ppxscal/embedding_network huggingface dataset:
From a Fuzzy Flip-Flop to a MVL Flip-Flop
Authors: L. P. Maguire, T. M. McGinnity, L. J. McDaid
Venue: Proceedings of the Twenty Ninth IEEE International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic (1999)

The paper presents a circuit description of a MVL flip-flop which is implemented in MOS technology. The circuit has its origins in a bipolar implementation of a fuzzy flip-flop. The proposed circuit not only simplifies the original bipolar design but offers considerable potential for a VLSI implementation. Simulation of the circuit indicates that it can also be interpreted as a multiple-valued logic flip-flop for any radix. This provides a basic building block for the increasing developments in multiple-valued VLSI circuit design.
Generalized Complex Spectral Decision Diagrams Using Unified Complex Hadamard Transform
Authors: Susanto Rahardja, Shoulie Xie
Venue: Proceedings of the 33rd International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic (2003)

This paper focuses on the study of different decision diagrams for representations of binary and multiple-valuedfunctions using both the unified complex Hadamard transforms (UCHTs) whose transformation matrices contain elements \pm1 and \pmi and their Spectra. Types of the underlying decision diagrams are: hybrid decision diagrams, complex multi-terminal decision diagrams, complex algebraicdecision diagrams, real and imaginary decision diagrams.Since UCHT unifies sixty-four different complex Hadamardtransformation, it can provide a unified complex Hadamardspectral transform decision diagram. These more generalcomplex Hadamard spectral decision diagrams generalizeall results in [3, 4].
Macromedia Fireworks MX: Training from the Source
Authors: Patti Schulze
Venue:  (2002)

:These hands-on, project-based lessons for active learners teach novice users all the basics and many advanced features of Macromedia Fireworks MX, the latest version of Macromedia's premier Web design tool. Over the course of 12 lessons and 16 hours of instruction, readers will learn everything from editing bitmaps and creating interactive buttons, to optimizing and exporting their pages as HTML files. The enclosed CD-ROM includes all the media files necessary for readers to create sophisticated, professional-level projects, plus completed files for them to compare with their own results. 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
Developing Consumer-Friendly Pervasive Retail Systems
Authors: Panos Kourouthanassis, George Roussos
Venue: IEEE Pervasive Computing (2003)

Front-end and formative evaluation studies were carried out as part of the development of MyGrocer, a second-generation pervasive retail system. The authors' initial motivation for developing a retail system using pervasive computing technologies was to investigate grocery supply chain optimization. But research carried out to support the system's conceptual design and implementation evaluation indicated that although indeed efficient in addressing the problems it was designed to solve MyGrocer would also have an immediate, positive effect on the grocery shopping experience.
A reservation-based multicast (RBM) routing protocol for mobile networks: overview of initial route construction
Authors: M. S. Corson, S. G. Batsell
Venue: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communication Societies (Vol. 3)-Volume - Volume 3 (1995)

We propose a combined multicast routing and resource reservation protocol, termed reservation-based multicast (RBM), that performs routing in a fashion similar to protocol independent multicast (PIM), but which is intended for mobile operation and routes hierarchically-encoded data streams based on user-specified fidelity requirements, real-time delivery thresholds and prevailing network bandwidth constraints. The protocol retains the fully distributed operation, scalability and receiver-initiated orientation of PIM; but, unlike PIM, the protocol is tightly coupled to an underlying, distributed, unicast routing protocol thereby facilitating operation in a dynamic topology. This paper focuses on the initial route construction phase, assumed to occur during a static "snapshot" of the dynamic topology, and therefore outlines an approach to reservation-based multicast routing for fixed networks as well, e.g. the Internet.
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
Authors: Michael E. Gerber, Gerber Michael E.
Venue:  (2003)

:In this first new and totally revised edition of the 150,000-copy underground bestseller, The E-Myth, Michael Gerber dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business. Next, he walks you through the steps in the life of a businessfrom entrepreneurial infancy, through adolescent growing pains, to the mature entrepreneurial perspective, the guiding light of all businesses that succeedand shows how to apply the lessons of franchising to any business, whether or not it is a franchise. Finally, Gerber draws the vital, often overlooked distinction between working on your business and working in. your business. After you have read The E-Myth Revisited, you will truly be able to grow your business in a predictable and productive way.Author Biography: Michael Gerber is the founder and chairman of The E-Myth Academy, based in Santa Rosa, California. He is a bestselling author, highly sought-after speaker, and small-business revolutionary who has brought his E-Myth-brand revolution to hundreds of thousands of satisfied clients in small, midsize, and very large organizations.
A virtual memory management scheme for simulation environment
Authors: S. Mittra
Venue: Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Verilog HDL Conference (1995)

A virtual memory management scheme is proposed for integrating large memory in the simulation environment. This is a novel extension to the Verilog-XL simulator from Cadence Design Systems. The scheme provides a user-transparent mechanism to instantiate a large chunk of memory without being limited by the main-memory of the simulating machine.
ARCA Architectural Design Document
Authors: Maria B Baldacci, Donatella Castelli, Alberto Catoni, John Favaro, Mario Loffredo, Giuseppe Romano, Oreste Signore, Itziar Lopez de Sosoaga
Venue:  (1995)

This report presents the work done during the specification of the ARCA SR Targer system architecture. It improves the requirements for this system and describes the architectural design of the ARCA Target using the Object Modelling Technique approach to software development. EMAIL:: baldacci@iei.pi.cnr.it
ESD Protection Design for Mixed-Voltage I/O Circuit with Substrate-Triggered Technique in Sub-Quarter-Micron CMOS Process
Authors: Chien-Hui Chuang
Venue: Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (2002)

To improve the ESD robustness of the stacked-NMOS device in the mixed-voltage I/O circuit, a new substrate-triggered design has been proposed and successfully verified in this work. From the principle of triggering mechanism, the substrate-triggered technique is combined into the stacked-NMOS device to improve the ESD robustness of stacked-NMOS device and to reduce the trigger voltage. The proposed ESD protection circuit with the substrate-triggered technique for 2.5V/3.3V tolerant mixed-voltage I/O circuit has been fabricated and verified in a 0.25-um salicided CMOS process. From the experimental results, the positive-to-VSS HBM ESD level of the mixed-voltage I/O circuit can be increased ~65% by using the stacked NMOS with substrate-triggered design. This design is very useful in the sub-quarter-micron CMOS processes.
Fur and Hair: Practical Modeling and Rendering Techniques
Venue: Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualisation (2000)

Modeling fur and hair remains one of the hottest subjects in modern computer graphics. Although some promising techniques to model and render furry and hairy objects were developed in the recent past, and several commercial packages are available, the problem remains very challenging. The speaker will present a fresh practical technique to model and render fur and hairs that is applicable for actual animation production process. This will be demonstrated using images and videos taken from the real, commercially created animations.
ATM network interface architectures for low latency
Authors: P. Sundstrom, P. Andersson
Venue: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (1997)

There are many important factors to consider when designing a network interface for an ATM network, and different applications have different demands. This paper addresses the problem of making an ATM interface with the focus on very low message latency, e.g., for shared memory multiprocessors on top of a network of workstations, and yet making it general enough to be a cost effective solution. Different approaches to the interface are evaluated and an architecture where critical functions are distributed and performed in dedicated hardware, integrated with, or very close to, the processors, are proposed.
Equational Theories of Boolean Functions
Authors: Oya Ekin, Stephan Foldes, Peter L. Hammer, Lisa Hellerstein
Venue:  (1997)

Several noteworthy classes of Boolean functions are characterized by algebraic identities. For a given DNF-specified class, such characteristic identities exist if and only if the class is closed under the operation of forming Boolean minors by variable identification. A single identity suffices to characterize a class if and only if the number of forbidden identification minors minimal in a specified sense is finite. If general first-order sentences are allowed instead of identities only, then essentially all classes can be described by an appropriate set of sentences.
A Functional Analysis of the Role of Visualization in Architectural Conceptual Design
Authors: J. Mcfadzean
Venue: Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualisation (2000)

The view that visual reasoning in design is facilitated by external visualization, specifically sketching, is based on both anecdotal evidence and empirical observations. The purpose of the current research is to investigate the relationship between visual reasoning, via sketches and the development of the early conceptual stages of the design process. Thus, the paper focuses on an analysis of visualizing in conceptual design problem solving. The application of a new taxonomy throws light on experts, use of external visualizations. The results indicate that there are ¿shifts in focus¿ concerning the functional use of visualizations in architectural conceptual design11
Surface Drawing
Authors: Steven Schkolne, Peter Schroder
Venue:  (1999)

We present Surface Drawing, a medium which provides direct control over the creation of a wide range of intricate shapes. Surface Drawing addresses several key issues in creative expression and perceptual thinking by providing a direct link between the motions of the hand and the forging of shapes. Surfaces are created by moving a hand, instrumented with a special glove, through space in a semi-immersive 3D display and interaction environment (the Responsive Workbench). This technique allows both novices and experts to create intricate forms without the perceptual constraints of a rigid mathematical structure, large toolset, or a reduction of modeling to editing. In Surface Drawing the design space can be freely explored during the modeling process without the need to plan the construction of the final shape. In particular it supports unconstrained erasing and buildup of new geometry. This is achieved through the use of a novel incremental construction method for triangulated meshes, the Cookie Cutter algorithm. It allows the user to freely grow, join, and erase surfaces based on hand motions. We report on our experiences with the system and present results created by artists and designers exploring problems in industrial design, character design, and fine art.
The "Jeans swindle" a true story-mathematically speaking
Authors: Michael K.-H. Kiessling
Venue: Advances in Applied Mathematics (2003)

The century-old Jeans dispersion relation enjoys the questionable reputation that it cannot be derived in a mathematically clean manner--as a matter of principle. For that reason Jeans' 'derivation' of his result has become known by the (in)famous sobriquet "the Jeans swindle." The present paper rectifies the situation by giving just such a mathematically clean derivation of Jeans' dispersion relation, via a static universe with cosmological constant. The derivation not merely vindicates Jeans' analysis, it also produces proper nonlinear evolution equations which allow one to study the evolution beyond the linear regime studied by Jeans.
Using Warp to Control Network Contention in Mermera
Authors: Abdelsalam Heddaya, Kihong Park, Himanshu Sinha
Venue:  (1993)

Abstract Parallel computing on a distributed system, such as a network of workstations, can saturate the communication network, leading to excessive message delays and consequently poor application performance. Current operating systems offer only partial support for flow control protocols that can help insulate application performance from extraneous traffic on the shared network. We examine empirically the consequences of integrating one such protocol, called Warp control~\cite{Park93}, into Mermera, a software shared memory system that supports parallel computing on distributed systems~\cite{HeddayaS93hicss}. Preliminary performance measurements are reported for an asynchronous iterative program to solve a system of linear equations, under varying levels of network contention. The experiments were conducted on a network of seven Sun Sparc~1+ workstations, using an auxiliary traffic generator. These measurements show that Warp succeeds in stabilizing the network behavior when there is high contention, increasing the effective throughput available to the application, and consequently decreasing its completion time. In some cases, however, Warp control does not achieve the performance attainable by fixed size buffering when using a statically optimal buffer size. Based on the nature of Warp and the underlying communication layers, we offer explanations for our results. Our use of Warp to regulate the allocation of network bandwidth emphasizes the possibility for integrating it with the allocation of other resources, such as CPU cycles and disk bandwidth, so as to optimize overall system throughtput, and enable fully-shared execution of parallel programs.
Universal H-colorable Graphs Without A Given Configuration
Authors: Dreyer Paul A., Malon Christopher, Nesetril Jaroslav
Venue:  (1999)

For every pair of finite connected graphs $F$ and $H$, and every integer $k$, we construct a universal graph $U$ with the following properties: \begin{enumerate} \item There is a homomorphism $\pi :U \ra H$, but no homomorphism from $F$ to $U$. \item For every graph $G$ with maximal degree no more than $k$ having a homomorphism $h:G \ra H$, but no homomorphism from $F$ to $G$, there is a homomorphism $\alpha :G \ra U$, such that $h = \pi \circ \alpha$. \end{enumerate} Particularly, this solves a problem regarding the chromatic number of a universal graph.
Incorporating Memory Management into User-Level Network Interfaces
Authors: Matt Welsh, Anindya Basu, Thorsten von Eicken
Venue:  (1997)

User-level network interfaces allow applications direct access to the network without operating system intervention on every send and receive. Messages are transferred directly to and from user-space by the network interface while observing the traditional protection boundaries between processes. Current user-level network interfaces limit this message transfer to a per-process region of permanently-pinned physical memory to allow safe DMA. This approach is inflexible in that it requires data to be copied into and out of this memory region, and does not scale to a large number of processes. This paper presents an extension to the U-Net user-level network architecture (U-Net/MM) allowing messages to be transferred directly to and from any part of an application''s address space. This is achieved by integrating a translation look-aside buffer into the network interface and coordinating its operation with the operating system''s virtual memory subsystem. This mechanism allows network buffer pages to be pinned and unpinned dynamically. Two implementations of U-Net/MM are described, demonstrating that existing commodity hardware and commercial operating systems can efficiently support the architecture.
The information system within the organization: a case study
Authors: Bruce R. Campbell, G. Mike McGrath
Venue: Critical reflections on information systems: a systemic approach (2003)

There is considerable evidence that many information systems (IS) projects fail because of organizational, "softer" or "people-related" issues. Considerable effort has been expended in efforts to design improved development methodologies that incorporate these softer aspects. Less attention, however, has been directed towards approaches that increase our understanding of the interaction of the implemented IS with the wider organizational environment. Our thesis is that system dynamics (SD) has much to offer here and, in this chapter, we illustrate the utility of the SD approach in this context through presentation of a field study.
Multimedia Databases
Venue: Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualisation (2000)

A multimedia database is a controlled collection of multimedia data items such as text, images, graphic objects, video and audio. The different data types might require special methods for optimal storage, access, indexing and retrieval. A multimedia database management system (DBMS) provides support for the creation, storage, access, query and control of multimedia database.A multimedia DBMS requires is traditional DBMS capabilities - media integration, composition and presentation - information retrieval capabilities - huge capacity storage management - multimedia interface - multimedia query support. Relational or object oriented data models have been proposed for multimedia databases. Powerful query languages could help manipulate multimedia DBMS and maintain the desired independence between the database and the application. Multimedia data queries can be subdivided into following types: keyword querying - semantic querying - visual query - video query.Future trends and potential research topics in multimedia DBMS include content-based and querying of multimedia objects - demand for efficient buffer management - effective query method for spatial and temporal data - development of application specific query languages - retrieval and browsing directly on the compressed data.This paper reviews: multimedia data types and data compression - architecture, design and query in multimedia database system- object oriented multimedia databases - multimedia data in World Wide Web
Tinkertoy Transactions
Authors: Nicholas Haines, Darrell Kindred, J. G Morrisett, Scott M. Nettles, Jeannette M. Wing
Venue:  (1993)

We describe the design of a transaction facility for a language that supports higher-order functions. We factor transactions into four separable features: persistence, undoability, locking, and threads. Then, relying on function composition, we show how we can put them together again. Our "Tinkertoy" approach towards building transactions enables us to construct a model of concurrent, nested, multi-threaded transactions, as well as other non-traditional models where not all features of transactions are present. Key to our approach is the use of higher-order functions to make transactions first-class. Not only do we get clean composability of transactional features, but also we avoid the need to introduce special control and block-structured constructs as done in more traditional transactional systems. We implemented our design in Standard ML of New Jersey.
The ``Generality'''' Effect and the Retrieval Evaluation for Large Collections
Authors: Gerard Salton
Venue:  (1970)

The retrieval effectiveness of large document collections is normally assessed by using small subsections of the file for test purposes, and extrapolating the data upward to represent the results for the full collection. The accuracy of such an extrapolation unhappily depends on the ``generality'''' of the respective collections. In the present study the role of the generality effect in retrieval system evaluation is assessed, and evaluation results are given for the comparison of several document collections of distinct size and generality in the areas of documentation and aerodynamics.
Changes in Web Client Access Patterns: Characteristics and Caching Implications
Authors: Paul Barford, Azer Bestavros, Adam Bradley, Mark Crovella
Venue:  (1998)

Abstract Understanding the nature of the workloads and system demands created by users of the World Wide Web is crucial to properly designing and provisioning Web services. Previous measurements of Web client workloads have been shown to exhibit a number of characteristic features; however, it is not clear how those features may be changing with time. In this study we compare two measurements of Web client workloads separated in time by three years, both captured from the same computing facility at Boston University. The older dataset, obtained in 1995, is well-known in the research literature and has been the basis for a wide variety of studies. The newer dataset was captured in 1998 and is comparable in size to the older dataset. The new dataset has the drawback that the collection of users measured may no longer be representative of general Web users; however using it has the advantage that many comparisons can be drawn more clearly than would be possible using a new, different source of measurement. Our results fall into two categories. First we compare the statistical and distributional properties of Web requests across the two datasets. This serves to reinforce and deepen our understanding of the characteristic statistical properties of Web client requests. We find that the kinds of distributions that best describe document sizes have not changed between 1995 and 1998, although specific values of the distributional parameters are different. Second, we explore the question of how the observed differences in the properties of Web client requests, particularly the popularity and temporal locality properties, affect the potential for Web file caching in the network. We find that for the computing facility represented by our traces between 1995 and 1998, (1) the benefits of using size-based caching policies have diminished; and (2) the potential for caching requested files in the network has declined.
Test Driven development: A Practical Guide
Authors: Dave Astels
Venue:  (2003)

Test-Driven Development: A Practical Guide presents TDD from the perspective of the working programmer: real projects, real challenges, real solutions, ...real code. Dave Astels explains TDD through a start-to-finish project written in Java and using JUnit. He introduces powerful TDD tools and techniques; shows how to utilize refactoring, mock objects, and "programming by intention"; even introduces TDD frameworks for C++, C#/.NET, Python, VB6, Ruby, and Smalltalk. Invaluable for anyone who wants to write better code... and have more fun doing it!