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How to Start a Home Based Writing Business, 2nd edition
Authors: Lucy V. Parker
Venue:  (1997)

:have you ever dreamed of starting your own home-based writing business? Have you been hesitant to put your plans into action? This comprehensive guide contains all the necessary tools and strategies you will need to successfully launch and grow your business. Author Lucy Parker, a successful home-based writer, shares her experiences and down-to-earth advice to help you search out the hidden job markets in your community, manage your cash flow, and stay profitable once you're in business. From painless record keeping to savvy marketing techniques, her step-by-step methods are realistic, innovative, and easy to understand. Whether you want to earn your living writing advertising copy, producing flyers and brochures, or ghostwrting, with this guide at your side (or next to your computer) you may soon experience the satisfaction of establishing and building your own home-based business.
Relationships among speech, vision, and action in collaborative physical tasks
Authors: Susan R. Fussell, Robert E. Kraut, Jane Siegel, Susan E. Brennan
Venue: CHI '02 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (2002)

This workshop focuses on the relationships among speech, gaze and action in collaborative physical tasks. We address three key challenges: characterizing the nature of collaborative physical tasks, understanding how people coordinate their activities during collaborative physical tasks, and designing technology to support these tasks.
Generalized Lehmer-Tausworthe random number generators
Authors: Lih-Yuan Deng, Cecil Rousseau, Yilian Yuan
Venue: Proceedings of the 30th annual Southeast regional conference (1992)

We study a general class of random number generators which includes Lehmer's congruential generator and the Tausworthe shift-register generator as special cases. The generators in this class use a general linear recurrence relation defined by a primitive polynomial over a large finite field. This generator, like the Tausworthe generator, has the property of the k-space equi-distribution. We give some theoretical and heuristic justification for its asymptotic uniformity as well as asymptotic independence from a statistical theory viewpoint. In this paper, we also propose an efficient method of finding primitive polynomials in a large finite field. Several generators with extremely long cycles are presented.
Wireless Data Networking, 1st edition
Authors: Nathan J. Muller
Venue:  (1994)

:Easier to install and reconfigure than cabled networks, the advantages of wireless are increasingly obvious as installation costs continue to decrease. This book is the industry's first single-source reference on the practical aspects of wireless messaging and data networking. Providing a no-nonsense, easy-to-understand approach, industry expert Nathan Muller has straight answers to many tough implementation questions.
Cheryl Currid's Guide to Business Technology, 1st edition
Authors: Cheryl Currid
Venue:  (1995)

:Written in a comfortable, straight-to-the-point style, this handbook provides business managers with a thorough understanding of how technology affects their day-to-day business activities, how it fits into the workplace, how it poses new challenges, and how it offers new opportunities. With checklists, examples, and illustrations, this hands-on guide explains the history and future, capabilities, advantages, and limitations of fax machines, voice mail, pagers, E-mail, groupware, the Internet and video conferencing.
Knowlege in action: logical foundations for specifying and implementing dynamical systems
Venue:  (2001)

This book describes a thoroughly developed logic- and situation-calculus-based system for problem solving and planning. Its emphasis on theory is especially important for the ambituous student who wants to look beyond immediate applications toward the goal of human-level artificial intelligence." ---John McCarthy, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Stanford University
The Workflow Imperative: Building Real World Business Solutions
Authors: Thomas M. Koulopoulos
Venue:  (1997)

:Written by an authority on workflow technology and methods, this book provides a thorough and easy-to-understand explanation of the workflow concept, its benefits, and its implementation. Using four real-world case studies, the book shows how workflow processes and tools work, offers guidance for analyzing the effectiveness of various tools and design methodologies for workflow analysis, and provides definitions of new terms and technologies.
Windows 95 Liferaft
Authors: Ronny Richardson
Venue:  (1996)

:This little book is for people who do not have the time to wade through massive tomes just to get started using Windows 95. Windows 95 Liferaft quickly and simply gives you the basics. You will learn, among other things, how to start programs and deal with the Start Menu, icons, and folders; run multiple programs and switch between them; perform file maintenance; and use the help system. The author routinely teaches introductory computer courses to students and others and knows what to gloss over and what to emphasize. He also knows how to explain Windows 95 without burying you under a mountain of computer terms.
Use of a clinical laboratory computer to warn of possible drug interference with test results
Authors: William E. Groves, Walter H. Gajewski
Venue: Proceedings of the 16th annual Southeast regional conference (1978)

Drugs can alter the concentration of important biological substances. This alteration can occur during an actual clinical laboratory test procedure for that substance. The frequent administration of drugs, coupled with the increasing reliance on accurate laboratory data, have led us to develop programs which will automatically warn a physician when test results may be altered due to pharmecuticals. Using a clinical laboratory computer system, software has been developed which checks to determine if the result of any test performed on a patient specimen may be affected by any drug administered to that same patient. If possible interference is detected, a comment is automatically attached to the result on the patient's computer-generated report warning the attending physician the result may be falsely elevated or lowered. These programs are run on a laboratory computer system whose central processing unit is a Control Data Corporation, model 1784, computer with 16-bit words and 256K bytes of central storage. All programs are written in Control Data Corporation FORTRAN IV. There are six related programs ranging in size from 560 to 4400 words requiring a total storage capacity of 12,400 words and three data files requiring a total of 213,600 words of storage. The first three programs provide the user with an alphabetized listing of all laboratory result reporting names and are divided to: 1) collect; 2) sort; 3) and print the data. The next program creates a drug/test interference data file which stores information on the effect of a given drug on a variety of laboratory tests. Since patient/drug information may derive from more than one source using different drug code numbers, a program was developed to create or update a data file which serves as a cross-reference index between the laboratory drug number and the pharmacy drug number(s). The final program allows for entry of patient identification and drug data, checks for drug/test interference and, if interference is detected, automatically attaches an appropriate comment to the result in the patient's file. All of these programs operate in a real-time environment.
An error simulation based approach to measure error coverage of formal properties
Authors: P. Azzoni, A. Fedeli, F. Fummi, G. Pravadelli, U. Rossi, F. Toto
Venue: Proceedings of the 12th ACM Great Lakes symposium on VLSI (2002)

Many approaches have been proposed for digital system verification, either based on simulation strategies or on formal verification techniques. Both of them show advantages and drawbacks and new mixed approaches have been presented in order to improve the verification process. Specifically, the adoption of formal methods still lacks a coverage metrics to let the verification engineer get a measure of which portion of the circuit is already covered by the written properties that far and which parts still need to be addressed. The present paper describes a new simulation based methodology aimed at measuring the error coverage achieved by temporal assertions proved by model checking. The approach has been applied to the description of a protocol converter block, and some preliminary results are presented in the paper.
Simulating cartoon style animation
Authors: Stephen Chenney, Mark Pingel, Rob Iverson, Marcin Szymanski
Venue: Proceedings of the 2nd international symposium on Non-photorealistic animation and rendering (2002)

Traditional hand animation is in many cases superior to simulated motion for conveying information about character and events. Much of this superiority comes from an animator's ability to abstract motion and play to human perceptual effects. However, experienced animators are difficult to come by and the resulting motion is typically not interactive. On the other hand, procedural models for generating motion, such as physical simulation, can create motion on the fly but are poor at stylizing movement. We start to bridge this gap with a technique that creates cartoon style deformations automatically while preserving desirable qualities of the object's appearance and motion. Our method is focused on squash-and-stretch deformations based on the velocity and collision parameters of the object, making it suitable for procedural animation systems. The user has direct control of the object's motion through a set of simple parameters that drive specific features of the motion, such as the degree of squash and stretch. We demonstrate our approach with examples from our prototype system.
A methodology for certification of modeling and simulation applications
Authors: Osman Balci
Venue: ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS) (2001)

Certification of modeling and simulation (M&S) applications poses significant technical challenges for M&S program managers, engineers, and practitioners. Certification is becoming increasingly more important as M&S applications are used more and more for military training, complex system design evaluation, M&S-based acquisition, problem solving, and critical decision making. Certification, a very complex process, involves the measurement and evaluation of hundreds of qualitative and quantitative elements, mandates subject matter expert evaluation, and requires the integration of different evaluations. Planning and managing such measurements and evaluations requires a unifying methodology and should not be performed in an ad hoc manner. This paper presents such a methodology. The methodology consists of the following body of methods, rules, and postulates: (a) employment of subject matter experts, (b) construction of a hierarchy of indicators, (c) relative criticality weighting of indicators using the analytic hierarchy process, (d) using a rule-based expert knowledge base with an object-oriented specification language, (e) assignment of crisp, fuzzy, and nominal scores for the indicators, (f) aggregation of indicator scores, (g) graphical representation of the indicator scores and weights, (h) hypertext certification report, and (i) interpretation of the results. The methodology can be used for certification of any kind of M&S application either throughout the M&S development life cycle or after the development is completed.
MCSE Exchange Server 5.5 Ace It!: Exam: 70-81, 1st edition
Authors: Walter J. Glenn
Venue:  (1999)

:Pass the exam on the first try with this preparatory guide to Exam #70-81 (Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5). The book includes hundreds of practice questions, pop quizzes, and test tips.
Introduction to Electronic Document Management Systems
Authors: William B. Green
Venue:  (1992)

:Introduction to Electronic Document Management Systems is a key resource for management and technical staff of organizations considering a transformation from traditional micrographics-based document storage and retrieval to the new systems based on electronic document capture. It will also be useful to organizations considering improving productivity by replacing systems based on processing documents on paper with electronic document management systems.
Privacy for Sale: How Computerization Has Made Everyone's Private Life an Open Secret
Authors: Jeffrey Rothfeder
Venue:  (1992)

:Privacy for Sale is a startling expose and analysis of the demise of privacy in the age of the computer. The proliferation of computerized files containing the intimate details of our private lives--our financial data, medical history, employment records, and on and on--means that practically everything there is to know about any of us is available. Whether it's our driving records, our travel habits, the medications we take, or whom we call on the telephone, it's all on file somewhere. As is what we buy and borrow every time we use a credit card. Privacy for Sale takes readers inside the information industry and introduces us to the people who profit from the data explosion: the Big Three credit bureaus, the superbureaus (wholesalers of the credit industry), the direct marketers, and the information underground, where anything and everything is available for the right price. No one's privacy is safe, not even that of celebrities. (Mr. Rothfeder reveals how easily he was able to obtain personal data about Vice President Dan Quayle and how, with a little more difficulty, he was able to tap information about Dan Rather.). The government offers us little protection: Some of our most important privacy laws are twenty years old and predate the desktop computer revolution. Worse yet, the government itself is infected by data mania and is creating new computer systems monthly to track virtually every aspect of our lives. This revealing--and alarming--book explains what we must do, as individuals and as a nation, to begin to regain control of our private lives. 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
A why-what-how tool for development and documentation of operating procedures
Authors: David G. Novick
Venue: Proceedings of IEEE professional communication society international professional communication conference and Proceedings of the 18th annual ACM international conference on Computer documentation: technology & teamwork (2000)

DSTOP, the Design Support Tool for Operating Procedures, is a relatively simple software tool for support of designers of new interfaces and their procedures for use. DSTOP is based on two complementary models: the documentation coherence maxims and the situated-act model, which distinguishes domain actions from interface actions. Use of the tool involves the writing of operating procedures using a kind of grid, where the operating procedure runs from top to bottom and is divided horizontally into why, what and how elements. The why element represents the operating procedure's goal; the what represents the operating procedure's situated act; and the how represents the interface action(s) required to effectuate the act. The tool has been used to develop prototype operating procedures for computer-based aircraft cockpit interfaces. DSTOP adds new functionality associated with the coherence maxims, including explicit representation of variants of terms, and explicit tracking and display of procedures (and their why-what-how components) in which any of the variants is used.
PAC Man World: Prima's Official Strategy Guide, 20th edition
Authors: Chip Daniels
Venue:  (1999)

:Pac-Man is back, and better than ever! Master and all the new adventures of this classic video game with the help of Pac-Man World: Prima's Official Strategy Guide. The guide provides walkthroughs of every level, explanations of Pac-Man's moves, and bios for all characters. Survive the dangers of Pac-Man's new 3-D adventure with the help of Prima's Official Strategy Guide for Pac-Man World0 20th Anniversary. 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
Running DOS Games
Authors: CORPORATE Abacus Technology Corporation For U. S. Dept Of Energy Staff
Venue:  (1996)

:This book will teach readers how to keep their large investment in DOS games safe and intact while moving them to the Windows 95 environment. Running DOS Games takes a practical approach by showing them how to set up a Windows 95 system for all those DOS games without creating new conflicts with all their other DOS and Windows applications.
Neural Network Analysis, Architectures and Applications, 1st edition
Authors: Antony Browne
Venue:  (1997)

:This book describes techniques for extracting what has been learnt by a trained neural network. The book also describes some novel neural network architectures, and some sample applications of neural computing systems.
Mining time-changing data streams
Authors: Geoff Hulten, Laurie Spencer, Pedro Domingos
Venue: Proceedings of the seventh ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining (2001)

Most statistical and machine-learning algorithms assume that the data is a random sample drawn from a stationary distribution. Unfortunately, most of the large databases available for mining today violate this assumption. They were gathered over months or years, and the underlying processes generating them changed during this time, sometimes radically. Although a number of algorithms have been proposed for learning time-changing concepts, they generally do not scale well to very large databases. In this paper we propose an efficient algorithm for mining decision trees from continuously-changing data streams, based on the ultra-fast VFDT decision tree learner. This algorithm, called CVFDT, stays current while making the most of old data by growing an alternative subtree whenever an old one becomes questionable, and replacing the old with the new when the new becomes more accurate. CVFDT learns a model which is similar in accuracy to the one that would be learned by reapplying VFDT to a moving window of examples every time a new example arrives, but with O(1) complexity per example, as opposed to O(w), where w is the size of the window. Experiments on a set of large time-changing data streams demonstrate the utility of this approach.
Underspecification for a simple process algebra of recursive processes
Authors: M. E. Majster-Cederbaum
Venue: Theoretical Computer Science (2001)

This paper deals with underspecification for process algebras which is relevant in early design stages. We consider a form of underspecification that arises from a situation where at a certain design stage the decision between several options of system behaviour is to be postponed until more information is available. We follow an approach of Veglioni and De Nicola (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1466 (1998) 179) who propose to interpret the choice operator of a simple class of finite process terms as underspecification whenever it combines two processes that have some initial action in common, as e.g. in (a.P + v.Q) + (a.R + s.S). In particular, we consider recursive processes and discuss several extensions. Copyright 2001 Elsevier Science B.V.
The Desktop Publisher's Idea, 2nd edition
Authors: Chuck Green
Venue:  (1997)

:Using your own DTP or word processing software and laser printer, you can easily create all 104 design projects inside The Desktop Publisher's Idea Book, 2nd Edition. The author shows you step-by-layout-step how to create professional, eye-catching designs that boldly and creatively state your message. Each project comes complete with page dimensions, typeface names and sizes, and sources for clip art and photos. You'll find valuable information for working with illustrators, photographers, and printers. There's also a resource list for locating supplies and special materials. 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
FOCI: flexible organizer for competitive intelligence
Authors: Hwee-Leng Ong, Ah-Hwee Tan, Jamie Ng, Hong Pan, Qiu-Xiang Li
Venue: Proceedings of the tenth international conference on Information and knowledge management (2001)

This paper describes how an integrated web-based application, code-named FOCI (Flexible Organizer for Competitive Intelligence), can help the knowledge worker in the gathering, organizing, tracking, and dissemination of competitive intelligence or knowledge bases on the web. It shows how text mining techniques including a novel user-configurable clustering, trend analysis and visualization techniques can be used synergistically to address the problem of managing information gathered from the web. FOCI allows a user to define and personalize the organization of the information clusters according to their needs and preferences into portfolios. Predefined sections for organizing information in specific domains is also supported. The personalized portfolios created can be saved and subsequently tracked and shared with other users. In addition, FOCI is designed to handle multilingual documents.
Almost all graphs with average degree 4 are 3-colorable
Authors: Dimitris Achlioptas, Cristopher Moore
Venue: Proceedings of the thiry-fourth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing (2002)

The technique of using differential equations to approximate the mean path of Markov chains has proved very useful in the average-case analysis of algorithms. Here, we significantly expand the range of this technique, by showing that it can be used to handle algorithms that favor high-degree vertices. In particular, we consider the problem of 3-coloring sparse random graphs and analyze a "smoothed" version of the Brelaz heuristic. This allows us to prove that i) almost all graphs with average degree d, i.e. G(n,p=d/n), are 3-colorable for d&xie; 4.03, and that ii) almost all 4-regular graphs are 3-colorable. This improves over the previous lower bound of 3.847 for the G(n,p) 3-colorability threshold and gives the first non trivial result on the 3-colorability of random regular graphs.
IBM as/400: A Business Perspective, 6th edition
Authors: Jim Hoskins
Venue:  (1995)

:Written by former IBM design engineer and manager Jim Hoskins, this practical guide gives you everything you'll need to integrate each AS/400 into a small-, medium-, or large-sized business environment. This updated Sixth Edition covers the latest round of AS/400 models, client/server hardware/software, object technology, displays, DASDs, tape drives, OS/400 V3R, OS/400 extensions, remote access, the Information Warehouse, and much more.
A general purpose CPU simulator
Authors: David W. Curbow
Venue: Proceedings of the 16th annual Southeast regional conference (1978)

The Computer Science department here at USM has two 8080 based machines and two Texas Instruments 960 minicomputers in addition to our XEROX Sigma-9. Our mass storage medium for the mini and micro systems is cassette. Because of the limits of this medium, and the inability for more than one person at a time to use one of these machines, software development has been very slow.One way to speed up this process would be to do all our work on the Sigma-9. That is keep all files on its disc, and use cross-assemblers and cross-compilers to generate object code and test the code on simulators. Thus the small systems would only be needed for final checkout.A cross-assembler and simulator for the 8080 systems were obtained and work begun. The more these programs were used, the more inadequate they seemed. This paper documents the design and implementation of a new simulator.