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The Windows NT Magazine Administrator's Survival Guide to Networking and Security
Authors: John Enck
Venue:  (1998)

:This book offers the best advice and tips from the Windows NT Magazine technical editors on system management, security, networking, clustering, and Microsoft BackOffice. It features contributions from the best tech authors in the NT arena: Mark Minasi, Spyros Sakellariadis, Mark Russinovich, Sean Daily, Mark Edwards, Tao Zhou, Robert Schneider, Joel Sloss, Mike Reilly, Christa Anderson, Mark Smith, and many more. It is part of the two-volume boxed set Windows NT Magazine Administrator's Survival Guides Boxed Set.
Collecting in Cyberspace: A Guide to Finding Antiques and Collectibles on-Line
Authors: Shawn Brecka
Venue:  (1997)

:The first guide to Finding Antiques and Collectibles OnlineThe first guide to the Internet addressed specifically to lovers of antiques and collectibles, this book shows how anyone with a computer and modem can access the ever-expanding world of online collecting. The book includes addresses of World Wide Web sites; a list of collector newsgroups and chat rooms on the Internet; directions on where to go on AOL, CompuServe, and Prodigy; and details on how to buy, sell, and trade online. 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
Technology trends in power-grid-induced noise
Authors: Sani R. Nassif, Onsi Fakhouri
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 international workshop on System-level interconnect prediction (2002)

With technology scaling, the trend for high performance integrated circuits is towards higher power dissipation, higher operating frequency and lower power supply voltages. This causes a dramatic increase in power supply current being delivered through the on-chip power grid and is recognized in the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors as one of the difficult challenges. The design of appropriate power grids and the addition of decoupling capacitance has become crucially important in order to control power-grid-induced noise. In this paper, we show analytical relationships between noise and various technology parameters, and we show the resulting trends in noise based on current roadmap predictions.
Web Publishing with XML in Six Easy Steps, 1st edition
Authors: Bryan Pfaffenberger
Venue:  (1998)

:Anyone creating content for the Web and looking for the easiest way to learn Extended Markup Language (XML) won't find a better source than this book. The first step discusses the shortcomings of HTML and introduces XML, with plenty of real-world examples. The remaining steps explore tag definitions, Cascading Style Sheets, Document Type Definitions, and Java-based queries.
Visual attention to repeated internet images: testing the scanpath theory on the world wide web
Authors: Sheree Josephson, Michael E. Holmes
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 symposium on Eye tracking research & applications (2002)

The somewhat controversial and often-discussed theory of visual perception, that of scanpaths, was tested using Web pages as visual stimuli. In 1971, Noton and Stark defined "scanpaths" as repetitive sequences of fixations and saccades that occur upon re-exposure to a visual stimulus, facilitating recognition of that stimulus. Since Internet users are repeatedly exposed to certain visual displays of information, the Web is an ideal stimulus to test this theory. Eye-movement measures were recorded while subjects repeatedly viewed three different kinds of Internet pages -- a portal page, an advertising page and a news story page -- over the course of a week. Scanpaths were compared by using the string-edit methodology that measures resemblance between sequences. Findings show that on the World Wide Web, with somewhat complex visual digital images, some viewers' eye movements may follow a habitually preferred path -- a scanpath -- across the visual display. In addition, strong similarity among eye-path sequences of different viewers may indicate that other forces such as features of the Web site or memory are important.
Implementing Radau IIA methods for stiff delay differential equations
Venue: Computing (2001)

This article discusses the numerical solution of a general class of delay differential equations, including stiff problems, differential-algebraic delay equations, and neutral problems. The delays can be state dependent, and they are allowed to become small and vanish during the integration. Difficulties encountered in the implementation of implicit Runge-Kutta methods are explained, and it is shown how they can be overcome. The performance of the resulting code - RADAR5 - is illustrated on several examples, and it is compared to existing programs.
AIX Version 4: System and Administration Guide
Authors: James DeRoest
Venue:  (1997)

:Following his bestselling book on Version 3, AIXpert Jim DeRoest brings you the bible for Version 4. Whether you're a beginner or advanced AIX user - and whether you administer a personal workstation, manage departmental systems, or implement clustered supercomputing RISC farms - this essential guide delivers a wealth of information, working examples, troubleshooting help, and time-saving tips. 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
Multiagent Systems: A Modern Approach to Distributed Artificial Intelligence, 1st edition
Authors: Gerhard Weiss
Venue:  (2000)

:This is the first comprehensive introduction to multiagent systems and contemporary distributed artificial intelligence. The book provides detailed coverage of basic topics as well as several closely related ones and is suitable as a textbook. The book can be used for teaching as well as self-study, and it is designed to meet the needs of both researchers and practitioners. In view of the interdisciplinary nature of the field, it will be a useful reference not only for computer scientists and engineers, but for social scientists and management and organization scientists as well.
Solving genus zero diophantine equations with at most two infinite valuations
Authors: Dimitrios Poulakis, Evaggelos Voskos
Venue: Journal of Symbolic Computation (2002)

Let f(X, Y) be an absolutely irreducible polynomial with integer coefficients such that the curve defined by the equation f(X, Y) = 0 is of genus 0 having at most two infinite valuations. This paper describes a practical general method for the explicit determination of all integer solutions of the diophantine equation f(X, Y) = 0. Several elaborated examples are given. Furthermore, a necessary and sufficient condition for a curve of genus 0 to have infinitely many integer points is obtained.
Accelerating information revelation in ascending-bid auctions: avoiding last minute bidding
Authors: Shigeo Matsubara
Venue: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM conference on Electronic Commerce (2001)

An ascending-bid auction protocol with a fixed end time has been widely used at many Internet auction sites. At these sites, we can observe bidders engaging in the behavior called last minute bidding, namely, a large fraction of the bids for a good are submitted in the closing seconds of the auction. This can cause problems such as information revelation failure as well as server overload and network congestion. When bidders behave in this way, each of them cannot obtain information about the good from the other bidders' bidding behaviors, and this spoils the advantages of open-bid auctions. The result is an inefficient allocation of the good. To solve this problem, we propose a new protocol that gives each bidder an option to fix the maximum bid of a proxy agent and an incentive to submit a high bid at an early stage of an auction by paying compensation money. We examine the property of the protocol based on the game theory and clarify what situations our protocol outperforms the ordinary ascending-bid auction protocol by computer simulation.
Practical Handbook of Genetic Algorithms
Authors: Lance D. Chambers
Venue:  (1995)

:The mathematics employed by genetic algorithms (GAs)are among themost exciting discoveries of the last few decades. From the construction of a simple GA through to advanced implementation, the Practical Handbook of Genetic Algorithms stands as a vital source of compiled knowledge from respected experts around the world. But Volume I of this handbook does more than just describe GAs. Almost two hundred figures and numerous tables show how they should look and how they work. It offers extensive code lists in a number of languages-C++, Modl, QuickBasic, C, LISP, and many more. Because the book contains compiled knowledge from respected international experts, you gain confidence in the efficacy of the applications and code examples. An accompanying diskette is filled with codes that are ready to cut and paste, ready-to-run applications, and detailed descriptions of how each code can be implemented. The Practical Handbook of Genetic Algorithms is an exciting introduction to the power of this approach to solving new and exciting problems faced in the real world. It presents an intriguing collection of GA applications that represent a wide area of undertakings in which genetic algorithms have proven to be of value. With the valuable software included, Volume 1 offers a comprehensive selection of hybrid methods for designing efficient and effective solutions for even the most complex problems.
IMKA: a multimedia organization system combining perceptual and semantic knowledge
Authors: Ana B. Benitez, Shih-Fu Change, John R. Smith
Venue: Proceedings of the ninth ACM international conference on Multimedia (2001)

In the demo, we present the IMKA system, which implements the innovative approach of integrating perceptual information such as low-level features and images, and symbolic information such as words to represent the knowlege associated with a large multimedia collection for multimedia organization and retrieval. The IMKA system utilizes the unique MediaNet framework, which greatly extends existing knowlege representation tools in the text domain (e.g., semantic networks and WordNet) and the multimedia domain (e.g. Multimedia Thesaurus) by combining perceptual and semantic concepts in the same network and by supporting perceptual and semantic relationships among concepts exemplified by different media. It also brings the level of multimedia retrieval closer to users' needs by translating low-level feature queries to high-level semantic queries and vice versa. We will demonstrate the process of constructing the MediaNet knowledge base and new ways of searching multimedia in the IMKA system by presenting the current implementation of the IMKA system that uses image collections from online sources.
The costs and limits of availability for replicated services
Authors: Haifeng Yu, Amin Vahdat
Venue: Proceedings of the eighteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles (2001)

As raw system and network performance continues to improve at exponential rates, the utility of many services is increasingly limited by availability rather than performance. A key approach to improving availability involves replicating the service across multiple, wide-area sites. However, replication introduces well-known tradeoffs between service consistency and availability. Thus, this paper explores the benefits of dynamically trading consistency for availability using a continuous consistency model. In this model, applications specify a maximum deviation from strong consistency on a per-replica basis. In this paper, we: i) evaluate availability of a prototype replication system running across the Internet as a function of consistency level, consistency protocol, and failure characteristics, ii) demonstrate that simple optimizations to existing consistency protocols result in significant availability improvements (more than an order of magnitude in some scenarios), iii) use our experience with these optimizations to prove tight upper bounds on the availability of services, and iv) show that maximizing availability typically entails remaining as close to strong consistency as possible during times of good connectivity, resulting in a communication versus availability trade-off.
Armored Core
Authors: David S. Hodgson
Venue:  (2000)

:Armored Core 2 for the PlayStation2 takes the series to a new height of fun and pure AC robot combat. With Armored Core 2: Prima's Official Strategy Guide, Prima gives you the inside scoop on everything you need to know, including:Expert tips for building an unbeatable MechExhaustive lists of all weapons, items, and upgradesCoverage of single- and two-player arena modeDetails all 169 Mech typesincluding 12 secret MechsFull descriptions of all 49 opponents and the tactics to beat themComplete walkthroughs of all 36 missions
Maintain and Repair Your Notebook, Palmtop, or Pen Computer, 1st edition
Authors: Stephen J. Bigelow
Venue:  (1993)

:This book carefully explains how notebooks, palmtops, and pen computers work and what their components are. You see each major subassembly in detail along with its major problems and solutions. You even learn a series of preventive maintenance procedures that can keep your system running longer.
Demystifying ISDN with Cdrom
Authors: Rick Arnold
Venue:  (1997)

:"Demystifying ISDN" provides a comprehensive understanding of ISDN concepts and terms. In addition to an introduction to the technology, the reader will also learn how to make appropriate buying decisions when considering the purchase of an ISDN line and in selecting an ISDN digital modem as well as other digital services. 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
Fault-tolerance in the advanced automation system
Authors: Flaviu Cristian, Bob Dancey, Jon Dehn
Venue: Proceedings of the 4th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop (1990)

The Advanced Automation System is a distributed real-time system under development by IBM's Systems Integration Division for the US Federal Aviation Administration. The system is intended to replace the present en-route and terminal approach US air traffic control computer systems over the next decade. High availability of air traffic control services is an essential requirement of the system. This paper discusses the general approach to fault-tolerance adopted in AAS, by reviewing some of the questions which were asked during the system design, various alternative solutions considered, and the reasons for the design choices made.
Communication Networks: A First Course, 2nd edition
Authors: Jean Walrand
Venue:  (1998)

:The second edition of this very successful text provides thorough coverage of networks, including applications, protocols, compression, security and transmission links. Both students and current practitioners will benefit from Walrand's clear presentation of networking concepts.
Secret Codes for Sega Genesis
Authors: Brady Games
Venue:  (1996)

:This is the single best collection of secret codes, cheats, and sensational tips to the top-selling Sega Genesis games on the market! It's a die-hard gamers dream come true!Loaded with inside information to help you uncover secret characters, hidden levels, and all-new modes of game playCheat like the pros
Fuzzy Systems for Management, 1st edition
Authors: K. Asai
Venue:  (1995)

:Since competition is fierce, management organizations for companies and government must respond in a prompt and flexible manner to the large variety of frequently changing requirements of the market and society. In order to do this, earlier management science methods like operations research and mathematical programming often took the approach of expressing problems in equations and solving them; these lack variety and flexibility and have taken form in which human beings supplement them. Various methods have been developed to systematize the parts that depend on human beings, improve the use of computers and make it possible for managers with little experience to use them. Fuzzy theory focuses on the general situation and generalization of the intelligent information processing of human beings and attempts to create models that simulate these. This book is an introduction for learning the basics of fuzzy management science, so it begins by bringing in the significance, necessity, thinking behind the methodology and an outline of fuzzy management science. The various chapters are arranged in order from the ideas and basics to applications. Covered by Zentrallblatt fur Mathematik und ihre Grenzgebiete, band 842/96
Flexible querying of WEB documents
Authors: Gloria Bordogna, Gabriella Pasi
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing (2002)

In this paper we present a flexible query language for expressing both conditions on the documents structure and conditions on the topics of interest. The first condition acts as a soft filter so as to reduce the set of documents on which to evaluate the second condition. Flexibility is achieved by allowing users to specify both a linguistic quantifier such as most for qualifying the global composition of the documents into a number of sections and preferences on the desired documents sections.
Formalising bio-spatial knowledge
Authors: Anthony G. Cohn
Venue: Proceedings of the international conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Volume 2001 (2001)

There is now a growing literature on qualitative spatial representations covering many aspects of spatial representation including mereology, topology, orientation and distance. In this paper I will briefly outline some of these approaches to qualitative spatial representation and then apply these theories to the task of formalising a non-trivial domain: that of representing cell structure. The paper is thus a contribution to the evaluation of qualitative spatial representations and spatial ontologies and may form the basis of a bio-informatic information system.
The Delicious Grace of Moving One's Hand: The Collected Sex Writing, 1st edition
Authors: Timothy Leary
Venue:  (1999)

:The Delicious Grace of Moving One's Hand: The Collected Sex Writings comprises Timothy Leary's selection of his best writing about sexuality. Culled from over thirty years of writing and never before collected, these essays, anecdotes, interviews and lectures take readers on an exploration of the link between sexuality and the mind, and through Leary's views of this country's social and psychological attitudes toward sex.
Multi-fidelity algorithms for interactive mobile applications
Authors: M. Satyanarayanan, Dushyanth Narayanan
Venue: Wireless Networks (2001)

We introduce the concept of multi-fidelity algorithms, which revises the classical notion of an algorithm. Instead of having a fixed output criterion and allowing the resource consumption to vary, we bound the resource consumption and allow the fidelity or output criterion to vary. We discuss how multi-fidelity algorithms can improve the latency and battery life of interactive mobile applications. An extension of this idea allows the system to automatically discover sweet spots: sharp discontinuities in the fidelity-resource tradeoff space.
Modeling heterogeneous network traffic in wavelet domain
Authors: Sheng Ma, Chuanyi Ji
Venue: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON) (2001)

Heterogeneous network traffic possesses diverse statistical properties which include complex temporal correlation and non-Gaussian distributions. A challenge to modeling heterogeneous traffic is to develop a traffic model which can accurately characterize these statistical properties, which is computationally efficient, and which is feasible for analysis. This work develops wavelet traffic models for tackling these issues. In specific, we model the wavelet coefficients rather than the original traffic. Our approach is motivated by a discovery that although heterogeneous network traffic has the complicated short- and long-range temporal dependence, the corresponding wavelet coefficients are all "short-range" dependent. Therefore, a simple wavelet model may be able to accurately characterize complex network traffic. We first investigate what short-range dependence is important among wavelet coefficients. We then develop the simplest wavelet model, i.e., the independent wavelet model for Gaussian traffic. We define and evaluate the (average) autocorrelation function and the buffer loss probability of the independent wavelet model for Fractional Gaussian Noise (FGN) traffic. This assesses the performance of the independent wavelet model, and the use of which for analysis. We also develop (low-order) Markov wavelet models to capture additional dependence among wavelet coefficients. We show that an independent wavelet model is sufficiently accurate, and a Markov wavelet model only improves the performance marginally. We further extend the wavelet models to non-Gaussian traffic through developing a novel time-scale shaping algorithm. The algorithm is tested using real network traffic and shown to outperform FARIMA in both efficiency and accuracy. Specifically, the wavelet models are parsimonious, and have the computation complexity O(N) in developing a model from a training sequence of length N, and O (M) in generating a synthetic traffic trace of length M.
AutoCAD Release 14
Authors: Alf Yarwood
Venue:  (1999)

:This book provides a concise guide to AutoCAD Release 14 for students coming to AutoCAD for the first time. It explains only the most commonly used methods and techniques for the production of engineering drawings, and provides a more concise alternative to the author's An Introduction to AutoCAD Release 14. 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 conceptual framework for testing biometric algorithms within operating systems' authentication
Authors: Arslan Brömme, Marcel Kronberg, Oliver Ellenbeck, Oliver Kasch
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing (2002)

This paper presents a conceptual framework for testing the implementation of biometric algorithms within Unix and Windows NT/2000 operating systems' login authentication. To support the analysis and evaluation of biometric algorithms, a data logging module will be used, enabling the collection of quantitative data, e.g. timestamps, biometric raw data, (pre)processed data, and return codes from each run of a biometric authentication. It is shown how biometric algorithms and a data logging module can be integrated into Unix and Windows NT/2000. In addition to the explained system components a human observer is necessary to collect extended data like user behavior and environmental conditions, which cannot be automatically recorded by the data logging module. From the combination of these two types of data, conclusions on the biometric algorithm in the context of its implementation in operating systems' authentication can be drawn. The resulting benefits for the development of appropriate biometric algorithms concerning aspects of robustness (security, safety), performance measures and usability will be discussed for iris-biometrics.