniques, and best practices for completing software projects on time and within budget.Whether you work at a large or small company, this book will provide you with expert, down-in-the-trenches tips, techniques, and strategies to deliver a software project in a cost-effective and timely way. Real-life case studies let you learn from the mistakes as well as the successes of others. Author E. M. Bennatan zeroes in on proven methods for avoiding bottlenecks and overruns at every step in the software development cyclefrom cost estimating to product delivery. The Third Edition of this bestselling guide routes you directly to what you need to know about: *Managing both small and large projects in a distributed environment *Common development problems and how to avoid them *Preparing estimates and proposals and bidding for contracts *Managing teams for maximum quality and productivity *Proven scheduling and project development planning techniquesNew to this edition: *How best to ensure an effective relationship with customers *Risk management and disaster prevention *The pros and cons of acquiring custom software from outside suppliers *Managing multinational projects *How to save time by reusing software components
Design and performance evaluation of a web-based multi-tier federated system for a catalogue of life
Authors: Xuebiao Xu, Andrew C. Jones, W. Alex Gray, Nick J. Fiddian, Richard J. White, Frank A. Bisby
Venue: Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on Web information and data management (2002)

In the SPICE (SPecies 2000 Interoperability Co-ordination Environment) project, we are designing and evaluating a web-based multi-tier federated system, intended as a scalable infrastructure for a globally distributed federated database of biological knowledge. It is designed to harness specialist expertise on classification of individual groups of organisms to form a 'catalogue of life' of high taxonomic quality, and to solve problems of heterogeneity, scale and component database unreliability while providing a reconfigurable, flexible, cost-effective Internet online gateway to the distributed catalogue. This paper outlines our design and design rationale, explaining how our multi-tier federated approach makes maintenance of a consistent classification easier. We present the conceptual architecture and several intelligent agents prototyped to improve system performance with respect to scalability, stability and adaptability, and discuss the evaluation of this system. Our most important finding is that a knowledge based search using suitable caching techniques will effectively reduce the response time unless the core system is excessively loaded.
How to Use Microsoft Office XP
Authors: Sherry Willard Kinkoph, Jennifer Fulton
Venue:  (2001)

From the Book:Are you a visual learner? Do you like to see how to do things rather than read about them? Do you need to learn how to use Microsoft Office XP, but you don't have time to wade through an exhaustive tome? If you answered "Yes" to any of these questions, How to Use Microsoft Office XP is the book for you. Office XP is the latest version of the popular Microsoft Office suite of programs. The new and improved Office XP features task panes that put the tools you work with the most just a quick click away, a document recovery feature that saves and recovers your work in case of a system crash, more collaboration features so that you can share your documents with others, and much more. How to Use Microsoft Office XP will help you learn this latest version of the software quickly. This book has been written and assembled especially for visual learners who want to get up and running fast. It will show you how to use the basic features of the Office suite of programs in an easy-to-understand, straightforward manner. You'll learn How to create and format Word documents How to work with Excel formulas and functions How to create slideshow presentations with PowerPoint How to use Access to organize your data How to send and receive e-mail with Outlook How to use Internet Explorer to download files How to use the Office graphics tools to add pic tures and shapes to your files Each topic is presented visually, step by step, so that you can clearly see how to apply each feature to your own tasks. The illustrations show exactly what you'll see on your own computer screen, making it easy to follow along. You can use the book as a tutorial, working through each section one task at a time, or as a reference, looking up specific features you want to learn about. There's no right or wrong way-use the method that best suits your own learning style. In no time at all, you'll master all the basic tools needed to use the software for your own office or home needs. In addition, you'll gain the fundamental skills for working on your computer more productively. You won't find a more powerful set of computer applications than Microsoft Office XP, and no book will teach you how to use it more easily than How to Use Microsoft Office XP.
Computer aided integrated circuit design: a distributed integrated approach
Authors: E. B. Kozemchak
Venue: Proceedings of the 3rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques (1976)

The design of silicon integrated circuits requires a broad spectrum of computer aids for simulation, physical design, and testing. A CAD approach is described which is both integrated and distributed in nature. The various functions required by circuit designers for simulation, layout, and testing are integrated into a single system, based on a minicomputer (HP21MX) with a storage scope (Tektronix 4014) display. These systems are distributed to provide the design aids in close proximity to users. Approximately forty systems are now employed for the various steps in the design process.
Warpath: Jurassic Park
Authors: Brady Games
Venue:  (1999)

:A 3D fighting game that uses the dinosaurs from the hit Jurassic Park movies as combatants. Players can choose from 14 dinosaurs as they battle at locations pulled directly from the movies. Some dinosaurs and locations will be hidden at first, but will be opened as the game is played. The dinosaurs interact with their surroundings as they struggle with their opponents. Humans can be consumed, or fought over, electrical fences will zap anything that touches them, and crates can be smashed to reveal hidden food. Each dinosaur will be capable of linking hits into impressive combos, and build their Blood Rage Meter, which when full will allow secret, devastating maneuvers to be executed.
Space Image Processing with Cdrom, 1st edition
Authors: Julio Sanchez, Maria P. Canton
Venue:  (1998)

:Space Image Processing covers the design and coding of PC software for processing and manipulating imagery obtained by satellites and other spacecraft. Although the contents relate to several scientific and technological fields, it serves as a programming book, providing readers with essential technical information for developing PC applications. The material focuses on images of the planet and other celestial bodies obtained by orbiting and non-orbiting spacecraft. Space Image Processing includes a CD-ROM holding all the source code and programs discussed in the text. The CD contains a version of the TM-Lab program, a public domain Thematic Mapper scene of the Grand Canyon area, space image viewers, and sample images.
Securing Windows NT/2000 Servers for the Internet
Authors: Stefan Norberg
Venue:  (2000)

:In recent years, Windows NT and Windows 2000 systems have emerged as viable platforms for Internet servers. More and more organizations are now entrusting the full spectrum of business activitiesincluding e-commerceto Windows. Unfortunately, the typical Windows NT/2000 installation makes a Windows server an easy target for attacks, and configuring Windows for secure Internet use is a complex task. Securing Windows NT/2000 Servers for the Internet suggests a two-part strategy to accomplish the task: "Hardening" any Windows server that could potentially be exposed to attacks from the Internet, so the exposed system (known as a "bastion host") is as secure as it can be. Providing extra security protection for exposed systems by installing an additional network (known as a "perimeter network") that separates the Internet from an organization's internal networks. Securing Windows NT/2000 Servers for the Internet is a concise guide that pares down installation and configuration instructions into a series of checklists aimed at Windows administrators. Topics include: IntroductionWindows NT/2000 security threats, architecture of the Windows NT/2000 operating system and typical perimeter networks. How to build a Windows NT bastion host. Configuring Windows and network services, encrypting the password database, editing the registry, setting system policy characteristics, performing TCP/IP configuration, configuring administrative tools, and setting necessary permissions. Differences between Windows NT and Windows 2000 security including IPSec (IP Security Protocol) configuration. Secure remoteadministrationSSH, OpenSSH, TCP Wrappers, the Virtual Network Console, and the new Windows 2000 Terminal Services. Windows NT/2000 backup, recovery, auditing, and monitoringevent logs, the audit policy, time synchronization with NTP (Network Time Protocol), remote logging, integrity checking, and intrusion detection. Administrators who carefully follow the detailed instructions provided in this book will dramatically increase the security of their Windows NT/2000 Internet servers.
Java Collections: An Introduction to Abstract Data Types, Data Structures and Algorithms, 1st edition
Authors: David A. Watt, Deryck Brown
Venue:  (2001)

:Java Collections is an introductory text on abstract data types, data structures, and algorithms using Java- Written at an appropriate level for a first course in algorithms and data structures, or a second course in programming using Java, this text concentrates on practical matters like software design and the Java Collections framework. Only essential supporting theory is included. The text focuses on abstract data types (ADTs) that turn up again and again in software design. It uses these ADTs to introduce and motivate the data structures required to implement them and the algorithms associated with the data structuresThis approach helps Java programmers to choose the most suitable collection classes for their applications. Not only undergraduate students but also professional programmers retraining to program in Java will benefit from this even-paced and example-led text. Key features of the text: emphasizes good object-oriented software design and implementation presents algorithms both in English and in Java, and shows how to analyze their efficiency (with only light mathematics) introduces the concept of an abstract data type, shows how to use a "contract" to specify the abstract data type's values and operations, and clearly distinguishes between the abstract data type's contract and its implementation in terms of a suitable data structure and algorithms covers a variety of abstract data types (stacks, queues, lists, sets, maps, priority queues, trees, and graphs), compares alternative implementations of these abstract data types, and relates them to the Java collection classes features numerous examples and case studies showing how the abstract data types are used in practical applications contains numerous graded exercises, offering opportunities to explore alternatives to the designs and implementations presented in the text includes appendices summarizing the mathematics of algorithm analysis, the relevant features of the Java programming language, and the Java collection classes.
Modern Systems Analysis and Design, 2nd edition
Authors: Jeffrey A. Hoffer, Joey F. George, Joseph S. Valacich
Venue:  (1998)

:The third edition of Modern Systems Analysis and Design investigates the very latest of systems analysis and design. Rather than looking strictly at the technological aspects, Hoffer, George and Valacich focus on the business perspective and the human, organizational and technical skills an information systems professional needs to be successful. Chapter topics cover foundations for systems development, making the business case, analysis, design, implementation and maintenance, and advanced analysis and design methods. For information systems professionals.
Extending mobile IP with adaptive individual paging: a performance analysis
Authors: Claude Castelluccia
Venue: ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review (2001)

This paper proposes to extend Mobile IP with adaptive individual paging. Paging reduces the signaling cost of Mobile IP making it more adapted to wireless cellular IP networks. By reducing the number of location updates to be sent per mobile host, paging also minimizes power consumption of the mobile devices. In the proposed extension, each mobile host computes dynamically its optimal location area size according to its traffic and mobility parameters. The optimal size is the size that provides the best paging versus location update cost tradeoff and, as a result, minimizes the signaling load in the network. We compare, by simulation, the performance of the proposed scheme with that of Mobile IP [11], a paging scheme that uses fixed size location areas and Hierarchical Mobile IP [5]. We show that our extension provides a significant gain compared to Mobile IP and the fixed size paging scheme and performs as well and sometimes better than Hierarchical Mobile IP. We also show that the integration of adaptive individual paging within Hierarchical Mobile IP outperforms all schemes.
Parallel Adaptive Solution of a Poisson Equation with Multiwavelets
Authors: A. Averbuch, E. Braverman, M. Israeli
Venue: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (2000)

We present an adaptive algorithm for the solution of the Poisson equation. The domain is divided into subdomains. The resolution of each subdomain depends on the smoothness of the right-hand side of the Poisson equation. This determines the adaptivity of the algorithm. In each subdomain a particular solution is found. These solutions are patched by introducing double/single layers at the interfaces of the subdomains. The influence of these layers is effectively computed using multiwavelets. In the wavelet bases kernels of integrals which represent double layers are sparse. When the number of grid points increases as N, the number of essential wavelet coefficients, which represent a vector, increases as log N. Hence, using this sparsity reduces the number of operations from O(N2) to O(N log N). The algorithm was implemented on parallel computers of SP2 and SGI types while each processor was assigned to each box. The efficiency of the algorithm was demonstrated.
Formal Methods in Human-Computer Interaction, 1st edition
Authors: Philippe Palanque
Venue:  (1997)

:There are a number of ongoing problems with the design of Interactive Systems, due mainly to the inherent complexity of these systems (which are generally reactive, parallel and user-driven) and to the number of people - including designers, ergonomists, and computer scientists - involved. This volume examines the proposition that formal methods are one of the conceptual tools that can support the design of Interactive Systems, understanding of their behaviour, and reasoning about their properties. All the approaches considered take into account some aspect of the Web environment which is one of the most successful software products of recent years: millions of people use it every day in order to search for, exchange, and modify information. As the case study in this volume, it provides a familiar background against which problems can be discussed. In Formal Methods in Human-Computer Interaction some of the most well-known approaches developed in research laboratories and universities in different countries are presented, thus providing a comprehensive review of the state of the art in the field. It will be of particular interest to academic/industrial researchers and MSc students in the fields of human-computer interaction, software engineering, formal methods, and computer science in general. It will also be suitable for human-computer interaction engineers who are either carrying out research or tackling industrial problems.
WYSIWYG NPR: drawing strokes directly on 3D models
Authors: Robert D. Kalnins, Lee Markosian, Barbara J. Meier, Michael A. Kowalski, Joseph C. Lee, Philip L. Davidson, Matthew Webb, John F. Hughes, Adam Finkelstein
Venue: Proceedings of the 29th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques (2002)

We present a system that lets a designer directly annotate a 3D model with strokes, imparting a personal aesthetic to the non-photorealistic rendering of the object. The artist chooses a "brush" style, then draws strokes over the model from one or more viewpoints. When the system renders the scene from any new viewpoint, it adapts the number and placement of the strokes appropriately to maintain the original look.
SQL Server 7 Administration: Exam: 70-028
Authors: Rick Sawtell, Lance Mortensen
Venue:  (1999)

:MCSE Exam Notes: SQL Server 7 Administration provides the fastest and most effective way to make sure you're ready for Exam 70-028, Administering SQL Server 7.. "The unique, innovative Exam Notes approach helps you gain and retain the knowledge you need, objective by objective.
Access 2002 VBA Handbook (Developer's Handbook Series)
Authors: Susann Novalis, Dana Jones
Venue:  (2001)

:Programmers improve database productivity with this task-oriented guide to using macro and VBA programming to create custom database applications. Building on a basic knowledge of Access, this book takes users to the next level, providing coverage of automating complex processes and designing and delivering applications that meet users' exacting requirements. The companion CD contains code from the book and sample databases for hands-on experience.
SQL Server 7 24seven, 1st edition
Authors: Rick Sawtell, Michael Lee
Venue:  (1999)

:SQL Server experts Rick Sawtell, Michael Lee, Matt Bridges, and Victor Isakov deliver the advanced coverage and targeted information that will enable you to get the most out of your SQL Server systems.
Site Details
Authors: Gregory W. Jameson, Michael A. Versen
Venue:  (1998)

:Construction detailing in the design/engineering profession now uses CAD/CAM computer programs almost exclusively. This book illustrates site construction details in a consistent & uniform drawing format of line types & lettering styles. It will provide the user with a unified system of hundreds of construction details. Covers a wide range of topics for site planning, engineering & landscape architectural design including: docks & bridges, fountains & pools, lighting, paving, playground equipment, planting, railing & protective devices, site furniture, shelters, signage, steps & ramps, site utilities, walls, & much more.
The Object of Data Abstraction and Structures (Using Java)
Authors: David Riley
Venue:  (2002)

:This book covers traditional data structures using an early object-oriented approach, and by paying special attention to developing sound software engineering skills. Provides extensive coverage of foundational material needed to study data structures (objects and classes, software specification, inheritance, exceptions, and recursion). Provides an object-oriented approach to abstract design using UML class diagrams and several design patterns. Emphasizes software-engineering skills as used in professional practice. MARKET Readers who want to use the most powerful features of Java to program data structures.
Improving on the 1.5-Approximation of a Smallest 2-Edge Connected Spanning Subgraph
Authors: J. Cheriyan, A. Sebo, Z. Szigeti
Venue: SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics (2001)

We give a $\frac{17}{12}$-approximation algorithm for the following NP-hard problem: Given a simple undirected graph, find a 2-edge connected spanning subgraph that has the minimum number of edges. The best previous approximation guarantee was $\frac{3}{2}$. If the well-known $\frac{4}{3}$ conjecture for the metric traveling salesman problem holds, then the optimal value (minimum number of edges) is at most $\frac{4}{3}$ times the optimal value of a linear programming relaxation. Thus our main result gets halfway to this target.
A multi-thread safe foundation for scene graphs and its extension to clusters
Authors: G. Voß, J. Behr, D. Reiners, M. Roth
Venue: Proceedings of the Fourth Eurographics Workshop on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (2002)

One of the main shortcomings of current scene graphs is their inability to support multi-thread safe data structures. This work describes the general framework used by the OpenSG scene graph system to enable multiple concurrent threads to independently manipulate the scene graph without interfering with each other. Furthermore the extensions of the presented mechanisms needed to support cluster systems are discussed.