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Effective business intelligence systems
Venue:  (2001)

Explains how to appreciate and use one of the latest MIS technologies to acquire a better understanding of a company's total operations toward the goal of achieving a higher level of competitive advantage.
From NoteCards to the web: the role of Halasz's seven issues
Authors: Kate Dobroth
Venue: ACM Journal of Computer Documentation (JCD) (2001)

The issues that Frank Halasz describes in "Reflections on NoteCards" are relevant to both creating and browsing through hypermedia networks. In order to bring hypermedia out of research labs and into widespread use, it was necessary to first focus on issues related to browsing, specifically, in making information easy to find. It was also necessary to integrate computation with hypermedia in order to create worthwhile applications. Now that users are comfortable accomplishing basic tasks on the Web, there is increasing interest in developing more complex, collaborative applications. For this reason, the issues that involved authoring and support for collaborative work have new relevance today.
The Internet Guide for College-Bound Students, 2nd edition
Authors: Kenneth E. Hartman
Venue:  (1998)

:Expanded advice on how to use the Internet to get the most complete college facts and figures, plus a wealth of insider details that never appear in college viewbooks--even how to earn a college degree on the Internet! 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
Annotating and sketching on 3D web models
Authors: Thomas Jung, Mark D. Gross, Ellen Yi-Luen Do
Venue: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces (2002)

This paper reports on our progress and findings in building a Web annotation system for non-immersive 3D virtual environments. Over the last two years, we developed and tested two systems for collaborating designers to comment on virtual 3D models. Our first system, Redliner [12] lets design team members browse and leave text annotations on surfaces in three-dimensional models. Experience with Redliner, including two user evaluations in different settings, led us to develop Space Pen [13], a second annotation system with improved interaction capabilities. It goes beyond the post-it note metaphor, allowing users to draw in and on the virtual environment.
Computer-Aided Software Engineering: Issues and Trends for the 1990s and Beyond
Authors: Thomas J. Bergin
Venue:  (1993)

:The successful implementation of CASE technology requires a long-term and comprehensive commitment to the pursuit of raising the quality of software design and ultimately improving the information management within the organization. This book shares the valuable experiences and how-to knowledge of the professionals that have invested years of time and study to the development of CASE tools. Expert managers and researchers examine current practices and look toward the future trends of CASE technology. This book covers all aspects of preparing an organization for the successful implementation of a CASE program. Actual case studies, empirical research and theoretical suppositions are used to assess how CASE is being used today and to predict future directions. Thomas J. Bergin is an associate professor of information systems in the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at the American University. He previously received practical experience while serving as a systems analyst with the Veterans Administration. In addition to his research interest in computer-aided software engineering, Dr. Bergin is widely recognized for his indepth research into the history of computing as well as the ethical and social impacts of computer use.
Information Service Excellence through TQM: Building Partnerships for Business Process Reengineering and Continuous Improvement
Authors: Timothy Braithwaite
Venue:  (1994)

:This book presents an application of total quality management (TQM) principles, tools, and techniques to the business of defining, constructing, and delivering automated information systems and services. This book will prepare anyone within an information services (IS) department to understand and fully participate in the quality improvement and reengineering challenges facing corporate America and the government. It also illustrates for IS user management and the quality assurance professional some of the actions an IS provider needs to take in order to support the quality initiatives of the rest of the organization. Author Timothy Braithwaite uses his many years of experience as a systems development and data processing executive to apply the principles of TQM to the development process and to the management practices of the IS department. His approach helps any IS department to easily comprehend this to-the-point primer on how to apply TQM in the typical IS departmental environment. Key topics of the book include a generic treatment of TQM applied to the business of IS; the need to improve the quality and performance of most information systems and services; TQM and the management of the systems development process; how to create an environment for success for quality improvement initiatives; steps for implementing a system of continuous improvement in IS; creating a quality-conscious IS organization; Deming's l4 points applied to the IS organization; identifying and using cost of quality to monitor IS projects and identify areas requiring corrective action; steps for getting an IS/TQM program started and hints for resuscitating one that has floundered.
Evolving rule-based models: a tool for design of flexible adaptive systems
Authors: Plamen P. Angelov
Venue:  (2002)

The objects of System Modelling and control change due to dynamical characteristics, fault development or simply ageing. There is a need to up-date models inheriting useful structure and parameter information. The book gives an original solution to this problem with a number of examples. It treats an original approach to on-line adaptation of rule-based models and systems described by such models. It combines the benefits of fuzzy rule-based models suitable for the description of highly complex systems with the original recursive, non iterative technique of model evolution without necessarily using genetic algorithms, thus avoiding computational burden making possible real-time industrial applications. Potential applications range from autonomous systems, on-line fault detection and diagnosis, performance analysis to evolving (self-learning) intelligent decision support systems.
An Introduction to Quantum Computing Algorithms
Authors: Arthur O. Pittenger
Venue:  (1999)

:The purpose of this monograph is to provide the mathematically literate reader with an accessible introduction to the theory of quantum computing algorithms, one component of a fascinating and rapidly developing area which involves topics from physics, mathematics, and computer science. The author briefly describes the historical context of quantum computing and provides the motivation, notation, and assumptions appropriate for quantum statics, a non-dynamical, finite dimensional model of quantum mechanics. This model is then used to define and illustrate quantum logic gates and representative subroutines required for quantum algorithms. A discussion of the basic algorithms of Simon and of Deutsch and Jozsa sets the stage for the presentation of Grover's search algorithm and Shor's factoring algorithm, key algorithms which crystallized interest in the practicality of quantum computers. A group theoretic abstraction of Shor's algorithms completes the discussion of algorithms. The last third of the book briefly elaborates the need for error-correction capabilities and then traces the theory of quantum error-correcting codes from the earliest examples to an abstract formulation in Hilbert space. This text is a good self-contained introductory resource for newcomers to the field of quantum computing algorithms, as well as a useful self-study guide for the more specialized scientist, mathematician, graduate student, or engineer. Readers interested in following the ongoing developments of quantum algorithms will benefit particularly from this presentation of the notation and basic theory.
The Internet Church
Authors: Walter P. P. Wilson
Venue:  (2000)

:With rapid technological advances and the increasing impact of the internet, the world is literally at our fingertips. Yet many churches have yet to discover how to tap into this powerful resource. The Internet Church shows church leaders how to start from square one in creating an interactive website that can greatly expand the ministry potential of a church. Walter Wilson, an internet expert and committed Christian, describes how technology can enhance evangelism outreach, and challenges leaders to take advantage of unprecedented opportunities in the new digital age. 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
Analysis of Piecewise Linear Dynamical Systems
Authors: N. B. O. L. Pettit
Venue:  (1996)

:This book presents a computational analysis technique for studying piecewise linear systems and extracting information such as global stability and the interaction between the system dynamics and controller logic. A simplified model of an anti-lock braking system with a rule-based controller is analysed to demonstrate the technique.
Paul McFedries' Windows 95, with CD-ROM (Unleashed)
Authors: Paul McFedries
Venue:  (1997)

:Essential for all Windows users, Paul McFedries' Windows 95 Unleashed, Professional Reference Edition takes readers beyond the basics, unleashing all that is Windows-including installation, the Internet, customization, optimization, networking multimedia, plug-and-play and the new features of Windows Messaging System for communications.Updated with additional reference materialCovers the enhancements since the initial release of Windows 95Includes coverage of the Internet Explorer 4.0, bringing the "active desktop" to Windows 95
Automatic VLAN creation based on on-line measurement
Authors: Sean Rooney, Christian Hörtnagl, Jens Krause
Venue: ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (1999)

Virtual LANs (VLANs) permit hosts connected to a LAN switch to be grouped together into logical groups as a function of some management policy rather than simply of their physical location. Commercial LAN switches support a variety of policies based on either physical or logical addresses, protocol types, tagged frames, or user defined rules. The objective of these policies is the same: to reduce the amount of traffic that needs to be routed by grouping together hosts which are likely to communicate with each other into the same virtual LAN. This paper proposes a novel and more direct approach, it shows how VLANs can be created and removed dynamically as a function of the measured traffic patterns across the network. This is both simpler than configuring many static rules and permits the VLAN configuration to adapt to the evolution in the traffic patterns. The latter point is especially important in future LANs supporting peer-to-peer continuous media services, such as IP telephony or video-conferencing, in which clusters of hosts come together to communicate with each other intensively for relatively short periods of time and then form into new clusters.
Spreadsheets: Creating Worksheets
Authors: Robert Dinwiddie
Venue:  (2000)

:World-renowned for its digital expertise, Dorling Kindersley shares its know-how in a series of user-friendly visual guides to all the computer skills you'll ever need. The Essential Computers series provides simple, visual references to all the computer skills you need, from word processing to the internet. Addressing the issues that thousands of new users face every day, the Essential Computers series helps them join the "Information Age." Each book in the series is geared toward solving a specific task by using the most up-to-date software available. Whether the issue is creating spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel or parental control of the internet, each lesson is taught in the simple, step-by-step style that DK made famous. The text is clearly illustrated with pictures pulled directly from computer screens, showing the reader what to expect at each stage.
Laboratory Information Management Systems: Development and Implementation for a Quality Assurance Laboratory
Authors: Mary D. Hinton
Venue:  (1994)

:This practical resource discusses the fundamentals of laboratory information management systems (LIMS) and the steps required to develop a customized system or install an existing system - analyzing in detail the validation aspects of quality assurance and providing specific examples of LIMS validation methods. Written by an acknowledged LIMS expert and research chemist, Laboratory Information Management Systems is an incomparable hands-on guide for analytical chemists; quality and reliability managers and directors; industrial, manufacturing, process, design, cost, chemical, pharmaceutical, petroleum, and environmental engineers; laboratory information systems and management information systems managers; computer scientists; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.
Scheduling periodic task graphs with communication delays
Authors: Anton Riabov, Jay Sethuraman
Venue: ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review (2001)

We consider the problem of finding an optimal assignment of tasks, which constitute a parallel application, to an unlimited number of identical processors. The precedence constraints among the tasks are given in the form of a directed acyclic graph (DAG). We are given processing times for each task and the communication delays between precedence-constrained tasks, which are incurred if the corresponding tasks are executed on different processors. Furthermore, the system must be able to process real-time periodic input with a fixed period. This problem occurs, for example, in multiprocessor scheduling of video processing applications, where each frame has to be processed by a number of software filters, and some filters use data pre-processed by other filters, thus forming a DAG of data dependencies. We formulate several variants of this problem, and briefly discuss some of our results for special precedence graphs.
Playstation Secret Codes
Authors: Brady Games
Venue:  (2000)

:We've removed the veil on all of your favorite PlayStation games. Armed with this guide, nothing stands between you and the most sought-after game secrets, cheats, and passwords!
Information systems for urban planning
Venue:  (2001)

Urban planners who need to design information systems require an understanding of systems analysis, data acquisition and GIS. Planners have moved beyond drawing land use plans, to examining the evolution of urban activities to monitor and analyze urban societal and environmental problems. Novel tools, like using multimedia information systems and GIS, will become an increasingly important, eventually essential part of the job. Both practitioners and students will find this book useful, provided they have an adequate grounding in computing, data analysis and GIS and they are looking to use and design computer systems for developing maps and written statements for city planning.
A technique for fuzzy document binarization
Authors: Nikos Papamarkos
Venue: Proceedings of the 2001 ACM Symposium on Document engineering (2001)

This paper proposes a new method for fuzzy binarization of digital document. The proposed approach achieves binarization using both the image gray-levels and additional local spatial features. Both, gray-level and local features values feed a Kohonen Self-Organized Feature Map (SOFM) neural network classifier. After training, the neurons of the output competition layer of the SOFM define two bilevel classes. Using content of these classes, fuzzy membership functions are obtained that are next used with the Fuzzy C-means (FCM) algorithm in order to reduce the character-blurring problem. The method is suitable for binarization of blurring documents and can be easily modified to accommodate any type of spatial characteristics.
AutoMod product suite: AutoMod tutorial
Authors: Matthew W. Rohrer
Venue: Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation (2000)

Whether designing a new system or modifying an existing one, engineers want to take the guesswork out of finding the best possible solution. While there are many analysis methods for designing industrial systems, simulation remains the method that gives the highest level of confidence a system will work. A well-written simulation model can be a valuable tool in the design, analysis, and operation of manufacturing and other complex systems.The AutoMod&trade; Product Suite from AutoSimulations has been used on 1000s of projects to help engineers and managers make the best decisions possible. AutoMod combines the ease of use of a simulator-type tool with the power and flexibility of a simulation language. As shown in Figure 1, 3-D graphics have been an integral part of the AutoMod product since its inception in 1984.The main focus of the AutoMod simulation product is on manufacturing and material handling systems. AutoMod is flexible enough, though, to use in other non-manufacturing applications, for example, fast food restaurants, rental car lots, airport ticket counters, and container loading in ports.With the release of AutoMod version 10.0 in 2000, graphics in AutoMod are even more realistic than before. AutoMod's new VR Graphics allows modelers to create visually accurate 3D scenes in their models, making them more convincing. VR Graphics in AutoMod allows VRML format files to be imported for entities in the model.The AutoMod Product Suite includes:&bull; AutoMod --- discrete and continuous simulation&bull; Simulator --- manufacturing-oriented interface for fast and easy modeling&bull; AutoStat --- statistical analysis including optimization technology&bull; AutoView --- dynamic walk-though of animation with AVI support&bull; Model Communications Module (MCM) --- to link models to other programsThis tutorial gives an overview of the AutoMod Product Suite, explaining the technical details of the products and how they interrelate to each other.
Maximum RPM, 1st edition
Authors: Ed Bailey
Venue:  (1997)

:The complete reference for the RPM software package that is the heart of the Red Hat Linux distribution. Designed for both the novice and advanced users, Maximum RPM enables anyone to take full advantage of the benefits of building software packages with the Red Hat Package management tools to ensure that they install simply and accurately each and every time.The most requested topic for a book from Linux users, according to Red Hat software s researchRed Hat Package Manager (RPM) enables administators to effectively manage the roll out of consistent software and upgrades to usersWritten by the creators of the software for all levels of users (software developers, computer science students, and Linux system administrators)
The vehicle routing problem
Authors: Paolo Toth, Daniele Vigo
Venue:  (2001)

The Vehicle Routing Problem covers both exact and heuristic methods developed for the VRP and some of its main variants, emphasizing the practical issues common to VRP. The book is composed of three parts containing contributions from well-known experts. The first part covers basic VRP, known more commonly as capacitated VRP. The second part covers three main variants of VRP with time windows, backhauls, and pickup and delivery. The third part covers issues arising in real-world VRP applications and includes both case studies and references to software packages. The book will be of interest to both researchers and graduate-level students in the communities of operations research and matematical sciences. It focuses on a specific family of problems while offering a complete overview of the effective use of the most important techniques proposed for the solution of hard combinatorial problems. Practitioners will find this book particularly usef
Computer modeling of learning processes
Authors: James T. Windham
Venue: Proceedings of the 14th annual Southeast regional conference (1976)

Learning can be said to take place when an entity changes its behavior as a result of past experience. Many attempts have been made at the computer modeling of the learning processes in part or in whole. This paper focuses on those attempts and the theories that were their basis.Mechanisms needed for various functions of learning are compared and contrasted. Several theories are discussed, including learning machines and perceptrons, general pattern recognition, paired associate and serial rote learning and operant and classical conditioning. Also discussed are attempts to program induction and discovery into learning models.Programs are also presented illustrating some of these attempts to model learning processes.
Health Service Businesses on Your Home-Based PC, 1st edition
Authors: Rick Benzel
Venue:  (1993)

:In constant demand from day one of its publication, this bestselling guide has been completely updated. It now covers changes and trends in the medical billing, transcription, and claims assistance professions, cited by Money and Home PC magazines as among the top opportunities for home-based entrepreneurs. Plus, it includes a CD-ROM with sample medical billing software programs, sample medical and transcriptions, and much more.New technologies and billing procedures ... new avenues for self-marketing ... changes wrought by the explosion in managed care ... this new edition explains them all. Edited by Paul and Sarah Edwards, famed experts on working from home, it's packed with proven strategies and thorough answers to frequently asked questions. Profiles and interviews with successful entrepreneurs add special appeal for the booming market that is ready and eager to hop on this money-making bandwagon. 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