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CONSTRUCTING EXAMINATIONS VIA APL
Authors: Paul H. Randolph
Venue: ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad (1988)

Tests that are administered over and over, semester after semester will soon become fixtures in various student files and thus will no longer measure achievement but only the cleverness of students in finding files and memorizing answers. By generating examinations in a random fashion by computer, new examinations are easily obtained whenever necessary. APL is an ideal language for this exam generation.
Charlie Calvert's Delphi 4 Unleashed with Cdrom, 1st edition
Authors: Charlie Calvert
Venue:  (1998)

:Charlie Calvert s Delphi 4 Unleashed is an all-new edition written by one of the most well-known developers in the Delphi community. This advanced reference will provide programmers with the information they need to build high-end Delphi applications and components compatible with ActiveX and Java. Calvert will bring the newest technologies and features of Delphi into focus and show programmers how to utilize them. Some features will include: Building and integrating components with Java, Active X, etc. Internet enabling applications and components? Internet and Intranet applications and enabling Delphi s Multi-tier Distributed Applications Services Suite (MIDAS) and how it works with Delphi Client/server architecture and enterprise wide development Note: Content for the book and CD will be all new.Charlie Calvert s Delphi 4 Unleashed is a complete high-end reference for programmers and developers in Delphi.Charlie Calvert is well-known and well-respected in the Borland and Delphi communities.This book will tell programmers what the manuals don t- and how to make Delphi 4 really work for them.
MCSE Windows XP Professional Exam Prep: Exam 70-270 with Cdrom
Authors: Michael D. Stewart, Neall Alcott
Venue:  (2002)

:MCSE Windows XP Professional Exam Prep is a content-rich study guide designed to help you pass the first exam in Microsoft's new core four OS exams-Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows XP Professional (exam 70-270). Hundreds of thousands of NT4 MCSEs will need to upgrade their credentials as well as system administrators, consultants, and new IT professionals. This book will cover all of the exam objectives as well as provide in-depth coverage on topics such as: installing, configuring, and deploying Windows XP. You will learn how to customize Windows XP such as personalizing menus, toolbars, and multi-language features. You will master how to support, manage, and secure mobile users. Test your knowledge and exam-readiness on Windows XP with review questions at the end of each chapter, a sample test at the end of the book, and a CD-ROM packed with over 50 additional practice questions that incorporate Microsoft's testing methods.
Biztalk(TM) Server Developer's Guide
Authors: Peishu Li, Microsoft Corporation
Venue:  (2001)

:Build and deploy fully-functional e-commerce applications using this comprehensive developer's guide. You'll get in-depth information on how to maximize the functionality of BizTalk applications in the real-world,develop XML schemas,and implement multi-level security. Also includes important case studies which help illustrate BizTalk's key features. Your professional resource for building and deploying real-world BizTalk applications Get the most out of BizTalk Server using this authoritative,hands-on guide. Written by an expert with more than a decade of enterprise development experience,this in-depth guide provides you with all the tools you need to create,implement,and support successful EAI and B2B integration solutions. Learn key ways to effectively manage BizTalk Server messaging services,orchestrate business processes,and discover the most efficient methods for administering BizTalk Server. Exchange documents across applications and organizations,build custom components to extend BizTalk services,and integrate BizTalk with other Microsoft. NET servers. Track business documents and exchanges,and build vertical market BizTalk solutions using BizTalk Server Accelerators for RosettaNet and HIPAA. The companion CD is packed with complete source code that will help you master the contents of the book. For leveraging the power of this business integration tool,BizTalk Server Developer's Guide is your ideal resource. Learn about BizTalk Server architecture and the BizTalk Framework Use BizTalk Editor and Mapper to exchange business documents in XML,EDI (X12 and EDIFACT),flat files,and custom formats Master BizTalk Server Messaging Servicesand Orchestration Services Track and audit business documents and exchanges Build custom functoids,preprocessors,and application integration components (AIC) Integrate BizTalk Server with Commerce Server 2000 Build vertical market solutions (RosettaNet and HIPAA) with BizTalk Server Accelerators Set up business trading partners with SEED Wizard Manage enterprise administration,monitoring,and deployment with BizTalk Server 2002 (Bizet),Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) and Microsoft Application Center On the value-packed CD-ROM Hands-on examplesAll the book's code
Interactive sculpturing and visualization of unbounded voxel volumes
Authors: Ralf Böonning, Heinrich Müuller
Venue: Proceedings of the seventh ACM symposium on Solid modeling and applications (2002)

A difficulty of voxel-based sculpturing and modeling is the limitation of the design space by the fixed boundaries of the voxel volume.We present the concept of an infinite voxelized virtual modeling space. A finite shape located in the virtual modeling space is embedded in a voxel window which is enlarged if required by the spatial development of the shape. In order to cope with highly resolved or large shapes, the voxel windows are stored in a virtual voxel memory which implements a paging mechanism to secondary memory. Visualization is performed by meshes obtained by the marching cubes algorithm. Because highly resolved or large shapes may cause a considerable number of triangles, an adaptive meshing approach based on a filtered hierarchy of voxel volumes is presented. The surface mesh is represented in a surface octree which allows for fast rendering by e.g. the Performer library.
Learning Python, 1st edition
Authors: Mark Lutz, David Ascher
Venue:  (1999)

:Learning Python is an introduction to the increasingly popular Python programming language. Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented scripting language. Python is growing in popularity because: It is available on all important platforms: Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, Linux, all major UNIX platforms, MacOS, and even the BeOS. It is open-source software, copyrighted but freely available for use, even in commercial applications. Its clean object-oriented interface makes it a valuable prototyping tool for C++ programmers. It works well with all popular windowing toolkits, including MFC, Tk, Mac, X11, and Motif. Learning Python is written by Mark Lutz, author of Programming Python and Python Desktop Reference; and David Ascher, a vision scientist and Python user. This book starts with a thorough introduction to the elements of Python: types, operators, statements, functions, modules, and exceptions. By reading the first part of the book, the reader will be able to understand and construct programs in the Python language. In the second part of the book, the authors present more advanced information, demonstrating how Python performs common tasks and presenting real applications and the libraries available for those applications. All the examples use the Python interpreter, so the reader can type them in and get instant feedback. Each chapter ends with a series of exercises. Solutions to the exercises are in an appendix.
User services and operations
Authors: Mel Ray
Venue: Proceedings of the 4th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference on User services (1976)

An informal panel session to discuss the impact of organizational proximity on the quality and quantity of user services. The panel shall investigate the problems of user services staff development and intra-data center working relationships. The panel will examine the difference (if any) on the actual user services support available to the "end user."
Analysis of Neumann Boundary Optimal Control Problems for the Stationary Boussinesq Equations Including Solid Media
Authors: Hyung-Chun Lee, O. Yu. Imanuvilov
Venue: SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (2000)

This article deals with Neumann boundary optimal control problems associated with the Boussinesq equations including solid media. These problems are first put into an appropriate mathematical formulation. Then the existence of optimal solutions is proved. The use of Lagrange multiplier techniques is justified and an optimality system of equations is derived.
Simple Confluently Persistent Catenable Lists
Authors: Haim Kaplan, Chris Okasaki, Robert E. Tarjan
Venue: SIAM Journal on Computing (2000)

We consider the problem of maintaining persistent lists subject to concatenation and to insertions and deletions at both ends. Updates to a persistent data structure are nondestructive---each operation produces a new list incorporating the change, while keeping intact the list or lists to which it applies. Although general techniques exist for making data structures persistent, these techniques fail for structures that are subject to operations, such as catenation, that combine two or more versions. In this paper we develop a simple implementation of persistent double-ended queues (deques) with catenation that supports all deque operations in constant amortized time. Our implementation is functional if we allow memoization.
Information Management for Business
Authors: Allan Taylor, Stephen Farrell
Venue:  (1995)

:Information is a critical resource which, if used effectively, can lead to competitive advantage. This book shows the practical application of information management techniques to contemporary business theory. It reveals how management is recognizing the need for more support in the provision of information to aid complex decision making in the modern business environment and flags potential problems. A must buy for all businesses, this is also an excellent course book for management, information, and library schools. It draws heavily on published research from both the United States and Britain.Author Biography: Stephen Farrell is an information management consultant with Anthony Cook Associates in London. Dr. Allan Taylor is a lecturer and consultant in the Department of Business Information Management at Napier University in Edinburgh.
Accelerated Lattice Boltzmann Schemes for Steady-State Flow Simulations
Authors: M. Bernaschi, S. Succi, H. Chen
Venue: Journal of Scientific Computing (2001)

A matrix formulation of the steady Lattice Boltzmann equation is presented. It is shown that the strict steady-state formulation, combined with preconditioned iterative solvers, leads to significant computational savings as compared to the standard explicit LBE scheme.
Visual Basic 5 how-To
Authors: Paul J. Sanna, Anthony Prince, Eric Brierley
Venue:  (1997)

:Visual 5 Basic How-To employs the proven question and answer format of the previous editions. Each chapter begins with an introduction and summary of its material. This is followed by a series of How-To examples, each featuring a question, illustrated solutions, complete working code, and related tips. Whenever possible, the code is modularized and fully encapsulated for easy transplant into other applications. This book demonstrates how to take full advantage of new interface options and the 32 bit Windows APIs and shows how to build Automation Servers and ActiveX controls to create component objects and give applications access to custom functions and methods.Use Visual Basic 5 to build Automation Servers and ActiveX controlsTake full advantage of the interface options and 32-bit Window APIThe best ways to accomplish task while retaining reusable code modules
Pocket PCRef, 11th edition
Authors: Thomas J. Glover, Millie M. Young
Venue:  (2001)

:The heart of every IBM and compatible PC is the BIOS, a low-level operating environment that handles the initial boot, start up and loading of the operating system and hardware level functions, System and service technicians and professionals assembling computer systems, troubleshooting computer hardware troubleshooting, performance tuning or home hobbyists building their own computer will benefit from this book.There are over 50,000 companies focused in the computer technical service and configuration business in the United States alone. Most of these companies employ between 10-50 technicians. In addition, the target audienceKey Features-- Over 6,500 hard disks covered (almost twice the number of any competitive product).-- Also covers common and unusual IDE disk controllers.
Optimum multiuser detection for CDMA systems using the mean field annealing neural network
Authors: Po-Rong Chang, Bor-Chin Wang, Tan-Hsu Tan
Venue: Hardware implementation of intelligent systems (2001)

In this chapter, we investigate the application of Mean Field Annealing (MFA) neural networks to the optimum multiuser detection in a direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (DS/CDMA) system over the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. Although the optimum receiver for multiuser detection is superior to the conventional matched filter receiver when the relative powers of the interfering signals are large, the optimum receiver obtained by the maximization of a log-likelihood function has a complexity that's is exponential in the number of users. This prohibitive complexity has spawned the area of research on employing neural network techniques to develop an optimum detector with moderate complexity. In this chapter, it is shown that the energy function of the neural network can be derived from and is then expressed in terms of the likelihood function of the optimum multiuser detection for both the synchronous and asynchronous CDMA systems. An MFA network, which combines characteristics of the simulated annealing algorithm and the Hopfield neural network is proposedto seek out the global optimum solution of this energy function. Additionally, MFA exhibits the rapid convergence of the neural network while preserving the solution quality afforded by the stochastic simulated annealing algorithm. This would lead to a cost-effective and efficient minimization mechanism for CDMA multiuser detection. Computer simulation carry out performance comparisons among optimum detection, matched filter detection and MFA detection.
A system for real-time fabric inspection and industrial decision
Authors: Aura Conci, Claudia Belmiro Proença
Venue: Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software engineering and knowledge engineering (2002)

This work presents an application of software engineering to fabric inspection. An inspection system has been developed for textile industries that aims automatic failure detection. Such as wood, paper and steel industries, this environment has particular characteristics in which surface defect detection is used for quality control. This system combines concept from software engineering and decision support. Detection of defects within the inspected texture is performed in a first step acquiring images by CCD cameras, then extracting texture features and, finally by classifiers being trained a priori on database of defective and non-defective samples. The extracted data depend on the type of method selected for image analysis. The used types are based on segmentation or fractal dimension. Two usual segmentation techniques were adapted and improved. A new algorithm was developed to calculate efficiently fractal dimension of textures. Experiments show the accuracy and applicability of the proposed techniques for a real factory environment.
Sams Teach Yourself iMac in 10 Minutes, 1st edition
Authors: Rita F. Lewis, Chris Will, Kate Shoup Welsh
Venue:  (1999)

:Sams Teach Yourself iMac in 10 Minutes is a tutorial-based book, organized into a series of easy-to-follow, 10 minute lessons. You will easily learn how to use the updated Installer and the new Finder, effectively browse the World Wide Web and set up Personal Web Serving, customize the appearance of your desktop, optimize the iMac's performance, use Quicktime and Digital Audio (MIDI), share data with others and networking, work with AppleScript, and troubleshoot the iMac.
The impact of corpus size on question answering performance
Authors: C. L. A. Clarke, G. V. Cormack, M. Laszlo, T. R. Lynam, E. L. Terra
Venue: Proceedings of the 25th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (2002)

Using our question answering system, questions from the TREC 2001 evaluation were executed over a series of Web data collections, with the sizes of the collections increasing from 25 gigabytes up to nearly a terabyte.
NURPS for special effects and quadrics
Authors: Joris Windmolders, Paul Dierckx
Venue: Mathematical Methods for Curves and Surfaces: Oslo 2000 (2001)

NURPS are the rational extensions of Powell-Sabin splines in their normalized B-spline representation. The weights associated with the control points allow to represent (parts of) some particular quadric surfaces. By choosing coincident control points, special effects on the surface can be generated.
Cabling: The Complete Guide to Network Wiring
Authors: David Groth, Jim McBee
Venue:  (2000)

:The most comprehensive guide to network cabling! Designed for cable installers and contractors, network administrators, and PC and network technicians, this book provides all the information you need to know to work safely and effectively with cables in the workplace. Coverage spans cabling system design and installation, electrical and security issues, cabling components, and documenting and troubleshooting your system. Includes a 32-page color insert for quick identification of connectors and cables as well as vendor information and recommendations
Automatic extraction of lung boundaries by a knowledge-based method
Authors: Mira Park, Laurence S. Wilson, Jesse S. Jin
Venue: Selected papers from the Pan-Sydney workshop on Visualisation - Volume 2 (2000)

The aim of this paper is to develop accurate and reliable methods for automated detection of the edges of the lung by a knowledge-based approach. First, the system initialises the ROI(Region Of Interest) using 'unseeded region growing' algorithm. Then IPE(Image Processing Engine) generates candidates within the ROI. The candidates are matched to an anatomical model of the lung boundary using parametric features. A modular system architecture was developed which incorporates the model, image processing routines, an inference engine and a blackboard.
The Transform and Data Compression Handbook
Authors: Kamisetty Ramamohan Rao, Pat Yip
Venue:  (2000)

:The Transform and Data Compression Handbook serves as a handbook for a wide range of researchers and engineers." "The authors describe various discrete transforms and their applications in different disciplines. They cover techniques, such as adaptive quantization and entropy coding, that result in significant reduction in bit rates when applied to the transform coefficients. With presentations of the ideas and concepts, as well as descriptions of the algorithms, the authors provide insight into the applications and their limitations. Data compression is an essential step towards the efficient storage and transmission of information. The Transform and Data Compression Handbook provides information regarding different discrete transforms and demonstrates their power and practicality in data compression.
Tensor-GMRES Method for Large Systems of Nonlinear Equations
Authors: Dan Feng, Thomas H. Pulliam
Venue: SIAM Journal on Optimization (1997)

This paper introduces a tensor-Krylov method, the tensor-GMRES method, for large systems of nonlinear equations. Krylov subspace projection techniques for asymmetric systems of linear equations are coupled with a tensor model formation and solution technique for nonlinear equations. Similar to traditional tensor methods, the new tensor method is shown to have significant computational advantages over the analogous Newton counterpart on a set of nonsingular and singular problems. For example, an application to the Euler equations for the flow through a nozzle with a given area ratio shows that the tensor-GMRES method can be much more efficient than the analogous Newton-GMRES method. The new tensor method is also consistent with preconditioning and matrix-free implementation.
Specifying behavior and semantic meaning in an unmodified layered drawing package
Authors: James Fogarty, Jodi Forlizzi, Scott E. Hudson
Venue: Proceedings of the 15th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (2002)

In order to create and use rich custom appearances, designers are often forced to introduce an unnatural gap into the design process. For example, a designer creating a skin for a music player must separately specify the appearance of the elements in the music player skin and the mapping between these visual elements and the functionality provided by the music player. This gap between appearance and semantic meaning creates a number of problems. We present a set of techniques that allows designers to use their preferred drawing tool to specify both appearance and semantic meaning. We demonstrate our techniques in an unmodified version of Adobe Photoshop&reg;, but our techniques are general and adaptable to nearly any layered drawing package.
Microsoft Office 2000 User Specialist Study Guide with Cdrom, 3rd edition
Authors: Gini Courter, Annette Marquis
Venue:  (1999)

:Earning your Microsoft Office User Specialist (MOUS) certification shows your current or future employer that you have the skills they need. This book helps you get those skillsby reinforcing what you know, teaching you what you don't, and preparing you for all the questions you'll face on the exam. Affordable and comprehensive, the Microsoft Office 2000 User Specialist Study Guide is the clear choice, and the only study resource you need to ready yourself to pass all the MOUS exams. Meet every exam's objectives: Word 2000 Format characters and paragraphs Use styles, templates, and macros Publish documents on the Web Create tables and forms Generate a mail merge Excel 2000 Create, modify, and print workbooks Format worksheets Create charts Audit worksheets Create and use templates Access 2000 Create and modify a database Integrate information from other applications Publish Access data to the Web Build forms for other users Produce reports PowerPoint 2000 Create and modify presentations Add textual and visual information Deliver and distribute presentations Outlook 2000 Manage a contact list and calendar Send, receive, and organize e-mail Identify and filter spam and other unwanted e-mail Make Outlook work with other Office applications FrontPage 2000 Build and manage Web sites Publish Web documents from Word, Excel, and Access Create hyperlinks to link your site to others Craft your site's navigational structure using Navigation bars PhotoDraw Learn the PhotoDraw interface and expansive tool set Import artwork or create your own graphics Touch up and enhance photos with designer effects Design your own professional images for the Web
Remote Sensing Digital Image Analysis: An Introduction, 3rd edition
Authors: John A. Richards, Xiuping Jia
Venue:  (1999)

:The book provides the non-specialist with an introduction to quantitative evaluation of satellite and aircraft derived from remotely retrieved data. Each chapter covers the pros and cons of digital remotely sensed data, without detailed mathematical treatment of computer based algorithms, but in a manner conductive to an understanding of their capabilities and limitations. Problems conclude each chapter.