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Accounting,Information Technology,and Business Solutions, 2nd edition
Authors: Anita Hollander, Eric Denna, J. Owen Cherrington
Venue:  (1999)

:Proven to be one of the most successful new AIS textbooks on the market,this book continues to be a popular choice among innovative instructors and at schools exploring new approaches to teaching AIS. While most books follow a more traditional orientation,this book presents a unique and distinct approach. This was the first AIS book to accurately address the changing roles of accounting,accountants,and information technology within organizations. Understanding the activities,processes,and information needs of organization stakeholders remains the focus in the Second Edition. Students learn that in the competitive organizations of today and tomorrow,accountants cannot simply prepare and report information,they must take a more active role in business decisions,and provide solutions that impact the organization's bottom line.
Variable neighborhood search for the degree-constrained minimum spanning tree problem
Authors: Celso C. Ribeiro, Maurício C. Souza
Venue: Discrete Applied Mathematics (2002)

Given an undirected graph with weights associated with its edges, the degree-constrained minimum spanning tree problem consists in finding a minimum spanning tree of the given graph, subject to constraints on node degrees. We propose a variable neighborhood search heuristic for the degree-constrained minimum spanning tree problem, based on a dynamic neighborhood model and using a variable neighborhood descent iterative improvement algorithm for local search. Computational experiments illustrating the effectiveness of the approach on benchmark problems are reported.
Networking Fundamentals from Installation to Application, 2nd edition
Authors: Joseph R. Levy, Glenn Hartwig
Venue:  (1998)

:Large and small businesses alike are increasing their dependence on LANs (local area networks) to work more closely with one another, communicate quickly and efficiently, and coordinate activities and share resources with coworkers down the hall or colleagues across the globe. For networking newcomers, the choices and decisions about setting up LANs can be confusing and often downright intimidating. Networking Fundamentals: From Installation to Application is a concise and pragmatic path to reaping the benefits of powerful networks without the headaches or conflicting streams of information about the best networking technologies . . . or whether you really need a network at all! Authors Joseph R. Levy and Glenn Hartwig present an excellent introduction to networking fundamentals, from implementation through application options, including tips and strategy guides on what LANs are and what they can do for you. Here are answers -- without all the jargon and MIS double-talk -- to questions about hardware, software, cabling, standards, security, maintenance, and topology (also known as network architecture). Networking Fundamentals also tackles the latest developments in networking technology, the benefits and drawbacks of all major LAN operating systems, and chapter-by-chapter glossaries on confusing networking terms. Plus, the books appendices include timely and valuable information on LAN user groups, vendors, and publications. With a copy of Networking Fundamentals in hand, making the right choices in personal connectivity solutions is as easy as 1-2-3.
Office 2000 Answers! Tech Support at Your Fingertips
Authors: Martin S. Matthews, Carole Boggs Matthews
Venue:  (1999)

:The #1 Office Suite now extends desktop productivity to the Web, helping users streamline the way they work with people and information. Covers it allWord, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, IE, Access, and Publisher. Endorsed by Stream Internationalthe world's largest third-party tech support organization. Lots of detail on how to take advantage of the seamless integration and Web capabilities of Office 2000. Office 2000 Answers! Tech Support at Your Fingertips. A Whole Book of Office 2000 Answers for Less Than the Price of One Support Call! Q: Why pay $50, $100, $150, or even more for one phone call to tech support when you can have the answers you need at your fingertips for under $25? A: Get this valuable, reader-friendly book and you'll get hundreds of answers to all of your basic and advanced Office 2000 questions, straight from the databases of Stream International - the world's largest third-party tech support organization. Inside, you'll find expert advice on using each component of the suite - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Internet Explorer, Access, and Publisher - as well as on running the entire suite as a fine-tuned unit. Office 2000 Answers! make it easy to: Locate the answer you need in seconds! Inside are hundreds of expert answers arranged by topic for fast access. Sharpen your Office skills faster than you can sharpen apencil - sidebars, tips, warnings, and time-saving techniques show you how. Preview chapters easily using the quick, at-a-glance descriptions. Find help - fast! A comprehensive and cross-referenced index points the way to the information you need. When it comes to Office 2000 support questions, there's only one answer - Office 2000 Answers!
Creative Destruction: Business Survival Strategies in the Global Internet Economy
Authors: Lee W. McKnight, Raul L. Katz, Paul M. Vaaler
Venue:  (2002)

:More than fifty years ago, Joseph Schumpeter stated that processes intrinsic to a capitalist society produce a "creative destruction," whereby innovations destroy obsolete technologies, only to be assaulted in turn by newer and more efficient rivals. This book asks whether the current chaotic state of the telecommunications and related Internet industries is evidence of creative destruction, or simply a result of firms, governments, and others wasting valuable resources with limited benefits to society as a whole. In telecommunications, for example, wireless, IP, and cable-based technologies are all fighting for a share of the market currently dominated by older, circuit-switched, copper-terminated networks. This process is accompanied by mergers, acquisitions, bankruptcies, and investment and divestment in worldwide markets. The selections discuss the primary challenge facing firms, governments, and other players: how to exploit the opportunities created by such destructive dynamics. They highlight the importance of national regulations promoting competition and nonmonopolistic market structures, as well as the role of new technologies such as the Internet in driving down the price and speeding the diffusion of innovative products and services in telecommunications, media, electronic retailing, and other "new economy" industries.
Wireless Access Networks: Fixed Wireless Access and WLL Networks--Design and Operation
Authors: Martin P. Clark, Martin Clarke
Venue:  (2000)

:Wireless provides a means for effective, efficient and rapid deployment of new access networks in areas previously without telecommunications service or short of capacity. Fixed wireless access networks and Wireless Local Loop (WLL) technology are, therefore, playing an important role in the restructuring of the public telecommunications industry. Written in a highly accessible, well-illustrated and simple-to-read format, this book presents the economics, the practicalities, the technical and operational aspects of planning and maintaining fixed wireless access networks, and explains when and why they are attractive. Topics covered include: Design of radio systems and their basic functionality Point-to-point (PTP) and point-to-multipoint (PMP) radio Calculation of radio system range and reliability Fixed wireless applications and their network integration Wireless Access Networks is an invaluable and complete reference for all involved in fixed wireless access and wireless local loop, including business strategists, marketing, technical, planning and operations staff of public network operators, as well as students.
The Complete Idiot's Pocket Guide to Word for Windows
Authors: Alpha Books Staff
Venue:  (1993)

:This handy little book presents the most essential information about working in Windows through the "wit and wisdom" style that computer idiots around the world have come to love!Features a task-oriented style that provides a fast and easy refresher on the most common featuresPresents an open, friendly design that includes many screen shots, easy-to-understand explanations, and Quick Step instructionsLean trim size and low cost make it the perfect travel companion and impulse purchase 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
Test Yourself MCSE Windows 2000 Accelerated (Exam 70-240)
Authors: Brian P. Mohr
Venue:  (2000)

:Don't let the real test be your first test! Osborne's MCSE Windows 2000 Accelerated Test Yourself Practice Exams contains hundreds of practice questions for exam 70-240. The book is organized by exam objective and contains in-depth answers that explain why the correct options are right and why the incorrect options are wrong. Don*t Let the Real Test Be Your First Test!Practice Makes Perfect-Score Higher With The Most Effective MCSE Self-Test Program Available. More Questions - More Content. Based on the MCSE Microsoft Windows 2000 Accelerated exam (70-240)More than 700 realistic exam questions to build your knowledgeAnswers provide in-depth explanations to teach what you need to knowOrganized by topic,this Test Yourself book will increase your chances for passing the difficult Accelerated exam Answers provide in-depth explanations*and show why the incorrect choices are wrong,as shown below&#58 You have been assigned the job of configuring five new servers that will run Windows 2000 Advanced Server. Your responsibility is to implement a low cost disk fault-tolerance system that will keep the servers running even if the disk controller fails. Which of the following configurations will help you accomplish this considering the servers have only two hard drives each? A. Create striped volumes B. Create mirrored volumes C. Implement disk duplexing D. Implement RAID5 volumes C. Implement disk duplexing. The disk duplexing methods will keep the servers running even if the disk controller fails. This method of mirroring is supported in Windows 2000 servers by installing separate disk controllers foreach of the disk. A is incorrect because the striped volumes are not fault tolerant. B is incorrect because mirrored volumes have a single disk controller and if the disk controller fails,the server cannot keep running. D is incorrect because the servers only have two disks each and RAID5 volumes need a minimum of three disks.
Authentication tests and the structure of bundles
Authors: Joshua D. Guttman, F. Javier Thayer
Venue: Theoretical Computer Science (2002)

Suppose a principal in a cryptographic protocol creates and transmits a message containing a new value v, later receiving v back in a different cryptographic context. It can be concluded that some principal possessing the relevant key has received and transformed the message in which v was emitted. In some circumstances, this principal must be a regular participant of the protocol, not the penetrator. An inference of this kind is an authentication test. We introduce two main kinds of authentication test. An outgoing test is one in which the new value v is transmitted in encrypted form, and only a regular participant can extract it from that form. An incoming test is one in which v is received back in encrypted form, and only a regular participant can put it in that form. We combine these two tests with a supplementary idea, the unsolicited test, and a related method for checking that keys remain secret. Together, these techniques determine what authentication properties are achieved by a wide range of cryptographic protocols. In this paper we introduce authentication tests and prove their soundness. We illustrate their power by giving new and straightforward proofs of security goals for several protocols. We also illustrate how to use the authentication tests as a heuristic for finding attacks against incorrect protocols. Finally, we suggest a protocol design process. We express these ideas in the strand space formalism (Thayer et al. J. Comput. Security 7 (1999) 191-230), which provides a convenient context to prove them correct.
Grey-Scale Morphology Based on Fuzzy Logic
Authors: Ting-Quan Deng, Henk J. A. M. Heijmans
Venue: Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision (2002)

There exist several methods to extend binary morphology to grey-scale images. One of these methods is based on fuzzy logic and fuzzy set theory. Another approach starts from the complete lattice framework for morphology and the theory of adjunctions. In this paper, both approaches are combined. The basic idea is to use (fuzzy) conjunctions and implications which are adjoint in the definition of dilations and erosions, respectively. This gives rise to a large class of morphological operators for grey-scale images. It turns out that this class includes the often used grey-scale Minkowski addition and subtraction.
WWW.PhotoShop.ImageReady: How to Use Photoshop and Imagerady to Create and Prepare Images for the Web
Authors: Greg Simsic
Venue:  (2001)

:Creating graphics for Web sites is one of the most common uses of Photoshop and the addition of ImageReady to the application adds a whole new range of possibilities. Rollovers, animations, image slices, and optimization for the Web are now much easier and faster, and Photoshop's tools have been expanded to offer improved functionality for Web-focused work. Beginning users and experienced Photoshop professionals alike will find that the practical guidance and complete exercises are a more efficient and effective way to learn Photoshop 6 and ImageReady 3 or just to get up to speed on the new features in these newest versions. The tips, notes, and sidebars are filled with expert advice and supplemental information and together with the chapter material provide the reader with an invaluable resource that they can return to time and again. Not only will the reader learn the ins and outs of using the tools and interface of Photoshop and ImageReady but will also understand the artistic and creative reasons behind when and why to use those tools and features.
Portable GUI Development with C++
Authors: Mark Watson
Venue:  (1992)

:Finally, a book that shows readers how to create portable GUI applications that work across all the major windowing environments: Microsoft Windows, XWindows, and Apple. The author explains how to use C++, an adaptable, object-oriented programming language, to write multi-platform GUI applications for non-specific windowing environments. Machine-specific details, as well, need be written only once; once written, they can be stored and called upon as needed when developing and implementing new systems. Plus, appendixes provide complete source code for the C++ GUI class library and the application class library. The author develops several fascinating real-world applications programs and explains how to simplify programming and eliminate common memory management programming bugs. This practical book will appeal to all C and UNIX programmers, applications developers, and programmers, and software developers who want an effective and resourceful way to develop portable GUI applications for use across multiple platforms.
A Practical Guide to Usability Testing, 1st edition
Authors: Joseph F. Dumas, Janice C. Redish
Venue:  (1993)

:In A Practical Guide to Usability Testing, the authors begin by defining usability, advocating and explaining the methods of usability engineering and reviewing many techniques for assessing and assuring usability throughout the development process. They then take you through all the steps in planning and conducting a usability test, analyzing data, and using the results to improve both products and processes. Written in plain English and filled with examples from many types of products and tests, A Practical Guide to Usability Testing discusses the full range of testing options from quick studies with a few subjects to more formal tests with carefully designed controls. The authors discuss the place of usability laboratories in testing as well as the skills you need to conduct a test. Included are forms that you can use or modify to conduct a usability test and layouts of existing labs that will help you build your own. The authors, a human factors psychologist and a linguist, have extensive experience conducting research on usability, doing usability testing, helping companies set up usability labs and programs, and teaching usability engineering and testing.
Official Riven: The Sequel to Mystery, Hints and Solutions
Authors: William H. Keith, Ronald Wartow, Nina Barton, Nina Keith
Venue:  (1997)

:Ths handy, pocket-sized guide gives yu the quick, down-and-dirty information you need.Includes all the walkthroughs for the RIVEN worldUncover the solutions to all the puzzles and mysteries
Stable but responsive cloth
Authors: Kwang-Jin Choi, Hyeong-Seok Ko
Venue: ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) (2002)

We present a semi-implicit cloth simulation technique that is very stable yet also responsive. The stability of the technique allows the use of a large fixed time step when simulating all types of fabrics and character motions. The animations generated using this technique are strikingly realistic. Wrinkles form and disappear in a quite natural way, which is the feature that most distinguishes textile fabrics from other sheet materials. Significant improvements in both the stability and realism were made possible by overcoming the post-buckling instability as well as the numerical instability. The instability caused by buckling arises from a structural instability and therefore cannot be avoided by simply employing a semi-implicit method. Addition of a damping force may help to avoid instabilities; however, it can significantly degrade the realism of the cloth motion. The method presented here uses a particle-based physical model to handle the instability in the post-buckling response without introducing any fictitious damping.
Virtual Private Networks, 2nd edition
Authors: Charlie Scott, Scott Wolfe Erwin
Venue:  (1998)

:Historically, only large companies could afford secure networks, which they created from expensive leased lines. Smaller folks had to make do with the relatively untrusted Internet. Nowadays, even large companies have to go outside their private nets, because so many people telecommute or log in while they're on the road. How do you provide a low-cost, secure electronic network for your organization? The solution is a virtual private network: a collection of technologies that creates secure connections or "tunnels" over regular Internet lines -- connections that can be easily used by anybody logging in from anywhere. A number of products now exist to help you develop that solution. This book tells you how to plan and build a VPN. It starts with general concerns like costs, configuration, and how a VPN fits in with other networking technologies like firewalls. It continues with detailed descriptions of how to install and use VPN technologies that are available for Windows NT and UNIX, such as PPTP and L2TP, Altavista Tunnel, Cisco PIX, and the secure shell (SSH). New features in the second edition include SSH, which is a popular VPN solution for UNIX systems, and an expanded description of the IPSec standard, for which several vendors have announced support. Topics include: How the VPN compares to other available networking technologies Introduction to encryption, firewalls, the IPSec standard, and other technologies that let VPNs work Point to Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) and L2TP The Altavista Tunnel The Cisco PIX Firewall Secure Shell (SSH) Maintenance and troubleshooting
How Networks Work, 6th edition
Authors: Les Freed, Frank Derfler
Venue:  (2002)

From the Book:More than 80 percent of the personal computers used in business and education are connected to a network or the Internet. The chances are good that you'll have to interact with a network soon if you don't already. This book helps you understand computer networks in several ways. It helps to scratch the intellectual itch you might have about where the data resides and what goes on inside the cable, equipment, and software. If you understand the basic structure and operation of a network, you can be more efficient in your job. The information in this book is an excellent foundation for growth if you want to learn more about networking. Finally, you can use this book as a training tool for working on networked computers. Computer networking didn't just emerge as a unique and independent technology. Networking depends on many things you've seen or are familiar with already. In fact, modern networks have roots in the early telegraph and telephone systems. In this book, we take advantage of those historical ties to explain and illustrate the underlying technology of networks in a simple graphic format. Then, we move into modern networking and explain the relationships between the hardware and software in networks. Our illustrations detail packets, network interface cards, servers, routers, management software, and many other aspects of networking. Our constant goal is to provide useful information in an easily understood manner. The information in this book isn't specific to any particular type of computer or network operating system. We illustrate models of operation and tell you how some popular products fit into the models. Whether your computer is an IBM PC, DEC VAX, or anApple Macintosh; whether your network operating system is NetWare, LANtastic, or UNIX; and whether your cabling is copper or fiber-optic, the information in this book applies to your network.
Mastering MS Excel 2000 Advd
Authors: H. Napier, Philip J. Judd
Venue:  (1999)

:With a completion time of 75+ hours, this text features extensive step-by-step instructions combined with numerous screen illustrations to enable students to learn the more advanced features of Microsoft Excel 2000.
Existence Verification for Singular Zeros of Complex Nonlinear Systems
Authors: R. Baker Kearfott, Jianwei Dian, A. Neumaier
Venue: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (2000)

Computational fixed point theorems can be used to automatically verify existence and uniqueness of a solution to a nonlinear system of n equations in n variables ranging within a given region of n-space. Such computations succeed, however, only when the Jacobi matrix is nonsingular everywhere in this region. However, in problems such as bifurcation problems or surface intersection problems, the Jacobi matrix can be singular, or nearly so, at the solution. For n real variables, when the Jacobi matrix is singular, tiny perturbations of the problem can result in problems either with no solution in the region, or with more than one; thus no general computational technique can prove existence and uniqueness. However, for systems of n complex variables, the multiplicity of such a solution can be verified. That is the subject of this paper.Such verification is possible by computing the topological degree, but such computations heretofore have required a global search on the (n-1)-dimensional boundary of an n-dimensional region. Here it is observed that preconditioning leads to a system of equations whose topological degree can be computed with a much lower-dimensional search. Formulas are given for this computation, and the special case of rank-defect one is studied, both theoretically and empirically.Verification is possible for certain subcases of the real case. That will be the subject of a companion paper.
NBA Live 2000
Authors: Mark Cohen, Ea Sports
Venue:  (1999)

:With "NBA LIVE 20000" players can master the courts. Includes tips on trading to build the ultimate team, complete stats and bios for both players and teams, hints for successfully surviving the NBA draft, and all moves and plays are covered.