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Fuzzy Systems for Information Processing, 1st edition
Authors: K. Asai
Venue:  (1995)

:Fuzzy information processing is the basis of various applications of fuzzy theory, but it is difficult to sum it up in a single volume introduction, and no book of this sort has been published here or overseas. An introduction to fuzzy information processing is given, together with an orderly and systematic description of the concepts, significance, progress, methods, hardware, software and applications, such as databases, control, expert systems and fuzzy computers as well as ones that will be developed in the future.This book is an important contribution for engineers and researchers that are aiming for various applications of fuzzy theory, as well as students that are learning about it. 'The book contains a very good introduction into object oriented methodologies and good hints and notes on CASE tools.' - J. Kral (Brno) Zentrallblatt fur Mathematik und ihre Grenzgebiete, band 823/95
Mp3 and the Infinite Digital Jukebox: A Step-by-Step Guide to Accessing and Downloading CD-Quality Music off the Web
Authors: Chris Gilbey
Venue:  (2000)

:With MP3 technology, the era of accessing the full range of the world's music and customizing it to individual taste has arrived. Written by music industry insider and former computer programmer Chris Gilbey, MP3 and the Infinite Digital Jukebox shows how to take advantage of this revolution. The book offers clear and simple instructions on how and where to find all the necessary applications for getting instant musical gratification from the new online music devices on the market. Topics covered include information about all the music file types, how to play them, how to "rip" them, how to burn your own CDs, and how to send music to others. The book reviews all the latest software and hardware, but also shows how it's possible to avoid the expense and use existing resources. 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
VHDL, 2nd edition
Authors: Douglas L. Perry
Venue:  (1995)

:This is the third edition of the best-selling VHDL reference in the world. VHDL is the IEEE standard hardware description language,used by electronics designers to model and simulate complex digital circuits. Where previous editions have focused on the language itself,this book adds material on applications. 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
Automatically editing book reviews on the web
Authors: Koji Eguchi, Shigeki Sugita
Venue: Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Web information and data management (2001)

A large amount of book information lies scattered on the Web. It is written in non-standard forms, as is other Web information, and this imposes a heavy load on a user browsing search results. We propose an automatic editing method that assists users to retrieve book information, especially book reviews scattered on the Web. Our proposed system retrieves the bibliographic information of a user-specified book using a library catalog database. Using this, it retrieves book reviews on the Web, which are then automatically edited using some heuristic rules for segment extraction, filtering and sorting according to a semantic likelihood of their being book reviews, and are finally presented in tables to the users. We implemented a prototype system and performed a preliminary evaluation of its effectiveness by experiment.
Internet and Technology Law Desk Reference
Authors: Michael D. Scott
Venue:  (2000)

:Internet and Technology Law Desk Reference is the first reference to bring together the court's definition of hightech terms, legal doctrines, acronyms, and jargon by using case citations and definitions accepted by the courts. The book covers over 2,000 legal and technical termsthe most comprehensive listing of its kind. So you can advise clients, draft contracts, and litigate cases confident that you're using accurate terminology backed by legal precedent. This handbook covers dozens of legal and technical issues, such as, Copyright and Patents; Contracts and Torts; Security and Trade Secrets; Free Speech Issues; Internet Fraud and Crime; Internet and Ecommerce; Software and Hardware; Year 2000 Liability; Telecommunications; Multimedia and Video Games; Computer Manufacturing; and more.(If you are an instructor interested in adopting this book for your class, special student discounts are available for adoptions of 8 copies or more. For more information, please call: 18009505259.) 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
Danny Goodman's AppleScript Handbook, 2nd edition
Authors: Danny Goodman
Venue:  (1994)

:This latest edition will help you: Enhance your productivity by freeing yourself from the drudgery of tasks in the Finder Automate the Finder and third-party applications, including: FileMaker Pro; QuarkXPress; Microsoft Excel; HyperCard; Microsoft Word; WordPerfect; MacWrite Pro; TouchBase; Customize your own system and give your scripts professional polish Rely on OSA (Open Scripting Architecture) infrastructure to provide a consistent scripting foundation for applications and accommodate future scripting systems Get a head start today learning all the powerful tools of your Macintosh, and be well-positioned to take advantage of the amazing application and system software technologies yet to come.
A stochastic model for the interconnection topology of digital circuits
Authors: Peter Verplaetse, Dirk Stroobandt, Jan Van Campenhout
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems (2001)

Rent's rule has been successfully applied to a priori estimation of wire length distributions. However, this approach is very restrictive: the circuits are assumed to be homogeneous. In this paper, recursive clustering is described as a more advanced model for the partitioning behavior of digital circuits. It is applied to predict the variance of the terminal count distribution. First, the impact of the block degree distribution is analyzed with a simple model. A more refined model incorporates the effect of stochastic self similarity. Finally, the model is further extended to describe the effects of heterogeneity. This model is a promising candidate for more accurate a priori estimation tools.
Three approaches to the coordination of multiagent systems
Authors: Federico Bergenti, Alessandro Ricci
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing (2002)

The engineering of the social aspects has been acknowledged as one of the principal issues in the realization of real-world multiagent systems. The literature proposes a number of solutions to this problem and in this paper we consider three of them and we discuss their relationships. First, we take into account hybrid coordination models based on tuple centres. Then, we consider interaction protocols as a means to coordinate multiagent systems. Finally, we address the implicit coordination that the semantics of classic agent communication languages propose. We base our discussion on the common ground of coordination models and we sketch a comparison between such approaches.
The Designer's Guide to VHDL, 1st edition
Authors: Peter J. Ashenden
Venue:  (1999)

:The Designer's Guide to VHDL is both a comprehensive manual for the language and an authoritative reference on its use in hardware design at all levels, from the system level to the gate level. Using the IEEE standard for VHDL, the author presents the entire description language and builds a modeling methodology based on successful software engineering techniques. Requiring only a minimal background in programming, this is an excellent tutorial for anyone in computer architecture, digital systems engineering, or CAD. The book is organized so that it can be either read cover-to-cover for a comprehensive tutorial or kept deskside as a reference to the language. Each chapter introduces a number of related concepts or language facilities and illustrates each one with examples. Scattered throughout the book are four case studies, which bring together preceding material in the form of extended worked examples. All of the examples and case studies, complete with test drivers for running the VHDL code, are available via the World Wide Web. In addition, each chapter is followed by a set of related exercises.
Reactions of computer savvy users to information on the intranet
Authors: Brenda Rubens
Venue: Proceedings of IEEE professional communication society international professional communication conference and Proceedings of the 18th annual ACM international conference on Computer documentation: technology & teamwork (2000)

Providing a corporate Human Resources Web site to enable employee's access to their benefits and health benefits information is a sensible use of the Intranet and a worthy goal. However, the road to that destination is traveled by a wide variety of users and is filled with many obstacles. Even after you have arrived at your destination, there are still many surprises in store for you. As the designer/developer of the Web site, as well as an employee of the company, you may naively assume you know your audience very well. After all, you are a member of the same audience! This dual role of audience member and designer is both a strength and a weakness. You may be tempted to take your users for granted and assume that you know what's best for them. This paper emphasizes the importance of knowing your audience and the need for iterative design and usability testing; it also presents the reactions of your users to the design that you so carefully tested with them prior to implementation. No matter how carefully you plan and how well you think you know your users and have anticipated their needs, their responses to your well-crafted product will never cease to amaze you. Often, there is a problem in the interpretation of the requirements - maybe you didn't really implement exactly what the users had in mind or you provided them with what you assumed was an acceptable compromise. In these situations, you have to accept the responsibility and decide what to do next. However, the users of your product, in this case a Web site, also have some responsibilities. This paper discusses the responsibilities of both designers and users. 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 Talmud and the Internet: A Journey between Worlds
Authors: Jonathan Rosen
Venue:  (2000)

:"Not long after my grandmother died, my computer crashed and I lost the journal I had kept of her dying." So begins this powerful personal consideration of modern technology and ancient religious impulses by a celebrated young novelist and essayist. Jonathan Rosen blends religious history, memoir and literary reflection as he compares the fortunate life of his American-born grandmother to the life of his European-born grandmother, who was murdered by Nazis. The Talmud and the Internet explores the contradictions of Rosen's inheritance and toggles between personal paradoxes and those of the larger world. Along the way, he chronicles the remarkable parallels between a page of Talmud and the home page of a Web site. In the loose, associative logic and the vastness of each, he discovers not merely the disruption of a broken world but a kind of disjointed harmony. In the same way that the Talmud helped Jews survive after the destruction of the Temple by making Jewish culture portable and personal, the all-inclusive Internet serves a world that is both more uprooted and more connected than ever before. In this profound, ultimately hopeful meditation, Rosen charts the territory between doubt and belief, tragedy and prosperity, the world of the living and the world of the dead. Jonathan Rosen is the author of the novel Eve's Apple, which The New York Times praised as "an absorbing, intelligent tale of love and the mysteriousness of the other." He created the Arts & Letters section of the Forward, which he edited for ten years. His essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The American Scholar and several anthologies. He lives in New York City with his wife and daughter. "Rosen carries out the most bracing sort of, exploration, using the lens of the new ... An engaging, superbly written meditation." (Sven Birkerts) "... I'm still turning this gemlike little volume ... Rosen's wise and heartfelt book is a home page with links to infinity." (Anne Fadiman) "... it has the quality of permanence ... Its wisdom is in its mixture of rapture and elegy and honesty and reverence ..." (Cynthia Ozick) "It's extremely rare and exciting to read something that links ancient and modern sensibilities ... both impressively cerebral and highly personal." (Ron Rosenbaum) 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
Sequent calculi for propositional nonmonotonic logics
Authors: Piero Andrea Bonatti, Nicola Olivetti
Venue: ACM Transactions on Computational Logic (TOCL) (2002)

A uniform proof-theoretic reconstruction of the major nonmonotonic logics is introduced. It consists of analytic sequent calculi where the details of nonmonotonic assumption making are modelled by an axiomatic rejection method. Another distinctive feature of the calculi is the use of provability constraints that make reasoning largely independent of any specific derivation strategy. The resulting account of nonmonotonic inference is simple and flexible enough to be a promising playground for investigating and comparing proof strategies, and for describing the behavior of automated reasoning systems. We provide some preliminary evidence for this claim by introducing optimized calculi, and by simulating an existing tableaux-based method for circumscription. The calculi for skeptical reasoning support concise proofs that may depend on a strict subset of the given theory. This is a difficult task, given the nonmonotonic behavior of the logics.
Size space tradeoffs for resolution
Authors: Eli Ben-Sasson
Venue: Proceedings of the thiry-fourth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing (2002)

We investigate tradeoffs of various important complexity measures such as size, space and width. We show examples of CNF formulas that have optimal proofs with respect to any one of these parameters, but optimizing one parameter must cost an increase in the other. These results, the first of their kind, have implications on the efficiency (or rather, inefficiency) of some commonly used SAT solving heuristics.Our proof relies on a novel and somewhat surprising connection of the variable space of a proof, to the black white pebbling measure of an underlying graph.
The Soul of a New Machine
Authors: Tracy Kidder
Venue:  (2000)

:Computers have changed since 1981, when Tracy Kidder indelibly recorded the drama, comedy, and excitement of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market. What has changed little, however, is computer culture: the feverish pace of the high-tech industry, the mystique of programmers, the go-for-broke approach to business that has caused so many computer companies to win big (or go belly up), and the cult of pursuing mind-bending technological innovations. By tracing computer culture to its roots, by exploring the "soul" of the "machine" that has revolutionized the world, Kidder succeeds as no other writer has done in capturing the essential spirit of the computer age.
The UNIX Book of Games with CD-ROM
Authors: Janice Winsor
Venue:  (1996)

:UNIX games for every taste are brought together, from the Colossal Cave Adventure to Flight Simulator. Readers will find networkable versions of chess, Go, and Hearts. Play against the computer, against someone down the hall--or around the world. Ten fully graphical games are included in this book/CD-ROM package.
Structured COBOL Programming, 8th edition
Authors: Nancy B. Stern
Venue:  (1996)

:A popular text, noted for its extensive pedagogy and unparalleled ability to crystallize difficult, technical concepts accurately. In this edition COBOL-85 is given primary emphasis and the latest standard, COBOL 199x is highlighted throughout. Contains increased coverage of object-oriented COBOL, pseudocodes and programming on microcomputers. Features all new practice programs, a novel multimedia slide program and a new, more powerful compiler--MicroFocus Personal COBOL.
Official Brave Fencer Musashi Strategy Guide
Authors: Brady Games
Venue:  (1998)

:With full-color maps, secrets of the game direct from Square Electronic Arts, and bonus items for hardcore gamers, this title walks players through the funand excitement of Brave Fencer Musachi.
Strategic Data Warehousing Principles Using SAS Software, 1st edition
Authors: Peter R. Welbrock
Venue:  (1998)

:What is the key to a successful data warehouse? Strategy, design, and implementation! This book skillfully provides a conceptual and working model of a successful data warehouse process that is developed by using SAS software. Written for both the business and technical sides of the house, Welbrock supplies real-life experience with data warehousing, not a theoretical approach. This book delivers the following three-phase strategy for building a data warehouse: 1) Build a conceptual data warehouse that contains metadata about the business elements required to fulfill enterprise needs. 2) Transition the business elements that are documented in the conceptual warehouse into a technological lexicon. 3) Implement the physical data warehouse. Topics discussed that support the data warehousing process are data modeling, data transformation, multi-dimensional databases, data extraction and storage, warehouse loading, client/server, and the SAS/Warehouse Administrator. The strategy for designing your effective data warehouse is found in these pages! Supports releases 6.11 and higher of SAS software.Author Biography: Peter R. Welbrock Peter R. Welbrock is a "cutting edge" computer consultant with over 15 years of SAS experience. He specializes in the design and implementation of Data Warehouses along with Decision Support applications. His extensive knowledge of the Information Technology Industry spans numerous hardware and software platforms in both stand-alone and client/server environments. 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
Analysis of Distributed Routing Balancing behavior
Authors: I. Garcés, D. Franco
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing (2002)

Distributed Routing Balancing (DRB) is a method developed to uniformly balance communication traffic over the interconnection network. DRB takes a similar approach to communications as load balancing does to processes in a distributed environment. The key ideas behind DRB are to distribute communication load based on limited and load-controlled path expansion, in order to maintain low message latency. In this paper, we present an exhaustive evaluation of DRB that shows that the method presents low overhead and is robust with respect to the accuracy of the monitoring information it uses, and we compare its latency performance against other state-of-the-art routing methods.
Dynamic power consumption in Virtex™-II FPGA family
Authors: Li Shang, Alireza S. Kaviani, Kusuma Bathala
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM/SIGDA tenth international symposium on Field-programmable gate arrays (2002)

This paper analyzes the dynamic power consumption in the fabric of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) by taking advantage of both simulation and measurement. Our target device is Xilinx Virtex™-II family, which contains the most recent and largest programmable fabric. We identify important resources in the FPGA architecture and obtain their utilization, using a large set of real designs. Then, using a number of representative case studies we calculate the switching activity corresponding to each resource. Finally, we combine effective capacitance of each resource with its utilization and switching activity to estimate its share of power consumption. According to our results, the power dissipation share of routing, logic and clocking resources are 60%, 16%, and 14%, respectively. Also, we concluded that dynamic power dissipation of a Virtex-II CLB is 5.9&mgr;W per MHz for typical designs, but it may vary significantly depending on the switching activity.
Hacker's Challenge: Test Your Incident Response Skills Using 20 Scenarios
Authors: Mike Schiffman
Venue:  (2001)

:Malicious hackers are everywhere these days, so how do you keep them out of your networks? This unique volume challenges your forensics and incident response skills with 20 real-world hacks presented by upper-echelon security experts. Important topics are covered, including Denial of Service, wireless technologies, Web attacks, and malicious code. Each challenge includes a detailed explanation of the incident--how the break-in was detected, evidence and possible clues, technical background such as log files and network maps, and a series of questions for you to solve. Then, in Part II, you get a detailed analysis of how the experts solved each incident.
MCSE TCP/IP for Dummies, 2nd edition
Authors: Cameron Brandon
Venue:  (1999)

:The MCSE TCP/IP exam is one of the more popular elective exams MCSE candidates take in order to complete their certification requirements. Focusing on the essentials of that exam, this guide's second edition includes a CD-ROM that contains an electronic self-assessment test, a customizable test engine that provides a variety of test-taking scenarios, Quick-Learn, and test prep demos.
Determinants of Success of German Venture Capital Investments
Authors: Michael Schefczyk
Venue: Interfaces (2001)

Based on literature reviews, I formulated 10 hypotheses for a wide range of determinants of success for German venture capital firms (VCFs). I tested and largely confirmed these hypotheses using bivariate correlation analyses and confirmatory multivariate LISREL models on a data set of 103 transactions by 12 German VCFs. The analyses indicate that emphasizing portfolio companies' managers' qualifications, intensifying cooperation between VCFs and portfolio companies, and ensuring a strong (minority) shareholder position of the VCFs coincide with above average success.