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Internet Auctions
Authors: Alan C. Elliott
Venue:  (2000)

:More than a million people participate in online auctions each day, and 250,000 new items are put up for auction online. This book describes winning strategies for both online buyers and sellers, including how to spot inferior merchandise, how to negotiate successfully, pricing information, and more. Successful Internet entrepreneur Alan Elliot also critiques more than one hundred auction sites, and he provides step-by-step instructions on how to display goods online, and how to use HTML and other Internet communication tools.Alan Elliot (Cedar Hill, TX) is a computer consultant, instructor, and author. His articles about the Internet have appeared in PC Week, Computing Currents, Atlanta, and other major publications. A successful Internet entrepreneur, he has sold over one million dollars worth of merchandise over the Internet.
Object-Oriented Software in C++, 1st edition
Authors: Mike A. Smith
Venue:  (1993)

:The book is designed for those readers who have had previous experience of a high-level block-structured programming language that is, all undergraduate and Higher National students who have studied the basic programming unit on any computing, engineering or science course. It is assumed that the student knows the principles or programming and the use of basic programming constructs and data types and the book concentrates on the structure of object-oriented software and the use of C++ facilities.The text approaches C++ as a language in its own right, rather than as a development of C. The text concentrates on the object-oriented features of the language and utilizes the mechanisms of C++ which allow the user to avoid having to use low-level features. Where such features are used they are encapsulated in a class to hide the complexity from the user. There are many examples and cases to illustrate the techniques of object-oriented design methods. Also, the book deals with a number of C++ compilers and the software has been tested on all of them. 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
Independent active program representation using ASN. 1
Authors: Brad Williamson, Craig Farrell
Venue: ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (1999)

The future success of computer communications will largely depend on how effectively applications achieve their desired quality of service (QoS). Active networks move closer to the goal of application specified QoS by allowing user-specified network related computation to be injected into the network elements. Although research into active networks is in its infancy, one area that has not yet received much attention is the representation of active programs. The Active Network Encapsulation Protocol (ANEP) has made a significant effort towards producing a common definition, however, as the name suggests, ANEP has only gone as far as the packet header for encapsulating an active program. The contribution of this paper is to show how an independent packet representation such as Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) can be used as a common substrate for representing active programs. An active networking framework, using ASN.1 whereby any active network solution can be deployed independently of the active network element's architecture is discussed. In this paper, we demonstrate the independent representation using a simple procedural language. This technique however is language independent and can be extended to cover any language including all those currently used in active networks. ASN.1 is ideally suited to this purpose since it was originally conceived as a language for the representation of programs and data types in protocol data units (PDUs). This solution maintains security, mobility and efficiency.
On the role of compression in distributed systems
Authors: Fred Douglis
Venue: Proceedings of the 5th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: Models and paradigms for distributed systems structuring (1992)

Compression has been used in numerous ways for many years, but recently two factors have combined in a way to push compression to the forefront of distributed systems. First, the disparity between processor speeds and I/O rates is ever-increasing, making it possible to perform compression in software to a much greater extent than was previously feasible. Second, the growth of new applications demanding enormous data rates, such as digital video and audio, makes hardware compression increasingly desirable. I discuss the importance of compression in various environments and describe how compression may be used not only to reduce the demand for disk space, disk bandwidth, and network bandwidth, but also to appear to extend physical memory.
Macs for Dummies, 4th edition
Authors: David Pogue
Venue:  (1995)

:The Bestselling Mac Book 4 Years Running! "More and more people to Pogue, who has made a cottage industry out of soothing people's fears in the uncharted waters of cyberspace." -- The Washington Post Macs For Dummies, the bestselling Mac book for over four years, is the essential reference for anyone who wants to find out how to get the most out of their Mac. Now, Macs For Dummies introduces you to its completely revised and updated 4th edition so you can get started right away! Bestselling author David Pogue guides novices through multitudes of Mac models and takes the fear out of this silicon gadget. With humor, patience, and almost no hi-tech terminology, David Pogue makes your computer seem logical, friendly, and a blast to use! Join the 1.2 million readers in 15 countries who have embraced Macs For Dummies as their ultimate guide! Inside, Find Out How to... Turn on your computer -- and figure out what to do next Uncover word processing basics like printing, faxing, and how to avoid losing your documents Discover everything worth knowing about Power Macs, Performas, and PowerBooks Pinpoint what you need and what you can throw away on your computer Surf the Internet and access tons of exciting, useful information with ease Uncover neat little shortcuts, hidden pictures, and time-savers Discover do-it-yourself Mac maintenance techniques Get expert insight on printers, modems, and software that can save you money
Mobile.NET
Venue:  (2001)

Mobile .NET begins by educating the reader about a wide variety of different wireless Internet devices. These devices are divided into two main categories: those that are directly supported by .NET (Pocket PCs, i-Mode phones, and WAP devices), and those that are not (Palm OS and J2ME-powered devices). By the end of this book, the reader will be able to make .NET work equally well with all of these devices.
CCNA: Test Yourself Practice Exams, 1st edition
Authors: CORPORATE Syngress Media Inc.
Venue:  (1999)

:This easy-to-use, self-paced book features more than 500 exam-based practice questions to test your knowledge - and richly detailed, instructive answers from the experts to expand your understanding. Plus, hundreds of the practice questions are the challenging scenario-based type. Best of all, the book is based on Cisco's newly revised 1999 CCNA exam, so it contains the most relevant, up-to-date Q&A material - guaranteed. Highly effective when used alone, or as the ideal companion to CCNA Cisco Certified Network Associate Study Guide, this book is an excellent preparation tool for serious CCNA candidates.
America Online Bible with Cdrom, 1st edition
Authors: Erfert Fenton
Venue:  (1998)

:Where can you research your retirement options, book a Caribbean vacation, do your holiday shopping, and read insightful commentary about why Michael Jordan wont play for the Chicago Bulls next season -- all from the comfort of your home? America Online, thats where. Talk about a one-stop online shop! America Online has it all -- travel, food, entertainment, news, sports, computers, shopping, games, personal finance, periodicals, and reference tools  and America Online&reg; Bible takes you there. The worlds largest commercial online service with over ten million members, America Online is an insulated Web community with content channels, e-mail, and instant Internet access. America Online&reg; Bible also helps you install AOL, customize your interface, integrate dynamic graphics into e-mail messages, search the Web with AOL NetFind, and even develop your own home page. Plus, with America Online Bible, you can register for AOL and get 50 free hours by providing the registration code on the back of the book.
Introduction to Neural and Cognitive Modeling, 2nd edition
Authors: Daniel S. Levine
Venue:  (2000)

:This thoroughly and thoughtfully revised edition makes the principles and the details of neural network modeling accessible to cognitive scientists of all varieties as well as other scholars interested in these models." "Features of the second edition include: a new section on spatiotemporal pattern processing; coverage of ARTMAP networks (the supervised version of adaptive resonance networks) and recurrent back-propagation networks; a vastly expanded section on models of specific brain areas, such as the cerebellum, hippocampus, basal ganglia, and visual and motor cortex; and up-to-date coverage of applications of neural networks in areas such as combinational optimization and knowledge representation. 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
Content based image retrieval and information theroy: a general approach
Authors: John Zachary, S. S. Iyengar, Jacob Barhen
Venue: Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (2001)

A fundamental aspect of content-based image retrieval (CBIR) is the extraction and the representation of a visual feature that is an effective discriminant between pairs of images. Among the many visual features that have been studied, the distribution of color pixels in an image is the most common visual feature studied. The standard representation of color for content-based indexing in image databases is the color histogram. Vector-based distance functions are used to compute the similarity between two images as the distance between points in the color histogram space. This paper proposes an alternative real valued representation of color based on the information theoretic concept of entropy. A theoretical presentation of image entropy is accompanied by a practical description of the merits and limitations of image entropy compared to color histograms. Specifically, the L1 norm for color histograms is shown to provide an upper bound on the difference between image entropy values. Our initial results suggest that image entropy is a promising approach to image description and representation.
Increasing client-side confidence in remote component implementations
Authors: Ramesh Jagannathan, Paolo A.G. Sivilotti
Venue: Proceedings of the 8th European software engineering conference held jointly with 9th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering (2001)

When a client makes use of a remote component, it does not have direct access to the remote component's implementation or state information. By observing the component's interactions with its environment, however, the client can determine whether the component's behavior conforms to its promised specification. We present a distributedinfrastructure with which a client can make these observations and thereby increase its confidence in the correctness of the remote component. This infrastructure supports temporal specifications of distributed components with autonomous threads of control. It also supports multiple levels of confidence, with commensurate performance costs. As a proof-of-concept for this design, we have implemented a prototype in Java for distributed systems built using CORBA.
Parallel computing with generalized cellular automata
Venue: Progress in computer research (2001)

Cellular automata (CA) are fundamental computational models of spatial phenomena, in which space is represented by a discrete lattice of cells. Each cell concurrently interacts with its neighborhood which, in traditional CA, is limited to the cell's nearest neighbors. In this paper we discuss generalized cellular automata (GCA), an important but unexplored class of CA, in which the cell's interaction domain extends beyond the nearest neighbors. The computational power necessary to run large scale CA (and GCA) models has only recently been available thanks to parallel processing. This paper focuses on implementation and performance of GCA in biological modeling. In particular, we present results of simulating the spread of epidemics and the creation of spatial infection patterns that are important for disease control. The simulation system is implemented on three different platforms: the MasPar MP-1 SIMD computer, the IBM SP-2 MIMD machine and a network of workstations (NOW) that consists of Sun SPARCstation 5 and UltraSPARC 2's connected via Ethernet. The system presented in this paper has been specialized for simulating a four species spatially explicit model, however, the implementation may be readily modified to represent other models. Simulation results are presented for simple epidemics and vector-borne diseases spread by parasites.
Implicit source routes for on-demand ad hoc network routing
Authors: Yih-Chun Hu, David B. Johnson
Venue: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking computing (2001)

In an ad hoc network, the use of source routing has many advanctages, including simplicity, correctness, and flexibility. For example, all routing decisions for a packet are made by the sender of the packet, avoiding the need for up-to-date routing information at intermediate nodes and allowing the routes used to be trivially guaranteed loop-free. It is also possible for the sender to use different routes for different packets, without requiring coordination or explicit support by the imtermediate nodes. In addition, on-demand source routing has performed very strongly when compared against other proposed protocol designs. However, source routing has the disadvantage of increased per-packet overhead due to the source route header that must be present in every packet orginated or forwarded. In this paper, we propose and analyze the use in ad hoc networks of implicit source routing while avoiding the associated per-packet overhead in most cases. We evaluated this technique through detailed simulations of ad hoc networks based on the Dynamic Source Routing protocol (DSR), an on-demand ad hoc network routing protocol based on source routing. Although routing packet overhead increased slightly with implicit source routing, by about 12.3%, the total number of bytes of overhead decreased substantially, by between 44 and 86%. On all other metrics evaluated, the performance or DSR either did not change significantly or actually improved somewhat, due to indirect effects of of the reduced routing overhead
Visual C++ 6 Unleashed
Authors: Mickey Williams
Venue:  (2000)

:Visual C++ 6 Unleashed presents topic-by-topic coverage of Visual C++ programming. Topics include: The Visual C++ Development System; The Windows Architecture and the Win32 API; Microsoft Foundation Classes; ActiveX; APIs; ODBC; Memory Management; MAPI and TAPI; DAO; TCP/IP Programming with Winsock; OpenGL Graphics Library; Game SDK and the DirectX API; The Registry? Writing International (Localized) Applications; Appendixes on the Win32 API and The Microsoft Foundation ClassesA comprehensive book to assist a current Visual C++ programmer to the next level.Covers the topics that are most important to developers, including the Visual C++ Development System, ActiveX, MAPI, TAPI , ODBC, and more! 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
Effective learning environments for young children using digital resources: an Australian perspective
Authors: Toni Downes, Leonie Arthur, Bronwyn Beecher
Venue: Information Technology in Childhood Education Annual (2001)

The use of digital resources in early childhood settings in Australia is a recent phenomenon. In 1999 Education.Au, a company funded by the various educational authorities in Australia, commissioned a study of the educational use of the Internet with children eight years and under. Data were collected through a literature review and discussions or interviews with all stakeholders in early childhood education: children, families, early childhood educators, school system representatives, academics, researchers, policy makers and advisers. This paper reports on the major outcome of the commissioned study: a pedagogical framework for the use of digital resources in early childhood settings. The framework includes a rationale and a description of the key elements of effective practice: quality resources, effective learning environments and appropriate teacher interactions.
Human directability of agents
Authors: Karen L. Myers, David N. Morley
Venue: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Knowledge capture (2001)

Many potential applications for agent technology require humans and agents to work together in order to achieve complex tasks effectively. In contrast, much of the work in the agents community to date has focused on technologies for fully autonomous agent systems. This paper presents a framework for the directability of agents, in which a human supervisor can define policies to influence agent activities at execution time. The framework focuses on the concepts of adjustable autonomy for agents (ie, varying the degree to which agents make decisions without human intervention) and strategy preference (ie, recommending how agents should accomplish assigned task). The directability framework has been implemented within a PRS environment, and applied to a multiagent intelligence-gathering domain.
Fiber Network Service Survivability
Authors: Tsong-Ho Wu
Venue:  (1992)

:This book examines the architectures, technologies, and design methods that make it possible to achieve a survivable fiber network, both practically and economically. Combining theory and actual results, it explores alternative methods and presents analytical and computational optimization approaches.
LPIC Linux Level I Test 1a Exam Guide
Authors: Theresa Hadden
Venue:  (2000)

:The Linux Level I Exam Guide prepares you to pass the Linux Level I exam. The tutorial text is strictly exam-related and flows with minimal interruption, covering all necessary objectives for the exam. Study aids begin with the Chapter Opener to ready you for learning. To help you fully understand the topic, visual cues are used liberally throughout the book. Diagrams put concepts into a visual form that aids in retaining and comprehending, and figures confirm your understanding of procedures. This book also provides additional information, such as addresses for on-line help and supplemental sample tests, testing locations, test-taking tips and strategies, and emotional preparation.
CPS translating inductive and coinductive types
Authors: Gilles Barthe, Tarmo Uustalu
Venue: ACM SIGPLAN Notices (2002)

We investigate CPS translatability of typed λ-calculi with inductive and coinductive types. We show that tenable Plotkin-style call-by-name CPS translations exist for simply typed λ-calculi with a natural number type and stream types and, more generally, with arbitrary positive inductive and coinductive types. These translations also work in the presence of control operators and generalize for dependently typed calculi where case-like eliminations are only allowed in non-dependent forms. No translation is possible along the same lines for small Σ-types and sum types with dependent case.
Techniques to Tackle State Explosion in Global Predicate Detection
Authors: Sridhar Alagar, Subbarayan Venkatesan
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (2001)

Global predicate detection, which is an important problem in testing and debugging distributed programs, is very hard due to the combinatorial explosion of the global state space. This paper presents several techniques to tackle the state explosion problem in detecting whether an arbitrary predicate $\Phi$ is true at some consistent global state of a distributed system. We present space efficient on-line algorithms for detecting $\Phi$. We then improve the performance of our algorithms, both in space and time, by increasing the granularity of the execution step from an event to a sequence of events in each process.
The effect of first-hop wireless bandwidth allocation on end-to-end network performance
Authors: Lili Qiu, Paramvir Bahl, Atul Adya
Venue: Proceedings of the 12th international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video (2002)

With the increasing popularity of handheld devices and wireless local area networks (LANs), real-time applications such as Internet telephony are poised to become ubiquitous. While there has been a substantial amount of research on quality of service problems in the Internet, most end-to-end bandwidth allocation approaches, such as RSVP, have had limited success due to scalability and deployment issues. Starting with the observation that reserving bandwidth in the Internet backbone requires substantial infrastructure support, but reserving bandwidth in the first hop does not, we only focus on the first-hop reservation. We evaluate several first hop allocation schemes and determine their effectiveness in improving end-to-end performance. Since utilization of the reserved first-hop bandwidth depends on the remaining Internet path throughput, we characterize this throughput using traces collected from a popular Web site. Our analysis shows that different clients experience widely different throughputs, and that a significant portion of the clients receive very low throughput (e.g. less than 20 Kbps). We then evaluate several bandwidth allocation schemes for various congestion scenarios. Our results show that the scheme which takes into account of both the application data rate and available Internet path bandwidth yields the best performance. Moreover, the scheme performs even better if it adapts to the changing path properties. We discuss how path bandwidth can be measured without active probing, how frequently it needs to be measured, and how this measurement is incorporated into the first-hop bandwidth allocation algorithm.
The Photographer's Internet Handbook
Authors: Joe Farace
Venue:  (1997)

:Packed with internet-savvy guidelines and essential search techniques, this brand-new edition of the best-selling manual has been brought completely up to date to discuss the latest in browsers, research techniques, and self-promotion strategies. Also included is a brand-new chapter on marketing work through the Internet, as well as new sections on building and maintaining a Web site and protecting images on-line. Plus, this latest edition is packed with dozens of recommended Web sites along with candid one-on-one interviews detailing some of the creative ways professional photographers are successfully using the Internet in their business. About the Author:Joe Farace is a professional photographer who has published hundreds of articles on photography and digital imaging. He is the author of nine books, including The Digital Imaging Dictionary (Allworth Press).