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Microsloth Joke Book: A Satire, 1st edition
Authors: David Pogue
Venue:  (1997)

:Q: How many Microsoft programmers does it take to write a great piece of software? A: More. You've read all the headlines: Microsoft Bids to Acquire Catholic Church and Windows 95 Ushers in Era of World Peace. You've bought all the software--even took out a second mortgage to buy it. You've installed all 45 disks of the latest Word program. And you've made 45 tech support phone calls to get it to work. Now what? Cry? Give up? Before you go Microsoft in the head, try laughing instead! The Microsloth Joke Book ...offers countless megabytes of Easy Install humor that storms the Gates and smashes the Windows of the world's biggest software company. Includes hard-copy files on * Windows 95 horror stories from Shakespeare to Captain Kirk * Bill Gates at the Pearly Gates * the first-ever Microsloth infomercial drinking game * the ten DOS commandments * songs * light bulb jokes * and much more. No Installation Required! No RAM Required! Sense of Humor Version 4.0 or Higher Required
General approaches for implementing seamless handover
Authors: Markus Endler, Vera Nagamuta
Venue: Proceedings of the second ACM international workshop on Principles of mobile computing (2002)

Seamless handover is a fundamental concern in any system with mobility. It is the attempt to provide a given QoS also during the process of migration from one domain (e.g. served by an access point) to another. Its major goal is to hide from the application (or user) any difference between the normal service offered within a domain and during a migration.In this paper we characterize the notion of "seamless handover" in a general framework, identify the fundamental problems, discuss different aspects of this notion, and give a taxonomy of possible approaches to achieve it. We also review concrete examples in mobile computing and mobile computation, map these approaches to our classification and propose a unified architectural framework for implementing seamless handover.
Methods in Neuronal Modeling: From Ions to Networks, 2nd edition
Authors: Christof Koch, Idan Segev
Venue:  (1998)

:This book serves as a handbook of computational methods and techniques for modeling the functional properties of single and groups of nerve cells.
ADO.NET Programmer's Reference, 1st edition
Authors: Wrox Author Team, Paul Dickinson, Matthew Milner
Venue:  (2001)

:ADO.NET is Microsoft's latest data access technology, and, as an integral component of the .NET framework, is far more than simply an upgrade of an existing technology.ADO.NET is a large set of .NET classes that enable us to interact with data sources, manipulate data, and communicate with other applications and Web Services in entirely new ways. This book provides a wealth of information about the ADO.NET. We describe the features and how to use them, as well as providing advice and explanation that will enable you to use ADO.NET effectively. The code examples are concise, and demonstrate how to use a specific techniques rather than how to build entire applications. This book covers: An overview of ADO.NET, including differences to ADO and its new class structure How to access and query databases using ADO.NET The DataSet, DataReader and DataAdapter objects How to implement transactions in ADO.NET XML support Working with database permissions Incorporating classic ADO components in .NET applications Real-world programming tasks using the SQL Client, OLEDB and ODBC providers Extensive reference sections
New Perspectives on Microsoft Excel 2000, 1st edition
Authors: June Jamrich Parsons, Dan Oja, Roy Ageloff, Patrick Carey
Venue:  (1999)

:Part of the New Perspectives series, this text offers a case-based, problem-solving approach for learning the basic to intermediate features of Microsoft Excel 2000.
Invitation to Computer Science: Java Version, 1st edition
Authors: G. Michael Schneider, Judith Gersting, Sara Baase
Venue:  (2000)

:A Java version of the authors' best-selling introduction to the field of computer science. This text provides a breadth-first overview of the central topics studied in the field: algorithms, hardware design, computer organization, system software, language models, programming, compilation, theory of computation, applications, networks, artificial intelligence, and the impact of computers on society. The authors present these topics in the context of the big picture, using a six-layer hierarchy of abstractions. The hierarchy is based on the algorithmic foundations of computer science and works upward from low-level hardware concepts through virtual machine environments, languages, software, and applications programs to the social issues raised by computer technology. Each layer in the hierarchy builds on ideas and concepts presented earlier. An accompanying lab manual provides exploratory lab activities. For this Java Version, Chapters 7 (Introduction to High-Level Language Programming) and 8 (The Tower of Babel) have been thoroughly revised to incorporate Java 2 as the programming language of implementation.
Assembly Language for Intel-Based Computers, 4th edition
Authors: Kip R. Irvine
Venue:  (2002)

:This text is designed for students and professionals interested in learning the basics of operating systems, architecture, and programming in the context of a microprocessor. In his eagerly anticipated fourth edition, Kip Irvine concentrates on the combined Windows/MS-DOS operating system and thoroughly covers 32-bit assembly language applications for Intel-based computers. Focusing on how to approach programming problems with a machine-level mindset, Assembly Language for Intel(r)-Based Computers includes the following features: Detailed tutorials on numbering systems and data storage fundamentals. All programs tested with the Microsoft(r) MASM 6.15(tm) assembler. Inline assembly code, as well as linking assembly language to C/C++ in both Real and Protected modes. Extensive instruction set reference that includes instruction formats and CPU flag usage. Interrupt vectoring and device I/O. CD-ROM that includes the full professional version of the Microsoft(r) MASM 6.15(tm) Assembly Language Development System, a programmer's editor, a macro library, and the book's source code. New to the fourth edition: Win32 programming, including the console API and a graphical application. Expanded coverage of procedures, recursion, stack parameters, structures, and unions. Boolean expressions, truth tables, and flowcharts. Basic string handling, sorting and searching algorithms. Bit-mapped graphics in both Real and Protected modes. IEEE floating-point binary representation. Virtual machine architecture; IA-32 Protected mode segmentation and paging. Introductory explanations of the instruction execution cycle,memory I/O, multitasking, pipelining, and superscalar architecture. Disk fundamentals, including disk geometry, FAT32 and NTFS file structures.
Cisco Enterprise Management Solutions: Volume I
Authors: Michael Wynston
Venue:  (2001)

:Manage Cisco networks and simplify administrative tasks with CiscoWorks 2000 Resource Manager EssentialsCisco Enterprise Management Solutions, Volume I enables you to:Understand network management applications and protocols, such as SNMP, Syslog, RMON, and CiscoWorks 2000 components Install both the CiscoWorks 2000 CD-One and Resource Manager EssentialsConfigure Cisco hardware for SNMP managementCreate a set of managed devices in an inventoryManage device configurations, software images, operating systems, Syslog messages, and access control listsMaintain the Resource Manager Essentials' ServerTroubleshoot a Resource Manager Essentials' environment that is not operating properlyCisco Enterprise Management Solutions, Volume I provides networking administrators, network technicians, and CCNP specialization candidates with information on the fundamentals of network management and the implementation of CiscoWorks 2000 applications. Based on the content of the Cisco Internet Learning Solutions Group's CEMS instructor-led class, the book focuses on SNMP management of Cisco network devices; installation, configuration, and troubleshooting for CiscoWorks 2000 software; and inventory management, device configuration management, and software image management with Resource Manager Essentials. In addition, Cisco Enterprise Management Solutions, Volume I teaches you how to leverage the valuable tools provided by CiscoWorks 2000 Resource Manager Essentials to configure and manage Syslog services, perform network audits, apply modular access lists, test network devices for availability and connectivity, and perform awide variety of troubleshooting tasks.This book provides an invaluable, detailed guide to CiscoWorks 2000/Resource Manager Essentials to help networking professionals maintain optimal network performance and simplify time-consuming administrative tasks.Cisco Enterprise Management Solutions, Volume I is part of a recommended study program from Cisco Systems that includes training courses and materials from Cisco's Internet Learning Solutions Group (ILSG) program, hands-on experience, and Coursebooks and exam guides from Cisco Press. With experience and training under your belt, this book enables you to retain and master the network management knowledge vital for succeeding in your daily job. 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
Discrete Mathematics, 5th edition
Authors: Kenneth A. Ross, Charles R. Wright
Venue:  (2002)

:Our original plan for this edition was just to add a chapter on probability, to make some of the more difficult sections less abstract, and to revise the treatment of recursion and induction. When we got into the project, we saw that a massive reorganization could greatly increase the book's flexibility as a text as well as draw together topics that are closely related. The resulting major revision includes substantial new material as well as what we think are clearer accounts of topics in the second edition, all reordered to fit a wider range of courses than before.
Machine intelligence quotient: its measurements and applications
Authors: Zeungnam Bien, Won-Chul Bang, Do-Yoon Kim, Jeong-Su Han
Venue: Fuzzy Sets and Systems (2002)

We have investigated the notion of machine intelligence, based on extensive literature survey and have proposed two methods to measure intelligence of a machine. Specially, we have first analyzed those engineering systems or products that are said to be intelligent and have extracted four common constructs, each of which consists of several variables. Based on them, we have then suggested two typical models, which are represented as entities in three-dimensional construct space. In order to find a number, called machine intelligence quotient (MIQ), we adopt two fuzzy integrals, Sugeno fuzzy integral and Choquet fuzzy integral. Two application examples are given for the typical models using two fuzzy integrals, and comparative comments are made.
Readings in Fuzzy Sets for Intelligent Systems
Authors: Michael DuBois
Venue:  (1993)

:In recent years, fuzzy sets have become an important field, the development of which has been accelerated by the emergence of fuzzy control as a commercially successful methodology. This book makes available significant articles on fuzzy sets related to intelligent systems. The papers in this volume cover fundamental notions in fuzzy sets, fuzzy control, fuzzy logic and approximate reasoning, information processing, decision sciences, connections with operations research, and knowledge acquisition. Each chapter is introduced by the editors, who describe the relevance of each article and provide pointers to other literature and a short list of further readings. This collection will be of interest to researchers and professionals in artificial intelligence, engineering, decision sciences, and other fields concerned with management of uncertainty.
New Fast Algorithms for Error Rate-Based Stepwise Variable Selection in Discriminant Analysis
Authors: S. Aeberhard, O. Y. de Vel, D. H. Coomans
Venue: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (2000)

Variable selection is an important technique for reducing the dimensionality in multivariate predictive discriminant analysis and classification. In the past, direct evaluation of the subsets by means of a classifier has been computationally too expensive, rendering necessary the use of heuristic measures of class separation, such as Wilk's $\Lambda$ or the Mahalanobis distance between class means. We present new fast algorithms for stepwise variable selection based on quadratic and linear classifiers with time complexities which, to within a constant, are the same as those applying measures of class separation. Comparing the new algorithms to previous implementations of classifier-based variable selection, we show that dramatic speed-ups are achieved.
Broadband Network Traffic: Performance Evaluation and Design of Broadband Multiservice Networks: Final Report of Action Cost 242
Authors: Ugo Mocci, Jorma Virtamo, James Roberts
Venue:  (1999)

:This coherently structured and authorative text is the final report of the European Action COST 242, devoted to advancing research in the field of multiservice network design and performance evaluation. The excellent results presented are largely based on some 240 action reports compiled in cooperation between researchers from academia and professionals from industry and discussed during the COST 242 meetings.
Microsoft Office 97 Programming with VBA for Dummies, 1st edition
Authors: Karen Jaskolka, Dummies Tech Press
Venue:  (1997)

:Microsoft Office 97 Programming with VBA For Dummies is the ideal guide for understanding Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) -- the common programming language used throughout the Office 97 suite. This book provides you with the knowledge and tools you need to begin capitalizing on VBA today! With this easy-to-use guide by your side, the sky's the limit with your Office 97 applications. If you're planning to develop applications in Office 97 and you're new to VBA -- this book is for you! Inside, find helpful advice on how to Take the mystery out of VBA programming Uncover really cool stuff that you can do with VBA (such as creating user forms) Save time by reusing VBA functions that are already written for you Capitalize on VBA to build Office 97 applications that automate your daily tasks Brush up on all those fun looping and decision-making code constructs Discover the extensive Office 97 object models -- the building blocks of your applications Build smart solutions in Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Access Understand the new development environment -- the Visual Basic Editor
On the Resolution of the Generalized Nonlinear Complementarity Problem
Authors: Roberto Andreani, Ana Friedlander, Sandra A. Santos
Venue: SIAM Journal on Optimization (2002)

Minimization of a differentiable function subject to box constraints is proposed as a strategy to solve the generalized nonlinear complementarity problem (GNCP) defined on a polyhedral cone. It is not necessary to calculate projections that complicate and sometimes even disable the implementation of algorithms for solving these kinds of problems. Theoretical results that relate stationary points of the function that is minimized to the solutions of the GNCP are presented. Perturbations of the GNCP are also considered, and results are obtained related to the resolution of GNCPs with very general assumptions on the data. These theoretical results show that local methods for box-constrained optimization applied to the associated problem are efficient tools for solving the GNCP. Numerical experiments are presented that encourage the use of this approach.
Subdivision-based multilevel methods for large scale engineering simulation of thin shells
Authors: Seth Green, George Turkiyyah, Duane Storti
Venue: Proceedings of the seventh ACM symposium on Solid modeling and applications (2002)

This paper presents a multilevel algorithm to accelerate the numerical solution of thin shell finite element problems de-scribed by subdivision surfaces. Subdivision surfaces have become a widely used geometric representation for general curved three dimensional boundary models and thin shells as they provide a compact and robust framework for mod-eling 3D geometry. More recently, the shape functions used in the subdivision surfaces framework have been proposed as candidates for use as finite element basis functions in the analysis and simulation of the mechanical deformation of thin shell structures. When coupled with standard solvers, however, such simulations do not scale well. Run time costs associated with high-resolution simulations (105 degrees of freedom or more) become prohibitive. The main contribution of the paper is to show that the subdivision framework can be used for accelerating such sim-ulations. Specifically the subdivision matrix is used as the intergrid information transfer operator in a multilevel pre-conditioner. The method described in the paper allows the practical simulation or a broad range of problems. Included examples show that the run time of the algorithm presented scales nearly linearly in time with problem size.
Mpls and Label Switching Networks, 2nd edition
Authors: Uyless D. Black
Venue:  (2002)

From the Book:PrefaceAs the name of this book implies, the focus is on the switching of traffic though a network or networks. The term switching is also known in some parts of the industry as forwarding, relaying, and routing. Internet Drafts: Work in Progress In many of my explanations of label switching operations, I have relied on the Internet Request for Comments (RFCs) and draft standards, published by the Internet Society, and I thank this organization for making the RFCs available to the public. The draft standards are "works in progress," and usually change as they wind their way to an RFC (if indeed they become an RFC). A work in progress cannot be considered final, but many vendors use them in creating products for the marketplace. Notwithstanding, they are subject to change.For all the Internet standards and draft standards the following applies:Copyright &copy; The Internet Society (1998). All Rights Reserved.This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it or assist in its implementation may be prepared, copied, published and distributed, in whole or in part, without restriction of any kind, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are included on all such copies and derivative works. However, this document itself may not be modified in any way, such as by removing the copyright notice or references to the Internet Society or other Internet organizations, except as needed for the purpose of developing Internet standards in which case the procedures for copyrights defined in the Internet Standards process must befollowed, or as required to translate it into languages other than English.The limited permissions granted above are perpetual and will not be revoked by the Internet Society or its successors or assigns.
Verifying cross-cutting features as open systems
Authors: Harry Li, Shriram Krishnamurthi, Kathi Fisler
Venue: Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Foundations of software engineering (2002)

Feature-oriented software designs capture many interesting notions of cross-cutting, and offer a powerful method for building product-line architectures. Each cross-cutting feature is an independent module that fundamentally yields an open system from a verification perspective. We describe desiderata for verifying such modules through model checking and find that existing work on the verification of open systems fails to address most of the concerns that arise from feature-oriented systems. We therefore provide a new methodology for verifying such systems. To validate this new methodology, we have implemented it and applied it to a suite of modules that exhibit feature interaction problems. Our model checker was able to automatically locate ten problems previously found through a laborious simulation-based effort.
CSG-BRep duality and compression
Authors: Jarek Rossignac
Venue: Proceedings of the seventh ACM symposium on Solid modeling and applications (2002)

Solid Modeling technology has been traditionally divided into two camps: CSG and BRep. Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) represents a shape as a Boolean combination of half-spaces. A Boundary Representations (BRep) specifies the location of the vertices their connectivity, and a description of how they should be interpolated or approximated by a piecewise simple surface (such as a polyhedon, a subdivision surface, a Bspline, or a trimmed implicit or parametric patch). We will investigate the equivalence between CSG and BRep (using a simple duality) and will show that for a large class of polyhedral models, both can be encoded using (3k+4)N bits, where N represents the number of primitives in a CSG model or equivalently the number of vertices in the dual BRep,nd where k represents the number of bits used to represent a quantization of each coordinate of vectors that define each either a vertex of the BRep or a plane of the CSG primitive. We will review recent advances in lossless and lossy compression and in selective and progressive transmission over error-prone connections. In particular, we will describe in detail the Corner Table, a simple and compact data structure for processing triangle meshes, and the Edgebreaker 3D connectivity compression algorithm, whose simplicity (2 pages of code) and effectiveness (between 1 and 1.8 bits per triangle) surpasses other compression techniques and standards. Details and source code may be found at http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/~jarek/edgebreaker/eb/.
Inside Com+: Base Services with Cdrom
Authors: Guy R. Eddon, Henry Eddon
Venue:  (1999)

:An in-depth architectural overview of COM+ component technologies for enterprise developers, this book offers a detailed look by providing implementation details and sample code. Content includes scalability, queued components and MSMQ, the in-memory database, and role-based security.
Sams Teach Yourself ADO.Net in 24 Hours
Authors: Jason Lefebvre, Paul Bertucci
Venue:  (2002)

:ADO.NET is the data access model built into the .NET Framework. It replaces the old (and largely successful) ADO used in almost all Visual Basic and ASP applications built over the last few years. ADO.NET enables an application to communicate with any OLE database source (including Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft Access, and even text files). This book will present ADO.NET in a simple, easy -to-learn manner filled with many code examples and exercises. A reader with no previous knowledge of ADO.NET should be able to read this book and have a functional knowledge of new object model allowing them to retrieve and work with data from multiple data sources.
Complexity of Some Problems Concerning Varieties and Quasi-Varieties of Algebras
Authors: Clifford Bergman, Giora Slutzki
Venue: SIAM Journal on Computing (2000)

In this paper we consider the complexity of several problems involving finite algebraic structures. Given finite algebras A and B, these problems ask the following. (1) Do A and B satisfy precisely the same identities? (2) Do they satisfy the same quasi-identities? (3) Do A and B have the same set of term operations?In addition to the general case in which we allow arbitrary (finite) algebras, we consider each of these problems under the restrictions that all operations are unary and that A and B have cardinality two. We briefly discuss the relationship of these problems to algebraic specification theory.