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Mining the network value of customers
Authors: Pedro Domingos, Matt Richardson
Venue: Proceedings of the seventh ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining (2001)

One of the major applications of data mining is in helping companies determine which potential customers to market to. If the expected profit from a customer is greater than the cost of marketing to her, the marketing action for that customer is executed. So far, work in this area has considered only the intrinsic value of the customer (i.e, the expected profit from sales to her). We propose to model also the customer's network value: the expected profit from sales to other customers she may influence to buy, the customers those may influence, and so on recursively. Instead of viewing a market as a set of independent entities, we view it as a social network and model it as a Markov random field. We show the advantages of this approach using a social network mined from a collaborative filtering database. Marketing that exploits the network value of customers---also known as viral marketing---can be extremely effective, but is still a black art. Our work can be viewed as a step towards providing a more solid foundation for it, taking advantage of the availability of large relevant databases.
Uncle Sam's K-12 Web: Government Internet Resources for Educators, Students, and Parents, 1st edition
Authors: Laurie Andriot
Venue:  (1999)

:The hundreds of Web sites that offer children's activities--from word games and coloring pages to math help and animation--are detailed in this educational resource. Students can dissect a frog online, drive a time machine into a different century, or find ideas for science projects. Readers receive access to www.fedweb.com, where all the resources will be hyperlinked and updated.
Colonization Strategies and Secrets
Authors: Gary Meredith
Venue:  (1995)

:Colonization, the sequel to the all-time bestselling strategy game Civilization, lets players pretend to be a 15th-century character attempting to colonize the New World. Now, this comprehensive strategy guide--through the use of clear text, screen captures, diagrams, and more--allows players to save hundreds of hours of trial-and-error and gives them immediate expert status. 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
Improvement of Web retrieval by the use of contextual information of pages
Authors: Fernando Aguiar, Michel Beigbeder
Venue: Proceedings of the 12th ACM conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (2001)

This work suggests a new model of Information Retrieval System for searching information in hypertexts representing web sites. The model is based on the construction of a 2-component index. One component concerns the HTML pages individually. The other one concerns the context of the pages. The assumed premise is that the textual content of a HTML page is not sufficient for a indexing process to extract the information that the page conveys. By the use of both local and complementary content when indexing pages, the quality of their index is improved and so is the effectiveness of the search engine.
The It Value Quest: How to Capture the Business Value of It-Based Infrastructure
Authors: Theo J. Renkema
Venue:  (2000)

:Although the potential of information technology (IT) is beyond dispute, it proves to be very difficult to evaluate its true business value. In the present competitive business arena, modern IT provides the enabling infrastructure for efficient and effective business operations, leveraging business improvements and securing a competitive edge." "This book provides a unique perspective on assessing and creating business value from investments in IT-based infrastructure and, more importantly, it shows how the role of IT-based infrastructure is critical to obtain the full benefits of IT.
Index structures for data warehouses
Authors: Marcus Jürgens
Venue: Lecture Notes In Computer Science; Vol. 1859 (2002)

Data warehouses differ significantly from traditional transaction-oriented operational database applications. Indexing techniques and index structures applied in the transaction-oriented context are not feasible for data warehouses. This work develops specific heuristic indexing techniques, which process range queries on aggregated data more efficiently than those traditionally used in transaction-oriented systems. The book presents chapters on: - the state of the art in data warehouse research - data storage and index structures - finding optimal tree-based index structures - aggregated data in tree-based index structures - performance models for tree-based index structures - and techniques for comparing index structures.
C for Dummies, 1st edition
Authors: Dan Gookin
Venue:  (1997)

:C For Dummies, Volume Two, is the much-awaited sequel to C For Dummies&reg;, Volume One. It's the rest of the story, filled with relevant information that C programmers need to know. This book not only goes into more detail on many common C topics -- it also offers Dan's loving advice on many advanced topics. This down-to-earth reference explores the short history of the C language and provides helpful tips that show users how to troubleshoot in C. Soon, you'll be able to figure out functions and find out how to deal with the ever-changing variables and math associated with C programming. It's actually explained in a way that makes C fun and easy to understand! Inside, find helpful advice on how to Get the best hand-holding information ever written about pointers Create large projects Find detailed information about strings, structures, and disk access Discover a C language summary Read special information about Borland and Microsoft compilers Implement tips and tricks from C gurus Ace the fun quizzes and final exams that appear after each lesson and chapter
Modeling for application: developing industrial strength simulation models using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
Authors: Marvin S. Seppanen
Venue: Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation (2000)

Since 1984 the author has developed simulation models that use input data from spreadsheets. These original applications used a standalone Basic program to convert Lotus 123&reg; data into Siman Experiment Frames. While this process has evolved overtime, it did not reach a truly viable level until Arena&reg; 3.0 introduced Visual Basic&reg; for Applications (VBA) by Microsoft&reg;. This advanced tutorial demonstrates the basic concepts developed by the author to transfer data between Excel&reg; and Arena. The same techniques can be used to communicate simulation data with a wide range of VBA supported tools, such as Access&reg;, AutoCAD&reg;, and Visio&reg;. Arena permits the model developer to use VBA as the model file is loaded, executed, or terminated or as entities flow through the Arena model modules. This tutorial focuses on the design of Excel workbooks for simulation applications and the transfer of data to/from Arena using VBA.
Sams Teach Yourself NetScape Communicator 4.5 in 24 Hours, 1st edition
Authors: Shannon Turlington
Venue:  (1998)

:This book offers 24 one-hour, step-by-step tasks that instruct readers by example. A quick and easy way for new and intermediate users to get up to speed or learn more about all the new features and technology of the Netscape Communicator 5 suite.
Enhanced A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, 3rd edition
Authors: Jean Andrews
Venue:  (2000)

:Are you ready for the new A+ exams? Course Technology is. The "Enhanced A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining your PC, Comprehensive, Third Edition" will prepare you to pass the new A+ certification exams and succeed in the PC Repair industry.
Introduction to Computer Science Using C++
Authors: Todd Knowlton
Venue:  (1998)

:Covers computer science fundamentals using C++ and is appropriate for a variety of C++ courses. This textbook is designed to help students prepare for the Advanced Placement Test for C++ (A and AB). 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
Reduced-Order Adaptive Controllers for Fluid Flows Using POD
Authors: S. S. Ravindran
Venue: Journal of Scientific Computing (2000)

This article presents a reduced-order adaptive controller design for fluid flows. Frequently, reduced-order models are derived from low-order bases computed by applying proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) on an a priori ensemble of data of the Navier&ndash;Stokes model. This reduced-order model is then used to derive a reduced-order controller. The approach discussed here differ from these approaches. It uses an adaptive procedure that improves the reduced-order model by successively updating the ensemble of data. The idea is to begin with an ensemble to form a reduced-order control problem. The resulting control is then applied back to the Navier&ndash;Stokes model to generate a new ensemble. This new ensemble then replaces the previous ensemble to derive a new reduced-order model. This iteration is repeated until convergence is achieved. The adaptive reduced-order controllers effectiveness in flow control applications is shown on a recirculation control problem in channel flow using blowing (actuation) on the boundary. Optimal placement for actuators is explored. Numerical implementations and results are provided illustrating the various issues discussed.
Planning graph as the basis for deriving heuristics for plan synthesis by state space and CSP search
Authors: XuanLong Nguyen, Subbarao Kambhampati, Romeo S. Nigenda
Venue: Artificial Intelligence (2002)

Most recent strides in scaling up planning have centered around two competing themesdisjunctive planners, exemplified by Graphplan, and heuristic state search planners, exemplified by UNPOP, HSP and HSP-r. In this paper, we present a novel approach for successfully harnessing the advantages of the two competing paradigms to develop planners that are significantly more powerful than either of the approaches. Specifically, we show that the polynomial-time planning graph structure that the Graphplan builds provides a rich substrate for deriving a family of highly effective heuristics for guiding state space search as well as CSP style search. The main leverage provided by the planning graph structure is a systematic and graded way to take subgoal interactions into account in designing state space heuristics. For state space search, we develop several families of heuristics, some aimed at search speed and others at optimality of solutions, and analyze many approaches for improving the cost-quality tradeoffs offered by these heuristics. Our normalized empirical comparisons show that our heuristics handily outperform the existing state space heuristics. For CSP style search, we describe a novel way of using the planning graph structure to derive highly effective variable and value ordering heuristics. We show that these heuristics can be used to improve Graphplan's own backward search significantly. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach vis a vis the state-of-the-art in plan synthesis, we present AltAlt, a planner literally cobbled together from the implementations of Graphplan and state search style planners using our theory. We evaluate AltAlt on the suite of problems used in the recent AIPS-2000 planning competition. The results place AltAlt in the top tier of the competition plannersoutperforming both Graphplan based and heuristic search based planners.
Investigating human-computer optimization
Authors: Stacey D. Scott, Neal Lesh, Gunnar W. Klau
Venue: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: Changing our world, changing ourselves (2002)

Scheduling, routing, and layout tasks are examples of hard optimization problems with broad application in industry. Past research in this area has focused on algorithmic issues. However, this approach neglects many important human-computer interaction issues that must be addressed to provide people with practical solutions to optimization problems. Automatic methods do not leverage human expertise and can only find solutions that are optimal with regard to an invariably over-simplified problem description. Furthermore, users must understand the generated solutions in order to implement, justify, or modify them. Interactive optimization helps address these issues but has not previously been studied in detail. This paper describes experiments on an interactive optimization system that explore the most appropriate way to combine the respective strengths of people and computers. Our results show that users can successfully identify promising areas of the search space as well as manage the amount of computational effort expended on different subproblems
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Java 2, 2nd edition
Authors: Michael Morrison
Venue:  (1999)

:Java 2 got you jumpy? Have too many cups of bewildering tech-talk upset your stomach? What you need is a fast, fun, and easy way to start programming with Java 2. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Java 2 is the fun way to learn the basics. Soon you'll be making your own interactive Web applets with sound, graphics, and animation. Look inside! You'll find plenty of straight-shooting advice for solving real-world problems. The best news is that the author, Mike Morrison, will make you laugh and enjoy while you learn the ropes. 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
Digital Signal Processing in Communication Systems
Authors: Marvin E. Frerking
Venue:  (1993)

:A great deal of modern communications equipment is being converted from analog to digital technology. This timely book explains many of the important concepts related to digital signal processing in easy-to-understand discussions of communications techniques, data transmission, filters, and hardware. Readers are given practical information on how to apply theory and algorithms to the design of radio receivers and transmitters. Among the areas discussed are analog to digital conversion - with emphasis on noise and distortion performance; manipulation of complex signals - positive and negative frequencies, plus Hilbert transformers; digital filters - guidelines for performance in communications, plus decimation and interpolation; hardware - multiplier accumulators, fast Fourier transform processors, digital signal processors, data flow techniques in equipment, and hardware simulation and testing; and speech processing - linear predictive coding (LPC), code excited linear predictive coding (CELP), and how to digitize speech at low data rates. Development of algorithms for oscillators, detectors, modulators, automatic gain control circuits, and other devices is clearly explained. Specific algorithms are provided for AM modulation, frequency modulation, FM detection, threshold extension, audio compression, automatic gain control, and squelch circuitry. Explanations of basic concepts of digital signal processing and data transmission are accompanied by reviews of signal representations, sampling, convolution, and z-transforms. Extensive real-world examples contribute to expertise in many facets of incorporating digital technology into devices. This hands-on treatment of DSP will help communications engineers upgrade their skills in digital signal processing and make a smooth transition into the design of more advanced systems. It also meets the needs of students who want to bolster their knowledge in communications.
C++ Weekend Crash Course with Cdrom
Authors: Stephen Randy Davis
Venue:  (2000)

:C++ Weekend Crash Course is written to meet your needs if you are who is new to C++ and new to programming itself. However, through the use of carefully constructed roadmaps at the beginning of each lesson, the book is also quite accessible if you already have some knowledge of C++ or knowledge of another programming language. Begins at the beginning. Assumes no prior programming experience, but provides detailed roadmaps at the beginning of each session to aid you if you have some programming knowledge. Provides a learning path that enables you to learn the essentials of C++ from Friday evening through Sunday afternoon. Covers the core concepts necessary to understand C++ with programming examples that demonstrate each concept. Shows you step-by-step how to design and develop a fully functioning application. "Quiz Yourself" sections at the end of each lesson reinforce the concepts learned within the lesson, and Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening reviews reinforce the concepts learned during the day. Tips, Notes and Never! icons as well as highlighted Syntax boxes emphasize significant information to streamline your learning curve. The CD-ROM includes all the code and auxiliary files for the sample programs, pre- and post-assessment software to evaluate your progress, a C++ compiler that will allow the you to learn C++ without having to purchase a separate compiler, and other value-added software. About the Author: Stephen Davis (Greenville, TX) has written numerous books, including C++ For Dummies, C++ For Dummies Deluxe Compiler Kit, and Windows 98 Programming For Dummies. Stephen works for E-Systems where he programs and trains others in Java, C++ and software engineering issues. Randy fights for computer time with his wife Jenny and son Kinsey.
Prentice Hall's Mous Test Preparation Guide for Word 2000, 1st edition
Authors: Emily Ketcham
Venue:  (2000)

:Not just ordinary test preparation guides, the books in this series takes advantage of the powerful MOUS PinPoint software (included in every text) to train and assess students on the activities covered by the MOUS exams. Microsoft Certified to the Expert Level Prentice Hall's MOUS Test Preparation Guides are certified by Microsoft as approved courseware for the MOUS exams. Straightforward Coverage Concise explanations for each skill take a "What-Why-How-Result" approach. Students can quickly find answers, see how to perform a skill, and gain expertise. They are then directed to the MOUS PinPoint CD-ROM for tutorials and self-assessment. Tips from a Pro Students can see how the skills they learn are used by experts through tips, time-saving hints, memory devices, and advice. This feature adds to the student's comprehension so he or she can handle tasks like a professional. MOUS Exam Objectives For each application there is coverage of each MOUS objective at the Core and Expert levels in one slim book. This means instruction on all required MOUS skills is close at hand. MOUS PinPoint® 2000 Software Included in every text, this software is designed to work hand-in-hand with the series. It matches each book with its short and to-the-point approach, and strongly reinforces the skills needed to prepare for the MOUS certification exams.
Software Metrics: Measurement for Software Process Improvement
Authors: Barbara A. Kitchenham
Venue:  (1996)

:Software Metrics explains how software measurement can be used to support software process improvement by providing objective methods of characterizing process capability and evaluating the effect of process changes. The author explains what is meant by software measurement and how to decide what to measure; how to use measurement to support different aspects of a process improvement programme; how to set quantitative goals using a pragmatic approach to the Goal-Question-Metric paradigm; how to set up a metrication programme and design a data collection system; and how to analyse the software data collected. Further, the author provides insight into how software measurement can act as a process improvement agent for quality control and software estimating. This book sets out an approach to the formal validation of measures and the theory of statistical data analysis for students. It also contains, for practitioners, many examples of the use of real data in real projects.
A multi-protocol cross-domain communication model for metacomputing systems
Authors: Bi Peng, Xie Fei, Yang Guangwen, Wang Dingxing
Venue: ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review (2002)

Metacomputing system is a kind of heterogeneous and dynamic distributed computing system in WAN (Wide Area Network). Communication model of metasystems must tackle the heterogeneous and dynamic problems, and has the ability to pass messages in WAN. After analyzing characteristics and deficiencies in common methods, this paper proposes a new communication model for metasystems. This model is based on Java, whose platform independence and data serialization hide the heterogeneity of various nodes in WAN; its multi-protocol mechanism-association of TCP protocol and UDP protocol-enhances its stability and efficiency. The model has two communication modes: direct mode and proxy mode, used in different conditions. Together, they can span different administrative domains and implement a communication environment transparent to users in WAN. Moreover, some other mechanisms, such as communication management and receiving buffer improve its transfer efficiency.
Windows 95: No Experience Required
Authors: Sharon Crawford
Venue:  (1997)

:Windows 95: No experience required builds your knowledge of Windows 95 skill by skill, providing vital experience in time for your next interview, performance review, or the start of your next project. Transform yourself into a Windows 95 expert, step by step. Clearly written, skill-oriented presentations show you how to use Windows 95 most effectively.
Multiuser receiver aware multicast protocols for wireless ad-hoc networks
Authors: Parameswaran Ramanathan, Kuang-Ching Wang
Venue: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking computing (2001)

Most existing multicast protocols for wireless ad-hoc networks operate at the network layer and make no assumption about the underlying link and physical layer protocols. This results in inefficiency in the usage of bandwidth and power. In this paper, we assume a DS-CDMA based wireless ad-hoc network and propose two schemes, Centralized-Tree Distributed-Power (CTDP) and Distributed-Tree Distributed-Power (DTDP), tailored to the link and physical layer protocols. Both schemes seek to construct a multicast tree and determine the power levels at which the nodes should transmit to satisfy the SINR requirements of all receiving nodes with the least total transmit power. Empirical evaluation shows that CTDP is more efficient than DTDP in terms of consumed transmit power but at significantly higher computation cost. On the other hand, DTDP is fully distributed and thus may be better suited for mobile wireless ad-hoc networks.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 5.1: The Official Strategy Guide
Authors: Nick Dargahi
Venue:  (1995)

:Fly through more than 100 new airports, encountering challenging weather effects and death-defying crash landings until you successfully pilot every scenario with advanced navigational techniques. Flight sim fans will get all the game secrets and tips they need to be successful.
Fertility and infertility information resources on the Internet
Authors: Suzanne J. Crow
Venue: Health Care on the Internet (2001)

Consumer health information pertaining to fertility and infertility is well represented on the World Wide Web. The article describes the scope of such information and introduces selected Internet resources in the context of four categories: infertility education and support sites, professional organization sites, fertility service provider sites, and general purpose consumer health sites. Sources of information on surrogacy are also briefly addressed.