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Hybrid performance modeling approach for network intensive distributed software
Authors: Tom Verdickt, Bart Dhoedt, Filip De Turck, Piet Demeester
Venue: Proceedings of the 6th international workshop on Software and performance (2007)

When designing and evaluating software architectures and network facilities for hosting demanding distributed applications, taking performance considerations into account is essential. A key factor in assessing the performance of such a distributed system is the network latency and its relation to the application behaviour. In this respect, it is important to include the performance impact of the network into the performance models used during the entire design cycle of the system.A framework is proposed that allows to model both the software and the network components separately and extracts a single set of performance estimates for the entire system. This has the advantage of allowing the network and software aspects to be modeled separately using the modeling languages and tools most suited to those system aspects. A case study is presented to illustrate the use of the framework and its usefulness in predicting system performance.
Compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003
Authors: Galen A. Grimes
Venue: Communications of the ACM (2007)

Studying the application of the CAN-SPAM Act and its effect on controlling unsolicited email messages.
Days of gloom and despair
Authors: Diana Patterson
Venue: ACM SIGDOC Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation (1978)

A Couple of Weeks ago I received a letter from one of Sigdoc's best contributors Asking me if I thought there Was any more to say about tech writing in general and the use of text formatting systems in particular. Enthusiastically I declared "Yes!" I had just returned from that ITCC in dallas where there seemed a never ending stream of panel sessions and slides that proclaimed that there were more tech writers, editors, teachers and illustrators than ever before. 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
MCSE Designing Security for a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Exam Cram 2 (Exam Cram 70-298)
Authors: Ed Tittel, Bill Ferguson
Venue:  (2003)

Your resource to passing MCSE 70-298 Windows Sever 2003 Certification Exam!Join the ranks of readers who have trusted Exam Cram 2 to their certification preparation needs! The MCSE Designing Security for a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Exam Cram 2 is focused on what you need to know to pass the 70-298 exam for Windows Server 2003. The Exam Cram 2 Method of Study provides you with a concise method to learn the exam topics. The book includes tips, exam notes, acronyms and memory joggers in order to help you pass the exam.Included in the MCSE Designing Security for a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Exam Cram 2: A tear-out "Cram Sheet" for last minute test preparation. Two complete practice exams and answer keys with key explanations. The PrepLogic Practice Tests, test engine to simulate the testing environment and test your knowledge.Trust in the series that has helped many others achieve certification success - Exam Cram 2.
3D face detection using curvature analysis
Authors: Alessandro Colombo, Claudio Cusano, Raimondo Schettini
Venue: Pattern Recognition (2006)

Face detection is a crucial preliminary in many applications. Most of the approaches to face detection have focused on the use of two-dimensional images. We present an innovative method that combines a feature-based approach with a holistic one for three-dimensional (3D) face detection. Salient face features, such as the eyes and nose, are detected through an analysis of the curvature of the surface. Each triplet consisting of a candidate nose and two candidate eyes is processed by a PCA-based classifier trained to discriminate between faces and non-faces. The method has been tested, with good results, on some 150 3D faces acquired by a laser range scanner.
Premiere Pro 2 for Windows: Visual QuickPro Guide
Authors: Antony Bolante
Venue:  (2006)

ï¾ Need to take your Adobe Premiere Pro skills to the next level? Learn Premiere Pro 2ï¾ the fast, efficient way! This Visual QuickPro Guide uses illustrations and in-depth explanations. You'll be a master in time! ·ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ Takes a visual, task-based approach to teaching Premiere Pro, using pictures to guide you through the software and show you what to do. ·ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ Works like a reference book-you look up what you need and then get straight to work. ·ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ Concise, straightforward steps and explanations offer the fastest way to learn tasks and concepts. ·ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ Affordably priced, because buying a computer book shouldn't be an investment in itself.
Flickr Hacks: Tips & Tools for Sharing Photos Online (Hacks)
Authors: Paul Bausch, Jim Bumgardner, Caterina Fake
Venue:  (2006)

Over two million registered Flickr users and counting have discovered the ease and fun of organizing their photo libraries, showing off their favorite pictures to the world, and securely sharing their private pictures with friends, family, or ad hoc groups. But Flickr's own plethora of intuitive menus, options, and features just scratches the surface. Flickr Hacks goes beyond the basics of storing, sorting, and sharing your photos to the much bigger playground of what's possible. Whether you're a beginner looking to manage your metadata and play with tags, or a programmer in need of a detailed reference of Flickr API methods, you'll find what you're looking for here. In addition to getting under the hood of some of the most popular third-party Flickr toys already in the wild, you'll learn how to: Post photos to your blog directly from your cameraphone Mash up your own photos or others' public pictures into custom mosaics, collages, sliding puzzles, slideshows, or ransom notes Back up your Flickr library to your desktop, and save the comments too Set random desktop backgrounds and build your own Flickr screensaver Geotag your photos and map your contacts Download a list of photos and make a contact sheet Make your own Flickr-style tag cloud to visualize the frequency of common tags Build a color picker with a dynamic color wheel of Flickr photos Feed photos to your web site and subscribe to custom Flickr feeds using RSS Talk to the Flickr API using your web browser, Perl, or PHP; authenticate yourself and other users; and build custom API applications
The +Plus Series: Microsoft (tm) FrontPage 2003, 1 edition
Authors: Ann Willer
Venue:  (2004)

Thousands of learners have asked for high quality materials that focus on technologies that go beyond core applications of Microsoft Office. McGraw-Hill Technology Education has answered these requests with 4 new titles making up the +Plus Series. This books were designed to stand alone as primary texts or to supplement instruction in core courses. The +Plus Series books are brief, easy to use, and less expensive than primary textbooks. Table of contentsChapter 1 Creating a Web Site Chapter 2 Working with Text Chapter 3 Working with Images Chapter 4 Publishing a Web Site GlossaryIndex 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
Apple Pro Training Series: Getting Started with Aperture (Apple Pro Training)
Authors: Estelle McGechie
Venue:  (2005)

Welcome to Aperture, the revolutionary application for managing and editing digital photographs. Designed specifically for professional digital photographers, Aperture is an enormously powerful tool for handling some of the most time-consuming and tedious tasks of professional photography. This collection of Apple Pro Training tutorials will get you up and running in no time. You'll learn how to sort, rank, and manage images with unparalleled efficiency; display onscreen proofs and contact sheets in compelling ways for clients; edit and retouch your selected images professionally; publish proofs, portfolios, and final images on the Web and in print; and archive images in a way that's easy, secure, and intuitive. Available in 2005, these hands-on tutorials provide a great overview of an indispensable application for digital photographers. 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
Ultimate Game Design: Building Game Worlds, 1 edition
Authors: Tom Meigs
Venue:  (2003)

Build games with techniques and insights from a pro. Author and game developer Tom Meigs shows you the finer points of world building and behavior scripting. Learn about level stubbing, lighting, prop and item placement, camera tricks, particle and effects systems, communication loops, Massively Multiplayer Online Games, and much more.Table of contents 1: Previsualization 2: Level Planning and Building 3: Lighting, Texturing, Particles, Effects, and Audio 4: Actors, Props, Items, and Camera Details 5: Design by Genre 6: Scripting Action Events 7: Quality Assurance and Play-Test Feedback 8: Design Considerations for Massively Multiplayer Online Games 9: Cell Phones and Wireless Gaming 10: Getting Started in Game Development 11: Game Development Career Choices A: Reference Information B: Tools Discussed C: Career Guideline Worksheet D: Quick Topic Summary for Designers E: Ultimate Baseball Online Gallery
An efficient and spectrally accurate numerical method for computing dynamics of rotating Bose-Einstein condensates
Authors: Weizhu Bao, Hanquan Wang
Venue: Journal of Computational Physics (2006)

In this paper, we propose an efficient and spectrally accurate numerical method for computing the dynamics of rotating Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) in two dimensions (2D) and 3D based on the Gross-Pitaevskii equation (GPE) with an angular momentum rotation term. By applying a time-splitting technique for decoupling the nonlinearity and properly using the alternating direction implicit (ADI) technique for the coupling in the angular momentum rotation term in the GPE, at every time step, the GPE in rotational frame is decoupled into a nonlinear ordinary differential equation (ODE) and two partial differential equations with constant coefficients. This allows us to develop new time-splitting spectral methods for computing the dynamics of BEC in a rotational frame. The new numerical method is explicit, unconditionally stable, and of spectral accuracy in space and second-order accuracy in time. Moreover, it is time reversible and time transverse invariant, and conserves the position density in the discretized level if the GPE does. Extensive numerical results are presented to confirm the above properties of the new numerical method for rotating BEC in 2D and 3D.
The Tech-Savvy Real Estate Agent
Authors: Galen Gruman
Venue:  (2006)

Sure, you know how to use the MLS database, but do you know how to effectively establish a Web presence or do customer outreach via email or the Web? There are all kinds of ways you can use technology to market your practice and service your clients, but if you're like most realtors you've probably only scratched the surface. In this easy-to-understand guide, author Galen Gruman draws on his more than 20 years of experience as a tech-industry author and journalist to show you how to become a better real estate agent by learning and effectively using current computer technology and tools in your business. You'll learn what technology to use as well as what technology not to use,so that you're certain to spend your tech dollars effectively. In major sections on marketing, communications, and transaction management, Galen covers everything from the elements of a good Web site to evaluating devices and services, working in multiple locations, creating transaction libraries, using digital photography, converting documents to electronic forms, and more.This book also includes a CD-ROM for both Windows and Mac with templates, product and technology links, tryout and free software tools, and even quizzes for use in classroom and training environments. ï¾ 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
Integrating model-based diagnosis techniques into current work processes --- three case studies from the INDIA project
Authors: Heiko Milde, Thomas Guckenbiehl, Andreas Malik, Bernd Neumann, Peter Struss
Venue: AI Communications (2000)

Although the area of model-based diagnosis has developed a number of prototypes with impressive features that promised economic impact and, hence, caught industrial interest, the number of actual industrial applications is still close to zero. One of the reasons is that the successful techniques have not yet been turned into tools that reflect and support the current diagnostic work processes and their existing tools. The INDIA project joined eight German partners (research groups, software suppliers, and end users) in an attempt to take a major step in the transfer of model-based diagnosis techniques into industrial applications. This paper describes part of the work carried out in this project. Rather than presenting the theoretical foundations of the techniques in depth, we focus on the aspect of how model-based diagnostic techniques can be related to established tools and systems in order to provide some leverage for today's work processes and to change them gradually, as opposed to postulating a radical change in current practice and organizational structures. From this perspective, we discuss the utilization of model-based techniques for the generation of fault trees for on-line testing and diagnosis of fork lifters, generation of test plans for an intelligent authoring system for car diagnosis manuals, and the exploitation of existing state-chart process descriptions for post-mortem diagnosis of processes in a dyeing plant.
Phase congruence measurement for image similarity assessment
Authors: Zheng Liu, Robert Laganière
Venue: Pattern Recognition Letters (2007)

In the performance assessment of an image processing algorithm, an image is often compared with an available reference. Measuring image similarity can be achieved in many ways; comparison algorithm varies from pixel-based mean square error method to structure-based image quality index. In this paper, we present a new feature-based approach that utilizes image phase congruency measurement to quantify the assessment of the similarities or differences between two images. Test results with standard images and industrial inspection images are presented.
MCSE Core Required Exams in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))
Authors: William R. Stanek
Venue:  (2006)

Written by the premier author in Windows administration, William Stanek, and addressing the needs of Windows 2003 administrators preparing for the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) exams, MCSE Core Required Exams in a Nutshell is invaluable. With the recent revisions of the MCSE exams including simulations, success is even more difficult. Not only does this book provide the resources administrators need to succeed on the exams, but to succeed in the real world as well. They can think of this book as the notes they would have highlighted and then recorded for every essential nugget of information related to the skills measured in Exams 70-290, 70-291, 70-293, and 70-294 (and by association Exams 70-292 and 70-296). To begin with, MCSE Core Required Exams in a Nutshell allows readers to see all of the topics expected for mastery in each of the exams. Then, each exam is covered in three parts: Exam Overview, Study Guide, and Test Your Knowledge sections. This makes for easy reference and a great study aid. The Exams covered include:EXAM 70-290: Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 EnvironmentEXAM 70-291: Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network InfrastructureEXAM 70-293: Planning and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network InfrastructureEXAM 70-294: Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory InfrastructureOnce they have completed the exams successfully, administrators will find the book to be a valuable reference to core Windows administration skills.
Linux in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))
Authors: Ellen Siever, Stephen Figgins, Aaron Weber, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
Venue:  (2005)

Over the last few years, Linux has grown both as an operating system and a tool for personal and business use. Simultaneously becoming more user friendly and more powerful as a back-end system, Linux has achieved new plateaus: the newer filesystems have solidified, new commands and tools have appeared and become standard, and the desktop--including new desktop environments--have proved to be viable, stable, and readily accessible to even those who don't consider themselves computer gurus. Whether you're using Linux for personal software projects, for a small office or home office (often termed the SOHO environment), to provide services to a small group of colleagues, or to administer a site responsible for millions of email and web connections each day, you need quick access to information on a wide range of tools. This book covers all aspects of administering and making effective use of Linux systems. Among its topics are booting, package management, and revision control. But foremost in Linux in a Nutshell are the utilities and commands that make Linux one of the most powerful and flexible systems available.Now in its fifth edition, Linux in a Nutshell brings users up-to-date with the current state of Linux. Considered by many to be the most complete and authoritative command reference for Linux available, the book covers all substantial user, programming, administration, and networking commands for the most common Linux distributions.Comprehensive but concise, the fifth edition has been updated to cover new features of major Linux distributions. Configuration information for the rapidly growing commercial network services and community update services is one of the subjects covered for the first time.But that's just the beginning. The book covers editors, shells, and LILO and GRUB boot options. There's also coverage of Apache, Samba, Postfix, sendmail, CVS, Subversion, Emacs, vi, sed, gawk, and much more. Everything that system administrators, developers, and power users need to know about Linux is referenced here, and they will turn to this book again and again.
Nokia Smartphone Hacks
Authors: Michael Juntao Yuan
Venue:  (2005)

Nokia's smartphones pack a powerful computer into a very small space. Unlike your desktop or laptop, your smallest computer can be connected to the Internet all the time, and can interact with the world around it through its camera, voice recognition, and its traditional phone keypad. Nokia smartphones combine these features with impressive storage options and a host of networking protocols that make this smallest computer the only thing a road warrior truly needs. If you're still cracking open your laptop or pining for your desktop while you're on the road, you haven't begun to unlock your Nokia's full potential. Nokia Smartphone Hacks is dedicated to tricking out your smartphone and finding all the capabilities lurking under the surface. Learn how to: Unlock your phone so that you can use it with any carrier Avoid and recover from malicious mobile software Watch DVD movies on the phone Use the phone as a remote control Use the phone as a data modem for your notebook Check your email and browse the web Post to your weblog from your phone Record phone conversations Choose mobile service plans Transfer files between the phone and your computer Whether you want to use your smartphone as your lifeline while you're on the road, or you're just looking for a way to make the most of the time you spend waiting in lines, you'll find all the user-friendly tips, tools, and tricks you need to become massively productive with your Nokia smartphone. With Nokia Smartphone Hacks, you'll unleash the full power of that computer that's sitting in your pocket, purse, or backpack. 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
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Delta Guide
Authors: David McAmis, Don Jones
Venue:  (2003)

The Delta Guide to Exchange 2003 has been designed to become an invaluable resource to existing Exchange administrators, allowing you to quickly come up to speed on new features and functionality in Exchange, building on the knowledge and experience you already possess. The "Delta" series is designed to allow IT professionals to quickly update your skills based on what has changed between the previous and current software release. This book is for you if you are a system administrator who is responsible for administering a previous Exchange installation (v5.5 or 2000) or if you are an IT professional who has some experience with a previous version of Exchange and wish to update your skills. This book covers changes in installation, configuration, administration, clustering, security and many other important topics.
Applying the Hough transform pseudo-linearity property to improve computing speed
Authors: E. Duquenoy, A. Taleb-Ahmed
Venue: Pattern Recognition Letters (2006)

This work describes a general method of acceleration of the convergence of the Hough transform based, on the one hand, on an improvement of the image analysis speed, and, on the other hand, on the space undersampling of the image. This method is used in image processing to extract lines, circles, ellipses or arbitrary shapes. The results presented are applied to the detection of straight-line segments and ellipses, but can be extended to any type of transform.
Rapid and Brief Communication: Recognizing facial action units using independent component analysis and support vector machine
Authors: Chao-Fa Chuang, Frank Y. Shih
Venue: Pattern Recognition (2006)

Facial expression provides a crucial behavioral measure for studies of human emotion, cognitive processes, and social interaction. In this paper, we focus on recognizing facial action units (AUs), which represent the subtle change of facial expressions. We adopt ICA (independent component analysis) as the feature extraction and representation method and SVM (support vector machine) as the pattern classifier. By comparing with three existing systems, such as Tian, Donato, and Bazzo, our proposed system can achieve the highest recognition rates. Furthermore, the proposed system is fast since it takes only 1.8ms for classifying a test image.
Notes from reviewers
Authors: Stanley Habib
Venue: ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter (1973)

As the title suggests, microprogramming is a secondary topic in the general treatment of "Computer Organization" in this text. (One is reminded of the discussion at the closing session of Micro-5 about whether microprogramming is a viable subject of inquiry of itself.) I do not mean to suggest that Professor Chu has simply added the name of a "hot topic" to the title of his book and then given it shallow treatment. Two of the eleven chapters deal entirely with microprogramming, and the chapter on Control Organization contains a good section of the hows and whys of microprogramming. Furthermore, the independent control points (control signals) of computer structures are referred to as "micro-operations" throughout the book. This terminology automatically stresses the proper role of microprogramming as <u>one</u> of the possible techniques for implementing the control function of a processor. In addition, the author's Computer Design Language (CDL) is built around the symbolic representation of these micro-operations, providing good continuity throughout the material presented.