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Realizing Interval Graphs with Size and Distance Constraints
Authors: Itsik Pe'er, Ron Shamir
Venue: SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics (1997)

We study the following problem: given an interval graph, does it have a realization which satisfies additional constraints on the distances between interval endpoints? This problem arises in numerous applications in which topological information on intersection of pairs of intervals is accompanied by additional metric information on their order, distance, or size. An important application is physical mapping, a central challenge in the human genome project. Our results are (1) a polynomial algorithm for the problem on interval graphs which admit a unique clique order (UCO graphs). This class of graphs properly contains all prime interval graphs. (2) In case all constraints are upper and lower bounds on individual interval lengths, the problem on UCO graphs is linearly equivalent to deciding if a system of difference inequalities is feasible. (3) Even if all the constraints are prescribed lengths of individual intervals, the problem is NP-complete. Hence, problems (1) and (2) are also NP-complete on arbitrary interval graphs.
In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations with the Visionaries of the Digital World
Authors: Rama Dev Jager, Rafael Ortiz
Venue:  (2002)

:In the Company of Giants presents groundbreaking conversations conducted with 16 of the digital world's most successful personalities: Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, T. J. Rodgers, Gordon Eubanks, Steve Case, Scott Cook, Sandy Kurtzig, John Warnock and Charles Geschke, Michael Dell, Charles Wang, Andy Grove, Trip Hawkins, Ed McCracken, Ken Olsen, and Bill Hewlett. In order to write In the Company of Giants, the authors sat down with Silicon Valley's greatest visionaries in intimate, face-to-face discussions without corporate filters or interference. Each spoke for hours, answering the authors' probing questions about their work and their success; about the technology industry and their visions of the future; and about themselves, their values, and each other. The result is the broadest, deepest, most forthright investigation yet into the origins, evolution, and future direction of the Information Age and the idiosyncratic geniuses who lead it. In these pages, you'll read Steve Jobs on what Apple did right and where it went wrong;ä Bill Gates on the future of operating systems in an internet-centered world; Gordon Eubanks at Symantec on the two-guys-in-a-garage myth ("Apple wouldn't have gone anywhere without guys like [former Apple Chairman and President A. C. "Mike"] Markkula, who had some idea of what a company looked like."); Sandy Kurtzig at ASK on how she stood up to the big boys at Hewlett-Packard to retain control of her soon-to-be software colossus; Steve Case on censorship on the internet - and customer service; and Andy Grove on the next big frontier (cross-fertilizing genetics and biotech with information technology). Equal parts candid opinion, insider's history of the high-tech trade, and front-line business primer, packed with insight and passion, In the Company of Giants transports you to the epicenter of the most vital and influential industry of our time, in the company of some of the most lively and intelligent minds at work today.
Principles of Corporate Finance with Cdrom, 6th edition
Authors: Richard A. Brealey, Stewart C. Myers
Venue:  (2000)

:The clear market leader in the corporate finance course,this text filled a very definite need for a MODERN corporate finance text back in 1983 when the first edition was published. It is known for its intuitive,conversational style and for being able to tie together many of the important ideas in corporate finance. The author's discussions and illustrations are unique due to the depth of detail blended with a distinct sense of humor. This new edition will continue to be authoritative and student friendly but will also carry stronger,modern coverage reflected by current examples and data as well as unique emphasis upon agency issues.
Mastering Access 2000, 5th edition
Authors: Alan Simpson, Elizabeth Olson, Celeste Robinson
Venue:  (1999)

:Written by two Access experts, Mastering Access 2000 teaches you everything you need to know to get the most out of this powerful business tool. You'll quickly reap all the benefits offered by the new Access program, including Web publishing, subdatasheet views, improved SQL Server integration, and much more. On the enclosed CD, you'll find the sample databases referred to throughout the book. Also included are examples of custom functions, an order entry application created with Access, demo software from Access to Business and Database Creations, plus shareware fonts from TAZ Information Services for printing POSTNET bar codes.
Running Microsoft Office 97
Authors: Michael Halvorson, Michael Young
Venue:  (1998)

:It's packed with everything from quick, clear instructions for new users to comprehensive answers for power users. And it's complete in one volume. In short, Running Microsoft Office 97 is the authoritative handbook you'll keep by your computer and use every day. Learn to use each of the Office applications - Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Outlook. Work easier, faster, and better using the power of integration - share data among applications, organize documents with the Binder, and much more. Discover how to share your work and schedules via Microsoft Outlook, now part of the newest edition of Microsoft Office. Use Microsoft Office to view documents on the Internet and publish your own Internet documents. "Chapters at a Glance" for quick reference, comprehensive table of contents, extensive cross-referenced index, "Quick Reference" tear-out card, step-by-step instructions, hundreds of screen illustrations, real-world examples, and tips and advice from the experts. Find information fast with a searchable version of the book on disc. Get answers on line by using Microsoft Internet Explorer to search Microsoft's huge KnowledgeBase. Get to work quickly with ready-made sample files.
In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations with the Visionaries of the Digital World
Authors: Rama Dev Jager, Rafael Ortiz
Venue:  (1998)

:In the Company of Giants presents groundbreaking conversations conducted with 16 of the digital world's most successful personalities: Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, T. J. Rodgers, Gordon Eubanks, Steve Case, Scott Cook, Sandy Kurtzig, John Warnock and Charles Geschke, Michael Dell, Charles Wang, Andy Grove, Trip Hawkins, Ed McCracken, Ken Olsen, and Bill Hewlett. In order to write In the Company of Giants, the authors sat down with Silicon Valley's greatest visionaries in intimate, face-to-face discussions without corporate filters or interference. Each spoke for hours, answering the authors' probing questions about their work and their success; about the technology industry and their visions of the future; and about themselves, their values, and each other. The result is the broadest, deepest, most forthright investigation yet into the origins, evolution, and future direction of the Information Age and the idiosyncratic geniuses who lead it. In these pages, you'll read Steve Jobs on what Apple did right and where it went wrong;ä Bill Gates on the future of operating systems in an internet-centered world; Gordon Eubanks at Symantec on the two-guys-in-a-garage myth ("Apple wouldn't have gone anywhere without guys like [former Apple Chairman and President A. C. "Mike"] Markkula, who had some idea of what a company looked like."); Sandy Kurtzig at ASK on how she stood up to the big boys at Hewlett-Packard to retain control of her soon-to-be software colossus; Steve Case on censorship on the internet - and customer service; and Andy Grove on the next big frontier (cross-fertilizing genetics and biotech with information technology). Equal parts candid opinion, insider's history of the high-tech trade, and front-line business primer, packed with insight and passion, In the Company of Giants transports you to the epicenter of the most vital and influential industry of our time, in the company of some of the most lively and intelligent minds at work today.
Explorations in Beginning and Intermediate Algebra Using the TI-82/83 with Integrated Appendix Notes for the TI-85/86, 2nd edition
Authors: Deborah Jolly Cochener, Bonnie M. Hodge
Venue:  (1999)

:This user-friendly workbook improves both student understanding and retention of algebra concepts through a series of activities and guided explorations using the graphing calculator. An ideal supplement for any beginning or intermediate algebra course, EXPLORATIONS IN BEGINNING AND INTERMEDIATE ALGEBRA, SECOND EDITION is an ideal tool for integrating technology without sacrificing content. By clearly & succinctly teaching keystrokes, class time is devoted to investigations instead of how to use a graphing calculator.
Architecture-by-yourself: an experiment with computer graphics for house design
Authors: Guy Weinzapfel, Nicholas Negroponte
Venue: Proceedings of the 3rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques (1976)

Architecture-by-Yourself is an experiment in computer aided design that applies the medium of computer graphics, used by a general populace. The research program confronts the delicate balance between insightfulness and paternalism toward a user who ultimately bares the risk. The paper reports on a case study, on the underlying philosophy's of the French architect Yona Friedman, and on a computer implementation called YONA. As part of a larger research effort, Machine Recognition and Inference Making in Computer Aids to Design, we postulate further developments that will exercise input and visualization techniques in a relentless setting, relentless in the sense that the user is demanding, the problem is hard, and the product is a personal, one-of-a-kind design.
A Methodology for Architecture Exploration of Heterogeneous Signal Processing Systems
Authors: Paul Lieverse, Pieter Van Der Wolf, Kees Vissers, Ed Deprettere
Venue: Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems (2001)

We present a methodology for the exploration of signal processing architectures at the system level. The methodology, named SPADE, provides a means to quickly build models of architectures at an abstract level, to easily map applications, modeled as Kahn Process Networks, onto these architecture models, and to analyze the performance of the resulting system by simulation. The methodology distinguishes between applications and architectures, and uses a trace-driven simulation technique for co-simulation of application models and architecture models. As a consequence, architecture models need not be functionally complete to be used for performance analysis while data dependent behavior is still handled correctly. We have used the methodology for the exploration of architectures and mappings of an MPEG-2 video decoder application.
Experience Multimedia
Authors: Maureen Sprankle, Clyde Johnson
Venue:  (1998)

:Experience Multimedia is for the beginning student in multimedia. It was written to teach multimedia through multimedia. There are two components: the CD-ROM and the text. Experience Multimedia - an interactive multimedia presentationis contained in the CD-ROM. The CD-ROM also contains the files needed for the PowerPoint tutorials, a library of graphics, and audio and video clips to use in creating multimedia presentations. The text contains information on how to use the electronic presentation and ten PowerPoint tutorials; students will learn to develop multimedia presentations while they are learning all about multimedia.
BIS '99: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Business Informaiton Systems, Poznan, Poland, April 14-16, 1999
Authors: Witold Abramowicz, M. E. Orlowska
Venue:  (1999)

:This volume contains papers presented during the science trace at the 3rd International Conference of Business Information Systems, BIS '99, held in Poznan Poland, 14-16 April 1999, which discussed the development, implementation, applications and improvement of computer systems for business processes.
Variable Precision Algorithm for the Numerical Computation of the Fermi-Dirac Function {\cal F}j(x) of Order j=−3/2
Authors: F. G. Lether
Venue: Journal of Scientific Computing (2001)

The purpose of this technical note is to present a piecewise Chebyshev expansion for the numerical computation of the Fermi&ndash;Dirac function {\cal F}&minus;3/2(x), &minus;&infin;<x<&infin;. The variable precision algorithm we given automatically adjusts the degrees of the Chebyshev expansions so that {\cal F}&minus;3/2(x) can be efficiently computed to d significant decimal digits of accuracy, for a user specified value of d in the range 1&les;d&les;15.
Inline/Online: Fundamentals of the Internet and the World Wide Web, 2nd edition
Authors: Raymond Greenlaw, Ellen Hepp
Venue:  (2001)

:In its second edition, Inline/Online: Fundamentals of the Internet and the World Wide Web continues to offer students an entertaining and pedagogically superior introduction to the Internet, Web Design, and HTML coding in textbook format. This new edition features enhanced coverage of FTP, discussion of a wider array of search engines, new material on cascading style sheets, and an expanded and up-to-the-minute presentation of the current state of e-commerce. Outside of the classroom, this book remains an excellent resource for anyone who is interested in recent computing developments, online information, and the Internet as the new social and economic frontier.Inline/Online distinguishes itself as a text by offering an in-depth treatment of the Internet for non-computer specialists, thus making it accessible to students from all majors. E-mail, Newsgroups/Mailing Lists, web programming, electronic publishing, and search engines are among the topics authors Ray Greenlaw and Ellen Hepp cover with flair and a sense of their relationship to real-world applications. Students begin by learning the basics of e-mail and by the end of the course have the skills to publish their own well-designed web pages. In addition, the book contains over 500 exercises, many of them new to the second edition, which allow the reader test and refine their new skills online.An Online Learning Center accompanies the book and offers an array of supplementary materials such as HTML examples, useful links, and rendered code from the book. McGraw-Hill's Page Out allows professors to customize the site by including their own course syllabus, a list of students, grading information, assignments,projects, and more.
Parallel Database Techniques, 1st edition
Authors: Mahdi Abdelguerfi, Kam-Fai Wong
Venue:  (1998)

:Describes how the use of parallel processing technology in the next generation of Database management Systems (DBMSs) has made it possible to meet new challenging requirements. Database technology in rapidly expanding new application areas brings with them challenges such as the increased functionality and the efficient handling of very large heterogeneous databases. The objective of this book is to review the latest techniques in parallel relational databases. It emphasizes techniques for achieving high performance in parallel database systems. The text is structured according to the overall architecture of a parallel database system. Its nine chapters present a number of state of the art techniques that can be adopted in the design of parallel database software and hardware execution environments. These techniques can directly or indirectly lead to high-performance parallel database implementation.
Krylov Subspace Methods for Saddle Point Problems with Indefinite Preconditioning
Authors: M. Rozlozník, V. Simoncini
Venue: SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (2002)

In this paper we analyze the null-space projection (constraint) indefinite preconditioner applied to the solution of large-scale saddle point problems. Nonsymmetric Krylov subspace solvers are analyzed; moreover, it is shown that the behavior of short-term recurrence methods can be related to the behavior of preconditioned conjugate gradient method (PCG). Theoretical properties of PCG are studied in detail and simple procedures for correcting possible misconvergence are proposed. The numerical behavior of the scheme on a real application problem is discussed and the maximum attainable accuracy of the approximate solution computed in finite precision arithmetic is estimated.
Computation of the Shallow Water Equations Using the Unified Coordinates
Authors: W. H. Hui, S. Koudriakov
Venue: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (2001)

Two general coordinate systems have been used extensively in computational fluid dynamics: the Eulerian and the Lagrangian. The Eulerian coordinates cause excessive numerical diffusion across flow discontinuities, slip lines in particular. The Lagrangian coordinates, on the other hand, can resolve slip lines sharply but cause severe grid deformation, resulting in large errors and even breakdown of the computation. Recently, in the spirit of the arbitrary Lagrangian--Eulerian (ALE) approach, W. H. Hui, P. Y. Li, and Z. W. Li, [J. Comput. Phys., 153 (1999), pp. 596--637] have introduced a unified coordinate system which moves with velocity hq, q being the velocity of the fluid particle. It includes the Eulerian system as a special case when h=0, and the Lagrangian when h=1, and was shown for the two-dimensional Euler equations of gas dynamics to be superior to both Eulerian and Lagrangian systems. The main purpose of this paper is to adopt this unified coordinate system to solve the shallow water equations. It will be shown that computational results using the unified system are superior to existing results based on either the Eulerian system or Lagrangian system in that it (a) resolves slip lines sharply, especially for steady flow, (b) avoids grid deformation and computation breakdown in Lagrangian coordinates, and (c) avoids spurious flow produced by Lagrangian coordinates.
The role of default logic in knowledge representation
Authors: James P. Delgrande, Torsten Schaub
Venue: Logic-based artificial intelligence (2000)

Various researchers in Artificial Intelligence have advocated formal logic as an analytical tool and as a formalism for the representation of knowledge. Our thesis in this paper is that commonsense reasoning frequently has a nonmonotonic aspect, either explicit or implicit, and that to this end Default Logic (DL) provides an appropriate elaboration of classical logic for the modeling of such phenomena. That is, DL is a very general, flexible, and powerful approach to nonmonotonic reasoning, and its very generality and power makes it suitable as a tool for modeling a wide variety of applications. We propose a general methodology for using Default Logic, involving the naming of default rules and the introduction of special-purpose predicates, for detecting conditions for default rule applicability and controlling a rule's application. This allows the encoding of specific strategies and policies governing the set of default rules. Here we show that DL can be used to formalize preferences among properties and the inheritance of default properties, and so we essentially use DL to axiomat
On Homogeneous Convex Cones, The Carathéodory Number, and the Duality Mapping
Authors: Levent Tunçel, Song Xu
Venue: Mathematics of Operations Research (2001)

Using three simple examples, we answer three questions related to homogeneous convex cones, the CarathÃ©odory number of convex cones, and self-concordant barriers for convex cones. First, we show that, if the convex cone is not homogeneous, then the duality mapping does not have to be an involution. Next, we show that there are very elementary convex cones that are not homogeneous but have invariant CarathÃ©odory number in the interior. Third, we show that the invariance of the CarathÃ©odory number in the interior of the convex cone does not suffice to make the cone homogeneous even if the cone is self-dual. Finally, we characterize the CarathÃ©odory number of epigraphs of matrix norms.
Independent Sets in Asteroidal Triple-Free Graphs
Authors: Hajo Broersma, Ton Kloks, Dieter Kratsch, Haiko Müller
Venue: SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics (1999)

An asteroidal triple (AT) is a set of three vertices such that there is a path between any pair of them avoiding the closed neighborhood of the third. A graph is called AT-free if it does not have an AT. We show that there is an O(n4) time algorithm to compute the maximum weight of an independent set for AT-free graphs. Furthermore, we obtain O(n4) time algorithms to solve the INDEPENDENT DOMINATING SET and the INDEPENDENT PERFECT DOMINATING SET problems on AT-free graphs. We also show how to adapt these algorithms such that they solve the corresponding problem for graphs with bounded asteroidal number in polynomial time. Finally, we observe that the problems CLIQUE and PARTITION INTO CLIQUES remain NP-complete when restricted to AT-free graphs.
Simple heuristics and PTASs for intersection graphs in wireless ad hoc networks
Authors: Xiang-Yang Li, Yu Wang
Venue: Proceedings of the 6th international workshop on Discrete algorithms and methods for mobile computing and communications (2002)

In wireless ad hoc networks, each wireless device has a transmission range, which is usually modeled as a disk centered at this node. A wireless node can send message directly to all nodes lying inside this disk. We present several intersection graphs to model the wireless networks. Then we present some simple heuristics and/or PTASs to approximate the maximum independent set, the minimum vertex cover and the minimum graph coloring in these graph models.
Design Essentials with Adobe Illustrator and Adobe PhotoShop, 2nd edition
Authors: Tanya Wendling
Venue:  (1994)

:The updated and revised edition of this award-winning title covers all the features of the latest versions of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. Readers get an illustrated step-by-step guide to creating graphic effects-ideal for graphics professionals!Steps to creating over 40 techniques used by designers, illustrators, and photographersProvides tips and advice for timesaving shortcuts-great for those with urgent deadlinesCovers blending, textures, duotones, printing, special effects, and more
Adobe PhotoShop Creative Techniques
Authors: Gary Poyssick, Ellen Behoriam
Venue:  (1995)

:For fast answers to common questions, this practical reference is ideal. Designers get 150 spreads of the most requested Photoshop tasks-straightforward steps and clear screen shots show users how to get the job done instantly.Durable, lay-flat packaging makes this book easy to useMaterial derived from research conducted with designersDirect information on photo acquisition and manipulation, text, color, and more