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Excel 2002 for Dummies
Authors: Greg Harvey
Venue:  (2001)

:Your fun and easy road map to sensational spreadsheets Get timesaving tips on the new fill and formatting features! Find out how to save worksheets as interactive Web pages Start crunching numbers todayeven if you don't knowa spreadsheet from a bedsheet Excel 2002 can help you keep records, track trends, and analyze results  once you get up to speed. That's where this friendly guide comes in. Packed with expert tips, it walk you through Excel fundamentals  including the new Task Pane interface  and shows you how to take advantage of voice recognition, handwriting recognition, and other cool features. Discover how to: Create worksheets and enter data Use formulas and functions Make your spreadsheets look terrific Organize multiple worksheets Work with charts, databases, and hyperlinks THE DUMMIES WAYTM Explanation in plain English "Get in, get out" information Icons and other navigational aids Tear-out cheat sheet Top ten lists A dash of humor and fun Get smart! Sign up for daily eTips. Choose from among 33 different subject categories Get news you can use on everything from money to health to computers
Ready, Set, Go!: A Student Guide to SPSS 11.0 for Windows, 5th edition
Authors: Thomas W. Pavkov, Kent A. Pierce
Venue:  (2002)

:Authors Thomas Pavkov and Kent Pierce have created a unique workbook/handbook to guide students through SPSS 11.0 for Windows.
Free Stuff for Quilters on the Internet, 3rd edition
Authors: Judy Heim, Gloria Hansen
Venue:  (2001)

:This edition has more than 150 updated and new links to Web sites offering free quilt patterns, information on fabric dyeing, painting, stamping, and photo transferring, plus discussion groups, guilds, organizations, quilt and textile galleries, quilting shops, and other useful guidance for novices and pros alike. 75 illustrations.
AppleShare IP
Authors: Tom Dell
Venue:  (1998)

:AppleShare IP is designed to give Macintosh administrators all the information needed to properly deploy and manage AppleShare IP, Macintosh servers, and AppleShare IP clients. It teaches readers how to deploy AppleShare IP's file, Web, email, print, and DNS servers properly; optimize AppleShare IP and the Apple Workgroup Server performance; work with protocols such as AFP, FTP, HTTP, SMTP, PAP, and TCP; create strategies for supporting end users on both Mac OS computers and PCs; migrate from System 7 to Mac OS 8 access privilege schemes; improve server security with Dantz's Retrospect and Santorini's Server Manager/Server Tools; add functionality and improve performance with Open Door Network's HomeDoor and LogDoor, StarNine's ListSTAR, and RUN, Inc.'s RunShare.
Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2000 for Microsoft Access Developers
Authors: Natasha Nicol, Ralf Albrecht
Venue:  (2002)

:Here's the expert, hands-on guidance that professional Access programmers need to fully exploit the world-class scalability and knowledge-management capabilities in SQL Server 2000. This authoritative guide focuses on understanding and using the innovative Microsoft Data Engine (MSDE) technology that serves as the powerful core of SQL Server 2000. Readers are taken inside its high-performance data-management and data-replication features, developers dive into a whole new subset of Access technologies, known as Access projects, that they must learn in order to effectively program for SQL Server 2000. Topics include the Access project interface, specification table techniques, data types and constraints, and forms techniques. The book digs into stored proceduresa subject that's new to most Access developersin depth and covers ASP and security issues as well. Throughout, the emphasis is on applying the reader's expertise building desktop database tools to accessing the enterprise-level power and performance in SQL Server 2000. The CD-ROM features all the book's sample applications, as well as a complete electronic version of the text for fast searches and reference. The professional Access developer's guide to understanding, using, and developing for SQL Server 2000 The only book of its kind that provides Microsoft Access developers a hands-on guide to programming enterprise business solutions using the Microsoft Data Engine (MSDE) in SQL Server 2000, and the "Access Projects" features in Microsoft Access. Key Book Benefits: * Offers in-depth, focused instruction for building industrial-strength database applications for SQL Server 2000 usingMicrosoft Access * Delivers authoritative coverage of the Microsoft Data Engine, Access projects, stored procedures, and other vital topics * Demonstrates practical real-world applications, complete with code that readers can use to jumpstart their own projects * Features full text on CD-ROM
Hands on PowerPoint 2000 with Cdrom
Authors: Allen L. Wyatt, Konrad King
Venue:  (1999)

:Hands On PowerPoint 2000 is the fastest way to get up to speed with Office 2000 PowerPoint presentations. Beginning with the basics of template design and technique, users quickly progress to more complex and powerful PowerPoint presentations. Hands On PowerPoint 2000 in fast, concise, step-by-step instructions teaches users everything needed to create professional and effective presentations.
Teach Yourself Java 1.2 in 21 Days, 3rd edition
Authors: Laura Lemay, Rogers Cadenhead
Venue:  (1998)

:Sams' Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days continues to be the most popular, best-selling Java tutorial on the market. It has been acclaimed for its clear and personable writing, for its extensive use of examples, and for its logical and complete organization. The third edition of the book will maintain and improve upon all these qualities while updating the material to cover the latest developments in the Java language such as using Java Foundation Classes, Java 2D Classes, and JavaBeansProvides step-by-step lessons for the most popular network-oriented, cross-platform programming languageA thoroughly revised, updated, and improved edition of the market s leading Java tutorialIncludes new coverage of Java Foundation Classes, Java 2D Classes, JavaBeans, and the new security model
Information Technology for Management: Making Connections for Strategic Advantage, 2nd edition
Authors: Efraim Turban, James Wetherbe, Ephraim McLean
Venue:  (2000)

:Information Technology for Management, Second Edition Update, shows readers how to harness the power of today's information technologies for strategic advantage." "With a strong focus on managerial issues, the authors explain why IT plays an essential role in any organization's success and how different functional areas can use IT to facilitate problem solving, increase productivity and quality, improve customer service, and enable business process reengineering. Throughout the book, fascinating "war stories" and real-world examples make concepts come alive. And a Web-based Virtual Company project offers a unique opportunity to put theory into practice.
VB COM: A Visual Basic Programmer's Introduction to COM
Authors: Thomas Lewis
Venue:  (1998)

:"VB6 COM" tackles the important, but often under-discussed issue of COM and VB, offers a global look at COM issues, starting from first principles, puts new technologies within the COM context, discusses the real COM future and discusses some possible implications of COM+--all within a well-paced, practical tutorial format.
Gameshark Pocket Power Guide (9th Edition): Prima's Official Strategy Guide, 9th edition
Authors: Temp Authors Prima, Codeboy
Venue:  (2001)

:The 9th installment of the hugely successful GAMESHARK POCKET POWER GUIDE series continues to provide gamers with the ability to take their gameplay to new levels of fun and excitement. This compendium provides access to even more hidden characters, weapons, and vehicles for the hottest releases for NINTENDO 64, PLAYSTATION, PLAYSTATION 2, DREAMCAST AND GAME BOY!Nintendo 64Banjo-TooieIndiana Jones and the Infernal MachineConker's Bad Fur DayThe Legend of Zelda: Majora's MaskGame BoyLink's AwakeningNBA HoopzMagi-NationPower Puff Girls: Battle HimDreamcastEvil Dead: Hail to the KingSNO Cross ChampionshipPower Stone 2Star LancerPlaystationBreath of Fire IVFear Effect 2: Retro HelixDigimon World 2Rugrats: Totally AngelicaPlaystation 2OnimushaTekken Tag TournamentSummonerZone of the Enders
High-level area estimation
Authors: Kavel M. Büyükşahin, Farid N. Najm
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 international symposium on Low power electronics and design (2002)

Early power estimation requires one to estimate the area (gate count) of a design from a high-level description. We propose a method to do this that makes use of the concept of Boolean networks (BN) and introduces an invariant area complexity measure which captures the gate-count requirement of a design. The method can be adapted to be used at different points on the area/delay tradeoff curve, with different synthesizer/mapper tools, and different target gate libraries. The area model is experimentally verified and tested using a number of ISCAS and MCNC benchmark circuits and two different target cell libraries, on two different synthesis systems.
Annotated revision programs
Authors: Victor Marek, Inna Pivkina, Mirosław Truszczyński
Venue: Artificial Intelligence (2002)

Revision programming is a formalism to describe and enforce updates of belief sets and databases. That formalism was extended by Fitting who assigned annotations to revision atoms. Annotations provide a way to quantify the confidence (probability) that a revision atom holds. The main goal of our paper is to reexamine the work of Fitting, argue that his semantics does not always provide results consistent with intuition, and to propose an alternative treatment of annotated revision programs. Our approach differs from that proposed by Fitting in two key aspects: we change the notion of a model of a program and we change the notion of a justified revision. We show that under this new approach fundamental properties of justified revisions of standard revision programs extend to the annotated case.
Problems and Techniques
Authors: Joe Flaherty
Venue: SIAM Review (2000)

This installment of Problems and Techniques features articles on periodic billiard ball trajectories and the reduction of nearly quadratic polynomial Hamiltonians. Lorenz Halbeisen and Norbert Hungerbühler treat us, in our first article, to a study of periodic billiard ball trajectories on triangular tables. The problem of determining whether or not a billiard ball has a periodic path in a planar domain having a boundary composed of smooth curves has a long history with roots in the eighteenth century. G. D. Birkhoff, for example, established the existence of periodic trajectories on smooth convex domains in 1927. However, the case with nonsmooth boundaries is more difficult, and many situations on polygonal domains are still unresolved. The existence of periodic motion on acute triangles is perhaps the simplest case with motion following the orthoptic triangle with "bounces" at the bases of the three altitudes of the triangle. The existence of periodic trajectories on obtuse triangles is still undetermined and our authors describe cases where periodic motion can be established. They also examine the stability of such motion relative to small perturbations in the domain shape. I don't know if this analysis will improve your game, but it is indeed interesting mathematics. I hope that you enjoy it. In our second article, Jesús Palacián and Patricia Yanguas describe a procedure to reduce the number of degrees of freedom of two-dimensional Hamiltonians that are polynomial functions of the coordinates and momenta with a dominant part that is a homogeneous quadratic function. The popular Fermi--Pasta--Ulam and truncated Toda lattice systems are three-particle systems that may be expressed in this form after a suitable transformation of variables. The Hénon and Heiles family of systems also have the appropriate form. In these circumstances, our authors show how to reduce the number of degrees of freedom of the Hamilitonian system by one. The reduced Hamiltonians are then integrable and the reduced phase space is two-dimensional rather than four-dimensional. Thus, the phase-space diagrams are easily visualized, and this simplifies understanding. The authors characterize the reduced Hamiltonian systems in terms of a collection of normal forms and present conclusions regarding the perturbed Hamiltonian that result from properties of the reduced system. Lots of interesting views of the phase spaces for several reduced Hamiltonians are shown.
Systems development education and methodology adoption
Authors: Karlheinz Kautz, Jan Pries-Heje
Venue: ACM SIGCPR Computer Personnel (1999)

The adoption of systems development methodologies has been a subject for research and a topic for discussion for a number of years. One factor, which is often emphasized, is education and training. However, very little research has been focused on the role of formal university education and the dissemination of systems development methodologies. This is the background for this study. It investigates the extent to which a methodology, as well as its encompassing component methods and techniques, taught at the Copenhagen Business School, has been adopted by students and the organizations they are working for. The main result is that very few examples of direct adoption of the methodology taught have been found, but that the training has in general positive influence on the students' utilization of methodologies. The reasons for adoption and non-adoption are discussed based on a grounded theory analysis.
Autonomous Rock Excavation: Intelligent Control Techniques and Experimentation
Authors: Xiaobo Shi, Paul J. Lever, Fei-Yue Wang
Venue:  (1998)

:Expensive and sophisticated machines such as wheel loaders are used for earth-moving. This book presents a robotic control approach to the computer control of wheel-loader-type excavators. The unpredictable and dynamic rock excavation environment poses challenges for the design of the real time control algorithm. The control method developed here is based on the analysis of human operators' performance; it applies neural networks, fuzzy logic and finite state machines to embody human excavation strategies for on-line bucket digging trajectory design. A behavior-based control architecture organizes operation of the modules to achieve quick system response. Extensive experiments have been performed to demonstrate the diggability of the algorithm in various difficult-to-excavate environments.
I'm Going In
Authors: Prima Temp Authors, Matthew K. Brady
Venue:  (2000)

:As you battle your way through Eastern Europe, make sure to take Project IGI: I?m Going InPrima's Official Strategy Guide, along for the ride. The first-person shooter, Project IGI: I'm Going In, places you in the shoes of Jones, a special operative who's been inserted in Eastern Europe to track down a Russian colonel who has gone mad. The game is mission-based, and each level will call upon Jones to complete a variety of different tasks. Let Prima help you save the world from nuclear terror with:Step-by-step walkthroughs of all 14 missionsTips for stealth strategy, hacking, and sabotageA complete weapon and equipment guideComprehensive mission mapsTips and tricks for quick kills and stealth-like escapes
Internet Guide to Graduate and Professional Schools, 1st edition
Authors: Kenneth E. Hartman
Venue:  (1998)

:Use the power of the Internet to find and gain admission into the right school. This breakthrough guide tells students how to effectively use e-mail, online bulletin boards, news groups, the Web, and much more to locate the perfect program. 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
Dynamic analysis for reverse engineering and program understanding
Authors: Eleni Stroulia, Tarja Systä
Venue: ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review (2002)

The main focus of program understanding and reverse engineering research has been on modeling the structure of a program by examining its code. This has been the result of the nature of the systems investigated and the perceived goals of the reverse engineering activities. The types of systems under investigation have changed, however, and the maintenance objectives have evolved. Many legacy systems today are object-oriented and component-based. One of the most prominent maintenance objectives is system migration to distributed environments, most notably the World Wide Web, for interoperation with other systems. This new maintenance objective has a great impact on the types of models expected as products of reverse engineering. As the traditional static software analysis techniques keep their valuable role in program comprehension, additional techniques, especially those focusing on run-time analysis of the subject systems, become equally important. In this paper, we focus on the analysis of the system's dynamic behavior, as it pertains to understanding the system's processes and uses. We give an overview of currently used dynamic reverse engineering techniques and identify some challenges yet to be tackled.
Sams Teach Yourself Today E-Real Estate: Buying, Selling, and Financing a Home Online, 1st edition
Authors: Jack Segner
Venue:  (1999)

:Sams Teach Yourself e-Real Estate Today is written for anybody who wants to learn how to buy, sell, and finance a home using the major online real estate and mortgage sites. Each short, easy-to-read chapter carefully explains everything you need to know to successfully deal with the confusing world of mortgages and real estate transactions.
Analysis of Velocity-Flux Least-Squares Principles for the Navier--Stokes Equations: Part II
Authors: Pavel Bochev, Thomas A. Manteuffel, Stephen F. McCormick
Venue: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (1999)

This paper continues the development of the least-squares methodology for the solution of the incompressible Navier--Stokes equations started in Part I. Here we again use a velocity-flux first-order Navier--Stokes system, but our focus now is on a practical algorithm based on a discrete negative norm.
On the many ways software engineering can benefit from knowledge engineering
Authors: Lionel C. Briand
Venue: Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software engineering and knowledge engineering (2002)

Software Engineering is not only a technical discipline of its own. It is also a problem domain where technologies coming from other disciplines are relevant and can play an important role. One important example is knowledge engineering, a term that I use in the broad sense to encompass artificial intelligence, computational intelligence, knowledge bases, data mining, and machine learning. I see a number of typical software development issues that can benefit from these disciplines and, for the sake of clarifying the discussion, I have divided them into four categories: (1) Planning, monitoring, and quality control of projects, (2) The quality and process improvement of software organizations, (3) Decision making support, (4) Automation.First, the planning, monitoring, and quality control of software development is typically based, unless it is entirely ad-hoc, on past project data and/or expert opinion. As discussed below, several techniques coming from machine learning, computational intelligence, and knowledge-based systems have shown to be useful in this context. Second, software organizations are inherently learning organizations, that need to improve, based on experience and project feedback, the way they develop software in changing and volatile environments. Large amounts of data, numerous documents, and other forms of information are typically gathered on projects. The question then becomes how to enable the intelligent storage and use of such information in future projects. Third, during the course of a project, software engineers and managers have to face important, complex decisions. They need decision models to support them, especially when project pressure is intense. Techniques originally developed for building risk models based on expert elicitation or optimization heuristics can play a key role in such a context. The last category of applications concerns automation. Many automation problems, such as test data generation, can be formulated as constraint solving problems. A number of metaheuristic algorithms can be adapted for that purpose and have shown to be practically usable and flexible to adjust to numerous situations.This paper discusses all the points above, identify open issues and future research directions, and provide some carefully selected, key pointers for further reading.
Mastering the Art of Production with 3D Studio Max 4, 1st edition
Authors: Michele Bousquet, Jason Busby
Venue:  (2001)

:Soar to a new level of expertise with step-by-step tutorials that let you experience the techniques used by the masters! There's a lot more to MAX than modeling primitives and moving them around with the Animate button on. Now you can learn how top artists model and animate with 3D Studio MAX and unlock the animation potential of this powerful software.
A security architecture and design for mobile intelligent agent systems
Authors: Son T. Vuong, Peng Fu
Venue: ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review (2001)

Although mobile intelligent agent technology greatly promises to provide an elegant and efficient way of solving complex distributed problems as well as offering a new approach to human-computer-interaction, the general lack of security measures in existing mobile intelligent agent systems severely restricts their scope of applicability. In this paper, we focus on the security design issues for mobile intelligent systems. We propose a security architecture and implement a security system based on the architecture for a novel mobile intelligent system, Actigen. This security system makes use of a rich security model that provides an identification capability to each principal and supports system resource access control to a very fine level of granularity. The security system also offers some methods to detect if the behavior or data of an Actigen agent is tampered. Although the security architecture was developed for Actigen, its applicability can be generally suited to any mobile intelligent systems.
Tree Search on an Atomic Model for Message Passing
Authors: Pangfeng Liu, William Aiello, Sandeep Bhatt
Venue: SIAM Journal on Computing (2002)

This paper presents a simple atomic model of message-passing multicomputers. Within one synchronous time step each processor can receive one atomic message, perform local computation, and send one message. When several messages are destined to the same processor, then one is transmitted and the rest are blocked. Blocked messages cannot be retrieved by their sending processors; each processor must wait for its blocked message to clear before sending more messages into the network. Depending on the traffic pattern, messages can remain blocked for arbitrarily long periods.The model is conservative when compared with existing message-passing systems. Nonetheless, we prove linear message throughput when destinations are chosen at random; this rigorously justifies an instance of folklore. Based on this result we also prove linear speedup for backtrack and branch-and-bound searches using simple randomized algorithms.