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Pareto control in multi-objective dynamic scheduling of a stepper machine in semiconductor wafer fabrication
Authors: Amit Kumar Gupta, Appa Iyer Sivakumar
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

This paper focuses on Pareto control in multi-objective dynamic scheduling of a stepper machine that is considered as a bottleneck machine in the semiconductor wafer fabrication process. We propose the use of compromise programming method for achieving Pareto control in the needs of conflicting objectives such as mean cycle time, cycle time variance and maximum tardiness. Using conjunctive simulated scheduling, at each decision instance in simulated time, a Pareto job is selected and loaded on the machine for processing. Using the real factory data, we demonstrate the concept of Pareto control in dynamic scheduling and show how a stepper machine can be controlled at specified needs of scheduling objectives. The results obtained from Pareto control approach are superior to the simulated results of actual operating heuristic in the factory.
A systems approach to scalable transportation network modeling
Authors: Kalyan S. Perumalla
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

Emerging needs in transportation network modeling and simulation are raising new challenges with respect to scalability of network size and vehicular traffic intensity, speed of simulation for simulation-based optimization, and fidelity of vehicular behavior for accurate capture of event phenomena. Parallel execution is warranted to sustain the required detail, size and speed. However, few parallel simulators exist for such applications, partly due to the challenges underlying their development. Moreover, many simulators are based on time-stepped models, which can be computationally inefficient for the purposes of modeling evacuation traffic. Here an approach is presented to designing a simulator with memory and speed efficiency as the goals from the outset, and, specifically, scalability via parallel execution. The design makes use of discrete event modeling techniques as well as parallel simulation methods. Our simulator, called SCATTER, is being developed, incorporating such design considerations. Preliminary performance results are presented on benchmark road networks, showing scalability to one million vehicles simulated on one processor.
Visual Basic 2005 (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))
Authors: Tim Patrick, Paul Lomax, Ron Petrusha, Steven Roman
Venue:  (2006)

When Microsoft made Visual Basic into an object-oriented programming language, millions of VB developers resisted the change to the .NET platform. Now, after integrating feedback from their customers and creating Visual Basic 2005, Microsoft finally has the right carrot. Visual Basic 2005 offers the power of the .NET platform, yet restores the speed and convenience of Visual Basic. Accordingly, we've revised the classic in a Nutshell guide to the Visual Basic language to cover the Visual Basic 2005 version and all of its new features. Unlike other books on the subject, Visual Basic 2005 in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition doesn't assume you're a novice. It's a detailed, professional reference to the Visual Basic language-a reference that you can use to jog your memory about a particular language element or parameter. It'll also come in handy when you want to make sure that there isn't some "gotcha" you've overlooked with a particular language feature.The book is divided into three major parts: Part I introduces the main features and concepts behind Visual Basic programming; Part II thoroughly details all the functions, statements, directives, objects, and object members that make up the Visual Basic language; and Part III contains a series of helpful appendices. Some of the new features covered include Generics, a convenient new library called My Namespace, and the operators used to manipulate data in Visual Basic.No matter how much experience you have programming with Visual Basic, you want Visual Basic 2005 in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition close by, both as a standard reference guide and as a tool for troubleshooting and identifying programming problems.
CCNA Practice Questions Exam Cram 2 (2nd Edition) (Exam Cram)
Authors: Jeremy Cioara, Chris Ward
Venue:  (2005)

The CCNA is the first exam a candidate takes on the road toward becoming a Cisco certified professional or expert. While Cisco exams are considered very difficult, these exams are also very popular. The CCNA Practice Questions Exam Cram 2ï¾ will provide youï¾ with 500 practice questions and a detailed explanation of correct answers as well as incorrect answers. These questions are provided in print as well as electronic format, complete with a versatile CD-ROM testing engine that provides readiness feedback and simulated test-taking conditions. Special features such as the popular Cram Sheet tearcard are also included toï¾ helpï¾ youï¾ better prepare for the exam.Coverage in CCNA Practice Questions Exam Cram 2, Second Edition applies to the 640-801 (INTRO/ICND), 640-821 (INTRO), and the 640-811 (ICND) exams, and is completely updated to match changes from Cisco Systems to these exams since their introduction in 2003.
Introduction to Networks and Networking, Student Edition, 1 edition
Venue:  (2004)

Introduction to Networks and Networking is a complete guide that describes types of networks, how networking affects society, and the components and tools that are used to create networks in various business models. The student edition is filled with step-by-step exercises, standards-aligned content and activities, projects, cross-curricular exercises, feature articles, and career  links. Based on independent and in-house reviews of state standards, course  outlines, and competitor materials, Glencoe can offer unique networking  textbook that provides real-world explanations and approaches along with  hands-on applications and purposeful projects. Integration of core academics, where appropriate, reinforces state and national standards. Also included in this highly visual book are topics such as networking  careers, ethics, and practical tips for improving productivity. The  companion Web site includes student projects, interactive activities,  self-assessments, support files, resource links, and video clips that give  students live demonstrations of networking concepts. The Teacher Resource  Manual provides targeted professional development resources,  course planning resources, lesson plans, grading rubrics, and assessments. 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
Analyzing Business Data with Excel
Authors: Gerald Knight
Venue:  (2006)

As one of the most widely used desktop applications ever created, Excel is familiar to just about everyone with a computer and a keyboard. Yet most of us don't know the full extent of what Excel can do, mostly because of its recent growth in power, versatility, and complexity. The truth is that there are many ways Excel can help make your job easier-beyond calculating sums and averages in a standard spreadsheet. Analyzing Business Data with Excel shows you how to solve real-world business problems by taking Excel's data analysis features to the max. Rather than focusing on individual Excel functions and features, the book keys directly on the needs of business users. Most of the chapters start with a business problem or question, and then show you how to create pointed spreadsheets that address common data analysis issues. Aimed primarily at experienced Excel users, the book doesn't spend much time on the basics. After introducing some necessary general tools, it quickly moves into more specific problem areas, such as the following: Statistics Pivot tables Workload forecasting Modeling Measuring quality Monitoring complex systems Queuing Optimizing Importing data If you feel as though you're getting shortchanged by your overall application of Excel, Analyzing Business Data with Excel is just the antidote. It addresses the growing Excel data analysis market head on. Accountants, managers, analysts, engineers, and supervisors-one and all-will learn how to turn Excel functionality into actual solutions for the business problems that confront them. 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
CCDA Exam Certification Guide (CCDA Self-Study, 640-861), Second Edition
Authors: Anthony Bruno, Jacqueline Kim
Venue:  (2003)

The official test preparation guide for the CCDA 640-861 DESGN exam Review topics in the CCDA 640-861 DESGN exam for comprehensive exam readiness Prepare with proven study tools like foundation summaries, and pre- and post-chapter quizzes to ensure mastery of the subject matter Get into test-taking mode with a CD-ROM testing engine containing over 200 questions that measure testing readiness and provide feedback on areas requiring further studyThe first step in the Cisco Systems certification networking design track, CCDA (Cisco Certified Design Associate) certification requires that a candidate pass the CCDA 640-861 DESGN exam. CCDAs have the skills needed to determine customer requirements for security, scalability, and network management; design a network structure that meets customers' needs; identify how to build a network prototype; and link Cisco's products in an end-to-end manner.CCDA Exam Certification Guide (CCDA Self-Study), Second Edition is designed for professional networkers and students who are pursuing CCDA certification. As such, the book will cover all the exam topics upon which candidates will be tested in this new version of the CCDA exam. Each chapter uses all the necessary components to help a reader prepare for the exam, including "Do I Know this Already" quizzes that assess knowledge; Foundation Summary sections that highlight essential concepts; exam topic lists for easy reference; and end-of-chapter review questions. The final chapter in the book contains scenarios that help readers prepare for the exam.A companion CD-ROM contains more than 200 questions intended to provide testing preparation and feedback on areas for further study.
Apple Training Series: Desktop and Portable Systems (2nd Edition) (Apple Training)
Venue:  (2005)

This authoritative, Apple-Certified training course is designed both for professionals who support Apple computers as well as Mac enthusiasts who want to upgrade, service, or troubleshoot their favorite machines. Fully revised, this second edition covers Apple's new models, including the popular Mac mini and the iMac G5. Keyed to the learning objectives of the Apple Desktop Service and Apple Portable Service certification exams, this is the companion curriculum used in AppleCare Technician Training courses worldwide. The book starts out with basic computer theory and underlying technologies, then moves on to cover everything from networking and hardware specifications to displays and internal drives-plus the nitty-gritty steps and diagrams for upgrading and troubleshooting six sample computer models. o Detailed take-apart and upgrade procedures for the Mac mini, eMac, iMac G5, PowerMac G5, iBook G4, and PowerBook G4. o CD-ROM includes six complete service manuals, plus utilities and diagnostic tools o Diagrams and step-by-step instructions help you master techniques fast o Lesson goals and time estimates help you plan your time o Chapter review tests summarize what you've learned The Apple Training Series is both a self-paced learning tool and the companion curriculum for the AppleCare Technician Training and Apple Customer Training programs. Upon completing the course material in this book, you can become an Apple Certified Technician by passing the Apple Desktop Service and Apple Portable Service exams. You can work through this book as a self-paced course, enroll in the online AppleCare Technician Training program, or attend a class at an Apple Authorized Training Center. To learn more, go to www.apple.com/training. 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
The TBM global distance measure for the association of uncertain combat ID declarations
Authors: Branko Ristic, Philippe Smets
Venue: Information Fusion (2006)

The problem is sequential association of combat ID declarations in the multi-target environment. Being random and non-specific, the combat ID declarations are represented by belief functions and manipulated using the tools of the belief function theory as interpreted by the transferable belief model (TBM). The solution is provided in the framework of ''object to ID declaration'' association based on assignment techniques. For that purpose, the paper derives the global cost of assignment (i.e. a dissimilarity measure) based on the plausibility of the global assignment. This measure is directly related to the conflict as described in the TBM. The performance of the proposed method was evaluated by Monte Carlo simulations and a comparison with various alternative dissimilarity measures is carried out in the framework of multi-object classification.
Space-time discontinuous Galerkin method for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations
Authors: C. M. Klaij, J. J. W. van der Vegt, H. van der Ven
Venue: Journal of Computational Physics (2006)

A space-time discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations is presented. We explain the space-time setting, derive the weak formulation and discuss our choices for the numerical fluxes. The resulting numerical method allows local grid adaptation as well as moving and deforming boundaries, which we illustrate by computing the flow around a 3D delta wing on an adapted mesh and by simulating the dynamic stall phenomenon of a 2D airfoil in rapid pitch-up maneuver.
Modelling personality in voices of talking products through prosodic parameters
Authors: Michael Schmitz, Antonio Krüger, Sarah Schmidt
Venue: Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces (2007)

In this paper we report preliminary findings from two user studies that on the one hand investigate how prosodic parameters of synthetic speech can influence the perceived impression of the speakers personality and on the other hand explores if and how people attribute personality to objects such as typical products of daily shopping. The results show that a) prosodic parameters have a strong influence on the perceived personality and can be partially used to achieve a desired impression and b) that subjects clearly attribute personalities to products. Both findings encourage us to continue our work on a dialogue shell for talking products.
ProteomeCommons.org IO Framework: reading and writing multiple proteomics data formats
Authors: J. A. Falkner, J. W. Falkner, P. C. Andrews
Venue: Bioinformatics (2007)

Motivation: Effective use of proteomics data, specifically mass spectrometry data, relies on the ability to read and write the many mass spectrometer file formats. Even with mass spectrometer vendor-specific libraries and vendor-neutral file formats, such as mzXML and mzData it can be difficult to extract raw data files in a form suitable for batch processing and basic research. Introduced here are the ProteomeCommons.org Input and Output Framework, abbreviated to IO Framework, which is designed to abstractly represent mass spectrometry data. This project is a public, open-source, free-to-use framework that supports most of the mass spectrometry data formats, including current formats, legacy formats and proprietary formats that require a vendor-specific library in order to operate. The IO Framework includes an on-line tool for non-programmers and a set of libraries that developers may use to convert between various proteomics file formats. Availability: The current source-code and documentation for the ProteomeCommons.org IO Framework is freely available at http://www.proteomecommons.org/current/531/ Contact: jfalkner@umich.edu
Composition of mappings given by embedded dependencies
Authors: Alan Nash, Philip A. Bernstein, Sergey Melnik
Venue: ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) (2007)

Composition of mappings between schemas is essential to support schema evolution, data exchange, data integration, and other data management tasks. In many applications, mappings are given by embedded dependencies. In this article, we study the issues involved in composing such mappings. Our algorithms and results extend those of Fagin et al. [2004], who studied the composition of mappings given by several kinds of constraints. In particular, they proved that full source-to-target tuple-generating dependencies (tgds) are closed under composition, but embedded source-to-target tgds are not. They introduced a class of second-order constraints, SO tgds, that is closed under composition and has desirable properties for data exchange. We study constraints that need not be source-to-target and we concentrate on obtaining (first-order) embedded dependencies. As part of this study, we also consider full dependencies and second-order constraints that arise from Skolemizing embedded dependencies. For each of the three classes of mappings that we study, we provide: (a) an algorithm that attempts to compute the composition; and (b) sufficient conditions on the input mappings which guarantee that the algorithm will succeed. In addition, we give several negative results. In particular, we show that full and second-order dependencies that are not limited to be source-to-target are not closed under composition (for the latter, under the additional restriction that no new function symbols are introduced). Furthermore, we show that determining whether the composition can be given by these kinds of dependencies is undecidable.
A faster branch-and-bound algorithm for the test-cover problem based on set-covering techniques
Authors: Torsten Fahle, Karsten Tiemann
Venue: Journal of Experimental Algorithmics (JEA) (2007)

The test-cover problem asks for the minimal number of tests needed to uniquely identify a disease, infection, etc. A collection of branch-and-bound algorithms was proposed by De Bontridder et al. [2002]. Based on their work, we introduce several improvements that are compatible with all techniques described in De Bontridder et al. [2002] and the more general setting of weighted test-cover problems. We present a faster data structure, cost-based variable fixing, and adapt well-known set-covering techniques, including Lagrangian relaxation and upper-bound heuristics. The resulting algorithm solves benchmark instances up to 10 times faster than the former approach and up to 100 times faster than a general MIP solver.
On-line trajectory clustering for anomalous events detection
Authors: C. Piciarelli, G. L. Foresti
Venue: Pattern Recognition Letters (2006)

In this paper, we propose a trajectory clustering algorithm suited for video surveillance systems. Trajectories are clustered on-line, as the data are collected, and clusters are organized in a tree-like structure that, augmented with probability information, can be used to perform behaviour analysis, since it allows the identification of anomalous events.
An Agenda Based Mobility Model21
Authors: Qunwei Zheng, Xiaoyan Hong, Jun Liu
Venue: Proceedings of the 39th annual Symposium on Simulation (2006)

Mobility modeling is important in wireless and mobile networking research due to the fact that few real large scale networks is available for performance evaluation. While existing models only take the geographical movements into consideration, we emphasize in our model the importance of human's social roles. We use a person's social activities to drive and model a node's movements. In this paper, we propose an agenda based mobility model which combine both the social activities and the geographic movements. In the design, we use a constructive modeling approach to allow the model to well conform to the real world and to be easy to use. According to our model, each node moves based on its individual agenda, which includes all the activities (when, where and what) on a specific day. To proceed from one activity to another, a node moves from one road address to another address. In deciding each agenda item, we use NHTS survey data to obtain activity distribution, occupation distribution and dwell time distribution. We use simulation to show the network topology generated by the model and ad hoc network routing performance impacted by the model.
Macromedia Studio 8: Training from the Source
Authors: Shaowen Bardzell, Jeffrey Bardzell, Bob Flynn
Venue:  (2006)

Learn by doing! Macromedia Studio 8: Training from the Source provides a comprehensive, working introduction to the most powerful Web design and development suite available. Starting from the ground up, you'll build two Web sites. In the first half of the book, you'll combine the strengths of Macromedia Flash, Fireworks, and Dreamweaver to create an attractive, yet maintainable site. In the second half of the book, you'll focus on building a powerful and dynamic user experience by combining Macromedia Flash, Dreamweaver, Contribute, FlashPaper, and ColdFusion. The enclosed CD-ROM contains all the files you need to complete the projects, plus completed files for you to compare with your results and use as models for future projects. You learn how to: Optimize graphics in Fireworks, balancing quality and file size Design in a standards-compliant, all XHTML-CSS workflow Insert and format text, images, and CSS layers in Dreamweaver Master multimedia concepts, such as timelines, libraries, and file architecture Create Flash animations, using frame-by-frame and tweened animation techniques Create functional buttons using Flash symbols and ActionScript Integrate video into Flash projects Use ColdFusion to display live database data on a Web page Send data in and out of Flash movies to server scripts and databases Leverage the power of Contribute to maintain, distribute, and control Web content and FlashPaper to create, share, distribute, and use documents in a secure, universal format
A two-time-scale design for edge-based detection and rectification of uncooperative flows
Authors: Xingzhe Fan, Kartikeya Chandrayana, Murat Arcak, Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, John Ting-Yung Wen
Venue: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON) (2006)

Existing Internet protocols rely on cooperative behavior of end users. We present a control-theoretic algorithm to counteract uncooperative users which change their congestion control schemes to gain larger bandwidth. This algorithm rectifies uncooperative users; that is, forces them to comply with their fair share, by adjusting the prices fed back to them. It is to be implemented at the edge of the network (e.g., by ISPs), and can be used with any congestion notification policy deployed by the network. Our design achieves a separation of time-scales between the network congestion feedback loop and the price-adjustment loop, thus recovering the fair allocation of bandwidth upon a fast transient phase.
New fermionic formula for unrestricted Kostka polynomials
Authors: Lipika Deka, Anne Schilling
Venue: Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A (2006)

A new fermionic formula for the unrestricted Kostka polynomials of type An-1(1) is presented. This formula is different from the one given by Hatayama et al. and is valid for all crystal paths based on Kirillov-Reshetikhin modules, not just for the symmetric and antisymmetric case. The fermionic formula can be interpreted in terms of a new set of unrestricted rigged configurations. For the proof a statistics preserving bijection from this new set of unrestricted rigged configurations to the set of unrestricted crystal paths is given which generalizes a bijection of Kirillov and Reshetikhin.