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Beginning JSF 2 APIs and JBoss Seam, 1st edition
Authors: Kent Tong
Venue:  (2009)

The Enterprise Java platform, Java EE 6, is getting a facelift JavaServer Faces (JSF) 2, is a big part of whats new in Java EE 6! JSF 2, a significant upgrade from JSF 1.2, now includes Facelets and integration/use options with a variety of web frameworks, including the popular JBoss Seam and even the Spring Framework. Beginning JSF 2 APIs and JBoss Seam gets you up to speed with the new JSF 2.x API features and how theyre implemented using the latest Seam web framework. This quickstart tutorial is the fastest way to get started on JSF 2, Facelets, and Seam, and with it youll take the most useful features in the frameworks and apply them using best practices. Youll learn to create and enhance an eShop using practical methods, and can repurpose the template for your own personal and professional projects. What youll learn Get started with the new JSF 2 and its features, including forms, validations, and more. Create an eShop. Build interactive pages with Ajax. Incorporate the new JSF 2 feature, Facelets, as your standard view definition framework. Provide a common layout using Facelets. Apply and finetune your eShop application using the popular JSFbased web framework, JBoss Seam. Who is this book for This book is primarily for Java developers who need to develop an application in JSF but are just learning it. It also can be for Java developers who know JSF but would like to learn Facelets and Seam. About the Apress Beginning Series The Beginning series from Apress is the right choice to get the information you need to land that crucial entrylevel job. These books will teach you a standard and important technology from the ground up because they are explicitly designed to take you from novice to professional. Youll start your journey by seeing what you need to knowbut without needless theory and filler. Youll build your skill set by learning how to put together realworld projects step by step. So whether your goal is your next career challenge or a new learning opportunity, the Beginning series from Apress will take you thereit is your trusted guide through unfamiliar territory!
psort, Yet Another Fast Stable Sorting Software
Authors: Paolo Bertasi, Marco Bressan, Enoch Peserico
Venue: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (2009)

psort was the fastest sorting software in 2008 according to the Pennysort benchmark, sorting 181GB of data for 0.01$ of computer time. This paper details its internals, and the careful fitting of its architecture to the structure of modern PCs-class platforms, allowing it to outperform state-of-the-art sorting software such as GNUsort or STXXL.
Innovations in E-learning, Instruction Technology, Assessment and Engineering Education, 1st edition
Authors: Magued Iskander
Venue:  (2007)

Innovations in E-learning, Instruction Technology, Assessment and Engineering Education includes a set of rigorously reviewed world-class manuscripts addressing and detailing state-of-the-art research projects in the areas of Engineering Education, Instructional Technology, Assessment, and E-learning. Innovations in E-learning, Instruction Technology, Assessment and Engineering Education includes selected papers form the conference proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Education, Instructional Technology, Assessment, and E-learning (EIAE 2006) which was part of the International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information and Systems Sciences and Engineering (CISSE 2006). All aspects of the conference were managed on-line; not only the reviewing, submissions and registration processes; but also the actual conference. Conference participants - authors, presenters and attendees - only needed an internet connection and sound available on their computers in order to be able to contribute and participate in this international ground-breaking conference. The on-line structure of this high-quality event allowed academic professionals and industry participants to contribute work and attend world-class technical presentations based on rigorously refereed submissions, live, without the need for investing significant travel funds or time out of the office. Suffice to say that CISSE received submissions from more than 70 countries, for whose researchers, this opportunity presented a much more affordable, dynamic and well-planned event to attend and submit their work to, versus a classic, on-the-ground conference. The CISSE conference audio room provided superb audio even over low speed internet connections, the ability to display PowerPoint presentations, and cross-platform compatibility (the conferencing software runs on Windows, Mac, and any other operating system that supports Java). In addition, the conferencing system allowed for an unlimited number of participants, which in turn granted CISSE the opportunity to allow all participants to attend all presentations, as opposed to limiting the number of available seats for each session. 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 Dahlquist Constant Approach to Stability Analysis of the Static Neural Networks
Authors: Guanjun Li, Jin Xu
Venue: Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Neural Networks on Advances in Neural Networks (2009)

Avoiding the difficulty of constructing a proper Lyapunov function, the generalized Dahlquist constant approach is employed to investigate the exponential stability of the static neural networks. Without assuming the boundedness, monotonicity of the activations, a new sufficient conditions for existence of an unique equilibrium and the exponential stability of the neural networks are presented. An example is given to show the effectiveness of our results.
Innovative Algorithms and Techniques in Automation, Industrial Electronics and Telecommunications, 1st edition
Authors: Tarek Sobh, Khaled Elleithy, Ausif Mahmood, Mohamed Karim
Venue:  (2007)

Innovative Algorithms and Techniques in Automation, Industrial Electronics and Telecommunications includes a set of rigorously reviewed world-class manuscripts addressing and detailing state-of-the-art research projects in the areas of Industrial Electronics, Technology & Automation, Telecommunications and Networking. Innovative Algorithms and Techniques in Automation, Industrial Electronics and Telecommunications includes selected papers form the conference proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Technology & Automation (IETA 2006) and International Conference on Telecommunications and Networking (TeNe 06) which were part of the International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information and Systems Sciences and Engineering (CISSE 2006). All aspects of the conference were managed on-line; not only the reviewing, submissions and registration processes; but also the actual conference. Conference participants - authors, presenters and attendees - only needed an internet connection and sound available on their computers in order to be able to contribute and participate in this international ground-breaking conference. The on-line structure of this high-quality event allowed academic professionals and industry participants to contribute work and attend world-class technical presentations based on rigorously refereed submissions, live, without the need for investing significant travel funds or time out of the office. Suffice to say that CISSE received submissions from more than 70 countries, for whose researchers, this opportunity presented a much more affordable, dynamic and well-planned event to attend and submit their work to, versus a classic, on-the-ground conference. The CISSE conference audio room provided superb audio even over low speed internet connections, the ability to display PowerPoint presentations, and cross-platform compatibility (the conferencing software runs on Windows, Mac, and any other operating system that supports Java). In addition, the conferencing system allowed for an unlimited number of participants, which in turn granted CISSE the opportunity to allow all participants to attend all presentations, as opposed to limiting the number of available seats for each session.
LIDA and a Theory of Mind
Authors: David Friedlander, Stan Franklin
Venue: Proceeding of the 2008 conference on Artificial General Intelligence 2008: Proceedings of the First AGI Conference (2008)

Every agent aspiring to human level intelligence, every AGI agent, must be capable of a theory of mind. That is, it must be able to attribute mental states, including intentions, to other agents, and must use such attributions in its action selection process. The LIDA conceptual and computational model of cognition offers an explanation of how theory of mind is accomplished in humans and some other animals, and suggests how this explanation could be implemented computationally. Here we describe how the LIDA version of theory of mind is accomplished, and illustrate it with an example taken from an experiment with monkeys, chosen for simplicity.
Speeding up simulation applications using WinGrid
Authors: Navonil Mustafee, Simon J. E. Taylor
Venue: Concurrency and Computation: Practice Experience (2009)

The vision of grid computing is to make computational power, storage capacity, data and applications available to users as readily as electricity and other utilities. Grid infrastructures and applications have traditionally been geared towards dedicated, centralized, high-performance clusters running on UNIX &lsquo;flavour&rsquo; operating systems (commonly referred to as cluster-based grid computing). This can be contrasted with desktop-based grid computing that refers to the aggregation of non-dedicated, de-centralized, commodity PCs connected through a network and running (mostly) the Microsoft Windows operating system. Large-scale adoption of such Windows-based grid infrastructure may be facilitated via grid enabling existing Windows applications. This paper presents the WinGrid approach to grid-enabling existing Windows-based commercial-off-the-shelf simulation packages (CSPs). Through the use of two case studies developed in conjunction with a major automotive company and a leading investment bank, respectively, the contribution of this paper is the demonstration of how experimentation with the CSP Witness (Lanner Group) and the CSP Analytics (SunGard Corporation) can achieve speedup when using WinGrid middleware on both dedicated and non-dedicated grid nodes. It is hoped that this research would facilitate wider acceptance of desktop grid computing among enterprises interested in a low-intervention technological solution to speeding up their existing simulations. Copyright &copy; 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Stability and Schottky barrier of silicides: First-principles study
Authors: T. Nakayama, S. Sotome, S. Shinji
Venue: Microelectronic Engineering (2009)

Using first-principles calculations, we explain why some metal atoms such as Ni produce bulk silicides and the others like Au never produce silicides, why silicides with some stoichiometry are difficult to grow on Si substrate, and why Schottky barrier for electrons simply decreases as the Si ratio in silicides increases. It is shown that the key origins to answer these questions are the electron transfer from Si-p to metal-atom-d orbitals and the energy losses by the elastic strain and the bond-breaking at the interface.
Promoting young adolescents' hypothesis-development performance in a computer-supported and problem-based learning environment
Authors: Susan Pedersen
Venue:  (2008)

In the study, young adolescents&rsquo; hypothesis development in a computer-supported and problem-based learning environment was examined in terms of two empirical studies. The first study examined the effect of metacognitive scaffolds to strengthening hypothesis development as well as the influence of hypothesis development in the promotion of young adolescents&rsquo; problem solving performance in an ill-structured problem solving environment, Animal Investigator . Data was collected from sixth grade students (N = 172). The findings of the study indicated that participants using metacognitive scaffolds attained significantly higher hypothesis-development performance. Results also revealed that the hypothesis-development performance showed the predictive power of the solution development performance. In the second study, the researcher examined three factors, motivation, metacognition, and prior domain knowledge, as a predictor for children&rsquo;s hypothesis-development performance in the problem-based learning environment. A hypothesized model was evaluated using structural equation modeling, which is a statistical method of causal relationships. Data were collected from sixth grade students (N = 101) in treatment groups. Two significant factors toward children&rsquo;s hypothesis-development performance in an ill-structured problem solving environment were determined: Prior domain knowledge and metacognition. Implications and limitations of the present study and issues including the experimental design are discussed.
Performance Evaluation of Direct Heuristic Dynamic Programming using Control-Theoretic Measures
Authors: Lei Yang, Jennie Si, Konstantinos S. Tsakalis, Armando A. Rodriguez
Venue: Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (2009)

Approximate dynamic programming (ADP) has been widely studied from several important perspectives: algorithm development, learning efficiency measured by success or failure statistics, convergence rate, and learning error bounds. Given that many learning benchmarks used in ADP or reinforcement learning studies are control problems, it is important and necessary to examine the learning controllers from a control-theoretic perspective. This paper makes use of direct heuristic dynamic programming (direct HDP) and three typical benchmark examples to introduce a unique analytical framework that can be applied to other learning control paradigms and other complex control problems. The sensitivity analysis and the linear quadratic regulator (LQR) design are used in the paper for two purposes: to quantify direct HDP performances and to provide guidance toward designing better learning controllers. The use of LQR however does not limit the direct HDP to be a learning controller that addresses nonlinear dynamic system control issues. Toward this end, applications of the direct HDP for nonlinear control problems beyond sensitivity analysis and the confines of LQR have been developed and compared whenever appropriate to an LQR design.
Interoperability of Learning Objects Copyright in the LUISA Semantic Learning Management System
Authors: Roberto Garcia, Tomas Pariente
Venue: Information Systems Management (2009)

Semantic Web technology is able to provide the required computational semantics for interoperability of learning resources across different Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Learning Object Repositories (LOR). The EU research project LUISA (Learning Content Management System Using Innovative Semantic Web Services Architecture) addresses the development of a reference semantic architecture for the major challenges in the search, interchange, and delivery of learning objects in a service-oriented context. One of the key issues, highlighted in this paper, is Digital Rights Management (DRM) interoperability. A Semantic Web approach to copyright management has been followed, which places a Copyright Ontology as the key component for interoperability among existing DRM systems and other licensing schemes like Creative Commons. Moreover, Semantic Web tools like reasoners, rule engines and semantic queries facilitate the implementation of an interoperable copyright management component in the LUISA architecture.
Using sink mobility to increase wireless sensor networks lifetime
Authors: Mirela Marta, Mihaela Cardei
Venue: Proceedings of the 2008 International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (2008)

A critical issue for data gathering in wireless sensor networks is the formation of energy holes near the sinks. Sensors near the sinks have to participate in relaying data on behalf of other sensors and thus will deplete their energy very quickly, resulting in network partitioning and limitation of the network lifetime. The solution that we propose in this paper is to use mobile sinks that change their location when the nearby sensors’ energy becomes low. In this way the sensors located near sinks change over time. In deciding a new location, a sink searches for zones with richer sensor energy. First, we study the improvement in network lifetime when sinks move on a predetermined path, along the perimeter of a hexagonal tiling. Two cases are considered for data gathering when sinks stop in the hexagon’s corners and when the sinks stop on multiple locations on the hexagon perimeter. This study shows an improvement of up to 4.86 times in network lifetime. Second, we design a distributed and localized algorithm used by the sinks to decide their next movement location such that the virtual backbone formed by the sinks remains interconnected at all times. Simulation results are presented to verify our approaches.
Privacy protection in government mashups
Authors: Janice Warner, Soon Ae Chun
Venue: Information Polity (2009)

The Web 2.0 technologies allow dynamic content creation using syndications or mashups, extracted from diverse data sources, including government enterprise data. As a primary source of citizen data, the US government has the obligation not only to make public data available for citizen access as stated in the Freedom of Information Act, but also to protect the privacy of individual citizen's records as stated in the Privacy Act. In a mashup, a third party mashup Web application provider requests the individual's data from the government agencies through Web services. Since the data is public data and not necessarily provided through electronic interactions, individual citizens may not be able to express fine-grained privacy policies on how data may be used. In addition, the government agency's privacy policy is very coarse grained, and the relative sensitivity of individual information is not considered. We discuss the opportunities and issues associated with the programmable web and mashups, provide a Privacy Protection Model for Mashup Applications, using a mashup related multi-dimensional privacy protection space and present policy recommendations to complement the technological solutions. The model and recommendations include deployment of a personal privacy policy network, a distributed system over which citizens can publish their individual privacy policies. These policies are accessible by all web service providers to be consulted in real time by data providers including government agencies for the purposes of automated privacy protection reasoning concerning data release.
Control system for Kaplan hydro-turbine
Authors: Matei Vinatoru, Eugen Iancu, Camelia Maican, Gabriela Canureci
Venue: Proceedings of the 4th WSEAS/IASME international conference on Dynamical systems and control (2008)

In hydro power plants from Romania, there is a major interest for the implementation of digital systems for monitoring and control to replace the conventional control systems for power, frequency and voltage. Therefore is necessary to develop mathematical models capable to accurately describe both dynamic and stationary behaviour of the hydro units, in order to be able to implement digital control algorithms. Moreover, it is necessary to implement systems for monitoring and control of hydro power plants in a cascade system along a river, in order to optimise the use of the river resources. This paper presents the possibilities of modelling and simulation of the hydro power plants and performs an analysis of different control structures and algorithms.
An investigation of the attitudes and barriers of the use of computer technology among track and field officials in taiwan
Authors: Enrico N. Esposito
Venue:  (2008)

The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes and barriers of the use of computer technology among track and field officials, and to discover the needs of information technology in Taiwan. It was designed based on a mixed method. The quantitative method was conducted to determine the attitudes and barriers by using computer technology among track and field officials and the subjects involved with 135 track and field officials who participated in the Chinese Taipei International Athletic Meet in Tainan City on May 29-30, 2008. A total of 101 responded for an effective response rate of 74.8%. An quantitative instrument included demographics and the Attitudes Toward Computer Technology Scale in Chinese version (ACT). Barriers in the Use of Computer Technology in Chinese version (BUC) was used as the research tool. The data were analyzed with descriptive statistics (means, standard deviations, and percentage), t-test, MANOVA, and Bonferroni. The .05 level of significance was used for all statistical analysis. Furthermore, fifteen officials who have experience serving as chief officials and who participated in this championship were selected for a further face-to-face interview with a formal and semi-structured format. The qualitative method was designed to explore the needs of information technology. A significant difference was found between professions and the set of comfort/anxiety. Analysis showed that the age groups of 21-30 and 31-40 had stronger feelings of comfortable in the use of computer technology than the age group of 60 up. Furthermore, the findings indicated that the officials who have a master's degree had more comfortable feelings about using computer technology than those with a junior college degree. The results determined 7 factors as either barriers or facilitators in the use of computer technology, including administration, training, software, support, time, equipment, and facilitator. Most of 15 track and field officials who participated in the following interviews indicated that the existing systems such as registration system, distance measurement system, starting system, photo finish system, wind gauge system, and recording system should be connected with each other to replace the traditional delivery approach&mdash;paper and pencil. However, a recording system of track events for judging should be developed to complete the information technology in the professional area of track and field. Finally, the track and field officials have strong positive attitudes toward computer technology, feel comfortable using computer technology, and see technology as a useful tool.
Technical Section: A modified advancing layers mesh generation for thin three-dimensional objects with variable thickness
Authors: Young Choi, Ki-Youn Kwon, Soo-Won Chae, Dong-Min Kim
Venue: Computers and Graphics (2009)

A method of generating modified advancing layers mesh is proposed. In this paper the mesh generation process of semi-unstructured prismatic/tetrahedral mesh is presented for relatively thin three-dimensional geometries with variable thickness, as in the case of injection molding analysis. Prismatic meshes are generated by offsetting initial surface triangular meshes. During the mesh generation process, mesh quality is efficiently improved with the use of a new node relocation method. Finally, tetrahedral meshes are automatically generated in the rest of the domain. The mesh generating capability of the proposed algorithm is demonstrated with the several practical test cases.