ppxscal/embedding_network huggingface dataset:
Dynamic WAP application development
Venue:  (2001)

The book also provides an overview of Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) and Java Servlets, and guides developers through the process of creating dynamic WAP applications using these server-side technologies. Application design specific to the small display and limited memory capacity of wireless phones is also covered. Advanced topics include security, performance, and the intricacies of WAP gateways. The book also includes robust case studies that put WAP concepts into practice. This book is geared for developers who are called upon to extend existing Web services to wireless phone subscribers and for those who need to understand the resources involved in the development and deployment of WAP applications.
Simulation optimization: a survey of simulation optimization techniques and procedures
Authors: James R. Swisher, Paul D. Hyden, Sheldon H. Jacobson, Lee W. Schruben
Venue: Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation (2000)

Discrete-event simulation optimization is a problem of significant interest to practitioners interested in extracting useful information about an actual (or yet to be designed) system that can be modeled using discrete-event simulation. This paper presents a brief survey of the literature on discrete-event simulation optimization over the past decade (1988 to the present). Swisher et al. (2000) provides a more comprehensive review of this topic while Jacobson and Schruben (1989) covers the literature preceding 1988. Optimization of both discrete and continuous input parameters are examined herein. The continuous input parameter case is separated into gradient and non-gradient based optimization procedures. The discrete input parameter case differentiates techniques appropriate for small and for large numbers of feasible input parameter values.
The impact of point-to-multipoint traffic concentration on multirate networks design
Authors: Aref Meddeb, André Girard, Catherine Rosenberg
Venue: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON) (2002)

We consider the problem of multirate network design with point-to-multipoint communications. We give a mathematical formulation for this problem. Using approximations, we show that traffic concentration on a small number of links significantly reduces the cost of the network. We then propose a heuristic based on the traffic concentration principle to solve the network design problem approximately. Because this heuristic no longer requires advanced knowledge of demand matrices, we explain how it can be used as the basis for real-time design procedures. By means of numerical results, we show that this heuristic yields nearly optimal solutions.
The Nudist on the Late Shift: And Other True Tales of Silicon Valley
Authors: Po Bronson
Venue:  (2000)

:As a novelist and writer for Wired and other publications, Po Bronson has earned a reputation as the most exciting and authentic literary voice to emerge from Silicon Valley. In his national bestseller The Nudist on the Late Shift he tells the true story of the mostly under-thirty entrepreneurs and tech wizards, immigrants and investors, dreamers and visionaries, who see the Valley as their Mecca. Taking us inside the world of these newcomers, brainiacs, salespeople, headhunters, utopians, plutocrats, and innovators as they transform our culture, The Nudist on the Late Shift is a defining portrait of a new generation in the whirl of an information revolution and an international gold rush.Po Bronson is the author of two novels and one book of nonfiction. Bombardiers, a dark satire of high finance, was an international bestseller that was translated into twelve languages. The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest, soon to be a feature film from 20th Century Fox, is a comedy of Silicon Valley. His third bestseller, The Nudist on the Late Shift and Other True Tales of Silicon Valley, demonstrates that Bronson's wit and imagination apply as well to nonfiction as to fiction. 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
Evaluating ontological decisions with OntoClean
Authors: Nicola Guarino, Christopher Welty
Venue: Communications of the ACM (2002)

Explosing common misuses of the subsumption relationship and the formal basis for why they are wrong.
Any Sound You Can Imagine: Making Music/Consuming Technology
Authors: Paul Theberge
Venue:  (1997)

:Theberge places recent technological developments within a broad social and historical perspective to illuminate the changing relationships between musical concepts, styles, and technology. 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
Artificial Life: An Overview
Authors: Christopher G. Langton
Venue:  (1995)

:Artificial life, a field that seeks to increase the role of synthesis in the study of biological phenomena, has great potential, both for unlocking the secrets of life and for raising a host of disturbing issues -- scientific and technical as well as philosophical and ethical. This book brings together a series of overview articles that appeared in the first three issues of the groundbreaking journal Artificial Life, along with a new introduction by Christopher Langton, Editor-in-Chief of Artificial Life, founder of the discipline, and Director of the Artificial Life Program at the Santa Fe Institute.
Beginning Visual C ++ 4
Authors: Ivor Horton
Venue:  (1995)

:Who is this book for?Anyone who wants a ground-up introduction to Visual C++.What does it cover?Starts with an intense introduction to C++, covering all of the necessary topics, including pointers, references, and object-oriented programmming. It then moves on to Windows-specific programming, showing how to use the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) for rapid application development. Also covered are advanced Windows topics like DLLs, OLE, and so on.What's special about this book?By the end of the book, you will have enough information to write your own OCX! All source code can be downloaded for free from www.wrox.com. New books available on Visual C++ 5, and Visual C++ 6
Hyperpatches for 3D Model Acquisition and Tracking
Authors: Charles S. Wiles, Atsuto Maki, Natsuko Matsuda
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (2001)

Automatic 3D model acquisition and 3D tracking of simple objects under motion using a single camera is often difficult due to the sparsity of information from which to establish the model. We have developed an automatic scheme that first computes a simple pointalistic Euclidean model of the object and then enriches this model using hyperpatches. These hyperpatches contain information on both the orientation and intensity pattern variation of roughly planar patches on an object. This information allows both the spatial and intensity distortions of the projected patch to be modeled accurately under 3D object motion. Considering human tracking as a specific application, we show that hyperpatches can not only be computed automatically during model acquisition from a monocular image sequence, but that they are also extremely appropriate for the task of visual tracking.
ClarisWorks Companion, 1st edition
Authors: Jan L. Harrington
Venue:  (1997)

:Written for first-time users, ClarisWorks Companion offers an introduction to the world of computing with ClarisWorks. Assuming readers have only a basic knowledge of the operating system with which they are working, Jan L. Harrington provides in-depth coverage of the basics of ClarisWorks and general computer application concepts. Providing comprehensive support for ClarisWorks word processing, drawing, painting, spreadsheet, and database modules, ClarisWorks Companion emphasizes the integration of these modules. It also gives specific documentation of all ClarisWorks functions and discusses how to customize the ClarisWorks environment for each individual user. Covers word processing basics, extras, and tools; discusses spreadsheets, data management, drawing, and painting with ClarisWorks; contains a wealth of tips and tricks, such as how to use spreadsheets as tables, how to flow text around graphics, and how to perform mail merge; teaches the basics of creating WWW pages from ClarisWorks documents; provides complete documentation of ClarisWorks functions; and covers both Macintosh and Windows versions.
Using PowerBuilder 5: Special Edition, 2nd edition
Authors: Chuck A. Wood
Venue:  (1996)

:As the fastest growing client/server development environment, PowerBuilder is drawing a huge demand from users for more in-depth documentation. Que answers that demand with this complete reference, providing a hands-on approach that shows all of the aspects of building PowerBuilder applications.Provides coverage of design techniques, C++ interface, User Objects, and WatCom SQLPlaces a strong emphasis on designing an application-an area where PowerBuilder documentation is very weakCD-ROM includes valuable PowerBuilder libraries and utilities, and all of the source code from the book
ATM Switches, 1st edition
Authors: Edwin R. Coover
Venue:  (1997)

:Although a promising new technology, the ATM standard has certain limitations for implementation into commercial products. This unique book offers a realistic, in-depth evaluation to help you better understand what the new generation of high-speed switches can and cannot deliver. The book discusses the ATM standard, including user requirements, technical challenges, current equipment limitations, and necessary ancillary components to telecommunicate. It also examines high-speed network challenges, presents the first generation of switching systems currently available as commercial products, addresses unfulfilled switching requirements, and poses possible approaches for switch design in the future. By placing this technology within a familiar context and by setting realistic expectations for ATM implementation, this book enables you to answer important questions such as...  Are ATM standards mature enough to warrant investment in ATM products?  Are current ATM products fully capable of performing production tasks?  Can current ATM products be used to build multi-vendor networks?  What operational capabilities are available to manage ATM networks? This book is an excellent reference for introducing communications engineers to high-speed systems/products, helping network analysts understand the implementation issues involved in setting up an ATM network, and assisting network planners in evaluating current ATM offerings in relation to business requirements. It also gives financial analysts and industry watchers a technical and commercial background for making investment decisions. 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
Structured information retrieval in XML documents
Authors: Evangelos Kotsakis
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing (2002)

Query languages that take advantage of the XML document structure already exist. However, the systems that have been developed to query XML data explore the XML sources from a database perspective. This paper examines an XML collection from the viewpoint of Information Retrieval (IR). As such, we view the XML documents as a collection of text documents with additional tags and we attempt to adapt existing IR techniques to achieve more sophisticated search on XML documents. We employ a class of queries that support path expressions and suggest an efficient index, which extends the inverted file structure to search XML documents. This is accomplished by integrating the XML structure in the inverted file by combining the inverted file with a path index. The proposed structure is a lexicographical index, which may be used for the evaluation of queries that involve path expressions. Moreover, this paper discusses a ranking scheme based on both the term distribution and document structure. Some performance remarks are also presented.
Exposing profiles to build trust in a recommender
Authors: John Zimmerman, Kaushal Kurapati
Venue: CHI '02 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (2002)

This paper describes a method for increasing trust in a TV show recommender. We look for people in common between programs users watch and new programs that are highly rated by our TV show recommender. We then present these to users in a conversational sentence, helping them decide if they want to try the new show. This method has been implemeted in our current TV show recommender interface and will be tested in the near future.
SQR
Authors: Ariel Guersenzvaig
Venue: interactions (2002)

SQR is a Web design and development firm focusing on creating fulfilling user experiences. Our diverse clients include academic and cultural institutions, several Dutch banks, book publishers, large global firms, and Holland's most visited museum, The Van Gogh Museum, among others.
International Programming for Microsoft Windows
Authors: David A. Schmitt
Venue:  (1999)

:Designed for programmers and ISVs looking to extend their expertise and capitalize on burgeoning international markets, this book explains how to create localized versions of Windows-based software using Visual C++. Until now no programming reference has comprehensively addressed internationalization issues, but this guide deftly addresses the myriad character-set, interface, and programming issues involved-all in a single volume. Readers get practical, detailed information for utilizing the built-in internationalization and localization support in version 6.0 of Visual C++. Discussion covers everything from conceptual concerns-such as working with non-Roman alphabets and right-to-left (and other) screen orientations-to the specifics of using MFC, ATL, COM, and other tools when developing international products. 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
Modularizing fault-tolerant protocols
Authors: Matti A. Hiltunen, Richard D. Schlichting
Venue: Proceedings of the 5th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: Models and paradigms for distributed systems structuring (1992)

Fault-tolerant protocols such as group multicast and membership are important abstractions that help simplify the development of distributed operating systems with fault-tolerance requirements. Unfortunately, these protocols are often very complicated in their own right, which makes their design and implementation a non-trivial task. If the power of these abstractions is to be effectively utilized in future systems, further efforts to improve our understanding of these protocols and their fundamental properties are needed.Our current research is addressing these issues by applying modularization techniques to fault-tolerant protocols. Our approach is based on identifying orthogonal properties of a given protocol, and then realizing these properties as separate modules within a standard system framework. For example, group multicast protocols are often defined to be some combination of reliability, atomicity, and consistent ordering; reliability is the property that a given message is always delivered, atomicity that either all group members or no group member receives the message, and consistent ordering that all group members see the same (causal or total) order of messages. Our goal is to develop a new model for fault-tolerant protocols that will facilitate such modularization, and hence, make it easier to understand both the properties themselves and their inherent dependencies. This research builds on previous work involving Psync [Pete89] and Consul [Mish91, Mish92].
What kind of knowledge gets deposited in textbooks?
Authors: Bernadette Longo
Venue: Proceedings of IEEE professional communication society international professional communication conference and Proceedings of the 18th annual ACM international conference on Computer documentation: technology & teamwork (2000)

This paper explores how technical writing participates in estimates of value, based on its historical roots in mining and metallurgy going back to T. A. Rickard's first technical writing textbook published in 1908. The paper extends this exploration to include influences on Rickard's understanding of technical writing's social function, such as classical encyclopedic traditions, books of Hermetic secrets, and the first textbook developed by Comenius in the early 17th century. Throughout this history, the works of Francis Bacon provide a backdrop against which to understand how technical writing came to stabilize a scientific knowledge system and how this knowledge system was represented in textbooks.
Predicting enemy force closure with simulation
Authors: Mark R. Grabau, Michael D. Payne
Venue: Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation (2000)

This paper presents a model and an analysis done to predict enemy force closure. The simulation replaces a pencil and ruler method that has been used by Department of Defense planners for over a century. More importantly, the model provides planners with the capability to assess previously "impossible to quantify," yet critical, factors: transportation network constraints, equipment reliability and maintainability, varying task times, nighttime operations, and the effects of air interdiction. War planning implications are discussed and notional results are presented.
Dictionary of Computer Terms, 6th edition
Authors: Bryan Pfaffenberger
Venue:  (1997)

:Webster's New World Dictionary of Computer Terms, 7th Edition covers the latest terms, trends, and technology in the world of PCs, Mac, Windows, and Windows NT, Unix, the Internet, multimedia, telecommunications, virtual reality, and more. Comprehensive and authoritative, it is the perfect resource for home, school, and office. Includes A-Z coverage of all the latest industry terms and jargon, from DVD and push media to link rot and Xeon; extensive Internet and World Wide Web coverage; clear definitions and explanations; and comprehensive cross-reference.
From POPL to the classroom and back
Authors: Matthias Felleisen
Venue: ACM SIGPLAN Notices (2002)

This invited talk presents an overview of the TeachScheme! and DrScheme projects. The former aims at bringing the principles of programming and programming languages into the introductory programming curriculum. The latter is a program development environment that supports the pedagogy and design principles of the TeachScheme! project. Carrying out these projects enriched our research life with many interesting programming language and system design problems.
Getting Started with Microsoft PowerPoint 7.0 for Windows 95, 1st edition
Authors: Lynn Marie Bacon
Venue:  (1996)

:The Wiley Getting Started Series offers step-by-step, hands-on introductions to the most in-demand PC-DOS and Windows applications programs. These interactive tutorials use a learn-by-doing approach that helps anyone master today's most popular software programs. Most packages come with a data disk containing sample files, some with educational versions of the software, and all with a wealth of exercises and screen dumps. Users learn why and when to perform an activity -- rather than how to follow instructions by rote.
A+ Certification: All-in-One Exam Guide, 4th edition
Authors: Michael Meyers
Venue:  (2002)

:A+ certification is one of the strongest areas in certification with over 350,000 certified technicians and it has become the baseline certification for anyone planning a career in IT. Michael Meyers, leading authority on A+ certification, has updated his bestselling A+ All-in-One Certification Exam Guide with a brand new pre-assessment exam that highlights necessary areas of study. Additionally, he has added detailed coverage of the adaptive format and strategies needed to pass. Going above and beyond other exam guides, the All-In-One adds "historical" and "beyond-the-exam" sections in each chapter to assist the reader in understanding key concepts as well as real-life situations so readers not only pass the exam, but understand the technologies. Additionally, Mike Meyers includes: * More than 1,000 illustrations make identifying key computer components a snap * Practice questions at the end of each chapter prepare readers for each subject area of the exam * Full All-in-One Practice Exam Software on CD-ROM with questions not found in the book * LearnKey training video on CD-ROM with Mike Meyers teaching A+ topics About the Author: Michael Meyers (Houston, TX), A+, Network+, and MCSE, is the industry's leading authority on A+ certification. He is the president and founder of Total Seminars, LLC, a major provider of PC and network repair seminars for thousands of organizations throughout the world. Total Seminars is a member of CompTIA, the creator of A+ Certification.
Twin signatures: an alternative to the hash-and-sign paradigm
Authors: David Naccache, David Pointcheval, Jacques Stern
Venue: Proceedings of the 8th ACM conference on Computer and Communications Security (2001)

This paper introduces a simple alternative to the hash-and-sign paradigm, from the security point of view but for signing short messages, called twinning. A twin signature is obtained by signing twice a short message by a signature scheme. Analysis of the concept in different settings yields the following results: We prove that no generic algorithm can efficiently forge a twin DSA signature. Although generic algorithms offer a less stringent form of security than computational reductions in the standard model, such successful proofs still produce positive evidence in favor of the correctness of the new paradigm.We prove in standard model an equivalence between the hardness of producing existential forgeries (even under adaptively chosen message attacks) of a twin version of a signature scheme proposed by Gennaro, Halevi and Rabin and the Flexible RSA Problem.We consequently regard twinning as an interesting alternative to hash functions for eradicating existential forgery in signature schemes.
A basic study on autonomous characterization of square array machining cells for agile manufacturing
Authors: Susumu Fujii, Hiroshi Morita, Takeshi Tanaka
Venue: Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation (2000)

In this study, a manufacturing system locating machining cells in a square array is considered as an agile manufacturing system that can manufacture a variety of kinds of products with varying volumes. Each cell can process any work whose machining operations for each work are divided into some operation groups common to all works. An auction-based algorithm is proposed to select a cell to process a work after its processing of one operation group. Five types of bid are considered and their effects on the characterization of cells, i.e., concentration on the processing of specific work kinds and operation groups, are investigated.