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Introduction to Simulation and Risk Analysis, 2nd edition
Authors: James R. Evans, David Louis Olson
Venue:  (2001)

:Soundly structured and highly practical, this informative guide introduces users to the concepts, methodologies, and applications of simulation in business, using easy-to-apply Microsoft Excel spreadsheets as the principal means to illustrate simulation modeling concepts, computational issues, and analysis of results. Uses spreadsheets throughout to convey quantitative methodologies in a language readers can most easily understand, and allows them to address the elementary concepts of both risk analysis and systems simulation approaches in a common framework. Fully covers all basic concepts of simulation (i.e., the nature of simulation models, systems (time/event driven) simulation, techniques for implementing simple simulation models on Excel spreadsheets, statistical concepts and methods important in simulation analysis, and more. Offers an in-depth study of risk analysis using the Excel add-in Crystal Ball as a practical method for Monte Carlo simulation. Presents a detailed analysis of systems simulation including discussions on the fundamentals of simulating inventory and queueing systems and event-driven simulation. Provides SkillBuilder exercises for practicing and developing spreadsheet and software applications skills, as well as Simulation in Practice cases and numerous examples and illustrations of simulation models throughout. For business administrators, industrial engineers, and related professionals who want to learn about simulation and risk analysis.
Sams Teach Yourself in 24 Hours: 2 Volumes, Teach Yourself Linux Programming, Teach Yourself C with Cdrom, 1st edition
Authors: Tony Zhang
Venue:  (1999)

:Linux is quickly becoming the operating system of the future. With easily downloaded information from the Internet, relentless programmers coming up with newer versions with greater potential, and the practically cost-free reality of Linux, learning to program it has become a necessity for serious operating system administrators and systems developers. With Sams Teach Yourself Linux Programming in 24 Hours, Complete Learning Edition, you will have the perfect starter kit to get up and running with Linux programming. Learn the basics, necessities, and then the more advanced topics that everyday Linux programmers encounter-all through easy, step-by-step solutions that walk you through the instructions and practices. A full-featured graphical editor allows you to enter, edit, and compile your Linux programs.
Microsoft Word Made Easy, 1st edition
Authors: Katie Layman, LaVaughn Hart
Venue:  (2001)

:This book provides users with thorough coverage of features and simple step-by-step instructions to quickly master the Microsoft Word 2002 program. A learn by doing approach is achieved through numerous hands-on activities and the easy-to-follow chapter instruction lists. The book also prepares learners for the Microsoft Office User Specialist certification exams for Word Core and Word Expert. Main headings for specific chapters include: creating and editing business documents, working with special features, creating reports and special documents, advanced documents and features, and desktop publishing. For office support personnel, administrative assistants, secretaries, office assistants, trainers, computer help desk professionals, and office users of the MS Word program.
Decentralized Resource Management for a Distributed Continuous Media Server
Authors: Cyrus Shahabi, Farnoush Banaei-Kashani
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (2002)

Editor's Note: This paper unfortunately contains some errors which led to the paper being reprinted in the November 2002 issue. Please see IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 13,no. 11, November 2002, pp. 1183-1200 for the correct paper (available without subscription).Distributed continuous media server (DCMS) architectures are proposed to minimize the communication-storage cost for those continuous media applications that serve a large number of geographically distributed clients. Typically, a DCMS is designed as a pure hierarchy (tree) of centralized continuous media servers. In an earlier work, we proposed a redundant hierarchical topology for DCMS networks, termed RedHi, which can potentially result in higher utilization and better reliability over pure hierarchy. In this paper, we focus on the design of a resource management system for RedHi that can exploit the resources of its DCMS network to achieve these performance objectives. Our proposed resource management system is based on a fully decentralized approach to achieve optimal scalability and robustness. In general, the major drawback of a fully decentralized design is the increase in latency time and communication overhead to locate the requested object. However, as compared to the typically long duration and high resource/bandwidth requirements of continuous media objects, the extra latency and overhead of a decentralized resource management approach become negligible. Moreover, our resource management system collapses three management tasks, 1) object location, 2) path selection, and 3) resource reservation, into one fully decentralized object delivery mechanism, reducing the latency even further. In sum,decentralization of the resource management satisfies our scalability and robustness objectives, whereas collapsing the management tasks helps alleviate the latency and overhead constraints. To achieve a high resource utilization, the object delivery scheme uses our proposed cost function, as well as various object location and resource reservation policies to select and allocate the best streaming path to serve each request. The object delivery scheme is designed as an application layer resource management middleware for the DCMS architecture to be independent of the underlying telecommunication infrastructure. Our experiments show that our resource management system is successful in realization of the higher resource utilization for the DCMS networks with the RedHi topology.
AppleWorks 6: The Missing Manual, 1st edition
Authors: Jim Elferdink, David Reynolds
Venue:  (2000)

:For Mac and Windows users who prefer an alternative to the cost, bloat, and complexity of Microsoft Office, AppleWorks is the stealth office suite. Hugely popular in classrooms, colleges, and small offices, AppleWorks includes word processing, drafting, painting, database, Web-page creation, spreadsheet, and (in version 6) slide-show functions in a single, beautifully integrated application. Every year, however, AppleWorks arrives in the hands of four million Apple iMac and iBook buyers. There it sits on the hard drive, a masterpiece of smooth integration and clever interface design, accompanied by hundreds of templates, clip art libraries, and fontsbut without a single page of written documentation. AppleWorks 6: the Missing Manual treats AppleWorks as the serious productivity tool it is. Authors Jim Elferdink and David Reynolds guide the reader through both the basics and the hidden talents of the new AppleWorks version, placing special emphasis on version 6's enhanced word processing, Internet, and presentation features. Because the book isn't an official Apple publication, the authors are free to acknowledge the program's weaknesses-and to offer workarounds. And because the book is a Missing Manual title, it's rich with examples and step-by-step tutorials. For the spreadsheet and database user, the book includes Appendixes that cover the built-in calculation functions, one by one, complete with examples. AppleWorks 6: The Missing Manual, in fact, is as smoothly put together as AppleWorks itself.
CCNP Remote Access Exam Prep: Exam 640-505
Authors: Barry Meinster, Richard A. Deal
Venue:  (2001)

:Includes a comprehensive tutorial on the curriculum objectives for the new CCNP Remote Access exam (640-505), and all necessary study materials to pass the new CCNP Remote Access exam. Features hands-on practice and lab sections. Provides all of the overviews, concepts, and terminology necessary to help candidates get up to speed on the new certification as quickly as possible. Includes questions and real-life network scenarios similar to those found on the actual examination along with detailed explanations.
Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture
Authors: Mary Flanagan
Venue:  (2002)

:Most writing on cyberculture is dominated by two almost mutually exclusive visions: the heroic image of the male outlaw hacker and the utopian myth of a gender-free cyberworld. Reload offers an alternative picture of cyberspace as a complex and contradictory place where there is oppression as well as liberation. It shows how cyberpunk's revolutionary claims conceal its ultimate conservatism on matters of class, gender, and race. The cyberfeminists writing here view cyberculture as a social experiment with an as-yet-unfulfilled potential to create new identities, relationships, and cultures. The book brings together women's cyberfiction--fiction that explores the relationship between people and virtual technologies--and feminist theoretical and critical investigations of gender and technoculture. From a variety of viewpoints, the writers consider the effects of rapid and profound technological change on culture, in particular both the revolutionary and reactionary effects of cyberculture on women's lives. They also explore the feminist implications of the cyborg, a human-machine hybrid. The writers challenge the conceptual and institutional rifts between high and low culture, which are embedded in the texts and artifacts of cyberculture.
A Nation Transformed by Information: How It Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present
Authors: Alfred Dupont Chandler
Venue:  (2000)

:The editors assembled a group of contributors are experts in their particular fields, from management consulting to history to sociology, and worked with them to create a book that is fully integrated and cross referenced. An important new look at American history, A Nation Transformed by Information will interest anyone who wants to understand how the United States has stepped so confidently into the latest Information Age.
Essential WAP for Web Professionals
Authors: Damon Hougland, Micah Brown, Khurram Zafar
Venue:  (2001)

From the Book:PREFACE: ForewordImagine that one of the foremost computer-science theoreticians, Don Knuth, and one of the most practical solution architects, Jim McConnell, co-authored a book on wireless technology, and you now have a good view on what to expect from Essential WAP for Web Professionals by Damon Hougland and Khurram Zafar.While the industry trade publications are replete with sensational but often vacuous information about wireless, and the scientific publications cover the technology in arcane detail, the only other source for good credible information on WAP (wireless application protocol) is voluminous standards documents. What the industry seems to lack is a practical definition of WAP technology. Essential WAP... addresses this important void and serves up a very important body of practical knowledge.Damon and Khurram are my colleagues at eFORCE. They work as a technical leadership team, helping Global 2000 organizations refine their strategic goals, and define practical solutions that meet their time to market goals, technology and budget constraints. Unlike other books in this area, Essential WAP for Web Professionals is based on years of practical experience coupled with a solid theoretical knowledge  an unparalleled combination that makes this book unique. However, this book is not about eFORCE or skewed toward any particular vendor's WAP implementation, making it very unbiased and the only book of that nature that I know.Essential WAP for Web Professionals covers all the basic concepts involved in WAP and has a repertoire of practical application examples. If you are a hands-on developer, I canpersonallyguarantee these examples will provide the most effective means to battle the learning curve in WAP technologies. Others will gain a practical insight into the nuances about wireless architectures and unique aspects involved in developing wireless solutions.I promise that no one will ever accuse Damon or Khurram of taking an academic approach. This book comes from The School of Hard Knocks. Damon and Khurram are two of the sharpest minds out there, combining the theoretical abstractions and practical rigors needed to deliver critical business solutions. While this is important to any enterprise computing solution, this blend is especially imperative with newer technologies, like Wireless. WAP technologies, standards and applications will continue to evolve at a very fast pace. With this evolution, WAP as a standard will morph and transform, and in a couple of years the standard will look very different from the way it looks today. However, the core concepts and approaches outlined in this book will remain a solid foundation for practitioners and the way they approach wireless solution deployments.I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Nat D. Natraj, CEOeFORCE
Telemedicine system over the internet
Authors: Zhe Chen, Xiaomei Yu, David Feng
Venue: Selected papers from the Pan-Sydney workshop on Visualisation - Volume 2 (2000)

Online telemedicine is the development of the Internet as a vehicle for the use of electronic information and communication technologies to provide and support health care when distance separates the participants. For more than 30 years, clinicians, health service researchers, and others have been investigating the use of advanced telecommunications and information technologies to improve health care. Although telemedicine is hardly unique among health care services in lacking evidence of its effectiveness, the increasing demand for such evidence by health plans, patients, clinicians, and policymakers challenges advocates of clinical telemedicine to undertake more and better evaluations of its practicality, value, and afford ability. Web-based telemedicine systems have been attempted by many researchers, and the most approaches are experimented with the use of videoconferencing for remote consultation. However, current telemedicine applications are usually developed for doctors to do consultation and case study between several hospitals. It is possible for patients to see doctors at home via Internet and it might be a part of life style in the future. In this paper, we developed a patient oriented web-based telemedicine system, in which a novel secrete key encryption/decryption scheme is also developed for payment security. The system could be easily extended to the Picture and Archive Communication Systems(PACS) system.
Global Information Technology Outsourcing: In Search of Business Advantage
Authors: Mary Cecelia Lacity, Leslie Willcocks
Venue:  (2000)

:"This book has the potential to become the definitive book on the many dimensions of outsourcing as it matures into a complex, multi-faceted phenomenon. IT outsourcing is still the subject of considerable concern for all stakeholders involved in this area. Written by two internationally acclaimed researchers in this area, this book represents the most definitive research and best practice base so far on the organizational pursuit of IT outsourcing." "This study is based on research with 75 worldwide organizations including Dupont, British Aerospace and BP Exploration. Authors offer from the evidence gathered the best practice through this complex and ever-developing market."--BOOK JACKET.
The Unified Process for Practitioners: Object-Oriented Design, Uml and Java
Authors: John Hunt
Venue:  (2000)

:John Hunt's book guides the reader through the use of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and the Unified Process, and their application to Java systems. It provides an easily accessible, step by step guide to applying UML and the Unified Process.
Investigating Biological Systems Using Modeling: Strategies and Software, 1st edition
Authors: Meryl E. Wastney, Blossom H. Patterson, Oscar A. Linares, Raymond C. Boston, Peter C. Greif
Venue:  (1998)

:This book discusses in a hands-on approach how to use mathematical modeling to investigate biological systems. It is written for students and investigators in lay person terms. Examples are used from the fields of physiology, biochemistry, nutrition, agriculture, pharmacology, and medicine.
Optimizing 3D triangulations using discrete curvature analysis
Authors: Nira Dyn, Kai Hormann, Sun-Jeong Kim, David Levin
Venue: Mathematical Methods for Curves and Surfaces: Oslo 2000 (2001)

A tool for constructing a "good" 3D triangulation of a given set of vertices in 3D is developed and studied. The constructed triangulation is "optimal" in the sense that it locally minimizes a cost function which measures a certain discrete curvature over the resulting triangle mesh. Th algorithm for obtaining the optimal trianulation is that of swapping edges sequentially, such that the cost function is reduced maximally by each swap. In this paper three easy-to-compute cost functions are derived using a simple model for defining discrete curvatures of triangle meshes. The results obtained by the different cost functions are compared. Operating on data sampled from simple 3D models, we compare the approximation error of the resulting optimal triangle meshes to the sampled model in various nornms. The conclusion is that all three cost functions lead to similar results, and none of them can be said to be superior to the others. The triangle meshes generated by our algorithm, when serving as initial triangle meshes for the butterfly subdivision scheme, are found to improve significantly the limit butterfly-surfaces compared to arbitrary initial triangulation of the given sets of vertices. Based upon this observation, we believe that any algorithm operating on triangle meshes such as subdivision, finite element solution of PDE, or mesh simplification, can obtain better results if applied to a "good" triangle mesh with small discrete curvatures. Thus our algorithm can serve for modelling surfaces from sampled data as well as for initialization of other triangle mesh based algorithms.
Technopolis Phenomenon: Smart Cities, Fast Systems, Global Networks
Authors: David V. Gibson, George Kozmetsky, Raymond W. Smilor
Venue:  (1992)

:The technopolis is an innovative approach to economic development that involves linking technology commercialization with effective public-sector and private-sector initiatives to create new infrastructures for economic growth, diversification, and global competitiveness. Leading experts from academia, government, and industry present information, ideas, programs, and initiatives that accelerate the creation of smart cities, fast systems, and global networks. Providing both strategic and tactical insights into developing a new type of infrastructure for the twenty-first century, The Technopolis Phenomenon contributes to the enhancement of the quality of life and the range of opportunities in the global marketplace.
XML and the future of humanities computing
Authors: Franco Niccolucci
Venue: ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review (2002)

The existence of XML induces to hope that some limits of humanities computing may soon be trespassed. Here we mention some arguments concerning data management and 3D visualization, describing a few examples and test cases where the use of XML dramatically improved the quality of the application. These include text encoding, archaeological data management and Virtual Reality reconstruction of Cultural Heritage.
Proof Techniques for Cryptographic Processes
Authors: Michele Boreale, Rocco De Nicola, Rosario Pugliese
Venue: SIAM Journal on Computing (2002)

Contextual equivalences for cryptographic process calculi, like the spi-calculus, can be used to reason about correctness of protocols, but their definition suffers from quantification over all possible contexts. Here, we focus on two such equivalences, namely may-testing and barbed equivalence, and investigate tractable proof methods for them. To this aim, we design an enriched labelled transition system, where transitions are constrained by the knowledge the environment has of names and keys. The new transition system is then used to define a trace equivalence and a weak bisimulation equivalence that avoid quantification over contexts. Our main results are soundness and completeness of trace and weak bisimulation equivalence with respect to may-testing and barbed equivalence, respectively. They lead to more direct proof methods for equivalence checking. The use of these methods is illustrated with a few examples concerning implementation of secure channels and verification of protocol correctness.
Multimedia Document Systems in Perspectives
Authors: Peiya Liu, Arif Ghafoor
Venue:  (1999)

:Multimedia Document Systems in Perspectives brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area.Reprinted Multimedia Systems and Applications, Multimedia Document Systems in Perspectives serves as an excellent reference, providing insight into some of the most challenging research issues in the field.
Principles of survey research part 2: designing a survey
Authors: Barbara A. Kitchenham, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger
Venue: ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes (2002)

This second article of our series looks at the process of designing a survey. The design process begins with reviewing the objectives, examining the target population identified by the objectives, and deciding how best to obtain the information needed to address those objectives. However, we also need to consider factors such as determining the appropriate sample size and ensuring the largest possible response rate.To illustrate our ideas, we use the three surveys described in Part 1 of this series to suggest good and bad practice in software engineering survey research.
Sams Teach Yourself XML in 21 Days, 2nd edition
Authors: Devan Shepard, Ben Moore
Venue:  (2001)

:Sams Teach Yourself XML in 21 Days, Second Edition is a completely rewritten edition but remains a tutorial-based introduction to XML. The book begins explaining the basics, proceeds into structuring and processing with namespaces, XLink, SAX, DOM, and XSLT, and then to presentation and data exchange with displaying in the browser and transferring data. The author provides an appendix with some of the current 'tools of the trade' to bring the reader up to speed on tools available and how to use them.
Performance issues in automatic differentiation on superscalar processors
Authors: François Bodin, Antoine Monsifrot
Venue: Automatic differentiation of algorithms: from simulation to optimization (2000)

We overview code optimizations for superscalar processors (Pentium, Ultra Sparc, Alpha, etc.) in the context of automatic differentiation. Using an example we show the impact of program transformations used to increase code efficiency.
On wave propagation in waveguides
Authors: P. Vainshtein
Venue: Physica D (2002)

Cut-off frequencies are well known in waveguides of different nature to be the thresholds of propagation and evanescence. In the present paper, a theoretical study is made to demonstrate that a combined excitation of a plane wave and waveguide mode may lead to the propagation of a nonlinear wave pattern irrespective of whether the frequency of the waveguide mode is higher or below linear cut-off. A particular problem is examined when a piston performs sinusoidal rotational vibrations combined with translational displacements in a uniform semi-infinite two-dimensional fluid duct. The frequency of the vibrations is close to a cut-off frequency. The rotational vibrations are small compared to the translational displacements. An analytical solution of the problem is obtained for uniformly accelerated piston displacements. It is shown that longitudinal plane waves guide the duct modes along the duct, such that propagation takes place even if the forcing frequencies are below linear cut-off.