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FQMR: A Flexible Quasi-Minimal Residual Method with Inexact Preconditioning
Authors: Daniel B. Szyld, Judith A. Vogel
Venue: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (2001)

A flexible version of the QMR algorithm is presented which allows for the use of a different preconditioner at each step of the algorithm. In particular, inexact solutions of the preconditioned equations are allowed, as well as the use of an (inner) iterative method as a preconditioner. Several theorems are presented relating the norm of the residual of the new method with the norm of the residual of other methods, including QMR and flexible GMRES (FGMRES). In addition, numerical experiments are presented which illustrate the convergence of flexible QMR (FQMR), and show that in certain cases FQMR can produce approximations with lower residual norms than QMR.
Message Multicasting in Heterogeneous Networks
Authors: Amotz Bar-Noy, Sudipto Guha
Venue: SIAM Journal on Computing (2000)

In heterogeneous networks, sending messages may incur different delays on different links, and each node may have a different switching time between messages. The well-studied telephone model is obtained when all link delays and switching times are equal to one unit. We investigate the problem of finding the minimum time required to multicast a message from one source to a subset of the nodes of size k. The problem is NP-hard even in the basic telephone model. We present a polynomial-time algorithm that approximates the minimum multicast time within a factor of O(log k). Our algorithm improves on the best known approximation factor for the telephone model by a factor of $O(\frac{\log n}{\log\log k})$. No approximation algorithms were known for the general model considered in this paper.
Polymorphic lambda calculus and subtyping
Authors: Adrian Fiech, David A. Schmidt
Venue: Theoretical Computer Science (2002)

We present a denotational model for F, the extension of second-order lambda calculus with subtyping defined in Cardelli and Wegner (ACM Comput. Surveys 17(4) (1985) 471-522.) Types are interpreted as arbitrary cpos and elements of types as natural transformations. We prove the soundness of our model with respect to the equational theory of F (Cardelli et al. (Internat. Conf. on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Software, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 526, Springer, Berlin, 1991, pp. 750-770)) and show coherence. Our model is of independent interest, because it integrates ad hoc and parametric polymorphism in an elegant fashion, admits nontrivial records and record update operations, and formalizes an "order faithfulness" criterion for well-behaved multiple subtyping.
PageMaker 5; IBM/MacIntosh
Authors: DDC Publishing
Venue:  (1993)

:We removed all the convoluted gobbledygook from those massive 400-page learning manuals written by the experts. Our self-paced hands-on text givesyou the concept -- in simple language. Then you get the objective -- easy to understand. Then we show you how to format the exercise using the concept just explained. Next to the exercise we give you the keystrokes and the illustrated layout; step by simple step -- graded and cumulative. No faster teaching exists. If it did, the pages would turn temselves. In one fell swoop, in a single book, we show you the concept, the objective, the exercise, and the keystrokes. 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 Construction of Deflation-Based Preconditioners
Authors: J. Frank, C. Vuik
Venue: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (2001)

In this article we introduce new bounds on the effective condition number of deflated and preconditioned-deflated symmetric positive definite linear systems. For the case of a subdomain deflation such as that of Nicolaides [SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 24 (1987), pp. 355--365], these theorems can provide direction in choosing a proper decomposition into subdomains. If grid refinement is performed, keeping the subdomain grid resolution fixed, the condition number is insensitive to the grid size. Subdomain deflation is very easy to implement and has been parallelized on a distributed memory system with only a small amount of additional communication. Numerical experiments for a steady-state convection-diffusion problem are included.
MEADOW: a middleware for efficient databases through openGIS wrappers
Authors: Sang K. Cha, Kihong Kim, Byung S. Lee, Changbin Song, Sangyong Hwang, Yongsik Kwon
Venue: Software&mdash;Practice Experience (2002)

With the proliferation of various geographic databases on the Internet, we have seen increasing needs for accessing them concurrently and remotely via the Web for high-level decision making. In this paper, we present Middleware for Efficient Access to Databases through OpenGIS Wrappers (MEADOW), an object-oriented middleware system we have developed to meet these needs. Current OpenGIS standard addresses many interoperability issues involved in such a global utilization of geographic databases. However, existing Simple Feature specification for CORBA (SFCORBA) implementations of OpenGIS proved to be insufficient for MEADOW. The main problems are the complexity of system development and maintenance, and the inefficiency of accessing remote data servers for processing region queries. We resolved the complexity problem by automatically generating a major portion of the application code, specifically wrappers on database servers and client library modules called transparent access providers. A MEADOW view definition language was developed as a high-level specification language for this purpose. The efficiency problem was resolved by using a region-based group prefetching of spatial objects from a geographic region. In addition, we implemented an OID-based semijoin for efficient global query processing, and a region-level locking to enhance the level of concurrency among region queries.
Beginning Asp.Net 1.0 with C#, 1st edition
Authors: David Sussman, Chris Ullman, Gary Johnson, Christopher Miller, John Kauffman, Ollie Cornes, Chris Goode, Juan T. Llibre, Srinivasa Sivakumar, Rob Birdwell, Ajoy Krishnamoorthy, Neil Raybould, Matt Butler
Venue:  (2002)

:This book is aimed at relatively inexperienced web builders who are looking to enrich their sites with dynamically-generated content, and want to learn how to start building web applications using ASP.NET. Developers who have a little experience with previous versions of ASP (and are looking to move over to ASP.NET), may also find this book helpful in getting a simple grasp on what ASP.NET is, what it does, and how it can be used. Experience of basic HTML is required, but previous experience of ASP is not essential. We'll be teaching the basics of C# in this book, so prior experience with the language is not required. This is one of two editions of Beginning ASP.NET 1.0. This version presents all code examples in C#. A VB .NET version of the same title (Beginning ASP.NET using VB .NET, ISBN: 1-861007-33-7) is also available.
Stone axes and warhammers: a decade of distributed simulation in aviation research
Authors: Frank M. Sogandares
Venue: Proceedings of the sixteenth workshop on Parallel and distributed simulation (2002)

Ten years ago, MITRE/CAASD built a realtime, Human-In-The-Loop (HITL) research laboratory. The focus of this lab is integration and human factors research for the air traffic control and aviation communities. The last ten years have been illuminating in terms of the evolution of laboratory capabilities, infrastructure, and corporate culture. This paper will describe the laboratory environment, its history and vision, and will also provide some examples of how distributed simulation technology has been applied, and continues to evolve, in a real-world HITL simulation environment serving a broad range of research needs.
MCSE Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Administration Readiness Review: Exam 70-228
Authors: Irfan Chaudhry, Dean Bartholomew
Venue:  (2001)

:Test your readiness for MCP Exam 70-228 by answering randomly generated practice questions from an exam-simulation tool on CD. Book explains all Q&A and offers test-prep suggestions. Exam 70-228 can be applied to MCDBA, MCSE, or MCSA certification.
ATM Theory and Applications, 1st edition
Authors: David E. McDysan, Darren L. Spohn
Venue:  (1998)

:The most current,most complete,and most "real-world" guide ever on ATM! This landmark reference is the ultimate "in print" database of ATM technology,services,and applications. From basic principles to detailed real-world examples,this text has it all,including exclusive in-depth treatment of such "hot" new protocols as IP and Tag Switching,Private Network Network Interface (PNNI),LAN Emulation (LANE),Understandable View of ATM Signaling,MultiProtocol Over ATM (MPOA),Available Bit rate (ABR) flow control,and Internet ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP). Traffic engineering and network design considerations are also extensively explained and illustrated. This is a must-have reference that will substantially enable any reader to make smarter technological and strategic business decisions regarding virtually every aspect of how,where,and why to apply ATM. The most current,most complete,and most "real world" guide ever on ATM. This landmark reference is the ultimate "in print" database of ATM technology,services,and applications. Emphasizing practice over theory in an engaging,fun-to-read style,the authors present high-level summaries followed up with detailed treatment of all key areas of ATM technology. It is the only book that provides in-depth treatment of such "hot" new protocols as: IP and Tag Switching. Private Network Network Interface (PNNI). LAN Emulation (LANE). Understandable View of ATM Signaling. Multiprotocol Over ATM (MPOA). Available Bit Rate (ABR) flow control. Internet ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP). In addition,ATM Theory and Applications explores the remarkable range of ATM applications,objectively comparesATM with competing technologies,and even offers some provocative predictions about how ATM technology might evolve. "This update to our best selling book not only provides a working tool for someone wanting to learn ATM,but also provides a reference for the practicing professional applying real-world solutions to business and technology problems. "
Open-Source Components for Informix Dynamic Server 9.X with Cdrom
Authors: Jacques Roy, William W. White, Paul G. Brown
Venue:  (2001)

:The fast, easy way to leverage IDS 9.x's full object-relational power! Supercharge your next IDS-9.x application! "Bladelets": easy DataBlade building blocks for powerful object-relational solutions Covers Vtables, temporal data management, hierarchical problems, text manipulation, BLOBs, and much more CD-ROM: Open source bladelet code for solving a wide range of business problemsObject-relational databases offer immense power  but many database professionals have failed to use it, because doing so required them to write their own DataBlade extensions. This book presents a breakthrough solution: bladelets. Created by a team of Informix' leading DataBlade experts, bladelets serve as building blocks, bringing Informix Dynamic Server 9.x ORDBMS power to bear on a wide range of business problems, while requiring far less original programming. All ten bladelets are covered in detail, with open source code provided on CD-ROM. Whether you use them "as is," or as the model for your own DataBlades, they can dramatically improve the performance, value, and time-to-market of your very next database application. Coverage includes: Solving hierarchical problems Extending SQL to support temporal data management Accessing external files through SQL Using SQL as a data type Overcoming database portability problems Manipulating text with regular expressions Removing LVARCHAR size limits Using BLOBs more effectively Managing multiple versions of your data with virtual tables, and much moreCD-ROM INCLUDEDTheaccompanying CD-ROM contains all of the book's code examples  plus a toolbox of open-source DataBlades, complete with source code, designed to quickly solve a wide range of business problems.
Test Yourself A+ Certification,3 Edition, 3rd edition
Authors: Syngress Media Inc., Pawan K. Bhardwaj
Venue:  (2001)

:This easy-to-use, self-paced book features more than 1,000 exam-based practice questions to test your knowledge - and detailed, instructive answers from the experts to expand your understanding. Best of all, the book is based directly on CompTIA's A+ Core and DOS/Windows exams, so it contains the most relevant, up-to-date Q&A material.
Sentry tag: an efficient filter scheme for low power cache
Authors: Yen-Jen Chang, Shanq-Jang Ruan, Feipei Lai
Venue: Australian Computer Science Communications (2002)

In this paper, we focus on low power design at the architecture level and propose a new architecture, called sentry tag, for reducing the on-chip cache power consumption in processors. The many unnecessary activities in the conventional cache-access process motivate our proposal. By pre-comparing the sentry bit of the access address with the sentry tag before starting a normal cache access, we can filter out and eliminate most unnecessary activities. Thus the power consumption can be effectively reduced. Our method is valuable for both a conventional cache with parallel access and a phased cache with serial access. We used SimpleScalar, a trace-driven simulator, to evaluate the performance of our proposed architecture. Compared to a conventional cache, experimental results from SPEC95 benchmarks show that the additional sentry tag can reduce many unnecessary activities (and hence the power consumption), while the hardware overhead is insignificant. For example, an 8-KB, 4-way data cache with two-bit sentry tag can improve the power consumption by 35% compared to a conventional set-associative cache. The maximum power saving achieved using this architecture depends on the cache configuration, which suggests that the proposed sentry tag is a viable choice for data caches with higher associativity.
Sams Teach Yourself Linux Programming in 24 Hours with CD-ROM, 1st edition
Authors: Warren W. Gay, Larren W. Gay
Venue:  (1999)

:Sams Teach Yourself Linux Programming in 24 Hours is a tutorial, organized into a series of easy-to-follow, 1-hour lessons. The book focuses on C, the fundamental language of Linux, throughout the lessons. You will learn: Linux, compilers and GNU, how to code a Linux Utility, Modular programming in "C", how to make files, Linux Command Option Processing, Linux filter programs, Error handling and reporting, Useful debugging techniques, Static and Shared Libraries, Advanced String functions, Conversion Functions, and Pipes and Processes. Learn to program for the Linux operating system in just 24 Hours This complete starter kit contains everything you need to program Linux CD contains full a version of Linux, as well as compilers to allow you to complete the exercises in the book
Microsoft Excel 2002: Complete Concepts and Techniques, 1st edition
Authors: Gary B. Shelly, Thomas J. Cashman, James S. Quasney
Venue:  (2001)

:Part of the highly successful Shelly Cashman Series, Microsoft Excel 2002 Complete Concepts and Techniques provides step-by-step instructions accompanied by full-color screen shots, helping students learn basic through advanced Excel 2002 skills quickly and easily.
Document engineering for e-business
Authors: Robert J. Glushko, Tim McGrath
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Document engineering (2002)

It can be said that "document exchange" is the "mother of all patterns" for business (and for e-business). Yet, by itself this view isn't sufficiently prescriptive. In this paper, we present additional perspectives or frameworks that make this abstraction more rigorous and useful. We describe an approach to artifact-driven analysis, model refinement, and implementation for document-intensive systems that unifies the "document analysis" approach from publishing and the "data analysis" approach from information systems. These traditionally contrasting approaches to understanding documents are unified in an "Analysis Spectrum" in which presentational, structural, and content components assume different weights or status. Our methodology emphasizes reuse with a "Reuse Matrix," in which both business process (or document exchange) patterns and document schema patterns are organized by different levels of abstraction and scope. Enterprise-level patterns like "supply chain" and "marketplace" can fit into this matrix along with process patterns like "RosettaNet PIP" and document patterns like the "XML Common Business Library." Taken together, these concepts form the foundation of a new discipline: "Document Engineering for e-Business.
Path materialization revisited: an efficient storage model for XML data
Authors: Haifeng Jiang, Hongjun Lu, Wei Wang, Jeffrey Xu Yu
Venue: Proceedings of the 13th Australasian database conference - Volume 5 (2002)

XML is emerging as a new major standard for representing data on the world wide web. Several XML storage models have been proposed to store XML data in different database management systems. The unique feature of model-mapping-based approaches is that no DTD information is required for XML data storage. In this paper, we present a new model-mapping-based storage model, called XParent. Unlike the existing work on model-mapping-based approaches that emphasized on converting XML documents to/from database schema and translation of XML queries into SQL queries, in this paper, we focus ourselves on the effectiveness of storage models in terms of query processing. We study the key issues that affect query performance, namely, storage schema design (storing XML data across multiple tables) and path materialization (storing path information in databases). We show that similar but different storage models significantly affect query performance. A performance study is conducted using three data sets and query sets. The experimental results are presented.
A power and resolution adaptive flash analog-to-digital converter
Authors: Jincheol Yoo, Daegyu Lee, Kyusun Choi, Jongsoo Kim
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 international symposium on Low power electronics and design (2002)

A new power and resolution adaptive flash ADC, named PRA-ADC, is proposed. The PRA-ADC enables exponential power reduction with linear resolution reduction. Unused parallel voltage comparators are switched to standby mode. The voltage comparators consume only the leakage power during the standby mode. The PRA-ADC, capable of operating at 5-bit, 6-bit, 7-bit, and 8-bit precision, dissipates 69 mW at 5-bit and 435 mW at 8-bit. The PRA-ADC was designed and simulated with 0.18 &mgr;m CMOS technology. The PRA-ADC design is applicable to RF portable communication devices, allowing tighter management of power and efficiency.
Teach Yourself Microsoft Active Server Pages 3
Authors: Sandra E. Eddy, Simon St Laurent, Scott Kallmeyer
Venue:  (2000)

:Teach Yourself Microsoft® Active Server Pages 3 When you need on-the-spot answers  Teach Yourself! Learn fast with short, clear examples Find the answers you need easily Explore the Web for related topicsConfigure your system for Active Server Pages in a snapTake a Web development refresher, from HTML basics to XSLGet up to speed fast on VBScript and other ASP scripting toolsUse ActiveX Data Objects to connect Web pages to databasesHarness ASP to manage cookies, user sessions, and transactionsAuthor Biography: About the Author Sandra E. Eddy specializes in writing both how-to and reference books about the Internet, Windows, and Windows applications. Until she became a full-time freelance writer in 1993, Ms. Eddy was a documentation manager and technical writer for a major software company. From 1984 to 1993, she wrote and edited user and technical manuals for both PC- and mainframe-based computer programs. Ms. Eddy is the author of the following books from IDG Books Worldwide: HTML in Plain English, XML in Plain English, The GIF Animator's Guide, and Teach Yourself XML. Simon St. Laurent is a Web developer, network administrator, computer book author, and XML troublemaker living in Ithaca, New York. His books include XML: A Primer, XML Elements of Style, Building XML Applications, Cookies, and Sharing Bandwidth. He is a contributing editor to xml-hack and an occasional contributor to XML.com. Scott Kallmeyer is a Web developer, Internet instructor, yoga student, and ASP author living in Ellicott City, Maryland. He is also a contributing author to the ASPAlliance for the Wise ASP column, writingarticles for those desperately seeking JScript advice.
Cisco CCNA #640-607 Preparation Library, 4th edition
Authors: Stephen McQuerry, Wendell Odom
Venue:  (2002)

:Complete preparation for the CCNA exam with three Cisco-recommended study guides!The only CCNA bundle that includes Cisco-recommended training and exam preparation materialsContains three best-selling titles, popular with CCNA candidates since the first year of the exam's existenceInclusion of the CCNA Exam Certification Guide, Third Edition helps candidates arrive at mastery of the exam topicsCisco CCNA Preparation Library, Fourth Edition is a comprehensive study and preparation package for the CCNA exam. Containing three Cisco Press booksInterconnecting Cisco Network Devices, Internetworking Technologies Handbook, Third Edition, and Cisco CCNA Exam Certification Guide, Third Editionthis comprehensive, value-priced bundle covers all the topics found on the exam, from internetworking fundamentals to network configuration details. This book and CD package forms a comprehensive library for CCNA self-study. Through the practice questions, examples, exercises, and complete references in this package, readers will gain a thorough understanding of the topics covered on the CCNA exam.
Writing UNIX Device Drivers in C
Authors: Phillip M. Adams, Clovis L. Tondo
Venue:  (1992)

:A practical, hands-on guide to driver design and development. Writing UNIX Device Drivers in C contains all the information you need to design and build UNIX device drivers. Adams and Tondo introduce the concept that device drivers are the implementation of an abstract software architecture and present a template-based development process that reduces the drudgery of implementing and debugging. This approach shortens development time and allows you to focus on the problem the device driver is designed to solve.
Error correction in a Chinese OCR test collection
Authors: Yuen-Hsien Tseng
Venue: Proceedings of the 25th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (2002)

This article proposes a technique for correcting Chinese OCR errors to support retrieval of scanned documents. The technique uses a completely automatic technique (no manually constructed lexicons or confusion resources) to identify both keywords and confusable terms. Improved retrieval effectiveness on a single term query experiment is demonstrated.