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IRQ, DMA, and I/O: Resolving and Preventing PC System Conflicts, 2nd edition
Authors: Jim Aspinwall
Venue:  (1997)

:Are you baffled by cryptic error messages that sometimes appear on your PC? Frustrated by constant crashes and loss of time? Tearing your hair out trying to install and run the latest Windows software? Dont panic. All you need to resolve these and other common PC problems is contained within your system and this handy book. IRQs (interrupt requests), DMA (direct memory access), and I/O (input/output) error messages can be frustrating, but with this book/disk package youll be able to resolve the system conflicts that cause them. The book equips you with the resources necessary to understand and properly manage your PC before, during, and after installing operating environments and systems. This revised edition includes sections on the most common problem areas, and shows you how to prevent such problems from occurring. Youll find new coverage on the latest in high-speed Pentium technology, new data bus technology, Plug and Play, and the Windows Registry. IRQ, DMA & I/O: Resolving and Preventing PC System Conflicts, 2nd Edition provides everything you need to avoid and resolve the problems that continue to plague all PC users. The companion disk contains PC-Doctor, a diagnostic program that provides system information, and the Rosenthal utilities for conflict detection. Successfully install the latest operating systems Understand and utilize the Windows Registry and new data bus features Learn to update previous editions of software without upsetting your machine Determine the current status of your system Take advantage of the new BIOS and new Plug and Play features Establishand maintain a proper, stable system
Computer Intergrated Machine Design, 1st edition
Authors: Charles E. Wilson
Venue:  (1996)

:This book is designed to take advantage of the almost universal availability of personal computers. Utilizing computer-aided design methods, this book allows readers to optimize a design with a few key strokes; to ask what if?; to examine alternatives; and to plot and interpret the effect of design changes. Emphasis is placed on evaluation and interpretation of results, and development of design skills.
Inside Windows File Formats, 1st edition
Authors: Tom Swan
Venue:  (1993)

:Windows file formats are revealed! This book, written by best-selling author Tom Swan, shows C programmers how to manage and control various Windows file formats.Contains tips, techniques, secrets, and cautionsIncludes numerous code listingsDisk contains all the code listings, file functions toolkit, and third-party software
Sams Teach Yourself the Internet in 10 Minutes, 2nd edition
Authors: Galen A. Grimes
Venue:  (1999)

:Sams Teach Yourself the Internet in 10 Minutes, Second Edition is a quick, efficient reference to getting connected to the Internet, sending and receiving e-mail, finding and browsing Web sites, reading and posting to newsgroups, and generally applying the Internet to your everyday office and home life. Only the most common problems and most frequently used Internet tasks are covered - from finding a good Internet service provider, to protecting your online financial transactions, to creating a simple page on the World Wide Web. This new edition of the book will be thoroughly revised and updated to include coverage of new products and technologies like Windows 98, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5, Netscape Communicator 5, and America Online 4.
Developer's Guide to Computer Game Design
Authors: John Scott Lewinski
Venue:  (1999)

:An overview of the steps involved in producing an award-winning computer game from a design perspective. The design phase of the business is essential for developers to understand before any code is written. The CD-ROM is very competitive, containing design elements from other leading computer game designers, and a game engine.
Leading Your Business into the Future with the Internet, 1st edition
Authors: Danielle Vallee
Venue:  (1999)

:Leading Your Business into the Future with the Internet is a book for businesspeople from small and medium businesses who want to add the electronic worldwide technology dimension, using the Internet, to their operations. Integrating the Internet into business operations does not entail technical aspects only. There are also important administrative aspects that must be considered. This book provides a complete overview of the implications the Internet can have for a business. It covers technical as well as managerial aspects, from using basic services all the way to electronic commerce, and includes the impact on employees and on day-to-day operations. It describes the advantages and challenges of each service, identifies potential technical challenges, offers solutions, describes the evolving culture surrounding this dynamic medium and explores future trends. The book approaches the subject from a manager's point of view rather than a technician's point of view. It starts by introducing the basics and allows the reader to gradually acquire a working knowledge of the medium in order to make sound business decisions. 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
Reinforcement learning for fuzzy agents: application to a pighouse environment control
Authors: Lionel Jouffe
Venue: New learning paradigms in soft computing (2002)

Fuzzy Actor-Critic Learning (FACL) and Fuzzy Q-learning (FQL) are reinforcement learning methods based on Dynamic Programming (DP) principles. In this chapter, they are used to tune on line the conclusion part of Fuzzy Inference Systems (FIS). The only information available for learning is the system feedback, which describes in terms of reward and punishment the task the fuzzy agent has to realize. At each time step, the agent receives a reinstate. The problem involves optimizing not only the direct reinforcement, but also the total amount of reinforcements the agent can receive in the future. To illustrate the use of these two learning methods, we first applied them to a problem in which we have to find a fuzzy controller to drive a boat from one bank to another, across a river with a strong non-linear current. Then, we used the well-known Cart-Pole Balancing and Mountain-Car problems to be able to compare our methods to other reinforcement learning methods, and focus on important characteristic aspects of FACL and FQL. The experimental studies had shown the superiority of these methods with respect to the other related methods we can find in the literature. We also found that our generic methods we can find in the literature. We also found that our generic methods allow us to learn every kind of reinforcement learning problem (continuous states, discrete/continuous actions, various types of reinforcement functions). Thanks to this flexibility, these learning methods have been applied successfully in an industrial problem, to discover a policy for pighouse environment control.
Dummies 101: Internet Explorer 4 for Windows (with CD-ROM), 2nd edition
Authors: Ned Snell
Venue:  (1997)

:Dummies 101: Internet Explorer 4 For Windows does much more than take you on a Web cruise. Through simple, step-by-step explanations, you learn to surf the Web, send and receive e-mail, and even have a phone conversation through the Internet. This book is your quickest, simplest guide to navigating the Net in Windows in 13 easy lessons! Inside, get the information you need now: Discover the powerful Web browser in Internet Explorer 4 Click quickly through the new features that Internet Explorer adds to Windows 95 Utilize the Internet Explorer program's handy Outlook Express to exchange Internet e-mail and browse newsgroups Meet and chat with others all over the world with Microsoft Chat Use NetMeeting to hold voice, video, or text conferences Get Internet information delivered automatically to your desktop through Channels Access the Internet with the MindSpring software located on the enclosed bonus CD-ROM Don't forget: After you've taught yourself the basics with this easy-to-use tutorial, look for IDG Books Worldwide's Internet Explorer 4 For Windows&reg; For Dummies&reg;, the perfect reference to keep by your side, and Internet Explorer 4 For Windows&reg; For Dummies&reg; Quick Reference, the quick and easy way to look up tasks and commands alphabetically.
Adobe FrameMaker 5.5 (Classroom in a Book), 1st edition
Authors: Adobe Press
Venue:  (1997)

:Classroom in a Book, Adobe FrameMaker 5.5 is a cross-platform, self-paced training guide to all the power and features of the new version of the industry standard powerhouse document processor. In a matter of hours, users can begin to comprehend the complexities and power of the software by doing rather than reading.Special coverage of the latest tools and techniques of Adobe FrameMaker 5.5, including the new features of conversion support for SGML, HTML, and PDF. New from the ground up!The official Adobe endorsement for self-paced training on the latest version of Adobe FrameMaker! The NEW format for Classroom in a Book, smaller trim size for portability and it fits on bookshelves!Covers Windows 95, Windows NT, Mac OS, and multiple flavors of Unix in a single edition!
Motion-based segmentation and contour-based classification of video objects
Authors: Gerald Kühne, Stephan Richter, Markus Beier
Venue: Proceedings of the ninth ACM international conference on Multimedia (2001)

The segmentation of objects in video sequences constitutes a prerequisite for numerous applications ranging from computer vision tasks to second-generation video coding.We propose an approach for segmenting video objects based on motion cues. To estimate motion we employ the 3D structure tensor, an operator that provides reliable results by integrating information from a number of consecutive video frames. We present a new hierarchical algorithm, embedding the structure tensor into a multiresolution framework to allow the estimation of large velocities.The motion estimates are included as an external force into a geodesic active contour model, thus stopping the evolving curve at the moving object's boundary. A level set-based implementation allows the simultaneous segmentation of several objects.As an application based on our object segmentation approach we provide a video object classification system. Curvature features of the object contour are matched by means of a curvature scale space technique to a database containing preprocessed views of prototypical objects.We provide encouraging experimental results calculated on synthetic and real-world video sequences to demonstrate the performance of our algorithms.
Evolutionary Techniques for Web Caching
Authors: Athena Vakali
Venue: Distributed and Parallel Databases (2002)

Web caching has been proposed as an effective solution to the problems of network traffic and congestion, Web objects access and Web load balancing. This paper presents a model for optimizing Web cache content by applying either a genetic algorithm or an evolutionary programming scheme for Web cache content replacement. Three policies are proposed for each of the genetic algorithm and the evolutionary programming techniques, in relation to objects staleness factors and retrieval rates. A simulation model is developed and long term trace-driven simulation is used to experiment on the proposed techniques. The results indicate that all evolutionary techniques are beneficial to the cache replacement, compared to the conventional replacement applied in most Web cache server. Under an appropriate objective function the genetic algorithm has been proven to be the best of all approaches with respect to cache hit and byte hit ratios.
LAN Times Guide to Wide Area Networks
Authors: Tere Parnell
Venue:  (1996)

:Where other books on WAN technology fall short of giving you a complete scope, this all-in-one guide by industry expert Tere Parnell provides full coverage of the design, configuration, and maintenance of wide area networks. Beginning with an overview of the basic functions of WANs, and then progressing to advanced topics, LAN Times Guide to Wide Area Networks is filled with up-to-the-moment information and proven solutions.
Universal Compression and Retrieval
Authors: R. E. Krichevskii
Venue:  (1994)

:This volume constitutes a comprehensive self-contained course on source encoding. This is a rapidly developing field and the purpose of this book is to present the theory from its beginnings to the latest developments, some of which appear in book form for the first time. The major differences between this volume and previously-published works is that, here, information retrieval is incorporated into source coding instead of discussing this separately. Secondly, this volume places an emphasis on the trade-off between complexity and the quality of coding, i.e. what is the price of achieving a maximum degree of data compression? Thirdly, special attention is paid to universal families which contain a good compressing map for every source in a set. The volume presents a new algorithm for retrieval, which is optimal with respect to both program length and running time, and algorithms for hashing and adaptive on-line compressing. All the main tools of source coding and data compression such as Shannon, Ziv-Lempel, Gilbert-Moore codes, Kolmogorov complexity and entropy, lexicographic and digital search, are discussed. Moreover, data compression methods are described for developing short programs for partially specified Boolean functions, short formulas for threshold functions, identification keys, stochastic algorithms for finding the occurrence of a word in a text, and T-independent sets. Researchers and graduate students of information theory and theoretical computer science. It will also serve as a useful reference for communication engineers and data base designers.
Scalable interactive volume rendering using off-the-shelf components
Authors: Santiago Lombeyda, Laurent Moll, Mark Shand, David Breen, Alan Heirich
Venue: Proceedings of the IEEE 2001 symposium on parallel and large-data visualization and graphics (2001)

This paper describes an application of a second generation implementation of the Sepia architecture (Sepia-2) to interactive volumetric visualization of large rectilinear scalar fields. By employing pipelined associative blending operators in a sort-last configuration a demonstration system with 8 rendering computers sustains 24 to 28 frames per second while interactively rendering large data volumes (1024x256x256 voxels, and 512x512x512 voxels). We believe interactive performance at these frame rates and data sizes is unprecedented. We also believe these results can be extended to other types of structured and unstructured grids and a variety of GL rendering techniques including surface rendering and shadow mapping. We show how to extend our single-stage crossbar demonstration system to multi-stage networks in order to support much larger data sizes and higher image resolutions. This requires solving a dynamic mapping problem for a class of blending operators that includes Porter-Duff compositing operators.
How do I loaf here? let me count the ways
Authors: Vivien K. G. Lim, Thompson S. H. Teo
Venue: Communications of the ACM (2002)

Cyberloafing in an Asian context.
An empirical study on the utility of formal routines to transfer knowledge and experience
Authors: Reidar Conradi, Tore Dybå
Venue: Proceedings of the 8th European software engineering conference held jointly with 9th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering (2001)

Most quality and software process improvement frameworks emphasize written (i.e. formal) documentation to convey recommended work practices. However, there is considerable skepticism among developers to learn from and adhere to prescribed process models. The latter are often perceived as overly "structured" or implying too much "control". Further, what is relevant knowledge has often been decided by "others"---often the quality manager. The study was carried out in the context of a national software process improvement program in Norway for small- and medium-sized companies to assess the attitude to formalized knowledge and experience sources. The results show that developers are rather skeptical at using written routines, while quality and technical managers are taking this for granted. This is an explosive combination. The conclusion is that formal routines must be supplemented by collaborative, social processes to promote effective dissemination and organizational learning. Trying to force a (well-intended) quality system down the developers' throats is both futile and demoralizing. The wider implications for quality and improvement work is that we must strike a balance between the "disciplined" or "rational" and the "creative" way of working.
Compression in Video and Audio
Authors: John Watkinson
Venue:  (1995)

:This book recognises the wide applications of compression by treating the subject from first principles without assuming any particular background for the reader.
Microsoft Office 2000 - Illustrated Projects, 1st edition
Authors: Bob M. Cram
Venue:  (1999)

:Students will learn how to apply Office 2000 skills quickly through a variety of meaningful projects, such as creating a resume and managing a budget. This two-color text features easy-to-follow steps on the left, and screen shots and competed projects on the right. 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
On the expressive power of first-order boolean functions in PCF
Authors: Riccardo Pucella, Prakash Panangaden
Venue: Theoretical Computer Science (2001)

Recent results of Bucciarelli show that the semilattice of degrees of parallelism of first-order boolean functions in PCF has both infinite chains and infinite antichains. By considering a simple subclass of Sieber's sequentiality relations, we identify levels in the semilattice and derive inexpressibility results concerning functions on different levels. This allows us to further explore the structure of the semilattice of degrees of parallelism: we identify semilattices characterized by simple level properties, and show the existence of new infinite hierarchies which are in a certain sense natural with respect to the levels. Copyright 2001 Elsevier Science B.V.
An analysis of classroom technology
Authors: John Mackenzie
Venue: Proceedings of the 29th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference on User services (2001)

The University of Delaware Information Technology Help Center is conducting a study to identify uses of technology in the classroom, assess faculty attitudes toward these technologies and measure the quality of student learning as proxied by the seven principles for good practice in education. This paper describes the study's survey design.A smaller study conducted last year, documented classes with supporting web pages and the various components of those web pages. This year the study broadens its scope significantly, assessing the use of courseware management systems, computing facilities, networks, on-line collaboration, chat and other technological resources to provide a more complete description of instructional technology use at the University of Delaware.This survey uses a 30-item instrument on 11 subscales. Four of these subscales are widely used to describe faculty attitudes (Enthusiasm, Anxiety, Avoidance and Productivity).The latter seven subscales correspond to seven indicators of good practice in undergraduate education. The extent to which instructor attitudes accord with these is used as a proxy for improved learning. Using this proxy, we can measure the correlation between the use of technology in the classroom with improved learning outcomes.
UNIX Ssh: Using Secure Shell with Cdrom, 1st edition
Authors: Anne H. Carasik
Venue:  (1999)

:How can intruders be prevented from accessing confidential and sensitive data in the UNIX environment? Secure Shell is the answer. Secure Shell is the security tool for UNIX and Linux systems that allows remote access for those who need it while employing public key encryption to keep out the crackers. This book explains why Secure Shell is so important to system security, then steps through an explanation of how Secure Shell works and how the software can be used to configure the Secure Shell server and client applications. In addition, actual examples of server and client configurations and log files show you exactly how Secure Shell works in the real world. Secure Shell provides the strongest authentication and encryption techniques for use over insecure channels while addressing the crucial security issues that administrators must consider when protecting their data and systems from unauthorized use. 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
Elastic Scheduling for Flexible Workload Management
Authors: Giorgio C. Buttazzo, Giuseppe Lipari, Marco Caccamo, Luca Abeni
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Computers (2002)

An increasing number of real-time applications, related to multimedia and adaptive control systems, require greater flexibility than classical real-time theory usually permits. In this paper, we present a novel scheduling framework in which tasks are treated as springs with given elastic coefficients to better conform to the actual load conditions. Under this model, periodic tasks can intentionally change their execution rate to provide different quality of service and the other tasks can automatically adapt their periods to keep the system underloaded. The proposed model can also be used to handle overload conditions in a more flexible way and to provide a simple and efficient mechanism for controlling a system's performance as a function of the current load.
Quicken 5 for Windows 95 and Windows 3.1(Mastering), 3rd edition
Authors: Stephen L. Nelson
Venue:  (1995)

:Mastering Quicken 5 for Windows is an expanded edition of the most complete book on managing personal, investment, and small-business finances you can buy. Program coverage spans everything from installing to customizing. A comprehensive glossary defines hundreds of financial terms. Make the most of Quicken at home. See how Quicken helps you reduce debt, plan for and prepare taxes, save on insurance, do your banking online, pay bills electronically, and plan for retirement. Maximize your investments. Use Quicken to track mutual funds, stocks, bonds, and real estate ventures. Handle small-business finances. Let Quicken simplify your payroll, manage accounts payable and receivable, and measure cash flow and profits. You'll also find special coverage of QuickPay and QuickInvoice. Improve your bottom line. Dozens of smart-money secrets show you how to choose and use credit cards; assess home ownership as an investment; select a mortgage; save on taxes; get your employer and Uncle Sam to fund your retirement; and, ultimately, achieve financial independence. 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
Using Multimedia Tools and Applications on the Internet, 1st edition
Authors: Dennis O. Gehris
Venue:  (1997)

:A necessary guide for anyone on the Internet, this breakthrough book shows you how to use the most common multimedia tools and applications to expand and enhance your online presence. Whether your interest is graphics, audio, computer conferencing, video conferencing, Adobe Acrobat, ASAP WebShow, or even virtual reality, Using Multimedia Tools and Applications on the Internet offers specific guidance for effectively incorporating multimedia skills into your online arsenal.