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Conservative load transfer along curved fluid-solid interface with non-matching meshes
Authors: R. K. Jaiman, X. Jiao, P. H. Geubelle, E. Loth
Venue: Journal of Computational Physics (2006)

We investigate the effect of curvature on the accuracy of schemes used to transfer loads along the interface in coupled fluid-solid simulations involving non-matching meshes. We analyze two types of load transfer schemes for the coupled system: (a) point-to-element projection schemes and (b) common-refinement schemes. The accuracy of these schemes over the curved interface is assessed with the aid of static and transient problems. We show that the point-to-element projection schemes may yield inaccurate load transfer from the source fluid mesh to the target solid mesh, leading to a weak instability in the form of spurious oscillations and overshoots in the interface solution. The common-refinement scheme resolves this problem by providing an accurate transfer of discrete interface conditions across non-matching meshes. We show theoretically that the accurate transfer preserves the stability of the coupled system while maintaining the energy conservation over a reference interface. Finally, we introduce simple analytical error functions which correlate well with the numerical errors of the load transfer schemes.
Computer Privacy Annoyances
Authors: Dan Tynan
Venue:  (2005)

From the moment you're born, you enter the data stream-from birth certificates to medical records to what you bought on Amazon last week. As your dossier grows, so do the threats, from identity thieves to government snoops to companies who want to sell you something. Computer Privacy Annoyances shows you how to regain control of your life. You'll learn how to keep private information private, stop nosy bosses, get off that incredibly annoying mailing list, and more. Unless you know what data is available about you and how to protect it, you're a sitting duck. Computer Privacy Annoyances is your guide to a safer, saner, and more private life. Written by privacy pro Dan Tynan, and based on interviews with privacy experts from all over the globe, Computer Privacy Annoyances serves up real-world advice in bite-sized portions that will help you stop the snoops in their tracks. The book even addresses non-computing threats, from telemarketer-cum-stalkers, thieves at your mailbox, nosy folks in your HR department, cell phone eavesdroppers, and more. The key areas covered include: Privacy at Home Privacy on the Net Privacy at Work Privacy in Public Privacy and Uncle Sam Privacy in the Future Daniel Tynan has written about Internet privacy and security for nearly a decade. His work has appeared in more than 40 national publications. As executive editor at PC World, Tynan edited a special issue on Internet Privacy that won a Grand Neal Award and was a finalist for a National Magazine Award. He has won more than a dozen other honors, including nine Neals, four Maggies, and two Computer Press Association Awards. 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 Photoshop Elements 4 Book for Digital Photographers
Authors: Scott Kelby
Venue:  (2005)

Are you ready for an Elements book that breaks all the rulesï¾again?Like the best-selling former edition, The Photoshop Elements 4 Book for Digital Photographers breaks new ground by doing something for digital photographers that's rarely doneï¾it cuts through the bull and shows you exactly "how to do it." It's not a bunch of theory; it doesn't challenge you to come up with your own settings or figure things out on your own. Instead, it does something that virtually no other Elements book has ever doneï¾it tells you flat-out which settings to use, when to use them, and why.If you're looking for one of those "tell-me-everything-about-the-Unsharp-Mask-filter" books, this isn't it. You can grab any other Elements book on the shelf, because they all do that. Instead, this book gives you the inside tips and tricks of the trade for correcting, editing, sharpening, retouching, and presenting your photos like a pro. You'll be absolutely amazed at how easy and effective these techniques areï¾once you know the secrets.Newly updated to cover Photoshop Elements 4, this full-color, easy-to-follow guide includes new tips that take advantage of Elements 4's hottest new features, including the Magic Selection Brush, which offers a quick way to make accurate selections in your photos; Magic Extractor, which lets you select an image and instantly remove the background; Auto Red Eye and Auto Skin tone tools; cool slideshow effects (text, graphics, narration, pans and zooms, and more); online sharing service; and more!
The Wireless Nursing Call System: Politics of Discourse, Technology and Dependability in a Pilot Project
Authors: Casper Bruun Jensen
Venue: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (2006)

This paper discusses a research project in which social scientists were involved both as analysts and supporters during a pilot with a new wireless nursing call system. The case thus exemplifies an attempt to participate in developing dependable health care systems and offers insight into the challenges of developing and supporting such systems. The analysis proposes that while dependability is not simply a technical issue, neither is it something, which can be improved merely by adding a social dimension. Instead, it argues that dependability is a relative concept, which may mean different things conditional on how it is specified in practice and who gets to do this. This relativity makes it important to relate the question of how to support dependable health care systems to an analysis of both the politics of technology within specific projects and to the politics of discourse, through which the researcher becomes involved in such projects.
Microsoft SQL Server 2005: Changing the Paradigm (SQL Server 2005 Public Beta Edition) (SQL Server Series)
Venue:  (2005)

Microsoft SQL Server 2005: Changing the Paradigm (SQL Server 2005 Public Beta Edition) will prepare database administrators for upcoming changes in SQL Server 2005. Obtain the skills necessary to run SQL Server 2005 from the experts at Microsoft Gold Partner. Get a head-start to understanding the new concepts and features of SQL Server 2005 from the database administrator's perspective, including: SQL Server 2005 Architecture Tool Sets Scalability, Reliability and High Availability Chapter Performance Tuning Replication .NET CLR Integration DTS and Business IntelligenceMinimize the surprises in SQL Server 2005 with the help of Microsoft SQL Server 2005: Changing the Paradigm (SQL Server 2005 Public Beta Edition). 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
Optimal multicasting of multiple light-trees of different bandwidth granularities in a WDM mesh network with sparse splitting capabilities
Authors: Narendra K. Singhal, Laxman H. Sahasrabuddhe, Biswanath Mukherjee
Venue: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON) (2006)

With the advent of next-generation, bandwidth-intensive multimedia applications such as HDTV, interactive distance learning, and movie broadcasts from studios, it is becoming imperative to exploit the enormous bandwidth promised by the rapidly growing wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) technology. These applications require multicasting of information from a source to several destination nodes which should be performed judiciously to conserve expensive network resources. In this study, we investigate two switch architectures to support multicasting in a WDM network: one using an opaque (optical-electronic-optical approach and the other using a transparent (all-optical) approach. For both these switch architectures, we present mathematical formulations for routing and wavelength assignment of several light-tree-based multicast sessions on a given network topology at a globally optimal cost. We expand our work to also accommodate: 1) fractional-capacity sessions (where a session's capacity is a fraction of a wavelength channel's bandwidth, thereby leading to "traffic-groomed" multicast sessions) and 2) sparse splitting constraints, i.e., limited fanout of optical splitters and limited number of such splitters at each node. We illustrate the solutions obtained on different networks by solving these optimization problems, which turn out to be mixed integer linear programs (MILPs). Because the MILP is computationally intensive and does not scale well for large problem sizes, we also propose fast heuristics for establishing a set of multicast sessions in a network with or without wavelength converters and with fractional-capacity sessions. We find that, for all scenarios, the heuristics which arrange the sessions in ascending order with respect to destination set size and/or cost perform better in terms of network resource usage than the heuristics which arrange the sessions in descending order.
Robust and reliable defect control for Runge-Kutta methods
Authors: W. H. Enright, Wayne B. Hayes
Venue: ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS) (2007)

The quest for reliable integration of initial value problems (IVPs) for ordinary differential equations (ODEs) is a long-standing problem in numerical analysis. At one end of the reliability spectrum are fixed stepsize methods implemented using standard floating point, where the onus lies entirely with the user to ensure the stepsize chosen is adequate for the desired accuracy. At the other end of the reliability spectrum are rigorous interval-based methods, that can provide provably correct bounds on the error of a numerical solution. This rigour comes at a price, however: interval methods are generally two to three orders of magnitude more expensive than fixed stepsize floating-point methods. Along the spectrum between these two extremes lie various methods of different expense that estimate and control some measure of the local errors and adjust the stepsize accordingly. In this article, we continue previous investigations into a class of interpolants for use in Runge-Kutta methods that have a defect function whose qualitative behavior is asymptotically independent of the problem being integrated. In particular the point, in a step, where the maximum defect occurs as h &rarr; 0 is known a priori. This property allows the defect to be monitored and controlled in an efficient and robust manner even for modestly large stepsizes. Our interpolants also have a defect with the highest possible order given the constraints imposed by the order of the underlying discrete formula. We demonstrate the approach on three Runge-Kutta methods of orders 5, 6, and 8, and provide Fortran and preliminary Matlab interfaces to these three new integrators. We also consider how sensitive such methods are to roundoff errors. Numerical results for four problems on a range of accuracy requests are presented.
InDesign CS2 for Macintosh and Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Authors: Sandee Cohen
Venue:  (2005)

You already know why it makes sense for you to learn Adobe InDesign: because major magazines, newspapers, book publishers, ad agencies, graphic-design firms, and corporate creative groups worldwide use it to increase productivity and refine creative results. And you need to get up to speed on the very newest version--Adobe InDesign CS2--today! Enter Adobe InDesign CS2 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide. Using the task-based, visual approach that has become the hallmark of Peachpit's popular Visual QuickStart Guides, this volume provides a fast, easy, comprehensive introduction to everything InDesign. You'll learn about all aspects of the InDesign interface, including its tools and palettes, as well as how to create documents and master pages, import and style text and objects, automate your work, manage long documents, use the Bezier pen tools,create interactive PDF elements, and work with color.ï¾ You'll also learn how to use the new Adobe Bridge file browser to locate, manage, and drag and drop assets easily into your InDesign layouts. You'll find a new chapter on working with InCopy, complete coverage of more advanced topics (like preflighting and advanced text control) and a thorough introduction to all of InDesign's productivity-enhancing features and 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
Proof of a conjecture on semiregular relative difference sets in Zp2× Zp2
Authors: Yutaka Hiramine
Venue: Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A (2006)

In this article we show that there is no (p3, p, p3, p2)-difference set in Zp2 × Zp2 for all primes p > 3. This is an affirmative answer to a conjecture raised by S.L. Ma and B. Schmidt.
Adobe Photoshop CS2 Classroom in a Book
Venue:  (2005)

Photoshop is one of those programs that's so cool you just want to dive right in and start creatingï¾but by plunging in head-first, without any guidance, you're likely to miss a lot. There's a solution: With this book, you learn by doing, getting your feet wet immediately as you progress through a series of hands-on projects that build on your growing Photoshop knowledge. Simple step-by-step instructions, review questions at the end of each chapter, and a companion CD with all of the book's project files make learning a breeze as the Adobe Creative Team takes you on a self-paced tour of the image-editing powerhouse. This bestselling guide has been completely revised to cover all of Photoshop CS2's new features, which include advanced tools for digital photographers, such as a new Spot Healing Brush for correcting scratches or blemishes, and Smart Sharpen for fixing photo blurring. Photoshop CS2 also includes loads of new creative tools, such as Vanishing Point and Image Warp. This comprehensive guide starts with an introductory tour of the software and then progresses on through lessons on everything from Photoshop's interface to more complex topics like color management, Web graphics, and photo retouching. 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
Information fusion and component development for space launch risk analysis
Authors: Serge N. Sala-Diakanda, Luis Rabelo
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

We discussed previously the need for a risk analysis tool which could account simultaneously for the variety of hazards produced by the explosion of a space launch vehicle. We particularly argued that by analyzing separately the risks posed by the pressure of the explosion blast, the dispersion of toxic gases and the fragments cloud, current practices fail to account for the interdependencies between those hazards, potentially miscalculating the overall risk on the public and the surrounding infrastructure. In this work we set two objectives to expand on our claim. The first is to propose a methodology based on Distribution Envelope Determination (DEnv) to address the above need. The second on the other hand focuses on describing the ongoing software development activities aimed at implementing this methodology as an ArcGIS platform component.
Query processing methods considering the deadline of queries for database broadcasting systems
Authors: Shinya Kitajima, Tsutomu Terada, Takahiro Hara, Shojiro Nishio
Venue: Systems and Computers in Japan (2007)

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the database broadcasting system where the server periodically broadcasts contents of a database to mobile clients such as portable computers and PDAs. There are three query processing methods in the database broadcasting system: (i) the server processes a query and then broadcasts the query result to the client, (ii) the client stores all data that are necessary to process the query and then processes it locally, and (iii) the server and the client collaborate in processing the query. Since the performance of each method changes according to the situation such as the interval of query generation and the size of query results, it is difficult to choose the optimal method among them statically. In this paper, we propose new query processing methods which dynamically change the order of queries submitted in the queue at the server and also change processing methods for the queries according to the deadline of queries and the system situation. These methods improve the success rate as well as reduce the response time in most cases. &copy; 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Syst Comp Jpn, 38(2): 21&ndash; 31, 2007; Published online in Wiley InterScience (). DOI 10.1002&sol;scj.20689
Reference models for supply chain design and configuration
Authors: Markus Rabe, Frank-Walter Jaekel, Heiko Weinaug
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

Today more and more essential processes are conducted across enterprise borders, inducing additional challenges in terms of different languages, process types and ontology. Business Process Modelling (BPM) and Simulation are well-understood methods to analyze and optimize the processes within an enterprise. However, they can also be used for cross-organizational application, especially if they are combined with reference structures. This paper explains techniques which support cross-enterprise design and configuration based on Reference Models. Thereby, different approaches such as SCOR, the Integrated Enterprise Modelling (IEM) and a specific Distributed Simulation Method are used and integrated into a consistent Reference Model approach. The application of this approach is illustrated with different projects which each focus on a specific aspect of the supply chain design and configuration.
Adobe Acrobat 7 for Windows & Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Authors: Jennifer Alspach
Venue:  (2005)

With improved security, tighter integration with Microsoft Office and Outlook, a tool for creating and embedding 3D data, and much more, Adobe Acrobat 7 is the productivity tool you've been dreaming of. This thoroughly updated, task-based guide ensures that you can turn your dream productivity tool into a reality with Acrobat 7. Veteran author Jennifer Alspach steps you through all the Acrobat 7 Professional essentials. From the basics of creating, organizing, and viewing electronic documents; streamlining document reviews; and using the program's editing and reviewing tools to more advanced functions like using digital signatures, creating interactive forms, using Acrobat's engineering and prepress tools, and protecting sensitive documents, this guide's got it covered! Both beginners and more advanced users who are looking for a convenient reference will find what they need here in straightforward language, clear steps, and practical tips peppered by loads of visual aids.
Shared farthest neighbor approach to clustering of high dimensionality, low cardinality data
Authors: Stefano Rovetta, Francesco Masulli
Venue: Pattern Recognition (2006)

Clustering algorithms are routinely used in biomedical disciplines, and are a basic tool in bioinformatics. Depending on the task at hand, there are two most popular options, the central partitional techniques and the agglomerative hierarchical clustering techniques and their derivatives. These methods are well studied and well established. However, both categories have some drawbacks related to data dimensionality (for partitional algorithms) and to the bottom-up structure (for hierarchical agglomerative algorithms). To overcome these limitations, motivated by the problem of gene expression analysis with DNA microarrays, we present a hierarchical clustering algorithm based on a completely different principle, which is the analysis of shared farthest neighbors. We present a framework for clustering using ranks and indexes, and introduce the shared farthest neighbors (SFN) clustering criterion. We illustrate the properties of the method and present experimental results on different data sets, using the strategy of evaluating data clustering by extrinsic knowledge given by class labels.
Rapid and Brief communication: Formulating LLE using alignment technique
Authors: Deli Zhao
Venue: Pattern Recognition (2006)

LLE is a well-known method to nonlinear dimensionality reduction. In this short paper, we present an alternative way to formulate LLE. The alignment technique is exploited to align the local coordinates on the local patches of manifolds to be the global ones. The efficient computation of embedding coordinates of LLE automatically appears in the proposed framework.
Proceedings of the 6th international workshop on Software and performance
Venue: Workshop on Software and Performance (2007)

Welcome to WOSP'07 in the beautiful city of Buenos Aires!WOSP'07 is a venue for active interchange of ideas from people working in various fields of computing and telecommunications. Focusing on the intersection of software and performance, this international workshop brings together software engineers, developers, performance analysts and modelers who study, create and use tools and methods that address the new issues in the field of software performance. Modern distributed applications, often based on mobility, with heterogeneous and intermittent connections, add unforeseen challenges every day, and demand new approaches for modeling and analyzinge the performance characteristics of design alternatives in all the phases of the software lifecycle. However, this achievingement the goal is often defied often challenging by because of increasing system complexity, rapidly evolving software technologies, short time to market, incomplete documentation, and poorly defined requirements.WOSP'07 is the sixth in the series of International Workshop on Software and Performance that began in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1998. This year the workshop is being held for the first time in South America, and we are fortunate to have it in Argentina. We hope you will take the time to enjoy the city in addition to the workshop. Therefore, welcome to WOSP'07 in the beautiful city of Buenos Aires!This year's technical program is as strong as ever. We received 39 submissions which were thoroughly reviewed by an expert program committee. From these 13 were accepted as full papers, 4 were accepted as experience papers and 8 as short papers. The workshop will be is structured in 8 sessions over covering 3 days. Session topics span from a range of domains including Software Performance Modeling and Engineering, through Resource-Awareness to and Performance of Mobile Systems. Two sessions will be dedicated to short papers. We are confident that the body of knowledge selected for WOSP'07 will contribute, on one hand, to the advancement of the state of the art in the field and, on the other hand, to filling the gap between the academic and industrial worlds. Only theise synergy between these two worlds may allow can ensure that to software performance modeling and analysis to will become stable standard practices in the software development processes.In addition to papers, the workshop includes tutorials and working sessions. We are also pleased to have two distinguished keynote speakers, that are: Dr. Rich Friedrich from HP and Dr. Carlo Ghezzi from Politecnico di Milano.