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Paradigms for organizing a global IT workforce
Authors: Paul Weinberg
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research (2002)

This panel is intended to explore factors related to the successful management of Global IT initiatives. There are many unique challenges. Multi-national organizations often want to standardize the processes and systems they use. However, customization may be required to meet local requirements and compete with indigenous organizations. Operating across time zones, makes synchronous collaboration difficult. Rapid development methodologies, which usually require multiple design iterations, have to be modified. Cultural differences often require unique approaches to local management, but have to be bridged to support global initiatives. Interpretation of design communications may vary significantly from country to country. Management philosophies vary widely and management techniques are changing rapidly as collaboration technologies evolve. Successful organizations often use counter-intuitive models. A model for the characterization of global IT organizations, will be used to compare the approaches utilized by successful organizations, and discuss CSFs. Practitioners and academics on the panel will present cases related to CSFs, and interpret these cases with respect to management models.
The Sims: Livin' Large
Authors: Rick Barba
Venue:  (2000)

:The Sims: Livin' LargePrima's Official Strategy Guide covers both the original Sims game and the hot new expansion pack, Livin' Large! This valuable guide will help you create and manage your instant family, as well as provide needed parenting tips. Detailed strategies will help you deal with all new gameplay elementsfrom bad chemistry to life as a slacker. The guide offers:Coverage of the original The Sims plus the Livin' Large expansion packSecrets of Sim personality, mood, and motives revealedUseful Sim cheats and lots of quick-start tipsForeword by Sims creator Will WrightExtensive tables for all new architecture, careers, Sim catalog objects, and moreStrategies for overcoming new disastersfrom roach infestations to alien abductionsTips on customizing faces, skins, and textures 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
Developing student help desk consultants: a skill-based modular approach
Authors: Ethan Benatan, Jerry McGarrity
Venue: Proceedings of the 29th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference on User services (2001)

Student Help Desk consultants are an essential resource in most college IT departments. Hiring and training these students presents special challenges: consultants need a set of skills that is both wide and deep, and supervisors may be unsure which skills to hire for and which to train for, how to provide training, and how to measure competency. At Duquesne University we have created a system for developing skilled consultants that is based on: how easy a skill is to teach; which mode of teaching best lends itself to a particular skill; and the need to accommodate different learning styles in the students.We first grouped the skills into five core competency areas: technical knowledge, troubleshooting and problem-solving, knowledge of our structure and procedure, customer service skills, and professional behavior. We then identified five modalities for acquiring these skills in our consultants, being:hire people with the skill;provide classroom training;train through apprenticeship;rely on independent learning; orprovide ongoing training..Different skill sets are emphasized within each modality, but most are addressed across several modalities so as to ensure mastery and accommodate different learning styles. For example, attitude and interpersonal skills are heavily weighted in the hiring criteria. Formal instruction in customer service skills is then provided in a classroom setting and application of these skills is emphasized in the apprenticeship phase of training. Finally, customer service skills may be further developed through independent learning and ongoing training.We use this approach to structure all phases of consultant development: candidate selection, training, evaluation, and ongoing support. This poster presentation provides an overview of the analysis and plan, together with a selection of the instruments (forms, tests, etc.) that we use in each phase.
Knowledge Acquisition and Representation Language Karl
Authors: Dieter Fensel
Venue:  (1995)

:This book deals with the Knowledge Acquisition and Representation Language, KARL, which is a formal and operational specification language for knowledge-based systems or second-generation expert systems. KARL provides language primitives to represent knowledge according to the layers of a KADS-oriented model of expertise. The main features of KARL are: it provides epistemologically adequate modelling primitives which allow knowledge specifications at the knowledge level. Therefore, KARL allows a smooth transition from informal to formal specifications. KARL is a formal knowledge specification language. That is, it has a declarative semantics. KARL is an operational knowledge specification language which allows prototyping, i.e. knowledge evaluation by testing. Knowledge Acquisition and Representation Language, KARL, gives the reader a complete description of this important new language. The book will be essential reading for researchers in Artificial Intelligence and can also be used as an advanced text book.
PC Upgrade and Repair Bible: Professional Edition, 1st edition
Authors: Barry Press
Venue:  (1997)

:Have you had it with technical support representatives putting you on hold indefinitely? Then its time to take technical matters into your own hands with PC Upgrade and Repair Bible, Professional Edition, the life-saving resource for people with PC problems, upgrade questions, and even those who want to build a desktop-and-server computer from scratch. The PC Upgrade and Repair Bible, Professional Edition explains how to configure your system for optimum performance, using detailed illustrations and over 700 tables and figures. Inside PC Upgrade and Repair Bible, Professional Edition youll find information on Optimizing your network for Internet access and accelerated disk performance Recordable CD-ROMs, CD-ROM changers, CD-Rs, and DVD-ROMs. Integrating the latest remote access tools into LANs/WANs. Musical instrument digital interface Video compression and acceleration, and choosing the appropriate video adapter Digital still cameras, video capture, and video conferencing System-wide benchmarking and diagnostics, from motherboard to memory Building an IBM-compatible PC clone Plus, PC Upgrade and Repair Bible, Professional Edition includes an exhaustive vendor list and two bonus CD-ROMs that feature A+ certification self-study demos, Microsoft certification assessment exams, and high-performance shareware and freeware programs such as enhanced CU-SeeMe and Intraspection.
Visual Basic 6 Unleashed
Authors: Rob Thayer
Venue:  (1998)

:Visual Basic X Unleashed provides comprehensive coverage of the most sought after topics in Visual Basic programmingVisual Basic X Unleashed provides a means for a casual level Visual Basic programmer to quickly become productive with the new release of Visual Basic. This book provides the reader with a comprehensive reference to virtually all the topics that are used in today s leading-edge Visual Basic applications. This book looks to take advantage of the past success of the Unleashed series along with the extremely large size of the Visual Basic market.The integration of the text and CD-ROM makes this an invaluable tool for accomplished Visual Basic programmers everything they need to know as well as the tools and utilities to make it work.Includes topics important to developers including creating and using ActiveX controls, creating Wizards, adding and controlling RDO, tuning and optimization, and much moreTargeted towards the beginning to intermediate level programmer who needs additional step-by-step guidance in learning the more detailed features of Visual Basic. The reader can use this book as a building block to step to the next level from Sams' Teach Yourself Visual Basic X in 21 Days. 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
Concepts in Systems and Signals, 1st edition
Authors: John D. Sherrick
Venue:  (2000)

:Topics include: Analysis techniques Frequency response Standard filters Spectral analysis Discrete-time signals and systems IRR and FIR filter designs Sampling strategies The book also contains an introduction to and lessons in MATLAB® 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
Using 1-2-3 Release 5 for Windows (User-Friendly), 1st edition
Authors: Que Corporation
Venue:  (1994)

:Que brings its expertise to the latest version of this best-selling software with this comprehensive guide to spreadsheet success. Readers learn the proven techniques for building accurate worksheets and improving them with graphs and customized features.Covers the fundamentals, plus data analysis, automation with macros, and data sharing among applicationsFilled with expert tips, notes, and cautions for optimum performanceSpecial icons point out new features of the latest release of 1-2-3
Simulation modeling and analysis of a new international terminal
Authors: Ali S. Kiran, Tekin Cetinkaya, Serafettin Og
Venue: Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation (2000)

This paper describes a recently completed project involving the development of simulation models for the new international terminal at Istanbul Ataturk Airport, Istanbul, Turkey. The simulation models helped evaluate the passenger and aircraft flow from the terminal entrance to boarding; identify the system bottlenecks as well as the system capacities. The models have also been used for operations planning, training and the demonstration of terminal activities.Since the overall objective of the project was to validation of the terminal design, the models included major passenger, aircraft, and baggage flow activities. The following project steps were conducted to achieve the overall goals:1. Developed a dynamic-stochastic simulation model and an Excel Driven User Interface to analyze the new International Terminal at Istanbul Ataturk Airport and identify the service bottlenecks. (The model was developed using ProModel).2. Conducted experiments with the model in order to understand and evaluate the system performance.3. Identified the system bottlenecks and recommended solutions to eliminate those bottlenecks and increase airport capacity and service levels.4. Conducted training sessions for the TAV staff for continuous use of the models.The results showed that the new terminal is capable of serving the planned passenger capacity per year. The new terminal has more than enough capacity for the peak hours of the day and/or peak days of the year.The analysis also demonstrated that the daily flight schedule and gate-allocations are very important in maximizing the system performance.
Create user interfaces with Glade
Authors: E. Feldman
Venue: Linux Journal (2001)

Discover the joys of creating GUI apps with Glade and Python--Chapman shows us how.
Technology workshops by in-service teachers for pre-service teachers
Authors: John H. Durnin
Venue: Proceedings of the 29th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference on User services (2001)

This project was an initiative through university courses to have graduate in-service teachers, who have learned the use of technology for classroom instruction, offer workshops to undergraduate pre-service teachers. The goals of the project were two-fold. One was to prepare in-service teachers for collegial leadership in using instructional technology through experience in planning and offering workshops to pre-service teachers, and the second was to prepare pre-service teachers for the instructional use of technology in the classroom. To accomplish these objectives, a multiple sections undergraduate professional development course for pre-service teachers was given during a 14 week semester. Forty-three pre-service teachers were in the course. The pre-service teachers were required to develop in conjunction with a classroom teacher a lesson that could be given to elementary or secondary students. Concurrently, a graduate course on using technology in the classroom was offered to the in-service teachers, who were giving the workshops to the pre-service teachers. Twelve in-service teachers administered the workshops. Surveys on all aspects of the project were given to the undergraduates, graduates and cooperating teachers.On a scale from 1 to 4 the undergraduate pre-service teachers' average rating of the success of the workshops given by the graduate in-service teachers was 3.34. The graduate in-service teachers' average rating on the same scale with respect to the success of their experiences with technology and the workshops was 3.40.Finally, 18 cooperating classroom teachers mentored the pre-service teachers' technology lessons in the schools. Their average rating of the success of the pre-service teachers' lessons was 3.79. Evaluation of the successes of the project and weaknesses discovered will be discussed.
Data Mining Your Website
Authors: Jesus Mena
Venue:  (1999)

:The first book on the data technique defining next-generation Web marketing. This exciting book explains how companies of all sizes can use tools and techniques to analyze and benefit from one of their most valuable new sources of marketing information - usage data from a Web site. Data Mining Your Web Site both explains data mining technology, techniques and tools and shows readers how to apply these methods in order to design a Web site that better targets potential customers. Readers will understand how data mining technologies and approaches are the foundation for the new field of Web-based one-to-one marketing and selling. This innovative book will help Web developers and marketers, webmasters, and database developers harness powerful new tools.
SQL Programmer's Reference
Authors: Kishore Bhamidipati
Venue:  (1998)

:Structured Query Languageevery major high end database program follows this standardcovers variants and extensions used by Oracle,Sybase and Informix. Even standard languagesC,Visual Basic,Delphiuse SQL tags to link with database systems. Includes Java's J/SQL commands. The handiest reference available for SQL Programmers no DBA or application developer should be without the book! The information found within the covers of this quick reference guide is a valuable tool for SQL programmers. Written by an experienced member of Oracle's Worldwide Support organization,SQL Programmer's Reference is the fastest,easiest way to access succinct information to SQL's commands and syntax. And since most SQL programmers work with multiple database platforms,including Sybase,Informix,Oracle,and others,SQL Programmer's Reference covers the leading vendor's SQL-specific variants. Syntax diagrams for each SQL command are included to illustrate the syntax flow,and a separate section that defines the language parameters is included. Whether you're a novice or expert programmer working on specific or multiple RDBMS environments,SQL Programmer's reference is one programming aid you won't want to be without! Find essential SQL syntax,commands,and keywords fast Discover quick solutions to the most common SQL programming problems in any RDBMS environment Learn about PL/SQL and SQLJ procedural extension,and how to use Oracle's SQL*Plus reporting tool. 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
Windows 98 Quick Reference
Authors: CORPORATE Sybex
Venue:  (1999)

:The Windows 98 Quick Reference is a handy alphabetical guide to Windows 98''s most important features. Take it with you everywhere; you''ll never be at a loss as you master the latest version of Microsoft''s popular operating system.
Awt (Associative writing tool): supporting writing process with a ZigZag based writing tool---work in progress
Authors: Kimmo Wideroos
Venue: Proceedings of the 12th ACM conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (2001)

In this paper a sketch of a tool for supporting writing process is discussed as an example of an application using GZigZag framework. GZigZag as well as Ted Nelson's ZigZag metastructure are introduced in a nutshell.
From thesaurus to ontology
Authors: B. J. Wielinga, A. Th. Schreiber, J. Wielemaker, J. A. C. Sandberg
Venue: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Knowledge capture (2001)

Thesauri such as the Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) provide structured vocabularies for describing art objects. However, if we want to create a knowledge-rich description of an (image of an) art object, such as required by the "semantic web", thesauri turn out to provide only part of the knowledge needed. In this paper we look at problems related to capturing background knowledge for art resources. We describe a case study in which we attempt to construct an ontology for a subset of art-object descriptions, namely antique furniture, using AAT as well as metadata standards as input. We discuss the representation requirements for such an ontology as well as representational problems for our sample ontology with respect to the emerging web standards for knowledge representation (RDF, RDFS, OIL).
Cisco IOS 12.0 Interface Configuration
Authors: CORPORATE Cisco Systems Inc
Venue:  (1999)

:Cisco IOS 12.0 Interface Configuration is a comprehensive guide detailing how to configure physical and virtual interfaces-the two types of interfaces supported on Cisco routers. It provides readers with the most current router task and command information for their network environments and teaches how to effectively implement these techniques and commands on their networks.
Life After Television, 1st edition
Authors: George Gilder
Venue:  (1994)

:In his visionary new book George Gilder brilliantly and persuasively outlines the sweeping new developments in computer and fiber optic technology that spell certain death to traditional television and telephony. In their places, he argues, will emerge a new paradigm in which people-to-people communications give way to links among computers to be found in every home and office. The rise of the telecomputer (or "teleputer") will utterly transform the way we do business, educate our children, and spend our leisure time, and will imperil such large, centralized, top-down organizations as cable networks, phone companies, government bureaucracies, and multinational corporations. The stultifying influence of the mass media will give way to the power of the individual and the spread of democracy - and all through a technology in which America leads the world. The paperback edition of Life After Television has been completely revised and expanded to include almost fifty percent material new to this edition. George Gilder's liberating book is now, more than ever, an essential tool for a richer, more prosperous future for all citizens of the Computer Age.
Introduction to Automation for Librarians, 4th edition
Authors: William Saffady
Venue:  (1999)

:In a complete update of this classic text, author and automation expert William Saffady once again performs the vital function of surveying the types of technology used in libraries and discusses the library applications available to staff and patrons. He assesses the newest developments in operating systems, computer hardware, desktop and display technologies, and programming languages.. "Written in layman's terms that even technophobes can understand, Introduction to Automation provides the keys to identifying the important characteristics of technology and understanding its many uses and applications.
Surface Acoustic Wave Devices for Mobil and Wireless Communications, 1st edition
Authors: Colin Campbell
Venue:  (1998)

:Written for readers with or without surface acoustic wave (SAW) experience, this book covers a wide range of SAW filter- and device-design techniques as well as applications to mobile and wireless circuitry. It provides numerous references and worked examples on SAW devices to highlight various design aspects, and contains illustrations from many leading electronic companies around the world. The first half of the book covers the principles of SAW devices. The second half focuses on applications to the mobile/wireless field, including SAW devices for antenna duplexers, RF and IF filters for cellular cordless phones, front-end filters for wireless transceivers, fixed and tunable oscillators, filters for on-board satellite communications, as well as coding and convolvers for indoor/outdoor spread-spectrum communications.Surface Acoustic Wave Devices for Mobile and Wireless Communications serves as an excellent sourcebook for engineers and designers with some SAW background, or for technical staff with no prior knowledge of SAW devices who need to know how this technology can help their products. It can be used as a textbook for senior and graduate students engaged in the study of signal processing techniques and systems for mobile communications.
Understanding Microprocessors: A Practical Approach, 1st edition
Authors: Arthur W. Thompson
Venue:  (1995)

:Ideal for a newly established course in microprocessors, this book covers Intel and Motorola microprocessors and the basics of interfacing microprocessors to peripheral devices.ALSO AVAILABLE INSTRUCTOR SUPPLEMENTS Instructor's Guide, ISBN: 0-8273-5348-0 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
What i learned about user support from bartending
Authors: Marie Mayer
Venue: Proceedings of the 29th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference on User services (2001)

User support and bartending might seem to be worlds apart, but they have many aspects in common-if one knows where to look. Each is a type of customer service and each benefits from effective communication with the audience.Drawing on bartending experience, as well as more conventional training, the author uses analogies and stories to illustrate various communication and customer service principles and tips. The following concepts are included as well as other relevant observations.Effective Communication:Basic communication principles.The power of listening.Methods that help you get your message heard.How communication skills can make your job easier, whatever your job.Customer Service: How keeping the customer in mind benefits you.Dealing with the "challenging" customer.