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Excel for Dummies
Authors: Greg Harvey
Venue:  (1992)

:Spreadsheet guru Greg Harvey is back with friendly guidance and the most up-to-date information on Excel 5 for Windows, the latest version of Micrsoft's popular spreadsheet. Excel For Dummies, 2nd Edition, leads you through Excel's powerful features so you can impress everyone with your professional spreadsheets and reports. Find out about Excel basics the fun and easy way: Through updated coverage of Excel 5 for Windows, including the new features like TipWizard, tabbed dialog boxes, Function Wizard, editing in cells, and much more Discover how to build and format worksheets Produce impressive charts that are useful too Take advantage of Excel's Toolbar and find out how to select the right tool for the job Create macros with Microsoft's new Visual Basic for Applications to automate and speed-up your work Find out how to use AutoFilter to simplify the task of getting information out of your database
MetaSpider: meta-searching and categorization on the Web
Venue: Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (2001)

It has become increasingly difficult to locate relevant information on the Web, even with the help of Web search engines. Two approaches to addressing the low precision and poor presentation of search results of current search tools are studied: meta-search and document categorization. Meta-search engines improve precision by selecting and integrating search results from generic or domain-specific Web search engines or other resources. Document categorization promises better organization and presentation of retrieved results. This article introduces MetaSpider, a meta-search engine that has real-time indexing and categorizing functions. We report in this paper the major components of MetaSpider and discuss related technical approaches. Initial results of a user evaluation study comparing MetaSpider, NorthernLight, and MetaCrawler in terms of clustering performance and of time and effort expended show that MetaSpider performed best in precision rate, but disclose no statistically significant differences in recall rate and time requirements. Our experimental study also reveals that MetaSpider exhibited a higher level of automation than the other two systems and facilitated efficient searching by providing the user with an organized, comprehensive view of the retrieved documents.
Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry
Authors: Hugh M. Cartwright
Venue:  (1994)

:This series of short texts provides accessible accounts of a range of essential topics in chemistry. Written with the needs of the student in mind, the Oxford Chemistry Primers offer just the right level of detail for undergraduate study, and will be invaluable as a source of material commonly presented in lecture courses yet not adequately covered in existing texts. All the basic principles and facts in a particular area are presented in a clear and straightforward style, to produce concise yet comprehensive accounts of topics covered in both core and specialist courses. It is becoming evident that the techniques of artificial intelligence are useful for more than just the development of thinking machines; they constitute powerful problem-solving tools in their own right. The large-scale, complex problems most suited to AI are just those which are most difficult for conventional techniques to solve. AI methods therefore expand the range of problems in science that we can successfully tackle. Because of a recent rapid growth in computing power, these methods can now be used on a routine basis by scientists in both academic research and the commercial world. It is becoming vital that science students be exposed to and understand these techniques. This book provides an introduction to these methods, written specifically for science students. Although examples are drawn mainly from chemistry, the book is suitable for a more general audience, and should be of interest to any college-level student who wants to know more about how computers can help us to understand and interpret science.
CCNP Cisco Internetwork Troubleshooting Study Guide: (Exam 640-440), 1st edition
Authors: CORPORATE Syngress Media Inc.
Venue:  (1999)

:Prepare to pass the new Cisco CCNP Internetwork Troubleshooting 4.0 exam - while gaining practical knowledge of Cisco technology for on-the-job success - using this comprehensive, 100% curriculum-based training system. Built on the proven training methodology of Cisco Distinguished Training Partner Global Knowledge, this study guide/CD-ROM package offers actual classroom techniques used by more than 200,000 IT professionals each year.
Effect of traffic knowledge on the efficiency of admission-control policies
Authors: Ljiljana Trajković, Arnie Neidhardt
Venue: ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (1999)

We investigate the importance of understanding traffic characteristics for admission-control policies in packet networks. We compare the network utilization achieved with admission policies based on a partial knowledge of admitted traffic against the utilization that could be achieved with complete knowledge of traffic characteristics. Our quantitative study demonstrates that for realistic traffic traces the level of traffic knowledge dramatically affects admission control and improves network utilization. Indeed, the knowledge of only a few elementary traffic characteristics can produce substantial improvement. Yet, at least for one trace, this improvement based on elementary traffic knowledge is modest in comparison with the improvement that could be produced with additional traffic knowledge and if traffic characterization on more than one time scale were available.
Microsoft Excel 5.0 for Windows: Quick Course
Authors: Patricia Murphy
Venue:  (1995)

:Microsoft Excel 5.0 for Windows: Quick Course covers the most important features of Microsoft Excel for Windows. This self-paced instructional guide is complemented by many screen illustrations and hands-on exercises for reinforcement. In addition, there are numerous hints on how to increase productivity. Best of all, the text is designed to teach the software in 12-15 hours. It's a no-frills, sensible approach to software proficiency.
Adobe Illustrator for Windows: With Cdrom, 1st edition
Authors: Adobe Press
Venue:  (1993)

:A self-paced seminar straight from the Windows program's designers-developed for individual learning!25 separate, in-depth studio projects teach tasks in a very hands-on formatFeatures the same training materials Adobe uses in seminarsCD-ROM features sample art and electronic images needed to complete the unique studio projects
Adaptive Object-Oriented Software: The Demeter Method with Propagation Patterns, 1st edition
Authors: Karl J. Lieberherr
Venue:  (1995)

:This ground-breaking book presents a complete methodology for adaptive programming in any object-oriented programming language. Lieberherr's adaptive method signals a new approach to object-oriented program design that goes beyond object encapsulation and hard-coded navigation paths to achieve more flexible interactions among objects. Programmers using this method work at a higher, schematic level of abstraction; graph notation represents the class structure and a "propagation pattern" language tells how to distribute meaningful methods - including navigation - across the structure. Using this method, programmers can easily adapt and modify programs as they evolve. This book can be used with any object-oriented programming environment, or with the Demeter Tools Version 5.5, a complete, professional software system for creating and maintaining adaptive programs.
A multi-agent system infrastructure for software component market-place: an ontological perspective
Authors: Riza Cenk Erdur, Oğuz Dikenelli
Venue: ACM SIGMOD Record (2002)

In this paper, we introduce a multi-agent system architecture and an implemented prototype for software component market-place. We emphasize the ontological perspective by discussing the ontology modeling for component market-place, UML extensions for ontology modeling, and the idea of ontology transfer which makes the multi-agent system to adapt itself to the dynamically changing ontologies.
A new model that generates Lotka's law
Authors: John C. Huber
Venue: Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (2002)

In this paper, we develop a new model for a process that generates Lotka's Law. We show that four relatively mild assumptions create a process that fits five different informetric distributions: rate of production, career duration, randomness, and Poisson distribution over time, as well as Lotka's Law. By simulation, we obtain good fits to three empirical samples that exhibit the extreme range of the observed parameters. The overall error is 7% or less. An advantage of this model is that the parameters can be linked to observable human factors. That is, the model is not merely descriptive, but also provides insight into the causes of differences between samples. Furthermore, the differences can be tested with powerful statistical tools.
Measuring and Modeling Usage and Reliability for Statistical Web Testing
Authors: Chaitanya Kallepalli, Jeff Tian
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (2001)

Statistical testing and reliability analysis can be used effectively to assure quality for Web applications. To support this strategy, we extract Web usage and failure information from existing Web logs. The usage information is used to build models for statistical Web testing. The related failure information is used to measure the reliability of Web applications and the potential effectiveness of statistical Web testing. We applied this approach to analyze some actual Web logs. The results demonstrated the viability and effectiveness of our approach.
Node rewriting in graphs and hypergraphs: a categorical framework
Authors: Michel Bauderon, Hélène Jacquet
Venue: Theoretical Computer Science (2001)

Vertex rewriting in graphs is a very powerful mechanism which has been studied for quite a long time. In this paper we eventually provide a categorical theory of vertex rewriting and show how it can extend in a uniform way to node and pattern rewriting mechanisms in hypergraphs. Copyright 2001 Elsevier Science B.V.
Developing SYBASE Applications, 1st edition
Authors: Daniel Borden
Venue:  (1995)

:With Developing SYBASE Applications, you'll explore the entire application process - from modeling and design to implementation. You'll learn how to effectively use popular client/server developer's tools, such as Visual Basic and PowerBuilder 4 with SYBASE. Plus, you'll gain a solid understanding of client/server methodologies, including joint and rapid application development. With Developing SYBASE Applications, you'll learn the entire process for application development - from the perspective of the technical manager. 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
Proceedings of the 12th international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video
Venue: International Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video (2002)

Welcome to the 2002 International Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV'02) in Miami Beach, Florida. This is now the 12th year that NOSSDAV has been bringing together researchers and developers to discuss the latest advances and explore future directions for multimedia systems. This year's NOSSDAV is unique as it marks the first time it is being held in conjunction with the International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS). IWQoS is a highly successful workshop and forum in its own right, and its focus on quality of service has evolved, to a large degree, from some of the original NOSSDAV themes. Given the historical and topical ties between NOSSDAV and IWQoS, the two steering committees felt there would be value in encouraging the re-mingling of the two audiences.As in past years, NOSSDAV continues to be a competitive workshop, attracting excellent papers with some of the top new ideas. The submission statistics this year are very much in line with last year's numbers. This year we received 58 papers, of which 18 were accepted for inclusion in the workshop. As in past years, several excellent papers had to be turned down.The span of topics this year ranges from data link layer issues associated with carrying multimedia traffic to application layer issues dealing with how to provide adequate service for games, voice, and streaming media. As in past years, this year's NOSSDAV includes papers describing new and improved methods for locating, accessing, and delivering both live and static streaming video. As more and more Voice over IP products hit the market, the problems of perceived quality, reliability, conferencing control, and other issues have become increasingly important to companies rolling out these technologies. This year's NOSSDAV has an entire session on these very topics. One goal of the workshop is to identify the hot research areas but also to discuss, define, and develop directions for future research. This year's NOSSDAV addresses these issues with sessions that explore current and future directions in wireless, mobile multimedia systems and also multimedia systems based on overlays or adhoc peer-to-peer style networks. These emerging environments raise several interesting and challenging problems.
Scalable Networked Information Processing Environment (SNIPE)
Authors: Graham E Fagg, Keith Moore, Jack J Dongarra, Al Geist
Venue: Proceedings of the 1997 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing (CDROM) (1997)

SNIPE is a metacomputing system that aims to provide a reliable, secure, fault-tolerant environment for long-term distributed computing applications and data stores across the global InterNet. This system combines global naming and replication of both processing and data to support large scale information processing applications leading to better availablity and reliability than currently available with typical cluster computing and/or distributed computer environments.
Probability vectors: a new fault-tolerant routing algorithm for k-ary n-cubes
Authors: Jehad Al-Sadi, Khaled Day, Mohamed Ould-Khaoua
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing (2002)

This paper describes a new fault-tolerant routing algorithm for the k-ary n-cube using the concept of "probability vectors". To compute these vectors, a node determines first its faulty set, which contains all its neighbouring nodes that are faulty or unreachable due to faulty nodes or links. Each node then calculates a probability vector, where the i-th element represents the probability that a destination node at distance i cannot be reached using a minimal path due to a faulty node or link. The probability vectors are used by all the nodes to achieve an efficient fault-tolerant routing in the network. Results from a performance analysis presented below show that the new algorithm exhibits good fault-tolerance properties in terms of the achieved percentage of reachablity and routing distances.
Air transportation simulation: SimAir: a stochastic model of airline operations
Authors: Jay M. Rosenberger, Andrew J. Schaefer, David Goldsman, Ellis L. Johnson, Anton J. Kleywegt, George L. Nemhauser
Venue: Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation (2000)

Airline transportation systems are inherently random. However, airline planning models do not explicitly consider stochasticity in operations. Because of this, there is often a notable discrepancy between a schedule's planned and actual performance. SimAir is a modular airline simulation that simulates the daily operations of a domestic airline. Its primary purpose is to evaluate plans, such as crew schedules, as well as recovery policies in a random environment. We describe the structure of SimAir, and we give future directions for the study of airline planning under uncertainty.
Dave Barry in Cyberspace, 1st edition
Authors: Dave Barry
Venue:  (1996)

:If ever a subject was made for an author, Dave Barry and cyberspace are perfectly matched. Just imagine what can happen when Dave and his computer go mano a mano. In Dave Barry in Cyberspace, you'll learn how to produce attractive, high-impact documents when you have absolutely nothing to say; visit the world's largest computer trade show - Nerdstock in the desert; use Internet shorthand; chat with total strangers who may be boring and stupid; and discover the world's largest collection of viola jokes - all this and more. When you rattle down the pothole-studded information superhighway with Dave Barry at the wheel, you will be a:) and you will be LOL, even ROTFL.
Token Ring Troubleshooting, 2nd edition
Authors: Daniel J. Nassar
Venue:  (1993)

:Daniel J. Nassar is the author of the best-selling book Token Ring Troubleshooting Guide, which provides the clear and in-depth understanding necessary for working in the token ring environment. This book is designed for LAN system engineers and technical support engineers, LAN designers and consultants, LAN managers, users on token ring LANs and students of computer science and electronic engineering. Use and installation of Local Area Networks (LANs) has increased dramatically in the past decade and growth in this areas continues. If you are a professional network installer or technician, you will find Token Ring Troubleshooting Guide indispensable. 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
QoS performance bounds and efficient connection admission control for heterogeneous services in wireless cellular networks
Authors: Dongmei Zhao, Xuemin Shen, Jon W. Mark
Venue: Wireless Networks (2002)

Quality-of-Service (QoS) performance and connection admission control (CAC) for heterogeneous services in wireless multiple access networks are investigated. The heterogeneous services include constant bit rate (CBR), variable bit rate (VBR) and available bit rate (ABR) services. Multiple access control is handled by a polling-based scheme with non-preemptive priority. Tight delay variation (jitter) bounds for CBR connections and delay bounds for VBR connections are derived. A CAC scheme based on the derived bounds is developed. The CAC makes use of user mobility information to reserve an appropriate amount of system resources for potential handoff connections to achieve low handoff connection dropping rate (HCDR). Simulation results show that the proposed CAC scheme can achieve both low HCDR and high resource utilization.
Computer Algorithms: String Pattern Matching Strategies
Authors: Jun-ichi Aoe
Venue:  (1994)

:Introduces the basic concepts and characteristics of string pattern matching strategies and provides numerous references for further reading. The text describes and evaluates the BF, KMP, BM, and KR algorithms, discusses improvements for string pattern matching machines, and details a technique for detecting and removing the redundant operation of the AC machine. Also explored are typical problems in approximate string matching. In addition, the reader will find a description for applying string pattern matching algorithms to multidimensional matching problems, an investigation of numerous hardware-based solutions for pattern matching, and an examination of hardware approaches for full text search. The first chapter's survey paper describes the basic concepts of algorithm classifications. The five chapters that follow include 15 papers further illustrating these classifications: single keyword matching, matching sets of keywords, approximate string matching, multidimensional matching, and hardware matching.
Sams Teach Yourself CORBA in 14 Days, 1st edition
Authors: Jeremy L. Rosenberger
Venue:  (1997)

:Teach Yourself CORBA in 14 Days is a tutorial that will provide an introduction to distributed system development using CORBA. The first week will provide the reader with much needed guidance towards the general concepts of distributed software development and CORBA architecture such as Object Request Broker (ORBs), and Interface Definition Language (IDL). It will build upon the principles of object-oriented analysis and design, with concepts of distributed objects, and other key CORBA-related issues such as memory management and design patterns forced by the CORBA architecture. The 2nd week will take everything the reader has learned to that point, and apply it in a step-by-step manner for building a CORBA-based system. In addition to the basics, the reader will learn a few of the key advanced concepts and higher-level services that are sometimes required for certain CORBAThis is the one CORBA book that will walk a developer through each step of designing and building an object-oriented distributed system within the CORBA architectureThe Teach Yourself series allows for beginning CORBA developers to quickly learn the key issues of an inherently advanced topicCovers key CORBA topics such as the Object Request Broker (ORB), the Interface Definition Language (IDL), CORBAservices and CORBAfacilities
Sams Teach Yourself Adobe PhotoShop 5.5 in 24 Hours
Authors: Carla Rose
Venue:  (1999)

From the Book:Photoshop 5.5 is the most recent version of a program that has set the standard for image manipulation since 1987. The new version has lots of new features, including a special Save for Web dialog box that optimizes images for the Web in GIF, JPEG, and PNG file format two new eraser tools to make transparencies, enhanced masking capabilities, the Art History brush tool that paints with stylized strokes to approximate the look of different paint styles, and improved type handling. The biggest news, though, is that Photoshop 5.5 includes Adobe ImageReady for preparing Web graphics, including a handy "jump" button that lets you toggle back and forth between the two programs. If you've used an earlier version, you'll be amazed at how much more powerful this one is. If this is your first experience with Photoshop, you'll be blown away. It's that good! The big surprise for first-time users is that it's really not as difficult as it looks. If you have used any other Adobe software, the Photoshop interface will be immediately familiar to you. If this is your first step into digital graphics, you'll find the going easier if you work on the chapters of this book one at a time and don't skip the activities or exercises. There's honestly no way to become an overnight expert, be it in Photoshop or anything else, but this book will get you up and running in 24 hours or less. It's divided into two dozen one-hour "lessons," rather than chapters. Each one should take you about an hour to complete. Some lessons may need more time, others less. Please don't try to do it all in one 24 hour day, even if you could. The best way to learn isto take an hour or two between the lesson hours to try out what you've learned, and to simply poke around and see what's on the menus and what happens when you click here and there. Here's one for you to start with: Open the About Photoshop window and wait for a minute. You'll see it start to scroll through the list of all the people who worked on the program. Watch carefully for the very last name on the list. To see the "secret" splash screen, press Control+Alt and then open Help, About Photoshop in Windows or press Command and open Apple menu, About Photoshop on a Macintosh. If you click the mouse in the space over the word Adobe in the main splash screen and wait for the credits to scroll through, you will see a bunch of funny quotes from Photoshop's programmers (Macintosh only).