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Ubuntu Hacks: Tips & Tools for Exploring, Using, and Tuning Linux (Hacks)
Authors: Jonathan Oxer, Kyle Rankin, Bill Childers
Venue:  (2006)

The Ubuntu distribution simplifies Linux by providing a sensible collection of applications, an easy-to-use package manager, and lots of fine-tuning, which make it possibly the best Linux for desktops and laptops. Readers of both Linux Journal and TUX Magazine confirmed this by voting Ubuntu as the best Linux distribution in each publication's 2005 Readers Choice Awards. None of that simplification, however, makes Ubuntu any less fun if you're a hacker or a power user. Like all books in the "Hacks" series, Ubuntu Hacks includes 100 quick tips and tricks for all users of all technical levels. Beginners will appreciate the installation advice and tips on getting the most out of the free applications packaged with Ubuntu, while intermediate and advanced readers will learn the ins-and-outs of power management, wireless roaming, 3D video acceleration, server configuration, and much more.
MCTS SQL Server 2005 Implementation Maintenance Study Guide (Exam 70-431), 3 edition
Authors: Tom Carpenter
Venue:  (2007)

The Best Fully Integrated Study System Available With hundreds of practice questions and hands-on exercises, MCTS SQL Server 2005 Implementation & Maintenance Study Guide covers what you need to know--and shows you how to prepare--for this challenging exam. 100% complete coverage of all official objectives for Exam 70-431Exam Readiness Checklist at the front of the book--you're ready for the exam when all objectives on the list are checked offInside the Exam sections in every chapter highlight key exam topics coveredSimulated exam questions match the format, tone, topics, and difficulty of the real examCovers all the exam topics, including:Installing and Configuring SQL Server 2005 * Creating Databases and Database Objects * SQL Server Security * Creating Views, Partitions, and Linked Servers * Transact-SQL Programming * Working with Constraints, Triggers, and Stored Procedures * Backup and Restore of SQL Server with SQL Agent Jobs * Data Redundancy and Availability * Using the Service Broker * XML Data Support * SQL Server Performance Monitoring and Tuning * Troubleshooting Server and Database ErrorsCD-ROM includes:Complete MasterExam practice testing engine, featuring: One full practice exam; Detailed answers with explanations; Score Report performance assessment toolVideo training clips from the authorElectronic book for studying on the goWith free online registration:One-hour LearnKey video training sessionBonus downloadable MasterExam practice test
PC Pest Control: Protect Your Computers from Malicious Internet Invaders
Authors: Preston Gralla
Venue:  (2005)

The Internet is rife with all kinds of creepy PC bugs. In the first six months of 2004, almost 5,000 new Windows viruses and worms were discovered that were capable of compromising computer security. But the pests that users deal with aren't limited to viruses. They're plagued with everything from spam to phishing. But just because your computer is hooked up to the Internet doesn't mean your PC has to be at risk. In a constant battle of one-upmanship, the forces of good have devised a number of creative ways to fend off these Internet nasties in order to best protect your computer. And PC Pest Control from O'Reilly spells out how you can do just that. Written in a friendly, engaging manner, this handy guide covers detection, prevention and cure, where you're vulnerable, and how to surf the web more safely. It also details how you can protect yourself against adware, spyware, home page hijackers, viruses, Trojans, spam, phishing attacks, and more. For easy understanding, PC Pest Control describes each problem and its symptoms, rates the danger level, and then shows you how to solve the problem step by step. In addition, a supporting website keeps the book's content as up to date as possible, so you're always informed of the latest safeguards. And in a field that shifts as frequently as PC protection, that's a major advantage. So if you want to make sure that your personal computer doesn't fall victim to attack-or if your system has already been infected and you want to start anew-then PC Pest Control is most definitely for you.
Design of a shopbot and recommender system for bundle purchases
Authors: Robert Garfinkel, Ram Gopal, Arvind Tripathi, Fang Yin
Venue: Decision Support Systems (2006)

The increasing proliferation of online shopping and purchasing has naturally led to a growth in the popularity of comparison-shopping search engines, popularly known as "shopbots". We extend the one-product-at-a-time search approach used in current shopbot implementations to consider purchasing plans for a bundle of items. Our approach leverages bundle-based pricing and promotional deals frequently offered by online merchants to extract substantial savings. Interestingly, our approach can also identify "freebies" that consumers can obtain at no extra cost. We also develop a model to extend the capability of the current recommendation algorithms that are mainly based on collaborative filtering and item-to-item similarity techniques, to incorporate product price and savings as an additional important factor in making recommendations to shoppers. We develop a practical algorithm that can be employed when the number of items is large or when the real-time nature of shopbot applications dictates quick response rates to consumer queries. A detailed experimental analysis with real-world data from major retailers suggests that the proposed models can provide significant savings for bundle purchasing consumers, and frequently identify freebies for consumers. Together the results underscore the potential benefits that can accrue by incorporating our models into current shopbot systems.
Study of domestic refining: petrochemical industry energy feedstock interactions
Authors: John S. Bonner
Venue: Issue 22 (December 1977) (1977)

In 1973, a project was initiated at Standard Oil of Indiana to investigate future petrochemical raw stock pricing trends. Although large in scope, the project was simple in concept: a mathematical programming model of the domestic refining industry would be subjected to projected future demand patterns for the basic olefinic and aromatic petrochemical intermediates, and the results would be used to predict industry pricing trends. In keeping with the title of this session, I am going to concentrate on the tools used for this study, rather than the study itself or its results. In fact, I could not discuss the results with you, even if I wanted to, because in the first place they are confidential and proprietary to Standard of Indiana and, in the second place, I don't know them. I guess this puts me somewhat in the position of the man who was hauled into court for returning his neighbor's lawnmower in damaged condition. In his defense, he pleaded that "in the first place, I never borrowed his lawnmower, and, in the second place, it was already busted when I picked it up, and, in the third place, it was running fine when I gave it back to him." 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
Abstracts from math programming symposium
Authors: Michael Grigoriadis
Venue: Issue 16 (April 1974) (1974)

About half of the abstracts were published in the last Newsletter. In this issue we present the remaining ones. Each author was invited to update his abstract following his oral presentation to include the latest ideas. The updated abstracts were used when available, otherwise the original abstracts were used. Where an abstract are multiple authors to a paper, the one giving the paper is underlined and the address refers to that author.
A simulation-based approach to trade-off analysis of port security
Authors: Junko Sekine, Enrique Campos-Náñnez, John R. Harrald, Hernán Abeledo
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

Motivated by the September 11 attacks, we are addressing the problem of policy analysis of supply-chain security. Considering the potential economic and operational impacts of inspection together with the inherent difficulty of assigning a reasonable cost to an inspection failure call for a policy analysis methodology in which stakeholders can understand the trade-offs between the diverse and potentially conflicting objectives. To obtain this information, we used a simulation-based methodology to characterize the set of Pareto optimal solutions with respect to the multiple objectives represented in the decision problem. Our methodology relies on simulation and the response surface method (RSM) to model the relationships between inspection policies and relevant stakeholder objectives in order to construct a set of Pareto optimal solutions. The approach is illustrated with an application to a real-world supply chain.
Gaining insight into unfamiliar contexts: A design toolbox as input for using role-play techniques
Authors: J. Rodríguez, J. C. Diehl, H. Christiaans
Venue: Interacting with Computers (2006)

This paper presents a design toolbox developed for Philips Design in commission of Philips Medical Systems that provides insight into the healthcare context of rural India. Creating products for this context requires an understanding of the needs of the people within it. This paper discusses 'contextual design' through the combination of different descriptive and experiential tools, used to introduce designers into a context they are not familiar with. The toolbox has been evaluated using different performance techniques with design students. The use of role-play techniques has proven increasing relevance in many aspects: increasing the understanding and experience of participants about the context, creating an embodied and common understanding of the ideas being developed and communicating the concepts in their context.
Unsupervised and supervised machine learning in user modeling for intelligent learning environments
Authors: Saleema Amershi, Cristina Conati
Venue: Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces (2007)

In this research, we outline a user modeling framework that uses both unsupervised and supervised machine learning in order to reduce development costs of building user models, and facilitate transferability. We apply the framework to model student learning during interaction with the Adaptive Coach for Exploration (ACE) learning environment (using both interface and eye-tracking data). In addition to demonstrating framework effectiveness, we also compare results from previous research on applying the framework to a different learning environment and data type. Our results also confirm previous research on the value of using eye-tracking data to assess student learning.
Geometrical strengthening and tip-sharpening of a microneedle array fabricated by X-ray lithography
Authors: Sommawan Khumpuang, Mitsuhiro Horade, Kazuya Fujioka, Susumu Sugiyama
Venue: Microsystem Technologies (2006)

A novel fabrication method for LIGA (from the German &#x201c;Lithographie&#x201d;, &#x201c;Galvanik&#x201d;, and &#x201c;Abformung&#x201d;) microneedles with through holes is presented. Such microneedles are in demand by most bio-medical MEMS applications and in some fluidic MEMS applications. We propose a technique that combines conventional deep X-ray lithography, plane-pattern to cross-section transfer (PCT) process, and alignment X-ray lithography. The technique provides precise hole alignment with &#x00b1;&#x00a0;3&#x00a0;&#x03bc;m tolerance. Finite-element simulations on various hole locations were performed to determine the optimum position. We previously fabricated a microneedle with a 100-&#x03bc;m base and a 300-&#x03bc;m height by a right-triangular mask. The resultant microneedle had a very sharp tip but was excessively steep, and thus resulted in a very low strength. Improved strength and tip sharpness was consequently achieved by changing the mask-pattern from a triangular pattern to a polygonal mask and changing the dimensions of the microneedle to have a 300-&#x03bc;m base with various heights between 350 and 800&#x00a0;&#x03bc;m. Using the proposed technique, we could produce a total of 100 hollow microneedles on a 5&#x00a0;&#x00d7;&#x00a0;5&#x00a0;mm2 chip. Moreover, we successfully fabricated sharpened microneedles that were stronger than that we have fabricated so far. The molding process or electroplating and the cost list of the LIGA microneedle will also be included.
High-capacity image hiding scheme based on vector quantization
Authors: Yu-Chen Hu
Venue: Pattern Recognition (2006)

A novel grayscale image hiding scheme that is capable of hiding multiple secret images into a host image of the same size is proposed in this paper. The secret images to be hidden are first compressed by vector quantization with additional index compression process. Then, the compressed secret images are encrypted and embedded into the least-significant bits of the host pixels. To provide good image quality of the stego-image, the modulus function and the image property are employed to hide the secret bits into the host pixels and determine the number of hidden bits in each host pixel, respectively. According to the results, the proposed scheme provides a higher hiding capacity and a higher degree of security than that of the virtual image cryptosystem.
Programming Visual Basic 2005
Authors: Jesse Liberty
Venue:  (2005)

This newest programming guide by bestselling author Jesse Liberty isn't your typical Visual Basic book. It's not a primer on the language, and it won't dull your brain with arguments hyping .NET either. Its goal, rather, is to make you immediately productive, creating Windows and Web applications using Visual Basic and its associated tools. Written for experienced Visual Basic programmers (from either a VB6 or VB .NET background), the book shows how Visual Basic 2005 can be used to rapidly build modern web applications and new "Smart Client" applications, which combine the power of individual computers with network data resources to deliver a rich interactive experience. You'll also learn the details of building robust object-oriented applications, and a host of especially dangerous pitfalls to avoid when programming with Visual Basic 2005. What makes this book different is what's not included. There's no introduction to Visual Basic, no explanation of how it fits into the .NET world. Why waste time reading about something you'll learn for yourself as soon as you start creating applications? You won't even write a "Hello World" program. With Jesse Liberty, you'll get started building something useful. The book is divided into three separate parts--Building Windows Applications, Building Web Applications, and Programming with Visual Basic--each of which could be a book on its own. The author shares his thorough understanding of the subject matter through lucid explanations and intelligently designed lessons that guide you to increasing levels of expertise. By the time you've finished the book, you'll know how to program with VB 2005. Jesse Liberty's books have successfully guided thousands of programmers into the world of .NET programming, and Programming Visual Basic 2005 will be no exception. This book is sure to become a key component in the libraries of .NET developers.
A 1000-word vocabulary, speaker-independent, continuous live-mode speech recognizer implemented in a single FPGA
Authors: Edward C. Lin, Kai Yu, Rob A. Rutenbar, Tsuhan Chen
Venue: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM/SIGDA 15th international symposium on Field programmable gate arrays (2007)

The Carnegie Mellon In Silico Vox project seeks to move best-quality speech recognition technology from its current software-only form into a range of efficient all-hardware implementations. The central thesis is that, like graphics chips, the application is simply too performance hungry, and too power sensitive, to stay as a large software application. As a first step in this direction, we describe the design and implementation of a fully functional speech-to-text recognizer on a single Xilinx XUP platform. The design recognizes a 1000 word vocabulary, is speaker-independent, recognizes continuous (connected) speech, and is a "live mode" engine, wherein recognition can start as soon as speech input appears. To the best of our knowledge, this is the most complex recognizer architecture ever fully committed to a hardware-only form. The implementation is extraordinarily small, and achieves the same accuracy as state-of-the-art software recognizers, while running at a fraction of the clock speed.
Notes from recent meetings: a review of the SIGPLAN/SIGMICRO interface meeting
Authors: Stanley Habib
Venue: ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter (1973)

Abstracts from the meeting are presented herein. Full proceedings will be available from ACM Headquarters in early 1974.
Modeling contention of sparse-matrix-vector multiplication (SMV) in three parallel programming paradigms
Authors: Ahmed Sameh, Tarek El-Ghazawi, Yesha Yacoov
Venue: Proceedings of the 6th international workshop on Software and performance (2007)

We makes use of the LoPC model, which is inspired by both the LogP/PG and BSP models but accounts for contention for message processing resources in parallel programming models to derive a general estimate of execution cost. We carry out this cost estimate analysis for three dominate programming models: message passing, shared memory and distributed shared memory. We analyze a typical application SMV multiplication written in these programming models with irregular receiver-initiated synchronous communication. The LoPC estimate for this application is shown to be reasonably accurate when compared against measured values of runtime of actual empirical computations on an SGI O2000 multiprocessor machine.
An extended minimax disparity to determine the OWA operator weights
Authors: Gholam R. Amin, Ali Emrouznejad
Venue: Computers and Industrial Engineering (2006)

This paper contributes to extend the minimax disparity to determine the ordered weighted averaging (OWA) model based on linear programming. It introduces the minimax disparity approach between any distinct pairs of the weights and uses the duality of linear programming to prove the feasibility of the extended OWA operator weights model. The paper finishes with an open problem.
Emotion representation and physiology assignments in digital systems
Authors: Christian Peter, Antje Herbon
Venue: Interacting with Computers (2006)

Emotions are of increasing interest to the HCI community. Within the last decade, emotion research in HCI grew from an eccentric hobby of some visionary scientists to a widely accepted field of research. A number of proof-of-concept prototypes and studies have been published, dedicated sensor systems and technology frameworks have been developed, and theoretical considerations have been made. While they all represent a very valuable contribution to this young field of research, they lack a common theoretical basis. Particularly, there exists no applicable model of emotions suitable for designing emotion-aware systems or performing HCI-related emotion studies. However, in order to become a mature discipline, emotion research in HCI needs such a rigorous footing that future work can be based on. In this paper, a suitable approach to structure and represent emotions for use in digital systems is introduced, after a detailed and critical review of widely used emotion models is given and representative study results are discussed. The proposed method meets several requirements of HCI researchers and software developers. It avoids artificial categorisation of emotions, requires no naming of emotional states, is language independent, and its implementation is straightforward. The results of an experiment based on this approach are discussed demonstrating its applicability.
On transforming statistical models for non-frontal face verification
Authors: Conrad Sanderson, Samy Bengio, Yongsheng Gao
Venue: Pattern Recognition (2006)

We address the pose mismatch problem which can occur in face verification systems that have only a single (frontal) face image available for training. In the framework of a Bayesian classifier based on mixtures of gaussians, the problem is tackled through extending each frontal face model with artificially synthesized models for non-frontal views. The synthesis methods are based on several implementations of maximum likelihood linear regression (MLLR), as well as standard multi-variate linear regression (LinReg). All synthesis techniques rely on prior information and learn how face models for the frontal view are related to face models for non-frontal views. The synthesis and extension approach is evaluated by applying it to two face verification systems: a holistic system (based on PCA-derived features) and a local feature system (based on DCT-derived features). Experiments on the FERET database suggest that for the holistic system, the LinReg-based technique is more suited than the MLLR-based techniques; for the local feature system, the results show that synthesis via a new MLLR implementation obtains better performance than synthesis based on traditional MLLR. The results further suggest that extending frontal models considerably reduces errors. It is also shown that the local feature system is less affected by view changes than the holistic system; this can be attributed to the parts based representation of the face, and, due to the classifier based on mixtures of gaussians, the lack of constraints on spatial relations between the face parts, allowing for deformations and movements of face areas.
Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation: Hands-on
Authors: Craig McMurtry, Marc Mercuri, Nigel Watling
Venue:  (2006)

Microsoft developers, get ready for Windows Vista programming! Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation: Hands-onï¾ addresses an unmet need in the marketplace as there are no books, or much documentation at all, of the post-Beta 1 WCF programming model. This book contains the information you will need toï¾ work with this technology upon its release.Youï¾ will gain a comprehensive understanding of how to apply the Windows Communication Foundation to almost any distributed computing problem, from enterprise scale to peer-to-peer. Most importantly, after reading the book and working through the examples, you will actually have considerable experience using WCF, because the book takes you through the steps of actually building Windows Communication Foundation solutions.Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation: Hands-onï¾ is the only book to cover capabilities comprehensively, including the facilities for building Representational State Transfer and Plain XML software services, and the extensive management interfaces.