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Meta-Modeling: Performance and Information Modeling
Authors: Jean-Michel Berge
Venue:  (1996)

:Models in system design follow the general tendency in electronics in terms of size, complexity and difficulty of maintenance. While a model should be a manageable representation of a system, this increasing complexity sometimes forces current CAD-tool designers and model writers to apply modeling techniques to the model itself. Model writers are interested in instrumenting their model, so as to extract critical information before the model is complete. CAD tools designers use internal representations of the design at various stages. The complexity has also led CAD-tool developers to develop formal tools, theories and methods to improve relevance, completeness and consistency of those internal representations. Information modeling involves the representation of objects, their properties and relationships. Meta-Modeling: Performance and Information Modeling contains papers describing the very latest techniques used in meta-modeling. It will be a valuable text for researchers, practitioners, and students involved in Electronic Design Automation.
A collaborative framework for distributed microscopy
Authors: B. Parvin, J. Taylor, G. Cong
Venue: Proceedings of the 1998 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing (CDROM) (1998)

This paper outlines the motivation, requirements, and architecture of a collaborative framework for distributed virtual microscopy. In this context, the requirements are specified in terms of (1) functionality, (2) scalability, (3) interactivity, and (4) safety and security. Functionality refers to what and how an instrument does something. Scalability refers to the number of instruments, vendor-specific desktop workstations, analysis programs, and collaborators that can be accessed. Interactivity refers to how well the system can be steered either for static or dynamic experiments. Safety and security refers to safe operation of an instrument coupled with user authentication, privacy, and integrity of data communication.To meet these requirements, we introduce three types of services in the architecture: Instrument Services (IS), Exchange Services (ES), and Computational Services (CS). These services may reside on any host in the distributed system. The IS provide an abstraction for manipulating different types of microscopes; the ES provide common services that are required between different resources; and the CS provide analytical capabilities for data analysis and simulation. These services are brought together through CORBA and its enabling services, e.g., Event Services, Time Services, Naming Services, and Security Services.Two unique applications have been introduced into the CS for analyzing scientific images either for instrument control or recovery of a model for objects of interest. These include: in-situ electron microscopy and recovery of 3D shape from holographic microscopy. The first application provides a near real-time processing of the video-stream for on-line quantitative analysis and the use of that information for closed-loop servo control. The second application reconstructs a 3D representation of an inclusion (a crystal structure in a matrix) from multiple views through holographic electron microscopy.These application require steering external stimuli or computational parameters for a particular result. In a sense, "computational instruments" (symmetric multiprocessors) interact closely with data generated from "experimental instruments" (unique microscopes) to conduct new experiments and bring new functionalities to these instruments. Both of these features exploit high-performance computing and low-latency networks to bring novel functionalities to unique scientific imaging instruments.
Adobe PhotoShop 6.0 for Photographers: A Professional Image Editor's Guide to the Creative Use of PhotoShop for the MacIntosh and PC with Cdrom
Authors: Martin Evening
Venue:  (2000)

:Adobe Photoshop 6.0 for Photographers begins with an introduction to working with digital images, providing essential information on everything from scanning devices to color management and output issues. Practical workshops show you how to master the essential techniques, such as optimizing an image for prepress, color correction, retouching techniques, layers palette management, toning a black and white image, rendering textures and so on. Each technique is described in step-by-step detail, showing exactly which command to use, whether you're working with a Mac or PC. The accompanying free CD-ROM contains invaluable movie tutorials and a selection of images to experiment with. If you are just beginning to work with digital images or are looking for new ideas, the best techniques and ways to improve the quality of your work, this is the book for you!
A Complete Visual Basic Database Training Course: The Ultimate Cyber Classroom
Authors: Dave Perkovich
Venue:  (1998)

:The complete, multimedia introduction to developing client-side database applications with Visual Basic. Includes Visual Basic Database Programming Multimedia Cyber Classroom, the complete interactivemultimedia tutorial on Visual Basic 5 client/server application development. It contains over 2 hours of audio, hundreds of lines of fully-tested, live Visual Basic code, interactive exercises, animations, full-text searching, hyperlinking, and more! Comes with the world's best guide to Visual Basic 5 for experienced programmers, Core Visual Basic 5, by Gary Cornell, which provides end-to-end coverage of allthe major database interfaces. Perfect for Visual Basic programmers who want to write programs that talk to SQL databases and who want to create database-driven Web sites. There is unprecedented demand for Visual Basic client/server database development skills, but until now these skills were difficult and expensive to acquire. This package brings together comprehensive, interactive, self-paced training that will allow any experienced programmer to start creating real-world VB5database applications - fast. Start with an introduction to client/server development, SQL Server, the Microsoft Jet Engine, and ODBC. Move on to more advanced database concepts, including normalization, referential integrity, and ISAM databases. Understand all the major database interfaces, including Data Access Object (DAO), Remote Data Object (RDO), ODBC Direct, ODBC API, and the new ActiveX Data Object (ADO). Topics also include Stored Queries, Stored Procedures, and the Microsoft Transaction Server. Finally, learn about OLE automation and Distributed COM, Microsoft's technology for distributed client/server development. The book, Core Visual Basic 5, by best-selling author Gary Cornell and Microsoft VB5 development team member Dave Jezak, complements the CD-ROM perfectly. It covers the development of ActiveX EXEs and DLLs; object-oriented VB5 programming techniques; profiling, testing and optimizing VB5 apps; the VB5 class wizard, and much more. If you're an experienced programmer who wants to use VB5 for client/side database applications, you finally have a world-class, cost-effective training solution!
Foundations of object-oriented languages: types and semantics
Authors: Kim B. Bruce
Venue:  (2002)

In recent years, object-oriented programming has emerged as the dominant computer programming style, and object-oriented languages such as C++ and Java enjoy wide use in academic and industry. This text explores the formal underpinnings of object-oriented languages to help the reader understand the fundamental concepts of these languages and the design decisions behind them.
The Practical Handbook of Genetic Algorithms: Applications, Second Edition, 2nd edition
Authors: Lance D. Chambers
Venue:  (2000)

:Rapid developments in the field of genetic algorithms along with the popularity of the first edition precipitated this extensively revised, thoroughly updated second edition. This edition allows practitioners to stay up to date on the more recent discoveries in the field, It continues to provide them with material they can use productively in their own endeavors, including computer code available for download from the Internet.
Data Structures and the Standard Template Library, 1st edition
Authors: William J. Collins
Venue:  (2002)

:DATA STRUCTURES AND THE STANDARD TEMPLATE LIBRARY by William Collins teaches the fundamentals of Data Structures and their implementations. It uses C++ as the language of instruction. Most of the data structures are provided in the Standard Template Library (STL),which students will be able to use in their further coursework and beyond. To further students' understanding of implementation issues,alternative implementation (other than the STL) are also discussed. Hands-on learning is promoted throughout the text by the use of Programming Projects and labs. Programming projects,at the end of each chapter,allow students to develop and implement their own data structures or to extend or apply data structures introduced in the chapter. Additionally,optional labs accompany the text and allow students to practice by giving them opportunities to code. These labs can be used in many different ways such as in a closed lab,in an open lab,or for optional homework assignments.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Surfing the Internet with Webtv
Authors: Michael Miller
Venue:  (1999)

:The Complete Idiot's Guide to WebTV and WebTV Plus covers features of the different types of WebTV Internet terminals and accessories, basic WebTV hardware operation, WebTV Network use, and general Internet navigation. You will find everything you need to use WebTV in this single volume, from pre-purchase information to system setup to more experienced Web surfing and communications. As an added bonus, the tear-out card in this book features a map of the important keys on the WebTV keyboard, as well as a map of the sometimes-confusing WebTV Network services. 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
Online Business Atlas: The Best Online Sites, Resources and Services in Management, Marketing and Promotion, Sales, Entrepreneurial Ventures, Int
Authors: Douglas E. Goldstein
Venue:  (1996)

:This text explores the best online sites and services in management, marketing and promotion, sales, entrepreneurial ventures, international business, accounting, banking and finance, economics, insurance investment, real estate and legal issues. Internet surfers can use this guide to find the most creative and practical business sites on the Net.
TCP/IP Applications Programming for OS/2: With Applications for Presentation Manager
Authors: Steven J. Gutz
Venue:  (1996)

:The exploding Internet marketplace beckons programmers to jump into this fast lane of programming. Up to now, the publishing world has more or less ignored the OS/2 programmer who wants to develop applications for TCP/IP. Steven Gutz fills the void by providing detailed techniques for creating effective TCP/IP applications using the C or C++ language. He develops complete OS/2 TCP/IP applications for ping, news, gopher, and FTP (complete source code is provided in the companion disk). This is not a "TCP/IP for Dummies" book. You should be an intermediate to advanced programmer, preferably with some OS/2 experience, who is comfortable with C++ and the concepts of object oriented programming.
Optimal time borrowing analysis and timing budgeting optimization for latch-based designs
Authors: Shi-Zheng Eric Lin, Chieh Changfan, Yu-Chin Hsu, Fur-Shing Tsai
Venue: ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) (2002)

An interesting property of a latch-based design is that the combinational path delay is allowed to be longer than the clock cycle as long as it can "borrow" time from the shorter paths in the subsequent logic stages. This gives designers a lot of flexibility in designing circuits, especially high performance ones. However, it also increases the complexity in timing analysis. Finding the best clock period or determining how much time to borrow from the subsequent logic stages is difficult especially for designs containing multiple clocks, mixed-clock paths, user-specified multicycle paths, and false paths. In this article, we formulate the time borrowing problem as a linear programming problem. An optimal time borrowing solution can be found by solving the formulation. Based on this time borrowing solver, algorithms are proposed for timing optimization to achieve the optimal clock period. Experimental results show our algorithm is efficient and yields very good results.
Monitoring very high speed links
Authors: Gianluca Iannaccone, Christophe Diot, Ian Graham, Nick McKeown
Venue: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet Measurement (2001)

Our goal is to build passive monitoring equipment for use at 10Gb/s (e.g. 10GE and OC-192) and above. We already have in place an OC-48 passive monitoring system for capturing and storing a detailed record for every packet. But because of constraints on storage and bus bandwidth this will not be feasible at 10Gb/s and above. Therefore, taking advantage of the fact that packets can be considered as belonging to flows, our system will store per-flow records that are created at the time of capture, and stored alongside small per-packet records. This way storage requirements can be reduced several-fold. Results indicate that it will be possible to capture and store detailed flow information at OC-192 without losing much information compared to our OC-48 packet traces.
EDI and Data Networking in the Public Sector
Authors: Kim Viborg Andersen
Venue:  (1998)

:The public sector uses electronic data interchange (EDI) in areas such as the health sector, procurement, meat inspection, taxation, transportation, and the courts. Also, government encourages the private sector to enhance their use of electronic communication to secure faster and more reliable exchange of data, to save manpower, and to enable organizational transformation to the information society. In EDI and Data Networking in the Public Sector authors from eight countries report on the modes of governmental intervention to stimulate the usage of EDI and the challenges facing government as they try to smoothen their own units via organizational management. With cases (a total of 14 chapters) from Singapore, Denmark, USA, Sweden, England, Australia, and the Netherlands, this book finds that government in some countries are ahead of the private sector in utilization of EDI and that government at supranational, central and local levels are active players in the field. Local levels of government and the quasi-governmental organizations provides an important supplement to the efforts by central government to increase the overall usage of EDI. EDI and Data Networking in the Public Sector will be of interest to all researchers and practitioners in MIS. Computer Science and International Trade working on the adoption of new technology.
Bringing Geographical Information Systems into Business
Authors: David J. Grimshaw
Venue:  (1994)

:Integrating theory and practice, it takes a look at GIS from the dual perspective of information systems and the applications of GIS in business. Considers the development of GIS from specialist geographical systems to business information systems supporting organizational needs. Also examines the contributions that GIS can make to decision making in business at various levels. Introduces the reader to specific problems and issues concerning spatial data. International case studies are used from such corporations as Arby's, IKEA, Levi Strauss and Conrail.
Build an Intranet on a Shoestring, 1st edition
Authors: Paul Youngsworth
Venue:  (1996)

:Start building a high-payback, low-cost Intranet right away. This step-by-step guide walks readers through everything they need--from concept to completion. Extensively illustrated and filled with practical examples and professional advice, the book shows how to save time and money. The CD contains all the software needed to build an Intranet, including a Web server, browser, and Web page development tools. 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
The Inspired Executive: The Art of Leadership in the Age of Knowledge
Authors: Granville N. Toogood
Venue:  (1997)

:Three minutes with the right audience can be worth more than a year at your desk. That's the wake-up message in this crisply written and always-to-the-point new guide to leadership in business from Granville N. Toogood, America's master coach of executive communications. With humor, common sense, and uncommon insight, Toogood clarifies the mysteries of leadership communications and reveals the secrets to promotions, productivity, and higher revenues - through mastery of the podium, the conference room, the board room, and life itself. 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
The Electronic Republic: Reshaping Democracy in the Information Age
Authors: Lawrence K. Grossman
Venue:  (1996)

:Can our system adapt to the new form of democracy forming via the electronic age? Will the new communication age usher in a nation governed not by professional politicians but by citizens themselves? Grossman answers these questions and many others clearly and provocatively as he brings the features of our rapidly changing political environment into focus.
Better mousetraps
Authors: John Wilkes
Venue: Proceedings of the 6th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: Matching operating systems to application needs (1994)

As a technologist, working in the field of storage systems, and employed by a company that develops and sells a wide range of computer systems and components, I've learned that the biggest impediments to technology transfer---including better OS support for specific applications---are not technical, but economic. This paper summarizes some of these issues, and considers how best we might respond to them.
Efficient compilation of lazy evaluation
Authors: Thomas Johnsson
Venue: Proceedings of the 1984 SIGPLAN symposium on Compiler construction (1984)

This paper describes the principles underlying an efficient implementation of a lazy functional language, compiling to code for ordinary computers. It is based on combinator-like graph reduction: the user defined functions are used as rewrite rules in the graph. Each function is compiled into an instruction sequence for an abstract graph reduction machine, called the G-machine, the code reduces a function application graph to its value. The G-machine instructions are then translated into target code. Speed improvements by almost two orders of magnitude over previous lazy evaluators have been measured; we provide some performance figures.
AutoCad 3D Companion: The Illustrated Guide to Autocad's 3rd Dimension, 2nd edition
Authors: George O. Head
Venue:  (1994)

:Revised and updated to include Release 13 for Windows, this is the definitive reference for using AutoCAD's complex 3D capabilities. It offers users a clear, thorough examination of each 3D feature, providing instructive examples and practical applications of each. A comprehensive introduction provides helpful information on using the book, hardware and software requirements, and general tips for working in 3D. 175 illustrations.
Embedded systems firmware demystified
Venue:  (2002)

Build embedded microprocessor-based systems from the ground up. Develop an integrated understanding of hardware and software issues by exploring the interaction of the firmware and hardware during the first critical few seconds after the microprocessor is powered up. By focusing on these crucial structures, where software meets hardware, you learn what makes embedded development different from application development.
Resistance to New Technology: Nuclear Power, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Authors: Martin Bauer
Venue:  (1995)

:The book compares resistance to technology across time, nations and technologies. Three post-war technologies - nuclear power, information technology and biotechnology - are used in the analysis. The focus is on post-1945 Europe, with comparisons made with the USA, Japan and Australia. Instead of assuming that resistance contributes to the failure of a technology, the main thesis of the book is that resistance is a constructive force in technological development, giving technology its particular shape in a particular context. Whilst many people still believe in science and technology, many have become more sceptical of the allied 'progress'. By exploring the idea that modernity creates effects that undermine its own foundations, forms and effects of resistance are explored in various contexts. The book presents a unique interdisciplinary study, including contributions from historians, sociologists, psychologists and political scientists.
MPI-LAPI: An Efficient Implementation of MPI for IBM RS/6000 SP Systems
Authors: Mohammad Banikazemi, Rama K. Govindaraju, Robert Blackmore, Dhabaleswar K. Panda
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (2001)

The IBM RS/6000 SP system is one of the most cost-effective commercially available high performance machines. IBM RS/6000 SP systems support the Message Passing Interface standard (MPI) and LAPI. LAPI is a low level, reliable, and efficient one-sided communication API library implemented on IBM RS/6000 SP systems. This paper explains how the high performance of the LAPI library has been exploited in order to implement the MPI standard more efficiently than the existing MPI. It describes how to avoid unnecessary data copies at both the sending and receiving sides for such an implementation. The resolution of problems arising from the mismatches between the requirements of the MPI standard and the features of LAPI is discussed. As a result of this exercise, certain enhancements to LAPI are identified to enable an efficient implementation of MPI on LAPI. The performance of the new implementation of MPI is compared with that of the underlying LAPI itself. The latency (in polling and interrupt modes) and bandwidth of our new implementation is compared with that of the native MPI implementation on RS/6000 SP systems. The results indicate that the MPI implementation on LAPI performs comparably to or better than the original MPI implementation in most cases. Improvements of up to 17.3 percent in polling mode latency, 35.8 percent in interrupt mode latency, and 20.9 percent in bandwidth are obtained for certain message sizes. The implementation of MPI on top of LAPI also outperforms the native MPI implementation for the NAS Parallel Benchmarks.
Web Advertising and Marketing by Design, 1st edition
Authors: Mary Jo Fahey
Venue:  (1998)

:Web Advertising and Marketing by Design is a hands-on, step-by-step guide that shows you how to create dynamic advertising and promotional projects for the Web. Advertising and marketing professionals will find new and imaginative solutions to their Web-based challenges, while individuals and small businesses creating their own ads and marketing materials will benefit from solid guidance in creating compelling promotional materials on line. This practical cookbook presents over a dozen of the most effective advertising and marketing materials needed by professionals (press kits, ads, press releases, and catalogs) and gears them specifically for use on the Web.