ppxscal/embedding_network huggingface dataset:
Transactional Multimedia Banner as Web Access Point
Venue: Electronic Commerce Research (2001)

Currently there is an explosively growing amount of back-end services available (e.g., business to business (B2B) commerce, business to consumer (B2C) commerce, and infomercial services) in the Internet. These services are mostly accessible through static HTML web pages at a few specific web portals. Advertising in TV broadcasting has shown that multimedia is a very effective means to present merchandise and attract shoppers. This has been applied to the Web by including animated multimedia banner ads on web pages. However, the issues of coupling interactive browsing, shopping, and secure transactions, e.g., from inside a multimedia banner, have only recently started to being explored. In this paper, we will investigate the feasibility of using interactive multimedia banners as pervasive access point for the B2C, B2B, and infomercial services. We present a system architecture that involves a layer of middleware agents functioning as the bridge between the interactive multimedia banners and back-end services. The findings suggest that the middleware agents can not only convey the B2B services to the individual consumers via multimedia banners, but also simplify the design of the middleware agents by using the standardized B2B application interfaces. As a specific case study, the use of interactive multimedia banners, communicating with a browsing/transaction middleware agent in accessing the catalog and shopping services, over the Internet will be discussed and prototyped. The system architecture under study consists of an interactive multimedia banner (such as a banner-ad, or the display of merchandise in a catalog), a browsing agent, and a transaction agent. Such interactive multimedia banners allow users to browse and buy the merchandise in the e-mall directly from the banner. The browsing agent enables interactive browsing within the banner. The transaction agent interfaces with various e-commerce servers and existing e-malls to complete the transaction securely. We implement a pure Java based shopping system to investigate the feasibility of this architecture. The initial implementation results indicate that this architecture provides a tight and general integration between multimedia browsing and secure transactions and significantly reduces user interactions needed to choose the merchandise and close the transaction.
TCP/IP for Dummies, 3rd edition
Authors: Candace Leiden, Marshall Wilensky
Venue:  (1999)

:If you don't know the rules for the Internet, intranets, and extranets, you can't play the game! With TCP/IP For Dummies, 2nd Edition, you'll discover the communication rules for networks as well as the protocols for networks connected to the Internet. TCP/IP is no longer just for network administrators. This book helps you understand everything you've been hearing about TCP/IP in no time. Inside, find helpful advice on how to Find out the rules for all communications over the Internet Understand how the World Wide Web would crumble without TCP/IP Demystify TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms) like OSI, NIS, DNS, and ARP Enhance your network by figuring out how devices like modems, bridges, and routers work with TCP/IP Discover how the next generation of IP will affect your network Keep the bad guys out by securing your networks with firewalls, encryption, and other techniques Discover answers to your most frequently asked questions, such as: Are security and TCP/IP mutually exclusive? Uncover the difference between the Internet, any internet, and an intranet Plus, Candace and Marshall's Top Ten Lists: Ten types of networks Ten strange but real TCP/IP network devices Ten important requests for comments (RFCs)
Accelerated Lotus System Administration,Study Guide (Exam 190-174/190-275), 1st edition
Authors: Libby Schwarz
Venue:  (1999)

:The Accelerated Series,computer professionals' favorite way to get ready for exams,now brings this fast-track,focused approach to the Certified Lotus System Administration exams #190-174 and #190-275. Written by an expert-a CLP (Certified Lotus Professional) and CLI (Certified Lotus Instructor) who has helped thousands of students pass their Lotus exams-for computer professionals who want to pass the first time around,Accelerated Lotus Notes Study Guide gives you everything you need to approach the exams with confidence,in a handy,study-anywhere format. Pick any topic-from mail terminology and creating users and groups to server console commands and setting up multiple domains-and the information is all there,right where you want it. You get a complete,one-stop reference on how to study for and pass the Lotus Notes System Administration exams #190-174 and #190-275-industry-recognized benchmarks of competence in Lotus Notes system administration. Becoming a Certified Lotus Specialist and/or Certified Lotus Professional just got easier. Accelerated Lotus Notes Study Guides are written by expertsCLPs,CLSs,and CLIs who lead the way in teaching Lotus application development and administrationfor computer professionals who want to pass their exams the first time around. It's all here: everything you need to approach the exams with confidence,in ahandy,study-anywhere format. The Accelerated Lotus System Administration Study Guide provides exactly the guidance you want: the kind that will get you ready for the new CLS in system administration and for System Administration exams I & II for the CLP certification. Pick any topicfrom mail terminology andcreating users and groups to server console commands and setting up multiple domainsand the information is all here,right at your fingertips. A complete,one-stop reference on how to study for and pass the Lotus Notes System Administration examsindustry-recognized benchmarks of competence in Lotus Notes system administration. Must-know,insider details on testing procedures,what's covered,and what's notfrom a teacher who's helped thousands of students pass Lotus exams. Full coverage of Lotus Notes system administration,mail routing and scheduling,encryption,replication,ports and protocols,configuration decisions,cross-certification,statistics and monitoring,analyzing databases,and troubleshooting.
Teach Yourself Microsoft Access 2000 Visually, 1st edition
Authors: Ruth Maran
Venue:  (1999)

:All the basic Access features and functions are described with highly organized and easy-to-read text and graphics on two-page, color-illustrated spreads.
The Computational Complexity of Immanants
Authors: Peter Bürgisser
Venue: SIAM Journal on Computing (2000)

Permanents and determinants are special cases of immanants. The latter are polynomial matrix functions defined in terms of characters of symmetric groups and corresponding to Young diagrams. Valiant has proved that the evaluation of permanents is a complete problem in both the Turing machine model (#P-completeness) as well as in his algebraic model (VNP-completeness). We show that the evaluation of immanants corresponding to hook diagrams or rectangular diagrams of polynomially growing width is both #P-complete and VNP-complete.
Human Resource Management and E-Commerce: The Online Legal Environment, 1st edition
Authors: Roger LeRoy Miller, Gaylord A. Jentz
Venue:  (2001)

:Students examine the basic legal environment topics relating to human resources in this dynamic, new module. Content is drawn from the exciting new text, Law for E-Commerce, which helps students recognize the legal issues related to maintaining and conducting business on the World Wide Web.
CCNP Routing Exam Cram
Authors: Eric McMasters, Brian Morgan, Mike Shroyer
Venue:  (2000)

:Prepares the reader to pass the new CCNP Routing exam (640-503). Instructs the reader on ways to configure the Cisco IOS software for scalable operation in large or growing multiprotocol internetworks. Contains exclusive tear-out cram sheet with tips, acronyms, and memory-joggers (mnemonics) to improve recall immediately before the exam. Includes sections on proven test-taking strategies, warnings on trick questions, time-saving study tips, multiple-part question strategies, and shortcuts.
The OpenGL Boxed Set
Authors: Mason Woo, Dave Shreiner, Tom Davis, Jackie Neider
Venue:  (2001)

:OpenGL is a powerful software interface used to produce high-quality, computer-generated images and interactive graphics applications by rendering 2D and 3D geometric objects, bitmaps, and color images. The Official OpenGL Library brings together the two official texts from the OpenGL Architecture Review Board needed by all serious graphics programmers: OpenGL Programming Guide, 3/e, and OpenGL Reference Manual, 3/e. These are known among graphics programmers as the ired booki and the iblue book.i This library enables programmers to gain a practical understanding of OpenGL, and shows them how to unlock its full potential.
Excel 2000 Developer's Handbook with CD-ROM
Authors: Marion Cottingham
Venue:  (1999)

:Experienced Excel users learn how to exercise the full power of Excel--create timesaving, productivity-enhancing macros based on Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and write code in VBA. The CD-ROM contains examples and reusable code from the book, and share- and freeware.
Use of a CORBA/RMI gateway: characterization of communication overhead
Authors: Alessio Bechini, Pierfrancesco Foglia, Cosimo Antonio Prete
Venue: Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Software and performance (2002)

Many distributed applications make use of distributed object technology. In this kind of systems, modules providing services are implemented as objects spread over a network. Distributed objects are usually accessed through communication frameworks based on specific middleware solutions, such as CORBA, DCOM, and RMI. Applications of this kind might be built up (or extended) integrating different modules, possibly already coded and available on the market. Each required and available module might use a specific communication framework, hampering its prompt integration into a system exploiting a different framework. A convenient way to tackle this problem is the insertion of a gateway module, passing service requests between two different middleware solutions. This approach allows a quick integration of service modules, but it could lead to performance problems, due to the introduced communication overhead. In this paper, we report our experience in developing a simple CORBA/RMI gateway module, and we discuss how it affects the application performance. Measures of the communication overhead show that the employment of the gateway is a viable solution in many real-world applications, and gives hints for efficiently placing modules on the available hosts.
Abstracting remote object interaction in a peer-2-peer environment
Authors: Patrick Thomas Eugster, Sebastien Baehni
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 joint ACM-ISCOPE conference on Java Grande (2002)

Leveraged by the success of applications aiming at the "free" sharing of data in the Internet, the paradigm of peer-to-peer (P2P) computing has been devoted substantial consideration recently.This paper presents an abstraction for remote object interaction in a P2P environment, called borrow/lend (BL). We present the principles underlying our BL abstraction, and its implementation in Java. We contrast our abstraction with established abstractions for distributed programming such as the remote method invocation or the tuple space, illustrating how the BL abstraction, obviously influenced by such predating abstractions, unifies flavors of these, but also how it captures the constraints specific to P2P environments.
The Object-Oriented Development Process: Developing and Managing a Robust Process for Object-Oriented Development
Authors: Tom W. Rowlett
Venue:  (2000)

From the Book:PREFACE: PrefaceThis book presents the details of a complete software development process using the methods and tools of object technology. It is based on my work as a consultant, mentor, and instructor over the last 17 years. The process architecture is based on ideas originally presented in Radice88, and I have refined it over the years to integrate elements of Jacobson92 with my own experiences in software engineering.Readers should have a working knowledge of object-oriented concepts and terminology. For readers unfamiliar with the terminology of object technology, I suggest Firesmith95 and Taylor90 as good references. What this book is aboutI intend this book to be a tool that enhances object-oriented software development by providing a step-by-step flow for application by project teams wishing to blend software engineering principles with object-oriented methods. With that in mind, the book is organized around process work products (deliverables) that act as vehicles for refining detail from original requirements to delivered code. All defined work products are accompanied by a set of criteria, in a check-list format, that the development team can use to objectively evaluate whether the deliverable is correct for the given product requirements. Who should read this bookThe details of object-oriented software development I present are intended to help software analysts, designers, programmers, and testers develop software with rigor rather than speculation. The book is also intended to help project managers and leaders create a formal process for managing the development of the software itself. How the bookisorganizedPart I describes the object-oriented development process (OODP). Chapter 1 defines a generic process architecture and chapter 2 provides the rationale behind OODP. Chapters 3 to 12 provide the details of each step in the OODP, starting with requirements and continuing through implementation and test. Among these are chapters on class design, persistence, test planning, and user interface development. This part concludes with a discussion of the major issues that a project manager would face as he or she attempted to integrate the technologies of object orientation into the organization's software development process.Part II takes a medium-sized example and develops a complete solution with all of the deliverables of OODP. It develops the solution in four increments and reviews the steps of each activity as the deliverables are created. 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
Sap R/3 Process Oriented Implementation, 1st edition
Authors: Gerhard Keller, Thomas Teufel
Venue:  (1998)

:Dr. Gerhard Keller works for SAP AG, where he designed the SAP process description and currently works in the area of industry business models. He created the methodology of IPP - Iterative Process Prototyping - based on the concepts for modeling business processes with Event-driven Process Chains (EPC). Thomas Teufel is also an employee of SAP, where, in addition to helping design the SAP process description, he has applied R/3 reference models in various customer projects. He currently focuses on the area of logistics.
A Multilevel Algorithm for Wavefront Reduction
Authors: Y. F. Hu, J. A. Scott
Venue: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (2001)

A multilevel algorithm for reordering sparse symmetric matrices to reduce the wavefront and profile is described. The algorithm is a combinatorial algorithm that uses a maximal independent vertex set for coarsening the adjacency graph of the matrix and an enhanced version of the Sloan algorithm on the coarsest graph. On a range of examples arising from practical applications, the multilevel algorithm is shown to produce orderings that are better than those produced by the Sloan algorithm and are of comparable quality to those obtained using the hybrid Sloan algorithm. Advantages over the hybrid Sloan algorithm are that the multilevel approach requires no spectral information and less CPU time.
Computational structural proteomics and virtual ligand screening
Authors: Ruben Abagyan
Venue: Proceedings of the sixth annual international conference on Computational biology (2002)

Large scale discovery of new human genes, gene families and isozymes creates an exciting biomedical opportunity. Advanced modeling by homology techniques can be employed to generate 3D models for most of the interesting new gene family members. This opens many new opportunities for structural structure based functional annotation and molecular design. Several key computational technologies enable structural protein modeling and rational drug design: sequence-structure relationships, multiple sequence alignments, threading molecular mechanics; global energy optimization; protein modeling by homology; structure based protein functional annotation (e.g. prediction of possible active sites, small molecule binding sites, protein-protein interaction sites, flexibility annotation); protein design and redesign using structure prediction algorithms; structural immunology, e.g. derivation and design of peptide sequence specific for a particular HLA presenting molecule based on the HLA structure; peptide-protein docking; protein-protein docking; small molecule docking and virtual ligand screening; cheminformatics algorithms and virtual chemistry.We have been developing the internal coordinate mechanics approach to structure prediction for the last 16 years. It is aimed at de novo prediction of large structural rearrangements. To achieve that goal an ICM program has been developed and combined accurate energy functions with powerful global optimization algorithm in the internal coordinate space.The most recent developments include on-the-fly calculations of accurate Poisson electrostatics using the efficient boundary element algorithm based on the analytical molecular surface. This allows to predict de novo a solution structure of a 23-residue peptide.New computational technology for virtual ligand screening allows to generate alternative receptor conformations and perform flexible docking of hundreds of thousands of virtual compounds to the binding site. The success of this technology is demonstrated on several benchmarks and in six experimental projects which tested the prediction results. For well defined binding pockets only about the initial compound set actually needs to be synthesized and tested. Using ICM docking and scoring technology we have identified new ligands in a number of cases, including cases in which a model was used instead of a crystallographic structure and a case in which protein-protein interaction has been targeted.The most interesting recent results tested experimentally include: the de novo design of novel antagonists of thyroid hormone receptor, for which no antagonists were known before and, consequently, no antagonist-bound structure was known; de novo design of ligands targeting Ephrin-Ephrin receptor interactions.
A Robust Finite Element Method for Darcy--Stokes Flow
Authors: Kent Andre Mardal, Xue-Cheng Tai, Ragnar Winther
Venue: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (2002)

Finite element methods for a family of systems of singular perturbation problems of a saddle point structure are discussed. The system is approximately a linear Stokes problem when the perturbation parameter is large, while it degenerates to a mixed formulation of Poisson's equation as the perturbation parameter tends to zero. It is established, basically by numerical experiments, that most of the proposed finite element methods for Stokes problem or the mixed Poisson's system are not well behaved uniformly in the perturbation parameter. This is used as the motivation for introducing a new "robust" finite element which exhibits this property.
AppleWorks 6.0 for Teachers: A Tutorial with Cdrom, 1st edition
Authors: E. Christine Shinn
Venue:  (2002)

:This clearly written book is designed to teach word processing, graphics, spreadsheets, and databases and to integrate these technology programs into teaching and learning. It provides general characteristics of each program, hands-on activities, a brainstorming section for the application of the program, chapter summaries, and a CD of exercises packaged with the book. For teachers using Appleworks. 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
Introduction to Discrete Mathematics, Formal System Specification, and Z, 2nd edition
Authors: Darrel C. Ince, D. Ince
Venue:  (1993)

:This textbook is an introduction to both the theory and practice of formal specification, and this new edition includes two new chapters on Z, one giving a number of small examples in Z, the other covering design and Z. Prerequisites in this edition have again been kept to a minimum since Professor Ince is at pains to develop the techniques of requirement analysis and discrete mathematics that are exercises which include many real examples of software and computer systems.
Infinite Time Turing Machines
Authors: Joel David Hamkins
Venue: Minds and Machines (2002)

Infinite time Turing machines extend the operation of ordinary Turing machines into transfinite ordinal time. By doing so, they provide a natural model of infinitary computability, a theoretical setting for the analysis of the power and limitations of supertask algorithms.
Novell's Nds Developer's Guide with Cdrom, 1st edition
Authors: Chris Andrew, Brian Brown, Bill Bodine
Venue:  (1998)

:This book shows programmers how to develop applications for NDS with nearly all of the popular programming languages: CORBA, C, Java, Visual Basic, etc. The CD-ROM includes sample code from nearly every chapter.
10 Minute Guide to Microsoft PowerPoint 2002: Master The Skills You Need In Ten Minutes Or Less, 1st edition
Authors: Joe Habraken
Venue:  (2001)

:Because most people don't have the luxury of sitting down uninterrupted for hours at a time to learn PowerPoint, this 10-Minute Guide focuses on the most often used features, covering them in lessons designed to take 10 minutes or less to complete. In addition, this guide teaches you how to use PowerPoint without relying on technical jargon. Instead, it provides straightforward, easy-to-follow explanations and lists of numbered steps that tell you which keys to press and which options to select.
Successively Ordered Elementary Bidiagonal Factorization
Authors: Charles R. Johnson, D. D. Olesky, P. vanden Driessche
Venue: SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (2000)

Let $D$ be a diagonal matrix and $E_{ij}$ denote the $n$-by-$n$ matrix with a $1$ in entry $(i,j)$ and $0$ in every other entry. An $n$-by-$n$ matrix $A$ has a successively ordered elementary bidiagonal $(SEB)$ factorization if it can be factored as \begin{equation*} A= \left(\prod_{k=1}^{n-1} \prod_{j=n}^{k+1} L_j(s_{jk})\right) \; D \; \left(\prod_{k=n-1}^{1} \prod_{j=k+1}^{n}U_j(t_{kj})\right), \end{equation*} in which $L_j(s_{jk})=I+s_{jk}E_{j,j-1}$ and $U_j(t_{kj})=I+t_{kj}E_{j-1,j}$ for some scalars $s_{jk},t_{kj}$. Note that some of the parameters $% s_{jk},t_{kj}$ may be zero, and the order of the bidiagonal factors is fixed. If this factorization corresponds to reduction of $A$ to $D$ via successive row/column operations in the specified order, it is called an elimination $SEB$ factorization. New rank conditions are formulated that are proved to be necessary and sufficient for matrix $A$ to have such a factorization. These conditions are related to known but more restrictive properties that ensure a bidiagonal factorization as above, but with all parameters $s_{jk},t_{kj}$ nonzero.