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Microsoft Word 2002: Complete
Authors: Stephen Haag, James T. Perry
Venue:  (2002)

:The How And Why, Practical Approach To Learning Applications.
Projected state machine coverage for software testing
Authors: G. Friedman, A. Hartman, K. Nagin, T. Shiran
Venue: ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes (2002)

Our research deals with test generation for software based on finite state machine (FSM) models of the program specification. We describe a set of coverage criteria and testing constraints for use in the automatic generation of test suites. We also describe the algorithms used to generate test suites based on these coverage criteria, and the implementation of these algorithms as an extension of the Mur&phiv; model checker[4]. The coverage criteria are simple but powerful in that they generate test suites of high quality and moderate volume, without requiring the user to have a sophisticated grasp of the test generation technology. The testing constraints are used to combat the endemic problem of state explosion, typically encountered in FSM techniques. We illustrate our techniques on several well-known problems from the literature and describe two industrial trials, to demonstrate the validity of our claims.
Windows Performance Secrets
Authors: Mark L. Van Name, Richard Butner, Bill Catchings
Venue:  (1998)

:PCs are getting faster all the time--but your PC is not. Sure, you can upgrade it, but how do you know which changes will give you the most speed for the least money? Should you buy more RAM, a new graphics adapter, or a processor upgrade? Answering these questions and getting objective, reliable information about how all these options will affect your PC has been an almost impossible task. Until now. Windows Performance Secrets strips away the mysteries of PC performance and gives you in-depth information on all the factors that control your PC's speed. Whether you're running Windows 98, Windows 95, or Windows NT 4.0, this book will guide you to better performance. Using Ziff-Davis' industry-standard Winstone and WinBench benchmarks, the authors have packed the book with hundreds of test results that tell you exactly how much performance gain different upgrades will really give you. And, you can learn how to wring the most possible performance from your PC without ever spending a dime! The book even includes two CD-ROMs with complete copies of the benchmarks, so you can do your own performance studies. The authors are top industry experts on PC performance, the founders and leaders of the Ziff-Davis Benchmark Operation, the group that created these benchmarks. Their years of experience in PC performance show in the detailed, concrete advice available throughout the book, as well as in the clear explanations of vital technical concepts. If you want the most performance from your PC, don't miss this book.
Realization of a Binary Clocked Linear Tree and Its Use for Processing Texts in Natural Languages
Authors: D. E. Shuklin
Venue: Cybernetics and Systems Analysis (2002)

An implementation and the functioning of a synchronized binary linear tree are described. A structure of the so-called time line is proposed; the structure is used at the discourse level to process semantic connections between elements of various sentences. The structure of a system that processes texts in natural languages is considered. It is assumed that a semiotic feedback can lead to an internal monologue and self-consciousness. Based on the synchronized linear tree, a realization of semiotic feedback is described. It is shown that a model of the above-mentioned internal monologue can be used to synthesize phrases in natural languages.
Stabilized hp-Finite Element Methods for First-Order Hyperbolic Problems
Authors: Paul Houston, Christoph Schwab, Endre Süli
Venue: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (2000)

We analyze the hp-version of the streamline-diffusion finite element method (SDFEM) and of the discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (DGFEM) for first-order linear hyperbolic problems. For both methods, we derive new error estimates on general finite element meshes which are sharp in the mesh-width h and in the spectral order p of the method, assuming that the stabilization parameter is O(h/p). For piecewise analytic solutions, exponential convergence is established on quadrilateral meshes. For the DGFEM we admit very general irregular meshes and for the SDFEM we allow meshes which contain hanging nodes. Numerical experiments confirm the theoretical results.
Becoming a Teacher
Authors: Forrest W. Parkay, Beverly Hardcastle Stanford
Venue:  (1999)

: Substantially revised, this book highlights 21st century teaching practices and issues to help readers discover what it takes to become professional teachers. Becoming a Teacher expands its emphasis on "mentoring" and contemporary trends and topics, giving greater coverage to technology and social issues. Case studies and discussions of teacher leadership encourage interactions with the concepts presented. The fifth edition of Becoming a Teacher provides the tools and information necessary to answer the questions "What does it take to become a professional teacher?" and "Do I want to teach?" For pre-service and in-service teachers.
Survivable mobile wireless networks: issues, challenges, and research directions
Authors: James P. G. Sterbenz, Rajesh Krishnan, Regina Rosales Hain, Alden W. Jackson, David Levin, Ram Ramanathan, John Zao
Venue: Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Wireless security (2002)

In this paper we survey issues and challenges in enhancing the survivability of mobile wireless networks, with particular emphasis on military requirements*. Research focus on three key aspects can significantly enhance network survivability: (i) establishing and maintaining survivable topologies that strive to keep the network connected even under attack, (ii) design for end-to-end communication in challenging environments in which the path from source to destination is not wholly available at any given instant of time, (iii) the use of technology to enhance survivability such as adaptive networks and satellites.
SMIL For Dummies
Authors: Heather Williamson
Venue:  (2000)

:SMIL tools and players on CD-ROM Get the latest on W3C SMIL 2 standards and recommendations Unleash the power of synchronized multimedia  no experience required! With SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language), you can turbocharge your site with video and audio  once you get a handle on how it works, that is. Relax! Using three from-the-ground-up SMIL examples, this friendly guide shows you step-by-step how to build well-designed multimedia presentations  without having to read the SMIL specification. all this on the bonus CD-ROM SMIL Composer from Sausage Software, a SMIL editor RealSlideShow from RealNetworks, a SMIL authoring environment Evaluation versions of Paint Shop Pro and trial version of Hot Dog Professional Plus all examples and images from the book System requirements: PC Pentium 120 or faster; PowerPC Macintosh with a 604 processor or faster. See the About the CD Appendix for details and complete system requirements. Plus leading Internet tools Discover how to: Integrate multimedia content into your Web pages Build well-designed multimedia presentations Work with SMIL syntax Fine-tune multimedia placement and timing Enhance presentations with link effects Get smart!
Asp.Net for Web Designers
Authors: Peter Ladka
Venue:  (2002)

Teaching ASP.NET in a non-linear format that creative thinkers can easily grasp and understand without the typical programming jargon. Provides clear and concise, hands-on, real-world examples right from the beginning of the book. The book contains a natural progression by providing foundational information in the opening chapters. Content will be presented with "hands-on" examples so the opening chapters will also be laying the groundwork for more advanced subjects by not only presenting the information but by writing code as well. The middle section of the book covers the key cast members on the .NET stage including HTML Controls, Web Controls and List Controls. The third and final section of the book covers more advanced issues in ASP.NET including data access and security issues. 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
Professional Biztalk
Authors: Stephen F. Mohr, Scott Woodgate
Venue:  (2001)

:This book is for programmers, familiar with developing Microsoft web solutions, who want to integrate existing applications to create enterprise systems.Author Biography: Stephen Mohr is a system architect for an Internet and e-commerce consultancy. His work originally involved the programming of object oriented applications in C++ and COM. More recently, he has evolved to the specification and design of software systems using COM and Web development tools and languages. He is involved in the selection of XML for ongoing projects involving multimedia content over intranets.
Problem Solving in Chemical Engineering with Numerical Methods, 1st edition
Authors: Michael B. Cutlip, Mordechai Shacham
Venue:  (1998)

:A companion book including interactive software for students and professional engineers who want to utilize problem-solving software to effectively and efficiently obtain solutions to realistic and complex problems. An Invaluable reference book that discusses and Illustrates practical numerical problem solving in the core subject areas of Chemical Engineering. Problem Solving in Chemical Engineering with Numerical Methods provides an extensive selection of problems that require numerical solutions from throughout the core subject areas of chemical engineering. Many are completely solved or partially solved using POLYMATH as the representative mathematical problem-solving software, Ten representative problems are also solved by Excel, Maple, Mathcad, MATLAB, and Mathematica. All problems are clearly organized and all necessary data are provided. Key equations are presented or derived. Practical aspects of efficient and effective numerical problem solving are emphasized. Many complete solutions are provided within the text and on the CD-ROM for use in problem-solving exercises.
Color texture segmentation using feature distributions
Authors: Kan-Min Chen, Shu-Yuan Chen
Venue: Pattern Recognition Letters (2002)

A new method for color textured segmentation using feature distributions is proposed in this study. First, the distributions of color and local edge patterns are used to derive a homogeneity measure for color textured regions. Then, a coarse-to-fine method based on the homogeneity measure is employed to achieve the goal of color texture segmentation. The proposed method unifies color and edge features to solve the color texture segmentation problem rather than simply extend gray-level texture analysis to color images, or analyze only spatial interaction of colors in a neighborhood. In addition, the proposed method is simple but effective. The execution time is fast, the error rate for collages of real texture is low and the segmentation results for natural scenes are visually satisfactory. Finally, no a priori knowledge about the number and types of textures or the number of regions are required in the proposed method. The feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method have been demonstrated by various experiments.
Nds for NT: Installing, Configuring, and Designing NOVELL Directory Services, 1st edition
Authors: Jeffrey F. Hughes, Blair W. Thomas
Venue:  (1998)

:Learn to design NDS trees in a mixed environment with NDS for NT, the ultimate guide for network administrators, consultants, installers, and students. Novell Master Certified Engineers Jeffrey F. Hughes and Blair W. Thomas use a fictitious company (ACME) to demonstrate the fundamental functions, components, and concepts of NDS for NT. Hughes and Thomas update their Four Principles of NDS Design and offer five essential design strategies for maximizing the efficiency and scalability of your NDS for NT tree: Base your NDS tree design on your LAN or WAN infrastructure Divide NDS into partitions and replicas Use NDS objects to define organization, administration, and user access Configure time synchronization to support NDS operations Install and design NDS for NT With NDS for NT, you will soon master the Novell Directory Service and the intricacies of network-resource management.
Mosaic representations of video sequences based on slice image analysis
Authors: Shaolei Feng, Hanqing Lu, Songde Ma
Venue: Pattern Recognition Letters (2002)

There has been a lot of activity recently surrounding the mosaic representation of video sequences. However, existing mosaic methods have in general a strong limitation. They are prone to converge to a local minimum in least-squares estimation, especially when large image motion exists between two consecutive frames or there are too many outliers, for example, when large moving objects appear in the sequence.In this paper, a novel method is proposed to obtain the initial values of the model parameters. The proposed method is based on slice image analysis, and can effectively avoid the local minimum problem and remove the accumulated distortions from the final mosaic which are common in the previous methods. And furthermore, our method is robust even if large moving objects are present in the sequence.
Open Source: Web Site Construction Kit
Authors: Thomas Schenk
Venue:  (2001)

:This book gives readers a comprehensive survey of the best tools for building and maintaining Web sites. In a methodical and clear manner, using templates from actual Web sites, the author takes the reader through the process of thinking through and then building an open source Web site. After reading this book, readers will be able to buy this book, and riding on the experience of the author quickly build an effective and scalable Web site.
A New Paradigm for Parallel Adaptive Meshing Algorithms
Authors: Randolph E. Bank, Michael Holst
Venue: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (2000)

We present a new approach to the use of parallel computers with adaptive finite element methods. This approach addresses the load balancing problem in a new way, requiring far less communication than current approaches. It also allows existing sequential adaptive PDE codes such as PLTMG and MC to run in a parallel environment without a large investment in recoding. In this new approach, the load balancing problem is reduced to the numerical solution of a small elliptic problem on a single processor, using a sequential adaptive solver, without requiring any modifications to the sequential solver. The small elliptic problem is used to produce a posteriori error estimates to predict future element densities in the mesh, which are then used in a weighted recursive spectral bisection of the initial mesh. The bulk of the calculation then takes place independently on each processor, with no communication, using possibly the same sequential adaptive solver. Each processor adapts its region of the mesh independently, and a nearly load-balanced mesh distribution is usually obtained as a result of the initial weighted spectral bisection. Only the initial fan-out of the mesh decomposition to the processors requires communication. Two additional steps requiring boundary exchange communication may be employed after the individual processors reach an adapted solution, namely, the construction of a global conforming mesh from the independent subproblems, followed by a final smoothing phase using the subdomain solutions as an initial guess. We present a series of convincing numerical experiments which illustrate the effectiveness of this approach. The justification of the initial refinement prediction step, as well as the justification of skipping the two communication-intensive steps, is supported by some recent [J. Xu and A. Zhou, Math. Comp., to appear] and not so recent [J. A. Nitsche and A. H. Schatz, Math. Comp., 28 (1974), pp. 937--958; A. H. Schatz and L. B. Wahlbin, Math. Comp., 31 (1977), pp. 414--442; A. H. Schatz and L. B. Wahlbin, Math. Comp., 64 (1995), pp. 907--928] results on local a priori and a posteriori error estimation.
Valuing Technology: Organisations, Culture, and Change
Authors: David Skinner, Andrew Webster, Paul Ross
Venue:  (1999)

:Valuing Technologyopens up new directions in the analysis of socio-technical change within organizations. Based on a major study of the introduction of management information systems in health, higher education and retailing, it explores the active role of end-users in the innovation process. Subjects covered include: the valuing of technology via the on-going construction of needs, uses and utilities the interplay of organizational and technological cultures occupational identities, organizational inequalities and technological change the gendering of technological and organizational change interpretative flexibility and the 'stabilization' of technological systems.
The ethical attitudes of information systems professionals: outcomes of an initial survey
Authors: Mary Prior, Simon Rogerson, Ben Fairweather
Venue: Telematics and Informatics (2002)

This paper presents the results of a survey of the ethical attitudes of information systems (IS) professionals conducted during 1998. Surveys of attitudes reported in the literature are outlined, then the research objective and methodology are described and the main findings are discussed. While the survey indicated a high level of ethical awareness among respondents, it also highlighted a number of problematical areas, tending to confirm the findings of previous surveys. Finally, suggestions for further research in this area are made.
Unleashing the Ideavirus: Stop Marketing at People! Turn Your Ideas into Epidemics by Helping Your Customers Do the Marketing for You.
Authors: Seth Godin, Malcolm Gladwell
Venue:  (2001)

:Counter to traditional marketing wisdom, which tries to count, measure, and manipulate the spread of information, Seth Godin argues that the information can spread most effectively from customer to customer, rather than from business to customer. Godin calls this powerful customer-to-customer dialogue the ideavirus, and cheerfully eggs marketers on to create an environment where their ideas can replicate and spread. In lively detail, Godin looks at the ways companies such as PayPal, Hotmail, GeoCities, even Volkswagen have successfully launched ideaviruses. He offers a "recipe" for creating your own ideavirus, identifies the key factors in the successful spread of an ideavirus (powerful sneezers, hives, a clear vector, a smooth, friction-free transmission), and shows how any business, large or small, can use ideavirus marketing to succeed in a world that just doesn't want to hear it anymore from the traditional marketers.
Cut-and-paste editing of multiresolution surfaces
Authors: Henning Biermann, Ioana Martin, Fausto Bernardini, Denis Zorin
Venue: ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) (2002)

Cutting and pasting to combine different elements into a common structure are widely used operations that have been successfully adapted to many media types. Surface design could also benefit from the availability of a general, robust, and efficient cut-and-paste tool, especially during the initial stages of design when a large space of alternatives needs to be explored. Techniques to support cut-and-paste operations for surfaces have been proposed in the past, but have been of limited usefulness due to constraints on the type of shapes supported and the lack of real-time interaction. In this paper, we describe a set of algorithms based on multiresolution subdivision surfaces that perform at interactive rates and enable intuitive cut-and-paste operations.
Current Topics in Computational Molecular Biology
Authors: Tao Jiang, Michael Zhang, Ying Xu
Venue:  (2002)

:Computational molecular biology, or bioinformatics, draws on the disciplines of biology, mathematics, statistics, physics, chemistry, computer science, and engineering. It provides the computational support for functional genomics, which links the behavior of cells, organisms, and populations to the information encoded in the genomes, as well as for structural genomics. At the heart of all large-scale and high-throughput biotechnologies, it has a growing impact on health and medicine. This survey of computational molecular biology covers traditional topics such as protein structure modeling and sequence alignment, and more recent ones such as expression data analysis and comparative genomics. It combines algorithmic, statistical, database, and AI-based methods for studying biological problems. The book also contains an introductory chapter, as well as one on general statistical modeling and computational techniques in molecular biology. Each chapter presents a self-contained review of a specific subject. Not for sale in China, including Hong Kong
Exploring Microsoft Word 2000, 1st edition
Authors: Robert T. Grauer, Maryann Barber
Venue:  (1999)

:All books in this series offer consistent presentationcommon design, pedagogy, and writing style. Concepts as well as key-strokes are stressed. Hands-on exercises in every lesson provide just the right amount of practice time. MOUS Certification throughout the expert level for all individual applications and Office 2000. Three levels of chapter-ending exercises, multiple choice, practice, and case studies. For anyone interested in becoming more proficient in Microsoft Office 2000.
Cases in Electronic Commerce, 1st edition
Authors: Sidney Laurence Huff, Michael Parent, Michael Wade, Scott Schneberger, Peter Newson
Venue:  (1999)

:Cases in Electronic Commerce is a collection of 25 full-length case studies written by professors at the renowned Richard Ivey School of Business. Each case study is centered around a real-world company and provides sufficient detail on the implications associated with e-commerce initiatives. This managerial-oriented approach allows students to fully understand and appreciate the strategic,tactical,and operational challenges faced when launching an e-commerce-based business.
Information modeling for single sourcing
Authors: Ann Rockley
Venue: Proceedings of the 20th annual international conference on Computer documentation (2002)

Information modeling is one of the most critical phases of designing your reuse strategy. Information models specify how information is reused and how it must be written and structured to support reuse. Information models are the framework that guide authors, reviewers, and architects in creating, reviewing, managing, and publishing content. A good information model also improves the usability of your information products. This session introduces the concepts of information modeling.