ppxscal/embedding_network huggingface dataset:
Visual FoxPro 6 Enterprise Development with Cdrom
Authors: Rod Paddock, John Petersen, Ron Talmage
Venue:  (1998)

:This visual application guide includes Visual FoxPro foundation classes and ready-to-use object-oriented class libraries, which provide all the necessary tools to manage data. It includes how-to instruction for organizing tables of information, running queries, creating an integrated relational database management system, or programming a fully developed data management application for end users.
Modular Models of Intelligence &ndash; Review, Limitations and Prospects
Authors: Amitabha Mukerjee, Amol Dattatraya Mali
Venue: Artificial Intelligence Review (2002)

AI applications are increasingly moving to modular agents, i.e., systems that independently handle parts of the problem based on small locally stored information (Grosz and Davis 1994), (Russell and Norvig 1995). Many such agents minimize inter-agent communication by relying on changes in the environment as their cue for action. Some early successes of this model, especially in robotics (``reactive agents''), have led to a debate over this class of models as a whole. One of the issues on which attention has been drawn is that of conflicts between such agents. In this work we investigate a cyclic conflict that results in infinite looping between agents and has a severe debilitating effect on performance. We present some new results in the debate, and compare this problem with similar cyclicity observed in planning systems, meta-level planners, distributed agent models and hybrid reactive models. The main results of this work are:(a) The likelihood of such cycles developing increases as the behavior sets become more useful. (b) Control methods for avoiding cycles such as prioritization are unreliable, and (c) Behavior refinement methods that reliably avoid these conflicts (either by refining the stimulus, or by weakening the action) lead to weaker functionality.Finally, we show how attempts to introduce learning into the behavior modules will also increase the likelihood of cycles.
Using CompuServe
Authors: Matthew V. Ellsworth
Venue:  (1994)

:This thorough tour of CompuServe focuses on the business user-the one who needs specific information but has little time and money to spend looking for it. This book gives up-to-date coverage of the wealth of resources available on CompuServe, which now has over 1.4 million subscribers.Loaded with tips and advice to maximize the user's time onlineCovers interface software such as CompuServe Information Manager for Windows and OzCisThe only CompuServe book aimed at the business or technical user
DB2 For Dummies
Authors: Paul Zikopoulos, Lily Lugomirski, Roman B. Melnyk
Venue:  (2000)

:This unique guide, written by a senior member of IBM's DB2 development team, is the first book to cover DB2 version 6. And the only book to offer a trial edition of the software on CD-ROM. You will discover how to install a DB2 server and clients, design and administer a database, and much more.
A Modular Collaborative Parallel CFD Workbench
Authors: Kwai L. Wong, A. J. Baker
Venue: The Journal of Supercomputing (2002)

Simulation of physical phenomena on computers has joined engineering mechanics theory and laboratory experimentation as the third method of engineering analysis design. It is in fact the only feasible method for analyzing many critically important phenomena, e.g., quenching, heat treating, full scale phenomena, etc. With the rapid maturation of inexpensive parallel computing technology, and high performance communications, there will emerge shortly a totally new, highly interactive computing/simulation environment supporting engineering design optimization. This environment will exist on the Internet employing interoperable software/hardware infrastructures emergent today. A key element of this will involve development of computational software enabling utilization of all HPCC advances. This paper introduces the concept and details the development of a user-adapted computational simulation software platform prototype on the Internet.
Efficient scheduling of conditional behaviors for high-level synthesis
Authors: Apostolos A. Kountouris, Christophe Wolinski
Venue: ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) (2002)

As hardware designs get increasingly complex and time-to-market constraints get tighter there is strong motivation for high-level synthesis (HLS). HLS must efficiently handle both dataflow-dominated and controlflow-dominated designs as well as designs of a mixed nature. In the past efficient tools for the former type have been developed but so far HLS of conditional behaviors lags behind. To bridge this gap an efficient scheduling heuristic for conditional behaviors is presented. Our heuristic and the techniques it utilizes are based on a unifying design representation appropriate for both types of behavioral descriptions, enabling the proposed heuristic to exploit under the same framework several well-established techniques (chaining, multicycling) as well as conditional resource sharing and speculative execution which are essential in efficiently scheduling conditional behaviors. Preliminary experiments confirm the effectiveness of our approach and prompted the development of the CODESIS HLS tool for further experimentation.
Side views: persistent, on-demand previews for open-ended tasks
Authors: Michael Terry, Elizabeth D. Mynatt
Venue: Proceedings of the 15th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (2002)

We introduce Side Views, a user interface mechanism that provides on-demand, persistent, and dynamic previews of commands. Side Views are designed to explicitly support the practices and needs of expert users engaged in openended tasks. In this paper, we summarize results from field studies of expert users that motivated this work, then discuss the design of Side Views in detail. We show how Side Views' design affords their use as tools for clarifying, comparing, and contrasting commands; generating alternative visualizations; experimenting without modifying the original data (i.e., "what-if" tools); and as tools that support the serendipitous discovery of viable alternatives. We then convey lessons learned from implementing Side Views in two sample applications, a rich text editor and an image manipulation application. These contributions include a discussion of how to implement Side Views for commands with parameters, for commands that require direct user input (such as mouse strokes for a paint program), and for computationally-intensive commands.
Microsoft Word 2002, 1st edition
Authors: Sarah E. Hutchinson, Glen J. Coulthard
Venue:  (2001)

:The Advantage Series presents the Feature-Method-Practice approach to computer software applications to today's technology and business students. This series implements an efficient and effective learning model,which enhances critical thinking skills and provides students and faculty with complete application coverage.
The Penguin Atlas of Media and Information: Key Issues and Global Trends
Authors: Mark Balnaves, Myriad Editions Lim, Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, James Donald
Venue:  (2001)

:Today, an amalgam of new and old media are used to zip messages and data from place to place and person to person while-every day-new and better technology changes how we communicate. The Penguin Atlas of Media and Information is the first comprehensive guide to this global communications revolution. Filled with full-color maps and graphics, it explains and identifies key issues in the current information age and extrapolates trends that shed light on where the sharing of ideas is headed. It covers: * New technologies * The future of print * Learning online * Cellular phones * Owners and corporations * Piracy * Web sites * Radio * Television * Film * Computers and computing The only guide of its kind, The Penguin Atlas of Media and Information is a must-have for students, professionals, and anyone interested in how the world communicates. Author Biography: Dr. Mark Balnaves is program director of the bachelor of social science program at the University of Queensland, Australia. He has written on social equity and telecommunications, the sociology of information, and social psychology methodology. Dr. James Donald is professor of media and head of the School of Media and Information at Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia. Dr. Stephanie Hemelryk Donald is senior lecturer in media and communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Boundary Smoothing via Symmetry Transforms
Authors: Hüseyin Tek, Benjamin B. Kimia
Venue: Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision (2001)

This paper proposes a smoothing technique for shape based on a perturbation analysis of the underlying medial axis, and by iteratively removing skeletal branches. While medial axis regularization usually aims at dealing with its sensitivity in the context of applications such as recognition, we use it here to smooth shape. The approach overcomes a basic drawback with current smoothing techniques, namely, the rounding of perceptually salient corners. The key idea is that the instability of the skeleton under a family of deformations can be dealt with via a symmetry transform which is applied to all related symmetry branches so as to effect an appropriate change in the shape. This leads to the notion of a splice transform which removes a branch coupled with simultaneous changes in the skeleton. In contrast to point-based pruning techniques which use local salience and which cannot construct coarse-scale corners, our approach constructs and preserves coarse-scale curvature extrema, leading to a &ldquo;scale-discrete scale-space&rdquo; for shape. The approach is also applicable to the smoothing of incomplete shapes represented as a set of curve segments.
Windows NT Server 4, 2nd edition
Authors: Jason Garms, James Garms
Venue:  (1998)

:Windows NT Server 4 Unleashed, 2/e provides the fastest path to vital information.Windows NT Server 4 Unleashed provides efficient reference-based solutions for today s most advanced administration problemsPrimary focus is on latest advancements in NT-Clustering, Transaction Server, and Message Que Server as well as coverage on new security features and domain modelsGet the total picture: remote access, networking, control, multi-protocol routing, TCP/IP, RRAS, PPTP, and more!
Computing Connecting Orbits via an Improved Algorithm for Continuing Invariant Subspaces
Authors: J. W. Demmel, L. Dieci, M. J. Friedman
Venue: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (2000)

A successive continuation method for locating connecting orbits in parametrized systems of autonomous ODEs was considered in [Numer. Algorithms, 14 (1997), pp. 103--124]. In this paper we present an improved algorithm for locating and continuing connecting orbits, which includes a new algorithm for the continuation of invariant subspaces. The latter algorithm is of independent interest and can be used in contexts different than the present one.
Essential Virtual Reality Fast: How to Understand the Techniques and Potential of Virtual Reality, 1st edition
Authors: John Vince
Venue:  (1998)

:Essential Virtual Reality fast tells you what is and isn't VR! John Vince provides a potted history of Virtual Reality and explains in easy-to-understand terms what computer graphics are and how they are integral to VR systems. You'll see how important it is to understand the part human factors have to play in creating a good VR system (sound, sight, touch and balance) and take a look at a working VR system. You'll get the answers to questions like: What hardware and software is used? How does multi-user VR work? Can you network VR? What are the applications? What is the future for VR? And you'll have a far better understanding of the impact these exciting techniques will have on our everyday lives.
Special Edition Using Microsoft Word 2000 with Cdrom, 1st edition
Authors: Bill Camarda, Michael Larson, Bill Ray
Venue:  (1999)

:This may be the most detailed book about Word ever written -- and all 1,400 pages have a single goal: to help you become more productive and effective. You'll find step-by-step, detailed help with virtually anything you'll ever want to do with Word, from writing a book to building a Web site, creating a newsletter to streamlining your document review process. Wherever there's an opportunity to save time using Word's document automation features, you'll learn about it here. You'll also find more than 20 brand-new, detailed projects that walk you through some of most challenging document production tasks you're likely to encounter. The #1 bestseller, 100% updated and 400 pages bigger! Step-by-step, hands-on solutions to your toughest document problems Don't just learn Word's document automation features: make the most of them! The most detailed, real-world coverage of Best practices for managing complex documents and workgroup reviews New! 100+ pages of Word 2000 web/intranet site-building coverage Word document security -- including how to avoid macro viruses! Extensive coverage of Word's new multilingual features 100s of new productivity and troubleshooting tips, plus a complete field reference CD-ROM: More than 1,500 pages of up-to-the-moment Office 2000 info: Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher & FrontPage -- plus a complete, fully-licensed copy of WOPR, the world's #1 Office add-in!
A comparison of graphite and AIN caps used for annealing ion-implanted SiC
Authors: K. A. Jones, M. A. Derenge, P. B. Shah, T. S. Zheleva, M. H. Ervin, K. W. Kirchner, M. C. Wood, C. Thomas, M. G. Spencer, O. W. Holland, R. D. Vispute
Venue: Journal of Electronic Materials (2002)

The SiC wafers implanted with Al were capped with AlN, C, or AlN and C and were annealed at temperatures as high as 1700°C to examine their ability to act as annealing caps. As shown previously, the AlN film was effective up to 1600°C, as it protected the SiC surface, did not react with it, and could be removed selectively by a KOH etch. However, it evaporated too rapidly at the higher temperatures. Although the C did not evaporate, it was not a more effective cap because it did not prevent the out-diffusion of Si and crystallized at 1700°C. The crystalline film had to be ion milled off, as it could not be removed in a plasma asher, as the C films annealed at the lower temperatures were. A combined AlN/C cap also was not an effective cap for the 1700°C anneal as the N or Al vapor blew holes in it, and the SiC surface was rougher after the dual cap was removed than it was after annealing at the lower temperatures.
MCSE Designing a Windows 2000 Network Study Guide (Exam 70-221)
Authors: Littlejohn Debra Shinder
Venue:  (2000)

:The only classroom-based training and self-assessment system! Osborne's MCSE Designing a Windows 2000 Network Study Guide provides 100% complete coverage of all official Microsoft objectives for exam 70-221. Based on 200,000+ hours of IT training experience,the book contains hundreds of practice exam questions and hands-on exercises. The CD-ROM features full CertTrainer CBT software with interactive tutorials and lab simulations,plus the new ExamSim adaptive test engine. The Only Certification System Based on 200,000+ Hours of IT Training Experience. 100% Complete Coverage - All official test objectives for exam 70-240 are covered in detail Hands-on Exercises - Step-by-step instruction modeled after classroom labs Exam Watch - Warnings based on thorough post-exam research identifying the most troublesome exam topics and how to answer them correctly Scenario & Solution - Quick reference scenarios with solutions that offer practical tips and explain how to approach and solve difficult problems From the Classroom - Discussions of important issues direct from the classrooms of Global Knowledge's award-winning instructors Full coverage of the topics you need to review,including how to: Analyze factors that influence company strategies Analyze the network requirements for client computer access Design a TCP/IP addressing and implementation plan Integrate software routing into existing networks Integrate DHCP into a routed environment Measure and optimize a DNS infrastructure design Design a DNS deployment strategy Design security for WINS communications Design a Distributed File System (DFS) strategy Design an Internet and Extranetaccess solution design a Proxy Server network implementation 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
Klingon Honor Guard: Official Strategy Guide
Authors: Blaine Pardoe, Dan P. Plunkett
Venue:  (1998)

:To those who plotted the assassination attempt on High Council Leader Gowron, vengeance must be swiftly delivered. As a member of the elite Honor Guard, it is your blood oath to ensure that this vengeance is final. This BradyGames strategy guide includes a complete walkthrough of the 25 levels in the game. Extensive coverage of tactics for single player and multi-player modes. Background information and trivia on the Klingons and the Klingon Empire. Cheat codes direct from MicroProse and in-depth shooter strategy.
The Complete Tcl/Tk Training Course with CD-ROM
Authors: Brent B. Welch, Dave Zeltserman
Venue:  (1998)

:Grab the power of Tcl/Tk with this spectacular, end-to-end training package: great multimedia CD-ROM plus best-selling book! The Tcl/Tk Multimedia Cyber Classroom is an interactive multimedia CD-ROM that provides comprehensive Tcl/Tk training for Windows 95, 98, NT, and Solaris. It contains more than 3 hours of detailed audio explanations of key Tcl and Tk concepts, thousands of lines of fully-tested live code, interactive programming exercises, full-text searching, hyperlinking, and more! The Tcl/Tk best-selling book, Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk, 2/e, is completely updated for Tcl/Tk 8.0, and has a bonus CD-ROM with more source code and an extensive library of Tcl/Tk freeware for Windows 95, 98, NT, and UNIX. This package brings up-to-date coverage of Tcl/Tk 8.0 - including Internet scripting! Tcl/Tk offers, developers, sysadmins, and Web managers awesome power. It's easy-to-learn, cross-platform, and the applications are virtually endless. This complete Tcl/Tk training package contains everything you need to get up-and-running with Tcl/Tk fast - and to supercharge your productivity. The Tcl/Tk Multimedia Cyber Classroom is a complete multimedia course on Tcl/Tk, with thousands of lines of fully-tested live code, hundreds of interactive exercises, and extensive audio - interactive, hands-on, and fun. You also get Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk. From basic coding to advanced techniques, this is the most thorough, practical Tcl/Tk guide available, now updated to cover Tcl/Tk 8.0. Understand Tcl/Tk's interface to the operating system, its powerful script library facility, GUI development, and more. Welch reviews Tcl's improved network support, Safe Tcl, C programming with the Tk toolkit, Internet scripting, even the Tcl/Tk Web browser plug-in.
Using the heap to eliminate stack accesses
Authors: Zoltan Somogyi, Peter J. Stuckey
Venue: Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGPLAN international conference on Principles and practice of declarative programming (2002)

The value of a variable is often given by a field of a heap cell, and frequently the program will pick up the values of several variables from different fields of the same heap cell. By keeping some of these variables out of the stack frame, and accessing them in their original locations on the heap instead, we can reduce the number of loads from and stores to the stack at the cost of introducing a smaller number of loads from the heap. We present an algorithm that finds the optimal set of variables to access via a heap cell instead of a stack slot, and transforms the code of the program accordingly. We have implemented this optimization in the Mercury compiler, and our measurements show that it can reduce program runtimes by up to 12% while at the same time reducing program size. The optimization is straightforward to apply to Mercury and to other languages with immutable data structures; its adaptation to languages with destructive assignment would require the compiler to perform mutability analysis.
Model checking railway interlocking systems
Authors: Kirsten Winter
Venue: Proceedings of the twenty-fifth Australasian conference on Computer science - Volume 4 (2002)

For supporting the analysis of railway interlocking systems in the early stage of their design we propose the use of model checking. We investigate the use of the formal modelling language CSP and the corresponding model checker FDR. In this paper, we describe the basics of this formalism and introduce our formal model of a railway interlocking system. Checking this model against the given safety requirements, the signalling principles, we get useful counter-examples that help to debug the given interlocking design. This work provides a successful example of how formal methods can be used to support the industrial development process.
PC Learning Labs Teaches Excel 5.0 for Windows
Authors: Logical Operations, PC Learning Labs Staff
Venue:  (1993)

:This classroom-tested book/disk learning system provides a comprehensive introduction to this powerful spreadsheet program. The step-by-step instructions are designed to work with the example-filled disk so readers can learn by doing.Disk contains examples that work together with instructions in the book-saves time and speeds learning
MCSE: Windows 2000 Network Security Design Study Guide
Authors: Gary Govanus, Robert King
Venue:  (2000)

:The new Windows 2000 MCSE certification track is here! And Sybex, the leader in certification self-study material, has what you need to approach the exams with confidence. The MCSE: Windows 2000 Network Security Design Study Guide provides in-depth coverage of all official exam objectives. In addition to the practical, real-world instruction in the book, the accompanying CD comes with the following valuable study tools: * Pre-Assessment Exams * Case Study Questions * Electronic Flashcards for PCs and Palm Devices * Sample Adaptive Exams * Bonus Review Questions * Searchable Electronic Version of Entire Book
The rectangle complexity of functions on two-dimensional lattices
Authors: J. W. Sander, R. Tijdeman
Venue: Theoretical Computer Science (2002)

Let X be a non-empty set. Let f:Z2X. All vectors which occur have integer coefficients, and for =(a1,a2), =(b1,b2) we write or < if ajbj or aj < bj for j=1,2, respectively. Let >0. A -block is a set of the form B(){Z2| < +}. A -pattern is the restriction of f to some -block. The total number of distinct -patterns is called the -complexity of f. A conjecture of the authors implies that f is periodic if there is a >0 such that the -complexity of f does not exceed b1b2. In this paper, we prove the statement for b=(n,2) where n is any positive integer.
Java 2 Weekend Crash Course with Cdrom
Authors: Julio Sanchez, Maria P. Canton
Venue:  (2000)

:The 30 lessons in this book will have you programming Java in only 15 hours! The big day is Monday. The day you get to show off what you know about Java 2 programming. The problem is, youre not really up to speed. Maybe its been a while since you programmed with Java. Or maybe you just like a challenge. In any event, weve got a solution for you: Java 2 Weekend Crash Course. Open the book Friday evening and on Sunday afternoon, after completing 30 fast, focused lessons, youll be able to jump right in and start programming in Java. Its as simple as that.