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How to Expand and Upgrade PCs, 1st edition
Authors: Preston Gralla, Jim Minatel, Rick Kughen
Venue:  (1999)

:How To Expand And Upgrade PCs focuses on upgrades and add-ons. It uses the highly visual layout of the How to Use series combined with the look of the incredibly successful How it Works series to make upgrading a snap. It goes beyond most hardware books by addressing more than just the nuts, bolts, and techie connections of hardware. Learn the Windows and application setup for your new hardware, and how to use it once you have it installed. This unique approach brings together all of the pre-purchase, installation, and usage issues a user will face.
MCSE NT Workstation 4.0 Ace It!; Exam, 1st edition
Authors: Mark B. Cooper, Rigby
Venue:  (1998)

:Get the author's unique insights into what you really need to know and how the exam really works. You can easily add points to your score! Find out what you know and what you don't know at the start of each chapter. Then skip ahead to save hours - even days - of your valuable time. Test what you learned and find out what you need to review before moving on. Check references to the chapter content as needed. Gain experience and confidence with answers and analyses, question by question ... plus references to specific chapters for review as needed.
Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE symposium on Volume visualization and graphics
Venue: Symposium on Volume Visualization (2002)

We are pleased to welcome you to the 2002 Symposium on Volume Visualization and Graphics in Boston, Massachusetts. The current event marks the seventh installment of the symposium since the 1989 Workshop at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The VolVis Symposium has been held biannually in conjunction with the IEEE Visualization Conference since 1990. The VolVis Symposium is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Graphics in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH and represents one of the leading meeting forums in the domains of volume rendering, volume modeling, and vol-ume visualization. The VolVis Symposium proceedings have emerged as a major publication of state-of-the-art volume visual-ization research. We are please that, for the first time in the history of the VolVis Symposium, this year's proceedings have been printed in full-color on high-quality paper.Keynote EventThis year's keynote speaker is Ken Perlin, Professor of Computer Science at New York University and Director of the New York University Media Research Laboratory and Center for Advanced Technology. An abstract of his presentation "Procedurally Generated Volumes" appears in these proceedings.PapersOur call for papers yielded 36 high quality paper submissions. These were reviewed by a field of expert reviewers, composed of the Program Committee and a number of external domain experts. We wish to thank all the reviewers for their critical paper evaluations and their many suggestions for improvements. Their dedicated assistance was instrumental in the hard task to select the 16 top papers you find in these proceedings. These papers span a wide gamut of volume visualization research, such as the rendering of unstructured and structured grids as well as time-varying volumes, texture-mapping hardware accelerated rendering, rendering with haptic feedback, and volume reconstruction and triangulation.DVD ProceedingsThe proceedings this year are accompanied by a DVD-ROM that contains electronic versions of the papers as well as submitted animations.
Network Administrator: NetWare 4.1
Authors: Ted L. Simpson, Mark Ciampa, David Auer
Venue:  (1997)

:Part of the new Course Technology networking series, this text teaches students to build a network from the ground up with a running case throughout the text.
The Wired Professor: A Guide to Incorporating the World Wide Web in College Instruction
Authors: Anne B. Keating, Joseph Hargitai
Venue:  (1999)

:The Internet is rapidly becoming a necessary and natural part of the way we access information. The Wired Professor will provide instructors with the necessary skills and intellectual framework for effectively working with and understanding this new tool and medium.Written for teachers with limited experience on the Internet, The Wired Professor is a collegial, hands-on guide on how to build and manage instruction-based web pages and sites. In addition to practical tips, this book incorporates discussions on a variety of topics from the history of networks, publishing, and computers to hotly debated issues such as the pedagogical challenges posed by computer-aided instruction and distance learning. These discussions are geared to the non-computer savvy reader and written with an eye to allowing instructors to maximize use of the Internet as a creative medium, a research resource of unparalleled dimension, and a community-building tool.The Wired Professor comes with a companion web site that contains additional material, such as discussions on design and links to the resources discussed in the book (http: //www.nyupress.nyu.edu/professor.html).
Incorporating Software Visualization in the Design of Intelligent Diagnosis Systems for User Programming
Authors: Haider A. Ramadhan, Fadi Deek, Khalil Shihab
Venue: Artificial Intelligence Review (2001)

Program diagnosis systems were developed to help users solve programming problems. By providing guidence on errors and misconceptions, these systems can help the users in writing programs and understanding their dynamic behavior. Features of software visualization which aim at providing visual and concrete depictions to the abstractions and operations of programs have also shown to be making programs more understandable. The main theme of this paper is to asses the usefulness of incorporating features of software visualization into the design of program diagnosis systems intended for novices. We report an empirical evaluation to assess the effectiveness of supporting visualization features during problem solving. The system used in the evaluation integrates visualzation and immediacy features and supports a model-tracing based approach to program diagnosis. Unlike other similar systems, our prototype system supports a more flexible style of interaction by increasing the grain size of diagnosis to a complete programming statement. The evaluation reported here seems to suggest that when supported with visualization features, systems for program diagnosis tend to be more effective in helping the users during problem solving.
Energy-aware routing in MANETs: analysis and enhancements
Authors: Ahmed Safwat, Hossam Hassanein, Hussein Mouftah
Venue: Proceedings of the 5th ACM international workshop on Modeling analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems (2002)

Wireless mobile ad hoc stations have limited battery capacity. Hence, ad hoc routing protocols ought to be energy conservative. However, The simulation studies carried out for table-driven and on-demand ad hoc routing protocols fall short of examining essential power-based performance metrics, such as average node and network lifetime, energy-based protocol fairness, average dissipated energy per protocol, and standard deviation of the energy dissipated by each individual node. In this paper, we present a thorough energy-based performance study of power-aware routing protocols for wireless mobile ad hoc networks. Our energy consumption model is based on a detailed implementation of the IEEE 802.11 physical layer convergence protocol (PLCP) and medium access control (MAC) sublayers. To our best knowledge, this is the first such detailed performance study. Moreover, we propose some novel enhancements to routing in wireless ad hoc networks that enables the admission of flows without jeopardizing the limited energy of the wireless stations.
The line drawing editor, an experiment in computer vision
Authors: John F. Jarvis
Venue: ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics (1976)

A computer program, the Line Drawing Editor (LDE), that allows convenient modification of computer representations of simple line drawings has been designed and implemented. The distinguishing feature of the LDE from the multitude of interactive graphics programs that accomplish the same function is the use of a computer controlled TV camera for input and program control rather than conventional interactive input devices such as light pens or data tablets. A graphical editing language allows the LDE user to indicate, by marking the drawing in appropriate fashion, the changes that are to be made. The drawing, which was generated on a hardcopy output device, with the added edit information is placed in front of the camera. In successive phases the LDE computes a two dimensional homogeneous transformation relating the viewed drawing and its computer description, locates the lines added to the drawing, parses the added lines according to the edit language and finally uses this information to update the drawing description.
Imaged Document Text Retrieval Without OCR
Authors: Chew Lim Tan, Weihua Huang, Zhaohui Yu, Yi Xu
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (2002)

We propose a method for text retrieval from document images without the use of OCR. Documents are segmented into character objects. Image features, namely, the Vertical Traverse Density (VTD) and Horizontal Traverse Density (HTD), are extracted. An n-gram based document vector is constructed for each document based on these features. Text similarity between documents is then measured by calculating the dot product of the document vectors. Testing with seven corpora of imaged textual documents in English and Chinese as well as images from UW1 database confirms the validity of the proposed method.
Gradient-Particle Solutions of Fokker--Planck Equations for Noisy Delay Bifurcations
Authors: R. Kuske
Venue: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (2000)

A gradient particle method is used to compute probability densities for processes with delay bifurcations that are sensitive to very small noise. The method is particularly useful for computing the probability density in the transition region, where asymptotic approximations may not be valid. For a one-dimensional steady bifurcation problem and a two-dimensional FitzHugh--Nagumo model, we solve the Fokker--Planck equation (FPE) and compare the results with direct simulations and asymptotic approximations.
Microsoft Office XP Inside Out
Authors: Michael Halvorson, Michael J. Young
Venue:  (2001)

:Microsoft Office XP Inside Out is the foremost reference to Office XP for PC super users. Complete in one volume, this book gives you a thorough overview of Microsofts popular productivity suite and its new knowledge-sharing features and functions. The book provides the information advanced user really need with no beginner content included. Then it delivers in-depth information about each major Office XP application and tool, including Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint®, Microsoft Access, Outlook®, Publisher, FrontPage®, and Microsoft Small Business tools. The book also shows how to integrate Office XP applications by sharing data, using the Office Binder program, and other techniques, and it demonstrates how to use the Microsoft Visual Basic® development system to master Office XP by building macros, using variables, operators, and functions to manage operations, using control structures to modify the user interface, and working with application objects. Throughout the book youll find a wealth of timesaving Office tips and tricks, troubleshooting techniques, and indexes, plus a CD-ROM that holds an electronic version of the books text, handy Web links, sample macros and code, tutorials, utilities, and additional third party software. This is the authoritative handbook youll keep by your computer and use whenever youre stuck or stumped!
Data Abstraction and Problem Solving with C++: Walls and Mirrors, 2nd edition
Authors: Frank M. Carrano, Paul Helman, Robert Veroff
Venue:  (1997)

:Focusing on data abstraction and data structures, the second edition of this very successful book continues to emphasize the needs of both the instructor and the student. The book illustrates the role of classes and abstract data types (ADTs) in the problem-solving process as the foundation for an object-oriented approach. Throughout the next, the distinction between specification and implementation is continually stressed. The text covers major applications of ADTs, such as searching a flight map and performing an event-driven simulation. It also offers early, extensive coverage of recursion and uses this technique in many examples and exercises. Overall, the lucid writing style, widespread use of examples, and flexible coverage of material have helped make this a leading book in the field.
EMBASSI: multimodal assistance for universal access to infotainment and service infrastructures
Authors: Thomas Kirste, Thorsten Herfet, Michael Schnaider
Venue: Proceedings of the 2001 EC/NSF workshop on Universal accessibility of ubiquitous computing: providing for the elderly (2001)

EMBASSI is a joint research project with 19 partners from industry and academia. Its focus is the development new paradigms and architectures for the intuitive interaction with technical infrastructures of the everyday life, such as home entertainment and control, public terminals, and car infotainment systems. As a so-called focus project, EMBASSI is funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and addresses innovative methods of man-machine interaction, where "machine" explicitly refers to technical systems consisting of a variety of distributed, networked devices.EMBASSI aims at enhancing the interaction with these infrastructures by providing intelligent assistance, multimodal interaction, and anthropomorphic user interfaces within a unified framework. Technical development in EMBASSI is based on a user centered approach, with accompanying psychological and ergonomics research.A primary objective of the project is to establish an "EMBASSI layer" that extends recently developed networking standards like HAVi, UPnP, or Konnex towards user-centered, goal-based interaction by merging experiences from knowledge based AI systems with those coming from device oriented command and control architectures. This layer will enable the unification of interaction paradigms and will assist the user by enabling "natural" or "intuitive" commands instead of forcing the user to think in terms of device functions.
Algebraic Two-Level Preconditioners for the Schur Complement Method
Authors: L. M. Carvalho, L. Giraud, P. Le Tallec
Venue: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (2000)

The solution of elliptic problems is challenging on parallel distributed memory computers since their Green's functions are global. To address this issue, we present a set of preconditioners for the Schur complement domain decomposition method. They implement a global coupling mechanism, through coarse-space components, similar to the one proposed in [Bramble, Pasciak, and Shatz, Math. Comp., 47 (1986), pp. 103--134]. The definition of the coarse-space components is algebraic; they are defined using the mesh partitioning information and simple interpolation operators. These preconditioners are implemented on distributed memory computers without introducing any new global synchronization in the preconditioned conjugate gradient iteration. The numerical and parallel scalability of those preconditioners are illustrated on two-dimensional model examples that have anisotropy and/or discontinuity phenomena.
Geek law
Authors: Lawrence Rosen
Venue: Linux Journal (2002)

Allocation of the Risks
A heuristic for combining fuzzy results in multimedia databases
Authors: M. V. Ramakrishna, S. Nepal, P. K. Srivastava
Venue: Proceedings of the 13th Australasian database conference - Volume 5 (2002)

This paper deals with the issue of combining fuzzy results obtained from two individual systems in multimedia query processing. Consider a query such as retrieve images similar to I1 by color AND with associated text flower. Suppose we have a color subsystem which can return a sorted list of images based on similarity with I1 and a text subsystem which can return a sorted list of images based on similarity with flower. Our task is to combine these two results. In other words, we need to evaluate the fuzzy combining function AND, giving a sorted list of the images.Fagin has proved that the probabilistic complexity of the problem is almost linear (Fagin 1996), and our multi-step algorithm (Nepal & M. V. Ramakrishna 1999) is an optimal uniform algorithm (Fagin, Lotem & Naor 2001). In view of this inherent limitation, we investigated a non-uniform heuristic approach. In this paper, we discuss the problems of processing such queries, also referred to as aggregation queires in multimedia databases. The experimental results presented show that our "minimum depth first search" heuristic approach out-performs other uniform algorithms in general and by over 90% when the distribution of similarity values is not uniform.
Toms Hardware Guide: High Performance PC Secrets
Authors: Thomas Pabst, Larry Barber, Frederick Gross, Michael Desmond
Venue:  (1998)

:No inflated manufacturer claims, nor 'boosted' benchmarks, just real-world facts and assembly tips for building the ultimate PC! Get the real performance figures for processors from Intel, Cyrix, IBM and AMD! Understand the performance impact of different system bus and chip set designs. Fine tune every BIOS setting for maximum performance. Discover the fastest disk drive/controller combinations. Choose the best video standard for your application -- AGP or PCI? Determine which type of memory to install. Get the fastest I/O possible and crank up the speed up your network and Internet connections. This is a 'Pentiums or better' title! Only the newest and fastest technologies are discussed -- there is zero legacy system information in this book. If you need to know how to repair or maintain an older 386 or 486 system-- buy a different book! Buy this book if you need to understand how to design, assemble and fine tune modern high performance PCs. You learn to unlock the full performance potential of state-of-the-art hardware. Make Windows, Windows NT or Unix run faster and more efficiently than ever before. Use Ziff Davis' WinBench and Winstone to test your system and compare the performance of your system to those built by our expert authors.
CCNP Remote Access Exam Cram
Authors: Craig Dennis, Eric Quinn
Venue:  (2000)

From the Book:Welcome to the CCNP RemoteAccess Exam Cram! This book aims to help you get ready to take-and pass-the Cisco career certification test 640-505, "Remote Access." This Introduction explains Cisco's certification programs in general and talks about how the Exam Cram series can help you prepare for Cisco's career certification exams. Exam Cram books help you understand and appreciate the subjects and materials you need to pass Cisco career certification exams. Exam Crams are aimed strictly at test preparation and review. They do not teach you everything you need to know about a topic (like the reasons for dial-backup or electing interesting packet types). Instead, we present and dissect the questions and problems we've found that you're likely to encounter on a test. We've worked from Cisco's own training materials, preparation guides, and tests, and from a battery of third-party test preparation tools. Our aim is to bring together as much information as possible about Cisco certification exams. Nevertheless, to completely prepare yourself for any Cisco test, we recommend that you begin your studies with some instructor-led classroom training. You should also pick up and read one of the many study guides available from Cisco or third-party vendors, including The Coriolis Group's Exam Prey series. We also strongly recommend that you install, configure, and fool around with the Internetwork Operating System (IOS) software or environment that you'll be tested on, because nothing beats hands-on experience and familiarity when it comes to understanding the questions you're likely to encounter on a certification test. Book learning is essential, but hands-on experience is the best teacher of all!
Harnessing MicroStation: Version 5, 1st edition
Authors: G.V. V. Krishnan, Robert A. Rhea, James E. Taylor
Venue:  (1994)

:From drawing basics to advanced techniques, Harnessing MicroStation puts the reins in your hands and enables you to master MicroStation version 5.0 Featuring comprehensive, easy-to-follow exercises, you'll learn, step-by-step, all of the essential skills and features of MicroStation version 5.0 including: drawing and editing, customizing, programming with user commands and MDL, and working in 3D.
WordPerfect 6.0 for Windows (QuickStart), 2nd edition
Authors: Que Corporation, Elden Nelson, George Beinhorn
Venue:  (1994)

:This book is designed as the ideal self-paced "teach yourself" training tool for users new to WordPerfect 6 for Windows. The book covers all the basics of WordPerfect in a step by step approach. Troubleshooting sections called "If You Have Problems" are placed throughout the text.
Lotus Domino Web Site Development, 1st edition
Authors: Steve Oliver, Pete Wood
Venue:  (1998)

:Develop a powerful,cost-effective Web siteno experience required! This book/CD package gives you the tools to put up a siteNInternet,intranet,or extraneteasily with the gold version of Domino 4. 6. Even Notes and Domino beginners can design,develop,and maintain a Web site with this direct,hands-on guide. You get clear and complete guidance on every step,including configuring a Domino server,creating a full-featured home page,enhancing Web applications,enriching your Web site with features,securing and maintaining the site,and much more! On the CD,you'll find the complete searchable text of the book and plenty of examples,in both HTML and Notes database format. Written by two leading Lotus professionals,this easy-to-follow guide is perfect for new Notes users who want to develop a Web siteand complete and current enough for the most demanding and experienced professionals. Plan,design,install,and maintain an effective Domino Internet,intranet,or extranet site. Learn how to configure the Domino server,develop a full-featured Home Page,and enrich your Web site with frames,searching,and agents. Manage user accounts. Secure and maintain the site. Apply add-on features from Lotus. Anticipate new developments. Perfect for new Notes users and complete and current enough for experienced professionals.
The McGraw-Hill Handbook of Distance Learning: A ``how to Get Started Guide'' for Trainers and Human Resources Professionals
Authors: Alan G. Chute, Burton Hancock, Melody Thompson
Venue:  (1998)

:This comprehensive guide addresses the needs and concerns of HR and training managers who want to help their organizations implement distance learning programs but don't know where to start. The Handbook offers practical advice to help get your organization started in distance learning or improve your existing distance learning program. Topics covered include how to apply distance learning to new product and policy information, job skills training/retraining, advanced professional education, management development courses, and customer education.