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Building an Enterprise Active Directory with CD Rom
Authors: Microsoft Consulting Services
Venue:  (2000)

:Building an Enterprise Active Directory: Notes from the Field is a technical guide that outlines best practices and procedures for planning, designing, and building a Microsoft Windows 2000 Active Directory architecture in enterprise environments. Using Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) early RDP experiences, work with Microsoft Certified Solution Providers (partners), and customer engagements, this book helps IT professionals maximize their Windows 2000 network. Uses real-world scenarios to demonstrate the best practices for building an Active Directory that best replicates the structure of your organization Instead of focusing on administrative issues, this book focuses on building and design issues that simplify planning and deployment Simplifies designing a directory services infrastructure Helps IT professionals define Active Directory requirements, identify services that must migrate to it, develop a matrix of features to deploy, and plan an efficient Active Directory namespace 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
Onimusha Warlords
Authors: Mario De Govia, Brandon Smith, Justin Berthelsen
Venue:  (2001)

:Detailed 3-D Maps Complete game walkthrough Hardcore game secrets Solutions to all puzzles Locations of all powerful gems Thorough descriptions of all fighting moves and weapons Essential tactics for all boss battlesSealed secrects section
High-Performance Networks for Multimedia Applications
Authors: Andre L. Danthine
Venue:  (1999)

:High-Performance Networks for Multimedia Applications presents the latest research on the service and protocols for networks providing the communication support for distributed multimedia application. High-Performance Networks for Multimedia Applications is a collection of high quality research papers and the in-depth treatment of the subjects provides interesting and innovative solutions. It is an essential reference for telecommunication and computer experts and QoS-based application designers. It is also a comprehensive text for graduate students in high-performance networks and multimedia applications.
Nonlinear Dynamical Systems: Feedforward Neural Network Perspectives
Authors: Simon Haykin, James T. Lo, Craig L. Fancourt, Jose C. Principe, Shigeru Katagiri
Venue:  (2001)

:This book deals with a specialized part of neural networks having applications in control, signal processing and time series analysis. Co-authored by five leading experts widely recognized for their contributions to the literature, the title provides an up-to-date treatment of a class of nonlinear dynamical systems using feed forward neural network structures. The book will be.
A compact and efficient image retrieval approach based on border/interior pixel classification
Authors: Renato O. Stehling, Mario A. Nascimento, Alexandre X. Falcão
Venue: Proceedings of the eleventh international conference on Information and knowledge management (2002)

This paper presents \bic (Border/Interior pixel Classification), a compact and efficient CBIR approach suitable for broad image domains. It has three main components: (1) a simple and powerful image analysis algorithm that classifies image pixels as either border or interior, (2) a new logarithmic distance (dLog) for comparing histograms, and (3) a compact representation for the visual features extracted from images. Experimental results show that the BIC approach is consistently more compact, more efficient and more effective than state-of-the-art CBIR approaches based on sophisticated image analysis algorithms and complex distance functions. It was also observed that the dLog distance function has two main advantages over vectorial distances (e.g., L1): (1) it is able to increase substantially the effectiveness of (several) histogram-based CBIR approaches and, at the same time, (2) it reduces by 50% the space requirement to represent a histogram.
Material Requirements Plannning: Integrating Material Requirement Planning and Modern Business
Authors: Terry Lunn, Susan A. Neff
Venue:  (1992)

:Material Requirements Manning (MRP) is essential to the consistent, efficient productivity of a plant. By basing estimates on actual orders and the forecasts of customer requirements, this system discourages material shortages, wasteful surplus, and costly errors in procurement decisions. This process also helps evaluate the impact of requirements on the capacity of a manufacturing facility. But this powerful process should not be delegated to an automated system alone; while MRP enables you to maximize your ability to manage and maintain material flow, you must first have a clear understanding of its foundation and functions. MRP explains the fundamentals of MRP and the ways you can use it to more effectively run your business. It focuses on the fluctuating present-day manufacturing world and includes discussions on current business practices. The authors outline simple, sequential steps to build or enhance your MRP system, concentrating on methods that help you anticipate future demand, forecast inventory status, and replenish orders efficiently. The book's nonacademic, nontheoretical format is ideal for self-study and immediate implementation. The message and the methods are clear: Technical terms are clearly defined, and abstract concepts are simplified and related through charts, graphs, and specific examples. MRP shows you how to solve scheduling dilemmas and fill orders on time and on budget, pinpoint key problem areas to prevent or reconcile errors and inconsistencies, calculate the appropriate quantities needed to support a desired schedule, interpret records and reports so you can assess and address the adjustments that will affect inventory levels and materials requirements, use MRP to integrate the various functions of your business unit, and match the book's examples and strategies to the needs of your firm. Once you have mastered the book's principles, your MRP or current scheduling system will become more understandable and more reliable. Since M
Administering Sap R/3: SD-Sales and Distribution Module
Authors: ASAP World Consultancy, Jonathan Blain, Bernard Dodd
Venue:  (1998)

:As the ideal manual for people installing or administering the Sales & Distribution module--or for those managing a site utilizing the SD module--this book provides specific examples of how to conduct sales transactions, accounting for those transactions, remote sales force automation and more.
Augmenting shared personal calendars
Authors: Joe Tullio, Jeremy Goecks, Elizabeth D. Mynatt, David H. Nguyen
Venue: Proceedings of the 15th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (2002)

In this paper, we describe Augur, a groupware calendar system to support personal calendaring practices, informal workplace communication, and the socio-technical evolution of the calendar system within a workgroup. Successful design and deployment of groupware calendar systems have been shown to depend on several converging, interacting perspectives. We describe calendar-based work practices as viewed from these perspectives, and present the Augur system in support of them. Augur allows users to retain the flexibility of personal calendars by anticipating and compensating for inaccurate calendar entries and idiosyncratic event names. We employ predictive user models of event attendance, intelligent processing of calendar text, and discovery of shared events to drive novel calendar visualizations that facilitate interpersonal communication. In addition, we visualize calendar access to support privacy management and long-term evolution of the calendar system.
Social interactions in multiscale CVEs
Authors: Xiaolong Zhang, George W. Furnas
Venue: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Collaborative virtual environments (2002)

A multiscale Collaborative Virtual Environment (mCVE) is a virtual world in which multiple users can independently resize themselves to work together on different sized aspects of very large and complicated structures. Interactions among users in an mCVE differ in many ways from those in traditional collaborative virtual environments. In this paper we explore collaboration-related issues affected by multiscale, such as social presence, perception of proximity, and cross-scale information sharing. We also report results of an experiment with our mCVE prototype system, which show the impact of multiscale capabilities on social interactions.
Using HTML, with CD-ROM (Special Edition), 4th edition
Authors: Que Corporation, Mark R. Brown
Venue:  (1997)

:Que's Special Edition Using HTML 4, Fourth Edition is the most complete resource for building powerful web sites with HTML, Dynamic HTML, and XML. Using step-by-step examples, expert tips and advice, and a real-world approach, you'll have all the information you need to master HTML and its related technologies. Written by seasoned authors, this must-have guide goes beyond the basic fundamentals to cover more advanced topics and features. With its comprehensive coverage, authoritative insight, and practical techniques, this all-in-one guide will lead you to a new level of understanding and HTML mastery.
Database compression with data mining methods
Authors: Chien-Le Goh, Kazuki Aisaka, Masahiko Tsukamoto, Shojiro Nishio
Venue: Information organization and databases: foundations of data organization (2000)

Despite the drop in prices, storage cost is still a major cost factor in large scale database applications, such as data warehouses. Data compression is needed to reduce the cost. Many data compression techniques have been proposed and the issue of database compression has been discussed. Conventional data compression techniques require that compressed data be decompressed before read operations or write operations can be carried out. As a result, it is not practical to compress databases in active use using the conventional data compression techniques. In this chapter, we propose a database compression technique which needs only partial decompression for read operations and no decompression for write operations. It is suitable for databases in active use and can be used to compress data in relational databases. The proposed technique finds rules in a relational database using the Apriori Algorithm and store data using rules to achieve high compression ratios. The rules are in turn stored in a deductive database to enable easy data access.
Quick Course in Microsoft PowerPoint 2000
Authors: Joyce Cox, Polly Urban
Venue:  (1999)

:Readers will learn PowerPoint 2000 by learning how to put together an attention-grabbing presentation that can be easily customized. Subsequent chapters cover fine-tuning a presentation, adding more visual effects, and creating a custom template.
Learn Windows 98 in a Weekend
Authors: Michael Meadhra, Faithe Wempen
Venue:  (1998)

:Learn Windows 98 In a Weekend focuses on the practical usability rather than the theory and technology of this new operating system. It enables the reader to increase and improve their computer skills by learning to harness the power of Windows 98 quickly and easily. Designed for beginners, this book concentrates on the nuts-and-bolts experience that new users require in order to increase productivity.
Evaluation of the SEPA in teaching undergraduate software engineering in the traditional computer science curriculum
Authors: Hubert A. Johnson
Venue: ACM SIGCSE Bulletin (1999)

Experiences provide computer science majors need to mirror the typical situation a student will encounter after graduation. The frustration as well as the benefit of working in a group can only be appreciated if experienced first hand. This has made the introduction of software engineering concepts into the traditional computer science curriculum an invaluable component in all computer science courses.The use of Software Engineering - A Practitioner's Approach (SEPA) in an undergraduate software engineering course taught at Montclair in the Spring of 1997 was an attempt to expose the students to situations as typical of real-world conditions as possible. In assessing the impact of this approach on undergraduate software education, I concluded that the SEPA can provide a rich and significantly worthwhile experience for students as the students in this course had very positive feedback regarding the course.
Axiomatizing the subsumption and subword preorders on finite and infinite partial words
Authors: Zoltán Ésik
Venue: Theoretical Computer Science (2002)

We consider two-sorted algebras of finite and infinite partial words equipped with the subsumption preorder and the operations of series and parallel product and omega power. It is shown that the valid equations and inequations of these algebras can be described by an infinite collection of simple axioms, and that no finite axiomatization exists. We also prove similar results for two related preorders, namely for the induced partial subword preorder and the partial subword preorder. Along the way of proving these results, we provide a concrete description of the free algebras in the corresponding varieties in terms of generalized series-parallel partial words.
Here and there, now and then: four views of a long-distance teleworker's 'workplace'
Authors: Thomas Erickson
Venue: ACM SIGGROUP Bulletin (2001)

For the last eight years I've worked as a long-distance teleworker from my home in Minneapolis, first for Apple Computer in California, and then for IBM in New York. In this essay I offer reflections on the nature of my workplace(s), in the hope that they may provide grist for those concerned with providing technological and organizational support for remote workers.Obviously this is a highly personal and particular account. Nevertheless, I believe that such reflections on personal experience have an important role to play in informing the ways in which the meaning of 'the workplace' is changing under the impact of new technologies. As such, this essay fits into a tradition of examinations of ways in which particular workplaces are shaped by technologies, ranging from a wide variety of studies carried out in the ethnographic tradition (e.g. [8, 9]) to more personal, reflective accounts (e.g. [1, 3]).In this essay, I work from the macro level to the micro level. I begin with the organization for which I work, and take up the complexities which emerge when I try to answer the question "Where do you work?" While one might think that at least saying where one works is a relatively simple matter, I suggest that this isn't so. Next I focus on group workplaces. In particular, I look at the meeting room, and describe an unusual experience attending a meeting via speaker phone. On the basis of this example, I suggest that while places are obviously important, something that is also important --- and much more difficult to support --- is the way in which collective interaction changes over time within a workplace. Third, I focus in on my personal workplace in my home office. I note that much of my daily activity can be viewed as movement through a trajectory of places, each which provides a different configuration of resources for collective interaction. I conclude with a discussion of my personal experiences with Loops, an online environment under development by my work group, that blends elements of group and personal workplaces.
Creating Motion Graphics with after Effects, 1st edition
Authors: Trish Meyer, Chris Meyer
Venue:  (2000)

:Adobe's After Effects is the standard software for desktop motion graphics production. This book leads beginning users to more advanced skills for creating professional motion graphics - high-impact, multielement imagery for film and video. The authors describe how the program works internally, how various features relate to actual program demands, and how to use After Effects tools to solve creative challenges.
Facilitating mobile decision making
Authors: Mohamed A. Sharaf, Panos K. Chrysanthis
Venue: Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Mobile commerce (2002)

The wide spread of mobile computing devices is transforming the newly emerged e-business world into a mobile e-business one, a world in which hand-held computers are the user's front-ends to access enterprise data. For good mobile decision making, users need to count on up-to-date, business-critical data. Such data are typically in the form of summarized information tailored to suit the clients' analysis interests. In this paper, we are addressing the issue of efficient delivery of summary tables to mobile users' hand-held computers equipped with OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) front-end tools. Towards this, we propose a new on-demand scheduling algorithm, called STOBS, that exploits the derivation semantics among OLAP summary tables. It maximizes the aggregated data sharing between clients and reduces the broadcast length compared to the already existing techniques. The algorithm effectiveness with respect to access time and energy consumption is evaluated using simulation.
Convergence of Nested Iterative Methods for Symmetric P-Regular Splittings
Authors: Zhi-Hao Cao
Venue: SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (2000)

We study the convergence of nested iterative methods and present conditions on the splittings corresponding to the iterative methods to guarantee convergence for any number of the inner iterations. In contrast to Lanzkron, Rose, and Szyld [Numer. Math., 58 (1991), pp. 685--702], Frommer and Szyld [Numer. Math., 63 (1992), pp. 345--356; Numer. Math., 69 (1994), pp. 141--153], and Cao [Math. Numer. Sinica, 17 (1995), pp. 98--109; Linear Algebra Appl., 22 (1995), pp. 159--170], in which the coefficient matrices are either of monotone matrices or of H-matrices and the splittings they set relate to regular and weak regular ones, the coefficient matrices considered in this paper are symmetric positive definite and the splittings we set relate to P-regular ones.
Proceedings of the 5th ACM international workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP
Venue: Data Warehousing and OLAP (2002)

Data Warehousing and On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) are technologies for providing executives and managers with timely, integrated access to critical information from multiple, distributed, heterogeneous databases and other information sources for analysis and decision making activities.The ACM International Workshop on Data Warehousing and Online Analytical Processing (DOLAP) is an annual event that provides an international forum where both researchers and practitioners can share their findings in theoretical foundations, current methodologies, practical experiences, and new research directions in the areas of data warehousing and online analytical processing. The fifth DOLAP workshop was held this year in McLean, VA, USA.These proceedings contain the papers selected for presentation at the workshop. We received 22 submissions form 16 different countries. The submitted papers covered various aspects of Data Warehousing and OLAP including multidimensional modeling, materialized view selection, extract-transform-merge processes, view maintenance, temporal and object-oriented aspects of data warehouses, query languages for OLAP, query processing and optimization, indexing, and XML data warehouses. After careful review the program committee selected 11 papers for presentation at the workshop. The accepted papers were presented in three sessions: data warehouse conceptual modeling, data warehouse logical design, and data warehouse operation and query optimization.
Application of haptic navigation to modify free-form surfaces through specified points and curves
Authors: Masatake Higashi, Nobuaki Aoki, Takanobu Kaneko
Venue: Proceedings of the seventh ACM symposium on Solid modeling and applications (2002)

In this paper, we propose a method which modifies free-form surfaces to pass through not only specified points but also specified curves with the assistance of haptic navigation. Using the method, designers of aesthetic shapes such as a car body can manipulate the model of the shape in real-time looking at its stereoscopic image and feeling its haptic sensation as if there were a clay model. The haptic navigation helps designers letting them capture and recognize the object easily and constraining their operation to the appropriate direction or along the specified geometric element. In addition, the designers can get force feedback proportional to the modification quantity. To obtain a smoothly modified shape, we introduce correction functions to the given surface equations. A correction function distributes the effect of the change over the whole shape or the specified region according to the distance of the point in the normal direction of the given surface. The values of the correction function are 1 at the indicated point and 0 at the boundaries, and the shape is modified to keep the original smoothness. The distance values of the correction functions at the indicated points are determined to pass through all of them by solving a linear equation. To apply this to the specified curves including boundaries of a trimmed surface, we treat points composing the curve similarly for the correction functions of points by representing it with a Cardinal spline.
Process Control Instrumentation Technology, 7th edition
Authors: Curtis D. Johnson
Venue:  (2002)

:The sixth edition of Process Control Instrumentation Technology provides a comprehensive working knowledge of process control and control systems, from the fundamental theoretical concepts to the more practical aspects of assembling, troubleshooting, adjusting and operating a control system. Using this text to obtain a solid foundation, readers can design the elements of a control system from the practical perspective as well as understand how these elements affect overall system operation and tuning. All of this is accomplished without the necessity of advanced math and theory or on-the-job experience. 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