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Production Systems for Architects and Designers, 1st edition
Authors: Fred A. Stitt
Venue:  (1993)

:How many ways are there to save time and money in working drawings? Let's count the ways...ways readily available to architects, engineers, interior designers, drafters, CADD operators, and project managers:. 1. Simplification: There's a fast way and a slow way to do every aspect of working drawings, from notation to dimensioning, from finish schedules to specifications. The streamlined ways described in this book can save up to 15% of commonly wasted production time with virtually no investment of time or money. 2. Planning and Supervision: Nobody learns how to supervise design and production employees in school, nor have most supervisors had any business training. This book names all the worst management and supervisor problems, and the best practices to guarantee good employee morale along with high productivity. 3. Quality Control: Many, if not most, sets of working drawings go to bid without adequate final checking. This expediency is paid for in cascades of change orders, extras, claims, lawsuits, and a national epidemic of building failures. This book shows how to block the relatively few lapses that account for most failures. 4. Design and Presentation Drawings: A few simple changes in the way you do your design drawings can save 20% of working drawing time. Fast-track design drawing methods put you ahead of the game the day you start working on any job. 5. Layering, Screening, Overlays: Most offices don't understand the principle of logical and efficient layering of drawings. As a result, plotting a job takes twice as long as it should. With this book, your final job prints are twice as sharp and readable. 6. Standard Details: Standard construction details are the easiest efficiency tool any office can implement. You can get up to 80% of time savings on detail drawings, and quality control goes way up too. 7. Photodrafting: These days it's almost criminal not to use photodrafting to show existing conditions, complex details, and specified proprietary p 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 Elements of User Interface Design, 2nd edition
Authors: Theo Mandel
Venue:  (2002)

:With a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology, author Theo Mandel knows how people act and interact with user interfaces. With this book, he covers the basics of effective user interface design and demonstrates different techniques. Divided into three parts, the book first teaches readers the foundations and fundamentals, then shows them how to use those basics to create interfaces, and finally discusses advanced topics and emerging technologies like object oriented user interfaces (OOUIs), voice activation, and Wizards. Mandel also covers different techniques with popular products like Windows NT, Windows 95, OS/2, and Visual Basic. 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
Smart Card Handbook, 2nd edition
Authors: Wolfgang Rankl, Wolfgang Effing
Venue:  (2000)

:Thoroughly revised and updated, this book is the most important reference for people working in the fast-moving smart card industry. New sections on Java, digital signatures, SQL, and the new PC smart card standard from Microsoft are included. Recent developments on electronic commerce and internet payments are discussed. Readers will also find smart card simulation software and relevant Web addresses on the book's ftp site.
The design and management of effective distance learning programs
Authors: Richard Discenza, Caroline Howard, Karen Schenk
Venue:  (2002)

As computers, telecommunications technology and other electronic media have reduced the constraints imposed by geographic location, increasing numbers of organizations are using information technology to geographically disperse education. And as the number of distance learning programs continues to increase, a variety of challenges and issues must be faced. These issues include: costs incurred for remote space and equipment used, the loss of traditional evaluation methods, and the potential losses of academic integrity. The goal of this book is to increase the understanding of such major issues, challenges and solutions related to distance education and it is geared toward administrators and academicians trying to develop or improve distance education programs.
Jones optimality, binding-time improvements, and the strength of program specializers
Authors: Robert Glück
Venue: Proceedings of the ASIAN symposium on Partial evaluation and semantics-based program manipulation (2002)

Jones optimality tells us that a program specializer is strong enough to remove an entire level of self-interpretation. We show that Jones optimality, which was originally aimed at the Futamura projections, plays an important role in binding-time improvements. The main results show that, regardless of the binding-time improvements which we apply to a source program, no matter how extensively, a specializer that is not Jones-optimal is strictly weaker than a specializer which is Jones optimal. By viewing a binding-time improver as a generating extension of a self-interpreter, we can connect our results with previous work on the interpretive approach.
Computingfailure.com: War Stories from the Electronic Revolution
Authors: Robert L. Glass
Venue:  (2001)

From the Book:PREFACE: Forewordby Tom DeMarcoI know this sounds weird, but success in our business is inextricably tied up with failure. The days of achieving anything important without risk-taking are over forever. Today you need to positively flirt with failure in order to achieve meaningful success. The projects that are really worth doing lie at the hairy, scary edge of feasibility. Your intimate understanding of the potential failures that may await you is surely your most potent weapon for avoiding them. You need to become an expert on failure.But focusing on failure is something that goes against the grain. Our cultures guide us to think only of success, to concentrate on winning, not losing. That all sounds good, sounds positive. The Plan For Success mentality sounds great, but it makes risk management almost impossible. And risk management is your most effective tool in a risk-intensive world. To do real risk management, you have to develop a deep understanding of the factors that have undone those who have gone before you, understand how these factors acted and what measures proved insufficient to contain them. If such factors proved fatal to your predecessors, they may prove equally fatal to you. Maybe you're willing to accept this idea with no more said, but (never a master of understatement) I have chosen to hammer it home anyway with a grisly word-picture: If you find yourself proceeding over a battlefield that is littered with fresh corpses and you don't know what killed them, you are in trouble. You better be thinking furiously, What did they learn at the end that I may still have to learn in the near future?This is exactlythesituation most software project managers find themselves in. They need to learn quickly about failure. Of course, the classic way to learn about failure is to make all the mistakes yourself and guide different projects to a great selection of awful conclusions. If you had already done that, you would now be a relative expert on the failures that characterize these projects. Your reputation would be in the dumpster, but your understanding of risks would be excellent. However, the cost you would have paid for the experience is too high. The trick is to gain a useful understanding of project failure mechanisms without actually failing yourself.That's where Bob Glass's long and careful study of project failure mechanisms comes in. Over the past decade, Bob has been a keen observer of our industry and has turned his particular attention to the patterns that characterize failed endeavors. In ComputingFailure.com, he sets out for you a series of failure scenarios anchored in real and recent fact. Read them and profit from them. It is your understanding of these past scenarios that can help you build a future scenario for your project that has a chance of leading to success. Tom DeMarcoThe Atlantic Systems GuildCamden, Maine
Cellular Radio Systems, 1st edition
Authors: D. M. Balston, R. C. Macario
Venue:  (1993)

:Understand the status of all the major cellular radio systems worldwide, explore the change from analog to digital, and evaluate the differences between the new digital systems. This comprehensive source brings together the technical and commercial issues associated with all the major analog and emerging digital systems.
Modeling Microstructure Evolution Using Gradient-Weighted Moving Finite Elements
Authors: Andrew Kuprat
Venue: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (2000)

Microstructure evolution, where grain boundaries evolve by mean curvature motion, is modeled in three dimensions (3-D) using gradient-weighted moving finite elements (GWMFE). To do this, we modify and extend an existing 2-D GWMFE code to create a new code GRAIN3D which makes the 3-D microstructure modeling possible. The right-hand side term which drives the GWMFE motion can be viewed as surface tension forces, that is, as the negative gradient of the surface integral of a constant energy density $\mu$ on the triangular interfacial grid. Extensions to the method include equations for the motion of tetrahedra that are conformally attached to the moving piecewise linear triangular facets which represent the GWMFE discretization of the evolving grain boundaries. We present some new regularization terms which control element quality, as well as preventing element collapse in the simulation. New capabilities for changing the mesh topology are used to keep the grid edge lengths below a maximum allowable length hmax and to mimic actual changes in the physical topology, such as collapse and disappearance of individual grains. Validating runs are performed on some test cases that can be analytically solved, including collapse of a spherical grain and the case of columnar microstructure. In the spherical collapse case, the GWMFE method appears to have an error in the surface area collapse rate $-{dA\over dt}$ which is ${\cal O}((\Delta\theta)^2)$, where $\Delta\theta$ is a measure of the angular resolution of the mesh. Finally, a run is presented where a true 3-D microstructure (possessing triple lines and quadruple points in the interior and triple points on the exterior boundaries) is evolved to a "2-D" columnar microstructure and finally evolved down to a single grain.
Electronic Theft: Unlawful Acquisition in Cyberspace
Authors: Peter N. Grabosky, Russell G. Smith, Gillian Dempsey
Venue:  (2001)

:"The convergence of communications and computing has begun to transform Western industrial societies. Increasing connectivity is accompanied by unprecedented opportunities for crimes of acquisition. Electronic Theft names, describes and analyses the range of electronic and digital theft, and constitutes the first major survey of the field." The authors cover a broad list of electronic misdemeanours, including extortion, defrauding governments, telephone fraud, securities fraud, deceptive advertising and other business practices, industrial espionage, intellectual property crimes, and the misappropriation and unauthorised use of personal information. They have been able to capture impressively large amounts of data internationally from both scholarly and professional sources. The book poses and attempts to answer some pressing questions to do with natural sovereignty, intellectual property and enforceability of laws.
Visual Basic for Applications (VBA): Beginning Course, 1st edition
Authors: Sestak
Venue:  (2000)

:Explore and customize your Office applications with Visual Basic for Applications: Beginning Course. This text provides a thorough introduction to the Visual Basic for Applications language and features step-by-step instructions to guide students in programming the Microsoft Office applications. Extensive end-of chapter exercises also offer plenty of hands on practice and reinforcement.
CCNP Virtual Lab
Authors: Todd Lammle, Bill Tedder
Venue:  (2001)

:If you're serious about earning your CCNP, you need extensive hands-on experience with routers and switches. Until now, this has required access to expensive network equipment-not to mention the freedom to experiment with it. The CCNP Virtual Lab from Sybex gives you everything you need. You can practice with this "equipment" on your own, follow suggested labs that cover the entire range of CCNP objectives, and design custom labs that focus on your special interests. An affordable alternative to products and courses costing hundreds, even thousands, of dollars, the CCNP Virtual Lab allows you to work at your own pace, on your own time, so you get the most out of your exam preparation efforts.Remote Access Working with asynchronous connections Using the Point-to-Point Protocol Setting up ISDN and dial-on-demand routing Working with the Cisco 700 Series Working with Frame Relay Using NAT (Network Address Translation) Setting up AAA Switching Connecting the switch block Working with Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) Using Spanning Tree with VLAN and setting up Inter-VLAN Routing Using Multi-Layer Switching (MLS) Implementing Hot Standby Routing Protocol (HSRP) Configuring multicast Planning and setting up access policies Routing IP addressing Interconnecting OSPF areas EIGRP Configuring, monitoring, troubleshooting, and scaling BGP Route optimization Network scalability Support Troubleshooting Cisco routers and switches Using problem-solving models Common data link layer characteristics in campus LANs Connection sequences in TCP/IP, Novell IPX, and AppleTalk Using Cisco IOS software commands and debug utilities Resolving VLAN, WAN, Frame Relay, and ISDN BRI problems System Requirements Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000 133 MHz or faster Pentium 32 MB RAM 2 MB video card 7 MB HD space 8X CD-ROM drive Mouse or other pointing device Small fonts
TCP/IP Jumpstart, 1st edition
Authors: Andrew G. Blank
Venue:  (2000)

:Build Your Internetworking Career on a Solid Foundation Whether you're setting out to earn an internetworking certification or just need to understand more about how the Internet and intranets work, TCP/IP JumpStart is a great place to start. Inside, a veteran network administrator and instructor demystifies all TCP/IP's complex topics, providing the footing you need to realize your goals. 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
Race in Cyberspace
Authors: Beth E. Kolko, Gilbert B. Rodman, Lisa Nakamura
Venue:  (1999)

:Although much has been written about the impact of technology on our daily lives, little attention has been paid to the effects of cyberspace on racial politics and identity. This collection of twelve essays explores this surprisingly underexamined aspect of cyberculturestudies as it tackles a broad range of questions: the role played by language in the construction of racialized identities online; offline representations of cyberspace as a racially coded environment; and the impact technology and education has on racial inequities-in terms of access and representation on the web. Groundbreaking and timely, Race in Cyberspace brings to light the important yet vastly overlooked intersection of race and cyberspace. Contributors: David Crane, Jennifer Gonzalez, Beth E. Kolko, Joe Lockard, Tara McPherson, Lisa Nakamura, Jeffrey A. Ow, Gilbert B. Rodman, David Silver, Jonathan Sterne, Rajani Sudan, Mark Warschauer.
Adding tuples to Java: a study in lightweight data structures
Authors: C. van Reeuwijk, H. J. Sips
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 joint ACM-ISCOPE conference on Java Grande (2002)

Java classes are very flexible, but this comes at a price. The main cost is that every class instance must be dynamically allocated. Their access by reference introduces pointer dereferences and complicates program analysis. These costs are particularly burdensome for small, ubiquitous data structures such as coordinates and state vectors. For such data structures a lightweight representation is desirable, allowing such data to be handled directly, similar to primitive types. A number of proposals introduce restricted or mutated variants of standard Java classes that could serve as lightweight representation, but the impact of these proposals has never been studied.Since we have implemented a Java compiler with lightweight data structures we are in a good position to do this evaluation. Our lightweight data structures are tuples. As we will show, their use can result in significant performance gains: for a number of existing benchmark programs using tuples we gain more than 50% in performance relative to our own compiler, and more than 20% relative to Sun's Hotspot 1.4 compiler. We expect similar performance gains for other implementations of lightweight data structures.With respect to the expressiveness of Java, lightweight variants of standard Java classes have little impact. In contrast, tuples add a different language construct that, as we will show, can lead to substantially more concise program code.
Algorithms for Synthesis and Testing of Asynchronous Circuits
Authors: Luciano Lavagno, Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
Venue:  (1993)

:The design of asynchronous circuits is increasingly important in solving problems such as complexity management, modularity, power consumption and clock distribution in large digital integrated circuits. Algorithms for Synthesis and Testing of Asynchronous Circuits describes a variety of mathematical models and algorithms that form the backbone and the body of a new design methodology for asynchronous design. The book is intended for asynchronous hardware designers, for computer-aided tool experts, and for digital designers interested in exploring the possibility of designing asynchronous circuits. It requires a solid mathematical background in discrete event systems and algorithms. While the book has not been written as a textbook, nevertheless it could be used as a reference book in an advanced course in logic synthesis or asynchronous design. Algorithms for Synthesis and Testing of Asynchronous Circuits also includes an extensive literature review. The review summarizes and compares classical papers from the 1960s with the most recent developments in the areas of asynchronous circuit design testing and verification.
Transparent bridging support for Bluetooth-IP service interworking
Authors: Jiann-Liang Chen
Venue: International Journal of Network Management (2002)

A PC-based transparent gateway for interconnecting Bluetooth Piconets and IP local area networks (LAN) was designed in our research. The essential function of this designed Bluetooth-IP gateway is to achieve a seamless integration among home appliances, networking elements and multi-systems using the address resolution protocol (ARP) and connection management scheme. The key techniques developed, as well as the performance analysis in terms of queue length, loss rate, throughput and transmission delay are explored in this research. The results allow us to determine the value of the optimal command and infer the maximum queue length requirements such that the service quality is kept at an acceptance level.
An interactive computer graphics approach for dissecting a mixture of normal (or lognormal) distributions
Authors: Richard B. McCammon
Venue: Proceedings of the 3rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques (1976)

An interactive computer graphics program has been developed to dissect mixtures of normal (or lognormal) distributions. The program incorporates both graphical and analytical techniques to obtain a more satisfactory solution to the problem of dissection. Within a matter of minutes, a mixed frequency curve can be decomposed into its normal (or lognormal) components. A statistical summary following dissection makes it possible to evaluate the goodness-of-fit and the separability of the inferred subpopulations. Individual components can be added or subtracted and adjustments can be made to individual parameters of components. An example of dissection is given in geology and in sports.
Signal Processing Advances in Wireless and Mobile Communications, Volume 2: Trends in Single- And Multi-User Systems
Authors: Georgios B. Giannakis, Petre Stoica, Yingbo Hua
Venue:  (2000)

: Blind synchronization with single- and multi-sensor arrays Space-time transmit-receive diversity combining systems New physical layer solutions for CDMA and multicarrier systems For every engineering professional involved with signal processing for advanced communications Key advances in signal processing for single-user and multi-user systems. Signal Processing Advances in Communication, Volume II is the second in a two-volume set that introduces important recent advances in signal processing (SP) tools for wireless and mobile communications, and bringing together contributions by leaders in the field worldwide. This two-volume set covers an exceptionally wide range of technologies and methodologies, including noise and interference cancellation, modem design, mobile Internet services, next-generation audio/video broadcasting, cellular telephony, and wireless multimedia networks. Volume II focuses on single- and multi-user communication systems, presenting an exceptionally wide range of today's best work on topics such as: Blind synchronization with single- and multi-sensor arrays Space-time transmit-receive diversity combining systems Time-varying channel modeling Signal separation with constant modulus constraints Parallel factor analysis tools New methods for canceling multiuser interference and mitigating multipath effects in CDMA and multicarrier systems at the physical layer Key signal processing issues at the network layer This book brings together research previously scattered across multiplejournals worldwide, delivering an unprecedented collection of advanced SP techniques for practicing engineers, researchers, managers, and any professional involved with designing or building state-of-the-art single- or multi-user communications systems.
Building Knowledge Management Environments for Electronic Government
Authors: Ramon C. Barquin
Venue:  (2002)

:Tools and Techniques to Improve Performance! Building Knowledge Management Environments for Electronic Government shows you how to harness the power of the Internet to bring information to government decision-makers and citizens alike - and in so doing, to create a more efficient, responsive government. In this new resource, you'll learn how to design and build new environments for enterprise-wide performance improvement. Use the key tools and techniques of this emerging discipline to create a new culture of information sharing. Detailed case studies teach you how to apply knowledge management on an agency-wide basis. Discover the critical success factors and learn from mistakes that have been made so you can avoid problems from the start. You'll Learn How To: Move from data to information, intelligence, knowledge, and finally, wisdom Link communities of practice to knowledge bases Use best practices for knowledge management from a case study in the defense sector Use enterprise information portals as the principal delivery mechanism for knowledge in an enterprise Establish key technology platforms for knowledge management Use digital storytelling as a tool for sharing knowledge across an environment Maximize the impact of collaborative work software Create knowledge management environments in procurement practices Develop a system for gaining knowledge through performance measurement Integrate knowledge management in every aspect of your mission Become a knowledge-based organization