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Game Design: Secrets of the Sages
Authors: Marc Saltzman
Venue:  (1999)

:BradyGames Game Design: Secrets of the Sages, Third Edition has design secrets direct from industry leaders, plus brand new interviews in each chapter. As the latest edition to the critically acclaimed and commercially successful Game Design: Secrets of the Sages series, this book offers greater gaming coverage with the same chapter layout as the previous editions. The book also addresses new topics in gaming such as developing for the PlayStation 2 vs. Xbox vs. the GameCube, mobile gaming, episodic gaming over the Net and more, plus insightful sidebars, top 10 lists and anecdotes!
Power Pitches: How to Produce Winning Presentations Using Charts,Slides,Video and Multimedia
Authors: Alan L. Brown
Venue:  (1997)

:Power Pitches is a powerful weapon for anyone who makes formal or informal presentations to either large or small groups. Building upon his Ten Rules of Power Pitching, and using interesting and insightful anecdotes pulled from his years of experience, noted communications expert Alan L. Brown reveals his proven secrets for making powerful presentations. Power Pitches ignites your presentation skills and explains, in detail, how to master the language of visual communications, organize a successful presentation every time, and seize your audience's attention with electronic media. 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
PVA: a self-adaptive personal view agent system
Authors: Chien Chin Chen, Meng Chang Chen, Yeali Sun
Venue: Proceedings of the seventh ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining (2001)

In this paper, we present PVA, an adaptive personal view information agent system to track, learn and manage, user's interests in Internet documents. When user's interests change, PVA, in not only the contents, but also in the structure of user profile, is modified to adapt to the changes. Experimental results show that modulating the structure of user profile does increase the accuracy of personalization systems.
IP Routing, Expert Labs: Cisco Interactive Mentor, 1st edition
Authors: Cisco Systems
Venue:  (2000)

:With CIM Expert Labs: IP Routing, you can evaluate advanced-level IP routing configurations to maximize the performance of your Cisco network, deploy Cisco devices and software more effectively, and prepare for the Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) Lab Exam. Offering a series of self-paced Expert Labs, this robust practice tool gives you a quick and cost-effective way to improve your existing Cisco knowledge and expertise. Similar to the lab scenarios in the first day of the intensive two-day CCIE Lab Exam, you can practice and assess your understanding of IP routing protocols as you build a network design in a step-by-step process. Applying networking techniques developed by CCIE professionals to multiple internetworking configurations, you¿ll practice improving your configuring and troubleshooting skills in Frame Relay, Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
System Calls and Library Functions Reference Manual for Motorola Processors: UNIX System Release 4, 2nd edition
Authors: Motorola Unix
Venue:  (1992)

: Revised to match the official updated Motorola documentation (Version 3), this manual describes UNIX® System V Release 4 calls and C language library functions for Motorola Processors. It covers the BSD system compatibility library, Standard C library, executable and linking format library, general-purpose library, networking library, standard I/O library, and more. For all users of System V interfaces. 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
Visual Basic Developer's Guide to SQL Server (Developer's Handbook Series)
Authors: Dianne Siebold
Venue:  (2000)

:This is a one-of-a-kind book for experienced Visual Basic developers: focused coverage of how to work with SQL Server, the most popular database for enterprise development with Microsoft tools. The coverage is fully up-to-date for the latest version of SQL Server. Author Dianne Siebold is a frequent contributor to Visual Basic Programmer's Journal. 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
Finding nearest neighbors in growth-restricted metrics
Authors: David R. Karger, Matthias Ruhl
Venue: Proceedings of the thiry-fourth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing (2002)

Most research on nearest neighbor algorithms in the literature has been focused on the Euclidean case. In many practical search problems however, the underlying metric is non-Euclidean. Nearest neighbor algorithms for general metric spaces are quite weak, which motivates a search for other classes of metric spaces that can be tractably searched.In this paper, we develop an efficient dynamic data structure for nearest neighbor queries in growth-constrained metrics. These metrics satisfy the property that for any point q and number r the ratio between numbers of points in balls of radius 2r and r is bounded by a constant. Spaces of this kind may occur in networking applications, such as the Internet or Peer-to-peer networks, and vector quantization applications, where feature vectors fall into low-dimensional manifolds within high-dimensional vector spaces.
SNA and TCP/IP Integration Handbook
Authors: Ed Taylor
Venue:  (1998)

:Ed Taylor breaks down the complex SNA-TCP/IP challenge into manageable chunks. In this essential handbook, he provides everything network administrators and managers need to ensure a smooth transition from SNA to TCP/IP, or an integrated environment. No matter what your level of expertise or depth of technical knowledge, this book provides the bridges, the background, and the clear, uncompromising detail that you need to guarantee integration. Fully illustrated with diagrams, this book brings you assured guidance in design, configuration, internetworking, and maintenance.
Mutation-based software testing using program schemata
Authors: Roland H. Untch
Venue: Proceedings of the 30th annual Southeast regional conference (1992)

Mutation analysis is a powerful technique for assessing the quality of test data used in unit testing software. Unfortunately, current automated mutation analysis systems suffer from severe performance problems. In this paper the principles of mutation analysis are reviewed, current automation approaches are described, and a new method of performing mutation analysis is outlined. Performance improvements of over 300% are reported and other advantages of this new method are highlighted.
Windows 2000 Registry Little Black Book
Authors: Nathan Wallace
Venue:  (2000)

:Windows 2000 Registry Little Black Book, 2nd Edition is a concise and portable guide to configuration changes that can be made to Windows 2000 to aid in the administration of the operating system and improve performance and stability. The book has been revised and updated from the successful first edition based on actual Windows 2000 implementations. It includes four important new chapters thoroughly covering registry tools, registry disaster prevention, registry programming, and MS Office. The book presents general networking information including protocols and interoperability, local and network printers, remote access service and security. It contains insight on COM+, Internet Information Server, Internet Explorer, MS Transaction Server, SQL Server, and MS Office. Plus, the book has a tear-out quick reference card packed with valuable information.
Windows NT Terminal Server and Citrix Metaframe
Authors: Ted Harwood
Venue:  (1998)

:Windows NT Terminal Server and Citrix MetaFrame is a technical reference that will cover in detail all aspects of planning, installing, administering, and troubleshooting Microsoft Terminal Server and Citrix MetaFrame systems. MetaFrame greatly enhances the usability of NT as a thin-client solution, but the heterogeneous networking issues involved in its integration will be a significant source of information pain. Part I begins with an in-depth look at the technology, and how its relevant to the NT administrator. This material is not of an overview nature - consider it more "prepatory" material for real-world administration. Part II goes into the real nuts and bolts of thin client administration, covering such relevant issues as installation, configuration, network connection, management, and application distribution. Part III covers the thorniest and most taxing issues involving thin client administration. It's no surprise that most administration headaches revolve around integration with other networks and clients. This book addresses these types of real world issues on a case-by-case basis, giving tools and advice on solving each.
Special Edition Using WordPerfect 8 for Linux with CD-ROM
Authors: Roderick W. Smith
Venue:  (1999)

:Special Edition Using WordPerfect 8 for Linux provides documentation for a product available for download with no documentation or on line help. This book focuses on the intermediate to advanced users, allowing you to become productive with an unfamiliar word processor, or an unfamiliar operating system. Descriptions of new features and how the product differs from the previous edition is also covered.
Thelordismyshepherd.com: Seeking God in Cyberspace
Authors: Joshua Hammerman
Venue:  (2000)

:thelordismyshepherd.com opens a new and necessary dialogue on the soul of cyberspace. It will change the way people think about their computers, about God, about the future and about the interconnected destiny of humanity in this evershrinking world. The author, a noted rabbi and journalist, alternates between analytic and experiential approaches to the subject, escorting the reader on a multidimensional quest for spiritual and intellectual growth a "virtual pilgrimage" if you will. A pilgrimage that travels tens of thousands of miles in a matters of instants, from Jerusalem to Mecca, to Chartres, even to Kosovo, and provides a new means of utilizing the vast power of technology to connect us to God and to transcend the artificial boundaries that separate us. Recent articles on Salon.com, in the NY Times and The Washington Times reflect the burgeoning trend for enfolding the web into our spiritual lives. "The Internet has transformed investing and shopping and now it is having an effect on how people practice their faith." 25 percent of Americans online use "the Internet for "religious purposes" each month, mainly to communicate with others via e-mail or chat rooms about religious "ideas, beliefs or experiences." In her article, Jews for Java, Sarah Coleman points out that "ultra-Orthodox rabbis, have banned their followers from cruising the Web, but that's not stopping the observant from hacking code." "Whether [the haredi rabbis] can successfully negotiate a spiritual path through cyberspace remains to be seen - and the rabbis, in issuing a ban against the Internet, are taking no chances" Salon.com, April 6, 2000. A sign of the times, the new bookthelordismyshepherd.com is a fascinating experiential investigation into finding God in cyberspace. 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
ProComm Plus 2 for Windows for Dummies
Authors: Wallace Wang
Venue:  (1994)

:Communicating, exchanging files, and accessing electronic bulletin board services (BBSs) are all possible thanks to a little device called a modem and communications software called PROCOMM PLUS. Unfortunately, getting started can be technologically tricky, and you're bound to run into nuisances like protocol conflicts and unfamiliar file formats. With PROCOMM PLUS 2 For Windows For Dummies, you'll find everything explained in plain English, so that you can get online right away. Plus, you'll find author and BBS pro Wallace Wang's own list of great sites for you to access. 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
Disconnected Operation in a Distributed File System
Authors: James Jay Kistler
Venue:  (1995)

:The focus of this work is on the issue of availability in distributed file systems. It presents the important new technique called disconnected operation, in which clients mask failures and voluntary network detachments by emulating the functionality of servers where actual server-oriented solutions are inadequate. This permits client operation even under complete isolation from the server; the clean integration of mobile computers into the system is an important side-effect of the new technique. The design and implementation of disconnected file service in a working system, the Coda file system, is described in detail.
Sams Teach Yourself UNIX Shell Programming in 14 Days, 1st edition
Authors: Kamran Husain
Venue:  (1994)

:This tutorial teaches users how to work with the features and facilities of the Bourne Shell and helps them gain a clear understanding of the Shell's capabilities for programming.Shows users how to design and write their own Shell scripts to accomplish specific tasksCovers the Bourne Shell-a command interpreter and programming languageUses shaded syntax boxes, icons, as well as Q&A, Do/Don't, and Workshop sections to highlight key points and reinforce learning
Microsoft Excel 5.0 for MacIntosh: With Disk, 1st edition
Authors: Patricia Murphy
Venue:  (1996)

:Microsoft Excel 5.0 for Macintosh: Quick Torial covers the most important features of the Microsoft Excel 5.0 for System 7 operating system. This self-paced instructional guide is complemented by many screen illustrations and hands-on exercises for reinforcement. In addition, there are numerous hints on how to increase productivity. Best of all, the text is designed to teach the software in 12-15 hours. It's a no-frills, sensible approach to software proficiency.
Dictionary of Musical Technology
Authors: Tristram Cary
Venue:  (1995)

:This remarkable encyclopedia is the first comprehensive book on the technology of music, written by one of the world's leading experts on electronic music. Its 600 copiously illustrated main entries and 200 subsidiary ones cover an immense musical field. Included are entries on traditional and electronic instruments, and on such topics as computer music composition, microphone placement, and psychoacoustics. They are carefully cross-referenced so that readers can approach a topic from different angles and then be drawn into its complexities, both technical and musical, as far as they wish. 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
AutoCAD for Windows Express, 1st edition
Authors: Tim McCarthy
Venue:  (1994)

:'AutoCAD for Window Express' is indispensable for architects, town planners and Window users in civil, structural, mechanical and design engineering. New and occasional users will find it an invaluable guide. Even experienced users will discover novel aspects to old commands. As before, it is designed to get you up and running with AutoCAD for windows FAST.
Career Planning and Job Searching in the Information Age
Authors: Elizabeth A. Lorenzen
Venue:  (1996)

:Career Planning and Job Searching in the Information Age answers key questions for today's providers of career-planning and job-searching information. Librarians and career development professionals' concerns such as cost-effective use of the Internet, the reliability and integrity of electronic resources, and successful search strategies are addressed in this comprehensive collection. In this follow-up to Library Services for Career Planning, Job Searching and Employment Opportunities (1992), real-life methods used by information providers to reduce costs and improve quality of service through a better understanding of today's technology and audience needs and expectations are shown. Readers learn about issues and ethics in the electronic environment, job searches conducted on the World Wide Web, a university placement office is a gopher site for 24-hour access to job information, a university library and career service department collaborate on job search seminars, how a public library fits electronic job searching into its mission, and an alumnae network is evolving into a national career development organization. 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
A novel approach to vortex core region detection
Authors: Ming Jiang, Raghu Machiraju, David Thompson
Venue: Proceedings of the symposium on Data Visualisation 2002 (2002)

In this paper we present a simple and efficient vortex core region detection algorithm based on ideas derived from combinatorial topology. These ideas originated from Sperner's lemma, which by itself is of little value to detecting vortex cores. However, we take these ideas from the lemma and apply them in a point-based fashion to detecting vortex core regions. The resulting algorithms for both 2D and 3D are quite simple and very efficient compared to existing ones. We applied our algorithms to both numerically simulated and procedurally generated datasets to illustrate the efficacy of our approach.
PC Troubleshooting Pocket Book
Authors: Michael H. Tooley
Venue:  (1994)

:This book provides a concise and compact reference which describes in a clear and straightforward manner the principles and practice of fault finding and upgrading PC's. It is aimed at those who are involved with the installation, configuration, maintenance, upgrading, repair or support of PC systems.
Mobile delivery of news using hierarchical query-biased summaries
Authors: Simon O. Sweeney, Fabio Crestani, Anastasios Tombros
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing (2002)

This paper presents the results of a study aimed at measuring the usefulness of presenting the results of an Information Retrieval search on WAP mobile phones. The experimentation focuses on presenting automatically-generated summaries of newspaper articles of increasing length on a mobile phone interface and in studying the differences in users' perception of relevance of the retrieved documents. The aim is to study experimentally how users' perception of relevance varies depending on the length of the summary, and in relation to the specific characteristic of the mobile interface that content is presented. Experimental results suggest that hierarchical query biased summaries are useful when dealing with small screens and assist users in making correct relevance judgments.
A fast implicit integration method for solving dynamic equations of movement
Authors: Laurent Hilde, Philippe Meseure, Christophe Chaillou
Venue: Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology (2001)

The use of physics is a way to improve realism in Virtual Reality. In order to calculate virtual objects movement in a real-time physically based simulation, you have to solve ODE (Ordinary Differential Equations) relative to time. This solution has to be fast enough to display the scene at an interactive rate or to control an haptic device and to be as reliable as possible.We show that the use of the Euler implicit method is possible in a real-time environment. This one offers control about stability and thus has a good behaviour with stiff ODE, which are hard to solve. For this purpose, we propose to solve the non-linear system from Euler's integration in a way less costly than usual Newton like techniques by applying Broyden's method.
Using Windows 95, 4th edition
Authors: Kathy Ivens
Venue:  (1998)

:Using Windows 95 provides comprehensive, detailed coverage for the Windows 95 user. It provides complete coverage of the key Windows 95 topics including: Internet Explorer 4.0 coverage and the integration with Windows 95. Key Windows 95 tasks are covered, such as navigating the desktop, managing files and folders, installing and running programs, Windows 95 communications, and customization and optimization. And you will get Windows 95 installation and troubleshooting instructions. As part of the Using series, this title gives fast answers through its easy to follow index, step-by-step instructions, and additional hints, shortcuts, and warnings. Includes coverage of Internet Explorer 4.0 and how it works with Windows 95 which gives you some of the functionality of Windows 98 today.
Microsoft Word 97: Illustrated Brief Edition, 1st edition
Authors: Marie L. Swanson
Venue:  (1997)

:Part of the Illustrated Series, this text offers a quick, visual way to build Microsoft Word 97 skills. Covers the basic skills.
Operating system performance and large servers
Authors: Hyuck Yoo, Keng-Tai Ko
Venue: Proceedings of the 6th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: Matching operating systems to application needs (1994)

Servers are an essential part of today's computing environments. High performance is one of the critical requirements that the applications demand from servers. It is often found that the key performance bottleneck on servers is the operating systems. We have investigated the commonly encountered performance anomalies and found that they are due to the mismatches between operating systems and the distinct characteristics of server applications. The characteristics pose several scalability issues in operating systems. We discuss possible scalable solutions and their trade-offs to support applications on servers efficiently.
Fast computation of the Bezout and Dixon resultant matrices
Authors: Eng-Wee Chionh, Ming Zhang, Ronald N. Goldman
Venue: Journal of Symbolic Computation (2002)

Efficient algorithms are derived for computing the entries of the Bezout resultant matrix for two univariate polynomials of degree n and for calculating the entries of the Dixon-Cayley resultant matrix for three bivariate polynomials of bidegree (m, n). Standard methods based on explicit formulas require O(n3) additions and multiplications to compute all the entries of the Bezout resultant matrix. Here we present a new recursive algorithm for computing these entries that uses only O(n2) additions and multiplications. The improvement is even more dramatic in the bivariate setting. Established techniques based on explicit formulas require O(m4n4) additions and multiplications to calculate all the entries of the Dixon-Cayley resultant matrix. In contrast, our recursive algorithm for computing these entries uses only O(m2n3) additions and multiplications. Copyright 2002 Academic Press
Self-reconfiguring robots
Authors: Daniela Rus, Zack Butler, Keith Kotay, Marsette Vona
Venue: Communications of the ACM (2002)

Mimicking the adaptability of living biological cells, robot modules will reconfigure themselves toward a common purpose within the limits imposed by the local environment.