ppxscal/embedding_network huggingface dataset:
Prediction from randomly right censored data
Authors: Michael Kohler, Kinga Máthé, Márta Pintér
Venue: Journal of Multivariate Analysis (2002)

Let X be a random vector taking values in Rd, let Y be a bounded random variable, and let C be a right censoring random variable operating on Y. It is assumed that C is independent of (X, Y), the distribution function of C is continuous, and the support of the distribution of Y is a proper subset of the support of the distribution of C. Given a sample {Xi, min{Yi, Ci}, I[Yi ≤ Ci]} and a vector of covariates X, we want to construct an estimate of Y such that the mean squared error is minimized. Without censoring, i.e., for C = ∞ almost surely, it is well known that the mean squared error of suitably defined kernel, partitioning, nearest neighbor, least squares, and smoothing spline estimates converges for every distribution of (X, Y) to the optimal value almost surely, if the sample size tends to infinity. In this paper, we modify the above estimates and show that in the random right censoring model described above the same is true for the modified estimates.
Internet Literacy
Authors: Fred T. Hofstetter, Pat Sine
Venue:  (1998)

:Comprehensive Introduction to the Internet and the World Wide Web. Designed for a full semester course,this book clearly defines concepts and practices of connecting to,researching on,designing for,and publishing on the Internet.
On Time Technology Implementation: How to Achieve Implementation Success with Limited Time and Resources, 1st edition
Authors: Bennet P. Lientz, Kathryn P. Rea
Venue:  (1999)

:Technology implementation guidelines and lessons learned from over 30 years of successful, hands-on project experience. How to prevent the top 10 reasons for implementation failure Over 200 specific guidelines and lessons learned How to implement electronic commerce Five example companies from banking, insurance, transportation, government, and manufacturing How to use intranet and object oriented methods for maximum advantage How to cope with the burden of maintenance, enhancement, and production support How to implement knowledge management and data warehousing applications How to implement Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software How to develop and implement software on time and within budget How to effectively evaluate, select, and implement software packages How to control changing requirements and scope Critical success factors in system and business process implementation How to apply concurrent engineering to software development Experience and tips to develop intranet/Internet based applications
Circuit-Switched Broadcasting in Multi-Port Multi-Dimensional Torus Networks
Authors: San-Yuan Wang, Yu-Chee Tseng, Sze-Yao Ni, Jang-Ping Sheu
Venue: The Journal of Supercomputing (2001)

The one-to-all broadcast is the most primary collective communication pattern in a multicomputer network. This paper studies this problem in a circuit-switched torus with &alpha;-port capability, where a node can simultaneously send and receive &alpha; messages at one time. This is a generalization of the one-port and all-port models. We show how to efficiently perform broadcast in tori of any dimension, any size, square or nonsquare, using near optimal numbers of steps. The main techniques used are: (i) a &ldquo;span-by-dimension&rdquo; approach, which makes our solution scalable to torus dimensions, and (ii) a &ldquo;squeeze-then-expand&rdquo; approach, which makes possible solving the difficult cases where tori are non-square. Existing results, as compared to ours, can only solve very restricted sizes or dimensions of tori, or use more numbers of steps.
Electronic work monitoring: an ethical model
Authors: Bob Godfrey
Venue: Selected papers from the second Australian Institute conference on Computer ethics (2000)

This paper describes the activity of electronic work-monitoring, the use of information technology to record the activities of workers as a background task to normal activities. The viewpoint of the activity from the employer side, as a productivity tool, and the view from the employee perspective, as a possible invasion of privacy, are compared. A quadrant model is described which combines these two conflicting viewpoints, and details how the model may be used to describe and if possible resolve potential conflicts of interest between employees and employers.
What programmers really want: results of a needs assessment for SDK documentation
Authors: Janet Nykaza, Rhonda Messinger, Fran Boehme, Cherie L. Norman, Matthew Mace, Manuel Gordon
Venue: Proceedings of the 20th annual international conference on Computer documentation (2002)

This paper steps the reader through a needs assessment of programmers that was conducted by instructional designers. The assessment's purpose was to identify what learning support programmers need and want to successfully use a new software development kit (SDK). The paper includes the challenges the researchers encountered, the questions asked and the responses, the types of individuals interviewed, and the conclusions reached from the research. Recommendations also are presented. Those responsible with developing documentation, training, and other learning support systems for programmers may find this assessment helpful. Marketing, product development and customer support people may also find value in learning more about the needs of this unique audience.
Speculative lock elision: enabling highly concurrent multithreaded execution
Authors: Ravi Rajwar, James R. Goodman
Venue: Proceedings of the 34th annual ACM/IEEE international symposium on Microarchitecture (2001)

Serialization of threads due to critical sections is a fundamental bottleneck to achieving high performance in multithreaded programs. Dynamically, such serialization may be unnecessary because these critical sections could have safely executed concurrently without locks. Current processors cannot fully exploit such parallelism because they do not have mechanisms to dynamically detect such false inter-thread dependences.We propose Speculative Lock Elision (SLE), a novel micro-architectural technique to remove dynamically unnecessary lock-induced serialization and enable highly concurrent multithreaded execution. The key insight is that locks do not always have to be acquired for a correct execution. Synchronization instructions are predicted as being unnecessary and elided. This allows multiple threads to concurrently execute critical sections protected by the same lock. Misspeculation due to inter-thread data conflicts is detected using existing cache mechanisms and rollback is used for recovery. Successful speculative elision is validated and committed without acquiring the lock.SLE can be implemented entirely in microarchitecture without instruction set support and without system-level modifications, is transparent to programmers, and requires only trivial additional hardware support. SLE can provide programmers a fast path to writing correct high-performance multithreaded programs.
GNU bayonne is for telephony
Authors: David Sugar
Venue: Linux Journal (2002)

Sugar explains the best thing going in telephony software.
Computer Vision: Three-Dimensional Data from Images, 1st edition
Authors: Reinhard Klette, Andreas Koschan, Karsten Schluns
Venue:  (1998)

:This computer vision textbook describes the reconstruction of object surfaces and the analysis of distances between camera and objects. Main topics are static and dynamic stereo analysis, shape from shading, photometric stereo analysis, and structured lighting. The selected procedures, e.g., complex algorithms as Tsai calibration, Frankot-Chellapa depth map generation, or Lee-Rosenfeld shape from shading, are discussed at a detailed level such that implementations can follow the given descriptions. Fundamentals are given for these application oriented approaches with respect to camera modeling and calibration, to geometric surface modeling, and to surface reflectance models. New research and laboratory results in shape reconstruction and depth analysis, e.g., based on color images, have been included. The text is suitable for graduate courses in computer science, in several engineering disciplines, or in applied mathematics. Theoretical and applied exercises accompany each chapter.
Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life
Authors: Sarah Kember
Venue:  (2002)

:Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life examines construction, manipulation and re-definition of life in contemporary technoscientific culture. It takes a critical political view of the concept of life as information, tracing this through the new biology and the changing discipline of artificial life and its manifestation in art, language, literature, commerce and entertainment. From cloning to computer games, and incorporating an analysis of hardware, software and 'wetware', Sarah Kember demonstrates how this relatively marginal field connects with, and connects up global networks of information systems. As well as offering suggestions for the evolution of [cyber]feminism in Alife environments, the author identifies the emergence of posthumanism; an ethics of the posthuman subject mobilized in the tension between cold war and post-cold war politics, psychological and biological machines, centralized and de-centralized control, top-down and bottom-up processing, autonomous and autopoietic organisms, cloning and transgenesis, species-self and other species. Ultimately, this book aims to re-focus concern on the ethics rather than on the 'nature' of life-as-it-could-be. 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
I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier
Authors: Fred Moody
Venue:  (1998)

:When you strip away the luster, novelty, and excitement surrounding the newest generation of computer software - multimedia software on CD-ROM - you find a world not of high-tech efficiency but of simple human muddling. This is what Fred Moody discovered when he spent more than a year shadowing a team of Microsoft developers working in the epicenter of the multimedia explosion - on a children's compact disc to be called Explorapedia. 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
Making the world safe for garbage collection
Authors: Susan Owicki
Venue: Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages (1981)

This paper describes the formal specifications of garbage collection in the programming language Cedar Mesa. They were developed as part of the process of identifying a safe subset of Mesa for which garbage collection was possible. The purpose of the specifications was to provide a precise definition of safety, along with criteria for checking the safety of proposed language features. Thus the specifications had to characterize the "invisibility" of the collector, as well as describe the services it provides. A beneficial effect of the specification effort was that the process of constructing the specifications led to a number of discoveries that improved the quality of the language.
The effects of visual proxemic information in video mediated communication
Authors: David Grayson, Lynne Coventry
Venue: ACM SIGCHI Bulletin (1998)

One of the simplest examples of non-verbal communication is that of proximity, i.e. the distance at which conversants stand (or sit) from each other when interacting. This is known to be guided by certain social rules which take into account personal relationships, culture, personality and the purpose of the discussion, violation of which leads to various psychological and behavioural effects.One such effect is persuasion. Sales people will tend to approach customers closer than other business people. Video has in the past been shown to lead to more effective negotiation and bargaining than audio only conditions in experimental tasks. So far though, it remains unknown whether or not similar effects of proximity exist within video-mediated communication --- or indeed even whether or not proximity can be conveyed through video. This study investigates the role of the proxemic information within the video image in a formal persuasion environment using both subjective and objective measures of attitude and behaviour.A simulation of a customer seeking financial advice from an advisor across a live video link had two proxemic conditions --- the image of the advisor appearing either very close or far away. Subjective impressions of both the task and technology were analysed by questionnaire and showed no subjective differences between conditions. Structural analysis of the dialogues however, indicated customers to be more interactive in the close condition. When the advisor appeared close the customer spoke more often, said more, took longer and made more instances of overlapping speech. The similarity between these results and those of familiarity studies are discussed and a hypothesis of perceived close proximity resulting in perceived familiarity is offered.The study shows that proxemic information is preserved in video conferencing and produces effects similar to those of face-to-face interactions but less pronounced. This is explained by the video conveying only visual proxemic information compared to the multimodal information available in face-to-face interaction.
Robohelp 7 for Dummies
Authors: Jim Meade
Venue:  (1999)

:Working knowledge of RoboHELP is often required by IT recruiters for documentation writing positions. Here, Meade covers both the standard Windows version and the HTML version of the product and provides in-depth coverage of designing a good help system. The CD-ROM contains a light version of the software, examples from the book, templates, and more.
On the design of efficient ATM routing schemes
Authors: Luca Becchetti, Paola Bertolazzi, Carlo Gaibisso, Giorgio Gambosi
Venue: Theoretical Computer Science (2002)

In this paper we deal with the problem of designing virtual path layouts in ATM networks when the hop-count is given and the load has to be minimized. We first prove a lower bound for networks with arbitrary topology and arbitrary set of connection requests. This result is then applied to derive lower bounds for the following settings: (i) one-to-all (one node has to be connected to all other nodes of the network) in arbitrary networks; (ii) all-to-all (each node has to be connected to all other nodes in the network) in several classes of networks, including planar and k-separable networks and networks of bounded genus. We finally study the all-to-all setting on two-dimensional meshes and we design a virtual path layout for this problem. When the hop-count and the network degree are bounded by constants, our results show that the upper bounds proposed in this paper for the one-to-all problem in arbitrary networks and for the all-to-all problem in two-dimensional mesh networks are asymptotically optimal. Moreover, the general lower bound shows that the algorithm proposed in Gerstel (Ph.D. Thesis, Technion-Haifa, Israel, 1995) for the all-to-all problem in k-separable networks is also asymptotically optimal. The upper bound for mesh networks also shows that the lower bound presented in this paper for the all-to-all problem in planar networks is asymptotically tight.
Global and Local Error Analysis for the Residual-Free Bubbles Method Applied to Advection-Dominated Problems
Authors: Giancarlo Sangalli
Venue: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (2000)

We prove the stability and a priori global and local error analysis for the residual-free bubbles (RFB) finite element method applied to advection-dominated advection-diffusion problems.
Feedback Control Problems Using MATLAB and the Control System Toolbox, 1st edition
Authors: Dean K. Frederick, Joe Chow
Venue:  (1999)

:This book is a supplement for any standard control systems text. It serves to reinforce the learning process for those who are studying introductory aspects of control systems. The authors accomplish this by teaching the use of MATLAB&reg; and its CONTROL SYSTEM TOOLBOX to rapidly solve a wide range of numerical problems. This book also provides the user with opportunities to apply techniques of linear system analysis, which forms the basis for the analysis and design of feedback control systems. This approach frees the user from the laborious calculations required to solve meaningful problems, thus allowing him or her to concentrate on interpreting the analysis and design results. Topical coverage includes both classical control design method and state-space models and design methods. Some specific topics covered are root-locus plots, frequency-response analysis, system performance, proportional-integral-derivative control, and frequency-response design. This updated printing revises the book and code examples (available for downloading from the Brooks/Cole Web site) to MATLAB&reg; V5.
Official Guide to Heavy Gear
Authors: Stohl
Venue:  (1997)

:Official Guide to Heavy Gear provides gamers with tactical maps for each mission, weapon and unit descriptions, and combat strategies. In an effort to save your girlfriend, Lt. Brockton, and avenge the deaths of your unit, you must engage in the future of war hot, fast, violent, and deadly. The only way to survive is to have this practical guide in hand. Heavy Gear has a much richer and more realistic universe than other giant robot fighting games. Watch out!Activision expects strong sell-in of more than 250,000 unitsThe game release will be supported by a national advertising campaign in major game industry magazines. It is already receiving rave reviews in the media. 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
2002 readers' choice awards
Authors: Heather Mead
Venue: Linux Journal (2002)

If you're our average reader, the GIMP is your favorite grapics program. But some of the other winners are surprising.
Pattern Discovery in Biomolecular Data: Tools, Techniques, and Applications, 1st edition
Authors: Jason T. Wang
Venue:  (1999)

:Finding patterns in biomolecular data, particularly in DNA and RNA, is at the center of modern biological research. These data are complex and growing rapidly, so the search for patterns requires increasingly sophisticated computer methods. Pattern Discovery in Biomolecular Data provides a clear, up-to-date summary of the principal techniques. Since pattern searches often benefit from multiple approaches, the book presents methods in their purest form so that readers can best choose the method or combination that fits their needs. This volume will be invaluable for all workers in genomics and genetic analysis, and others whose research requires biocomputing.
Breaking the Access Barrier: Delivering Internet Connections over Cable
Authors: Mark E. Laubach, David Farber, Stephen Dukes
Venue:  (2000)

:An inside look at high-speed access written for the cable industryCable modems have emerged as a leading consumer choice for high-speed Internet access, outpacing alternatives such as digital subscriber lines, but not without raising issues about quality of service and controversy about open access. Providing an objective review of residential broadband and cable television networking, this book will be of great use for professionals who are integrating cable into their networks or service offerings. The authors compare cable access systems to competing technologies and discuss the increasingly difficult issues confronting each. Readers will also find coverage of the hottest areas in the field including high-speed data and packet voice standards, managing the "always-on" connection, and security and privacy risks.
Radiologist and the Internet, 1st edition
Authors: Davide Caramella
Venue:  (1998)

:This book provides guidelines for the radiologist on how to connect to a network, as well as how to search for pertinent medical information. Also included are yellow pages for the Internet, and a list of radiologically-oriented sites. Additional information on how to create a server and how to use e-mail to exchange images is included.
Real-Time Concurrency Control in a Multiprocessor Environment
Authors: Tei-Wei Kuo, Jun Wu, Hsin-Chia Hsih
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (2002)

Although many high-performance computer systems are now multiprocessor-based, little work has been done in real-time concurrency control of transaction executions in a multiprocessor environment. Real-time concurrency control protocols designed for uniprocessor or distributed environments may not fit the needs of multiprocessor-based real-time database systems because of a lower concurrency degree of transaction executions and a larger number of priority inversions. This paper proposes the concept of priority cap to bound the maximum number of priority inversions in multiprocessor-based real-time database systems to meet transaction deadlines. We also explore the concept of two-version data to increase the system concurrency level and to explore the abundant computing resources of multiprocessor computer systems. The capability of the proposed methodology is evaluated in a multiprocessor real-time database system under different workloads, database sizes, and processor configurations. It is shown that the benefits of priority cap in reducing the blocking time of urgent transactions is far over the loss in committing less urgent transactions. The idea of two-version data also greatly improves the system performance because of a much higher concurrency degree in the system.
The Waite Group's Visual Basic 6 Client/Server How-To
Authors: Noel Jerke, George Szabo, David Jung
Venue:  (1998)

:The Waite Group's Visual Basic 6 Client/Server How-To is the definitive problem solver - designed to answer your "How do I" questions. It is intended to be a reference for visual programmers. Organized by individual questions, this exhaustive reference addresses practical, real-world programming issues in a clear, easy-to-follow language. The authors present definitive answers in a step-by-step format followed by concise descriptions of the outcome of each step. The Waite Group's Visual Basic 6 Client/Server How-To covers the vital areas like RDO and ADO, Active Server Pages, IIS, and object-oriented programming.
Using Excel Version 5 for Windows, 1st edition
Authors: Ron Pearson, Shelley O'Hara, Janice A. Snyder, Christopher Van Buren
Venue:  (1993)

:This comprehensive tutorial/reference is for beginning and intermediate users of Excel 4.0 and 5.0. It covers nearly all Excel commands and procedures, and it provides advice to help the user boost worksheet, database, and graphics performance. (Prentice Hall Computer/Que)
Networking and Integration of Facilities Automation Systems, 1st edition
Authors: Viktor Boed, Ira Goldschmidt
Venue:  (1999)

:Facilities increasingly rely on computerized systems to optimizetheir buildings' systems operation and reduce the costs of maintenance and management. Therefore, facility managers and engineers must rise to the challenge of a new discipline-systems networking and integration-as more and more computerized systems become implemented.
Master Visual Basic 4, with CD-ROM, 2nd Ed., 2nd edition
Authors: Nathan Gurewich, Ori Gurewich
Venue:  (1995)

:Updated for the most recent version of Visual Basic, this guide teaches the reader to write sophisticated and powerful programs with the Visual Basic package. Written in an informal, easy-to-read style, the book explains each topic via a practical programming example that the reader is instructed to design and execute using Visual Basic. CD includes all source code and associated files for the book's examples.