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Safe memory reclamation for dynamic lock-free objects using atomic reads and writes
Authors: Maged M. Michael
Venue: Proceedings of the twenty-first annual symposium on Principles of distributed computing (2002)

A major obstacle to the wide use of lock-free data structures, despite their many performance and reliability advantages, is the absence of a practical lock-free method for reclaiming the memory of dynamic nodes removed from dynamic lock-free objects for arbitrary reuse.The only prior lock-free memory reclamation method depends on the DCAS atomic primitive, which is not supported on any current processor architecture. Other memory management methods are blocking, require special operating system support, or do not allow arbitrary memory reuse.This paper presents the first lock-free memory management method for dynamic lock-free objects that allows arbitrary memory reuse, and does not require special operating system or hardware support. It guarantees an upper bound on the number of removed nodes not yet freed at any time, regardless of thread failures and delays. Furthermore, it is wait-free, it is only logarithmically contention-sensitive, and it uses only atomic reads and writes for its operations. In addition, it can be used to prevent the ABA problem for pointers to dynamic nodes in most algorithms, without requiring extra space per pointer or per node.
Early evaluation techniques for low power binding
Authors: Eren Kursun, Ankur Srivastava, Seda Ogrenci Memik, Majid Sarrafzadeh
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 international symposium on Low power electronics and design (2002)

This paper presents effective metrics to evaluate the power dissipation of scheduled data flow graphs (DFGs). This enables early evaluation of schedules without performing the computationally expensive resource-binding step. Our metrics correlate heavily (as high as 0.95 and > 0.75 for most test cases) with power dissipation values obtained after resource binding and rescheduling for power optimization steps. An experimental flow that integrates path-based scheduling, power optimal binding and power driven iterative rescheduling stages is constructed. The flow integrates commercial tools like Synopsys, VSS and academic compilers like SUIF in a common optimization framework. Experimental results on DFGs from MediaBench suit also demonstrate the fact that metric evaluation is on average 42.6 times faster than performing optimal binding and iterative power improvement. Hence metric based evaluation enables fast design exploration at early stages.
DSP System Design: Using the Tms320c6000, 1st edition
Authors: Nasser Kehtarnavaz, Mansour Keramat
Venue:  (2000)

:A data converter MATLAB toolbox and eight lab exercises are discussed and included on the enclosed CD to take the reader through the entire process of analog to digital signal conversion and C6000 code writing. As a result, the book can be used as a self-study guide for designing C6000-based DSP systems. To facilitate use as lecture materials for a real-time DSP laboratory course, the chapters are organized to create a close correlation between the topics and lab exercises. Knowledge of the C programming language and MATLAB is required for understanding and performing the lab exercises.
Digital Imaging: Essential Skills, 1st edition
Authors: Mark Galer, Lester Horvath
Venue:  (2001)

:This is far more than a Photoshop manual; it builds your confidence when dealing with potentially confusing areas such as resolution and the control over tonality of color. Put into practice the skills learned by completing creative assignments and practical activities. This is an inspirational text; as well as encouraging you to express yourself visually; it is a highly structured learning tool that ensures all the essentials skills are learnt and applied to help improve your digital photography.Author Biography: Mark Galer M.Ed., Photography Lecturer at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. Les Horvat is a Lecturer in Commercial & Illustrative Photography at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia.
Maximum Java 1.1
Authors: Glenn Vanderburg
Venue:  (1997)

:This fast-paced, expert level programming guide is the ultimate book for programmers who want to take Java to the next level. Written by Java experts, this must-have resource explores the Java 1.1 language, tools, and core Java API-without reviewing fundamentals or basic techniques. It's loaded with in-depth coverage of the most advanced topics.Explores advanced applet programming, animation, writing 2D games, JavaBeans, security, VRML applets, GridBagLayout, and Advanced Event Handling-in detailShows how new Java class libraries and frameworks make Java work with client/server systems, relational databases, and persistent object databasesCD-ROM is packed with source code from the book, Sun's JDK, and a collection of the best Java development tools
Red Hat Linux Secrets, 3rd edition
Authors: Naba Barkakati
Venue:  (1999)

:With this book, the reader learns the skills of the experts, with major sections on configuration, running Linux, exploiting hardware in Linux, and using Linux for fun and profit. The CD-R0M includes the latest version of Red Hat 6.x.
MCSE Windows 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure: Training Guide; Exam 70-217 with Cdrom
Authors: Damir Bersinic, Rob Scrimger
Venue:  (2000)

:Exam 70-217, Installing & Administering a Windows 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure measures your ability to install, configure, and troubleshoot the Windows 2000 Active Directory Components, DNS for Active Directory, and Active Directory security solutions. This test measures the skills required to manage, monitor, and optimize the desktop environment by using Group Policy. The Directory Services Infrastructure exam, sure to be one of the most popular due to its inclusion as a Core Exam and the prevalence of AD technology in Windows 2000. It offers you the perfect self-study tool to allow you to prepare confidently at your own pace and time. New Riders has included information on the new testing types and designed the titles to provide plenty of practice opportunities to gain the skills required to pass these exams. Adaptive testing, emphasis on hands-on knowledge, and a more skills-focused design are all addressed in the new editions.
The Little PC Book, 3rd edition
Authors: Lawrence J. Magid, Darcy Dinucci
Venue:  (1998)

:With new hardware, software, programs, and operating systems appearing on an almost weekly basis, entering the realm of PCs can be quite intimidating for the newcomer. If only there were an all-knowing, ever-patient teacher at hand to answer questions about buying, using, and enjoying a computer. The Little PC Book, Third Edition is just the friend every beginning PC user needs. A fully updated revision of Peachpit's bestselling Little PC Book, this edition starts with the basics and covers all the latest developments in the PC world that users need to know about, including Windows 98, the Internet, and email. It's written in clear, jargon-free language, packed with screenshots and informative sidebars, and illustrated with sophisticated cartoons that instruct with humor. The latest edition of a "Peachpit" bestseller, with over 100,000 copies sold worldwide. Newly updated for Windows 98, yet still addresses users of Windows 95. From how to choose it to how to use it; just what the beginning PC user needs to know Written by Larry Magid, computer expert, radio personality, and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist.
Error Analysis of Pressure Increment Schemes
Authors: Brian R. Wetton
Venue: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (2000)

In recent years, the technique of asymptotic error analysis has been used to describe the errors generated by projection methods for incompressible, viscous flow. The error behavior of pressure increment schemes is quite different from the others, as identified by E and Liu [ SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 32 (1995), pp. 1017--1057] in their seminal paper on the subject. They later showed that errors in modal solutions had pressure errors of size $O(\Delta t)$ that oscillated in space with a wavelength of $O(\Delta t)$, but this behavior was not reproduced in numerical computations. This discrepancy is not resolved in this work. It is shown analytically that for time-periodic solutions, numerical boundary layers of size and width $O(\Delta t)$ are generated. This is a more suitable framework to consider pressure increment schemes and the results are confirmed in a numerical study in the discrete setting. Computed velocities are second order accurate.
The Official SimCity 2000 Planning Commission Handbook, 2nd edition
Authors: Johnny L. Wilson, Virginia Soper
Venue:  (1993)

:SimCity 2000 is an entirely new game that continues the SimCity tradition but with more depth, more control over your cities, more complexity, and with some of the best graphics you'll ever see.
Handbook of Computer Vision and Applications with Cdrom, 1st edition
Authors: Bernd Jahne, Peter Geissler, Horst Haussecker
Venue:  (1999)

:The Handbook of Computer Vision and Applications Three-Volume Set covers one of the "hottest" subjects in today's intersection of Applied Physics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Applied Mathematics. The uniqueness of the set is that it is very applications-oriented. Examples of applications in different fields of modern science are particularly emphasized. In addition, three CD-ROMs are included, providing a rich collection of interactive software, image material, and other resources.
Microsoft BackOffice Resource Kit with Cdrom, 2nd edition
Authors: Microsoft Corporation
Venue:  (1998)

:Now you can take Microsoft; BackOffice; to new heights of performance and do likewise for your professional knowledge, skills, and career. Just start applying the authoritative information and tools in this exclusive Microsoft collection. It's the essential resource for computer professionals who aim to get the most from their enterprise systems. Experience Level: Advanced
Step-by-Step Electronic Design Techniques
Authors: Step-By-Step Publishing
Venue:  (1997)

:For the first time, favorite techniques, developed by the best in the design industry, are gathered in one place - hand-picked from the top how-to publication for digital designers, Step-By-Step Electronic Design.
Java for S/390 and as/400 COBOL Programmers with Cdrom
Authors: Phil Coulthard, George Farr
Venue:  (2000)

:Written by mainframe and midrange professionals George Farr and Phil Coulthard, Java? for S/390 & AS/400 COBOL Programmers is designed to help COBOL programmers make the jump to Java. It teaches COBOL programmers how to read and write Java programs and helps them understand the concepts necessary to continue to improve their Java skills. Rather than serve merely as an overview, Java? for S/390 & AS/400 COBOL Programmers is a massive work of more than 900 pages that addresses Java's syntax and much of the Java Development Kit's (JDK's) functionality through comparisons with COBOL. It also introduces applets, Java Native Interface (JNI), Remote Method Invocation (RMI), serialization, JavaBeans, Enterprise JavaBeans, servlets, JavaServer Pages, and even Extensible Markup Language (XML). Because VisualAge for Java (VAJ) is by far the most widely used Java tool among AS/400 and S/390 programmers, the book also includes an introduction to VAJ with both AS/400 and S/390 details. The book contains separate appendices, geared explicitly to OS/400 and OS/390 readers, with platform-specific information. Many analysts are predicting that Java will overtake COBOL's commanding lead as the language of choice for business applications running on mainframe and midrange computers. This leaves COBOL programmers with a huge problem. They do not know Java, nor do they understand object-oriented concepts. They have never seen a function, let alone free-form C-style syntax, classes, objects, or methods. Although there are hundreds of books about Java on the market, they all assume C, C++, or Visual Basic knowledge. It can be a humbling, daunting, and frustrating experience for a COBOL professional to try to learn Java without the proper prerequisite knowledge. This book will make learning Java as comfortable as possible
Panel discussion: is ISSTA testing research relevant to industrial users?
Authors: Ashok Sreenivas
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Software testing and analysis (2002)

We discuss the direct relevance of on-going testing research to the 'users' of the research, namely the industrial practitioners. The current state-of-the-practice in software testing is quite ad-hoc and provides little or no assertions about the quality of the delivered software product. We propose the view that research that is aligned with formal approaches to software development is the best bet to achieve this goal.
Providing stochastic delay guarantees through channel characteristics based resource reservation in wireless network
Authors: Prasanna Chaporkar, Saswati Sarkar
Venue: Proceedings of the 5th ACM international workshop on Wireless mobile multimedia (2002)

This paper is directed towards providing quality of service guarantees for transmission of multimedia traffic over wireless links. The quality of service guarantees require transmission of packets within prespecified deadlines. Oftentimes, bursty, location dependent channel errors preclude such deadline satisfaction leading to packet drop. Wireless systems need resource reservation to limit such deadline violation related packet drop below acceptable thresholds. The resource reservation depends on the scheduling policy, statistical channel qualities and arrival traffic. We choose Earliest Deadline First as the baseline scheduling policy and design an admission control strategy which provides delay guarantees and limits the packet drop by regulating the number of admitted sessions in accordance with the long term transmission characteristics and arrival traffic of the incoming sessions. We analytically quantify the stochastic packet drop guarantees provided by the framework, and show using simulation that the design results in low packet drop.
Living on the Faultline: Managing for Shareholder Value in the Age of the Internet
Authors: Geoffrey A. Moore
Venue:  (2000)

:The fault line--that dangerous, unstable seam in the economy where the Internet and other powerful innovations meet and create market-shattering tremors. Every company lives on it; no manager can control it. Everyone must learn to deal with it. Now, Geoffrey Moore, author of Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado, two bestselling works that helped guide the high-tech revolution, explores the new management paradigms that will guide businesses in the twenty-first century, showing them how to survive and thrive on the fault line. In this long-awaited new book, Moore turns his attention to the most important question for businesses: How can companies that rose to prominence prior to the age of the Internet manage for shareholder value now that the Internet is upon us? The old management truths are dead. Business models that worked admirably until the last decade of the twentieth century must be replaced. The dotcoms are invading every sector of commerce, overturning established relationships, reengineering markets, attacking long-established price points, and disintermediating longstanding institutions. What should management do when it is under direct assault from companies no one ever heard of even a few years ago? In a book that will reset the management agenda in the age of the Internet, Moore shows why sensitivity to stock price is the single most important lever for managing in the future, both as a leading indicator of shifts in competitive advantage and as an employee motivator for making necessary changes in organizations heretofore impervious to change. He prescribes a new agenda for management teams that includes New strategies for achieving and sustaining competitive advantage New metrics to keep management teams on course with these strategies A specific blueprint for how the blue-chip companies can meet the challenge of the dotcoms Models of organizational change for each stage of market development The crucial role of declaring a culture inenabling swift response to global change Today practically every company, whether inside the high-tech sector or not, is living on the fault line. By synthesizing his groundbreaking earlier work on the dynamics of technology-based markets with a new focus on managing publicly held corporations for shareholder value, Geoffrey Moore provides a highly prescriptive guide for any company struggling to manage the disruptive forces of the new economy. In Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado, Moore created a new language for navigating the technology adoption life cycle. In Living on the Fault Line, he once again offers a brilliant set of navigational tools to help meet today's defining management challenge-managing for shareholder value in the age of the Internet.
Local model checking of Java bytecode
Authors: Antonella Santone, Gigliola Vaglini
Venue: Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software engineering and knowledge engineering (2002)

We present a model checking procedure to verify a subset of the Java Virtual Machine Language. The procedure works on a finite tractable state representation of the program: in fact, abstraction techniques are employed, driven by the temporal logic formula representing the property to be checked. A tableau-based method is developed to proof the satisfaction of the formulae: thus not all the program computations are checked, but only those ones interested in the goal of the property verification.
Visual C++.NET: A Primer for C++ Developers, 1st edition
Authors: Aravind Corera, Sam Gentile, Stephen R. Fraser
Venue:  (2002)

:This book is aimed at experienced Microsoft Visual C++ developers who need to understand the nature and purpose of the new features in Visual C++ .NET. It assumes familiarity with COM and ATL, but no prior experience of the .NET Framework is necessary.
Content-based music indexing and organization
Authors: Andreas Rauber, Elias Pampalk, Dieter Merkl
Venue: Proceedings of the 25th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (2002)

While electronic music archives are gaining popularity, access to and navigation within these archives is usually limited to text-based queries or manually predefined genre category browsing. We present a system that automatically organizes a music collection according to the perceived sound similarity resembling genres or styles of music. Audio signals are processed according to psychoacoustic models to obtain a time-invariant representation of its characteristics. Subsequent clustering provides an intuitive interface where similar pieces of music are grouped together on a map display.
Problem Solving in C++ Including Breadth and Laboratories, 1st edition
Authors: Angela B. Shiflet, John S. Hinkel
Venue:  (1998)

:In the author's words, this book introduces students "to the analysis, design, implementation, testing, and debugging of programs using C++, and to the breadth and richness of the computer science discipline." PROBLEM SOLVING IN C++ features an early but gradual and natural introduction to object-oriented programming (starting in Chapter 3), and chapter-ending, built-in laboratories that directly support the book's presentation of concepts. It offers twenty-two discrete "breadth" sections that present a broad range of topics in computer science. The author presents programming in a clear, visual manner with ample use of examples and figures. Other learning features include exercises at the end of each section, an average of 17 programming projects per chapter, historical anecdotes, chapter introductions and goals, programming and debugging hints, chapter key terms and summaries, and review questions.
The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling, 2nd edition
Authors: Ralph Kimball, Margy Ross
Venue:  (2002)

:The latest edition of the single most authoritative guide on dimensional modeling for data warehousing!Dimensional modeling has become the most widely accepted approach for data warehouse design. Here is a complete library of dimensional modeling techniques the most comprehensive collection ever written. Greatly expanded to cover both basic and advanced techniques for optimizing data warehouse design, this second edition to Ralph Kimballs classic guide is more than sixty percent updated. The authors begin with fundamental design recommendations and gradually progress step-by-step through increasingly complex scenarios. Clear-cut guidelines for designing dimensional models are illustrated using real-world data warehouse case studies drawn from a variety of business application areas and industries, including: Retail sales and e-commerce Inventory management Procurement Order management Customer relationship management (CRM) Human resources management Accounting Financial services Telecommunications and utilities Education Transportation Health care and insurance By the end of the book, you will have mastered the full range of powerful techniques for designing dimensional databases that are easy to understand and provide fast query response. You will also learn how to create an architected framework that integrates the distributed data warehouse using standardized dimensions and facts. Author Biography: Ralph KimbalL, PhD, has been a leading visionary in the data warehouse industry since 1982 and is one of todays most well- known speakers, consultants, and teachers. He writes the "Data Warehouse Designer" column for Intelligent Enterprise magazine and is also the author of the bestselling books The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit and The Data Webhouse Toolkit (both from Wiley). Margy Ross is President of DecisionWorks Consulting and a Ralph Kimball Associate. She has focused exclusively on decision support and data warehousing since 1982. Margy coauthored the highly acclaimed The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit, consults on data warehouse projects worldwide, and teaches data warehouse design for Kimball University.
Lookback: a new way of exploiting parallelism in discrete event simulation
Authors: Gilbert Chen, Boleslaw K. Szymanski
Venue: Proceedings of the sixteenth workshop on Parallel and distributed simulation (2002)

Lookback is defined as the ability of a logical process to change its past locally (without involving other logical processes). Logical processes with lookback are able to process out-of-timestamp order events, enabling new synchronization protocols for the parallel discrete event simulation. Two of such protocols, LB-GVT (LookBack-Global Virtual Time) and LB-EIT (LookBack-Earliest Input Time), are presented and their performance on the Closed Queuing Network (CQN) simulation is discussed. We also discuss in detail the relation between lookahead and lookback. Finally, we demonstrate that lookback allows conservative simulations to circumvent the speedup limit imposed by the critical path.
Object-Oriented Programming with Java: A First Programming Text, 1st edition
Authors: David J. Barnes
Venue:  (2000)

: An objects-early approach showing how to design and use fully-fledged objects. An accessible introduction to the fundamental object-oriented topics of polymorphism and inheritance. Significant coverage of GUI classes belonging to both Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT) and Swing (JFC). The latest coverage of Java 2 Platform API. Usage of power threads for multi-threaded programs. Timely coverage of networking, via TCP/IP, to interact with non-Java programs. A unique chapter on event-driven simulation. Support materials include Prentice Hall's Companion Web site ...