ppxscal/embedding_network huggingface dataset:
Simulation optimization using tabu search
Authors: Berna Dengiz, Cigdem Alabas
Venue: Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation (2000)

Investigation of the performance and operation of complex systems in manufacturing or other environments, analytical models of these systems become very complicated. Because of the complex stochastic characteristic of the systems, simulation is used as a tool to analyze them. The trust of such simulation analysis usually is to determine the optimum combination of factors that effect the considered system performance. The purpose of this study is to use a tabu search algorithm in conjunction with a simulation model of a JIT system to find the optimum number of kanbans.
Inside MacIntosh: Memory, 2nd edition
Authors: CORPORATE Apple Computer Inc.
Venue:  (1992)

:Memory management is key to creating fast and efficient applications. This describes the structure of Macintosh memory and shows programmers how to make the most out of managing memory.
Psychosocial Information, Protecting the Right of Privacy: A Guidebook for Mental Health Practitioners and Their Clients
Authors: Robert Henley Woody
Venue:  (2001)

:"The right to privacy and confidentiality between mental health practitioners and their clients is now under attack from business and both federal and state governments." "What are your Constitutional rights? How can you protect yourself from crippling lawsuits? Who possesses the right to confidentiality and privileged communications? And how do you build a supportive relationship with your clients that will reclaim the right of privacy?" "These important questions and many more are answered in Psychological Information - Protecting the Right to Privacy, an important guidebook created by an expert in both psychology and the law. It is essential reading for psychologists, social workers, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychiatrists - every professional privy to another person's mental condition." "In the face of mounting government and business incursions into client privacy, Dr. Woody presents chapter after chapter of practical, working guidelines on handling demands for information and minimizing the risk of legal actions." You'll discover the methods government can use to attack confidentiality, how HMO's and other business interests are threatening individual rights, how to create records and reports that can protect you from liability, how to build a supportive relationship with clients, and a discussion of key state and federal court decisions affecting privacy. 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
Harvard Graphics 2 for Windows for Dummies
Authors: Roger C. Parker
Venue:  (1994)

:Roger C. Parker provides all the information needed to create professional-quality presentations that will wow audiences.
Mobile Computing: A Systems Integrator's Handbook
Authors: Chander Dhawan
Venue:  (1996)

:Mobile Computing provides the end-to-end know-how required to build integrated systems and enables network providers and application developers to understand each other's requirements. This complete guide to mobile information technology is aimed at professionals building solutions based on the emerging mobile technology. Comprehensive coverage details application development tools,all aspects of mobile computing integration; rules-of-thumb costs; specifications and features of major products; and more.
Lower bound estimation for low power high-level synthesis
Authors: Lars Kruse, Eike Schmidt, Gerd Jochens, Ansgar Stammermann, Wolfgang Nebel
Venue: Proceedings of the 13th international symposium on System synthesis (2000)

This paper addresses the problem of estimating lower bounds on the power consumption in scheduled data flow graphs with a fixed number of allocated resources prior to binding. The estimated bound takes into account the effects of resource sharing. It is shown that by introducing Lagrangian multipliers and relaxing the low power binding problem to the Assignment Problem, which can be solved in O(n3), a tight and fast computable bound is achievable. Experimental results show the good quality of the bound. In most cases, deviations smaller than 5% from the optimal binding were observed. The proposed technique can for example be applied in branch and bound high-level synthesis algorithms for efficient pruning of the design space. The estimated lower bound can also be used as a starting point for low power binding heuristics to find optimal or near optimal binding solutions.
Understanding Networking Technology--Concepts, Terms, and Trends, 1st edition
Authors: Mark Norris
Venue:  (1996)

:This unique reference goes beyond mere definitions, and helps readers put important terms and concepts into the proper context so that they gain a practical, working knowledge of networking technology, and become more "network savvy." In addition to explaining over 2,000 key terms, the book describes how the industry got to where it is and where personal computers, LAN, Internet, and other related technologies are heading.
Easy Internet
Authors: Joe Kraynak
Venue:  (2000)

:The Internet is the largest network on the planet, connecting your computer to computers all over the world. The inter connected nature of the Internet gives you access to resources stored on remote computers, including multimedia pages, audio and video clips, games, and programs. And, because the Internet connects you with other Internet users, you can exchange e-mail, chat, join in discussion groups, and even make Internet phone calls to other people who are connected to the Internet. With an Internet connection, the right programs, and Easy Internet, Third Edition, as your roadmap, you have everything you need to get started. You'll be chatting up a storm and surfing like a pro in no time!
New Riders' Official World Wide Web Yellow Pages
Authors: Marcia Layton
Venue:  (1998)

:Organized into categories and set up with an easy-to-use A-to-Z tab format, this book is the definitive guide to what's on the Internet. The reference features thousands of site listing, including FTP, Gopher, newsgroup, and mailing list sites. 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
Visual Basic 5 Developer's Guide with Cdrom
Authors: Anthony T. Mann
Venue:  (1997)

:Visual Basic 5 Developer's Guide takes the programmer with a basic knowledge of Visual Basic programming to a higher skill level. Readers learn how to exploit the new features of the latest version of Visual Basic, in addition to implementing Visual Basic in a network setting and in conjunction with other technologies and software.Learn expert programming techniques and strategies to create better applicationsContains a full section of real-world examples readers can incorporate in their own applicationsCD-ROM contains the complete source code for all of the programs in the book
BASE: using abstraction to improve fault tolerance
Authors: Rodrigo Rodrigues, Miguel Castro, Barbara Liskov
Venue: Proceedings of the eighteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles (2001)

Software errors are a major cause of outages and they are increasingly exploited in malicious attacks. Byzantine fault tolerance allows replicated systems to mask some software errors but it is expensive to deploy. This paper describes a replication technique, BASE, which uses abstraction to reduce the cost of Byzantine fault tolerance and to improve its ability to mask software errors. BASE reduces cost because it enables reuse of off-the-shelf service implementations. It improves availability because each replica can be repaired periodically using an abstract view of the state stored by correct replicas, and because each replica can run distinct or non-deterministic service implementations, which reduces the probability of common mode failures. We built an NFS service where each replica can run a different off-the-shelf file system implementation, and an object-oriented database where the replicas ran the same, non-deterministic implementation. These examples suggest that our technique can be used in practice --- in both cases, the implementation required only a modest amount of new code, and our performance results indicate that the replicated services perform comparably to the implementations that they reuse.
Configuration Management
Authors: Marion V. Kelly
Venue:  (1995)

:This volume aims to help the potential configuration management team see how to set up a working system, and achieve standards such as ISO 9001. It is designed to be relevant for all levels of project personnel and all stages of a project life cycle. 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
Visual Basic 6 for Dummies Quick Reference, 1st edition
Authors: Namir Clement Shammas
Venue:  (1998)

:Get in and get right out quickly, with just the information you need - without reading tons of extra material! Inside, you'll find clear-cut, plain English explanations for using Visual Basic syntax to develop powerful applications for Windows.
Windows 2000 Reducing TCO Little Black Book
Authors: Robert E. Simanski
Venue:  (2000)

:Teaches the reader how to use each feature of Zero Administration through extensive examples and in-depth practice exercises. Covers remote software distribution and installation. Teaches how to detect, gather, and analyse hardware and software inventory remotely. 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
Design of a PDP 11/40 simulator
Authors: John H. Robinson,  Jr.
Venue: Proceedings of the 14th annual Southeast regional conference (1976)

This paper describes a PDP 11/40 simulator written in ALGOL W. The simulator imitates an 11/40 with 4K, a console I/O device, and a rudimentary operating system. The design allows an operator to sit at a remote terminal and perform the same functions that could be performed at the console of an 11/40. Fixed point instructions, traps, interrupts, illegal operation handling, and front panel switch control are implemented. The operating system monitors program execution, provides disk I/O, and establishes the environment in which the program operates. A powerful trace feature prints selected information during program simulation.ALGOL W provides a means to implement a well structured simulator to which additional features and experimental instructions are easily added. The simulator provides an environment where educational, experimental, and debugging work may be readily accomplished. 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
The augurscope: a mixed reality interface for outdoors
Authors: Holger Schnädelbach, Boriana Koleva, Martin Flintham, Mike Fraser, Shahram Izadi, Paul Chandler, Malcolm Foster, Steve Benford, Chris Greenhalgh, Tom Rodden
Venue: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: Changing our world, changing ourselves (2002)

The augurscope is a portable mixed reality interface for outdoors. A tripod-mounted display is wheeled to different locations and rotated and tilted to view a virtual environment that is aligned with the physical background. Video from an onboard camera is embedded into this virtual environment. Our design encompasses physical form, interaction and the combination of a GPS receiver, electronic compass, accelerometer and rotary encoder for tracking. An initial application involves the public exploring a medieval castle from the site of its modern replacement. Analysis of use reveals problems with lighting, movement and relating virtual and physical viewpoints, and shows how environmental factors and physical form affect interaction. We suggest that problems might be accommodated by carefully constructing virtual and physical content
The list(3) package: software design and reusability
Authors: Bradley C. Spatz
Venue: Proceedings of the 30th annual Southeast regional conference (1992)

This paper describes the design, evolution, and application of a reusable software package that implements the ubiquitous doubly-linked list. The motivations and design of the package are discussed. In particular, issues of data abstraction, memory management, and performance are considered.Examples of the package's direct application towards implementing queues and stacks is then presented. A more indirect application towards the construction of a generic cache package follows. Finally, a performance analysis is presented, along with some reflections and a summary.
Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure
Authors: Jerry Kaplan
Venue:  (1995)

:Kaplan, a well-known figure in the computer industry, founded GO Corporation in 1987, and for several years it was one of the hottest new ventures in the Valley. Startup tells the story of Kaplan's wild ride: how he assembled a brilliant but fractious team of engineers, software designers, and investors; pioneered the emerging market for hand-held computers operated with a pen instead of a keyboard; and careened from crisis to crisis without ever losing his passion for a revolutionary idea. Along the way, Kaplan vividly recreates his encounters with eccentric employees, risk-addicted venture capitalists, and industry giants such as Bill Gates, John Sculley, and Mitchell Kapor. And no one - including Kaplan himself - is spared his sharp wit and observant eye.
Induction of integrated view for XML data with heterogeneous DTDs
Authors: Euna Jeong, Chun-Nan Hsu
Venue: Proceedings of the tenth international conference on Information and knowledge management (2001)

This paper proposes a novel approach to integrating heterogeneous XML DTDs. With this approach, an information agent can be easily extended to integrate heterogeneous XML-based contents and perform federated search. Based on a tree grammar inference technique, this approach derives an integrated view of XML DTDs in an information integration framework. The derivation takes advantages of naming and structural similarities among DTDs in similar domains. The complete approach consists of three main steps. (1) DTD clustering clusters DTDs in similar domains into classes. (2) Schema learning applies a tree grammar inference technique to generate a set of tree grammar rules from the DTDs in a class from the previous step. (3) Minimization optimizes the rules generated in the previous step and transforms them into an integrated view. We have implemented the proposed approach into a system called DEEP and tested the system on artificial and real domains. The experimental results reveal that this system can effectively and efficiently integrate radically different DTDs.
Competitive recommendation systems
Authors: Petros Drineas, Iordanis Kerenidis, Prabhakar Raghavan
Venue: Proceedings of the thiry-fourth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing (2002)

A recommendation system tracks past purchases of a group of users to make product recommendations to individual members of the group. In this paper we present a notion of competitive recommendation systems, building on recent theoretical work on this subject. We reduce the problem of achieving competitiveness to a problem in matrix reconstruction. We then present a matrix reconstruction scheme that is competitive: it requires a small overhead in the number of users and products to be sampled, delivering in the process a net utility that closely approximates the best possible with full knowledge of all user-product preferences.
Spread Spectrum Systems: With Commercial Applications, 3rd edition
Authors: Robert C. Dixon
Venue:  (1994)

:The first spread spectrum challenge was answered by the original communicator to schedule a time for sending and receiving messages because of heavy "traffic" or the desire to avoid interception. Today, spread spectrum systems are a unique blend of analog and digital technology answering an ever increasing range of military, commercial, and consumer communications, data transmission, message privacy, signal hiding, and position location challenges. For nineteen years telecommunications, electrical, and electronics engineers looking for a thoroughly practical, self-contained guide to this important field have turned here. Now this new edition offers... Complete coverage of the latest commercial applications, including everything from direct sequence versus frequency hopping, operation below ambient noise level, error correction coding, near-far performance, linear signal requirements, and synchronization. A full CDMA guide that features discussion of the number of signals in a bandwidth, frequency division multiplex, time-division multiplex, code division multiple access, receiver sensitivity, multipath rejection, direct sequence, fading rate, and more. A new section on the testing and evaluation of spread spectrum systems, including techniques for monitoring sensitivity, selectivity, jamming margin, synch acquisition, loss of synchronization, S/N ratio versus interference level, process gain, cross correlation, transmitter measurements, and more. Three new appendices covering typical error correction coding integrated circuits; typical integrated circuit frequency synthesizers; and spread spectrum's effect on standard microwave communications links. Continuing the freedom from burdensome mathematical rigor and precedence that made the previous editions of this practical presentation of the technology so popular, the Third Edition is assured of its place as one of the most useful working references for a wide range of engineers.
Microcomputer graphics and the color-and-weave effect in handweaving
Authors: M. B. Windeknecht, T. G. Windeknecht
Venue: Proceedings of the 18th annual Southeast regional conference (1980)

Color-And-Weave is the use of both light and dark threads in both warp and weft in a handweaving. Traditional weaves such as twill, point twill, summer and winter, and shadow weave produce many unusual attractive handweaving patterns with Color-And-Weave that cannot be produced without it. The process of weaving these new patterns is interesting and not unduly complex in most cases of importance. The design of these patterns using paper-and-pencil drafting techniques is admittedly infeasibly difficult. However, this problem has been resolved by the use of an inexpensive microcomputer graphics system. In a forthcoming book [1], the authors present the main results of an extensive computer study of Color-And-Weave effects including complete drafts and woven samples for 700-800 nontraditional handweaving patterns. In this paper, we shall present a theoretical approach to Color-And-Weave and discuss the ramifications in the case of the simplest woven structure; namely, Plain Weave. In a companion paper [2], additional details are given on (i) the computer study of hand weaving patterns that was conducted and (ii) the microcomputer system that was used.
Advanced Windowstm Programming
Authors: Martin Heller
Venue:  (1992)

:For programmers familiar with the basics of Windows 3 software development and Microsoft programming tools, the emphasis here is on the development of working windows applications. Teaches how to take full advantage of available Microsoft products and Microsoftware development kit and gives advice and examples for debugging, testing, editing, developing and porting software in C under Windows 3.X. Includes windows software applications also available on disk. The author is a BYTE magazine columnist and windows programming expert.
Fundamental Illustrator 7
Authors: Steve Bain
Venue:  (1997)

:The goal of this illustrator book is to really teach people the program the way it's used in actual practice. More so than Photoshop (image-editing product) or Quark (page layout product),Illustrator has a reputation for being a hard program to learn and many illustrator users who encounter the program never really learn how to use it. The first two-thirds of Fundamental Illustrator will contain a series of progressive lessons,teaching the reader how to draw,edit shapes,use type,colors,and layers. Projects located at the end of each section integrate the materials learned,and further explain how the procedures are used within the context of the program. This will bring the reader to an intermediate-advanced level with Illustrator. The last one-third of Fundamental Illustrator will cover more technical issues: output considerations,Web usage,outside filters,helper applications (like Dimensions and Streamline),interfacing Illustrator and Photoshop,cross-platform problems (switching files between Corel and Illustrator and moving files between Mac and PC),and a troubleshooting guide.
The Painter 6 Wow! Book, 4th edition
Authors: Cher Threinen-Pendarvis
Venue:  (2000)

:Cher Threinen-Pendarvis is an award-winning artist and educator who generously shares her in-depth knowledge with readers -- not just of MetaCreations Painter, but of art processes in general, both digital and traditional. Those who've read previous versions of her Painter Wow! book often buy subsequent editions because of her passion for the subject and the beauty of the books themselves. The Painter 6 Wow! Book is no exception. In the new edition of this highly acclaimed book, Pendarvis once again unveils dazzling works of digital art and demonstrates for readers -- step-by-step -- how they were created, with an emphasis on Painter's new, more-natural-than-ever painting tools.The Painter 6 Wow! Book features loads of new material -- from coverage of new program features to new, detailed step-by-step features of gorgeous work created in Painter for both Web and print. Whether you're new to the software or a long-time Painter aficionado, this book will make you want to stay up all night and create digital masterpieces of your own.
Reference Manual for Telecommunications Engineering, 2nd edition
Authors: Roger L. Freeman
Venue:  (1993)

:Contains a compendium of the most frequently used data in day-to-day telecommunications engineering work: tables, graphs, figures, formulae, nomograms, performance curves, standards highlights, constants and statistics. Designed for easy and rapid access. Comprehensive reference for designing, building, purchasing, using or maintaining all kinds of telecommunications systems. Central source of information on transmission, switching, traffic engineering, numbering, signaling, noise, modulation and forward error correction. 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
Earth 2150: Prima's Official Strategy Guide
Authors: Keith M. Kolmos
Venue:  (2000)

:Get ready to jump 150 years into the future to accept a mission like no other. Earth is moving perilously close to the Sun and an evacuation to Mars is necessary. You must shuttle your group safely to Mars before the Sun's dangerous proximity to Earth destroys all life forms. In a test of the survival of the fittest, only some will make it off the planet before total destructionwill you? Ensure your survival with Earth 2150: Prima's Official Strategy Guide. Included are:Complete resource management strategiesSkirmish and multiplayer modesUnit-building tacticsComprehensive mission walkthroughs for all three factionsDetailed campaign maps