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After Effects 7 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide
Authors: Antony Bolante
Venue:  (2006)

Need to take your Adobe After Effects skills to the next level? Learn After Effects the fast, efficient way! This Visual QuickPro Guide uses illustrations and in-depth explanations. You'll be a master in time! ·ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ Takes a visual, task-based approach to teaching After Effects, using pictures to guide you through the software and show you what to do. ·ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ Works like a reference book-you look up what you need and then get straight to work. ·ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ Concise, straightforward steps and explanations offer the fastest way to learn tasks and concepts. ·ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ Affordably priced, because buying a computer book shouldn't be an investment in itself. Through step-by-step instructions, enhanced by tips, sidebars, and plenty of visual aids, veteran video editor Antony Bolante shows you how to effectively and efficiently import and manage footage, view and edit layers, apply effects, animate type, and more. You'll learn about key features with real-world examples of how and when features should be used, including what's new in After Effects 7.0: motion tracker, powerful animation and keyframing controls, high quality keying and matte tools, network rendering, expert effects, nondestructive vector painting, and more!
Response gradient estimation using mathematical programming models of discrete-event system sample paths
Authors: Wai Kin (Victor) Chan, Lee W. Schruben
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

This paper illustrates the use of mathematical programming in computing gradient estimators. Consistency property of these estimators is established under the usual assumptions for IPA gradient estimator consistency. A finite difference tolerance limit is introduced. For complex discrete-event systems, more concise linear programming representations are developed. These new representations provide a direct way of calculating gradient estimates.
Supervision applied to nuclear fuel reprocessing
Authors: Jacky Montmain
Venue: AI Communications (2000)

Model&dash;based supervision developed by systems analysts has become an acknowledged supervision aid, ensuring early detection of malfunctions and thereby allowing control of the availability and vulnerability of a process facility. However, it is associated with diagnostics of the process itself, and not of the process control situation, which is the veritable subject of supervision. The operator, facility, control triplet determines a complex situation that must be considered from multiple viewpoints beyond knowledge of the single behavioral model usually advocated in process control approaches. Representing different aspects of process control situation from multiple viewpoints notably allows the on line selection of the behavioral models relevant to the observed situation. Given the size of the application, it was essential not only to structure the knowledge required for the supervision system functions into operating system viewpoints, but also to provide a unique representation method for each viewpoint. The systemic approach SAGACE provides this formal representation framework and the methodology adopted to design and implement our industrial prototype relies on it. All these principles are illustrated by a description of an industrial application in the area of nuclear fuel reprocessing&colon; the size and complexity of the facilities and their high degree of computerization make reprocessing particularly well suited for supervision applications.
Task allocation for maximizing reliability of distributed systems: a simulated annealing approach
Authors: Gamal Attiya, Yskandar Hamam
Venue: Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (2006)

This paper addresses the problem of task allocation in heterogeneous distributed systems with the goal of maximizing the system reliability. It first develops an allocation model for reliability based on a cost function representing the unreliability caused by the execution of tasks on the system processors and the unreliability caused by the interprocessor communication time subject to constraints imposed by both the application and the system resources. It then presents a heuristic algorithm derived from the well-known simulated annealing (SA) technique to quickly solve the mentioned problem. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated through experimental studies on a large number of randomly generated instances. Indeed, the quality of solutions are compared with those derived by using the branch-and-bound (BB) technique.
A texture synthesis method for liquid animations
Authors: Adam W. Bargteil, Funshing Sin, Jonathan E. Michaels, Tolga G. Goktekin, James F. O'Brien
Venue: Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics symposium on Computer animation (2006)

In this paper we present a method for synthesizing textures on animated liquid surfaces generated by a physically based fluid simulation system. Rather than advecting texture coordinates on the surface, our algorithm synthesizes a new texture for every frame using an optimization procedure which attempts to match the surface texture to an input sample texture. By synthesizing a new texture for every frame, our method is able to overcome the discontinuities and distortions of an advected parameterization. We achieve temporal coherence by initializing the surface texture with color values advected from the surface at the previous frame and including these colors in the energy function used during optimization.
Think simulation - think experiment: the virtual cell paradigm
Authors: Ion I. Moraru, James C. Schaff, Leslie M. Loew
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

The Virtual Cell modeling and simulation framework is the product of interdisciplinary research in biology that applies the diverse strengths and experiences of individuals from engineering, the physical sciences, the biological sciences, and mathematics. A key feature is the separation of layers (core technologies and abstractions) representing biological models, physical mechanisms, geometry, mathematical models and numerical methods. This reduces software complexity, allowing independent development and verification, but most importantly it clarifies the impact of modeling decisions, assumptions, and approximations. The result is a physically consistent, mathematically rigorous, spatial modeling and simulation framework for cell biology. The Virtual Cell has a rich, interactive user interface which connects to remote services providing scalable access to a modeling database and a large dedicated cluster for shared computation and storage. In addition to new modeling capabilities, future developments will emphasize data and tool interoperability, extensibility, and experimentally oriented model analysis tools.
Rapid and brief communication: Further results on the subspace distance
Authors: Xichen Sun, Liwei Wang, Jufu Feng
Venue: Pattern Recognition (2007)

In previous papers [L. Wang, X. Wang, J. Feng, Subspace distance analysis with application to adaptive Bayesian algorithm for face recognition, Pattern Recognition 39(3) (2006) 456-464, L. Wang, X. Wang, J. Feng, Intrapersonal subspace analysis with application to adaptive Bayesian algorithm for face recognition, Pattern Recognition 38(4) (2005) 617-621], we proposed a subspace distance. However, whether the subspace distance satisfies the triangle inequality was left open. In this note, we give positive answer to the open problem and prove our assertion.
Guiding design with approaches to masked performance
Authors: Carlo Jacucci
Venue: Interacting with Computers (2006)

This paper reinterprets practical approaches to masked performance to articulate design activities that make use of performances and embodied artefacts. In particular, the paper relies on examples from design research to explore the application of performance work based on 'neutrality', expressivity and 'incompleteness', which have been developed in theatre to devise performances with 'neutral', 'characterised' and 'larval' masks. A more general argument in the paper is that the project of applying the performing arts into interaction design can be usefully extended beyond the boundaries that have so far characterised such applications. These have been limited to the direct staging of the performances which are meant to provide the evidence for design inquiries. Instead, design activities can proceed by working in a more indirect way, by researching variations of the achieved performances, and by using multiple performance genres, including stylised performances and mask work.
Incorporating embedded programming skills into an ECE curriculum
Authors: Kenneth G. Ricks, David J. Jackson, William A. Stapleton
Venue: ACM SIGBED Review (2007)

In this paper, the typical electrical and computer engineering (ECE) curriculum is examined to determine its effectiveness at presenting embedded programming skills. The software concepts and programming techniques necessary for embedded systems are somewhat different than those seen in other engineering domains. Thus, it makes sense to specifically address embedded programming needs within the formal programming education ECE students receive. Several topical areas of concern are identified, and two possible ways to incorporate these areas into an ECE curriculum are presented. The experiences gained within the ECE curriculum at The University of Alabama are presented and are used to develop recommendations for incorporating these topics into typical ECE curricula.
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Conference on Computer Systems 2006
Venue: European Conference on Computer Systems (2006)

This is the first Eurosys conference, the first of hopefully many to come. The Eurosys organization grew out of a desire to create a community of systems researchers in Europe. The Eurosys conference is its flagship event. While held in Europe, Eurosys is not meant to be a European conference in the sense that it caters principally to European authors. The composition of the program committee of Eurosys 2006 reflects this international stance: 7 members come from Europe, 7 from the United States, 1 from India, and 1 from Israel.The conference tried to break new ground in several ways. The call for papers covered a very wide range of topics. To further foster diversity in the program, authors were limited to submitting at most two papers. Papers presenting new ideas and experience papers were encouraged, and separate sessions were set aside for those papers. Starting a new conference is always a risky proposition, but the results speak for themselves. The community responded in large numbers, and the program committee was able to put together a high-quality program.We received 174 abstracts, of which 144 turned into paper submissions. We followed a two-round reviewing process, now common in many conferences. In the first round we obtained three reviews for each paper. On the basis of these reviews 69 papers were selected to go forward to the second round, during which we collected 2 or 3 more reviews on each paper. The program committee met on January 6, 2006, in Lausanne, Switzerland, for a full-day meeting. All papers that made it to the second round were discussed during the meeting. 29 selected papers are included in the proceedings. In all, each program committee member, assisted by external reviewers, wrote about 40 reviews, for a total of 639 reviews.
Distributed simulation with COTS simulation packages: a case study in health care supply chain simulation
Authors: Navonil Mustafee, Simon J. E. Taylor, Korina Katsaliaki, Sally Brailsford
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

The UK National Blood Service (NBS) is a public funded body that is responsible for distributing blood and associated products. A discrete-event simulation of the NBS supply chain in the Southampton area has been built using the commercial off-the-shelf simulation package (CSP) Simul8. This models the relationship in the health care supply chain between the NBS Processing, Testing and Issuing (PTI) facility and its associated hospitals. However, as the number of hospitals increase simulation run time becomes inconveniently large. Using distributed simulation to try to solve this problem, researchers have used techniques informed by SISO's CSPI PDG to create a version of Simul8 compatible with the High Level Architecture (HLA). The NBS supply chain model was subsequently divided into several sub-models, each running in its own copy of Simul8. Experimentation shows that this distributed version performs better than its standalone, conventional counterpart as the number of hospitals increases.
Boundary-trimmed 3D triangular mesh segmentation based on iterative merging strategy
Authors: Dong Hwan Kim, Il Dong Yun, Sang Uk Lee
Venue: Pattern Recognition (2006)

This paper presents a segmentation algorithm for 3D triangular mesh data. The proposed algorithm uses iterative merging of adjacent triangle pairs based on their orientations. The oversegmented regions are merged again in an iterative region merging process. Finally, the noisy boundaries of each region are refined. The boundaries of each region contain perceptually important geometric information of the entire mesh model. According to the purpose of the segmentation, the proposed mesh-segmentation algorithm supports various types of segmentation by controlling parameters.
A machine learning based approach to evaluating retrieval systems
Authors: Huyen-Trang Vu, Patrick Gallinari
Venue: Proceedings of the main conference on Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics (2006)

Test collections are essential to evaluate Information Retrieval (IR) systems. The relevance assessment set has been recognized as the key bottleneck in test collection building, especially on very large sized document collections. This paper addresses the problem of efficiently selecting documents to be included in the assessment set. We will show how machine learning techniques can fit this task. This leads to smaller pools than traditional round robin pooling, thus reduces significantly the manual assessment workload. Experimental results on TREC collections consistently demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach according to different evaluation criteria.
Systems engineering and design of high-tech factories
Authors: Leon F. McGinnis, Edward Huang, Kan Wu
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

Contemporary technology for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) integrates computer aided design (CAD) and engineering analysis (CAE) to support rapid, distributed, team-oriented product data development and management, including high fidelity simulation on demand. This technology potentially provides a platform for creating a new generation of factory design tools which enable "on demand" simulation and analytic model results to be used by factory designers. This paper describes the opportunity, and provides an illustration in the context of semiconductor wafer fab design.
O'Leary Series: Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Introductory, 1 edition
Authors: Timothy J. O'Leary, Linda I. O'Leary
Venue:  (2003)

The goal of the O’Leary Series is to give students a basic understanding of computing concepts and to build the skills necessary to ensure that information technology is an advantage in whatever career they choose in life. The O’Leary Microsoft Office 2003 texts are crafted to be the true step-by-step way for students to develop Microsoft Office application skills. The text design emphasizes step-by-step instructions with full screen captures that illustrate the results of each step performed. Each Tutorial (chapter) combines conceptual coverage with detailed software-specific instructions. A running case that is featured in each tutorial highlights the real-world applications of each software program and leads students step-by-step from problem to solution.Table of contents Tutorial 1: Creating And Editing A Worksheet Tutorial 2: Charting Worksheet Data Tutorial 3: Managing and Analyzing A Workbook Working Together: Linking, Embedding and E-mailing Tutorial 4: Using Solver, Creating Templates, and Evaluating Scenarios Tutorial 5: Using Data Tables, Creating Macros, and Designing Onscreen Forms Tutorial 6: Creating and Using Lists and Web Pages Working Together: Reviewing a Workbook and Importing Access Data
Reliable prediction of Drosha processing sites improves microRNA gene prediction
Authors: Snorre A. Helvik, Ola Snøve, Pål Sætrom
Venue: Bioinformatics (2007)

Motivation: Mature microRNAs (miRNAs) are processed from long hairpin transcripts. Even though it is only the first of several steps, the initial Drosha processing defines the mature product and is characteristic for all miRNA genes. Methods that can separate between true and false processing sites are therefore essential to miRNA gene discovery. Results: We present a classifier that predicts 5' Drosha processing sites in hairpins that are candidate miRNAs. The classifier, called Microprocessor SVM, correctly predicts the processing site for 50% of known human 5' miRNAs, and 90% of its predictions are within two nucleotides of the true site. Another classifier that is trained on the output from the Microprocessor SVM outperforms existing methods for prediction of unconserved miRNAs. Reanalysis of characteristics and supporting evidence for a set of newly annotated miRNAs shows that some miRNAs may be misannotated. This suggests that expressed hairpins should not be annotated as miRNAs until they are verified to be Drosha and Dicer substrates. Availability: The classifiers are publicly available at https://demo1.interagon.com/miRNA/ Contact: paal.saetrom@interagon.com Supplementary information: Supplementary data is available at Bioinformatics online.
The Bhattacharyya space for feature selection and its application to texture segmentation
Authors: C. C. Reyes-Aldasoro, A. Bhalerao
Venue: Pattern Recognition (2006)

A feature selection methodology based on a novel Bhattacharyya space is presented and illustrated with a texture segmentation problem. The Bhattacharyya space is constructed from the Bhattacharyya distances of different measurements extracted with sub-band filters from training samples. The marginal distributions of the Bhattacharyya space present a sequence of the most discriminant sub-bands that can be used as a path for a wrapper algorithm. When this feature selection is used with a multiresolution classification algorithm on a standard set of texture mosaics, it produces the lowest misclassification errors reported.
CIMS: a framework for infrastructure interdependency modeling and analysis
Authors: Donald D. Dudenhoeffer, May R. Permann, Milos Manic
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

Today's society relies greatly upon an array of complex national and international infrastructure networks, such as transportation, utilities, telecommunication, and even financial networks. While modeling and simulation tools have provided insight into the behavior of individual infrastructure networks, a far less understood area is that of the interrelationships among multiple infrastructure networks including the potential cascading effects that may result due to these interdependencies. This paper first describes infrastructure interdependencies, as well as presenting a formalization of interdependency types. Next the paper describes a modeling and simulation framework called CIMS&copy; and the work that is being conducted at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to model and simulate infrastructure interdependencies and the complex behaviors that can result.
Linux Server Security
Authors: Michael D. Bauer
Venue:  (2005)

Linux Server Security, 2nd Edition expertly conveys to administrators and developers the tricks of the trade that can help them avoid serious security breaches. It covers both background theory and practical step-by-step instructions for protecting a server that runs Linux. Packed with examples, this must-have book lets the good guys stay one step ahead of potential adversaries.
Windows Vista Pocket Reference: A Compact Guide to Windows Vista
Authors: Preston Gralla
Venue:  (2007)

Windows Vista Pocket Reference is the ideal guide to setting up and navigating the basics of this new operating system, from the new user interface to networking, multimedia, security, and mobility. This pocket reference offers four sections that will familiarize readers with Vista quickly: Getting Started gives a crash course in using Windows Vista, including the user interface, handling files, folders, drives and search, and working with hardware. Networking, the Internet and Wireless offers a tour of Internet Explorer 7, a wireless networking guide, and how to set up and maintain home networks. Multimedia shows how to use the Media Center, Windows Media Player, and how to handle graphics and photos, podcasts and MP3 players. Security, Mobility, and Troubleshooting visits the security features, shows how to tune up Vista, troubleshoot problems, and use Vista with mobile devices.
Optimizing conditions for computer-assisted anatomical learning
Authors: Jan-Maarten Luursema, Willem B. Verwey, Piet A. M. Kommers, Robert H. Geelkerken, Hans J. Vos
Venue: Interacting with Computers (2006)

An experiment evaluated the impact of two typical features of virtual learning environments on anatomical learning for users of differing visuo-spatial ability. The two features studied are computer-implemented stereopsis (the spatial information that is based on differences in visual patterns projected in both eyes) and interactivity (the possibility to actively and continuously change one's view of computer-mediated objects). Participants of differing visuo-spatial ability learned about human abdominal organs via anatomical three-dimensional (3D) reconstructions using either a stereoptic study phase (involving stereopsis and interactivity) or using a biocular study phase that involved neither stereopsis nor interactivity. Subsequent tests assessed the acquired knowledge in tasks involving (a) identification of anatomical structures in anatomical 2D cross-sections (i.e. typical Computed Tomography pictures) in an identification task, and (b) localization of these cross-sections in a frontal view of the anatomy in a localization task. The results show that the stereoptic group performed significantly better on both tasks and that participants of low visuo-spatial ability benefited more from the stereoptic study phase than those of high visuo-spatial ability.
Visual surveillance by dynamic visual attention method
Authors: María T. López, Antonio Fernández-Caballero, Miguel A. Fernández, José Mira, Ana E. Delgado
Venue: Pattern Recognition (2006)

This paper describes a method for visual surveillance based on biologically motivated dynamic visual attention in video image sequences. Our system is based on the extraction and integration of local (pixels and spots) as well as global (objects) features. Our approach defines a method for the generation of an active attention focus on a dynamic scene for surveillance purposes. The system segments in accordance with a set of predefined features, including gray level, motion and shape features, giving raise to two classes of objects: vehicle and pedestrian. The solution proposed to the selective visual attention problem consists of decomposing the input images of an indefinite sequence of images into its moving objects, defining which of these elements are of the user's interest at a given moment, and keeping attention on those elements through time. Features extraction and integration are solved by incorporating mechanisms of charge and discharge-based on the permanency effect-, as well as mechanisms of lateral interaction. All these mechanisms have proved to be good enough to segment the scene into moving objects and background.