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A complementary survey on double-loop networks
Authors: F. K. Hwang
Venue: Theoretical Computer Science (2001)

We give a survey on double-loop networks with emphasis on new development since the surveys in 1986, 1991 and 1995.
A spectral method to separate disconnected and nearly-disconnected web graph components
Authors: Chris H. Q. Ding, Xiaofeng He, Hongyuan Zha
Venue: Proceedings of the seventh ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining (2001)

Separation of connected components from a graph with disconnected graph components mostly use breadth-first search (BFS) or depth-first search (DFS) graph algorithms. Here we propose a new algebraic method to separate disconnected and nearly-disconnected components. This method is based on spectral graph partitioning, following a key observation that disconnected components will show up, after properly sorted, as step-function like curve in the lowest eigenvectors of the Laplacian matrix of the graph. Following an perturbative analysis framework, we systematically analyzed the graph structures, first on the disconnected subgraph case, and second on the effects of adding edges sparsely connecting different subgraphs as a perturbation. Several new results are derived, providing insights to spectral methods and related clustering objective function. Examples are given illustrating the concepts and results our methods. Comparing to the standard graph algorithms, this method has the same O(&Verbar;E &Verbar; + &Verbar;V&Verbar;log(&Verbar;V&Verbar;)) complexity, but is easier to implement (using readily available eigensolvers). Further more the method can easily identify articulation points and bridges on nearly-disconnected graphs. Segmentation of a real example of Web graph for query amazon is given. We found that each disconnected or nearly-disconnected components forms a cluster on a clear topic.
Sad Macs, Bombs and Other Disasters, And What to Do about Them, 3rd edition
Authors: Ted Landau
Venue:  (1997)

:Here is the most comprehensive 911 disaster relief Mac reference available. Designed to restore order quickly, "Sad Macs, Bombs, and Other Disasters" provides solutions to hundreds of problems with a Symptom Index listing every error message and major problem, as well as self-contained Fix-It sections that delve into the details of the most important and useful techniques for solving problems". . . . the hardware and software troubleshooting guide that ought to ship with every Mac".--Andy Ihnatko, "MacUser".
Parameter-Free Geometric Document Layout Analysis
Authors: Seong-Whan Lee, Dae-Seok Ryu
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (2001)

Automatic transformation of paper documents into electronic documents requires geometric document layout analysis at the first stage. However, variations in character font sizes, text line spacing, and document layout structures have made it difficult to design a general-purpose document layout analysis algorithm for many years. The use of some parameters has therefore been unavoidable in previous methods. In this paper, we propose a parameter-free method for segmenting the document images into maximal homogeneous regions and identifying them as texts, images, tables, and ruling lines. A pyramidal quadtree structure is constructed for multiscale analysis and a periodicity measure is suggested to find a periodical attribute of text regions for page segmentation. To obtain robust page segmentation results, a confirmation procedure using texture analysis is applied to only ambiguous regions. Based on the proposed periodicity measure, multiscale analysis, and confirmation procedure, we could develop a robust method for geometric document layout analysis independent of character font sizes, text line spacing, and document layout structures. The proposed method was experimented with the document database from the University of Washington and the MediaTeam Document Database. The results of these tests have shown that the proposed method provides more accurate results than the previous ones.
Learning and building strategies with computer games
Authors: Roger Grice, Larry Strianese
Venue: Proceedings of IEEE professional communication society international professional communication conference and Proceedings of the 18th annual ACM international conference on Computer documentation: technology & teamwork (2000)

It has been frequently noted that people can intuitively learn to play computer games (or video games) with little or no instruction and that they quickly and easily develop skills for becoming better players. The same is rarely said of software for business applications. We were interested in learning why this is true.We have undertaken a study is to see what aspects of game interfaces contribute to learning and to building strategies. We are investigating this by first gathering a collection of background material on the topic. In addition to collecting background material, we are designing and carrying out a study of individuals playing computer games. From the reading that we have done, and the preliminary design of our study, we have created four hypotheses to test. The background material for this study, the experimental design, and our hypotheses are all discussed below.
Perfect Office 3 for Dummies
Authors: John Heilborn
Venue:  (1995)

:You bought PerfectOffice -- now, why isn't your office perfect? The reason is that not even a software suite containing hot programs like WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, Paradox, InfoCentral, and Envoy can boost your productivity and the quality of your work all by itself. For that, you need PerfectOffice 3 For Dummies. Here you'll find all the answers you need for producing professional-looking word processing documents and problem-solving spreadsheets, sharing information among applications, and doing all the other things that PerfectOffice gives you the power to do. 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
A Combination Fingerprint Classifier
Authors: Andrew Senior
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (2001)

Fingerprint classification is an important indexing method for any large scale fingerprint recognition system or database as a method for reducing the number of fingerprints that need to be searched when looking for a matching print. Fingerprints are generally classified into broad categories based on global characteristics. This paper describes novel methods of classification using hidden Markov models (HMMs) and decision trees to recognize the ridge structure of the print, without needing to detect singular points. The methods are compared and combined with a standard fingerprint classification algorithm and results for the combination are presented using a standard database of fingerprint images. The paper also describes a method for achieving any level of accuracy required of the system by sacrificing the efficiency of the classifier. The accuracy of the combination classifier is shown to be higher than that of two state-of-the-art systems tested under the same conditions.
Editorial Message: special track on computer security
Authors: Giampaolo Bella, Ronaldo Menezes, James Whittaker
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing (2002)

The proliferation of network computing and especially the ubiquity of the Internet has made security one of the key areas in modern computing. This track aims at bringing together researchers working on applied issues in computer and information security, ranging from protocols and tools to policy and laws.Security is a multidisciplinary topic related to almost every aspect of computer science. From information security to mobile computation, from artificial intelligence to wireless communication, it is difficult to find a computer science area that is not concerned with security directly or indirectly.The Computer Security Track in the 2002 Symposium on Applied Computing is a demonstration of the diversity. The track focus is on practical (applied) aspects of computer security so as to fit well with the general objectives of the symposium.
Speech Processing, 1st edition
Authors: Donald G. Childers
Venue:  (1999)

:This book provides a means to study and learn the features and properties of speech as a signal without having to record data and write software to analyze the data. An extensive speech data base is provided on the accompanying CD-ROMs along with various applications software programs to analyze the data. It also provides the theory behind the software and the theoretical bases for speech analysis and synthesis. It offers a good balance between theory and practice.
Internet: A Comprehensive Guide
Authors: Holly Taylor
Venue:  (1995)

:The Internet is the largest computer system in the world, your on-ramp to the information super-highway - and you can be a part of it! Explore the Internet with this comprehensive guide using fill-in-the-blanks questions to help you understand the basic concepts presented in each chapter, exercises designed to give you hands-on experience with a particular tool, and assignments to give you further hands-on practice.
Situational visualization
Authors: David M. Krum, William Ribarsky, Christopher D. Shaw, Larry F. Hodges, Nickolas Faust
Venue: Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology (2001)

In this paper, we introduce a new style of visualization called Situational Visualization, in which the user of a robust, mobile visualization system uses mobile computing resources to enhance the experience and understanding of the surrounding world. Additionally, a Situational Visualization system allows the user to add to the visualization and any underlying simulation by inputting the user's observations of the phenomena of interest, thus improving the quality of visualization for the user and for any other users that may be connected to the same database. Situational Visualization allows many users to collaborate on a common set of data with real-time acquisition and insertion of data. In this paper, we present a Situational Visualization system we are developing called Mobile VGIS, and present two sample applications of Situational Visualization.
Paradox 4.5 for Windows User's Instant Reference, 2nd edition
Authors: Loy Anderson
Venue:  (1993)

:Get quick answers to your pressing questions about the latest version of Paradox for Windows. You'll find everything you'd possibly want to know about this program in the Paradox 4.5 for Windows User's Instant Reference.
Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness, 1st edition
Authors: Roger Penrose
Venue:  (1994)

:A New York Times bestseller when it appeared in 1989, Roger Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind was universally hailed as a marvelous survey of modern physics as well as a brilliant reflection on the human mind, offering a new perspective on the scientific landscape and a visionary glimpse of the possible future of science. Now, in Shadows of the Mind, Penrose offers another exhilarating look at modern science as he mounts an even more powerful attack on artificial intelligence. But perhaps more important, in this volume he points the way to a new science, one that may eventually explain the physical basis of the human mind. Penrose contends that some aspects of the human mind lie beyond computation. This is not a religious argument (that the mind is something other than physical) nor is it based on the brain's vast complexity (the weather is immensely complex, says Penrose, but it is still a computable thing, at least in theory). Instead, he provides powerful arguments to support his conclusion that there is something in the conscious activity of the brain that transcends computation - and will find no explanation in terms of present-day science. To illuminate what he believes this "something" might be, and to suggest where a new physics must proceed so that we may understand it, Penrose cuts a wide swathe through modern science, providing penetrating looks at everything from Turing computability and Godel's incompleteness, via Schrodinger's Cat and the Elitzur-Vaidman bomb-testing problem, to detailed microbiology. Of particular interest is Penrose's extensive examination of quantum mechanics, which introduces some new ideas that differ markedly from those advanced in The Emperor's New Mind, especially concerning the mysterious interface where classical and quantum physics meet. But perhaps the most interesting wrinkle in Shadows of the Mind is Penrose's excursion into microbiology, where he examines cytoskeletons and microtubules, minute substructures lying dee
Troubleshooting Your Web Page
Authors: Evan Callahan
Venue:  (2000)

:Trouble designing and building your Web page? Confounded by HTML? With this handy Troubleshooting guide, its easy to pinpoint and solve your own problems when using Microsoft FrontPage Web site creation and management tool to create and manage a Web site. Each section opens with a troubleshooting chart to help quickly diagnose the source of the problem. It offers clear, step-by-step solutions to try right away, plus a full chapter of things to do to stay out of trouble or learn a new trick. Continuous support via the Troubleshooting "Latest Solutions" Web site provides monthly updates on additional problem solving information. Books in the Troubleshooting series are colorful, superbly organized, and easy to read, giving even novice users the confidence to fix it themselveswithout calling tech support or wasting time on futile trial and error. Covering both FrontPage 98 and FrontPage 2000, this book shows how to troubleshoot basic Web design and construction, graphics, HTML, Web publishing, database integration, and more.
Battlezone 2 Official Strategy Guide
Authors: Mark H. Walker
Venue:  (1999)

:BradyGames-Battlezone II Combat Commander: Official Strategy Guide Features. Detailed Strategy - Complete walkthroughs for every mission lead you to victory in both ISDF and Scion campaigns! Complete Multiplayer Covereage - Expert tactics and comprehensive maps help you dominate the Zone! Plus, Extensive Unit and Weapon Guides, Authoritative Combat Techniques, and MORE!
Introduction
Authors: Murugan Anandarajan
Venue: Communications of the ACM (2002)

The ubiquitous nature of the Internet is dramatically revolutionizing the manner in which organizations and individuals acquire and distribute information. Recent reports from the International Data Group indicate the number of people on the Internet will reach 320 million by 2002 [5]. Studies also indicate that in the U.S. alone, e-commerce will account for approximately $325 billion by 2002.
Fuzzy Logic: Dispatches from the Information Revolution
Authors: Matthew Friedman
Venue:  (1998)

:We are in the midst of a profound social transformation. Friedman looks at what has happened so far and sends us reports from the trenches: intellectual property and privacy, identity and privacy, sex and censorship, the machine as fetish, the death of television news, the new workplace, cyber warfare, hate propaganda and the Zapatistos on the Net and more.
Official NetScape Javabeans Developer's Guide, 1st edition
Authors: Doug Nickerson
Venue:  (1997)

:Discusses where JavaBeans fits into the big picture of component software, including ActiveX, OLE, and CORBA. Readers quickly learn to use components and integrate them with HTML and Netscape tools. Includes is example code that clarifies key conce Outlines the latest features in Java including the new Java API and Java's new delegation event model. Explains Netscape's support for JavaBeans & shows how Beans fits in with Netscape ONE. Provides integrated code examples that illustrate important JavaBeans & Java 1.1 API features and concepts. Includes the Java Development Kit JDK and BDK. Contains Netscape's Component Development Kit. Provides example source code from the book.
The Business of Studio Photography: How to Start and Run a Successful Photography Studio
Authors: Edward R. Lilley
Venue:  (1997)

:This is the complete guide to starting and running a successful photography studio. It offers strategies and practical advice on every aspect of running the business including: location; financing and pricing; equipping the studio; selling to wedding, portrait, commercial, and art photography markets; creating a sound business plan; handling paperwork; and much more. Lists of important organizations and sources are also included. 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
Proving correctness of compiler optimizations by temporal logic
Authors: David Lacey, Neil D. Jones, Eric Van Wyk, Carl Christian Frederiksen
Venue: Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages (2002)

Many classical compiler optimizations can be elegantly expressed using rewrite rules of form: I &rArr; I&prime; if &phis;, where I, I&prime; are intermediate language instructions and &phis; is a property expressed in a temporal logic suitable for describing program data flow. Its reading: If the current program &pi; contains an instruction of form I at some control point p, and if flow condition &phis; is satisfied at p, then replace I by I&prime;.The purpose of this paper is to show how such transformations may be proven correct. Our methodology is illustrated by three familiar optimizations, dead code elimination, constant folding and code motion. The meaning of correctness is that for any program &pi;, if Rewrite(&pi;, &pi;&prime;, p,I &rArr; I&prime; if &phis;) then [[&pi;]] = [[&pi;&prime;]], i.e. &pi; and &pi;&prime; have exactly the same semantics.
Serving the Web, 11th edition
Authors: Robert Mudry
Venue:  (1995)

:Gives you the secrets of Perl scripts, server security and firewalls, and hardware and software configurations. Explains the subtleties of HTML, not simply the most-used portions. Includes the first published reference to the Common Gateway Interface(CGI), by which data is returned from the user to the Web server. Covers the current solutions to Web security, including encryption for credit card transactions in business. Summarizes the best of the available Web server software for Windows, NT, Mac, and Unix. Teaches you how to "look good" in HTML and create Web documents that accomplish what they were designed to do. 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
Investigating the technology-work relationship: a critical comparison of three qualitative field methods
Authors: Clay Spinuzzi
Venue: Proceedings of IEEE professional communication society international professional communication conference and Proceedings of the 18th annual ACM international conference on Computer documentation: technology & teamwork (2000)

Researchers today are increasingly attempting to understand the relationship between technology and work through field methods. Surveying field methods commonly used by researchers to observe such interactions, I critically discuss the assumptions underpinning three methods (ethnography, participatory design, and contextual inquiry) and the strengths and weaknesses of each method. Comparing ways of looking at human-computer interaction across four categories (i.e., theoretical bases, data collection methods, data analysis methods, and design approaches), I provide guidelines for researchers who are considering ways to examine human interaction and work with computer technologies.
Spreadsheets in Structural Design, 1st edition
Authors: S. R. Davies
Venue:  (1996)

:Spreadsheets in Structural Design provides a unique and highly practical explanation of the use of spreadsheets to facilitate the design of structures in a range of key materials, such as concrete, steel and brick. Using spreadsheets in this way has important implications in terms of cost and efficiency, and represents a very useful tool hitherto largely neglected by the design community. Each chapter contains spreadsheet layouts to illustrate the method, drawn from different areas of design and using a range of materials and Codes of Practice. Examples used relate to reinforced concrete, reinforced masonry and steel but the approach is easily extended to other materials and other fields of design. Practising structural engineers, civil engineers and architects will find this book an invaluable guide for the solution of routine design problems. It is also useful reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of structural design, civil engineering and architecture.
Hopfield Neural Network Based Stereo Matching Algorithm
Authors: Karim Achour, Lyes Mahiddine
Venue: Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision (2002)

In this paper, a neural network based optimization method is described in order to solve the problem of stereo matching for a set of primitives extracted from a stereoscopic pair of images. The neural network used is the 2D Hopfield network. The matching problem amounts to the minimization of an energy function involving specified stereoscopic constraints. This function reaches its minimum when these constraints are satisfied. The network converges to its stable state when the minimum is reached. In the initial step, the primitives to match are extracted from the stereoscopic pair of images. The primitives we use are specific points of interest. The feature extraction technique is the one developed by Moravec, and called the interest operator. Its output comprises mostly corners or feature points with high variance. The Hopfield network is represented as a Nl &times; Nr matrix of neurons, where Nl is the number of features in the left image and Nr the number of features in the right one. An update of the state of each neuron is done in order to perform the network evolution and then allowing it to settle down into a stable state. In the stable state, each neuron represents a possible match between a left candidate and a right one.
Teach Yourself Borland C ++ 5 in 21 Days, 3rd edition
Authors: Craig Arnush
Venue:  (1996)

:Updated and revised, this book shows readers how to use the language and how to write beginning-level programs.Author is a member of Team Borland and has access to the most frequently asked questions from the Borland help lineUses the successful Teach Yourself elements, including Workshop and Q&A sections, quizzes, and shaded syntax boxes
From EDI to Electronic Commerce: A Business Initiative
Authors: Phyllis K. Sokol
Venue:  (1995)

:A revision of EDI: The Competitive Edge,this book focuses on Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) as the first step of the internal re-engineering of business processes to electronic commerce. Providing industry-specific EDI guidelines,including the rapid-growth retail segment,the guide contains a proven cost-justification model and an extensive list of business documents that are today's biggest EDI hitters; an extended example of a corporate EDI implementation; and a step-by-step approach to implementation and ongoing support useful for managers of functional business areas.