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How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office Excel 2007, 1 edition
Authors: Guy Hart-Davis
Venue:  (2006)

Master the latest version of ExcelGet more out of Excel than ever before with help from this hands-on guide. Learn how to create powerful and easy-to-use spreadsheets and bring yourself up to speed on all the new and improved features available in Excel 2007. Discover how to enter and format data, use graphics effectively, create formulas, build tables to store and analyze data, and share workbooks securely with other users. You'll also learn how to save files to intranet sites and Internet servers, and publish workbooks to Web pages. Plus, you'll find valuable shortcuts that will make it even easier to use the world's most popular spreadsheet application.Control Excel using the new Ribbon interface instead of menus and toolbarsConfigure and customize Excel to suit your working needsAdd visual impact to your worksheets with pictures and diagramsDevelop formulas to perform custom calculationsAnalyze data using PivotTables and organize your information to show exactly what you needUse what-if analysis to solve complex and time-grabbing business problemsShare workbooks and collaborate with colleaguesTransfer data easily among other Office applicationsTable of contentsPart I: Get Started with ExcelChapter 1: Navigate the Excel ScreenChapter 2: Configure Excel to Suit Your Working NeedsChapter 3: Create Spreadsheets and Enter DataChapter 4: Format Worksheets for Best EffectChapter 5: Add Graphics and Drawings to WorksheetsChapter 6: Check, Lay Out, and Print WorksheetsPart II: Calculate, Manipulate, and Analyze DataChapter 7: Perform Calculations with FunctionsChapter 8: Create Formulas to Perform Custom CalculationsChapter 9: Organize Data with Excel DatabasesChapter 10: Outline and Consolidate WorksheetsChapter 11: Analyze Data Using PivotTables and PivotChartsChapter 12: Solve Problems by Performing What-If AnalysisPart III: Share, Publish, and Present DataChapter 13: Create Effective Charts to Present Data VisuallyChapter 14: Share Workbooks and Collaborate with ColleaguesChapter 15: Using Excel's Web CapabilitiesChapter 16: Use Excel with the Other Office ApplicationsPart IV: Customize and Program ExcelChapter 17: Customize Excel's InterfaceChapter 18: Use Macros to Automate TasksAppendix: Keyboard ShortcutsIndex 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
Virtualization on the IBM System X3950 Server
Venue:  (2006)

Virtualization is becoming more and more a key technology enabler to streamline and better operate data centers. In it's simplest form, virtualization refers to the capability of being able to run multiple OS instances, such as Linux® and Windows, on a physical server. Usually the concept of virtualization is associated with high-end servers, such as the IBM System x3950, that are able to support and consolidate multiple heterogeneous software environments. The System x3950 is a highly scalable x86 platform capable of supporting up to 32 processors and 512 GB of memory and is aimed at customers that want to consolidate data centers. Between the server hardware and the operating systems that will run the applications is a virtualization layer of software that manages the entire system. The two main products in this field are VMware ESX Server and Microsoft Virtual Server. This IBM Redbook discusses the technology behind virtualization, x3950 technology, and the two virtualization software products. We also discuss how to manage the solution properly as though they all were a pool of resources with Virtual Machine Manager, a unique and consistent management interface. 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
How to Construct Super-Pseudorandom Permutations with Short Keys*A preliminary version of this paper appears in [8].
Authors: Tetsu Iwata, Kaoru Kurosawa
Venue: IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences (2007)

It is known that a super-pseudorandom permutation can be constructed from a pseudorandom function f and two universal hash functions, h and h'. It is a four round Feistel permutation denoted by ψ(hk, f, f, h'k'). In this paper, we show how to re-use the secret key for f in this construction. Specifically, we show that (1) the same key can be used for both h and h', and (2) the key for h and h' can be derived from f. As a result, our construction requires only the key for f as a secret key, and it preserves computational efficiency and security. We show the full security proof of our construction. Also, we derive a similar result for a five round MISTY-type permutation.
Informed consent procedures: an experimental test using a virtual character in a dialog systems training application
Authors: Robert C. Hubal, Ruth S. Day
Venue: Journal of Biomedical Informatics (2006)

Researchers are generally trained to administer informed consent by studying approved guidelines, but still can fail to satisfactorily answer questions from potential participants. An application using a virtual character allowed novice participants to practice administering informed consent. This character was designed to behave as a potential participant for a study and asked many of the questions research participants typically ask, such as queries about the study itself, the sponsor, timing, selection procedures, confidentiality, voluntariness, benefits and risks, and contact information. The user responded to the character's queries as if speaking with a true potential research participant. The application was effective even after only brief usage. In a laboratory experiment, novice participants who practiced with the virtual character were later more effective in conducting informed consent interviews with a human interviewee than those who were trained only with written materials. Thus, simulated learning-by-doing improved informed consent skills. Implications for related health dialog applications are discussed.
Reed-Muller codes and Barnes-Wall lattices: Generalized multilevel constructions and representation over GF(2q)
Authors: Amir J. Salomon, Ofer Amrani
Venue: Designs, Codes and Cryptography (2007)

Generalized multilevel constructions for binary RM(r,m) codes using projections onto GF(2 q ) are presented. These constructions exploit component codes over GF(2), GF(4),..., GF(2 q ) that are based on shorter Reed-Muller codes and set partitioning using partition chains of length-2 l codes. Using these constructions we derive multilevel constructions for the Barnes-Wall ¿(r,m) family of lattices which also use component codes over GF(2), GF(4),..., GF(2 q ) and set partitioning based on partition chains of length-2 l lattices. These constructions of Reed-Muller codes and Barnes-Wall lattices are readily applicable for their efficient decoding.
Optimization
Authors: Jorge J. More, Richard A. Tapia, Margaret H. Wright
Venue: ACM SIGNUM Newsletter (1980)

This paper discusses research concerning the numerical solution of optimization problems. The introduction provides a non-technical overview of the field, and gives a general picture of the form and attributes of optimization problems. The subsequent sections include our view of several crucial areas in which further research is worthwhile, as well as a brief indication of the current state of the art.
Attacking Phase Shift Keying Based Watermarking
Authors: Jeng-Shyang Pan, Chuang Lin
Venue: IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences (2007)

The letter describes a phase perturbation attack to the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) and Phase Shift Keying (PSK) based watermarking scheme which is proposed in [3]. In that paper the watermark information is embedded in the phase of the DFT coefficients. But this kind of PSK based watermarking scheme is very vulnerable to the phase perturbation attack, when some noise is added on the phase of the DFT coefficients, the watermark can't be correctly extracted anymore, while the quality degradation of the attacked watermarked image is visually acceptable.
MathBox: interactive pen-based interface for inputting mathematical expressions
Authors: Yuji Kasuya, Hayato Yamana
Venue: Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces (2007)

Inputting mathematical expressions with a mouse and a keyboard is a troublesome task. Thus, a number of mathematical expression recognition systems capable of recognizing handwritten mathematical expressions to input them into computers have been proposed. Even with these systems, however, structure recognition of mathematical expressions is still difficult. This paper presents MathBox, a new pen-based interface for inputting mathematical expressions into computers. MathBox interactively shows "boxes" in which the user can write one symbol. The boxes are shown along with the user's writing. For example, when the user writes 'x,' the boxes for a power and an index of 'x' and for the next symbol are shown. When the user inputs a fraction line, boxes for the numerator, denominator, and the next symbol are shown. MathBox skips recognizing the structures of expressions, which enables users to write mathematical expressions with practical accuracy.
Complex standard functions and their implementation in the CoStLy library
Authors: Markus Neher
Venue: ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS) (2007)

The practical calculation of range bounds for some complex standard functions is addressed in this article. The functions under consideration are root and power functions, the exponential, trigonometric and hyperbolic functions, and their inverse functions. For such a function f and a given rectangular complex interval z, some interval w is computed that contains all function values of f in z. This is done by expressing the real and the imaginary part of f as compositions of real standard functions and then estimating the ranges of these compositions. In many cases, the inclusions are optimal, such that w is the smallest rectangular interval containing the range of f. The algorithms presented in this article have been implemented in a C&plus;&plus; class library called CoStLy (Complex Standard Functions License), which is distributed under the conditions of the GNU General Public License.
A decision support system for product design selection: a generalized purchase modeling approach
Authors: B. Besharati, S. Azarm, P. K. Kannan
Venue: Decision Support Systems (2006)

Selection of a final design for a new product that is to be introduced in the market is a very critical step in the new product development process. The selection needs to consider three factors of importance: anticipated market demand for the design, designers' preferences, and uncertainty in achieving predicted design attribute levels under different usage conditions and situations. We propose a generalized purchase modeling approach that considers all of the above factors and develop a customer based expected utility metric that forms the basis for a Decision Support System (DSS) for supporting the selection in product design. We illustrate the modeling approach and the use of DSS with the help of a case example that highlights the utility of the proposed DSS.
CCNP BCRAN Exam Certification Guide (CCNP Self-Study, 642-821), Second Edition
Authors: Brian Morgan, Craig Dennis
Venue:  (2003)

Prepare for the new CCNP 642-821 BCRAN Exam with the official exam preparation guide Learn the remote access design and management topics for the new Cisco CCNP 642-821 BCRAN exam with the only official preparation book Practice with more than 200 test questions, including simulation-based questions on the enclosed CD-ROMComprehensive coverage of all exam topics ensures readers will arrive at a complete understanding of what they need to master to succeed on the exam. This book follows a logical organization of the BCRAN exam objectives, and is written in a modular, small-chapter format that breaks elements into easy-to-absorb parts. It also contains the other valuable learning elements of an Exam Certification Guide from Cisco Press that ensure concept comprehension and retention. These include pre- and post-chapter quizzes, foundational review sections, scenario-based exercises and a CD-ROM testing engine with more than 200 questions, including simulation-based questions like on the actual exam.In addition to technologies like ISDN, DDR (Dial-on-Demand Routing), Frame Relay, NAT (Network Address Translation), AAA (Authentication, Authorization, Accounting), and other related technologies covered in the first edition, this edition also contains an introduction to QoS (Quality of Service), VPN (Virtual Private Networks), VPDN (Virtual Private Dial-up Networks), and DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) technologies.
Debugging with control-flow breakpoints
Authors: Rick Chern, Kris De Volder
Venue: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development (2007)

Modern source-level debuggers support dynamic breakpoints that are guarded by conditions based on program state. Such breakpoints address situations where a static breakpoint is not sufficiently precise to characterise a point of interest in program execution. However, we believe that current IDE support for dynamic breakpoints are cumbersome to use. Firstly, guard conditions formulated in (non-aspect-oriented) source-languages cannot directly express control-flow conditions, forcing developers to seek alternative formulations. Secondly, guard-conditions can be complex expressions and manually typing them is cumbersome.We present the Control-flow Breakpoint Debugger (CBD). CBD uses a dynamic pointcut language to characterise control-flow breakpoints---dynamic breakpoints which are conditional on the control-flow through which they were reached. CBD provides a "point-and-click" GUI to specify and incrementally refine control-flow breakpoints, thereby avoiding the burden of manually editing the potentially complex expressions that define them.We performed 20 case studies debugging and fixing documented bugs in 3 existing applications. Our results show that dynamic breakpoints in general are useful in practice, and that CBD's GUI allows specifying them adequately in the majority of cases.
Will pyramids built of nuggets topple over?
Authors: Jimmy Lin, Dina Demner-Fushman
Venue: Proceedings of the main conference on Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics (2006)

The present methodology for evaluating complex questions at TREC analyzes answers in terms of facts called "nuggets". The official F-score metric represents the harmonic mean between recall and precision at the nugget level. There is an implicit assumption that some facts are more important than others, which is implemented in a binary split between "vital" and "okay" nuggets. This distinction holds important implications for the TREC scoring model---essentially, systems only receive credit for retrieving vital nuggets---and is a source of evaluation instability. The upshot is that for many questions in the TREC testsets, the median score across all submitted runs is zero. In this work, we introduce a scoring model based on judgments from multiple assessors that captures a more refined notion of nugget importance. We demonstrate on TREC 2003, 2004, and 2005 data that our "nugget pyramids" address many shortcomings of the present methodology, while introducing only minimal additional overhead on the evaluation flow.
Applications of inductive learning techniques&colon; a survey in the Netherlands
Authors: Floor Verdenius, Maarten W. van Someren
Venue: AI Communications (1997)

Interest for machine learning techniques has increased over the last decade. In spite of this the application practice of these techniques has never been systematically analysed. This paper analyses the practical application of Inductive Learning Techniques in the Netherlands by means of a survey. Results of this survey are assessed in terms of introduction of (information) technological innovation. The application practice for these techniques finds itself in an initial stage. Current practice is dominated by technical issues and there is little attention for methodological issues associated with analysis of the problem and data collection. In the paper we propose a four level model for describing the methodological aspects of ILT application. The current practice of application concentrates on the two lowermost layers. Tools for developing applications concentrate mainly on the lowest, technical level.
DGCAS as a microprogram development tool
Authors: E. Skordalakis
Venue: ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter (1980)

User microprogramming has entered a new phase nowadays. This is due first to the availability of "microcircuits" with the help of which one can build, easily, microprogrammable digital systems and secondly to the availability of "microprogram software support systems" with the help of which one can develop the microprograms he needs. A home made Generalized Cross Assembly System, named "DGCAS", which can be used as a component in a microprogram software support system, is described in this paper.
Talk amongst yourselves: inviting users to participate in online conversations
Authors: F. Maxwell Harper, Dan Frankowski, Sara Drenner, Yuqing Ren, Sara Kiesler, Loren Terveen, Robert Kraut, John Riedl
Venue: Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces (2007)

Many small online communities would benefit from increased diversity or activity in their membership. Some communities run the risk of dying out due to lack of participation. Others struggle to achieve the critical mass necessary for diverse and engaging conversation. But what tools are available to these communities to increase participation? Our goal in this research was to spark contributions to the movielens.org discussion forum, where only 2% of the members write posts. We developed personalized invitations, messages designed to entice users to visit or contribute to the forum. In two field experiments, we ask (1) if personalized invitations increase activity in a discussion forum, (2) how the choice of algorithm for intelligently choosing content to emphasize in the invitation affects participation, and (3) how the suggestion made to the user affects their willingness to act. We find that invitations lead to increased participation, as measured by levels of reading and posting. More surprisingly, we find that invitations emphasizing the social nature of the discussion forum increase user activity, while invitations emphasizing other details of the discussion are less successful.
Effective design of an assembly line using modeling & simulation
Authors: Francesco Longo, Giovanni Mirabelli, Enrico Papoff
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

The paper presents the results of a research work regarding the effective design of an assembly line for heaters production. Considering that the real plant still doesn't exist, simulation has been used as cognitive tool. After the modeling and the VV&A phases the simulation has been used for carrying out ergonomic analyses for each assembly line workstation. The simulation results highlight problems concerning high stress levels for some workers (due to legs bending) and ergonomic risks related to lifting tasks.
MCDBA, MCSE, MCSD, MCAD Training Guide (70-229): SQL Server 2000 Database Design and Implementation
Authors: Thomas Moore, Ed Tittel
Venue:  (2003)

MCAD/MCSD/MCSE Training Guide (70-229): SQL Server 2000 Database Design and Implementation is the perfect study guide to help you pass the 70-229 exam, which is an elective for the MCSD, MCAD, MCDBA, and MCSE programs. If you are preparing for this exam, you'll find our Training Guide to be the most effective self-study tool in the market! This book is your one-stop shop because of its teaching methodology, the accompanying PrepLogic testing software, and superior Web site support at www.examcram.com. The book follows the exam objectives and features numerous exercises to give you hands-on opportunities, exam tips that give you advice for test day, and warnings that alert you to possible mistakes. The Fast Facts section condenses the most important information for last-minute review, and the practice exam is representative of the actual exam.Each book in the Training Guide series is published under the direction of Series Editor Ed Tittel, the leading authority on IT certification. This book has been subjected to rigorous technical review by a team of industry experts, ensuring content is superior in both coverage and technical accuracy, and has earned the distinction of Cramsessionï¾¿ Approved Study Material.The CD features PrepLogicï¾¿ Practice Tests, Preview Edition. This product includes one complete PrepLogic Practice Test with approximately the same number of questions found on the actual vendor exam. Each question contains full, detailed explanations of the correct and incorrect answers. The engine offers two study modes, Practice Test and Flash Review, full exam customization, and a detailed score report.
Swing: A Beginner's Guide, 1 edition
Authors: Herbert Schildt
Venue:  (2006)

From the world’s bestselling programming author Using the practical pedagogy that has made his other Beginner’s Guides so successful, Herb Schildt provides new Swing programmers with a completely integrated learning package. Perfect for the classroom or self-study, Swing: A Beginner’s Guide delivers the appropriate mix of theory and practical coding. You will be programming as early as Chapter 1.Table of contentsModule 1: Swing FundamentalsModule 2: Labels, Buttons, and BordersModule 3: Scroll Bars, Sliders, and Progress BarsModule 4: Managing Components with Panels, Panes, and TooltipsModule 5: ListsModule 6: Text ComponentsModule 7: Working with MenusModule 8: Tables and TreesModule 9: DialogsModule 10: Threading, Applets, Painting, and Layouts 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