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MySQL Cookbook
Authors: Paul DuBois
Venue:  (2006)

Along with MySQL's popularity has come a flood of questions about solving specific problems, and that's where this Cookbook is essential. Designed as a handy resource when you need quick solutions or techniques, the book offers dozens of short, focused pieces of code and hundreds of worked-out examples for programmers of all levels who don't have the time (or expertise) to solve MySQL problems from scratch. The new edition covers MySQL 5.0 and its powerful new features, as well as the older but still widespread MySQL 4.1. One major emphasis of this book is how to use SQL to formulate queries for particular kinds of questions, using the mysql client program included in MySQL distributions. The other major emphasis is how to write programs that interact with the MySQL server through an API. You'll find plenty of examples using several language APIs in multiple scenarios and situations, including the use of Ruby to retrieve and format data. There are also many new examples for using Perl, PHP, Python, and Java as well.Other recipes in the book teach you to: Access data from multiple tables at the same timeUse SQL to select, sort, and summarize rowsFind matches or mismatches between rows in two tablesDetermine intervals between dates or times, including age calculationsStore images into MySQL and retrieve them for display in web pagesGet LOAD DATA to read your data files properly or find which values in the file are invalidUse strict mode to prevent entry of bad data into your databaseCopy a table or a database to another serverGenerate sequence numbers to use as unique row identifiersCreate database events that execute according to a scheduleAnd a lot moreMySQL Cookbook doesn't attempt to develop full-fledged, complex applications. Instead, it's intended to assist you in developing applications yourself by helping you get past problems that have you stumped.
A simulation framework for real-time management and control of inventory routing decisions
Authors: Shrikant Jarugumilli, Scott E. Grasman, Sreeram Ramakrishnan
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

We consider a logistics network where a single warehouse distributes a single item to multiple retailers. Retailers in the network participate in a Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) program with the warehouse, where the warehouse is responsible for tracking and replenishing the inventory at various retailer locations. The information update occurs every time a vehicle reaches a location and the decision on the delivery quantity and the next location to visit is made. For a small increase of locations in the network, the state space for the solution increases exponentially, making this problem NP-hard. Thus, we propose a solution methodology where in the size of the state space is reduced at each stage. In this work, we use simulation to develop the framework for the real-time control and management of inventory and routing decisions, given this scenario.
Intranet model and metrics
Authors: Grant A. Jacoby, Luqi
Venue: Communications of the ACM (2007)

Measuring intranet overall value contributions based on a corporation's critical business requirements.
Sell It on eBay: A Guide to Successful Online Auctions (2nd Edition)
Authors: Jim Heid, Toby Malina
Venue:  (2005)

eBay can mean big business, but only if you know how to use the auction site effectively. To ensure that your wares don't just sell, but sell quickly, at the desired price, and without any complications in shipping or payment, you need this no-nonsense guide. This artfully designed book by eBay aficionados Jim Heid and Toby Malina delivers the lowdown on selling on eBay. Toby and Jim's clear, authoritative text is augmented by the book's appealing and helpful graphics. They show you how to take flattering photos of your items and present them in attractive, effective eBay pages. The guide also includes up-to-date coverage of all that's new and improved on eBay-from My eBay 2.0 to PayPal Buyer Credit, advanced search functionality, the Shipping Center, eBay Accounting Assistant, and more. Filled with need-to-know information about everything from payment methods to shipping considerations and establishing starting bid prices, this entertaining and practical guide is an essential stop on the road to eBay success.
Assembling Panoramic Photos: A Designer's Notebook
Authors: Bertrand Bodin, Arnaud Frich, Albert Lemoine, William Rodarmor
Venue:  (2005)

In this full-color Designer's Notebook, eight expert French photographers reveal their secrets in using Photoshop and a collection of dedicated applications to create extraordinary panoramic photos--including some amazing 360-degree images. For anyone involved with digital imagery or animation, this groundbreaking volume demonstrates a new way of thinking about what's possible and what's required to produce these images. Originally published in France, Assembling Panoramic Photos: A Designer's Notebook is available in English for the first time. Part art book, part how-to guide, this stunning work takes you right into the studio and sits you down next to renowned digital artists as they advance step-by-step toward their final images. The showcased pieces are inspiring and avant-garde, and the techniques are instructive for a wide range of amateur and professional photographers, graphic designers, and digital artists. The artists featured in this Designer's Notebook show how they use Photoshop, Stitcher, PanaVue ImageAssembler, and other specialized tools to create high-quality panoramas and wide-angle images from a series of photos. They also show how to create virtual reality scenes with Apple's QuickTime VR in conjunction with leading-edge technologies that support 360-degree one-shot photos, cubic images, and 3D views of objects. The results are interactive, often startling, and bear the hallmark of each artist's original vision and skill. Reflecting the very best of French photography, graphic design and digital artistry, Assembling Panoramic Photos: A Designer's Notebook offers advanced Photoshop instruction that goes beyond opening this menu, or clicking that palette. You receive expert aesthetic guidance, from start to finish, with notes and views that reveal every step of the process. This book is a goldmine for any digital artist who wants to learn new Photoshop techniques and exploit them for maximum effect. At home on either your coffee table or desktop, the book itself is dazzling in concept and design. There's nothing else quite like this Designer's Notebook available in the U.S.
Dynamic personalization of web sites without user intervention
Authors: Ranieri Baraglia, Fabrizio Silvestri
Venue: Communications of the ACM (2007)

A novel online recommender system builds profiling models and offers suggestions without the user taking the lead.
Environmental emergency management supported by knowledge modelling techniques
Authors: Josefa Z. Hernández, Juan M. Serrano
Venue: AI Communications (2001)

At present, complex telematics infrastructures are used to get information about the performance of natural or artificial installations that need to be supervised. However, a forward step towards intelligent assistance to emergency management requires a strategic processing layer complementing the services of the available information systems. This additional processing layer may elaborate on the basic information and provide conclusions and explanations understandable by the human experts. This paper proposes the use of advanced knowledge modelling techniques to develop systems with such an intelligent assistance capability. Starting from the identification of the user&dash;system interaction needs, a generic knowledge model is described integrating the knowledge pieces required to perform the reasoning processes, while a simulator of the physical system is necessary to calibrate the model. The feasibility of the approach is illustrated with an example in the domain of emergencies caused by industrial accidents.
Iterative shrinking method for clustering problems
Authors: Pasi Fränti, Olli Virmajoki
Venue: Pattern Recognition (2006)

Agglomerative clustering generates the partition hierarchically by a sequence of merge operations. We propose an alternative to the merge-based approach by removing the clusters iteratively one by one until the desired number of clusters is reached. We apply local optimization strategy by always removing the cluster that increases the distortion the least. Data structures and their update strategies are considered. The proposed algorithm is applied as a crossover method in a genetic algorithm, and compared against the best existing clustering algorithms. The proposed method provides best performance in terms of minimizing intra-cluster variance.
FileMaker Pro 8 for Windows & Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Authors: Nolan Hester
Venue:  (2006)

Need to learn FileMaker Pro fast? Try a Visual QuickStart Guide! If you've recently upgraded to FileMaker Pro 8, teach yourself this powerful database software the quick and easy way! Using pictures rather than lengthy explanations, this Visual QuickStart Guide takes you from working with records and files to creating and designing databases, printing and networking with FileMaker, and Web publishing with FileMaker in no time. Step-by-step tasks show you how to use new features like PDF and Excel makers; fast match, fast send, layout alignment, email merge, and table import tools; and popular features like digital image management to organize digital photos with minimal effort and XML support to easily share and integrate data with other applications--even those not running FileMaker. This affordably priced, reference style book also includes a companion Web site with excerpts, tips, related links, and more. You'll be up and running in no time!
Novell Certified Linux 9 (CLE 9) Study Guide
Authors: Robb H. Tracy
Venue:  (2005)

The Novell Certified Linux Engineer (CLE) Study Guide is designed to prepare you for the challenge of the most current CLE practicum. The author's experience as a certification trainer and system administrator will provide you with a real-world understanding of how to administer and troubleshoot Novell Linux products and services. Exam topics are covered through real-world examples with guided steps that were developed in the field. With the Novell Certified Linux Engineer (CLE) Study Guide, you will master the knowledge of administering and troubleshooting the Novell Linux systems and prepare for CLE exam success. 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 fast supervised learning for normal mixture models with missing information
Authors: Tsung I. Lin, Jack C. Lee, Hsiu J. Ho
Venue: Pattern Recognition (2006)

It is an important research issue to deal with mixture models when missing values occur in the data. In this paper, computational strategies using auxiliary indicator matrices are introduced for efficiently handling mixtures of multivariate normal distributions when the data are missing at random and have an arbitrary missing data pattern, meaning that missing data can occur anywhere. We develop a novel EM algorithm that can dramatically save computation time and be exploited in many applications, such as density estimation, supervised clustering and prediction of missing values. In the aspect of multiple imputations for missing data, we also offer a data augmentation scheme using the Gibbs sampler. Our proposed methodologies are illustrated through some real data sets with varying proportions of missing values.
Towards spoken-document retrieval for the internet: lattice indexing for large-scale web-search architectures
Authors: Zheng-Yu Zhou, Peng Yu, Ciprian Chelba, Frank Seide
Venue: Proceedings of the main conference on Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics (2006)

Large-scale web-search engines are generally designed for linear text. The linear text representation is suboptimal for audio search, where accuracy can be significantly improved if the search includes alternate recognition candidates, commonly represented as word lattices.This paper proposes a method for indexing word lattices that is suitable for large-scale web-search engines, requiring only limited code changes.The proposed method, called Time-based Merging for Indexing (TMI), first converts the word lattice to a posterior-probability representation and then merges word hypotheses with similar time boundaries to reduce the index size. Four alternative approximations are presented, which differ in index size and the strictness of the phrase-matching constraints.Results are presented for three types of typical web audio content, podcasts, video clips, and online lectures, for phrase spotting and relevance ranking. Using TMI indexes that are only five times larger than corresponding linear-text indexes, phrase spotting was improved over searching top-1 transcripts by 25-35%, and relevance ranking by 14%, at only a small loss compared to unindexed lattice search.
Model-based quantification of the volatility of options at transaction level with extended count regression models: Research Articles
Authors: Claudia Czado, Andreas Kolbe
Venue: Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry (2007)

In this paper, we elaborate how Poisson regression models of different complexity can be used in order to model absolute transaction price changes of an exchange-traded security. When combined with an adequate autoregressive conditional duration model, our modelling approach can be used to construct a complete modelling framework for a security's absolute returns at transaction level, and thus for a model-based quantification of intraday volatility and risk. We apply our approach to absolute price changes of an option on the XETRA DAX index based on quote-by-quote data from the EUREX exchange and find that within our Bayesian framework a Poisson generalized linear model (GLM) with a latent AR(1) process in the mean is the best model for our data according to the deviance information criterion (DIC). While, according to our modelling results, the price development of the underlying, the intrinsic value of the option at the time of the trade, the number of new quotations between two price changes, the time between two price changes and the Bid&ndash;Ask spread have significant effects on the size of the price changes, this is not the case for the remaining time to maturity of the option. Copyright &copy; 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Computing Essentials 2007, Complete Edition, 18 edition
Authors: Timothy J. O'Leary, Linda I. O'Leary
Venue:  (2006)

Table of contentsChapter 1 Information Technology, the Internet, and You Chapter 2 The Internet, the Web, and Electronic CommerceChapter 3 Basic Application Software Chapter 4 Specialized Application SoftwareChapter 5 System SoftwareChapter 6 The System UnitChapter 7 Input and OutputChapter 8 Secondary StorageChapter 9 Communications and Networks Chapter 10 Privacy and SecurityChapter 11 Information SystemsChapter 12 DatabasesChapter 13 Systems Analysis and Design Chapter 14 Programming and Languages Chapter 15 Your Future and Information TechnologyThe Evolution of the Computer AgeThe Buyer’s Guide: How to Buy Your Own Microcomputer SystemThe Upgrader’s Guide: How to Upgrade Your Microcomputer SystemGlossaryCreditsIndex
Kernel clustering-based discriminant analysis
Authors: Bo Ma, Hui-yang Qu, Hau-san Wong
Venue: Pattern Recognition (2007)

In this paper, a kernelized version of clustering-based discriminant analysis is proposed that we name KCDA. The main idea is to first map the original data into another high-dimensional space, and then to perform clustering-based discriminant analysis in the feature space. Kernel fuzzy c-means algorithm is used to do clustering for each class. A group of tests on two UCI standard benchmarks have been carried out that prove our proposed method is very promising.
Innovation in software for systems biology: is there any?
Authors: Herbert M. Sauro
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

Software for systems biology has been under development since the 1950s and has accelerated considerably in the last five years. However, much of the development has been repetitive and there has been little genuine innovation. In this talk I wish to briefly discuss the history of software provision in systems biology and will try to address the question why the academic community has found it so difficult to innovate. In many cases the software developed today is little different in functionality from the first packages that were written in the 1950s. Ironically is it industry that seems to be taking the lead. In particular, Microsoft is funding new theoretical developments at their systems biology centers and MathWorks has developed a substantial dynamics software package (SimBiology 2.0) for their Matlab product.
Identification of conserved protein complexes based on a model of protein network evolution
Authors: Eitan Hirsh, Roded Sharan
Venue: Bioinformatics (2007)

Motivation: Data on protein--protein interactions (PPIs) are increasing exponentially. To date, large-scale protein interaction networks are available for human and most model species. The arising challenge is to organize these networks into models of cellular machinery. As in other biological domains, a comparative approach provides a powerful basis for addressing this challenge. Results: We develop a probabilistic model for protein complexes that are conserved across two species. The model describes the evolution of conserved protein complexes from an ancestral species by protein interaction attachment and detachment and gene duplication events. We apply our model to search for conserved protein complexes within the PPI networks of yeast and fly, which are the largest networks in public databases. We detect 150 conserved complexes that match well-known complexes in yeast and are coherent in their functional annotations both in yeast and in fly. In comparison with two previous approaches, our model yields higher specificity and sensitivity levels in protein complex detection. Availability: The program is available upon request. Contact: roded@tau.ac.il
Relevancy-based access control and its evaluation on versioned XML documents
Authors: Mizuho Iwaihara, Ryotaro Hayashi, Somchai Chatvichienchai, Chutiporn Anutariya, Vilas Wuwongse
Venue: ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC) (2007)

Integration of version and access control of XML documents has the benefit of regulating access to rapidly growing archives of XML documents. Versioned XML documents provide us with valuable information on dependencies between document nodes, but, at the same time, presenting the risk of undesirable data disclosure. In this article, we introduce the notion of relevancy-based access control, which realizes protection of versioned XML documents by various types of relevancy, such as version dependencies, schema similarities, and temporal proximity. We define a new path query language XVerPath over XML document versions, which can be utilized for specifying relevancy-based access-control policies. We also introduce the notion of relevancy class, for collectively and compactly specifying relevancy-based policies. Regarding efficient processing of access requests, we propose the packed version model, which realizes space-efficient difference-based archives of versioned XML documents and, at the same time, providing efficient evaluation of XVerPath queries. Experimental results show reasonable performance superiority over conventional methods, which do not utilize version differences.
Final Cut Pro HD for Mac OS X: Visual QuickPro Guide
Authors: Lisa Brenneis
Venue:  (2004)

If you've been avoiding high-definition video because in order to edit it, you would have had to purchase a secondary card (not to mention an HD TV to view it on), you can finally hop on the HD bandwagon. With Final Cut Pro HD, you can now import, edit, and export HD video over FireWire--no extra hardware or media conversion required! Knowing you won't want to waste a second getting up to speed on it, video pro Lisa Brenneis has completely updated her best-selling guide on the topic. In this task-based guide, step-by-step instructions combine with loads of visual aids and time-saving tips to move you quickly through Final Cut Pro basics and on to more advanced topics like creating transitions and motion effects, and filter and rendering options. In the process, you'll learn about all of the program's most important features, including those new to HD: real-time color correction, the ability to toggle between full-resolution, high-quality playback or preview mode, and more!
A General Model of Structured Multisignatures with Message Flexibility
Authors: Dan Yamamoto, Wakaha Ogata
Venue: IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences (2007)

Multisignature schemes enable us to integrate multiple signatures into a single short signature. In 2001, Mitomi and Miyaji proposed a general model of multisignatures, in which signed messages are flexible and the signing order is verifiable and flexible. Several schemes that satisfy these properties have been proposed, but to the best of our knowledge, their verifiable orders are limited to only sequential structures unlike some order-verifiable (but not message-flexible) multisignatures. We define a signing structure as a labeled tree, which can represent any natural signing order including series-parallel graphs, and formalize a general model of multisignatures that makes good use of our structure. We present a security model for such signatures, give the construction based on the general aggregate signature developed by Boneh et al., and provide a security proof in the random oracle model.
Macromedia Flash 8 On Demand
Authors: Andy Anderson, Steve Johnson
Venue:  (2005)

If you are looking for a fast, visual way to learn Macromedia Flash 8 and create your interactive website, Macromedia Flash 8 On Demandï¾ is the book you need. Step-by-step instructions with accompanying 4-color visuals mean you'll spend less time reading and more time learning. You'll learn howï¾ you can easily integrate and add interactivity with tools, develop content using pre-built components and effectively improve authoring capabilities with custom extensions.The new features icon used throughout the book highlights what's new in Macromedia Flash 8 and a troubleshooting guide is included to help solve your most common problems. Also, the companion software shows you how to perform everyday tasks and helps you gain web authoring experience. Let Macromedia Flash 8 On Demandï¾ help you master Macromedia Flash 8.
NGVF: An improved external force field for active contour model
Authors: Ning Jifeng, Wu Chengke, Liu Shigang, Yang Shuqin
Venue: Pattern Recognition Letters (2007)

An improved external force field for active contour model, called as NGVF, is presented in this paper. Based on analyzing the diffusion process of the GVF and three interpolation functions, it is found that the generation of GVF contains diffusions in two orthogonal directions along the edge of image, one is the tangent direction and the other is the normal direction. Moreover, the diffusion in the normal direction plays the key role on the diffusion of GVF, while the diffusion in the tangent direction has little effect. So the GVF in the normal direction (NGVF) is taken as a new force field to study. Experiment results with several test images reveal that, compared with GVF, NGVF can enter into long, thin indention and has faster convergence speed towards the concavity and bigger time step.