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Developing Online Content: The Principles of Writing and Editing for the Web
Authors: Irene Hammerich, Claire Harrison
Venue:  (2001)

:An all-in-one resource on writing, organizing, and delivering Web content After nearly a decade of experimentation, Web professionals now know that bells and whistles alone do not make a successful Web site. More than anything, strong and seamlessly integrated content attracts customers and keeps them coming back. Coauthored by a new media development expert and an award-winning writer, this book arms professionals with a complete blueprint and a set of best practices for writing, organizing, and delivering Web content. A one-stop resource for Webmasters, content developers, project managers, and editors, it covers all the bases-from key technical considerations to the principles of professional copywriting. Companion Web site includes resource listings and updates.
Summarizing Information: Including CD-ROM "Simsum," Simmulation of Summarizing, for MacIntosh and Windows with Cdrom, 1st edition
Authors: Brigitte Endres-Niggemeyer
Venue:  (1998)

:Automated summarizing functions are urgently needed by Internet users who wish to avoid being overwhelmed by information. This book describes the research on everyday, professional, and computer approaches to content analysis and summarizing.
Syntactic type soundness results for the region calculus
Authors: Christiano Calcagno, Simon Helsen, Peter Thiermann
Venue: Information and Computation (2002)

The region calculus of Tofte and Talpin is a polymorphically typed lambda calculus with annotations that make memory allocation and deallocation explicit. It is intended as an intermediate language for implementing Hindley-Milner typed functional languages such as ML without traditional trace-based garbage collection. Static region and effect inference can be used to annotate a statically typed ML program with memory management primitives. Soundness of the calculus with respect to the region and effect system is crucial to guarantee safe deallocation of regions, i.e., deallocation should only take place for objects, which are probably dead. The original soundness proof by Tofte and Taplin required a complex co-inductive safety relation. In this paper, we present two small-stop operational semantics for the region calculus and prove their type soundness with respect to the region and effect system. Following the standard syntactic approach of Wright, Felleisen, and Harper, we obtain simple inductive proofs. The first semantics is store-less. It is simple and elegant and gives rise to perspicuous proofs. The second semantics provides a store-based model for the region calculus. Albeit slightly more complicated, its additional expressiveness allows us to model operations on references with destructive update. A pure fragment of both small-step semantics is then proven equivalent to the original big-step operational approach t Tofte and Taplin. This leads to an n alternative soundness proof for their evaluation-style formulation.
Optimal stroke-correspondence search method for on-line character recognition
Authors: Jung-pil Shin
Venue: Pattern Recognition Letters (2002)

This paper describes an optimal stroke-correspondence search method that makes possible stroke-order-free on-line character recognition. During the stroke-correspondence search process, conventional individual stroke-information regarding the shape and position of each stroke, and interstroke-information regarding the mutual relationships among strokes are both employed. The optimal path search for stroke-correspondence, being based on an optimal criterion including both intra- and interstroke-information, is systematically carried out. The reasonable level stroke-correspondence search is achieved partially by using the information regarding the actually occurring stroke-order, which does not hinder the framework of stroke-order-free recognition due to its use of statistically stable information. A large improvement in both computational time and recognition-accuracy were achieved in the current experiments.
A Finite State Version of the Kraft--McMillan Theorem
Authors: Frédérique Bassino, Marie-Pierre Béal, Dominique Perrin
Venue: SIAM Journal on Computing (2000)

The main result is a finite-state version of the Kraft--McMillan theorem characterizing the generating sequence of a k-ary regular tree. The proof uses a new construction called the multiset construction, which is a version with multiplicities of the well-known subset construction of automata theory.
A minimax distribution free procedure for mixed inventory model involving variable lead time with fuzzy demand
Authors: Liang-Yuh Ouyang, Jing-Shing Yao
Venue: Computers and Operations Research (2002)

In a recent paper, Ouyang and Wu applied the minimax decision approach to solve a continuous review mixed inventory model in which the lead time demand distribution information is unknown but the annual demand is fixed and given. However, in the practical situation, the annual demand probably incurs disturbance due to various uncertainties. In this article, we attempt to modify Ouyang and Wu's model by considering two fuzziness of annual demand (i.e., fuzzy number of annual demand and statistic-fuzzy number of annual demand) and to investigate a computing schema for the continuous review inventory model in the fuzzy sense. We give an algorithm procedure to obtain the optimal ordering strategy for each case.
Mastering Adobe GoLive 4, 1st edition
Authors: Molly E. Holzschlag, Stephen Romaniello
Venue:  (1999)

:Covering both the Windows and Macintosh versions of GoLive 4, this title explores new features such as a movie editor for QuickTime 3, support for XML, and Actions Plus--12 of the most commonly requested JavaScript actions. The full-color insert showcases results achieved with GoLive and examples of the visual impact of well-designed Web pages.
Perceived gratifications of online media service use among potential users
Authors: Carolyn A. Lin
Venue: Telematics and Informatics (2002)

As competition for audience revenues intensifies in the newly competitive media environment, programmers are hoping to harness the potential of the Internet. The present study explores potential online media service access in light of motivational factors, existing media use level, home communication technology infrastructure and demographic attributes. Findings indicate that perceived gratification expectation dimensions were strong predictors of likely online media service use. Although traditional media use was largely perceived as irrelevant to online media content access, online service was seen as a functional supplement to traditional media instead of a complement or displacement mechanism. An existing communication technology cluster in the home was not found to be predictive of likely online service adoption, as it might not have been deemed "functionally interdependent" of the online service. The younger babyboomers and post-babyboomers fit the profile of a likely online media service adopter, as characterized by their age and educational level.
A survey of design techniques for system-level dynamic power management
Authors: Luca Benini, Alessandro Bogliolo, Giovanni De Micheli
Venue: Readings in hardware/software co-design (2001)

Dynamic power management (DPM) is a design methodology for dynamically reconfiguring systems to provide the requested services and performance levels with a minimum number of active components or a minimum load on such components. DPM encompasses a set of techniques that achieves energy-efficient computation by selectively turning off (or reducing the performance of) system components when they are idle (or partially unexploited). In this paper, we survey several approaches to system-level dynamic power management. We first describe how systems employ power-manageable components and how the use of dynamic reconfiguration can impact the overall power consumption. We then analyze DPM implementation issues in electronic systems, and we survey recent initiatives in standardizing the hardware/software interface to enable software-controlled power management of hardware components.
Distributed Object Management
Authors: M. Tamer Ozsu, Patrick Valduriez, Umeshwar Dayal
Venue:  (1994)

:Distributed Object Management is a ground-breaking collection of 28 contributions on the use of object-oriented technologies in distributed computer systems. In addressing the theory and practice of developing distributed object-oriented database management systems, the authors present the state of the art in distributed object management technology and identify the issues of greatest importance for the future. Product developers, researchers and database technology watchers will find this an indispensable guide.
A Unifying Integral ISS Framework for Stability of Nonlinear Cascades
Authors: Murat Arcak, David Angeli, Eduardo Sontag
Venue: SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (2001)

We analyze nonlinear cascades in which the driven subsystem is integral input-to-state stable (ISS), and we characterize the admissible integral ISS gains for stability. This characterization makes use of the convergence speed of the driving subsystem and allows a larger class of gain functions when the convergence is faster. We show that our integral ISS gain characterization unifies different approaches in the literature which restrict the nonlinear growth of the driven subsystem and the convergence speed of the driving subsystem. The result is used to develop a new observer-based backstepping design in which the growth of the nonlinear damping terms is reduced.
Microsoft Publisher 2000 Step by Step with Cdrom, 1st edition
Authors: SES Publishing, ActiveEducation
Venue:  (1999)

:An insider's in-depth training system for getting up to speed on Microsoft Publisher 2000. Instructs the beginning to advanced user on getting the most out of this popular publishing program. The CD-ROM contains movie style demonstrations of key procedures.
Learning Unix for Mac OS X
Authors: Dave Taylor, Jerry Peek
Venue:  (2002)

Now that your favorite operating system, Mac OS X, has Unix under the hood, it's the perfect time for you to uncover its capabilities. Learning Unix for Mac OS X is designed to teach Unix basics to traditional Macintosh users. This book tells you what to do when you're faced with that empty command line.
The Science of Debugging
Authors: Matthew Telles, Yuan Hsieh
Venue:  (2001)

:The only two eternals of software development are writing the code - and then debugging it. Effective debugging involves far more than walking through code with a debugger. This book recognizes that and sets out to make debugging less baffling, faster, and more effective by providing readers with the knowledge, tips, and techniques needed to rapidly identify, track down, and repair bugs. It goes further by offering practical tips on minimizing bugs and making them easier to find when they do occur. It includes chapters on testing and maintenance as they relate to debugging. Each chapter concludes with a "bug problem" and answers to these problems are provided in the last chapter. Above all, this is a book written by developers who've spent years tracking down bugs and offers practical, hands-on advice to make that task more predictable.
Radio Spectrum Conservation: Radio Engineering Fundamentals, 1st edition
Authors: William Gosling
Venue:  (2000)

:This concise, readable text keeps mathematics to a working minimum, with focus on the practical, it is a companion volume to Gosling's Radio Antennas and Propagation. Professor Gosling distils his experience in industry and teaching to show engineers how to deal with these challenges by describing the process of effective spectrum utilisation, including examination of separation of transmissions by space, time, frequency and sequency. Throughout the book reference is made to real-life examples to illustrate the theory. 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 commutation of finite sets: a challenging problem
Authors: Christian Choffrut, Juhani Karhumäki, Nicolas Ollinger
Venue: Theoretical Computer Science (2002)

We prove that given a set X of two nonempty words, a set Y of nonempty words commutes with X if and only if either Y is a union of powers of X or X,Yt+ for some primitive word t. We also show that the same holds for certain special types of codes, but does not hold, in general, for sets of cardinality at least 4.
How to Make a Square Grid Framework with Cables Rigid
Authors: Harold N. Gabow, Tibor Jordán
Venue: SIAM Journal on Computing (2000)

This paper solves the problem of making a bipartite digraph strongly connected by adding the smallest number of new edges that preserve bipartiteness. A result of Baglivo and Graver shows that this corresponds to making a two-dimensional square grid framework with cables rigid by adding the smallest number of new cables. We prove a min-max formula for the smallest number of new edges in the digraph problem and give a corresponding linear-time algorithm. We generalize these results to the problem of making an arbitrary digraph strongly connected by adding the smallest number of new edges, each of which joins vertices in distinct blocks of a given partition of the vertex set.
Viruses Revealed
Authors: David Harley, Urs E. Gattiker, Robert Slade
Venue:  (2001)

:Defend your system against the real threat of computer viruses with help from this comprehensive resource. Up-do-date and informative,this book presents a full-scale analysis on computer virus protection. Through use of case studies depicting actual virus infestations,this guide provides both the technical knowledge and practical solutions necessary to guard against the increasing threat of virus attacks. The definitive guide to understanding and protecting against computer viruses With the growing number of computer virus infections todayand the billions of dollars spent on clean-up effortsvirus protection has become everybody's business. This detailed guide offers full-scale coverage and analysis of the origin,structure,and technology behind the expanding array of computer viruses,and addresses current methods of detection and prevention. By learning exactly how viruses do what they do,you'll better understand how anti-malware technology worksand be able to evaluate and implement practical solutions to protect your system. You'll get insight into the various types of malicious softwareincluding Trojan horses,macro viruses,and wormsand also learn about virus hoaxes. Real-world case-studies provide you with a first-hand look at viruses in action and the damage they can cause. Thorough,insightful,and lucid,this up-to-date reference is essential reading for everyonefrom network professionals and administrators involved in virus protection to the everyday computer user.
UnixWare 7 System Administration
Authors: Gene Henriksen, Melissa Henriksen
Venue:  (1999)

:In great technical detail, Unixware 7 System Administration presents the latest version of SCO Unixware. Unixware is the definitive operating system resource for SCO engineers and administrators. This comprehensive guide includes critical information on the installation of this new technology and post installation tasks, tips on how to maintain the system under UnixWare 7, including performance tuning, detailed coverage of UnixWare 7's disaster recovery tools, and extensive coverage of migrating to UnixWare 7, including tools and scripts. Each chapter of the book includes troubleshooting notes from initial beta users and the developers at SCO. There are also tips for users familiar with other UNIX variants or NT.
Sharing Expertise: Beyond Knowledge Management
Authors: Mark S. Ackerman, Volker Wulf, Volkmar Pipek
Venue:  (2002)

:The field of knowledge management focuses on how organizations can most effectively store, manage, retrieve, and enlarge their intellectual properties. The repository view of knowledge management emphasizes the gathering, providing, and filtering of explicit knowledge. The information in a repository has the advantage of being easily transferable and reusable. But it is not easy to use decontextualized information, and users often need access to human experts. This book describes a more recent approach to knowledge management, which the authors call "expertise sharing." Expertise sharing emphasizes the human aspects--cognitive, social, cultural, and organizational--of knowledge management, in addition to information storage and retrieval. Rather than focusing on the management level of an organization, expertise sharing focuses on the self-organized activities of the organization's members. The book addresses the concerns of both researchers and practitioners, describing current literature and research as well as offering information on implementing systems. It consists of three parts: an introduction to knowledge sharing in large organizations; empirical studies of expertise sharing in different types of settings; and detailed descriptions of computer systems that can route queries, assemble people and work, and augment naturally occurring social networks within organizations.
B+ trees and indexed sequential files: a performance comparison
Authors: D. S. Batory
Venue: Proceedings of the 1981 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data (1981)

An analytic method for comparing the performance of B+ trees and indexed sequential files is proposed. Preliminary results indicate that indexed sequential files may be more efficient than B+ trees in certain applications.
Work-Preserving Speed-Up of Parallel Matrix Computations
Authors: Victor Y. Pan, Franco P. Preparata
Venue: SIAM Journal on Computing (1995)

Brent's scheduling principle provides a general simulation scheme when fewer processors are available than specified by the fastest parallel algorithm. Such a scheme preserves, under slow-down, the actual number of executed operations, also called work. In this paper we take the complementary viewpoint, and rather than consider the work-preserving slow-down of some fast parallel algorithm, we investigate the problem of the achievable speed-ups of computation while preserving the work of the best-known sequential algorithm for the same problem. The proposed technique, eminently applicable to problems of matrix-computational flavor, achieves its result through the interplay of two algorithms with significantly different features. Analogous but structurally different "interplays" have been used previously to improve the algorithmic efficiency of graph computations, selection, and list ranking. We demonstrate the efficacy of our technique for the computation of path algebras in graphs and digraphs and various fundamental computations in linear algebra. Some of the fundamental new algorithms may have practical value; for instance, we substantially improve the algorithmic performance of the parallel solution of triangular and Toeplitz linear systems of equations and the computation of the transitive closure of digraphs.
E-Business Essentials: Technology and Network Requirements for the Electronic Marketplace, 1st edition
Authors: Mark Norris, Steve West
Venue:  (2000)

:This is the definitive guide to eBusiness. It details the key technical aspects such as security, catalogues and payment systems. It also includes guides on the frequently overlooked areas of supply chain automation and integration of existing systems. The book balances its technical depth with a clear and practical analysis of market models enabling the reader to deploy the available technology effectively and appropriately." "Primarily aimed at planners, engineers, managers and developers in the IT, multimedia and on-line industries. Recommended reading for students in computer science, electrical & electronic engineering, IT and telecommunications.
Graphs with Connected Medians
Authors: Hans-Jürgen Bandelt, Victor Chepoi
Venue: SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics (2002)

The median set of a graph G with weighted vertices comprises the vertices minimizing the average weighted distance to the vertices of G. We characterize the graphs in which, with respect to any nonnegative vertex weights, median sets always induce connected subgraphs. The characteristic conditions can be tested in polynomial time (by employing linear programming) and are immediately verified for a number of specific graph classes.
Incorporating clinical diagnoses in the prediction of performance on computer-based tasks for low vision users
Authors: Julie A. Jacko
Venue: Issue 64 (June 1999) (1999)

Researchers focusing on investigations of human-computer interaction are developing a heightened awareness of the challenges that impede universal access to information technologies. Furthermore, researchers are acknowledging that low vision computer users represent a sizeable portion of the computing community for whom information technologies must be made available if we are to claim successful universal access.The low vision computing community represents a vast array of visual capabilities and limitations. Thus, it has been challenging for researchers to characterize this community in a meaningfully empirical way. As a result, research and design to-date have depicted low vision computer users as a single collection of individuals possessing comparable capabilities, limitations and needs. The danger is that researchers and designers overlook the individual differences in low vision computer users that render each of them more or less able to effectively utilize computing technologies.Investigations of human-computer interactions should include clinical profiles that capture the essence of the visual capabilities of the population in question. This will enable adequate representation of the individual differences that exist between low vision computer users. In addition, we must understand (Jacko & Sears, 1998):&bull; how a person's visual profile drives system configuration choices,&bull; how changes in one's visual profile motivate transitions from one configuration to another, and&bull; how visual profiles drive the interaction strategies that are adopted during task execution.The author, a member of the ACM and Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was awarded a five-year, $500,000 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) to investigate these and related issues in her research titled, "Universal Access to the Graphical User Interface: Design for the Partially Sighted." Jacko was one of twenty National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported researchers to receive the award.The research is a collaborative effort with ophthalmologists from the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute of the University of Miami School of Medicine, the Digital Signal Processing Laboratory at Florida International University, and The Miami Lighthouse for the Blind.