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Pascal program development aids
Authors: Charles E. Hughes, Charles P. Pfleeger
Venue: Proceedings of the 17th annual Southeast regional conference (1979)

In this paper we describe a set of tools we have devised to aid in the development and maintenance of PASCAL programs. PASCAL has been chosen as a target language since it is gaining increasing interest as a language for use on mini- and microcomputers.
Introducing Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server
Authors: JoAnne Woodcock
Venue:  (2000)

:Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server is a comprehensive messaging platform that enables the widest possible range of collaborative solutions. Introducing Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server provides a broad overview of the new features of Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server to help IT professionals with their evaluation and planning while they as they consider rolling out this premier messaging and collaboration platform. This book discusses the major new changes to Exchange Server, including integration with Microsoft Windows 2000 Active Directory services, the ability to handle larger messages and attachments, and new integration features with Microsoft Internet Information Server. Other topics covered include clustering, and fundamental changes to Exchanges functionality as a result of new scalability capabilities in Windows 2000. The ideal guide to help you evaluate and plan for the rollout of Exchange 2000, Microsoft's premier messaging and collaboration platform The only title aimed at introducing Exchange 2000 to IT professionals to help them understand Exchanges many new features during predeployment planning Provides key evaluation and planning information to help IT professionals plan corporate deployment of Exchange 2000 Server. Helps IT professionals understand how Exchange 2000 integrates with Windows 2000 to reduce total cost of ownership
Ultrafast Fiber Switching Devices and Systems
Authors: M. N. Islam
Venue:  (1992)

:A complete tour of the key research issues and approaches in ultrafast switching, and the treatment is cross-disciplinary, covering basic physical principles, device physics and systems applications.
The role of transparency in recommender systems
Authors: Rashmi Sinha, Kirsten Swearingen
Venue: CHI '02 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (2002)

Recommender Systems act as a personalized decision guides, aiding users in decisions on matters related to personal taste. Most previous research on Recommender Systems has focused on the statistical accuracy of the algorithms driving the systems, with little emphasis on interface issues and the user's perspective. The goal of this research was to examine the role of transprency (user understanding of why a particular recommendation was made) in Recommender Systems. To explore this issue, we conducted a user study of five music Recommender Systems. Preliminary results indicate that users like and feel more confident about recommendations that they perceive as transparent.
Virtual Organisms: The Startling World of Artificial Life
Authors: Mark Ward
Venue:  (2000)

:Harmless artificial life-forms are on the loose on the Internet. Computer viruses and even robots are now able to evolve like their biological counterparts. Telecommunications companies are sending small packets of software to go forth and multiply to cope with ever-increasing telephone traffic. Protein-based computers are on the agenda, and a team in Japan is building an organic brain as clever as a kitten. Welcome to the startling world of Artificial Life. Artificial Life scientists are taking inanimate materials such as computer software and robots and making them behave just like living organisms. In the process, they are discovering much about what drives evolution and just what it means to say that something is alive. Virtual Organisms traces the emergence of this field from the days when it was practiced by a few maverick scientists to the present and the current boom in ALife research. Leading technology correspondent Mark Ward presents a fascinating survey of current ideas about the origins of life and the engines of evolution. Through interviews with leading developers of Artificial Life and through his own compelling research, Ward shows how the convergence of technology with biology has enormous implications. In an accessible, entertaining manner, Virtual Organisms reveals an unexplored avenue in predicting the future of Artificial Life and discusses whether new forms of ALife may be evolving beyond their designer's control.
The lightweight directory access protocol
Authors: Sander van Vugt
Venue: Linux Journal (2001)

Lighter data retrieval and an alternative to NIS.
Real-time personalized sports video filtering and summarization
Authors: Di Zhong, Raj Kumar, Shih-Fu Chang
Venue: Proceedings of the ninth ACM international conference on Multimedia (2001)

We demonstrate a real-time fully automated software system for filtering important events in sports video. Events represent occurrences of actions or state changes in video content. In the current prototype, we demonstrate detection of pitching in baseball and serving in tennis. For wireless video applications, we propose and apply a unique notion of content-based adaptive streaming,in which video encoding rate and media modality is dynamically varied according to the event filtering results. Our system includes an event detection module, an adaptive encoding module, and a buffer management module for adaptive streaming. We achieve the real-time performance by exploring compressed-domain techniques and multi-stage multi-resolution content-analysis processes.
Agent middleware for heterogeneous scientific simulations
Authors: Shirun Ho, Satoshi Itoh, Sigeo Ihara, Richard D. Schlichting
Venue: Proceedings of the 1998 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing (CDROM) (1998)

The current technology of parallel and distributed systems allows users to exploit a variety of resources across networks. However, the support provided is often insufficient for computational scientists to simulate complicated real-world scenarios in which different kinds of scientific applications need to be combined to perform high fidelity simulations. As a result, users waste a large amount of time and effort developing custom techniques for performing semantic-level communication between heterogeneous scientific simulations.This paper describes a new middleware system that provides high-level transparency in the form of agents that automatically transfer and transform data between simulations that use different mathematical and physical modeling approaches. Based on a specification that correlates different discrete points in finite difference method (FDM), finite element method (FEM) or particle simulations, the agents provide a variety of techniques for semantically transforming the values associated with correlated points and automatically determine to which processes the values must be transferred. To facilitate use and minimize impact on user programs, the agent system includes three types of library calls that manage task identification, register different kinds of discrete points and construct a correlation table according to the specification, and transfer messages that incorporate extraction and transformation of the values on the correlated points. Another library specially optimized for parallel simulations that use a SPMD (Single Program Multiple Data stream) structure is also offered to control communication through the agents.A prototype system has been developed on the Hitachi SR2201 parallel machine as well as workstation clusters, and applied to several example applications. These include an advanced device simulation that combines quantum transport simulation with electric potential simulation, and a simulation of thermal flow resulting from high-frequency device operation that hybridizes molecular dynamics simulation with macroscopic continuum simulation. These combinations can be efficiently realized using the small number of library calls within the agent system together with additional routines that change the data formats of discrete points. The time overhead of the agent calculations is shown experimentally to agree closely with the theoretically-predicted values modeled as a function of the number of discrete points and domain decomposition in parallel simulations. This value becomes insignificant compared with that of the simulation processes for heterogeneous large-scale simulations.
Node splitting algorithms in tree-structured high-dimensional indexes for similarity search
Authors: Yongjian Fu, Jui-Che Teng, S. R. Subramanya
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing (2002)

Content-based searches and retrievals in multimedia and image databases use high-dimensional indexing structures for organizing the features of the objects. Most of those index structures are tree-structured whose nodes have a limit on the number of entries describing the subtrees rooted at those nodes. When index trees are built by repeated insertion of entries, nodes need to be split and the tree balanced accordingly. Node-splitting algorithms eventually determine the final structure of the tree which will have a profound effect on the search performance. This paper presents a comparative study of several node splitting algorithms for a typical high-dimensional indexing structure. The algorithms are implemented and tested on an image database and the results are presented.
Advanced Computer-Assisted Techniques in Drug Discover
Authors: Han Van De Waterbeemd
Venue:  (1994)

:This comprehensive handbook covers highly effective and efficient techniques in 3D-QSAR and statistical analysis. The emphasis is on showing users how to apply these methods and avoid costly and time-consuming errors. 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
Simulating GI/GI/1 queues and insurance risk processes with subexponential distributions
Authors: Nam Kyoo Boots, Perwez Shahabuddin
Venue: Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation (2000)

This paper deals with estimating small tail probabilities of the steady-state waiting time in a GI/GI/1 queue with heavy-tailed (subexponential) service times. The problem of estimating infinite horizon ruin probabilities in insurance risk processes with heavy-tailed claims can be transformed into the same framework. It is well-known that naive simulation is ineffective for estimating small probabilities and special fast simulation techniques like importance sampling, multilevel splitting, etc., have to be used. Previous fast simulation techniques for queues with subexponential service times have been confined to M/GI/1 queueing systems. The general approach is to use the Pollaczek-Khintchine transformation to transform the problem into that of estimating the tail distribution of a geometric sum of independent subexponential random variables. However, no such useful transformation exists when one goes from Poisson arrivals to general interarrival-time distributions. We describe an approach that is based on directly simulating the random walk associated with the waiting-time process of the GI/GI/1 queue, using a change of measure called delayed subexponential twisting --- an importance sampling idea recently developed and found useful in the context of M/GI/1 heavy-tailed simulations.
Microsoft Visual Basic Step by Step, 1st edition
Authors: Michael Halvorson
Venue:  (1997)

:Microsoft Visual Basic 5 Step By Step provides quick, easy, book-and-disk self-training on Microsoft Visual Basic 5--to help you easily create custom programs for Microsoft Windows 95. Experience Level: Beginner
Introducing Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Authors: Jerry Honeycutt
Venue:  (1999)

:This book offers an advance look at Windows NT 5.0 system deployment issues--with unique information delivered in cooperation with Microsoft. The information will help IT implementers understand Windows NT Workstation capabilities in relation to the Windows NT 5.0 network operating system and in comparison with Windows 98.
Content independence in multimedia databases
Authors: Arjen P. de Vries
Venue: Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (2001)

A database management system is a general-purpose software system that facilitates the processes of defining, constructing, and manipulating databases for various applications. This article investigates the role of data management in multimedia digital libraries, and its implications for the design of database management systems. The notions of content abstraction and content independence are introduced, which clearly expose the unique challenges (for database architecture) of applications involving multimedia search. A blueprint of a new class of database technology is proposed, which supports the basic functionality for the management of both content and structure of multimedia objects.
Communication and Design with the Internet: A Guide for Architects, Planners, and Building Professionals
Authors: Jonathan Cohen
Venue:  (2000)

:Gives architects the vision and skills needed to take advantage of the new communications technologies. The Internet is starting to have a profound effect on the building industry. It's not about computers: it's about communication. Fundamental changes in the way that architects, clients, and builders communicate with one another have already begun, yet few architects have discovered all the creative opportunities of this new medium. Jonathan Cohen has introduced thousands of design professionals to the potential of the Internet and the skills of Web site creation in seminars. Here he shows architects, engineers, contractors, building owners, and planners how to use the design skills they already possess to develop and implement an Internet strategy for their firms. Readers will learn how to integrate text, images, video, and other media in interactive Web sites for project management and design collaboration. A dedicated Web site will supplement the book with examples, bookmarks, technical data, and other resources.
A Strategy to Manage Cache Consistency in a Disconnected Distributed Environment
Authors: Anurag Kahol, Sumit Khurana, Sandeep K.S. Gupta, Pradip K. Srimani
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (2001)

Modern distributed systems involving large number of nonstationary clients (mobile hosts, MH) connected via unreliable low-bandwidth communication channels are very prone to frequent disconnections. This disconnection may occur because of different reasons: The clients may voluntarily switch off (to save battery power), or a client may be involuntarily disconnected due to its own movement in a mobile network (hand-off, wireless link failures, etc.). A mobile computing environment is characterized by slow wireless links and relatively underprivileged hosts with limited battery powers. Still, when data at the server changes, the client hosts must be made aware of this fact in order for them to invalidate their cache, otherwise the host would continue to answer queries with the cached values returning incorrect data. The nature of the physical medium coupled with the fact that disconnections from the network are very frequent in mobile computing environments demand a cache invalidation strategy with minimum possible overheads. In this paper, we present a new cache maintenance scheme, called AS. The objective of the proposed scheme is to minimize the overhead for the MHs to validate their cache upon reconnection, to allow stateless servers, and to minimize the bandwidth requirement. The general approach is 1) to use asynchronous invalidation messages and 2) to buffer invalidation messages from servers at the MH's Home Location Cache (HLC) while the MH is disconnected from the network and redeliver these invalidation messages to the MH when it gets reconnected to the network. Use of asynchronous invalidation messages minimizes access latency, buffering of invalidation messages minimizes the overhead of validating MH's cache after each disconnection and use of HLC off-loads the overhead of maintaining state of MH's cache from the servers. The MH can be disconnected from the server either voluntarily or involuntarily. We capture the effects of both by using a single parameter s: The percentage of time a mobile host is disconnected from the network. We demonstrate the efficacy of our scheme through simulation and performance modeling. In particular, we show that the average data access latency and the number of uplink requests by a MH decrease by using the proposed strategy at the cost of using buffer space at the HLC. We provide analytical comparison between our proposed scheme and the existing scheme for cache management in a mobile environment [4]. Extensive experimental results are provided to compare the schemes in terms of performance metrics like latency, number of uplink requests, etc., under both a high and a low rate of change of data at servers for various values of the parameter $s$. A mathematical model for the scheme is developed which matches closely with the simulation results.
Power and CAD considerations for the 1.75mbyte, 1.2ghz L2 cache on the alpha 21364 CPU
Authors: Joel Grodstein, Rachid Rayess, Tad Truex, Linda Shattuck, Sue Lowell, Dan Bailey, David Bertucci, Gabriel Bischoff, Daniel Dever, Mike Gowan, Roy Lane, Brian Lilly, Krishna Nagalla, Rahul Shah, Emily Shriver, Shi-Huang Yin, Shannon Morton
Venue: Proceedings of the 12th ACM Great Lakes symposium on VLSI (2002)

A 1.75 MByte L2 cache has been designed and fabricated as part of the Alpha 21364 microprocessor[1] (Figure 1), in a .18m bulk CMOS process. The cache was designed to run at 1.2 GHz, and pass-1 samples confirm this. While Alpha CPUs are known primarily for high speed, the combination of package constraints and a tight schedule forced careful attention to the integrated whole of power expenditure and the interaction of CAD with design. The cache consumes only 7% of total die power.
AutoSketch for Windows, 1st edition
Authors: Alfred J. Yarwood
Venue:  (1996)

:AutoSketch for Windows forms a basic course of work for those who want to ensure that they can construct 2-D drawings, ranging from the simple to the complex, using CAD software. It contains a large number of examples of engineering, building and general graphics drawings, together with a full description of the icon-driven and pull-down menu commands. It includes many screen shots which show the large number of dialogue boxes available in the software for the setting of drawing parameters, together with descriptions of how settings should be made. Each chapter contains drawing exercises which are graded to encourage the reader to practise and extend what has been learned. AutoSketch for Windows will prove essential reading for secondary school students following the National Curriculum Technology syllabus, for further education students taking City and Guilds or BTEC courses in engineering and building, and for higher education students of first-year courses in engineering, building and architecture. It will also appeal to the general reader with an interest in CAD software.
The inverse Gr&ouml;bner basis problem in codimension two
Authors: Amelia Taylor
Venue: Journal of Symbolic Computation (2002)

Generic linkage is used to compute a prime ideal such that the radical of the initial ideal of the prime ideal is equal to the radical of a given codimension two monomial ideal that has Cohen-Macaulay quotient ring. Copyright 2002 Academic Press
Internet Instant Reference
Authors: Paul E. Hoffman
Venue:  (1994)

:For every Internet user who wants a quick, alphabetical reference to Internet terms and concepts. Whether you're using a graphical or a character-based interface, this pocket guide is the place to turn for the latest information on access providers, online U.S. government sources, sites for downloading software, and more. Written by MicroTimes News Editor Paul Hoffman.
Local Area Networks, 1st edition
Authors: David A. Stamper
Venue:  (1993)

:Written from the perspectives of LAN management, the focus of this text is on administrative responsibilities and strategies, which range from selecting and installing LAN hardware and software to designing backup and recovery options (chapters 9-12). However, because of the need for LAN managers to consider issues important to all members of the LAN community, such as end-users, the author provides appropriate coverage of these perspectives as well. Despite the rapid rate of technology introduction into the market, this new third edition provides up-to-date coverage and anticipates emerging technologies: Novell NetWare and Windows NT Server Basic data communications principles including: OSI reference model (Ch 1) LAN Selection Criteria (Ch 2) LAN Media (Ch 3) Data Link and Mac protocols (Ch 4) Token Passing versus CSMA/CD (Ch 4) LAN Hardware (Ch 5) Hardware Selection Criteria (Ch 5) LAN System Software (Ch 7) Creating and Maintaining a Printing Environment (Ch 7) Client/Server Computing (Ch 8) LAN Installation Concerns (Ch 9) Security Options and Virus Protection (Ch 10) Backup, Disaster, and Recovery Planning (Ch 11) Network Management and Network Management Protocols (Ch 12) Wide Area Network Overview (Ch 13) Repeaters, Routers, Bridges, and Gateways (Ch 14) Internet and TCP/IP Protocol Suite (Ch 15) Internet Technology (Ch 15) New to this edition is a Companion Web Site at www.prenhall.com/stamper that contains some additional exercises and PowerPointpresentations for students and that allows instructors to download the Instructor's Manual as a MS WORD document. Also new to this edition, Prentice Hall Test Manager software is available. This software package is a wonderful suite of tools for testing and assessment with five modules that allow instructors to manage student records, course information, question content, test portfolios, and test results.
PhotoShop in Black and White/an Illustrated Guide to Reproducing Black-and-White Images Using Adobe PhotoShop 2.5 or 3.0, 2nd edition
Authors: Jim Rich
Venue:  (1995)

:Adobe Photoshop has become the software application of choice for retouching and manipulating images. While there are a number of books on Photoshop, this is the only one that focuses on using this leading application for black and white images. Small and concise, this book packs in all the useful, relevant information readers need to save time, money, and, ultimately, great photos. Aimed at intermediate to advanced users running the program on the Macintosh or with Windows, Photoshop in Black and White distills critical concepts, methods, and techniques into an easy-to-understand, heavily illustrated format. The approach is task-oriented, so readers can easily find answers to their how-do-you questions. Some of the topics covered in the book include: the key Photoshop tools; step-by-step strategies for adjusting images for reproduction; how and when to adjust highlights, midtones, and shadows; scanning techniques; and calibration methods.