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The role of instruction sequencing in structured microprogramming
Authors: Louise H. Jones
Venue: ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter (1973)

The current literature is filled with descriptions of various microprogrammed processors and discussions of the improvements in performance that can be realized through microprogramming. Thus, Tucker and Flynn [1] describe a dynamically microprogrammed processor and give several examples of problem-oriented programming in which the performance of the microcode was much better than that of assembly language code (System/360, normalized technology). Recently, Abd-alla and Karlgaard [2] have developed an algorithm for the synthesis of applications-oriented microcode for a dynamically microprogrammed computer. Their paper gives examples of problem-oriented architectures (realized through specialized instruction sets) which have much better performance than the corresponding general purpose architectures. This trend toward realizing specialized computer systems by means of writable control store probably means that more people will be writing microcode in the future. In particular, it seems worthwhile to consider the relation of the instruction sequencing functions of a given machine to both the ease of writing correct microcode and the size of control memory required for that machine. So far there seems to have been little or no discussion of this topic in the literature [3].
Unsupervised possibilistic clustering
Authors: Miin-Shen Yang, Kuo-Lung Wu
Venue: Pattern Recognition (2006)

In fuzzy clustering, the fuzzy c-means (FCM) clustering algorithm is the best known and used method. Since the FCM memberships do not always explain the degrees of belonging for the data well, Krishnapuram and Keller proposed a possibilistic approach to clustering to correct this weakness of FCM. However, the performance of Krishnapuram and Keller's approach depends heavily on the parameters. In this paper, we propose another possibilistic clustering algorithm (PCA) which is based on the FCM objective function, the partition coefficient (PC) and partition entropy (PE) validity indexes. The resulting membership becomes the exponential function, so that it is robust to noise and outliers. The parameters in PCA can be easily handled. Also, the PCA objective function can be considered as a potential function, or a mountain function, so that the prototypes of PCA can be correspondent to the peaks of the estimated function. To validate the clustering results obtained through a PCA, we generalized the validity indexes of FCM. This generalization makes each validity index workable in both fuzzy and possibilistic clustering models. By combining these generalized validity indexes, an unsupervised possibilistic clustering is proposed. Some numerical examples and real data implementation on the basis of the proposed PCA and generalized validity indexes show their effectiveness and accuracy.
Rapid and brief communication: Comparison among feature extraction methods for HIV-1 protease cleavage site prediction
Authors: Loris Nanni
Venue: Pattern Recognition (2006)

Recently, several works have approached the HIV-1 protease specificity problem by applying a number of methods from the field of machine learning. However, it is still difficult for researchers to choose the best method due to the lack of an effective comparison. For the first time we have made an extensive study on methods for feature extraction for the problem of HIV-1 protease. We show that a fusion of classifiers trained in different feature spaces permits to obtain a drastically error reduction with respect to the performance of the state-of-the-art.
Great Age Guide to Online Travel (Great Age Guides)
Authors: Sandy Berger
Venue:  (2007)

The Internet is an amazing travel tool, offering us everything we need-if we just know how and where to look. This book was created specifically for adults 50 and older who would like to take advantage of what the Internet has to offer.Even if you are new to computers, this book gives you the tools you need to become your own travel agent!ï¾ It covers everything from planning your trip, getting the best prices, and choosing activities to keep you from getting lost during your journey. Regardless of what type of travels you are planning, this book provides essential do's and don'ts that will help lessen your surprises when reaching your destination.Inside you'll find more information on:ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ ·ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ Comparison shop to find the best bargains on flights, hotels, and activities.ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ ·ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ Find a vacation that suits your interests. Want adventure? Find the best places to hike, kayak, camp, rock climb, and even travel to space.ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ ·ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ Be prepared for international travel by learning the essentials of traveling abroad.ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ ·ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ Find the best places to go if you have special needs.ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ ·ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ Stay in touch with family and friends through Internet cafes, laptops, hotspots, and high-tech gadgets.ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ ·ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ Take your pet with you! Find out which places are pet friendly.Introductionï¾ ï¾ ï¾ 1ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ The Internet: An Amazing Travel Tool2ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ Planning Your Trip3ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ Bargains Galore4ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ Tips for Air and Sea Travel5ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ On the Road Again6ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ Distinctive Travel Adventures7ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ International Travel8ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ Healthy Travel and Special Needs9ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ Traveling with Pets10ï¾ Stay Online on the Go11ï¾ Don't Leave Home Without 'Em12ï¾ Sharing Memories from Your Travelsï¾ ï¾ Categoryï¾ General PCCoversï¾ ï¾ ï¾ InternetUser Levelï¾ ï¾ ï¾ BeginningSandy Berger has more than three decades of experience as a computer and technology expert and is a featured technology expert writer for AARP.Sandy is president of Computer Living Corp, a computer consulting and training company, and writes a monthly column in Smart Computing magazine called “TechMates.” She has authored three Great Age Guides, including the Internet, Better Living Through Technology, and Gadgets and Gizmos.ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ www.greatagebooks.com ...where learning never ends!The Great Age website is an oasis of information that will help further enhance your learning. The website will provide access to:ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ ·ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ Great Age Bookstoreï¾ ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ ·ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ Great Age Product Reviewsï¾ ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ ·ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ Great Age Tutorialsï¾ ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ ·ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ Great Age Video Programsï¾ ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ ·ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ Great Age Newsletterï¾ ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ ·ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ Great Age Podcastsï¾ ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ ·ï¾ ï¾ ï¾ Great Age Community Room$19.99 USA / $24.99 CAN / £13.99 Net UK 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
Understanding MySQL Internals
Authors: Sasha Pachev
Venue:  (2007)

Although MySQL's source code is open in the sense of being publicly available, it's essentially closed to you if you don't understand it. In this book, Sasha Pachev -- a former member of the MySQL Development Team -- provides a comprehensive tour of MySQL 5 that shows you how to figure out the inner workings of this powerful database. You'll go right to heart of the database to learn how data structures and convenience functions operate, how to add new storage engines and configuration options, and much more.The core of Understanding MySQL Internals begins with an Architecture Overview that provides a brief introduction of how the different components of MySQL work together. You then learn the steps for setting up a working compilable copy of the code that you can change and test at your pleasure. Other sections of the book cover: Core server classes, structures, and APIThe communication protocol between the client and the serverConfiguration variables, the controls of the server; includes a tutorial on how to add your ownThread-based request handling -- understanding threads and how they are used in MySQLAn overview of MySQL storage enginesThe storage engine interface for integrating third-party storage enginesThe table lock managerThe parser and optimizer for improving MySQL's performanceIntegrating a transactional storage engine into MySQLThe internals of replication Understanding MySQL Internals provides unprecedented opportunities for developers, DBAs, database application programmers, IT departments, software vendors, and computer science students to learn about the inner workings of this enterprise-proven database. With this book, you will soon reach a new level of comprehension regarding database development that will enable you to accomplish your goals. It's your guide to discovering and improving a great database.
GenoProfiler: batch processing of high-throughput capillary fingerprinting data
Authors: Frank M. You, Ming-Cheng Luo, Yong Qiang Gu, Gerard R. Lazo, Karin Deal, Jan Dvorak, Olin D. Anderson
Venue: Bioinformatics (2007)

Summary: High-throughput content fingerprinting techniques employing capillary electrophoresis place new demands on the editing of fingerprint files for the downstream contig assembly program, FPC. A cross-platform software application, GenoProfiler, was developed for automated editing of sized fingerprinting profiles generated by the ABI Genetic Analyzers. The batch-processing module extracts the sized fragment information directly from the ABI raw trace files, or from data files exported from GeneMapper or other size calling software, removes the background noise and undesired fragments, and generates fragment size files compatible with the FPC software. Availability: http://wheat.pw.usda.gov/PhysicalMapping/ Contact: oandersn@pw.usda.gov
The Virtual Venue: User-Computer Interaction in Information-Rich Virtual Environments
Authors: Doug A. Bowman, Larry F. Hodges, Jay Bolter
Venue: Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments (1998)

We present a virtual environment application that allows users to access embedded information within an immersive virtual space. Due to the richness and complexity of this environment, efficient and easy-to-use interaction techniques are a crucial requirement. The “Virtual Venue” seamlessly combines both twoand three-dimensional interaction techniques into a single system and utilizes previously reported as well as novel techniques that fit the task of information access. We present tools for user control of the system, travel through the environment, and information retrieval, as well as authoring tools for the creation of information-rich virtual environments. A usability study and its results are also presented and discussed. The study indicates that the use of abstract information that is tightly coupled to the virtual environment can be quite successful in enhancing the relevance of both the environment and the information. Results also show that the set of well-constrained interaction techniques presented here are usable and efficient for information retrieval.
What's NEXT? An interactive next best view approach
Authors: Andrea Bottino, Aldo Laurentini
Venue: Pattern Recognition (2006)

Shape-from-silhouettes algorithms use either a surface or a volumetric approach. A problem with the volumetric approach is that in general we know neither the accuracy of the reconstruction, nor where to locate new viewpoints for improving the accuracy. In this paper we present a general approach to interactive, object-specific volumetric algorithms, based on a necessary condition for the best possible reconstruction to have been performed. The outlined approach can be applied to any class of objects. As an example of this approach, an interactive algorithm has been implemented for convex polyhedra.
User Needs Analysis and requirements engineering: Theory and practice
Authors: Gitte Lindgaard, Richard Dillon, Patricia Trbovich, Rachel White, Gary Fernandes, Sonny Lundahl, Anu Pinnamaneni
Venue: Interacting with Computers (2006)

Several comprehensive User Centred Design methodologies have been published in the last decade, but while they all focus on users, they disagree on exactly what activities should take place during the User Needs Analysis, what the end products of a User Needs Analysis should cover, how User Needs Analysis findings should be presented, and how these should be documented and communicated. This paper highlights issues in different stages of the User Needs Analysis that appear to cause considerable confusion among researchers and practitioners. It is our hope that the User-Centred Design community may begin to address these issues systematically. A case study is presented reporting a User Needs Analysis methodology and process as well as the user interface design of an application supporting communication among first responders in a major disaster. It illustrates some of the differences between the User-Centred Design and the Requirements Engineering communities and shows how and where User-Centred Design and Requirements Engineering methodologies should be integrated, or at least aligned, to avoid some of the problems practitioners face during the User Needs Analysis.
25 Things to Make and Do in Adobe Photoshop Elements 4
Authors: Lisa Matthews
Venue:  (2005)

Are your photos getting lost in the cyberspace of your hard drive? 25 Things to Make and Do in Photoshop Elements 4 shows you how to instantly arrange all your photos by date, event, place, or subject for easy viewing, and then turn them into real world projects! Adobe veteran Lisa Matthews teaches you how to fix up your images and walks you through the process of turning them into finished projects in record time!You'll learn to: Organize your images like a pro Improve photos: remove red-eye, adjust colors, and highlight the subject of your photo Merge multiple photos to make artistic compositions Construct your own Web galleries Put your own artwork on T-shirts, magnets, or tattoos Create custom party hats and banners Make original labels for both music CDs and photo archive disks ï¾ Print wallet-sized photos to share with friends and family "Stitch" several images together to create a panorama Use the Creations Wizard to create custom slideshows with sound, calendars, and recipe booksThis book is for Windows users only. 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
Moving to Free Software
Authors: Marcel Gagné
Venue:  (2006)

Stop paying for Windows software! There are free alternatives that are just as good . . . even better!In Moving to Free Software, world-renowned open source software expert Marcel Gagne tours the little-known world of free Windows software, uncovering today's best packages for everything you'll ever want to do with your PC! You'll discover amazing tools for everything from Web browsing to instant messaging, office productivity to gaming, and even Windows security. You won't see this software advertised in fancy magazines, or on TV . . . it's the best kept secret in computing! Surf the Web safer, faster, and smarter with Firefox Get free Spam filtering and advanced email security with Thunderbird Discover OpenOffice.org 2.0, today's super-powered office productivity suite Get free instant messaging that talks to AOL, ICQ, Yahoo!, and MSN Make free calls anywhere on Earth, with Skype Create podcasts (and more) with Audacity . . . or download podcasts with Juice Build your own Web site with NVU Create and edit digital art with Inkscape and The GIMP Protect your Windows computer with Spybot and ClamWin Discover great free games, including Flightgear, the better flight simulatorThere's more--from handy utilities like CD Ripper to pro-quality desktop publishing software for all your newsletters and brochures. This book gives you software the way it's supposed to be--powerful, friendly, and free! 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
Hot-Wiring Your Creative Process: Strategies for print and new media designers (VOICES)
Authors: Curt Cloninger
Venue:  (2006)

Design philosophies can be useful, but inspiration, creative strategies, and efficient work habits are what really get the job done. Designer, instructor, and author Curt Cloninger provides a multitude of strategies, tools, and practices that readers can use to inject a big dose of creativity into just about any design project. With illustrations drawn from 20th-century French philosophy, medieval manuscripts, punkrock posters, and more, Curt's innovative text introduces readers to his personal toolkit for hot-wiring the creative process. You'll learn strategies to: · Recognize and believe in your creative powers · Develop effective methods for evaluating your own work · Draw inspiration from the past · Use standard software in experimental ways, and find nonstandard applications to create new effects · Maintain a personal design playground · Mine your subconscious with the Oblique Strategies Cards, developed by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt · Un-stick your imagination by “blitz-designing” mock-ups Curt Cloninger is an artist, designer, author, and instructor in Multimedia Arts & Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. His book Fresh Styles for Web Designers: Eye Candy from the Underground (New Riders, 2002) is an industry standard on creative Web design solutions. Curt's art and design work has been featured in I.D. Magazine, HOW Magazine, The New York Times, Desktop Magazine, and at digital arts festivals from Korea to Brazil. He regularly speaks at international events such as HOW Design, South by Southwest, Web Design World, and FILE. His pirate signal broadcasts from lab404.com to facilitate lively dialog. 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
An address-light, integrated MAC and routing protocol for wireless sensor networks
Authors: Sunil Kulkarni, Aravind Iyer, Catherine Rosenberg
Venue: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON) (2006)

We propose an address-light, integrated MAC and routing protocol (abbreviated AIMRP) for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Due to the broad spectrum of WSN applications, there is a need for protocol solutions optimized for specific application classes. AIMRP is proposed for WSNs deployed for detecting rare events which require prompt detection and response. AIMRP organizes the network into concentric tiers around the sink(s), and routes event reports by forwarding them from one tier to another, in the direction of (one of) the sink(s). AIMRP is address-light in that it does not employ unique per-node addressing, and integrated since the MAC control packets are also responsible for finding the next-hop node to relay the data, via an anycast query. For reducing the energy expenditure due to idle-listening, AIMRP provides a power-saving algorithm which requires absolutely no synchronization or information exchange. We evaluate AIMRP through analysis and simulations, and compare it with another MAC protocol proposed for WSNs, S-MAC. AIMRP outperforms S-MAC for event-detection applications, in terms of total average power consumption, while satisfying identical sensor-to-sink latency constraints.
Web-based intervention support system for health promotion
Authors: Huigang Liang, Yajiong Xue, Bruce A. Berger
Venue: Decision Support Systems (2006)

The Web has attracted considerable attention as an avenue to improve healthcare delivery. This paper describes the development of a Web-based intervention support system (WISS) that helps provide tailored interventions to enhance health-related behavior change. The tailoring strategy is based on the transtheoretical model (TTM). The performance of WISS was assessed by a pilot study, a controlled randomized longitudinal experiment involving 366 multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. Results suggest that WISS can reduce MS patients' medication discontinuation rate and move more patients to a stage where dropout is least likely to occur.
Meta-level control architecture for massively multiagent simulations
Authors: Shohei Yamane, Toru Ishida
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

Various situations in a massively multi-agent simulation will emerge in a simulation or the period of the simulation will become too long. These situations cause problems for system operators in that each action scenario becomes too complex to maintain and a simulation costs very long time. Therefore, flexible control of the simulation, such as changing simulation speed and switching agents' action scenarios, is required. We propose a meta-scenario description language and a meta-level control architecture. The meta-scenario description language describes how to control simulations and agents based on an extended finite state machine. Meta-level control architecture achieves control on the basis of meta-scenarios provided by a meta-scenario interpreter, which controls interpreters of agents' action scenarios and the simulation environment. In addition, our proposed architecture does not lose scalability of massively multi-agent systems for some applications.
Indexing Fast Moving Objects for kNN Queries Based on Nearest Landmarks
Authors: Dan Lin, Rui Zhang, Aoying Zhou
Venue: Geoinformatica (2006)

With the rapid advancements in positioning technologies such as the Global Positioning System (GPS) and wireless communications, the tracking of continuously moving objects has become more convenient. However, this development poses new challenges to database technology since maintaining up-to-date information regarding the location of moving objects incurs an enormous amount of updates. Existing indexes can no longer keep up with the high update rate while providing speedy retrieval at the same time. This study aims to improve k nearest neighbor (kNN) query performance while reducing update costs. Our approach is based on an important observation that queries usually occur around certain places or spatial landmarks of interest, called reference points. We propose the Reference-Point-based tree (RP-tree), which is a two-layer index structure that indexes moving objects according to reference points. Experimental results show that the RP-tree achieves significant improvement over the TPR-tree.
Why lean needs simulation
Authors: Charles R. Standridge, Jon H. Marvel
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

Lean methods have become the standard approach to the resolution of design and operational issues in production and other systems. However, the lean approach has deficiencies. The deficiencies that simulation can address are presented, discussed and illustrated. These deficiencies include modeling and assessing the effects of variation, making use of all available data, validating the effects of proposed changes before implementation as well identifying other possible improvements, and assessing the interaction effects between system components. Various industrial applications are presented that show that simulation was required to successfully address operational issues that the lean approach failed to identify and could not resolve.
Pivot Table Data Crunching
Authors: Bill Jelen, Michael Alexander
Venue:  (2005)

Become a savvy Microsoft Excel user. Pivot tables are a great feature in Excel that help you organize and analyze data, but not many Excel users know how to use pivot tables. Pivot Table Data Crunching offers a comprehensive review of all the functionalities of Pivot Tables from author Bill Jelen, otherwise known as Mr. Excel from www.mrexcel.com, and Michael Alexander, a Microsoft Certified Application Developer. The authors' practical scenarios and real-world advice demonstrate the benefits of Pivot Tables and how to avoid the common pitfalls of every day data crunching. Each solution presented in the book can be accomplished with resources available in the Excel interface, making Pivot Table Data Crunching a beneficial resource for all levels of Excel users.