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Improved bi-Laplacian mesh fairing
Authors: Robert Schneider, Leif Kobbelt, Hans-Peter Seidel
Venue: Mathematical Methods for Curves and Surfaces: Oslo 2000 (2001)

Algorithms to create fair meshes can be divide d into two categories, depending on whether they are linear or nonlinear. Linear methods have the advantage of being fast, robust and easy to implement, but the results depend highly on the chosen parameterization strategy. Nonlinear methods usually are based on intrinsic surface properties that only depend on the surface geometry and hence lead to surfaces that show high quality fairness and are free from parameterization artifacts. But such methods are considerably slower, more involved to implement, and their convergence depends on the quality of the initial surface that is used in the iterative constructive process. In this paper we present a nonlinear mesh fairing algorithm enabling G1 boundary conditions that lies between the linear and completely intrinsic methods, leading to a construction process that has many advantages of the linear approach while producing a mesh quality that is superior to the results of strictly linear methods.
Automatic generation of computer animation: using AI for movie animation
Venue:  (2002)

The cost of producing animated movies is very high, even with the use of computer graphics techniques. This book reports on the methodologies and the implementation of a software prototype called SWAN, automating the production process by using artificial intelligence techniques. It supports the full life cycle from a children's story in natural language text form to the final animated movie. A cartoon produced by SWAN has been already shown on CCTV (Chinese Central Television Station).
Dissertations
Authors: Ben Shneiderman
Venue: ACM SIGCHI Bulletin (1995)

The following are citations selected by title and abstract as being related to Computer-Human Interaction, resulting from a computer search, using Dialog Information Services, of the Dissertation Abstracts Online database produced by University Microfilms International (UMI). Included are UMI order number, title, author, degree, year, institution; number of pages, Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI) subject category chosen by the author, and abstract. Unless otherwise specified, paper or microform copies of dissertations may be ordered from University Microfilms International, Dissertation Copies, Post Office Box 1764, Ann Arbor, MI 48106, USA; telephone for U.S. (except Michigan, Hawaii, Alaska): 1-800-521-3042, for Canada: 1-800-343-5299. Price lists and other ordering and shipping information are in the introduction to the published DAI An alternate source for copies is sometimes provided. Dissertation titles and abstracts contained here are published with permission of University Microfilms International, publishers of Dissertation Abstracts International (copyright by University Microfilms International), and may not be reproduced without their prior permission.
Displacement structure approach to Cauchy and Cauchy-Vandermonde matrices: inversion formulas and fast algorithms
Authors: Zheng-Hong Yang, Yong-Jian Hu
Venue: Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (2002)

The confluent Cauchy and Cauchy-Vandermonde matrices are considered, which were studied earlier by various authors in different ways. In this paper, we use another way called displacement structure approach to deal with matrices of this kind. We show that the Cauchy and Cauchy-Vandermonde matrices satisfy some special type of matrix equations. This leads quite naturally to the inversion formulas and fast algorithms for matrices of this kind.
Lego Mindstorms: for Dummies
Authors: Michael Meadhra, Peter J. Stouffer
Venue:  (2000)

:Step-by-step photos and robot-ready programs on CD-ROM Get complete instructions for 12 robot projects! The fun and easy way® to build a bodacious bot from those hundreds of pieces LEGO® MINDSTORMS kits let you build all sorts of robots  if you can figure out how to put all those little pieces together and program the microprocessor. That's where this friendly guide comes in. Packed with special projects and programs, it's just what you need to become a robot master, no matter which MindStorms kit or add-ons you own! all this on the bonus CD-ROM Full-color step-by-step photos for projects in the book Ready-to-run RCX programs for projects in the book PaintShop Pro evaluation version Pentium PC, 32MBRAM, 4X CD-ROM. See the CD Appendix for details and complete system requirements. Leading Internet tools Discover how to: Select a MINDSTORMS kit Construct an explorer robot Build a basketball-playing hoop-o-bot Assemble a Star Wars Droid Design and program your own bots Get smart!
The Cambridge Quintet: A Work of Scientific Speculation, 8900th edition
Authors: John L. Casti
Venue:  (1998)

:Imagine, if you will, one stormy summer evening in 1949, as novelist and scientist C. P. Snow, Britain's distinguished wartime science advisor and author of The Two Cultures, invites four singular guests to a sumptuous seven-course dinner at his alma mater, Christ's College, Cambridge, to discuss one of the emerging scientific issues of the day: Can we build a machine that could duplicate human cognitive processes? The distinguished guest list for Snow's dinner consists of physicist Erwin Schrodinger, inventor of wave mechanics; Ludwig Wittgenstein, the famous twentieth-century philosopher of language, who posited two completely contradictory theories of human thought in his lifetime; population geneticist/science popularizer J. B. S. Haldane; and Alan Turing, the mathematician/codebreaker who formulated the computing scheme that foreshadowed the logical structure of all modern computers. Capturing not only their unique personalities but also their particular stands on this fascinating issue, Casti dramatically shows what each of these great men might have argued about artificial intelligence, had they actually gathered for dinner that midsummer evening.
A systematic approach to relational database theory
Authors: Tomasz Imielinski, Witold Lipski,  Jr.
Venue: Proceedings of the 1982 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data (1982)

In an attempt to eliminate motivational inconsistencies, we propose a new approach to relational database theory. Basically, a database schema is treated as a relational view defined over certain atomic, selfexplainable relations, constituting what we call a conceptual schema. In this new framework, we revisit some basic notions of the relational database theory, such as dependencies and schema equivalence. We point out a fundamental difference between functional dependencies, which we treat as constraints over the conceptual schema, and multivalued and join dependencies, which we treat as constraints over the database schema, and which are simply consequences of the way database relations are constructed from conceptual relations. The separation of the database schema from the conceptual schema makes it possible to give a clear definition of a semantics of a database state. It also provides a natural framework to consider equivalence of database schemata.
A new implicit representation of a planar rational curve with high order singularity
Authors: Falai Chen, Tom Sederberg
Venue: Computer Aided Geometric Design (2002)

This paper presents a new representation for the implicit equation of a planar rational curve with high order singularity by using moving curves technique. The new representation is the determinant of a matrix which is less than one half the size of the conventional expression based on the Bezout's resultant. An efficient algorithm to compute the new representation is derived, and comparisons for the computational costs between various resultant based methods are made. The results show that the implicit representation developed in this paper is not only more compact but also much more efficient to compute the implicit equation of the rational curve than previous methods.
Management Information Systems: Solving Business Problems with Information Technology, 3rd edition
Authors: Gerald V. Post, David L. Anderson
Venue:  (2002)

:Management Information Systems,taught in schools of business either at the undergraduate level in the Junior/Senior year,or at the MBA-level. To better motivate students,this new text focuses on how managers apply MIS to solve business problems and improve their organizations. Instead of emphasizing technology and definitions,Post/Anderson focuses on learning to use information technology to improve management. One overriding question throughout the text is: How can managers improve their organizations' performance in the business environment? One primary theme of Post/Anderson is integrating information. The text illustrates how an information system can capture,transmit,and utilize information from diverse locations,different departments,and in various formats to give managers access to the information that leads to better decision making for solving problems and improving the organization.
Special Edition Using Visual InterDev 6, 6th edition
Authors: Steve Banick, Mike Morrison
Venue:  (2000)

:Book Description SE Using Visual InterDev X provides the reader with an easy to use reference to the newest version of Microsoft s Visual InterDev. The book teaches Internet application development with Visual InterDev in a steady, yet concise pace. After presenting foundational information for developing with Visual InterDev, the book quickly progresses into more advanced topics such as Dynamic HTML, scriptlets, ActiveX controls, database development, security, administration, optimization, and more.After only a year i n release, Microsoft Visual InterDev is used by over 225,000 professional developers worldwide, making it the leading Web application development tool, with nearly twice as many users as its nearest competitorSE Using Visual InterDev goes beyond most tutorials by providing expanding coverage of hot topics such as dynamic HTML (DHTML), scriptlets, ADO, ActiveX components creation and more
Microcomputer Applications for Field Construction Projects, 1st edition
Authors: Mike C. Tidwell
Venue:  (1992)

:More and more,microcomputers are being used both on and off-site to track schedules,costs,and project sequences in the construction industry. Now,for the first time,the construction manager,inspector,and engineer have a practical guide to help them select the correct hardware and software for specific applications. From deciding whether to computerize a job site,to evaluating the current state of the art in hardware technology,to demonstrating job-related software applications,the book takes the guesswork out of using a microcomputer in construction projects. It also gives practical guidelines for setting up a computer on site,explores security concerns and information protection techniques,and advises on how to protect computers from harsh field conditions. Whether new to computers or more experienced,all construction professionals will find useful tips and techniques for maximizing their microcomputer operation.
Newton's Method in Floating Point Arithmetic and Iterative Refinement of Generalized Eigenvalue Problems
Authors: Françoise Tisseur
Venue: SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (2000)

We examine the behavior of Newton's method in floating point arithmetic, allowing for extended precision in computation of the residual, inaccurate evaluation of the Jacobian and unstable solution of the linear systems. We bound the limiting accuracy and the smallest norm of the residual. The application that motivates this work is iterative refinement for the generalized eigenvalue problem. We show that iterative refinement by Newton's method can be used to improve the forward and backward errors of computed eigenpairs.
Incomplete Information: Structure, Inference, Complexity
Authors: Stephane P. Demri, Ewa S. Orlowska
Venue:  (2002)

:This monograph presents a systematic, exhaustive and up-to-date overview of formal methods and theories for data analysis and inference inspired by the concept of rough set. The book studies structures with incomplete information from the logical, algebraic and computational perspective. The formalisms developed are non-invasive in that only the actual information is needed in the process of analysis without external sources of information being required. The book is intended for researchers, lecturers and graduate students who wish to get acquainted with the rough set style approach to information systems with incomplete information.
Sap Bw: A Step-by-Step Guide
Authors: Biao Fu, Henry Fu
Venue:  (2002)

From the Book:Book Objective This book is a how-to guide. It uses step-by-step procedures with screen captures to illustrate SAP BW functionalities. This book focuses on the core SAP BW technology. It discusses other SAP technologies, such as Basis, ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming), and ALE (Application Link Enabling) when necessary. It will not discuss 3rd-party reporting tools and BAPI (Business Application Programming Interface). Intended Readers This book is written for BW implementation teams and those who need a product to understand data warehousing concept. Prerequisites BW is built on Basis 3-tier architecture and coded in ABAP language. ALE and BAPI are used to link BW with SAP systems (R/3 or BW) and non-SAP systems. This book, however, does not require readers have knowledge in these areas. BW has made the development of a data warehouse so easy that people with experience in database design and computer programming can use it. Book Structure As shown in the table of contents, this book is organized into two parts: Part I contains guided tours. We start from a simplified business scenario, then go on to illustrates how to create an InfoCube, load data into the InfoCube, check accuracy of the loaded data, create queries to generate reports, and finally how to manage user authorization. Part II contains advanced topics. There we discuss InfoCube design techniques, aggregates, multi-cubes, operational data store (ODS), Business Content, generic R/3 data extraction, data maintenance, performance tuning, and object transport. In the appendices, we introduce ASAP(AcceleratedSAP) for BW, one of the derivatives of the ASAP implementation methodology developed by SAP, and give an overview of Basis 3-tier architecture.
MAC OS X for Dummies
Authors: Robert Le Vitus, Bob LeVitus, Shelly Brisbin
Venue:  (2000)

:Get a handle on the new Dock, the revamped Finder, and more Get up to speed with Mac OS X in no time The fun and easy way to take Mac OS X to the max Whether you're a longtime Mac user or you just bought your first Mac, let renowned Mac expert Bob LeVitus show you how to polish your Apple. From Desktop basics to more advanced tweaks, you'll soon be zipping along on Apple's powerful new Unix-fueled operating system. Discover how to: Navigate the OS X desktop Take advantage of new customization features Capitalize on network sharing tools Get connected to the Internet fast Save time with simple tips The Dummies Way Explanations in plain English "Get in, get out" information Icons and other navigational aids Tear-out cheat sheet Top ten lists A dash of humor and fun Get smart! Sign up for daily eTips. Choose from among 33 different subject categories Get news you can use on everything from money to health to computers
Official Guide to CorelDRAW! 7 for Windows 95
Authors: Foster Coburn, Peter McCormick
Venue:  (1996)

:This official guide details all the new features and innovations of CorelDRAW! 7. Readers learn how to use the graphics features of the program to create artwork quickly and effectively. The author provides step-by-step instructions,and a multitude of illustrations to teach basic drawing techniques as well as more complex skills and special effects.
A new fast message passing communication system for multiprocessor workstation clusters
Authors: Zheng Weimin, Shen Jun, Wang Ju
Venue: Progress in computer research (2001)

In this paper, a fast message passing communication architecture (FMP) is proposed in order to reduce the software overhead of communication, which has been a great impediment to the good performance of workstation clusters. A FMP system is implemented over the SUN Ultra2-Myrinet platform. Measurements show that this implementation has achieved a one-way latency of 11.2us for one-byte packets in network communication, and only 4.9us in local communication. Its bandwidth can reach as high as 338Mb/s for 8KB packets in network communication, and more than 770Mb/s in local message passing. These results tell us that FMP can really exploit the performance of supercomputers and high-speed networks. Local communication is implemented through shared memory within a single host, while the methods to decrease overheads of network communication depend on user-level communication protocol, pipeline transmission, credit flow control and multithreading. Furthermore, the whole system provides the interface for both network and local communication.
Shared visiting in EQUATOR city
Authors: Ian MacColl, Dave Millard, Cliff Randell, Anthony Steed, Barry Brown, Steve Benford, Matthew Chalmers, Ruth Conroy, Nick Dalton, Areti Galani, Chris Greenhalgh, Danius Michaelides, Tom Rodden, Ian Taylor, Mark Weal
Venue: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Collaborative virtual environments (2002)

In this paper we describe an infrastructure and prototype system for sharing of visiting experiences across multiple media. The prototype supports synchronous co-visiting by physical and digital visitors, with digital access via either the World Wide Web or 3-dimensional graphics.
Introduction to Database Systems, 6th edition
Authors: C. J. Date
Venue:  (1994)

:The sixth edition of this well-respected text/reference--which has been almost completely rewritten--continues to be the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of database technology currently available. Readers will gain a strong working knowledge of the overall structure, concepts, and objectives of database systems and will become familiar with the theoretical principles underlying the construction of such systems.
Learning Carbon
Authors: Troy Mott
Venue:  (2001)

:Carbon is one of two APIs (Application Programmer Interfaces) that Macintosh&reg; programmers can use to write applications that run native in Mac&reg; OS X. Using Carbon, you don't have to rewrite your Mac OS programs entirely to get them to take advantage of the new features in Mac OS X. Instead, all you have to rewrite is the 10 to 20 percent of the code that can't be translated to OS X. For C programmers, Apple's Carbon is the essential building block for applications on Mac OS X. With Carbon, you can use simple, traditional C interfaces to create world-class applications for a world-class operating system. Learning Carbon is designed to get you programming right away in Carbon. After orienting you with a detailed tour of a Carbon application, the book walks you through the entire process of designing and creating a complete Carbon application called Moon Travel Planner. Along the way, you'll be introduced to two pivotal development tools: Project Builder and Interface Builder. You'll learn key concepts about Carbon and Mac OS X programming, including event management, resource handling, and bundle anatomy. And you'll get direct, hands-on instruction on how to implement essential application tasks, such as managing windows, printing documents, opening and saving files, creating and responding to menu commands, providing user help, and organizing your application for easy localization in multiple countries and languages. After finishing this book, you'll be ready to start writing your own Carbon applications. Written by Apple insiders with access to engineers deeply involved in creating Mac OS X, Learning Carbon brings youinformation that's not available anywhere else, to get you in on the ground floor of the exciting new Mac OS X application development market.
A Generalization of Resource-Bounded Measure, with Application to the BPP vs. EXP Problem
Authors: Harry Buhrman, Dieter van Melkebeek, Kenneth W. Regan, D. Sivakumar, Martin Strauss
Venue: SIAM Journal on Computing (2000)

We introduce resource-bounded betting games and propose a generalization of Lutz's resource-bounded measure in which the choice of the next string to bet on is fully adaptive. Lutz's martingales are equivalent to betting games constrained to bet on strings in lexicographic order. We show that if strong pseudorandom number generators exist, then betting games are equivalent to martingales for measure on E and EXP. However, we construct betting games that succeed on certain classes whose Lutz measures are important open problems: the class of polynomial-time Turing-complete languages in EXP and its superclass of polynomial-time Turing-autoreducible languages. If an EXP-martingale succeeds on either of these classes, or if betting games have the "finite union property" possessed by Lutz's measure, one obtains the nonrelativizable consequence $\mbox{BPP} \neq \mbox{EXP}$. We also show that if $\mbox{EXP} \neq \mbox{MA}$, then the polynomial-time truth-table-autoreducible languages have Lutz measure zero, whereas if $\mbox{EXP} = \mbox{BPP}$, they have measure one.
MCSE Windows 2000 Professional Exam Cram
Authors: Dan Balter, Dan Holme, Laurie Salmon
Venue:  (2000)

:Provides step-by-step instructions on key topics for the successful implementation and integration of Windows 2000 Professional. Contains 100% exam-focused content for the Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional exam (70-210), providing readers the skills they need to upgrade their certification to the Windows 2000 track. Compares Windows 2000 Professional to its predecessor, Windows NT 4.0 Workstation. Windows 2000 has many new features that must be learned by both the new user and experienced user with the prior Windows operating systems 3.51 and 4.0.
A flexible remote user authentication scheme using smart cards
Authors: Cheng-Chi Lee, Min-Shiang Hwang, Wei-Peng Yang
Venue: ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review (2002)

In 1999, Hwang and Li proposed a new user authentication scheme using smart cards. The scheme does not need any password or verification table. Later, Sun proposed an efficient remote use authentication scheme to improve the efficiency of the Hwang-Li scheme. However, these two schemes do not allow users to freely choose and change their passwords. In this article, we shall propose a simple and efficient remote user authentication scheme that allows users to freely choose and change their passwords without significantly increasing the computation cost.
Interactive control of avatars animated with human motion data
Authors: Jehee Lee, Jinxiang Chai, Paul S. A. Reitsma, Jessica K. Hodgins, Nancy S. Pollard
Venue: ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) (2002)

Real-time control of three-dimensional avatars is an important problem in the context of computer games and virtual environments. Avatar animation and control is difficult, however, because a large repertoire of avatar behaviors must be made available, and the user must be able to select from this set of behaviors, possibly with a low-dimensional input device. One appealing approach to obtaining a rich set of avatar behaviors is to collect an extended, unlabeled sequence of motion data appropriate to the application. In this paper, we show that such a motion database can be preprocessed for flexibility in behavior and efficient search and exploited for real-time avatar control. Flexibility is created by identifying plausible transitions between motion segments, and efficient search through the resulting graph structure is obtained through clustering. Three interface techniques are demonstrated for controlling avatar motion using this data structure: the user selects from a set of available choices, sketches a path through an environment, or acts out a desired motion in front of a video camera. We demonstrate the flexibility of the approach through four different applications and compare the avatar motion to directly recorded human motion.