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Determining When the Absolute State Complexity of a Hermitian Code Achieves Its DLP Bound
Authors: T. Blackmore, G. H. Norton
Venue: SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics (2002)

Let g be the genus of the Hermitian function field $H/{\mathbb F}_{q^2}$ and let $C_{\cal L}(D,mQ_{\infty})$ be a typical Hermitian code of length n. In [Des. Codes Cryptogr., to appear], we determined the dimension/length profile (DLP) lower bound on the state complexity of $C_{\cal L}(D,mQ_{\infty})$. Here we determine when this lower bound is tight and when it is not. For $m\leq \frac{n-2}{2}$ or $m\geq \frac{n-2}{2}+2g$, the DLP lower bounds reach Wolf's upper bound on state complexity and thus are trivially tight. We begin by showing that for about half of the remaining values of m the DLP bounds cannot be tight. In these cases, we give a lower bound on the absolute state complexity of $C_{\cal L}(D,mQ_{\infty})$, which improves the DLP lower bound.Next we give a "good" coordinate order for $C_{\cal L}(D,mQ_{\infty})$. With this good order, the state complexity of $C_{\cal L}(D,mQ_{\infty})$ achieves its DLP bound (whenever this is possible). This coordinate order also provides an upper bound on the absolute state complexity of $C_{\cal L}(D,mQ_{\infty})$ (for those values of $m$ for which the DLP bounds cannot be tight). Our bounds on absolute state complexity do not meet for some of these values of m, and this leaves open the question whether our coordinate order is best possible in these cases.A straightforward application of these results is that if $C_{\cal L}(D,mQ_{\infty})$ is self-dual, then its state complexity (with respect to the lexicographic coordinate order) achieves its DLP bound of $\frac {n}{2}-\frac{q^2}{4}$, and, in particular, so does its absolute state complexity.
Self-Organising Neural Networks: Independent Component Analysis and Blind Source Separation
Authors: Mark A. Girolami
Venue:  (1999)

:This volume presents the theory and applications of self-organising neural network models which perform the Independent Component Analysis (ICA) transformation and Blind Source Separation (BSS). It is largely self-contained, covering the fundamental concepts of information theory, higher order statistics and information geometry. Neural models for instantaneous and temporal BSS and their adaptation algorithms are presented and studied in detail.. "This volume will be of interest to postgraduate students and researchers in connections AI, signal processing and neural networks, as well as research and development workers, technology development engineers and research engineers.
Performance Evaluation of High Speed Switching Fabrics and Networks: ATM, Broadband ISDN, and Man Technology
Authors: Thomas G. Robertazzi, IEEE Communications Society
Venue:  (1994)

:A handy source for practicing engineers and researchers, this book offers collected examples of successful performance evaluation of high speed telecommunications switching fabrics such as ATM networks and high speed interconnection technology for computers. It emphasizes the performance evaluation of such switches as they apply to predicting a proposed system's performance through the use of statistical models -- a cost-saving way for communications engineers to test the design of a system without having to construct it.
Evolutionary image enhancement with user behavior modeling
Authors: Cristian Munteanu, Agostinho Rosa
Venue: ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review (2001)

In this paper we present a novel method for image enhancement of gray-scale images based on the simulation of evolution. Our method employs Genetic Algorithms to evolve the shape of the contrast curve in the image, while attempting to partially automate the subjective process of image evaluation (e.g. user behavior) by performing multiple regression on fitness values. Results obtained show the robustness and efficiency of the evolutive method for image enhancement. For several images in the test set our method obtains better results than the classical histogram equalization technique. Extensive statistics performed, shows that multiple regression can be effectively applied to model the user behavior.
MCSE Windows NT Workstation 4 for Dummies with Cdrom, 2nd edition
Authors: Michael Kendzierski
Venue:  (1999)

:Created for test-takers who want to get down to business, this guide helps candidates find the information they need to pass the exam. The MCSE-certified author shares a "brain dump" of studying hints and advice that gives MCSE candidates an edge over the test during their final cramming. The CD-ROM contains self-assessment tests, practice exams, and challenging games.
On a Boundary Control Approach to Domain Embedding Methods
Authors: L. Badea, P. Daripa
Venue: SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (2001)

In this paper, we propose a domain embedding method associated with an optimal boundary control problem with boundary observations to solve elliptic problems. We prove that the optimal boundary control problem has a unique solution if the controls are taken in a finite dimensional subspace of the space of the boundary conditions on the auxiliary domain.Using a controllability theorem due to J. L. Lions, we prove that the solutions of Dirichlet (or Neumann) problems can be approximated within any prescribed error, however small, by solutions of Dirichlet (or Neumann) problems in the auxiliary domain taking an appropriate subspace for such an optimal control problem. We also prove that the results obtained for the interior problems hold for the exterior problems. Some numerical examples are given for both the interior and the exterior Dirichlet problems.
Desktop Applications for Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 MCSD Training Kit with CDROM
Authors: Microsoft Corporation
Venue:  (1999)

:The Microsoft® Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) credential is the premium certification for professionals who design and develop custom business solutions with Microsoft development tools, technologies, and platforms. MCSD candidates must pass three core technology exams-demonstrating their proficiency in solution architecture, desktop applications development, and distributed application development-along with one elective. This Microsoft Press® training kit offers comprehensive preparation for exam 70-176, Designing and Implementing Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, - one of the core credit exams. The kit is modular and self-paced, with hands-on exercises that build and measure competency in these critical skill areas: deriving the physical design, establishing the development environment, creating user services, creating and managing COM components, creating data services, testing the solution, deploying an application, and maintaining and supporting applications. The entire course is featured on cd-rom.
MCSE: Exchange Server 2000 Administration Study Guide
Authors: Walter Glenn
Venue:  (2001)

:The essential guide for those preparing for the Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Exam. It is packed with real world information and maps to Microsoft exam objectives. Plan your course of study with an assessment exam and then test your progress with the review questions at the end of the chapter. Also includes a practice exam at the end of the book! CD includes the practice exam and a bonus exam appearing only on the CD, both in Microsoft's new adaptive format. Also comes with Flashcards, perfect for your PC and Palm Device, so you can study anywhere, anytime. Additionally features the entire book in PDF form. The enclosed CD is packed with vital preparation tools and materials, beginning with the Sybex EdgeTest testing engine for the Exchange 2000 Server Administration exam. Loaded with hundreds of practice questions, it lets you test yourself chapter by chapter or according to objective areas. You'll also find electronic flashcards for your PC and Palm device and two bonus exams that will help you prepare for the test. Also included are WinSim 2000 product simulation software and a complete electronic version of MCSE: Exchange 2000 Server Administration Study Guide.
Microsoft Windows 2000 Performance Tuning Technical Reference
Authors: John Paul Mueller, Irfan Chaudhry
Venue:  (2000)

:Windows 2000 Server will dramatically reduce the cost of owning and managing enterprise computing resources and deliver the ultimate platform for developing and deploying distributed applications. Microsoft Windows 2000 Performance Tuning Technical Reference provides IT managers with the information they need to implement, configure and run their Windows 2000 Server system so that it performs faster and more productively with greater fault tolerance. It should prove compelling to Windows 2000 administrators, technical business managers, and technical professionals who want to reduce TCO in enterprise businesses. Provides Windows 2000 administrators and technical professionals with the information they need to make their Windows 2000 system faster, more stable and efficient. It's a "from the source" approach to Microsoft Window 2000 Server performance tuning. Provides IT professionals with the information they need to make their Windows 2000 systems faster, more stable and efficient A great resource for analyzing and benchmarking specific performance problems in Windows 2000
Direct Digital Control of Building Systems: Theory and Practice, 1st edition
Authors: H. Michael Newman, M. D. Morris
Venue:  (1993)

:Computer-based monitoring and control systems offer numerous application possibilities that can lead to substantial energy savings, reduced maintenance costs, enhanced performance, and greater human comfort. Direct Digital Control of Building Systems, written by the developer and manager of Cornell University's massive digital control system, provides thorough coverage of the design methodology needed to create complete and efficient HVAC control systems and to upgrade existing analog technology for such enclosed spaces as buildings, transportation systems, and other controlled environments. It emphasizes throughout the high performance, reliability, and reduced cost of modern digital sensors, control devices, microprocessors, computer memory, and other electronic components. Direct Digital Control of Building Systems goes on to provide an extensive case study of effective DDC system design... step-by-step insight into how to specify, install, commission, operate, and maintain a DDC system... and a concise evaluation of DDC's future. Also included are numerous references to various standards and documents that form much of the foundation of DDC technology, and a listing of available DDC hardware and software suppliers. The many advantages of digital controls in HVAC systems have been amply documented in recent years. Now there's a comprehensive volume that provides today's mechanical engineers with the practical tools needed to effectively realize such systems - Newman's Direct Digital Control of Building Systems.
Sequential grammars and automata with valances
Authors: Henning Fernau, Ralf Stiebe
Venue: Theoretical Computer Science (2002)

We discuss the model of valence grammars, a simple extension of context-free grammars. We show closure properties of context-free valence languages over arbitrary monoids. Chomsky and Greibach normal form theorems and an iteration lemma for context-free valence grammars over the groups Zk are proved. The generative power of different control monoids is investigated. In particular, we show that context-free valence grammars over finite monoids or commutative monoids have the same power as valence grammars over finite groups or commutative groups, respectively.
Oracle SAP Administration, 1st edition
Authors: Donald K. Burleson
Venue:  (1999)

:SAP is the leading vendor of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems in the world. (The name SAP is an acronym for the German "Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung", which roughly translates to "Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing".) Developed and marketed by SAP-AG, a Germany company that was founded in 1972 by IBM application developers, SAP has historically sold to the European market. During the 1990s, the company has increasingly dominated the U.S. market as well among large Fortune 500 companies. Nearly half the SAP user base is now in the U.S. Now that SAP-AG is beginning to penetrate the small to medium-size companies, client/server sales are accelerating. The SAP system performs a wide range of business functions, from manufacturing, sales, and distribution to accounting and human resources. By linking together these business functions, SAP helps the entire enterprise run more smoothly. The system can be used with virtually any hardware or operating system and with most database systems. Oracle is the dominant DBMS - about 80% of SAP systems use Oracle. Conversely, about 20% of large Oracle sites run SAP -- and the numbers are growing. Although overall SAP numbers are tightly guarded, it appears that there are about 20,000 SAP sites, in 90 countries. SAP-AG's 1998 sales were approximately 8.47 billion. Although there is voluminous documentation on using SAP and using Oracle, until now there has been no book that described the intersection between the two systems. Experienced Oracle administrators have a lot to learn when their organizations start using SAP. Oracle SAP administration differs from traditional Oracle administration in many ways. SAP provides its own tools for Oracle administration; Oracle DBAs need to learn how to use these tools -- and need to learn when the tools are not the best way to accomplish a task. There are special settings for initialization (INIT.ORA) parameters, special monitoring and tuning guidelines, and a variety of other special situations. This concise book is aimed at experienced Oracle database administrators, system administrators, and developers who are using either Oracle8 or Oracle7. It emphasizes the differences between traditional Oracle administration and Oracle/SAP administration, and it supplements the Oracle and SAP documentation. The book covers the most useful administration tools, SAPDBA and SAPGUI. It provides recommendations for the most efficient placement of data files; monitoring databases; reorganizing tables, tablespaces, and indexes; backing up and recoving databases; and tuning Oracle/SAP databases for best performance. There are chapters on special issues for parallel processing and for very large SAP databases and a summary of additional resources for the Oracle/SAP administrator. The tried-and-true tips and techniques contained in this book should save you hundreds of hours of aggravation while you adapt to using Oracle and SAP in combination.
Java 2 Database Programming for Dummies
Authors: Jim Edward Keogh
Venue:  (2001)

:Java's "write once-run anywhere" model has been one of the Holy Grails of computing for decades. As CPU speeds increase, they can absorb the extra layer of translation required to execute an interpreted language, and Java is expected by many to become a major computing platform in the 21st Century. Java 2 Database Programming For Dummies targets the Java programmer who is just starting to access and interact with databases and needs information on how to design, create, and deploy. The book assumes that the reader already knows the basic concept and syntax of the Java programming language and builds on this knowledge to introduce the reader to the concept of databases and the techniques to using JDBC to interface a Java application with a database. The book presents information on how to design and develop a database, then access and manipulate the database as a component of a Java application.
XAHM: an adaptive hypermedia model based on XML
Authors: Mario Cannataro, Alfredo Cuzzocrea, Andrea Pugliese
Venue: Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software engineering and knowledge engineering (2002)

This paper presents XAHM, a model for Adaptive Hypermedia Systems based on XML. We introduce a multidimensional approach to model different aspects of the adaptation process, which is based on three different "adaptivity dimensions": user's behavior (preferences and browsing activity), technology (network and user's terminal) and external environment (time, location, language, socio-political issues, etc.). An Adaptive Hypermedia is modeled with respect to such dimensions, and a view over it corresponds to each potential position of the user in the "adaptation space". Finally, we propose a probabilistic algorithm for the classification of users.
Full integration of subtyping and if-expression
Authors: Gang Chen
Venue: Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGPLAN international conference on Principles and practice of declarative programming (2002)

The combination of full subsumption and conditional expression is a challenging problem, because in such a system, a term might not have a type which is a representative of all types of the term. Therefore, the traditional type checking technique fails. Due to such a difficulty, Java typing rule for if-expression uses only a restricted form of subtyping. In this paper, we propose a type system which includes both of the above mentioned features and enjoys decidable type checking. We also show that the system has the subject reduction property. It is expected that this technique could be used to improve the type system of Java with full subsumption.
High Quality Messaging and Electronic Commerce: Technical Foundations, Standards and Protocols
Authors: Gerhard Schmied
Venue:  (1998)

:This is a technical guide to standards and protocols like X.400 and SMTP for personal electronic mail and electronic commerce based on electronic data interchange (EDI). Security aspects are extensively treated. Part of the book includes results of a project of the European Commission (NOPROBLEMS).
Sense and Respond: Capturing Value in the Network Era
Authors: Stephen P. Bradley
Venue:  (1998)

:Here, in a collection of timely and thought-provoking essays, today's leading technology experts explore how the emerging Network Era is creating opportunities for firms that can adapt to the new "sense and respond" mandate. Editors Stephen Bradley and Richard Nolan have compiled an impressive resource for executives seeking to capture maximum value from information technology. Drawing on a wide range of company and industry examples, the contributors build compelling scenarios that reveal what future customer interactions might look like and address what companies must do - today - to capitalize on emerging opportunities.
Knowledge Discovery in Databases
Authors: Gregory Piateski, William Frawley
Venue:  (1991)

:Knowledge Discovery in Databases brings together current research on the exciting problem of discovering useful and interesting knowledge in databases. It spans many different approaches to discovery, including inductive learning, bayesian statistics, semantic query optimization, knowledge acquisition for expert systems, information theory, and fuzzy 1 sets. The rapid growth in the number and size of databases creates a need for tools and techniques for intelligent data understanding. Relationships and patterns in data may enable a manufacturer to discover the cause of a persistent disk failure or the reason for consumer complaints. But today's databases hide their secrets beneath a cover of overwhelming detail. The task of uncovering these secrets is called "discovery in databases." This loosely defined subfield of machine learning is concerned with discovery from large amounts of possible uncertain data. Its techniques range from statistics to the use of domain knowledge to control search. Following an overview of knowledge discovery in databases, thirty technical chapters are grouped in seven parts which cover discovery of quantitative laws, discovery of qualitative laws, using knowledge in discovery, data summarization, domain specific discovery methods, integrated and multi-paradigm systems, and methodology and application issues. An important thread running through the collection is reliance on domain knowledge, starting with general methods and progressing to specialized methods where domain knowledge is built in. Gregory Piatetski-Shapiro is Senior Member of Technical Staff and Principal Investigator of the Knowledge Discovery Project at GTELaboratories. William Frawley is Principal Member of Technical Staff at GTE and Principal Investigator of the Learning in Expert Domains Project.
Removal of blends from boundary representation models
Authors: Sashikumar Venkataraman, Milind Sohoni Rahul Rajadhyaksha
Venue: Proceedings of the seventh ACM symposium on Solid modeling and applications (2002)

This paper reports an algorithm for deletion of blends (or fillets) from Boundary Representation (B-rep) solid models. Blend deletion is usually performed as the first step in feature recognition since it simplifies the model for recognition of volumetric features. The algorithm handles several blend types that include face-face, face-edge and vertex blends. It also handles interactions of blends with other blends and/or volumetric features. The main feature of our approach is the usage of the underlying blend structure in predicting the final topology. This results in fewer intersections and greater predictability than earlier face-deletion approaches, especially for large blend networks. Another unique feature of our algorithm is the recreation of new faces in certain situations of blend deletion.
Culture formation and its issues in personal agent-oriented virtual society: "PAWˆ2"
Authors: Kouichi Matsuda, Takahiro Miyake, Hirofumi Kawai
Venue: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Collaborative virtual environments (2002)

In recent years, the combination of communication networks and computer technologies have made it possible to create a cyberspace on the Internet. Recently, several 3D shared virtual spaces and worlds have been developed in which users can share the same experience in a shared virtual environment [1][10]. The next important step is to extend these environments into a "virtual society." .To realize a virtual society, it is important to obtain a large number of users in a virtual world and evaluate various issues based on the populated world. For instance, what kind of functions (especially, social functions) and interface should be supported. For this purpose we constructed a personal agent-oriented virtual society called "PAW^2" (Personal Agent World) based on our CommunityPlace system [1][2].PAW^2 [3][4] is a 3D personal agent-oriented virtual society (Figure 1). PAW^2 has improved upon past virtual spaces based on avatar and text communication by providing autonomous personal agents that interact with users plus a social and environmental infrastructure (Figure 2). We have made several observations about the unique social phenomena in PAW^2 based on our experience operating the system. In this paper, we investigate these phenomena in detail by using non-participant observation method [7] and statistic method. According to the results of observation and statistic data, we clarify what sort of phenomenon that occurred. Then, we discuss the possibility of forming culture in a virtual society and its issues.