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Increasing relevance of memory hardware errors: a case for recoverable programming models
Authors: Dejan Milojicic, Alan Messer, James Shau, Guangrui Fu, Alberto Munoz
Venue: Proceedings of the 9th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: beyond the PC: new challenges for the operating system (2000)

It is a common belief that most of computer system failures nowadays stem from programming errors. Computer systems are becoming more complex and harder to maintain and administer, making software errors an even more common case, while contemporary computer architectures are optimized for price and performance and not for availability. In this paper, we raise a case for an increasing relevance of memory hardware soft-errors. In particular with the introduction of 64-bit processors, memory scaling is significantly increased, resulting in higher probability for memory errors. At the same time, due to the ubiquitous use of computers, such as at higher altitudes, environmental conditions impact errors (terrestrial cosmic rays). Finally, in shared memory systems, the failure of one node's memory can take the whole machine down. Current commodity systems do not tolerate memory errors, neither commodity hardware (processors, memories, interconnects) nor software (operating systems, applications, application environments). At the same time, users expect increased reliability. We present the problems of such errors and some solutions for memory error recovery at the processor, operating system and programming model level.
A Visual Introduction to SQL, 2nd edition
Authors: David Chappell, J. Harvey Trimble
Venue:  (2001)

:Learn SQL basics quickly with this visual tutorial featuring over 125 graphics SQL (Structured Query Language) is the tool used to access nearly all databases, which means that most software professionals should understand at least the basics. This hands-on tutorial offers an accessible introduction to SQL using over 125 graphics to illustrate the lessons. The book's unique visual approach makes it much easier for the reader to learn SQL. This Second Edition has been updated with new graphics and covers such subjects as the SELECT statement, joins, subqueries, views, granting and revoking privileges, and creating and destroying tables. Companion Web site features updates on the latest tools and techniques, plus links to related sites offering automated tools.
Upgrading to Windows 98
Authors: Charlie Russel, Sharon Crawford
Venue:  (1997)

:This easy-to-use book walks you through every step of the upgrade. Install from scratch or over Windows 3.1 or 95. Learn how to upgrade without losing your current settings or data. Start using Windows 98's new features immediately.
Using WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows
Authors: Gordon McComb, Peterson, Laura Acklen
Venue:  (1994)

:For comprehensive information and advice on successful word processing, nothing beats the scope and depth of this resource. Filled with expert tips on essential WordPerfect features, this book helps readers take advantage of all the enhancements of the latest version.Meets the needs of users at all skill levels-introduces WordPerfect to new users and boosts productivity for users who are upgrading to Version 6.1Shows readers how to automate their work with macros and master many other advanced proceduresContains extensive tips, notes, cautions, and troubleshooting advice
Web Designer's Power Pack
Authors: Bill Sanders, Joyce Evans, Laurie Ann Ulrich
Venue:  (2001)

:A Web designer's dream…Flash™ 5 f/x and Design (ISBN: 1-57610-816-3), Dreamweaver™ 4 f/x and Design (ISBN: 1-57610-789-2), and Fireworks™ 4 f/x and Design (ISBN: 1-57610-996-8) all in one pack. Each book explains and teaches the newest features and techniques including applicable case studies and accompanying tutorials. Together, these books enable you to create high-impact, high-performance, compelling Web pages with animation, special text effects, layers, tables, frames, sound, and interactivity. The pack contains CD-ROMs filled with 50 Flash movies in source format (FLA) and ready-to-use SWF format, HTML files, numerous multimedia elements including sound and animated GIF and JPEG files, plus trial versions of Flash™, Dreamweaver™, Fireworks™, and Freehand™. In addition, learn more about other Coriolis creative books to enhance your skills.
Three-colourbility and forbidden subgraphs. II: polynomial algorithms
Authors: Bert Randerath, Ingo Schiermeyer, Meike Tewes
Venue: Discrete Mathematics (2002)

In this paper we study the chromatic number for graphs with forbidden induced subgraphs. We focus our interest on graph classes (defined in terms of forbidden induced subgraphs) for which the question of 3-colourability can be decided in polynomial time and, if so, a proper 3-colouring can be determined also in polynomial time. Note that the 3-colourability decision problem is a well-known NP-complete problem, even for special graph classes, e.g. triangle-free and K1,5-free (Discrete Math. 162 (1-3) (1996) 313). Therefore, it is unlikely that there exists a polynomial algorithm deciding whether there exists a 3-colouring of a given graph in general. We present three different approaches to reach our goal. The first approach is purely a structural analysis of the graph class in consideration; the second one is a structural analysis of only the non-perfect K4-free members of the considered graph class; finally the last approach is based on propositional logic and bounded dominating subgraphs.
PERL for Oracle DBAs
Authors: Andy Duncan, Jared Still
Venue:  (2002)

Perl is a very powerful tool for Oracle database administrators, but too few DBAs realize how helpful Perl can be in managing, monitoring, and tuning Oracle databases. Whether you're responsible for Oracle9i, Oracle8i, or earlier databases, you'll find Perl an invaluable addition to your database administration arsenal. You don't need to be a Perl expert to use the excellent applications and scripts described in Perl for Oracle DBAs. The book explains what you need to know about Perl, provides a wealth of ready-to-use scripts developed especially for Oracle DBAs, and suggests many resources for further exploration. The book covers: The Perl language -- an introduction to Perl, its rich history and culture, and its extensive text processing and data transformation capabilities.The Perl/Oracle architecture -- Detailed information about Perl DBI, DBD::Oracle, the Oracle Call Interface (OCI), Oracle::OCI, extproc_perl, and mod_perl, the modules that allow Perl programs to communicate with Oracle databases.Perl applications for Oracle DBAs -- Profiles of the best Perl open source applications available for use and customization by Oracle DBAs: Perl/Tk, OraExplain, StatsView, Orac, DDL::Oracle, SchemaDiff, Senora, DBD::Chart, SchemaView-Plus, Oracletool, Karma, Embperl, and Mason.The Perl Database Administration (PDBA) Toolkit -- a comprehensive suite of specialized, ready-to-use scripts designed to help Oracle DBAs perform both routine and special-purpose administrative tasks: monitoring the Oracle alert log and databases, creating and managing Oracle user accounts, maintaining indexes and extents, extracting DDL and data, troubleshooting and tuning database problems, and much more. The book also explains how Oracle DBAs and developers can extend the toolkit and solve their own database administration problems using Perl.
Concurrent and Real Time Systems: The CSP Approach, 1st edition
Authors: Steve Schneider
Venue:  (1999)

:The CSP approach has been widely used in the specification, analysis and verification of concurrent and real-time systems, and for understanding the particular issues that can arise when concurrency is present. It provides a language which enables specifications and designs to be clearly expressed and understood, together with a supporting theory which allows them to be analyzed and shown to be correct.This book supports advanced level courses on concurrency covering timed and untimed CSP. The first half introduces the language of CSP, the primary semantic models (traces, failures, divergences and infinite traces), and their use in the modelling, analysis and verification of concurrent systems. The second half of the book introduces time into the language, brings in the timed semantic model (timed failures) and finally presents the theory of timewise refinement which links the two halves together.Containing the following: -Exercises and solutions -Instructors resources - Example CSP programs to run on FDR and ProBe -Links to useful sitesPartial Contents: Part I: The Language of CSP; Sequential Processes; Concurrency; Abstraction and Control Flow; Part II: Analyzing Processes; Traces; Specification and Verification with Traces; Stable Failures; Specification and Verification with Failures; Failures, Divergences, and Infinite Traces; Part III: Introducing Time; The Timed Language; Timed transition systems; Part IV: Timed Analysis; Semantics of Timed CSP; Timed Specification and Verification; Timewise Refinement; Appendix A: Event-based Time; A.1 Standard CSP and $tock$; A.2 Translating from Timed CSP; A.3 Notes; Appendix B:Model-checking with FDR; B.1 Interacting with FDR; B.2 How FDR Checks Refinement; B.3 Machine readable CSP; Index of Processes.
Linear onesided stability of MAT for weakly injective 3D domain
Authors: Sung Woo Choi, Hans-Peter Seidel
Venue: Proceedings of the seventh ACM symposium on Solid modeling and applications (2002)

Despite its usefulness in many applications, the medial axis transform (MAT) is very sensitive to the change of the boundary in the sense that, even if a shape is perturbed only slightly, the Hausdorff distance between the MATs of the original shape and the perturbed one may be large. However, it is known that MATs of 2D domains are stable if we view this phenomenon with the one-sided Hausdorff distance. This result depends on the fact that MATs are stable if the differences between them are measured with the recently introduced hyperbolic Hausdorff distance. In this paper, we extend the result for the one-sided stability of the MAT to a class of 3D domains called weakly injective, which contains many important 3D shapes typically appearing in solid modeling. Especially, the weakly injective 3D domains can have sharp features like corners or edges. In fact, by using the stability of the MAT under the hyperbolic Hausdorff distance, we obtain an explicit bound for the one-sided Hausdorff distance of the MAT of a weakly injective 3D domain with respect to that of a perturbed domain, which is linear with respect to the domain perturbation. We discuss some consequences of this result concerning the computation and the approximation of the medial axis transform of 3D objects.
Painter 6 F/X and Design with Cdrom
Authors: Sherry London, Rhoda Grossman
Venue:  (2000)

:Written by professional artists/instructors for fine artists, illustrators, graphic designers, hobbyists, and students, Painter 6 f/x and Design explores Painter 6 through several hands-on projects that build a foundation of basic skills, develop advanced techniques, and encourage creativity. These projects will enable readers to master collages, masks, layers, clones, animation, Web effects, mosaics, marbling, patterns, and text effects. The 32-page color "Painter Studio" section provides readers with excellent examples from projects in the book as well as examples of original Painter art and effects created by the authors. The CD-ROM, formatted for both Windows and Macintosh, includes all project images, a custom brush library, color sets, a gradation library, seamless and tileable patterns, seamless papers, Image Hose Nozzles, Image Portfolio Library, Selection Portfolio, Painter 6 animations, and original artwork by the authors and Painter students (to inspire your creativity!) Author Biography: Sh
A path-based technique for estimating hardware runtime in HW/SW-Cosynthesis
Authors: Jörg Henkel, Rolf Ernst
Venue: Readings in hardware/software co-design (2001)

One of the key issues in hardware/software-cosynthesis is precise estimation. The usual local estimation techniques are inadequate for globally optimizing compilers and synthesis tools. We present a path based estimation technique which allows a computation time/quality tradeoff. The results show acceptable computation times while revealing much more potential parallelism than local list scheduling.
Trust and confidence in open systems: does security harmonize with mobility?
Authors: Uwe Baumgarten, Claudia Eckert, Harald Görl
Venue: Proceedings of the 9th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: beyond the PC: new challenges for the operating system (2000)

Mobile devices like organizers, mobile phones, notebooks, other personal appliances and equipment as well as traditional PCs and workstations interconnected by wireless and other networks make up today's computing and communication environments (see [3], [1]). By now, mobile devices are in use for business work as well as for personal applications like private e-mails and electronic commerce. As mobile devices will play an important role in our social and business life, studying their trusted and confidential usage in possibly untrusted and unconfidential environments is urgently required.The intention of this position paper is to stimulate discussion about the relevance of trust and confidence in the usage of mobile devices. In this sense we try to explain the characteristic situations of mobile devices, to explain their special needs, to give a short overview of some relevant OS in this area including the distinction to similar approaches in embedded systems, to focus on some selected needs in mobility and security (here Trust and Confidence), to present a short overview of the solution architecture for these needs within our research project. We then focus in this paper on the requirements the operating software of such systems should fulfill.
Navier--Stokes Equations in Rotation Form: A Robust Multigrid Solver for the Velocity Problem
Authors: Maxim A. Olshanskii, Arnold Reusken
Venue: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (2001)

The topic of this paper is motivated by the Navier--Stokes equations in rotation form. Linearization and application of an implicit time stepping scheme results in a linear stationary problem of Oseen type. In well-known solution techniques for this problem such as the Uzawa (or Schur complement) method, a subproblem consisting of a coupled nonsymmetric system of linear equations of diffusion-reaction type must be solved to update the velocity vector field. In this paper we analyze a standard finite element method for the discretization of this coupled system, and we introduce and analyze a multigrid solver for the discrete problem. Both for the discretization method and the multigrid solver the question of robustness with respect to the amount of diffusion and variation in the convection field is addressed. We prove stability results and discretization error bounds for the Galerkin finite element method. We present a convergence analysis of the multigrid method which shows the robustness of the solver. Results of numerical experiments are presented which illustrate the stability of the discretization method and the robustness of the multigrid solver.
Developing Enterprise Applications with PowerBuilder 6.0 with Cdrom
Authors: Blair Taylor, Gordon Chiu, Sherry Hu
Venue:  (1997)

:These pages provide the reader with the developer tips and techniques needed to develop an enterprise client-server system using the software, one of the market leaders in client-server development applications. The book is authored and co-authored by PowerBuilder experts.
Matching and Scheduling Algorithms for Minimizing Execution Time and Failure Probability of Applications in Heterogeneous Computing
Authors: Atakan Dogan, Füsun Özgüner
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (2002)

In a heterogeneous distributed computing system, machine and network failures are inevitable and can have an adverse effect on applications executing on the system. To reduce the effect of failures on an application executing on a failure-prone system, matching and scheduling algorithms which minimize not only the execution time but also the probability of failure of the application must be devised. However, because of the conflicting requirements, it is not possible to minimize both of the objectives at the same time. Thus, the goal of this paper is to develop matching and scheduling algorithms which account for both the execution time and the reliability of the application. This goal is achieved by modifying an existing matching and scheduling algorithm. The reliability of resources is taken into account using an incremental cost function proposed in this paper and the new algorithm is referred to as the reliable dynamic level scheduling algorithm. The incremental cost function can be defined based on one of the three cost functions developed here. These cost functions are unique in the sense that they are not restricted to tree-based networks and a specific matching and scheduling algorithm. The simulation results confirm that the proposed incremental cost function can be incorporated into matching and scheduling algorithms to produce schedules where the effect of failures of machines and network resources on the execution of the application is reduced and the execution time of the application is minimized as well.
Administering SAP R/3: The Production and Planning Module
Authors: ASAP World Consultancy, W. Asap
Venue:  (1999)

:Administering SAP R/3: The Production and Planning Module is the ideal manual for installing or administering the Production and Planning moduleor for those managing a site utilizing the Production and Planning module. The book provides specific examples of how to develop, implement and utilize the Production and Planning module with an existing SAP R/3 system. It focuses on the business and technical decisions that need to be made before, during and after administration of the PP module. This book is filled with practical examples of how to structure a production and planning department and contains processes to utilize the production and planning module to save time and money.
Neural and Adaptive Systems: Fundamentals through Simulations with CD-ROM, 1st edition
Authors: Jose C. Principe, Neil R. Euliano, W. Curt Lefebvre
Venue:  (1999)

:Neural networks have become one of the most sophisticated applications in use today by engineers and others in a myriad of applications such as cellular networks, financial analysis, stock market analysis, traffic coordination, etc. In this new approach, the authors blend neurocomputing theory with the power of a software simulator to underscore synergisms between the conceptual equations and their behavior in practical neural systems.
Corporate voices, personal voices: the ethics of the internet
Authors: Peter Melser, Hilary Byrne-Armstrong
Venue: Selected papers from the second Australian Institute conference on Computer ethics (2000)

Two distinct discourses are competing for dominance of the Internet. Each of these "voices" identifies different ethical issues as being the key ones. The Corporate voice of press releases and official company statements makes the legal enforcement of property rights a key issue. Advocates of the "personal voice" of e-mails and chat rooms make freedom of expression and personal conversation more important. The paper compares these contesting ethical visions for the Internet. Neither voice makes a serious issue of "privacy of personal information", a key concern of a more "humanist" intellectual tradition associated with public institutions. The issue is more the relationships and relative strengths of these discourses. "Ethical conversations" are one way in which the personal voice can be strengthened within organisations.
Fast Forward: America's Leading Experts Reveal how the Internet Is Changing Your Life
Authors: Alfred C. Sikes, Ellen Pearlman
Venue:  (2000)

:Some of the most distinguished and forward-thinking minds in America answer the questions: How is the Internet changing human life today, and how will that change affect us in the future?Concentrating on 10 major subject areas (family, health, investing, education, business, careers, shopping, entertainment, privacy, and the future), the authors have gathered a list of thinkers including journalist Ken Auletta, New York Stock Exchange chairman Richard A. Grasso, Dr. C. Everett Koop, America Online's Robert W. Pittman, futurist Alvin Toffler, Charles Schwab, Excite.com's George Bell, Inc. magazine editor-in-chief George Gendron, Net-culture analyst Esther Dyson, Women.com founder Ellen Pack, and many more. Together, they provice a fascinating, authoritative look into the present and the future of Net life.
A solution to the hidden surface problem
Authors: M. E. Newell, R. G. Newell, T. L. Sancha
Venue: Proceedings of the ACM annual conference - Volume 1 (1972)

A method for producing half-tone pictures by computer is presented. The basic method, which is very simple, works well in most cases, but does not handle all objects correctly. The extended method, which copes with all cases, is also described. The functions used for calculating the intensity of parts of objects, and the method for handling transparency, are discussed. Examples of pictures produced by this method are included, and the times taken to generate them are tabulated. The extended algorithm compares favourably in speed and storage requirements with other published algorithms.
An adaptive wireless local area network protocol that improves throughput via adaptive control of direct sequence spread spectrum parameters
Authors: Barry E. Mullins, Nathaniel J. Davis,  IV, Scott F. Midkiff
Venue: ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review (1997)

We develop and analyze an elegant, opportunistic medium access control (MAC) protocol based on the proposed MAC standard for wireless local area networks (WLAN)---IEEE 802.11. Our adaptation of 802.11 is called CATER (Code Adapts To Enhance Reliability) and allows communicating stations to reconfigure their transceivers to use a longer pseudo-noise (PN) code when retransmissions are unsuccessful over a degraded channel. Results show that our protocol continues to function, permitting up to 14 percent normalized aggregate throughput, at times when IEEE 802.11 fails. In addition, throughput experiences only a small decrease due to protocol overhead during periods when stations experience a good channel with few bit errors.
Microsoft Excel for Accounting Principles, 1st edition
Authors: Katherine T. Smith
Venue:  (1999)

:This project was developed to teach readers basic spreadsheet skills needed in the business world. A simple, straightforward discussion of creating charts and graphs, including the use of the Chart Wizard. Provides detailed instructions for using MS Excel 97. For anyone interested in learning the principles of accounting.
Legal Research Via the Internet, 1st edition
Authors: Valerie J. Atkinson, Valerie J. Brown
Venue:  (2001)

:Researchers of the law are sure to benefit from the legal/technological guidelines for conducting "Legal Research Via the Internet." Beginning with a comprehensive overview of legal research, the book progresses in discussion with detailed use of the Internet as a research tool and its association with substantive law. It covers the research process, security and privacy issues, as well as providing Internet Legal Research Tasks, and numerous references for review. The book shows how to solve researching problems, explains necessary factors in staying motivated, and how to avoid potential obstacles in the research process. Useful suggestions promote efficiency, helping the researcher to pathfind in an organized way. The straightforward presentation of the material facilitates reading and application of research methodologies, making "Legal Research Via the Internet" a superior choice for obtaining the information you need to know.