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Proceedings of the ninth ACM symposium on Solid modeling and applications
Venue: ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling (2004)

The ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications is an annual international forum for the exchange of recent research in and applications of spatial modeling and computations in design, analysis and manufacturing, as well as in emerging biomedical, geophysical and other areas. Previous symposia in this series were held in Austin, Texas, 1991; Montreal, Canada, 1993; Salt Lake City, Utah, 1995; Atlanta, Georgia, 1997; Ann Arbor, Michigan 1999 and 2001; Saarbrucken, Germany, 2002; and Seattle, Washington, 2003. For additional information, visit www.solidmodeling.org, the home page of the Solid Modeling Association that oversees the symposia series.The Ninth Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications was held in Genoa, Italy on June 9-11, 2004. This year's conference was held jointly with SMI04, with a one-day shared program. Added-on symposium activities included courses and tutorials before and after the plenary session. Sixty papers were reviewed by an international program committee and reviewers from around the world. At least three external reviewers and members of the program committee reviewed each paper. A total of 20 refereed papers were selected for plenary presentation and full paper publication in the proceedings. In addition, 20 papers were selected for poster presentation and six-page paper publication in the proceedings.The symposium program also included three keynote presentations invited from leading authorities in industry and academia.
Parallel and distributed simulation: traditional techniques and recent advances
Authors: Kalyan S. Perumalla
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

This tutorial on parallel and distributed simulation systems reviews some of the traditional synchronization techniques and presents some recent advances.
Context-Aware, adaptive information retrieval for investigative tasks
Authors: Zhen Wen, Michelle X. Zhou, Vikram Aggarwal
Venue: Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces (2007)

We are building an intelligent information system to aid users in their investigative tasks, such as detecting fraud. In such a task, users must progressively search and analyze relevant information before drawing a conclusion. In this paper, we address how to help users find relevant informa-tion during an investigation. Specifically, we present a novel approach that can improve information retrieval by exploiting a user's investigative context. Compared to existing retrieval systems, which are either context insensitive or leverage only limited user context, our work offers two unique contributions. First, our system works with users cooperatively to build an investigative context, which is otherwise very difficult to capture by machine or human alone. Second, we develop a context-aware method that can adaptively retrieve and evaluate information relevant to an ongoing investigation. Experiments show that our approach can improve the relevance of retrieved information significantly. As a result, users can fulfill their investigative tasks more efficiently and effectively.
On-line instrumentation for simulation-based optimization
Authors: Anna Persson, Henrik Grimm, Amos Ng
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

Traditionally, a simulation-based optimization (SO) system is designed as a black-box in which the internal details of the optimization process is hidden from the user and only the final optimization solutions are presented. As the complexity of the SO systems and the optimization problems to be solved increases, instrumentation -- a technique for monitoring and controlling the SO processes -- is becoming more important. This paper proposes a white-box approach by advocating the use of instrumentation components in SO systems, based on a component-based architecture. This paper argues that a number of advantages, including efficiency enhancement, gaining insight from the optimization trajectories and higher controllability of the SO processes, can be brought out by an on-line instrumentation approach. This argument is supported by the illustration of an instrumentation component developed for a SO system designed for solving real-world multi-objective operation scheduling problems.
Managed DirectX 9 Kick Start: Graphics and Game Programming (Kick Start)
Authors: Tom Miller
Venue:  (2003)

Managed DirectX was released with the latest version of the core DirectX libraries in DirectX9. It enables developers using the new .NET languages (i.e. C#, VB.NET, etc.) to develop rich multimedia applications with DirectX. Unfortunately the Managed DirectX runtime was released without adequate documentation, and developers are having a hard time figuring out the best way to write managed applications. This book covers how to use the Managed DirectX objects, how they differ from the core DirectX libraries, and how to create these rich multimedia applications in C#. It also covers in depth graphics techniques and the new high-level shader language shipping with DirectX9.
Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 24 Hours (2nd Edition) (Sams Teach Yourself)
Authors: Kynn Bartlett
Venue:  (2006)

You know you should use cascading style sheets (CSS) to simplify your web pages, but how do you use CSS? Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 24 Hours, Second Edition is a carefully organized, well-written tutorial that teaches you not only how to use cascading style sheets, but also how to make smart decisions about how and when to apply CSS, based on browser support and intended effects. You'll cover standards compliant CSS, with an emphasis on providing both a theoretical understanding and practical experience at implementing CSS. In 24 straightforward one-hour long lessons, you learn by accomplishing hands-on tasks that can be applied to your own site. The tutorials have been updated for this second edition to cover browsers that have become more widely used since the release of the first edition. It also has been updated to cover styling of forms, troubleshooting CSS, and other important new developments. 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
Atomicity and visibility in tiny embedded systems
Authors: John Regehr, Nathan Cooprider, David Gay
Venue: Proceedings of the 3rd workshop on Programming languages and operating systems: linguistic support for modern operating systems (2006)

Visibility is a property of a programming language's memory model that determines when values stored by one concurrent computation become visible to other computations. Our work exploits the insight that in nesC, a C-like language with explicit atomicity, the traditional way of ensuring timely visibility---volatile variables---can be entirely avoided. This is advantageous because the volatile qualifier is a notorious source of programming errors and misunderstandings. Furthermore, the volatile qualifier hurts performance by inhibiting many more optimizations than are necessary to ensure visibility. In this paper we extend the semantics of nesC's atomic statements to include a visibility guarantee, we show two ways that these semantics can be implemented, and we also show that our better implementation has no drawbacks in terms of resource usage.
New polytopes from products
Authors: Andreas Paffenholz
Venue: Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A (2006)

We construct a new 2-parameter family Emn, m, n ≥ 3, of self-dual 2-simple and 2-simplicial 4-polytopes, with flexible geometric realisations. E44 is the 24-cell. For large m, n the f-vectors have "fatness" close to 6. The Et-construction of Paffenholz and Ziegler applied to products of polygons yields cellular spheres with the combinatorial structure of Emn. Here we prove polytopality of these spheres. More generally, we construct polytopal realisations for spheres obtained from the Et-construction applied to products of polytopes in any dimension d ≥ 3, if these polytopes satisfy some consistency conditions. We show that the projective realisation space of E33 is at least nine-dimensional and that of E44 at least four-dimensional. This proves that the 24-cell is not projectively unique. All Emn for relatively prime m, n ≥ 5 have automorphisms of their face lattice not induced by an affine transformation of any geometric realisation. The group Zm × Zn generated by rotations in the two polygons is a subgroup of the automorphisms of the face lattice of Emn. However, there are only five pairs (m, n) for which this subgroup is geometrically realisable.
A distributed scheme for bandwidth reallocation between working and recovery paths
Authors: K. E. Müller, A. E. Krzesinski
Venue: Proceedings of the 2006 annual research conference of the South African institute of computer scientists and information technologists on IT research in developing countries (2006)

This paper presents a model of network failure recovery based on a scheme for reallocating bandwidth in path-oriented transport networks. We first describe the bandwidth reallocation scheme where, at specified time points, bandwidth can be switched to those routes that (possibly temporarily) value it most highly. This is done entirely according to local rules and without centralised control.We next describe our model of network failure recovery. We consider a protection switching recovery model which works with pre-established reserve-on-demand recovery routes. A reserve-on-demand recovery route allocates required resources after a failure on the working path has been detected. The bandwidth reallocation scheme is used to distribute bandwidth between the working routes before and after a failure, and between the working and recovery routes during the recovery cycle.To support the efficacy of such a system, we present a simulation model of failure recovery in a 30-node 46-link network. The simulation study reveals that bandwidth reallocation allows rapid recovery after the failure of a single link. Traffic is restarted on a recovery route within one round trip time and the recovery path attains the same Grade of Service (GoS) as its working counterpart within 0.1 call holding times.
Special Edition Using Crystal Reports 10 (Special Edition Using)
Authors: Neil FitzGerald, Ryan Marples, Naisan Geula, Bob Coates, James Edkins, Michael Voloshko
Venue:  (2004)

Special Edition Using Crystal Reports 10 is a reference guide designed to provide hands-on experience with the latest release of the product suite. The latest version of the Crystal Reporting Suite, delivers vast enhancements that drive upgrades from licensees who'll seek a reference to help them migrate. As Crystal Decisions insiders, the authors bring unique and valuable real-world perspectives on implementations and use of the Crystal Reports product. The book includes content, tutorials and samples for reporting within the Microsoft Visual Studio.NET environment and on the SAP Business Information Warehouse. New content on report distribution, and integration into the secured managed reporting solution known as Crystal Enterprise, is also now included in this definitive user guide.
Planning as satisfiability: parallel plans and algorithms for plan search
Authors: Jussi Rintanen, Keijo Heljanko, Ilkka Niemelä
Venue: Artificial Intelligence (2006)

We address two aspects of constructing plans efficiently by means of satisfiability testing: efficient encoding of the problem of existence of plans of a given number t of time points in the propositional logic and strategies for fnding plans, given these formulae for different values of t.For the first problem we consider three semantics for plans with parallel operator application in order to make the search for plans more efficient. The standard semantics requires that parallel operators are independent and can therefore be executed in any order. We consider a more relaxed definition of parallel plans which was first proposed by Dimopoulos et al., as well as a normal form for parallel plans that requires every operator to be executed as early as possible. We formalize the semantics of parallel plans emerging in this setting and present translations of these semantics into the propositional logic. The sizes of the translations are asymptotically optimal. Each of the semantics is constructed in such a way that there is a plan following the semantics exactly when there is a sequential plan, and moreover, the existence of a parallel plan implies the existence of a sequential plan with as many operators as in the parallel one.For the second problem we consider strategies based on testing the satisfiability of several formulae representing plans of n time steps for several values of n concurrently by several processes. We show that big efficiency gains can be obtained in comparison to the standard strategy of sequentially testing the satisfiability of formulae for an increasing number of time steps.
Real World Mac OS X Fonts (Real World)
Authors: Sharon Zardetto Aker
Venue:  (2006)

As someone who works with fonts every day, you need to know exactly how fonts work in Mac OS X. Long-time Mac author Sharon Zardetto Aker has the answers you need, explaining where your fonts reside, why they are there, and what to do about duplication and long Font menus. Once that's under control, you'll learn things like the ins and outs of different font installation methods; how to use Font Book to manage, validate, and organize fonts; ways of dealing with legacy Mac OS 9 fonts; and how to make the most of character-rich Unicode fonts. And to help with those maddening font problems, Sharon provides troubleshooting steps and real-world advice for solving problems fast. If you've experienced seemingly inexplicable trouble with characters displaying incorrectly, an inability to type a particular character, fonts missing from Font menus, confusing behavior in Microsoft or Adobe programs, Font Book crashing, or Character Palette misbehaving, Real World Mac OS X Fonts has the help you need. In this book, you'll find the answers to questions like these: What types of fonts can I use with Mac OS X? In what order does Mac OS X access fonts from all their possible locations? How can I figure out what characters are available in a Unicode font? How can I minimize font-related troubles when sharing documents across platforms? How do I go about troubleshooting a font problem? How do I enter special characters? How do I print font samples? How do I work with legacy fonts?
Socio-technical defense against voice spamming
Authors: Prakash Kolan, Ram Dantu
Venue: ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS) (2007)

Voice over IP (VoIP) is a key enabling technology for migration of circuit-switched PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) architectures to packet-based networks. One problem of the present VoIP networks is filtering spam calls referred to as SPIT (Spam over Internet Telephony). Unlike spam in e-mail systems, VoIP spam calls have to be identified in real time. Many of the techniques devised for e-mail spam detection rely upon content analysis, and in the case of VoIP, it is too late to analyze the content (voice) as the user would have already attended the call. Therefore, the real challenge is to block a spam call before the telephone rings. In addition, we believe it is imperative that spam filters integrate human behavioral aspects to gauge the legitimacy of voice calls. We know that, when it comes to receiving or rejecting a voice call, people use the social meaning of trust, reputation, friendship of the calling party and their own mood. In this article, we describe a multi-stage, adaptive spam filter based on presence (location, mood, time), trust, and reputation to detect spam in voice calls. In particular, we describe a closed-loop feedback control between different stages to decide whether an incoming call is spam. We further propose formalism for voice-specific trust and reputation analysis. We base this formal model on a human intuitive behavior for detecting spam based on the called party's direct and indirect relationships with the calling party. No VoIP corpus is available for testing the detection mechanism. Therefore, for verifying the detection accuracy, we used a laboratory setup of several soft-phones, real IP phones and a commercial-grade proxy server that receives and processes incoming calls. We experimentally validated the proposed filtering mechanisms by simulating spam calls and measured the filter's accuracy by applying the trust and reputation formalism. We observed that, while the filter blocks a second spam call from a spammer calling from the same end IP host and domain, the filter needs only a maximum of three calls---even in the case when spammer moves to a new host and domain. Finally, we present a detailed sensitivity analysis for examining the influence of parameters such as spam volume and network size on the filter's accuracy.
Aix Version 4.3 to 5L Migration Guide (IBM Redbooks)
Authors: Cathrin Klonowski
Venue:  (2003)

Latest enhancements in AIX 5L Version 5.1 and Version 5.2 Planning and preparation hints and tips for your migration Step-by-step migration tasks by media and NIM This IBM Redbook will provide AIX system administrators with the key information they need to know in order to make a safe migration to AIX 5L. It covers the steps that are required when planning, preparing, and actually migrating a system to the latest available level of AIX (currently AIX 5L Version 5.2) from AIX Version 4.3. Before discussing the actual migration steps, we first point out the latest enhancements and new functions that have been delivered with AIX 5L Version 5.1 and Version 5.2 and why we recommend that you upgrade your system. We then explain how to plan, prepare, and perform the migration, focusing on providing hints, tips, and sources of additional information. We will explain detailed step-by-step actual migration by media and Network Installation Management (NIM). This redbook also covers post-migration issues, including NIM master and alternate disk migration specific tasks. Lastly, we will summarize major applications issues when you migrate your system from AIX Version 4.3 to AIX 5L. This redbook will help you design your solution to migrate your AIX system to the latest available version of AIX. 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
Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
Authors: Patricia Cardoza
Venue:  (2003)

This is the ONLY book you need to achieve maximum productivity when using this messaging and groupware application! Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 is a business-focused guide to Microsoft Outlook. It focuses on maximizing user productivity with real-world techniques in real-world environments. Topics covered include using Outlook as a personal information manager; collaborating with calendars; staying organized with the Outlook Journal; using Outlook securely; working remotely with Exchange server; programming in Outlook; and using VBA in Outlook.
Customizing Windows XP: Visual QuickProject Guide
Authors: John Rizzo
Venue:  (2005)

Every new PC sold comes installed with Windows XP, so there are millions ofï¾ XP users out there, so why not make your Windows XP machine work and look the way you want it to and stand out from the rest? Customizing Windows XP: Visual QuickProject Guide shows you how to customize you machine so you can work the way you want to. Each chapter uses large, four-color screenshots and focused instructions to lead you through common customizing tasks. This guide will help you learn the hidden productivity tricks, inside tips, and little known shortcuts to navigating and customizing your windows; changing backgrounds and screensavers; altering icons and mouse pointers; customizing and arranging folders; configuring for multiple users; and much more!
Real-world evaluation of ring flooding
Authors: Wolfgang Kiess, Andreas Tarp, Martin Mauve
Venue: ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review (2006)

Flooding is a basic mechanism frequently used in mobile ad-hoc networks. In its simplest form flooding is realized by letting each node rebroadcast the flooded packet exactly once. To limit the scope of a flooded data packet, the sender of the packet may use ring flooding. For this, the packet's time-to-live (TTL) field is initially set to n. As the TTL of the packet expires after n hops, it only reaches all those nodes that are at most n hops away from the original sender. Ring flooding is used, e.g., to distribute information only relevant in a certain area such as emergency messages in car-to-car networks, or to do an expanding ring search during route discovery as in AODV [2].
Expressive programs through presentation extension
Authors: Andrew D. Eisenberg, Gregor Kiczales
Venue: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development (2007)

Most approaches to programming language extensibility have worked by pairing syntactic extension with semantic extension. We present an approach that works through a combination of presentation extension and semantic extension. We also present an architecture for this approach, an Eclipse-based implementation targeting the Java programming language, and examples that show how presentation extension, both with and without semantic extension, can make programs more expressive.
Adobe Creative Suite 2 Classroom in a Book
Venue:  (2005)

Adobe Creative Suite 2, Adobe's tightly integrated set of design tools, offers enough goodies to make any graphic designer swoon. Since the Premium edition of this software collection includes Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS 2, InDesign CS2, GoLive CS2, and Acrobat 7.0 Professionalï¾as well as a handful of other shiny new toolsï¾users will find everything they need to create beautiful content for print, the Web, and mobile devices. Here to make sure you master it quickly and completely is a self-paced guide from Adobe's Creative Team--the folks behind the software. With the Classroom in a Book series, you learn by immersion. Step-by-step, project-based lessons walk you through sample real-life projects, while review questions at the end of each chapter reinforce the new skills you've learned. The companion CD, filled with lesson and media files, will have you working on print, Web and PDF projects in no time. Whether you're a graphic design novice, student, graphic designer, educator, or are just new to the Adobe Creative Suite, this book will give you a solid overview of Adobe's creative design software. 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
Python Essential Reference (3rd Edition) (Developer's Library)
Authors: David M. Beazley
Venue:  (2006)

Python Essential Reference, 3rd Edition, is a comprehensive reference to the Python programming language. The focus ofï¾ this latestï¾ edition is to add coverage of significant new features and new library modules added to the language over the past five years.ï¾ Clearly written with concise organization,ï¾ the newï¾ features coveredï¾ include new style classes, unification of types and classes, xmlrpclip, intertools, bz2 and optparse, making it the most up-to-date Python book on the market.