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Lotus Notes R5 for Dummies Quick Reference, 1st edition
Authors: Stephen Londergan, Pat Freeland
Venue:  (1998)

:Inside, you find clear-cut, plain-English explanations that show you how to get the most out of Lotus Notes R 5: discover all the important features of Notes - e-mail, calendars, databases, and more; find the information you want - fast - using Notes-enhanced information searches; take advantage of the new and improved user-friendly interface - and its easy compatibility with Windows 98 and NT; and get the information you need the way you want it with Subscriptions and Headlines.
Asymptotic-Numerical Study of Supersensitivity for Generalized Burgers' Equations
Authors: Marc Garbey, Hans G. Kaper
Venue: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (2000)

This article addresses some asymptotic and numerical issues related to the solution of Burgers' equation, $-\varepsilon u_{xx} + u_t + u u_x = 0$ on (-1,1), subject to the boundary conditions $u(-1) = 1 + \delta$, $u(1) = -1$, and its generalization to two dimensions, $-\varepsilon \Delta u + u_t + u u_x + u u_y = 0$ on $(-1,1) \times (-\pi, \pi)$, subject to the boundary conditions $u|_{x=1} = 1 + \delta$, $u|_{x=-1} = -1$, with $2\pi$ periodicity in $y$. The perturbation parameters $\delta$ and $\varepsilon$ are arbitrarily small positive and independent; when they approach 0, they satisfy the asymptotic order relation $\delta = O_s ({\rm e}^{-a/\varepsilon})$ for some constant $a \in (0,1)$.The solutions of these convection-dominated viscous conservation laws exhibit a transition layer in the interior of the domain, whose position as $t\to\infty$ is supersensitive to the boundary perturbation. Algorithms are presented for the computation of the position of the transition layer at steady state. The algorithms generalize to viscous conservation laws with a convex nonlinearity and are scalable in a parallel computing environment.
Mission: Impossible, 4th edition
Authors: Kevin Sakamoto
Venue:  (1999)

:Join the world's most elite team of silent protectors. You have five hazardous missions to prove you're worthy to die for the safety of the world's population. Be prepared to be another killer's target, but never lose your wits. You will be provided with detailed maps, explanations of weapons and IMF Devices, and descriptions of all Agents. But remember, you must choose to accept your missions, and the risk that comes with it.
Combining usability research with documentation development for improved user support
Authors: Timothy Keirnan, Lori Anschuetz, Stephanie Rosenbaum
Venue: Proceedings of the 20th annual international conference on Computer documentation (2002)

As a usability research and information design firm, Tec-Ed has noted the advantages of evaluating a product's usability in conjunction with developing its print and online documentation. Usability research identifies the problems with a user interface. When business or technical constraints prevent problems from being corrected in the interface, we still improve the product's usability by addressing these problems in the documentation. In other cases, the documentation can inform us of specific problems to research in the usability work.This paper describes two case studies in which the same team performed both usability and documentation projects for a product. In addition to the expected benefits from combining usability and documentation work, using the same team resulted in efficiencies in process and quality of execution. The experience also suggests that usability evaluation is not simply an alternative career path for technical communicators, but rather a complementary skill that can enhance their professional development while adding more value to the work they do for employers as well as users.
An e-out-of-Kilter Method for Monotropic Programming
Authors: Paul Tseng
Venue: Mathematics of Operations Research (2001)

The out-of-kilter method was first proposed by Fulkerson (1961) for linear-cost network flow and independently by Minty (1961) for piecewise-linear-cost network flow and was then extended by Rockafellar (1984, Section 11K) to piecewise-linear-cost monotropic programming. We propose an extension of this method, based on Rockafellar's work and on ideas from e-relaxation methods for convex-cost network flow (Bertsekas et al. 1997a, De Leone et al. 1999) to monotropic programming in general. The proposed method is amenable to a complexity analysis and its convergence is based on (essentially) a monotone decrease in vertical distance to the characteristic curve for each index.
Micro-Architecture of Software Components and The Need For Good Mental Models of Software Subsystems
Authors: Steve Edwards
Venue: ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes (1996)

Because of similar interests, these two groups initially met together, and then decided to jointly pursue both topics. iquest;From the micro-architecture perspective, the group was interested in the details of both the structure and the behavior of software component interfaces and on the implementations of individual components, sets of components, and how they compose and "interoperate" with each other. From the mental models perspective the group was interested in exploring the methods by which humans develop good mental models of generic software subsystems, the methods by which one can design software interfaces that "project" easy-to-assimilate mental models, and how existing programming languages support/hinder these efforts.
MCSE: Windows 2000 Core Design Electives Virtual Trainer (Sybex E-Trainer Series)
Authors: Gary Govanus, Robert King, Bill Heldman
Venue:  (2001)

:Prepare for all the MCSE Core Elective exams with the etrainer. Indepth coverage of all Microsoft's exam objectives in a personalized adaptive format. Features an assessment exam to help you plan your studies, a personalized test engine and lesson plans, and hundreds of sample questions to help you pass your MCSE Core Electives. Great companion to Sybex's Study Guides and Exam Note.
Effective Executive's Guide to Outlook 2002
Authors: Jason Gerend, Charles Bermant
Venue:  (2001)

:This fast-paced tutorial helps professionals navigate Microsoft Outlook 2002 by focusing on the aspects of the program most relevant to the business world. Business and managerial users will discover the benefits of Outlook 2002 as a personal information manager as they learn how to set up the program to work with current mail accounts, create message-processing rules, and keep track of business and personal contacts with Outlook's Contacts folder. This tutorial shows new users how to coordinate schedules with Outlook's Calendar and how to work with Exchange Server to plan meetings, share folders, and use specially created digital dashboards to collect and manage contact information.Author Biography: Jason Gerend is the coauthor of Effective Executive's Guide to FrontPage Web Sites and Effective Executive's Guide to Dreamweaver 3 Web Sites. He lives in Bellingham, Washington. Charles Bermant writes the Inbox column, a weekly discussion of e-mail behavior, for the Seattle Times. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
Systems, Experts, and Computers: The Systems Approach in Management and Engineering, World War II and After
Authors: Agatha C. Hughes, Thomas P. Hughes
Venue:  (2000)

:After World War II, a systems approach to solving complex problems and managing complex systems came into vogue among engineers, scientists, and managers, fostered in part by the diffusion of digital computing power. Enthusiasm for the approach peaked during the Johnson administration, when it was applied to everything from military command and control systems to poverty in American cities. Although its failure in the social sphere, coupled with increasing skepticism about the role of technology and "experts" in American society, led to a retrenchment, systems methods are still part of modern managerial practice. This groundbreaking book charts the origins and spread of the systems movement. It describes the major players Contributors: Atsushi Akera, Harvey Brooks, Glenn Bugos, Davis Dyer, Paul N. Edwards, Gabrielle Hecht, David A. Hounshell, David R. Jardini, Stephen B. Johnson, Arne Kaijser, Lily E. Kay, Roger E. Levien, Donald MacKenzie, Alan McDonald, David A. Mindell, Erik P. Rau, Joar Tiberg.
Dependency graph scheduling in a volumetric ray tracing architecture
Authors: S. Frank, A. Kaufman
Venue: Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS conference on Graphics hardware (2002)

We propose a volumetric ray tracing PCI board which uses FPGA components and on chip memory. In a multiboard system a super volume (i.e., one that is larger than on-board memory) can be either distributed or shared. In a single board system it must be fetched from main memory as needed. In any case the volume is sub-divided into cubic cells and process scheduling has a major impact on the rendering time. There is not generally a scheduling order which would allow each sub-volume to be read from memory only once. We introduce instead a new, compact representation of the cell ray-spawning dependencies of all rays, called Cell Tree. We use this Cell Tree to determine a good processing schedule for the next frame based on the ray dependencies from the previous frame. Experimental results show an average miss reduction of30%. The main contribution of this paper is the generation of a Cell Tree for ray tracing which collects coherent bundles of rays with very little overhead. This is used to decrease overall memory access in sequences where there is good inter-frame coherence.
Focus on Curriculum Integration through Internet Adventures, 1st edition
Authors: Maryann Mollerup (cover)
Venue:  (1998)

:In this tour of highlighted material from chapter six of Cynthia Leshin's book, Internet Adventures 2.0 (1998, Allyn & Bacon, 0-205-27883-3), you'll find examples of both curriculum standards and content standards. Three thematic units of instruction have been selected based on curriculum standards that many states require their teachers to teach: the rain forest, ancient civilizations, and the oceans. Each thematic unit provides examples of how the Internet can be used as a resource to support teaching and learning as well as a new opportunity to convert existing curriculum into performance-based learning.
Open Architectures and Network Programming (Openarch): 1998 IEEE 1st Conference
Authors: IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Industry Applications Society
Venue:  (1998)

:Recent advances in distributed systems and transportable software together with increasing demand for better control of quality of service in multiservices networks are driving a reexamination of network software architectures. OPENARCH offers a forum for the communication of experimental as well as theoretical results aimed at better understanding of the overall networking architecture and its realization in software.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Paint Shop Pro 7
Authors: Nat Gertler
Venue:  (2000)

:The Complete Idiot's Guide to Paint Shop Pro X provides easy-to-follow, down-to-earth advice, tinged with humor that makes sense of both technology and solutions for beginning users. You can count on finding the information you need without being weighed down by unnecessary details or information that is over your head. New additions to the book cover Paint Shop Pro's new features, including: Enhanced interface features including a visual browser with adjustable thumbnail views, custom program preferences, multiple zoom levels (32:1 to 1:24), and a Recent Colors dialog window. Picture Tubes enable you to "paint" with high-quality full color graphics in patterns as both fills and lines of objects. Improved support for layers and masks, with numerous tools for the creation, editing, and management of vector, raster and adjustment layers. Intelligent photo enhancement tools such as red-eye corrector and scratch removal make photo manipulation faster and more efficient.
Creating Web Pages for Dummies Quick Reference, 1st edition
Authors: Doug Lowe, Kelly Oliver
Venue:  (1998)

:Suddenly found yourself Webmaster by default? Thinking about creating your own Web page? Or maybe you just need a bit of brushing up on the details of Web design. Creating Web Pages For Dummies Quick Reference brings you all the essentials you need. With easy-to-follow instructions for using the hottest new Web features, including HTML tags, channel scripts, and Dynamic HTML, this no-nonsense guide will save you a great deal of time -- the fun and easy way! Now you can find what you need even faster with our ...For Dummies&reg; Quick References! The design features tasks in alphabetical order, clear-cut, step-by-step instructions, and easy-to-follow advice. Get in and out quickly and get the information you really need without reading tons of material! Look For IDG Books Worldwide's Creating Web Pages For Dummies&reg;, 3rd Edition, for even more information on the latest tools and techniques for publishing on the Web.
Knowledge structuring and representation in requirement specification
Authors: Egidio Astesiano, Gianna Reggio
Venue: Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software engineering and knowledge engineering (2002)

On the basis of some experience in the use of UML-based methods, we believe that a more refined and stringent structuring of the knowledge in the Requirement Specification may help the specification process and make easier the consistency checks among the various components. Thus we propose a way of structuring and representing the Requirement Specification artifacts that presents a number of novelties w.r.t. the best-known current methods. Our proposal is multiview, use case-driven and UML-based; thus also object-oriented. However, also benefitting of some earlier work, notably in the Structured Analysis, we take a rather abstract view, trying to avoid a preemptive decision on the classes structuring the system to build; that is achieved not only making a sharp distinction between business/domain modelling and the system, but also dealing with the system at the requirement level as a black box, providing only the minimal structure needed to express the interactions with the context.
Ado 2.0 Programmer's Reference
Authors: Alex Homer, David Sussman
Venue:  (1998)

:What is the Subject Area?This book provides a reference to Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects version 2.0. ADO is the core technology for accessing all kinds of data including relational databases, mail servers, Active Directory, text and other document files, and data in other non-standard formats. It is supplied with many development environments, including Microsoft Visual Studio, C++, Visual Basic, and as part of the Windows NT operating system.What's Great About this Book? Provides a concise and yet comprehensive guide to the ways ADO 2 can be used in all kinds of applications. Demonstrates ADO with both Web applications in written ASP and in compiled applications written using Visual Basic. Covers the advanced ADO topics as well as the new features added in version 2.0. Acts as a vital reference on syntax and semantics for working with ADO. Explains how ADO fits into the whole DNA picture for distributed data-oriented applications. Describes the advantages of ADO over other Microsoft data access technologies. Shows how ADO interfaces with the core OLE-DB data access driver model. Includes a reference section for fast access to detailed lists of the properties and methods available. Who is this Book for?This book is aimed at the application developer who already uses Microsoft's data access methods in their applications, but wants to take full advantage of the new features of ADO 2.0. It also includes all the information required for any reasonably experienced developer to start using ADO within their Web pages and distributed applications. Finally, it is ideal for all existing ADO users, to get them up to speed quickly with version 2.0.
Internet and Web Answers!: Certified Tech Support, 1st edition
Authors: Cheryl Kirk
Venue:  (1997)

:With the success of our Answers! series,and the growing popularity of the Internet,this book fills the needs of both the casual and advanced user. It features hundreds of answers to the most common questions asked of technical support regarding Internet and World Wide Web issues such as using email,browsing the Web,using newsgroups,transferring information with FTP,participating in chat groups,using other Internet services such as Telnet and Gopher,and creating Web pages.
Surface self-intersection
Authors: Chih-Cheng Ho, Elaine Cohen
Venue: Mathematical Methods for Curves and Surfaces: Oslo 2000 (2001)

To unambiguously represent a solid volume, it is necessary to identify and trim away extraneous and distracting parts caused by self-intersecting regions of the boundary surface. We define self-intersection as a global intrinsic property of the geometry and introduce a necessary condition for surface self-intersection, that can be computed from the normal and tangent bounding cones of the surface. Therefore, a surface that fails the condition cannot have any self-intersection. Using this property, we develop a divide-and-conquer algorithm to find the self-intersection curves of surfaces. We also introduce a method to locate a miter point of a vanishing self-intersection curve. Miter points can cause slow or false convergence using existing numerical intersection methods.
Field Guide to Dynamical Recurrent Networks, 1st edition
Authors: Stefan C. Kremer
Venue:  (2001)

From the Book:The idea for this book emerged as the two of us were organizing the 1996 Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) workshop on recurrent networks. Many of the telephone calls between us turned to students and research. We both bemoaned the fact that we were handing large stacks of journal papers to our potential graduate students, in some cases, scaring them off to other advisors. Since we both were dealing with terminal masters students whom we would be lucky if they stuck around for a whole year, we needed introductory material that was self-contained, accessible, and devoid of distractionsa book that a first-year graduate student, or upper-division undergrad, could read and become productive in a short period of time. Unfortunately, there were no such books available at that time. Hertz, Krogh, and Palmers textbook serves well in getting students up to speed on back propagation, Hopfield networks, and Boltzmann machines. However, it did little justice to our research area, dynam-ical recurrent networks. Sometime before the workshop, we decided to fill this void. From the conception of this project, we both agreed that this book was not going to be yet another edited collection of papers. We wanted a coherent presentation of the field. One difficulty for students has been the arbitrary nomenclature and mathematical notation used to describe recurrent networks. Though not insurmountable, it does act as a speed bump, reducing the valuable time that they could be spending elsewhere. Like any other young field, we have several researchers with competing viewpoints. One problem with edited volumes is that the author of a chapter will have a biased view of the world. We decided to reduce this bias by assigning multiple authors to chapters. The goal of the assignments was to ensure a balanced presentation of the material, one that would be coming directly from the experts in that field. We also encouraged the authors to tie their chapters with other chapters in the book. Though difficult at times, it transforms the text from a collection of papers into a coherent book. The book is organized into five sections. The first section presents the range of dynamical recurrent network (DRN) architectures that will be used in the book. With these architectures in hand, we turn to examine their capabilities as computational devices. The third section presents several training algorithms for solving the network loading problem. Next, we look back and temper our enthusiasm by acknowledging the limitations of DRNs. The final section deals with applications of recurrent networks. The material in this book assumes a basic understanding of neural networks. The reader, we assume, has read an introductory textbook covering multilayered perceptrons and back-propagation. As such, this book would be ideal for a second course in neural networks.
Two processor scheduling with real release times and deadlines
Authors: Hui Wu, Joxan Jaffar
Venue: Proceedings of the fourteenth annual ACM symposium on Parallel algorithms and architectures (2002)

In a hard real-time system, critical tasks are subject to timing constraints such as release times and deadlines. All timing constraints must be satisfied when tasks are executed. Nevertheless, given a set of tasks, finding a feasible schedule which satisfies all timing constraints is NP-complete even on one processor.In this paper, we study the following special non-pre-emptive two processor scheduling problem: Given a set of UET (Unit Execution Time) tasks with arbitrary precedence constraints, individual real release times and deadlines, find a feasible schedule on two identical processors whenever one exists. The complexity status of this problem has been open for a long time. we propose the first polynomial algorithm for this problem. Our algorithm is underpinned by the key consistency notion: successor-tree-consistency. The time complexity of our algorithm is O(n4), where n is the number of tasks.
Microsoft Access 2000 Bible with Cdrom, 1st edition
Authors: Cary N. Prague, Michael Irwin
Venue:  (1999)

:Learn how to put Access 2000 to work, with over 1,600 pages of examples, exercises, expert advice, tips, techniques, workarounds, and more. The two loaded CD-ROMs include Access software and source code created by a leading Access add-in company. The CDs also feature SQL Server 7 (90-day trial), professional business applications, and free software and demo versions of popular utilities.
L&H Voice XPress for the Office Professional, 1st edition
Authors: Karl Barksdale, Michael Rutter
Venue:  (2000)

:Voice typing is transforming the way people work, write, and enter data. With Voice XPress for the Office Professional you can learn the most effective way to use this new software and be able to apply it to the various office applications. This book provides step-by-step instruction through the speech learning process, providing tips and advice along the way.
Motion capture assisted animation: texturing and synthesis
Authors: Katherine Pullen, Christoph Bregler
Venue: ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) (2002)

We discuss a method for creating animations that allows the animator to sketch an animation by setting a small number of keyframes on a fraction of the possible degrees of freedom. Motion capture data is then used to enhance the animation. Detail is added to degrees of freedom that were keyframed, a process we call texturing. Degrees of freedom that were not keyframed are synthesized. The method takes advantage of the fact that joint motions of an articulated figure are often correlated, so that given an incomplete data set, the missing degrees of freedom can be predicted from those that are present.
Discovering Microsoft Works 2.0
Authors: Babette Kronstadt, David Sachs
Venue:  (1992)

:Features coverage of word processing, spreadsheets, database management, graphics and telecommunications. ``Projects'' help students through practical, real-world exercises. Students benefit by learning only one command set as well as being able to access different applications easily. Contains scores of screen dumps, end-of-chapter command charts, short drill-and-practice exercises and lists of key terms. Also includes information on how to use a mouse effectively; discusses Works' thesaurus, dictionary, help, search, footnote and bookmark functions.