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MVS Primer
Authors: David Shelby Kirk
Venue:  (1992)

:David Kirk presents a conceptual view of what is probably the largest and best-known proprietary operating system in use today--IBM's MVS software family. He writes for people who understand (and probably use) computers but do not know what operating systems do, why they exist, or how the component parts are structured. This book addresses the issues within the context of MVS and is for managers, programmers, and end users who work with MVS applications. People who do not work with MVS will find the book valuable for its conceptual presentation, since most operating systems in use today (including those for PCs) have some resemblance to what appears here. Although the title of this book references MVS, there is also information on the many other components that typically constitute an MVS installation. While the information on these other components is not very detailed, the inclusion was necessary to present a useful picture of the MVS family. IMS, TSO, DB2, and CICS are what most people face in their day-to-day contact with MVS. Understanding how these products relate to MVS is an important building block to grasping the complexity of the MVS world. Programmers and computer operators are seldom among the professionals to directly interact with the operating system and with the hardware itself. For that reason, and also for the possible curiosity of others, Kirk includes some of the conceptual aspects of the hardware and how it makes it possible for there to be an MVS at all. Kirk presents complete descriptions of what operating systems do, why they exist, and how they are structured within the context of MVS. He covers job management, task management, data management, environmental control, history of operating systems, history of MVS, online access and database, TSO, IMS and DL/I, CICS, DB2 and SQL, MVS variations, distributed data, IMS, DB2, and CICS integration, role of assembler language, access methods, learning MVS, skill requirements, and presents a sk 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
Neural Nets and Chaotic Carriers
Authors: Peter Whittle
Venue:  (1998)

:Neural Nets and Chaotic Carriers Peter Whittle University of Cambridge Neural Nets and Chaotic Carriers is an innovatory text, in that it develops rational principles for the design of associative memories with a view to applying these principles to models with the irregularly oscillatory operation so evident in biological neural systems. It thus bridges studies of artificial and of biological neural networks, with new results for both. The text has a strong research character, but a concise exposition from the basics makes it accessible to non-specialists. Design is based on the criterion that an associative memory must be able to cope with 'fading data', i.e. to form an inference from data even as its memory of that data degrades. The resultant net shows striking biological parallels, suggesting testable anatomical predictions. Many questions concerning composite or 'spurious' traces and memory capacity are clarified. The approach taken to models of the biological neuron and oscillation in systems of such neurons follows the pioneering ideas of W.J. Freeman, and develops these. In particular, when the associative memory principles are combined with oscillatory operation, some remarkable effects emerge. For example, the system shows a low-frequency square-wave oscillation (the 'escapement oscillation') with gamma-range bursts at its peaks, much as is observed in electroencephalograms. The text will be invaluable for researchers and graduate workers with a primary interest in artificial of biological neural nets. However, it is also accessible and interesting to anyone with the mathematical background usual in artificial intelligence, computer science, systems studies or statistics,for example.
What's interesting about Cricket?: on thresholds and anticipation in discovered rules
Authors: John F. Roddick, Sally Rice
Venue: ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter (2001)

Despite significant progress, determining the interestingness of a rule remains a difficult problem. This short paper investigates the lessons that may be learned from analysing the (largely manual) selection of interesting statistics for cricket (or any other data rich sport) by experts. In particular, the effect of thresholds on the interestingness of rules describing events in the sporting arena is discussed. The concept of anticipation is shown also to be critical in this selection and to vary the level of interest in events that may contribute to the achievement of a threshold value during a match, thus adding a temporal dimension to interestingness. This temporal aspect can be best modelled on the single-past-branching-future model of time. As a result of this investigation, a few new general ideas are discussed that add to the research in this area. Significantly, some of the new criteria are implicitly temporal in that they rely on a model of behaviour over time. The applicability of threshold values for detecting uncharacteristically poor performances are canvassed as areas of interest yet to be explored.
ALS Networking Essentials Plus, 3rd edition
Authors: Microsoft Corporation
Venue:  (2000)

:Developed for academic courses, Networking Essentials Plus, Third Edition, helps students build the skills they need on the job and for professional certificationincluding the new CompTIA Network+ credential. The textbook delivers official Microsoft&reg; curriculum adaptable for either a full 16-week semester or a 6-, 8-, or 10-week course. Thoroughly updated with new topics and improved organization, Networking Essentials Plus, Third Edition, serves as the ideal foundation for your schools networking specialist program. The coverage is now operating-system independent so students can better prepare for a wide range of networking technologies. Each book is filled with competency-based practice exercises that students complete on their own, while the companion lab manual features additional skill-building activities ideal for your classrooms computer lab. Along with the textbook, students receive a lab manual and a Student CD-ROM containing study aids, all-new simulation video clips that demonstrate common procedures, and detailed information on how to begin a career in Information Technology.
A typed text retrieval query language for XML documents
Authors: Dario Colazzo, Carlo Sartiani, Antonio Albano, Paolo Manghi, Giorgio Ghelli, Luca Lini, Michele Paoli
Venue: Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (2002)

XML is nowadays considered the standard meta-language for document markup and data representation. XML is widely employed in Web-related applications as well as in database applications, and there is also a growing interest for it by the literary community to develop tools for supporting document-oriented retrieval operations. The purpose of this article is to show the basic new requirements of this kind of applications and to present the main features of a typed query language, called Tequyla-TX, designed to support them.
A proposed production tracking system for manufacturing concerns
Authors: M. Judy Wilson
Venue: Proceedings of the 20th annual Southeast regional conference (1982)

In many manufacturing concerns the systems used to track production data are as numberous as the departments listed on the organization chart. The records of this multi-system technique seldom agree throughout the various departments. Generally, the root of this problem is (a) the disinterest on the part of non-data processing personnel in using a computerized tracking system themselves, and (b) the view that they cannot rely on a department outside their direct control (i.e. data processing) to do so for them.The implementation of one interactive system which uses a relational data base can transcend both. Use of the system would be uncomplicated enough that personnel in the various departments would feel at ease with it.The term "manufacturing" covers a large domain. The purpose of this paper is not to give one system that "as is" will cover all production phases of the entire spectrum of manufacturing concerns. The intent is to give a general enough approach that, if adapted to most areas and applied with enthusiasm, the result will be a unified and accurate set of data from which relevant information can be derived and sound decisions can be made.
Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
Authors: Sherry Turkle
Venue:  (1995)

:A Question of Identity Life on the Screen is a fascinating and wide-ranging investigation of the impact of computers and networking on society, peoples' perceptions of themselves, and the individual's relationship to machines. Sherry Turkle, a Professor of the Sociology of Science at MIT and a licensed psychologist, uses Internet MUDs (multi-user domains, or in older gaming parlance multi-user dungeons) as a launching pad for explorations of software design, user interfaces, simulation, artificial intelligence, artificial life, agents, "bots," virtual reality, and "the on-line way of life." Turkle's discussion of postmodernism is particularly enlightening. She shows how postmodern concepts in art, architecture, and ethics are related to concrete topics much closer to home, for example AI research (Minsky's "Society of Mind") and even MUDs (exemplified by students with X-window terminals who are doing homework in one window and simultaneously playing out several different roles in the same MUD in other windows). Those of you who have (like me) been turned off by the shallow, pretentious, meaningless paintings and sculptures that litter our museums of modern art may have a different perspective after hearing what Turkle has to say. This is a psychoanalytical book, not a technical one. However, software developers and engineers will find it highly accessible because of the depth of the author's technical understanding and credibility. Unlike most other authors in this genre, Turkle does not constantly jar the technically-literate reader with blatant errors or bogus assertions about how things work. Although I personally don't have time or patience for MUDs,view most of AI as snake-oil, and abhor postmodern architecture, I thought the time spent reading this book was an extremely good investment.
Java & BAPI Technology for SAP
Authors: Anil Thakur
Venue:  (2000)

:Programmers need to know how to get the most out of using Java in the SAP environment, how to tie key corporate data through the Internet, and all about Java and SAP's inter-relationship. This book is a solid reference for beginning and intermediate users seeking help in this rapidly growing area. 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
Who's Afraid of More C++?, 1st edition
Authors: Steve Heller
Venue:  (1998)

:This is not only a continuation of Who's Afraid of C++, a basic introduction to the C++ programming language, but a guide for developing serious C++ programs. In Who's Afraid of More C++ the reader will be introduced to the development of realistic applications with C++, not just "toy" examples which often mask the more complex and challenging aspects of software engineering with C++ and preparing the reader for real world programming success. Who's Afraid of More C++ also introduces readers to difficult C++ topics such as inheritance, polymorphism, and the effective use of pointers.
Infomaker 5 Professional Reference
Authors: Jane Roseen
Venue:  (1997)

:The author provides an easy-to-follow tutorial and user's guide that works in conjunction with product documentation to get both beginning and experienced users off to the fastest possible start with this latest release of InfoMaker. Topics covered include Infomaker Basics, from concepts and installation to customization of the program, Infomaker Painters and how to choose the right one for the job, planning your InfoMaker project and conforming to standards and guidelines, navigating the environment and working with databases and data types, building and modifying forms, producing customized reports and much more. InfoMaker 5 Professional Reference is beneficial not only to InfoMaker users, but also to PowerBuilder developers who must support InfoMaker applications. The book contains a description and examples of form styles, functions, and libraries of objects which can be used between the two 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
Software Fault Tolerance
Authors: Michael R. Lyu
Venue:  (1995)

:Software fault tolerance techniques involve error detection, exception handling, monitoring mechanisms and error recovery. This important book also focuses on identification, application, formulation and evaluation of current software tolerance techniques.
Microsoft Photodraw 2000 for Dummies
Authors: Julie Adair King
Venue:  (1999)

:PhotoDraw 2000 will be included in the Microsoft Office 2000 Pentium Edition - and those millions of Office users will want help getting started with this new photo editing and illustration tool. PhotoDraw 2000 for Dummies is the book PhotoDraw novices and would-be graphic designers will come to first - a fun and friendly guide that covers all the program basics, from creating artwork and modifying scanned photos to determining which templates to use for specific tasks and posting finished art to the Web.
Trace and testing equivalence on asynchronous processes
Authors: Michele Boreale Rocco De Nicola, Rosario Pugliese
Venue: Information and Computation (2002)

We study trace and may-testing equivalences in the asynchronous versions of CCS and pgr;-calculus. We start from the operational definition of the may-testing preorder and provide finitary and fully abstract trace-based characterizations for it, along with a complete in-equational proof system. We also touch upon two variants of this theory by first considering a more demanding equivalence notion (must-testing) and then a richer version of asynchronous CCS. The results throw light on the difference between synchronous and asynchronous communication and on the weaker testing power of asynchronous observations.
A Mathematica program for the degrees of certain Schubert varieties
Authors: Xu An Zhao, Haibao Duan
Venue: Journal of Symbolic Computation (2002)

This paper explains a Mathematica program that computes the degrees of Schubert varieties on the flag manifold G/T for G=U(n), SO(n) and Sp(n).
Synchronous learning at a distance: experiences with Tango
Authors: David E. Bernholdt, Geoffrey C. Fox, Roman Markowski, Nancy J. McCracken, Marek Podgorny, Thomas R. Scavo, Qutaibah Malluhi, Debasis Mitra
Venue: Proceedings of the 1998 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing (CDROM) (1998)

In the fall of 1997, and again in the spring of 1998, the Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University taught a computational science course at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi using the TANGO Interactive collaboratory system. What made this course unique is that twice a week instructors "met" with students online, showing lecture slides and programming examples, and discussing concepts in real time over the Internet. The goal of the project was to investigate the use of TANGO in teaching a traditional lecture-based course in a distance-learning format.
Safer C: Developing Software for in High-Integrity and Safety-Critical Systems
Authors: Les Hatton
Venue:  (1995)

:Software failure in high-profile areas, such as aerospace, defence and medicine frequently makes the headlines because of the potentially disastrous consequences. The huge and recent growth in the use of software development has particularly serious implications for such safety-critical and high-integrity systems. Despite its popularity and the excellent tool support available, C is only suitable for use in these areas within firm constraints and guidelines. Safer C: Developing Software for High-integrity and Safety-critical Systems highlights the 'holes' in C, but also demonstrates clearly that, employed correctly, C can be used to write software of as high intrinsic quality as other languages. Beginning with a broad overview of safety in software, the book provides a critique of C as a safety-critical language, based on the author's extensive measurements of commercial C quality. Complexity, safer subsets, standards and tools are all examined. Essential rules of good working practice and guidelines for immediate implementation are presented and a direct comparison is made of specific safety-related features in C and other commonly-used languages. This important and timely book contains vital information for all developers working with C, whether in high-integrity areas or not, who need to produce reliable and effective software. Special features include: much needed guidance for all software developers using C, not just those working on high-integrity and safety-critical systems; practical points for immediate implementation based on the use of safer subsets; and an examination of poorly understood legal implications of software safety and references to standards throughout.
Microprocessor Systems Design: 68000 Hardware, Software, and Interfacing, 3rd edition
Authors: Alan Clements
Venue:  (1997)

:The Third Edition of MICROPROCESSOR SYSTEMS DESIGN covers the design of systems that use Motorola's 68000 family of microprocessors (including the latest generation of 68000 chips), and addresses both hardware and software considerations. Professor Clements' emphasis is practical, providing the necessary detail to enable students to design actual, working systems. The author covers hardware and programming comprehensively in an accessible writing style. A new chapter on the C programming language and its relationship to assembly language will appeal to instructors whose courses emphasize software aspects of systems design. A bound-in CD-ROM contains a 68000 cross-assembler and simulator, a C cross-compiler, fragments of the 68000 assembly code from the book, the 68000 and 68020 instruction sets, and documentation.
YESSIR: a simple reservation mechanism for the Internet
Authors: Ping Pan, Henning Schulzrinne
Venue: ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (1999)

RSVP has been designed to support resource reservation in the Internet. However, it has two major problems: complexity and scalability. The former results in large message processing overhead at end systems and routers, and inefficient firewall processing at the edge of the network. The latter implies that in a backbone environment, the amount of bandwidth consumed by refresh messages and the storage space that is needed to support a large number of flows at a router are too large. We have developed a new reservation mechanism that simplifies the process of establishing reserved flows while preserving many unique features introduced by RSVP. Simplicity is measured in terms of control message processing, data packet processing, and user-level flexibility. Features such as robustness, advertising network service availability and resource sharing among multiple senders are also supported in the proposal.The proposed mechanism, YESSIR (YEt another Sender Session Internet Reservations) generates reservation requests by senders to reduce the processing overhead, builds on top of RTCP, uses soft state to maintain reservation states, supports shared reservation and associated flow merging and is compatible with the IETF Integrated Services models.YESSIR extends the all-or-nothing reservation model to support partial reservations that improve over the duration of the session.To address the scalability issue, we investigate the possibility of using YESSIR for per-stream reservation and RSVP for aggregate reservation.
AutoCAD 13 Instructor, 1st edition
Authors: James A. Leach
Venue:  (1995)

:AutoCAD Instructor is a command-based textbook that teaches how to use the full capabilities of AutoCAD. It is comprehensive enough to be the only text in an CAD course series. AutoCAD 13 Instructor is also recommended as a supplement to a basic graphics text,like Bertoline's Fundamental of Graphics Communication.
Cisco CCNA Training Kit: Exam #640-507
Authors: Cisco Systems
Venue:  (2000)

:Official Cisco computer-based training and practice for the new CCNA exam. Provides users with official CCNA training on CD-ROM based on recommended training materials developed by Cisco Systems.Includes study materials, reading assignments, self-tests, and automatic progress tracking.Innovative Course Navigator software keeps track of self-study materials and test scores, enabling users to tell at a glance what they have accomplished and what remains to be done.Provides over 500 self-assessment, practice questions. Offers comprehensive training, review, and practice, providing users with a unique start to finish preparation tool.Cisco CCNA Training Kit, Exam #640-507 is a unique CBT product designed to offer both in-depth instruction on exam topics and a robust test bank of practice exam questions. This product offers a complete solution for truly learning the concepts behind the questions, so that candidates are not only prepared to succeed on the exam, but also in their daily jobs as CCNA certified networking professionals.The tutorials are based on the content of the two Cisco recommended training Coursebooks for the new CCNA Exam #640-507: Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices and Internetworking Technologies Handbook, Second Edition. This new CCNA exam tests a candidate's ability to build multirouter, multigroup internetworks using LAN and WAN interfaces for the most commonly used routing and routed protocols.Each computer-based course in the Cisco CCNA Training Kit, Exam #640-507 offers concise tutorials, exercises and labs, study mode exams, adaptive exams, and simulated practiceexams.
The parallel composition of uniform processes with data
Authors: Jan Friso Groote, Jos van Wamel
Venue: Theoretical Computer Science (2001)

A general basis for the definition of a finite but unbounded number of parallel processes is the equation S(n; dt)=P(0; get(0; dt)) &Dgr; eq(n; 0). (P(n; get(n; dt)) //S(n&minus; 1; dt)). In this formula eq(n; 0) is an equality test, and get(n; dt) denotes the nth data element in table dt. We derive a linear process equation with the same behaviour as S(n; dt), and show that this equation is well-defined, provided one adopts the principle CL-RSP from Bezem and Groote Proceedings of Concur'94, Springer, Berlin, 1994, pp. 401-416). In order to demonstrate the strength of our result, we use it for the analysis of a standard example. We show that n + 1 concatenated buffers form a queue of capacity n + 1. Copyright 2001 Elsevier Science B.V.