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Digital Electronics: Principles and Applications, Student Text with MultiSIM CD-ROM, 7 edition
Authors: Roger L. Tokheim
Venue:  (2007)

Digital Electronics: Principles and Applications is a concise and practical text that prepares students for entry-level electronics jobs. Its level and approach are ideal for both electronics and electricity programs looking for a relatively short, applied book. The seventh edition has been updated, with new coverage of microcontrollers, memory, and interfacing. Optional simulation work with MultiSim is included in the text and accompanying Experiments Manual, with circuit files included on a bound-in CD ROM. Additional student and instructor resources are included on a new Online Learning Center website. Table of contents1 Digital Electronics2 Numbers We Use in Digital Electronics3 Logic Gates4 Combining Logic Gates5 IC Specifications and Simple Interfacing6 Encoding, Decoding, and Seven-Segment Displays7 Flip-Flops8 Counters9 Shift Registers10 Arithmetic circuits11 Memory and Storage12 Digital Systems13 Computer Systems14 Connecting with Analog Devices 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
Junos Cookbook (Cookbooks (O'Reilly))
Authors: Aviva Garrett
Venue:  (2006)

The Juniper Networks routing platforms are becoming the go-to solution for core, edge, metro and remote office networks, and JUNOS software is behind it all. The operating system is so full of industrial-strength routing protocols and IP innovations that those treading into the world of JUNOS will need clarification, explanation, and a showcase example or two. Look no further. This JUNOS Cookbook provides it all and more.Yes, you can mine through the 5,000 pages of documentation or take a two-thousand-dollar training course, but JUNOS's interprocess sophistication can be baffling unless you know the shortcuts and tricks, as well as those rays of illuminating comprehension that can come only from those who live with it. JUNOS Cookbook is the first comprehensive book about JUNOS software and it provides over 200 time-saving step-by-step techniques including discussions about the processes and alternative ways to perform the same task. It's been tested and tech-reviewed by field engineers who know how to take JUNOS out for a spin and it's applicable to the entire line of M-, T-, and J-series routers. JUNOS Cookbook will not only pay for itself the first few times you use it, it will make your network easier to manage and update. "Aviva Garrett has done a tremendous job of distilling the features of JUNOS software in a form that will be useful for a wide audience-students, field engineers, network architects, and other networking professionals alike will benefit from this book. For many people, this is the only book on JUNOS they will need." Pradeep Sindhu, CTO and Founder, Juniper Networks"This cookbook is superb. Aviva Garrett has masterfully assembled a complete set of practical real-world examples with step-by-step instructions. Security, management, routing: it's all here!" Stephen Gill, Research Fellow, Team Cymru"A technical time-saver for any NOC or SOC working with JUNOS. It's clear, concise, and informative recipes are are an invaluable resource. " Scott A. McIntyre, Security Officer, XS4ALL Internet B.V
RIMAC: a novel redundancy-based hierarchical cache architecture for energy efficient, high performance storage systems
Authors: Xiaoyu Yao, Jun Wang
Venue: ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review (2006)

Energy efficiency becomes increasingly important in today's high-performance storage systems. It can be challenging to save energy and improve performance at the same time in conventional (i.e. single-rotation-rate) disk-based storage systems. Most existing solutions compromise performance for energy conservation. In this paper, we propose a redundancy-based, two-level I/O cache architecture called RIMAC to address this problem. The idea of RIMAC is to enable data on the standby disk to be recovered by accessing data in the two-level I/O cache or on currently active/idle disks. At both cache and disk levels, RIMAC dynamically transforms accesses toward standby disks by exploiting parity redundancy in parity-based redundant disk arrays. Because I/O requests that require physical accesses on standby disks involve long waiting time and high power consumption for disk spin-up (tens of seconds for SCSI disks), transforming those requests to accesses in a two-level, collaborative I/O cache or on active disks can significantly improve both energy efficiency and performance.In RIMAC, we developed i) two power-aware read request transformation schemes called Transformable Read in Cache (TRC) and Transformable Read on Disk (TRD), ii) a power-aware write request transformation policy for parity update and iii) a second-chance parity cache replacement algorithm to improve request transformation rate. We evaluated RIMAC by augmenting a validated storage system simulator, disksim. For several real-life server traces including HP's cello 99, TPC-D and SPC's search engine, RIMAC is shown to reduce energy consumption by up to 33% and simultaneously improve the average response time by up to 30%.
Performance of Super-Orthogonal Convolutional Coding for Ultra-Wideband Systems in Multipath and Multiuser Channels
Authors: Tomoko Matsumoto, Ryuji Kohno
Venue: Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal (2007)

This paper investigates the application of super-orthogonal convolutional codes (SOCC) to a direct-sequence based ultra- wideband (DS-UWB) system under a realistic environment including inter-symbol interference (ISI) and multiuser interference (MUI). The effect of MUI and ISI on the performance of SOCC is analyzed by using both maximum ratio combining (MRC) RAKE receiver and minimum mean-squared error (MMSE) RAKE receiver followed by matched filter receiver. The analysis shows that in the case of employing simple MRC-RAKE receiver, the performance of SOCC is ffected by MUI and ISI because of the short length of the spreading sequence. In order to combat MUI and ISI, a code-hopping scheme is proposed in conjunction with SOCC. The results show that SOCC scheme outperforms the higher-rate conventional convolutional coded scheme for multipath and multiple access channels. Furthermore, the use of MMSE-RAKE receiver to suppress interference is analyzed and the subsequent increase of the system capacity is observed.
Gradient-based simulation optimization
Authors: Sujin Kim
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

We present a review of methods for simulation optimization. In particular, we focus on gradient-based techniques for continuous optimization. We demonstrate the main concepts using as an example the multidimensional newsvendor problem. We also discuss mathematical techniques and results that are useful in verifying and analyzing the simulation optimization procedures.
Show Me Microsoft Office Excel 2003
Authors: Steve Johnson
Venue:  (2003)

See it done, do it yourself! Spend less time reading and more time doing with this simple, step-by-step approach. Excel 2003 provides powerful new tools with which to create, analyze, and share spreadsheet information. Based on a proven, successful series format, this book uses a visual page design with easy-to-read text to teach beginning to intermediate level Excel tasks. Troubleshooting guides, "see also" referencing, sample projects, and MOS objectives add even more for the ambitious learner. Author Steve Johnson is a professional trainer and author of several best-selling books. 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 new removable resist for high aspect ratio applications
Authors: Matthias Schirmer, Doris Perseke, Eva Zena, Daniel Schondelmaier, Ivo Rudolph, Bernd Loechel
Venue: Microsystem Technologies (2006)

A variety of different photo resists are used for fabrication of MEMS. Presently good results were reported for SU-8, a chemically amplified negative tone photoresist. But SU-8 has a disadvantage for some applications in LIGA technique, especially in the X-ray mask fabrication. After processing the finished resist pattern are hardly soluble from the substrate. This paper will briefly describe the current status of the development of the new negative tone photoresist CAR 44 whose big advantage is the easy removableness of the cross linked pattern.
Micro programming rational arithmetic operations
Authors: William I. Thacker, G. W. Gorsline
Venue: ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter (1979)

For many years, real number arithmetic, whether accomplished in hardware, software, or firmware, has utilized a floating point scheme. This paper summarizes the results of a study assessing rational representation as a possible replacement for floating point representation. The Hewlett-Packard 2100A microprogrammable computer was used as the test vehicle. Both accuracy and speed comparisons were used to judge the usefulness of the substitution.
Brief paper: Minimum entropy of B-spline PDF systems with mean constraint
Authors: Hong Yue, Jinglin Zhou, Hong Wang
Venue: Automatica (Journal of IFAC) (2006)

For the B-spline approximation of the continuous probability density function (PDF), the relationships between the B-spline weights and entropy both in general and under the mean constraint have been analyzed. It provides the conditions under which the minimum entropy can be achieved subject to the mean constraint. The difference between the entropy of continuous and discrete distributions has also been clarified. A minimum entropy controller with the mean constraint is then developed and several simulations are performed to verify the main results.
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: A Beginner's Guide, 2 edition
Authors: Nick Cavalancia
Venue:  (2007)

Support a Seamless Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Messaging EnvironmentGet started using Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 quickly with help from this easy-to-follow resource. Using screenshots and step-by-step instructions, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: A Beginner's Guide shows you how to set up Exchange Server, migrate from earlier releases, manage recipients, and administer storage. You'll learn how to integrate with Outlook, support mobile users, handle backup and recovery, and implement security measures. The latest monitoring and reporting tools, performance enhancement techniques, and regulatory compliance procedures are also covered. Install and configure Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 or migrate from earlier versionsCreate and manage recipients, mailboxes, and public foldersAdminister storage groups and databasesIntegrate seamlessly with Outlook 2007Support remote users with Outlook Web Access, Outlook Anywhere, Outlook Voice Access, and Active SyncMonitor, administer, and optimize your system using the Exchange Management Console Back up and recover Exchange databasesTake advantage of the Exchange Management Shell capabilitiesTable of contentsPart 1 - Migration and DeploymentChapter 1 - Introduction to Exchange Server 2007Chapter 2 -- Installing Exchange Server 2007Part II – AdministrationChapter 3 - Creating and Managing RecipientsChapter 4 - Creating and Managing Public FoldersChapter 5 - Administering StorageChapter 6 - Managing Hub Transport ServersChapter 7 - Managing Unified Messaging ServersChapter 8 - Managing Client Access ServersChapter 9 - Managing Edge Transport ServersPart III – Administering ClientsChapter 10 - Administering Exchange Server 2007 ClientsChapter 11 -Administering Mobile ClientsPart IV – Advanced AdministrationChapter 12 - Securing Exchange Server 2007Chapter 13 - Scripting Exchange Server 2007 AdministrationChapter 14 - Monitoring Exchange Server 2007Chapter 15 - Backup & RecoveryChapter 16 - Performance Tuning Exchange Server 2007Chapter 17 - Exchange and Regulatory Compliance 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
Krylov-ROW methods for DAEs of index 1 with applications to viscoelasticity
Authors: Jörg Wensch
Venue: Applied Numerical Mathematics (2005)

The combination of Krylov techniques to Rosenbrock methods (Krylov-ROW methods) leads to an efficient class of methods for stiff problems. Here the extension to semi-explicit DAEs of index 1 is discussed. Several paths are possible to apply the direct and the indirect approach. The equivalence of different approaches is proved. Conclusions on the dimension of the Krylov spaces are drawn. The methods are applied to typical high-dimensional DAEs arising from viscoelastic materials. Numerical experiments confirm the theoretical predictions.
Crisp: Networking for Success: The Art of Establishing Personal Contacts (Fifty-Minute Series,)
Authors: Nancy Flynn
Venue:  (2003)

Ms. Flynn is founder and executive director of The ePolicy Institute, www.ePolicyInstitute.com, an organization devoted to helping employers reduce electronic liabilities, while helping employees enhance their e-mail writing and management skills. Through the ePolicy Institute Speakers' Bureau, Ms. Flynn conducts e-mail writing, e-mail management, and e-policy seminars worldwide. Networking for Success workshops and keynote speeches based on the material presented in this book are available. A Crisp Learning Fifty-Minute™ Book can be used in a variety of ways. Individual self-study is one of the most common. However, many organizations use Fifty-Minute books for prestudy before a classroom training session. Other organizations use the books as a part of a systemwide learning program-supported by video and other media based on the content in the books. Coverage includes- To provide a comprehensive understanding of networking-what it is, what it is not, and why it is so important to career and personal growth. To highlight the role of focus in defining networking goals and creating a strategic action plan for success. To present the fundamentals of successful networking: building and growing a network, nurturing relationships with key influencers, and refining your professional presence. To explore traditional networking tools and techniques, as well as the additional networking opportunities of e-mail and the Internet. To explain strategies for overcoming networking challenges and roadblocks that can derail career success.
Adobe GoLive CS2 Tips and Tricks
Authors: Adam Pratt, Lynn Grillo
Venue:  (2005)

GoLive CS2 is more than just a simple Web authoring tool: As part of Adobe's updated Creative Suite 2, it's a key component of an overall Web workflow that lets you work seamlessly among all of your graphics applications to create spectacular Web sites. This info-packed guide lets users get right down to doing by focusing on just the GoLive features they're mostly like to use and showcasing each in stand-alone tipsï¾complete with a relevant hint or two and a graphic example. In this fashion, you learn just what you need to know, exploring the program in a way that makes sense to you. Before you know it, you'll be importing layered Photoshop files into GoLive, creating PDF files from within the GoLive environment, and using the visual layout grid and Cascading Style Sheets to turn out fluid, beautiful Web pages. Also covered are all of GoLive CS2's new features: enhanced live rendering, mobile CSS support, Visual CVG-Tiny authoring and more.
VoIP Hacks: Tips & Tools for Internet Telephony (Hacks)
Authors: Ted Wallingford
Venue:  (2005)

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is gaining a lot of attention these days, as more companies and individuals switch from standard telephone service to phone service via the Internet. The reason is simple: A single network to carry voice and data is easier to scale, maintain, and administer. As an added bonus, it's also cheaper, because VoIP is free of the endless government regulations and tariffs imposed upon phone companies. VoIP is simply overflowing with hack potential, and VoIP Hacks is the practical guide from O'Reilly that presents these possibilities to you. It provides dozens of hands-on projects for building a VoIP network, showing you how to tweak and customize a multitude of exciting things to get the job done. Along the way, you'll also learn which standards and practices work best for your particular environment. Among the quick and clever solutions showcased in the book are those for: gauging VoIP readiness on an enterprise network using SIP, H.323, and other signaling specifications providing low-layer security in a VoIP environment employing IP hardphones, analog telephone adapters, and softPBX servers dealing with and avoiding the most common VoIP deployment mistakes In reality, VoIP Hacks contains only a small subset of VoIP knowledge-enough to serve as an introduction to the world of VoIP and teach you how to use it to save money, be more productive, or just impress your friends. If you love to tinker and optimize, this is the one technology, and the one book, you must investigate.
Optimal scheduling in a multiserver stochastic network
Authors: Mohsen Bayati, Mayank Sharma, Mark S. Squillante
Venue: ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review (2006)

We consider a fundamental scheduling problem in a multiserver stochastic network consisting of 2 classes of customers and 2 classes of servers. Customers of class k arrive to queue k according to a Poisson process with rate &lambda;k, k = 1, 2. The service times of class k customers at class &ell; servers are i.i.d. following an exponential distribution with mean &mu;k&ell;-1, &forall;k, &ell; = 1, 2, where 0 < &mu;11, &mu;12, &mu;22 < &infin; and &mu;21 = 0. Hence, class 1 customers can be served at both classes of servers, but class 2 customers can only be served at class 2 servers. A FCFS queueing discipline is employed at each queue. The customer arrival and service processes are mutually independent of each other and of all resource allocation decisions.
Chester: towards a personal medication advisor
Authors: James Allen, George Ferguson, Nate Blaylock, Donna Byron, Nathanael Chambers, Myroslava Dzikovska, Lucian Galescu, Mary Swift
Venue: Journal of Biomedical Informatics (2006)

Dialogue systems for health communication hold out the promise of providing intelligent assistance to patients through natural interfaces that require no training to use. But in order to make the development of such systems cost effective, we must be able to use generic techniques and components which are then specialized as needed to the specific health problem and patient population. In this paper, we describe Chester, a prototype intelligent assistant that interacts with its user via conversational natural spoken language to provide them with information and advice regarding their prescribed medications. Chester builds on our prior experience constructing conversational assistants in other domains. The emphasis of this paper is on the portability of our generic spoken dialogue technology, and presents a case study of the application of these techniques to the development of a dialogue system for health communication.
Computer performance improvement by measurement and microprogramming
Authors: David C. Snyder
Venue: ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter (1975)

MICROPROGRAMMING, or microcode, is a comparatively old technique for computer design. It was first described by Wilkes in 1951, when most logic gates were vacuum tubes and the transistor was only a three-year-old infant. The original objective was "to provide a systematic alternative to the somewhat ad hoc procedure used for designing the control system" of a computer.
Experimental evaluation of integrated path estimators
Authors: James M. Calvin
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

We describe the results of numerical experiments evaluating the efficiency of variance estimators based on integrated sample paths. The idea behind the estimators is to compute a vector of integrated paths and combine them to form an estimator of the time-average variance constant that is used, for example, in the construction of confidence intervals. When used in conjunction with batching, the approach generalizes the method of non-overlapping batch means. Compared with non-overlapping batch means, the estimators require longer to compute, have smaller variance and larger bias. We show that for long enough simulation run lengths, the efficiency (the reciprocal of running time multiplied by mean-squared error) of integrated path estimators can be much greater than that of non-overlapping batch means; the numerical experiments show an efficiency improvement by up to a factor of ten.
The Internet: The Missing Manual
Authors: J. D. Biersdorfer, David Pogue
Venue:  (2006)

The Internet is almost synonymous with change--that's one of its charms, and one of its headaches. You may think you know the Internet, but are you really up to speed on internet telephones, movie and TV downloading, blogging, gaming, online banking, dating, and photosharing? This utterly current book covers: Getting Online: Readers will have all the information they need to decide what kind of broadband connection works best for them, which browser they should use, and what kind of spyware-fighting and virus-and spam-protection measures they need to protect themselves. Finding Information: Google may be the leading search site, but it's certainly not the only game in town. This book introduces a diverse and useful collection of sites that help uncover everything from health care information, to shopping, travel and finance, to dependable reviews and ratings. Movies, music, and photos: The Web's teeming with entertainment--and not just the sort of postage-stamp sized videos that only a geek could love. Learn where to download movies, watch TV online, listen to music, play games, and post and share photos with friends. Keeping in touch: Email's only the beginning. This book introduces readers to the many tools that make the modern Internet such a great way to stay connected. From Web-based discussion groups to instant messaging programs, and from blogs and podcasts to Internet-based phone calls, this book will help you join the conversation. Ideal for anyone just venturing into cyberspace, this book is also perfect for more experienced users who could use an update to today's most exciting internet applications.
Rearrangeability of Tandem Cascade of Banyan-Type Networks
Authors: Xuesong Tan, Shuo-Yen Robert Li
Venue: IEICE - Transactions on Information and Systems (2007)

The cascade of two baseline networks in tandem is a rearrangeable network. The cascade of two omega networks appended with a certain interconnection pattern is also rearrangeable. These belong to the general problem: for what banyan-type network (i.e., bit-permuting unique-routing network) is the tandem cascade a rearrangeable network? We relate the problem to the trace and guide of banyan-type networks. Let τ denote the trace permutation of a 2n × 2n banyan-type network and γ the guide permutation of it. This paper proves that rearrangeability of the tandem cascade of the network is solely determined by the transposition τγ-1. Such a permutation is said to be tandem rearrangeable when the tandem cascade is indeed rearrangeable. We identify a few tandem rearrangeable permutations, each implying the rearrangeability of the tandem cascade of a wide class of banyan-type networks.