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Practical statecharts in C/C++: Quantum programming for embedded systems
Authors: Miro Samek
Venue:  (2002)

Model your reactive systems without heavyweight, expensive CASE tools. The author's Quantum Programming is a new paradigm that treats statecharts as a way of design rather than the use of a particular tool. It includes a complete software infrastructure for executing statecharts tailored for multithreaded embedded applications. Flexible, efficient, portable, scalable, and maintainable, this lightweight Quantum Framework permits you to quickly hand-code working real-time systems in C or C++ directly from UML statecharts. The Quantum Framework is a complete implementation environment - an active-object framework carefully designed to work with nearly any RTOS. It supports rapid prototyping, easy modification of states and transitions at any stage of development, and the choice of implementation language (C or C++) to match the resource constraints of the target system. Best of all, it is compact, with complete QF code typically requiring less than 5KB of code and data. In Part I of this book, you get a clear, articulate description of the relevant concepts including traditional finite state machines, statecharts, and several statechart-based design patterns in the form of executable code examples. Learn how state nesting leads to behavioral inheritance and how it enables reuse through programming-by-difference. Part II fully describes the implementation of the Quantum Framework and explains how you can use it in your applications and port it to an RTOS of your choice. The CD-ROM includes complete source code for the author's Quantum Framework, answers to all exercises scattered throughout the book, and an evaluation version of RTOS-32 - a 32-bit real-time operating system for x86 processors.
Understanding Neural Networks; Computer Explorations
Authors: Maureen Caudill, Charles Butler
Venue:  (1992)

:Understanding Neural Networks is a textbook and workbook that provides a unique interactive learning environment. With or without the aid of a classroom instructor, it allows students and other users to learn about neural networks while gaining practical, hands-on experience with all of the leading network models. Each model is presented as realistically as possible. Also included are chapter exercises and questions, many with illustrations. The key feature of this workbook is the software. Available for PC-ATs and compatibles and the Macintosh, these disks contain a collection of full-featured commercial-quality simulators for the most important network paradigms. The user interface is graphic and easy to use, and the simulators are consistent across all networks. The simulators can also build and train significantly large networks, allowing users to construct networks on their own with data relevant to their problems. Volume 1 covers learning, attractor networks, and hierarchical networks (including back-propagation networks). Volume 2 takes up temporal networks (including recurrent networks), self-organizing networks, higher-order networks, and such new directions in neural networks as fuzzy networks and evolutionary networks. Both volumes contain instructions on how to use the workbook, an introduction, appendixes, a table of random numbers, a glossary, a bibliography, and index. Maureen Caudill is a consultant on neural networks in San Diego. Charles Butler is Senior Principal Scientist at Physical Sciences in Alexandria, Virginia. He is a specialist in the development of neural-network applications. They are the authors of Naturally IntelligentSystems, a comprehensive nonmathematical introduction to neural networks.
Introduction to Fuzzy Control Systems
Authors: Guanrong Chen
Venue:  (2000)

:In the early 1970s, fuzzy systems and fuzzy control theories added a new dimension to control systems engineering. From its beginnings as mostly heuristic and somewhat ad hoc, more recent and rigorous approaches to fuzzy control theory have helped make it an integral part of modern control theory and produced many exciting results. Yesterday's "art" of building a working fuzzy controller has turned into today's "science" of systematic design.To keep pace with and further advance the rapidly developing field of applied control technologies, engineers, both present and future, need some systematic training in the analytic theory and rigorous design of fuzzy control systems. Introduction to Fuzzy Sets, Fuzzy Logic, and Fuzzy Control Systems provides that training by introducing a rigorous and complete fundamental theory of fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic, and then building a practical theory for automatic control of uncertain and ill-modeled systems encountered in many engineering applications. The authors proceed through basic fuzzy mathematics and fuzzy systems theory and conclude with an exploration of some industrial application examples.Almost entirely self-contained, Introduction to Fuzzy Sets, Fuzzy Logic, and Fuzzy Control Systems establishes a strong foundation for designing and analyzing fuzzy control systems under uncertain and irregular conditions. Mastering its contents gives readers a clear understanding of fuzzy control systems theory that prepares them for deeper and broader studies and for many practical challenges faced in modern industry. 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
Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Outlook 2000 in 24 Hours, 1st edition
Authors: Herb Tyson
Venue:  (1999)

:Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Outlook 2000 in 24 Hours covers how to install, use, and configure Microsoft Outlook 2000 with a minimum of fuss. The book is written in a friendly, approachable style that does not overwhelm you with too much information. Step-by-step lessons show you how to set up Outlook to send and receive email, automatically respond to email messages and filter out junk, and store and manage lists of all your business and personal contacts. You'll also learn to keep track of appointments and tasks, send and receive faxes right from your computer, find buried contacts, messages, and other information, and make Outlook work with other Office 2000 applications.
Beta-continuity revisited: determining B&eacute;zier control vertices to construct geometrically continuous curves and surfaces
Authors: Brian A. Barsky, Ronald N. Goldman
Venue: Mathematical Methods for Curves and Surfaces: Oslo 2000 (2001)

In the previous Oslo conference held in June 1988, we observed that a sufficient condition for the affine combination of two geometrically continuous curves to be a geometrically continuous curve as that the two curves satisfy that Beta-constraints for the same <I>B</I> values [11]. This result was motivated by John Gregory's observation at the same conference(see page 361 of [15]) that an affine combination of two geometrically continuous curves does not necessarily yield a geometrically continuous curve. This anomaly causes havoc in various curve and surface constructions. For example. A ruled. Lofted, or Boolean sum surface constructed groom geometrically continuous curves need not be a geometrically continuous surface. Similarly, Catmull-From splines and rational curves constructed from geometrically continuous curves or geometrically continuous blending functions need not be geometrically continuous curves. Here, we examine geometrically continuous curves described in piecewise B&eacute;zier form that do not satisfy the Beta-constraints for the same<I>B</I> values. From our previous work, it follows that after reparametrization, an affine combination of the two curves will necessarily be geometrically continuous. We show how to determine the location of the B&eacute;zier control vertices of the same curves will be geometrically continuous, thereby permitting classical smooth curve and surface centurions such as ruled and lofted surfaces and Catmull-Rom splines.
An Introduction to Numerical Methods with MATLAB, 1st edition
Authors: Gerald W. Recktenwald
Venue:  (2000)

:The outstanding pedagogical features of this book are: use of numerical experiments as a means of learning why numerical methods work and how they fail a separate chapter reviewing the basics of applied linear algebra, and how computations involving matrices and vectors are naturally expressed in MATLAB use of a range of examples from those that provide a succinct illustration of a basic algorithm, to those that develop solutions to substantial problems in engineering consistent use of well-documented and structured code written in the MATLAB idiom a library of general purpose routinesthe NMM Toolboxthat are readily applied to new problems a progressive approach to algorithm development leading the reader to an understanding of the more sophisticated routines in the built-in MATLAB toolbox. The primary goals of the book are to provide a solid foundation in applied computing, and to demonstrate the implementation and application of standard numerical methods to practical problems. This is achieved by a systematic development of techniques beginning with the simple and ending with the sophisticated. Good programming practice is used throughout to show the reader how to clearly express and document computational ideas. By providing an extensive library of working codes, as well as an exposition of the methods used by the built-in MATLAB toolbox, the reader is challenged by the application of numerical methods to practical problems. This bypasses the ritual of forcing the reader to reinvent simple programs that fail on more technologically significant, practical problems.
OpenGL Reference Manual: The Official Reference Document to OpenGL, Version 1.2, 3rd edition
Authors: Dave Shreiner
Venue:  (1999)

:OpenGL is a powerful software interface used to produce high-quality computer generated images and interactive graphics applications by rendering 2D and 3D geometric objects, bitmaps, and color images. Officially sanctioned by the OpenGL Architecture Review Board (ARB), the OpenGL&reg; Reference Manual, Third Edition, is the comprehensive and definitive documentation of all OpenGL functions. This third edition covers OpenGL Version 1.2, including its newest features: 3D texture mapping; multitexturing; mipmapped texture level-of-detail control; new pixel storage formats, including packed and reversed (BGRA) formats; rescaling vertex normals; and specular lighting after texturing. In addition, this book documents the newest routines in the OpenGL Utility Library (GLU 1.3) and added functionality in the OpenGL extension to the X Window System (GLX 1.3). The comprehensive reference section documents each set of related OpenGL commands. Each reference page contains: A description of the command's parameters The effects on rendering and the OpenGL state by the command Examples Errors generated by functions References to related functions This book also includes a conceptual overview of OpenGL, a summary of commands and routines, a chapter on defined constants and associated commands, and a description of the ARB extensions, including multitexture and the imaging subset. The OpenGL Technical Library provides tutorial and reference books for OpenGL. The Library enables programmers to gain a practical understanding of OpenGL and shows them how to unlock its full potential. Originallydeveloped by SGI, the Library continues to evolve under the auspices of the Architecture Review Board (ARB), an industry consortium responsible for guiding the evolution of OpenGL and related technologies. The OpenGL ARB is composed of industry leaders, such as 3Dlabs, Compaq, Evans & Sutherland, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Intergraph, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and SGI. The OpenGL&reg; Reference Manual, Third Edition, has been completely revised and updated for OpenGL, Version 1.2, by Dave Shreiner, in collaboration with the ARB. 0201657651B04062001
Internet Marketing Success for Information Technology Companies: Proven Online Techniques That Increase Sales and Profits for Hardware,Software and Networking Companies, 2nd edition
Authors: Barry Silverstein
Venue:  (2001)

:While information technology companies have a special affinity for the Internet, they are not necessarily using Internet marketing to its fullest potential. Addressing the specific Internet marketing needs of IT companies and written for IT marketing pros, this how-to guide shows how to make the best of a Web site, get the most out of online advertising and e-mail marketing, build a Web community, and participate in affiliate marketing programs. Numerous case studies from IT companies are used to illustrate the concepts.Author Biography: Barry Silverstein is the CEO of Directech/eMerge, a business-to-business direct and e-marketing agency, and the author of Business-to-Business Internet Marketing and Direct Marketing Lessons You Shouldn't Have Learned the Hard Way. He lives in Acton, Massachusetts.
Language-Based Caching of Dynamically Generated HTML
Authors: Claus Brabrand, Anders Møller, Steffan Olesen, Michael I. Schwartzbach
Venue: World Wide Web (2002)

Increasingly, HTML documents are dynamically generated by interactive Web services. To ensure that the client is presented with the newest versions of such documents it is customary to disable client caching causing a seemingly inevitable performance penalty. In the <bigwig> system, dynamic HTML documents are composed of higher-order templates that are plugged together to construct complete documents. We show how to exploit this feature to provide an automatic fine-grained caching of document templates, based on the service source code. A <bigwig> service transmits not the full HTML document but instead a compact JavaScript recipe for a client-side construction of the document based on a static collection of fragments that can be cached by the browser in the usual manner. We compare our approach with related techniques and demonstrate on a number of realistic benchmarks that the size of the transmitted data and the latency may be reduced significantly.
A user-aware tour proposal framework using a hybrid optimization approach
Authors: Matthias Joest, Wolfgang Stille
Venue: Proceedings of the 10th ACM international symposium on Advances in geographic information systems (2002)

This paper considers a context- and user-aware approach to the tour planning in Geographic Information Systems. We regard the following scenario: a person with specific preferences and a fixed amount of time is visiting a foreign place of interest. Therefore spatial as well as user specific information is modeled as a multimodally attributed digraph structure, where nodes represent the points of interest and arcs the user optimal paths between them. The goal is to find a set of nodes and arcs representing a round trip that is best satisfying the priorities of the user. This results in an Enhanced Profitable Tour Problem (EPTP), which is - as a generalization of the well-known Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) - an NP-hard optimization problem. In this article, we introduce an efficient algorithm for this problem and discuss the modeling and implementation details.
CSFS: a Java enabled network file storage system
Authors: Hua HAN, Yafei DAI, Xiaoming LI
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 joint ACM-ISCOPE conference on Java Grande (2002)

CSFS is a network file storage system that supports file storage on the Internet. In CSFS, dozens of distributed file servers are consolidated together to provide service as a whole. Files names are location independent. Files can be replicated on different servers. System architecture is of good scalability and the system is expected to scale up to one hundred of file servers. We implemented CSFS in pure Java and tested the prototype by a Java versioned Andrew benchmark. Testing result shows: CSFS delivers acceptable performance for general file operations; performance of file upload and download is as efficient as FTP; more than 450 concurrent online users can be supported.
Cisco Router Configuration, 2nd edition
Authors: Allan Leinwand, Bruce Pinsky
Venue:  (2000)

:Cisco Router Configuration takes an example-oriented and chronological approach to helping you implement and administer your internetworking devices. Starting with the configuration of devices "out of the box," this book moves to configuring the Cisco IOS for the three most popular networking protocols used today: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), AppleTalk, and Novell InterPacket eXchange (IPX). You also will learn basic administrative and management configuration, including access control with TACACS+ and RADIUS, network management with SNMP, logging of messages, and time control with NTP.
Computational Visualization: Graphics, Abstraction, and Interactivity, 1st edition
Authors: Hubert Wagener
Venue:  (1998)

:Abstraction entails the visually satisfactory refinement of resized images based on geometric models, approached in this book as an interactive exploration of complex "information spaces." This book discusses many types of "zooming" and rendering techniques, highlighting their applications in medical illustration and technical documentation.
Embryonics: a new methodology for designing field-programmable gate arrays with self-repair and self-replicating properties
Authors: Daniel Mange, Eduardo Sanchez, André Stauffer, Gianluca Tempesti, Pierre Marchal, Christian Piguet
Venue: Readings in hardware/software co-design (2001)

The growth and the operation of all living beings are directed through the interpretation, in each of their cells, of a chemical program, the DNA string or genome. This process is the source of inspiration for the Embryonics (embryonic electronics) project, whose final objective is the conception of very large scale integrated circuits endowed with properties usually associated with the living world: self-repair (cicatrization) and self-replication. We will begin by showing that any logic system can be represented by an order binary decision diagram (OBDD), and them embedded into a fine-grained field-programmable gate array (FPGA) whose basic cell is a multplexer with programmable connections. The cellular array thus obtained is perfectly homogeneous: the function of each cell is defined by a configuration (or gene) and all the genes in the array, each associated with a pair of coordinates, make up the blueprint (or genome) of the artificial organism. In the second part of the project, we add to the basic cell a memory and an interpreter to, respectively, store and decode the complete genome. The interpreter extracts from the genome the gene of a particular cell as a function of its position in the array (its coordinates) and thus determines the exact configuration of the relative multiplexer. The considerable redundancy introduced by the presence of a genome in each cell has significant advantages: self-replication (the automatic production of one or more copies of the original organism) and self-repair (the automatic repair of one or more faulty cells) become relatively simple operations. The multiplexer-based FPGA cell and the interpreter are finally embedded into an electronic module; an array of such modules makes it possible to demonstrate self-repair and self-replication.
Sonet-Based Metro Area Networks
Authors: Daniel Minoli, Peter Johnson, Emma Minoli
Venue:  (2002)

:The hottest issue in telecom today is how to solve the Metro Area bandwidth bottleneckwith SONET being the solution tha appeals to most telecom companies. But to compete against Ethernet, SONET will need plenty of fine-tuning. This book will help service providers compare their options and fully understand what is really necessary to give current SONET installations "next generation" capabilities.* Shows how to achieve new-generation features with enhanced SONET and other optical architectures* Compares SONET's features and services with rival Ethernet-based offerings* Offers design approaches and business models for real-world deployments* Covers GMPLS generalized MPLS), a red-hot switching technology for wavelength servicesIn 2001 the telecom industry spent money on solving the Metro Area bandwidth bottleneck. SONET appeals to the telcos because it is widely deployed, reliable, robust, and scalable. But it will need multiple changes and enhancements to compete against the emerging rivilEthernet.SONET or Ethernet?How to extend broadband through Metro Area Networksthat's the question many carriers are asking. Many are answering SONET  but that's just the beginning of the questions. This expert guide offers serious help with the challenges of implementing SONET to push the information highway nearer the last mile.SONET Solutions for MANsThe perfect resource for evaluating and deploying SONET as a MAN solution, communications experts Daniel Minoli's and Peter Johnson's SONET-Based Metro Area Networks can help you sort out your options and put your choices into action. This detailed guide helps you build business models, review protocols, contrast costs and features, and design and deploy next-generation platforms.Eight insight-packed chapters help you:* Review all emerging metro protocols and their interactions* Decide with confidence on a cell or packet-switched network * Choose ATM or point-to-point* Achieve new features with enhanced SONET and multi-lambda rings* Apply in-depth answers on GMPLS (Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching)* Contend with complicated issues such as municipal-owned infrastructure* Discover next-generation design approaches and business models for real-world deployments * Solve conventional and urgent post-9/11 security issuesMAKE SENSE OF COMPLEX TECHNOLOGIES AND BURGEONING MARKETSDon't step off the cliff without a parachute. This book is a survival tool for those planning, designing, and building architectures for Municipal Area Networks.
Gossiping to reach consensus
Authors: Bogdan S. Chlebus, Dariusz R. Kowalski
Venue: Proceedings of the fourteenth annual ACM symposium on Parallel algorithms and architectures (2002)

We consider the problem of gossiping when dynamic node crashes are controlled by adaptive adversaries. We develop gossiping algorithms which are efficient with respect to both the time and communication measured as the number of point-to-point messages. If the adversary is allowed to fail up to $t$ nodes, among the total of $n$, where additionally $n-t=\Omega(n/\textpolylog n)$, then one among our algorithms completes gossiping in time $\cO(\log^2 t)$ and with $\cO(n\text polylog t)$ messages. We prove a lower bound which states that the time has to be at least $\Omega\Big(\frac\log n\log(n\log n)-\log t\Big)$ if the communication is restricted to be $\cO(n\text polylog n)$.We also show that one can solve efficiently a more demanding consensus problem with crash failures by resorting to one of our gossiping algorithms. If the adversary is allowed to fail $t$ nodes, where $n-t=\Omega(n/\textpolylog n)$, we obtain a time-optimal solution that is away from the communication optimality by at most a polylogarithmic factor.
Managingnonprofits.Org: Dynamic Management for the Digital Age
Authors: Ben Hecht, Rey Ramsey
Venue:  (2001)

:This book shows any nonprofit how to thrive in these times of change. It enables nonprofits to harness the power of technology to strengthen the organization, to provide value-added products and services to an expanding customer base, and to adapt to new dynamic management practices. ManagingNonprofits.org provides expert guidance and proven methods for bringing your nonprofit into the digital age and building an organization that doesn't fear change - but thrives on it.