ppxscal/embedding_network huggingface dataset:
Normal approximation rate and bias reduction for data-driven kernel smoothing estimator in a semiparametric regression model
Authors: Sheng-Yan Hong
Venue: Journal of Multivariate Analysis (2002)

Accuracy of the normal approximation for Speckman's kernel smoothing estimator of the parametric component β in the semiparametric regression model y = xτβ + g(t)+ e is; studied when the bandwidth used in the estimator is selected by a general data-based method which includes such commonly used bandwidth selectors as (delete-one-out) CV, GCV, and Mallows' CL criterion. We find that, contrary to what we might expect, this data-driven estimator cannot attain the optimal Berry-Esseen rate n-1/2. Consequently, the confidence region of β based on this normal approximation is not first-order accurate. The reason for this is that the bias of Speckman's estimator is still of nonparametric order at the data-driven bandwidth choice. We then propose a resmoothing method to reduce the bias and show that the proposed estimator can achieve the optimal Berry-Esseen rate. A simulation study shows a slightly better small-sample performance of the proposed estimator.
Mobile Data Communications Systems, 1st edition
Authors: Peter Wong, David Britland
Venue:  (1995)

:Brings you up to speed on mobile data system design, current and emerging wireless network and systems standards, and network architectures. Describes mobile data applications and wireless LANs, and analyzes and evaluates current technologies.
Poser 4 Pro Pack F/X and Design with Cdrom
Authors: Richard H. Schrand
Venue:  (2001)

:Poser&Acirc;&reg; 4 Pro Pack f/x and Design takes you deep inside one of the hottest programs for humanoid figure animation. The insider tips and tricks are revealed! This book shows you how to use the cutting-edge features of this program such as writing Python Scripts, realistic positioning of body elements, creating realistic lighting and shadows, and much more. You will learn how to put your models to work by importing them into popular 3D programs such as 3D Studio Max&Acirc;&reg;, LightWave™ [6], and the Shockwave Web format. CD-ROM is also included containing original models, animation files, special Python Scripts, and trial versions of Poser and other programs which work in conjunction with this must have character animation program.
Personas in action: ethnography in an interaction design team
Authors: Åsa Blomquist, Mattias Arvola
Venue: Proceedings of the second Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction (2002)

Alan Cooper's view on interaction design is both appealing and provoking since it avoids problems of involving users by simply excluding them. The users are instead represented by an archetype of a user, called persona. This paper reports a twelve-week participant observation in an interaction design team with the purpose of learning what really goes on in a design team when they implement personas in their process. On the surface it seemed like they used personas, but our analysis show how they had difficulties in using them and encountered problems when trying to imagine the user. We furthermore describe and discuss how the design team tried to involve users in order to compensate for their problems. It is concluded that it is not enough for the design team, and particularly not for the interaction designers, to have the know-how of using the method. They also have to integrate it with existing knowledge and practices in order to feel at home with it and use it efficiently.
Context-aware multimedia computing in the intelligent hospital
Authors: Scott Mitchell, Mark D. Spiteri, John Bates, George Coulouris
Venue: Proceedings of the 9th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: beyond the PC: new challenges for the operating system (2000)

This paper describes an application middleware that addresses the requirement for immediate high-quality multimedia communications in environments where users' work practices exhibit a large degree of physical mobility. A modern hospital is one such environment, with diverse, often mission-critical, communication needs that are not addressed adequately by existing systems. By integrating a multimedia framework with an event-based notification system, we are developing QoS DREAM, a platform that can provide seamless, context-sensitive communications, which can adapt to users' location and even follow them around. This paper describes how we are using QoS DREAM to design what we term our concept of the "Intelligent Hospital". We also introduce a usability study that we are currently engaged in. This is allowing us to determine a realistic set of communication and information access requirements within a busy hospital environment. We conclude by illustrating a prototype of the system.
The accelerated k-in-a-row game
Authors: András Pluhár
Venue: Theoretical Computer Science (2002)

We investigate two versions of the well-known k-in-a-row game. While in the most intriguing k=5 case the outcome of the game has been recently settled, very little is known about what happens when the rules are changed. A natural modification is that the players take more than one square of the board per move in order to speed up the game. Our main goal is to improve the quadratic bound on the error term, given by Csirmaz in Csirmaz (Discrete Math. 29 (1980) 19-23), to a logarithmic one for the accelerated k-in-a-row. The other issue is the extreme sensitivity of k-in-a-row under biased rules. Beck proposed in Beck (unpublished lecture notes) that a player may trade some of his freedom of choice for the right of taking more squares than his opponent. We prove logarithmic bounds on the error term in that case, too.
A functional approach to radix-r FFTS
Authors: Dorothy Bollman, Jaime Seguel, John Feo
Venue: Progress in computer research (2001)

We show that each member of a well-known family of radix-r FFTs can be expressed as the composition of functions chosen from a set of four "basis" functions. Thus, a complete library of radix-r FFTs can be developed by programming the four basis functions and composing them to obtain various FFTs. We illustrate this by developing implementations in the functional language Sisal. We compare performance of these FFTs on a Cray C-90. Based on observations of these results we develop an implementation of an FFT of size 2k which is seemingly optimal for the Cray C-90. We discuss language features of particular benefit for programming FFTs and suggest some enhancements that would further streamline the programming.
The Non-Designer's Web Book: An easy Guide to Creating, Designing, and Posting Your Own Web Site
Authors: Robin Williams, John Tollett
Venue:  (1997)

:Are you intimidated by the idea of designing for the first time? Do you want to avoid using a lot of code? Do you want to create a personal web site? A business web site? Then this book is the best place to start! Robin and John will lead you on a logical path from planning your site through designing it, posting it on the web, and promoting it.
Code of ethics? which one?
Authors: Maurice Abi-Raad
Venue: ACM SIGCSE Bulletin (1999)

We all have ideas about our local, national, and global professional code of ethics. But, we do not really know for sure how they interact. With the growth of global business practices, information technology (IT) professionals are wandering in a circle when it comes to ethical dilemmas. Which ethical standards should they follow? Should they adhere to their local IT professional standards; should they swear allegiance to their national IT vision, their country and its cultural and historical influences on professional IT practices? Or, should they give in to the global set of ethical behaviors dictated by their global employer when power, profit and politics impose new codes of ethics across the whole world. Furthermore, with the new structures of the global organizations, the global market has a pool of professionals and each one of them has his/her own interpretation of their own respective code of ethics. All these issues will certainly leave our young professional graduates in a state of divided loyalty. Whichever way our IT graduates choose, they are bound to have conflicts.The pursuit of good ethical practices is indeed a desirable aim. But, anyone waiting for a standard global solution is in a deep trouble, because there is none. This paper will propose a framework aimed at providing a contribution towards the socialization of students' self-regulated multicultural societies through international student exchange programs. The aim of the framework is to create a suitable environment where students can and will develop, assess, review and educate their own professional code of ethics for the current and future members of their students' mini-societies. This will eventually prepare them to be active participants in the bigger debate dealing with the issue of global professional code of ethics.
Using MAC OS 8.5, 1st edition
Authors: Brad Miser, Timothy Webster
Venue:  (1998)

:Learn to use Mac OS 8.5's exciting new features, including Sherlock, to enable you to quickly search the Internet right from the Finder; use Mac OS 8.5's new themes and other customization tools to personalize your Mac; make your Mac do your work for you with keyboard shortcuts, scripts, and even voice commands; understand how to work with other people on both Macs and Windows computers; learn everything you need to know to explore the Internet, including Mac OS 8.5's new Net tools, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer and Outlook Express; and know how to keep your Mac working in top condition and to solve any problems that might happen.
Mining the Internet: Information Gathering and Research on the Net
Authors: Brian Clegg
Venue:  (1999)

:The Internet can help you get movie listings from your neighborhood multiplex, a phone number from across the world, buy a bargain airline ticket, conduct academic research or undertake a competitor analysis. Or it can submerge you under an ocean of undifferentiated data of dubious reliability. This is a quick guide to becoming an expert navigator, and to finding what you need with minimum time and maximum confidence. In eleven succinct chapters, Brian Clegg, shows how to find what you need. Discover which keywords to search with; how search engines differ; how to break through No document matching your query found; spot the nuggets of gold buried in hundreds of sites; use agents to retrieve information; and make optimum use of bulletin boards and newsgroups. Chapters are divided into two types:Skills chapters on topics like walking the Web, or on agents and ferrets; and Focus chapters for obtaining specific types of information (business, education, news, audio sites, etc.). Other features, for those who want more shortcuts, include Zoom in boxes for extra detail Try it boxes of exercises to try out immediately Sample sites Miners tales of real life examples and solutions This is the guide that anyone searching the Netfor personal interest, hobby, work or educationwill want to keep close to his or her PC. 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
Voice & Data Communications Handbook, 4th Edition, 4th edition
Authors: Regis J. Bates, Donald Gregory
Venue:  (2001)

:Telecommunications is one of the world's fastest-growing industries, absorbing inexperienced, nontechnical personnel into a highly technical field. That's why industry veterans Regis J. "Bud" Bates and Donald Gregory offer this revised edition of the most comprehensive, up-to-date, jargon-free guide available, the Voice and Data Communications Handbook, Signature Edition. Beginning with voice communications, the book guides you through the basics of: Voice characteristics and processingTelephone equipment and networks Analog vs. Digital transmission Lines vs. Trunks Service carriers Traffic engineering Data communications topics include: The T1 and T carrier system and ISDNThe OSI model Packet switching technologies Local area networks, ethernet, and token ring LANsBroadband vs.BasebandFiber-distributed data interface (FDDI) Switched multi-megabit data services (SMDS) Cellular and PCSRadio, Light, and Cabling systems You'll also find revised sections on switched and virtual LANs, Gigabit Ethernet, networked video conferencing, and the latest on ATM, SONET, and DSL. Also included are a summary of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, plus new sections on the Internet, Intranets and Extranets, computer-telephony integration, and much more. To the Reader of this Signature Edition: "This is a book that we wrote to give both the novice and the experienced 'pro' a complete overview of the telecommunications industry. What we attempted to do is convey the ideas in a simple storyboard fashion wherever possible. The book covers just about every concept that you can imagine without driving the reader into technical oblision. We try to keep it simple. Hope you enjoy it!"
PowerPoint 2000 for Windows for Dummies, 1st edition
Authors: Doug Lowe
Venue:  (1998)

:PowerPoint "Cheat Sheet" Inside! Create Effective, Eye-Catching Presentations  Quickly and Easily! Not artistic? Not techno-savvy? Not a problem! You too can create dynamic presentations that will blow your audience away. With the expert advice of Doug Lowe, you'll find out how to organize, illustrate, and deliver your ideas with maximum impact using PowerPoint's easy-to-use built-in features. Whether you're preparing a slide show for a conference room, a sales presentation for your laptop, or a demo for your Web site, the tips and tricks you discover here will leave them saying "Wow!" Inside, find helpful advice on how to:*Master PowerPoint basics  and start creating terrific-looking presentations today*Use PowerPoint's slide masters, templates, and macros to save time and develop a consistent look*Select a color palette that maximizes the impact of your presentation  and create graphics, tables, and charts that drive your message home*Speed up production with Tri-Pane view, the new feature that lets you toggle between slides, outlines, and notes*Dazzle your audience with clip art, sounds, video, and other cool multimedia effects*Make sure everything runs smoothly when you're broadcasting slides from your laptop*Save your presentation in HTML format and post it on your Web site
Network topology management in a mobile-switch ATM network: dynamic partition algorithms
Authors: Sheng-Tzong Cheng, C. Chen, C. Li, Chia-Mei Chen
Venue: International Journal of Network Management (2002)

In this paper we propose two partition algorithms. The main policy of the algorithms is finding out the area(s) in which mobile switches congregate within a peer group.
Integrating educational technology with a limited support staff
Authors: Melissa Diers, Joe Ziskovsky
Venue: Proceedings of the 30th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference on User services (2002)

University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) faculty have committed to a broad use of educational technology; from offering wholly online courses to replacing or supplementing classroom instruction. For the last six years UNMC has supported this faculty commitment with the funding of Learning Environment & Internet Services (LEIS), a unit of Information Technology Services. The LEIS team consists of twelve members, ranging in skills sets from Instructional Designer to WWW Technical Specialist. The team provides consultation design and technical support through an empowerment model.
UNIX Unleashed: Internet Edition (with CD-ROM), 2nd edition
Authors: David B. Horvath
Venue:  (1997)

:UNIX Unleashed, Internet Edition and UNIX Unleashed, System Administrator s Edition are an in-depth examination of the UNIX operating system. Written by experts, they include real-world examples, definitions, tips and tricks. Between them, these two volumes cover the specifics of the most popular UNIX variants and the use of UNIX as a full-fledged Internet server platform.Complete and comprehensive; no other book has this much breadth, depth and real-world examplesThis edition focuses on the Internet components of UNIX, enabling the reader to make UNIX his/her launch-pad for interactive Internet services, with a jump-start on securityTeaches the reader to program UNIX with Awk, Perl, C and C++, and to extend these skills to CGI web development
Multi-sensor context-awareness in mobile devices and smart artifacts
Authors: Hans W. Gellersen, Albercht Schmidt, Michael Beigl
Venue: Mobile Networks and Applications (2002)

The use of context in mobile devices is receiving increasing attention in mobile and ubiquitous computing research. In this article we consider how to augment mobile devices with awareness of their environment and situation as context. Most work to date has been based on integration of generic context sensors, in particular for location and visual context. We propose a different approach based on integration of multiple diverse sensors for awareness of situational context that can not be inferred from location, and targeted at mobile device platforms that typically do not permit processing of visual context. We have investigated multi-sensor context-awareness in a series of projects, and report experience from development of a number of device prototypes. These include development of an awareness module for augmentation of a mobile phone, of the Mediacup exemplifying context-enabled everyday artifacts, and of the Smart-Its platform for aware mobile devices. The prototypes have been explored in various applications to validate the multi-sensor approach to awareness, and to develop new perspectives of how embedded context-awareness can be applied in mobile and ubiquitous computing.
Smart Business Solutions for Networking
Authors: Alan Neibauer, David Harvey
Venue:  (2000)

:Smart Business Solutions for Networking is a solutions-oriented handbook for anyone with a small business who wants to get maximum bang from their technology buck. Whether the user is considering a network or is looking to make better use of an existing one,this savvy guide offers an essential roadmap for approaching, setting up, deploying, administering, and troubleshooting. Written for the layreader (not IT professionals), Smart Business Solutions for Networking focuses on Microsoft technologies, including Microsoft Small Business Server version 4.5, to help small businesses become more profitable.
Efficient spatial access to a data base
Authors: Markku Tamminen
Venue: Proceedings of the 1982 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data (1982)

We present a file organization scheme providing fast access to spatially referenced objects in a data base. The method utilizes a geometric file structure based on extendible cells together with a so-called topological representation of areas. It is shown to have O(1) expected access cost for the "point-in-polygonnetwork-query" in typical situations. The method can be used as a spatial directory to a data base. Performance indicators are reported.
Computer Integrated Building Design
Authors: T. Cornic, Tim Cornick
Venue:  (1999)

:A guide to the principles and applications of computer integrated systems as applied to construction management. Computer-Integrated Building covers the fundamentals of construction project management, the design process for production and opportunities forCAD-integration.
Stochastic Target Problems, Dynamic Programming, and Viscosity Solutions
Authors: H. Mete Soner, Nizar Touzi
Venue: SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (2002)

In this paper, we define and study a new class of optimal stochastic control problems which is closely related to the theory of backward SDEs and forward-backward SDEs. The controlled process $(X^\nu,Y^\nu)$ takes values in ${\mathbb R}^d \times {\mathbb R}$ and a given initial data for $X^{\nu}(0)$. Then the control problem is to find the minimal initial data for $Y^{\nu}$ so that it reaches a stochastic target at a specified terminal time T. The main application is from financial mathematics, in which the process $X^{\nu}$ is related to stock price, $Y^{\nu}$ is the wealth process, and $\nu$ is the portfolio.We introduce a new dynamic programming principle and prove that the value function of the stochastic target problem is a discontinuous viscosity solution of the associated dynamic programming equation. The boundary conditions are also shown to solve a first order variational inequality in the discontinuous viscosity sense. This provides a unique characterization of the value function which is the minimal initial data for $Y^{\nu}$.
Digital Processing of Signals: Theory and Practice, 3rd edition
Authors: Maurice G. Bellanger
Venue:  (2000)

:A concise treatment of the principles of digital processing of signals, with emphasis on engineering aspects. Addresses problems of design and implementation, including project evaluation and applications to telecommunications. This new edition has been fully revised and updated, covering computational complexity analysis for FIR, IIR, Multirate, and adaptive filters. Contains extended bibliographies, references, and exercises with answers.
XML and ASP.NET
Authors: Kirk Allen Evans, Ashwin Kamanna, Joel Mueller
Venue:  (2002)

:XML and ASP.NET is the one book you need to master XML in the .NET Framework. It includes all of the technologies needed to program .NET web applications including XPath, XSLT, XML Schemas, and the Microsoft XML Parsers. This book also incorporates an incredible breadth of XML technologies from basic queries using XPath to advanced serialization techniques, thoroughly exploring Microsoft's .NET implementation of XML. A wealth of clearly written and real-world sample code makes this a must-have for any developer interested in a focused, detailed, and complete view of XML and how it fits into Microsoft's .NET initiative.
Official Guide to Mini SQL 2.0 with Cdrom, 1st edition
Authors: Brian Jepson, David Hughes
Venue:  (1998)

:Mini SQL (mSQL) is the ideal solution for Web and intranet programmers and developers who need a fast, robust client/server database engine, but who don't need the expense or the hassles of Sybase or Oracle. In this official guide, you learn the ins and outs of mSQL 2.0 from its creator, David Hughes. He and well-known computer book author and Internet database expert, Brian Jepson, cover all the bases - from installation to applications development - with insights, tips, tricks, and techniques you won't find anywhere else.
PHP 4 Bible, 1st edition
Authors: Tim Converse, Joyce Park
Venue:  (2000)

:The PHP 4 Bible is a comprehensive tutorial and reference to PHP. The Bible provides a clear, coherent description of PHP and how to use it whether you are a web developer, someone with ASP experience or a C programmer. The book covers why users need PHP, how to get started, gow to add PHP to HTML, and how to connect HTML web pages to databases. The authors will take advantage of their own extensive experience using PHP to provide case studies of how and where to use PHP, along with advanced topics such as HTTP, cookies, redirection, building graphics, and sessions.Why You Need This Book: Comprrehensive tutorial for PHP4: covers all the basics of PHP 4, and how to use PHP to connect HTML and XML based web pages to databases.Essential reference for programmers: provides extensive PHP case studies, and appendices that get you up and running quickly if you have experience with JavaScript, ASP, Perl and C/C++.Covers the key features and improvements in PHP 4 Advance topics include: building graphics, classes and objects, sessions, cookies, and real-life case studies