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Internet File Formats with CD-ROM, 11th edition
Authors: Tim Kientzle
Venue:  (1995)

:Internet File Formats brings together the expertise and the tools you need to stand and use the files you'll find on the Internet and elsewhere. From AU to ZO, long-time Internet user and file transfer expert Tim Kientzle explains each of most important formats. Along the way, you'll learn the history and fundamental ideas behind major file formats, how popular file compression techniques work, the best places on the Internet to find information and programs for working with different file types, and practical advice about how and when to use different formats. Internet File Formats is divided into six parts, each covering a different kind of file. Whether you're simply an Internet user downloading files or an aspiring World Wide Web publisher, you need this information to navigate the sea of file formats. 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
NOx
Authors: Greg Kramer
Venue:  (1999)

:Tips on combining all 60 deadly spellsWeapons tactics that massacre the competitionDetails on all three terrifying questsComprehensive walkthroughs of every missionCovers each online multiplayer modeMagic combo tacticsMission maps
Proceedings of the seventh ACM symposium on Access control models and technologies
Venue: Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (2002)

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 7th ACM International on Access Control Models and Technologies - SACMAT 2002. This year's symposium continues in its mission of fostering the exchange of ideas and research results on all facets of access control, including models, systems, applications, and theory. SACMAT is the premier forum for sharing novel access control solutions that fulfill the needs of interesting applications and for identifying new directions for future research and development work. We hope that you will enjoy this unique opportunity to share your perspectives with others interested in the various aspects of access control.As always, choosing the technical program from the submissions was a difficult process. A total of 53 papers were submitted to the symposium from several countries. After a thorough review process, the program committee accepted 17 papers. The papers in the program cover a variety of topics, including access control requirements for new applications, such as cooperative and mobile systems, new access control models and concepts that may lead to innovative mechanisms and systems, engineering and analysis techniques for access control policies and models. The program is rounded off by two panel discussions, one presenting new security research topics and the other focusing on usability issues in access control models. We are very pleased with the variety of the symposium's topics and we are proud of the resulting strong program.
Events in Haskell, and how to implement them
Authors: George Russell
Venue: Proceedings of the sixth ACM SIGPLAN international conference on Functional programming (2001)

We describe a new and simpler implementation in Haskell of CML's events, which encode reactions by a thread to combinations of messages from other threads. We add a new type of Guarded Events, by which recipients can filter messages with conditions on their value known as Guards. We implement guarded channels. The guard type and the indexing algorithm are not part of the channel definition, so that the user can trade off what guards are required against the cost of indexing. As an example we sketch the encapsulation of a graphical user interface toolkit. This can be done concisely not only because of guarded events, but also because we construct events monadically. Monadic events are especially helpful for representing concurrent processes which transform themselves in reaction to external communications.
The Workflow Imperative: Building Real World Business Solutions
Authors: Thomas M. Koulopoulos
Venue:  (1995)

: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.
Truespace F/X Creations with Cdrom
Authors: Nick Robalik
Venue:  (2000)

:Topics Covered: - Covers all F/X topics and details on how to create them - Uses popular plugins such as Primal Particles, CoolPowers 3&4 - Book comes with new plugins and shaders not available anywhere else! - Most tutorials will function in trueSpace 3 and up 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
The "DGX" distribution for mining massive, skewed data
Authors: Zhiqiang Bi, Christos Faloutsos, Flip Korn
Venue: Proceedings of the seventh ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining (2001)

Skewed distributions appear very often in practice. Unfortunately, the traditional Zipf distribution often fails to model them well. In this paper, we propose a new probability distribution, the Discrete Gaussian Exponential (DGX), to achieve excellent fits in a wide variety of settings; our new distribution includes the Zipf distribution as a special case. We present a statistically sound method for estimating the DGX parameters based on maximum likelihood estimation (MLE). We applied DGX to a wide variety of real world data sets, such as sales data from a large retailer chain, us-age data from AT&T, and Internet clickstream data; in all cases, DGX fits these distributions very well, with almost a 99% correlation coefficient in quantile-quantile plots. Our algorithm also scales very well because it requires only a single pass over the data. Finally, we illustrate the power of DGX as a new tool for data mining tasks, such as outlier detection.
Businessplan.com: How to Write an Ecommerce Business Plan, 1st edition
Authors: Manning-ro
Venue:  (2000)

:Prepare for the Global Marketplace with a Strategic Business Plan and a Broad Understanding of the Internet. NOW YOU CAN ready your business for the new age of digital commerce with a strategic business plan and an understanding of the numerous benefits of the Internet. businessplan.com not only gives you a step-by-step guide to creating your own plan, it gives you the tools to integrate your real and virtual offices for increased profits and efficiency. businessplan.com: Goes to the heart of the subject making it quick, easy, and simple to understand Does not sacrifice proven worldwide standards for funding or managing a company Does not compromise its techno-savvy yet is very easy to follow Saves business owners research time and frustration at not knowing how to address the new world of commerce Has seven success stories featuring dynamic companies sharing their many how-tos References more than 125 top companies and organizations to give readers immediate help in finding solutions to their business and technology needs Uses sample text and easy to follow instructions, charts, and graphs Provides the how-to for extranets, intranets, funding resources, new sales techniques, media and product distribution, organization structure, staffing, training using the latest technologies, and a glossary 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
Remote Access Networks: Pstn, ISDN, ADSL, Internet and Wireless
Authors: Chander Dhawan
Venue:  (1997)

:Remote network access (RNA) is the network technology that enables us to work anywhere,anytime. This guide provides the "nuts and bolts" information network managers need to establish an RNA system with ISDN,PSTN (Public Service Telephone Networks),and the Internet. Coverage includes a complete review of remote networking technologies and LAN-based applications. 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
Feature-preserving volume filtering
Authors: László Neumann, Balázs Csébfalvi, Ivan Viola, Matej Mlejnek, Eduard Gröller
Venue: Proceedings of the symposium on Data Visualisation 2002 (2002)

In this paper a feature-preserving volume filtering method is presented. The basic idea is to minimize a three-component global error function penalizing the density and gradient errors and the curvature of the unknown filtered function. The optimization problem leads to a large linear equation system defined by a sparse coefficient matrix. We will show that such an equation system can be efficiently solved in frequency domain using fast Fourier transformation (FFT). For the sake of clarity, first we illustrate our method on a 2D example which is a dedithering problem. Afterwards the 3D extension is discussed in detail since we propose our method mainly for volume filtering. We will show that the 3D version can be efficiently used for elimination of the typical staircase artifacts of direct volume rendering without losing fine details. Unlike local filtering techniques, our novel approach ensures a&sdot;global smoothing effect. Previous global 3D methods are restricted to binary volumes or segmented iso-surfaces and they are based on area minimization of one single reconstructed surface. In contrast, our method is a general volume-filtering technique, implicitly smoothing all the iso-surfaces at the same time. Although the strength of the presented algorithm is demonstrated on a specific 2D and a specific 3D application, it is considered as a general mathematical tool for processing images and volumes.
Automatic loop interchange
Authors: John R. Allen, Ken Kennedy
Venue: Proceedings of the 1984 SIGPLAN symposium on Compiler construction (1984)

Parallel and vector machines are becoming increasingly important to many computation intensive applications. Effectively utilizing such architectures, particularly from sequential languages such as Fortran, has demanded increasingly sophisticated compilers. In general, a compiler needs to significantly reorder a program in order to generate code optimal for a specific architecture.Because DO loops typically control the execution of a number of statements, the order in which loops are executed can dramatically affect the performance of a machine on a particular section of code. In particular, loop interchange can often be used to enhance the performance of code on parallel or vector machines.Determining when loops may be safely and profitably interchanged requires a study of the data dependences in the program. This work discusses specific applications of that theory to loop interchange. This theory is described as it has been implemented in PFC (Parallel Fortran Converter) -- a program which attempts to uncover operations in sequential Fortran code that may be safely rewritten as vector operations.
Multiphase stabilization
Authors: Mohamed G. Gouda
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (2002)

We generalize the concept of stabilization of computing systems. According to this generalization, the actions of a system S are partitioned into n partitions, called phase 1 through phase n. In this case, system S is said to be n-stabilizing to a state predicate Q if S has state predicates P.0, ..., P.n such that P.0 = true, P.n = Q, and the following two conditions hold for every j, 1 = j = n. First, if S starts at a state satisfying P.(j-1) and if the only actions of S that are allowed to be executed are those of phase j or less, then S will reach a state satisfying P.j. Second, the set of states satisfying P.j is closed under any execution of the actions of phase j or less. By choosing n = 1, this generalization degenerates to the traditional definition of stabilization. We discuss three advantages of this generalization over the traditional definition. First, this generalization captures many stabilization properties of systems that are traditionally considered nonstabilizing. Second, verifying stabilization when n > 1 is usually easier than when n = 1. Third, this generalization suggests a new method of fault recovery, called multiphase recovery.
Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Access 2000 Programming in 24 Hours, 1st edition
Authors: Paul Kimmel
Venue:  (1999)

:Sams Teach Yourself Access 2000 Programming in 24 Hours considerably improves the quality of the database applications that you can create with Microsoft Access. Upon completed this book, you will be able to understand any sample VBA code that you see, and possess the skills to attack all of the most common Access programming tasks. Topics covered include using data aware controls, creating data aware Web pages, creating views to organize data, building reusable code modules, programming reports, communicating results with graphing, automating contact and task management with Outlook, and Access programming for Internet Explorer.
Using text processing techniques to automatically enrich a domain ontology
Authors: Paola Velardi, Paolo Fabriani, Michele Missikoff
Venue: Proceedings of the international conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Volume 2001 (2001)

Though the utility of domain Ontologies is now widely acknowledged in an increasing number of domains, several barriers must be overcome before Ontologies become practical and useful tools. A critical issue is the task of identifying, defining, and entering the concept definitions. In case of large and complex application domains this task can be lengthy, costly, and controversial (since different persons may have different points of view about the same concept). To reduce time, cost (and, sometimes, harsh discussions) it is highly advisable to refer, in constructing or updating an ontology, to the documents available in the field. In this paper we describe OntoLearn, a text-mining tool devised to improve human productivity during the process of ontology construction.
Korn Shell Reference
Authors: Arnold D. Robbins
Venue:  (1995)

:This 24-page foldout card serves as reference guide to Korn Shell. It covers control commands, conditional expressions and aliasing. It also details arithmetic evaluation, variable names and arrays. This publication is appropriate for beginners as a basic introduction and for advanced users as a quick reference.
Using model dataflow graphs to reduce the storage requirements of constraints
Authors: Bradley T. Vander Zanden, Richard Halterman
Venue: ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) (2001)

Dataflow constraints allow programmers to easily specify relationships among application objects in a natural, declarative manner. Most constraint solvers represent these dataflow relationships as directed edges in a dataflow graph. Unfortunately, dataflow graphs require a great deal of storage. Consequently, an application with a large number of constraints can get pushed into virtual memory, and performance degrades in interactive applications. Our solution is based on the observation that objects derived from the same class use the same constraints, and thus have the same dataflow graphs. We represent the common dataflow patterns in a model dataflow graph that is stored with the class. Instance objects may derive explicit dependencies from this graph when the dependencies are needed. Model dependencies provide a useful new mechanism for improving the storage efficiency of dataflow constraint systems, especially when a large number of constrained objects must be managed.
A system-on-a-chip lock cache with task preemption support
Authors: Bilge Saglam Akgul, Jaehwan Lee, Vincent John Mooney
Venue: Proceedings of the 2001 international conference on Compilers, architecture, and synthesis for embedded systems (2001)

Intertask/interprocess synchronization overheads may be significant in a multiprocessor-shared memory System-on-a-Chip implementation. These overheads are observed in terms of lock latency, lock delay and memory bandwidth consumption in the system. It has been shown that a hardware solution brings a much better performance improvement than the synchronization algorithms developed in software [3]. Our previous work presented a SoC Lock Cache (SoCLC) hardware mechanism which resolves the Critical Section (CS) interactions among multiple processors and improves the performance criteria in terms of lock latency, lock delay and bandwidth consumption in a shared memory multi-processor SoC for short CSes [1]. This paper extends our previous work to support long CSes as well. This combined support involves modifications both in the RTOS kernel level facilities (such as support for preemptive versus non-preemptive synchronization, interrupt handling and RTOS initialization) and in the hardware mechanism. The worst-case simulation results of a database application model with client-server pair of tasks on a four-processor system showed that our mechanism achieved a 57% improvement in lock latency, 14% speed up in lock delay and a 35% overall speedup in total execution time.
Producing Great Sound for Digital Video, 1st edition
Authors: Jay Rose
Venue:  (1999)

:Written by Digital Video columnist and Clio-winning sound designer Jay Rose, this book explains hundreds of real-world techniques to use from pre-production through mix. You get how-tos, tips and time-savers, plus tutorials on key skills such as dialog and music editing. With an audio CD of sample tracks and diagnostic tools, this is a complete audio training resource as well as a quick problem-solving guide. 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
Troubleshooting the PC, 1st edition
Authors: Patrick E. Regan
Venue:  (1999)

:A comprehensive reference providing all of the necessary information to explain PC and printer troubleshooting and repair through discussion of important concepts, real-world examples and hands-on exercises. This book covers both old and new technology including the newest microprocessors, GAP, 3D video and sound cards, USB and FireWire and the Internet Browser. It also covers all of the topics and provides 650 review questions for the A+ Technician Certification Exam. Basic electronics, disassembling and assembling the PC, microprocessors, RAM, motherboard support chips, expansion slots and cards, case and power supply, hard drives, floppy drives, compact disk drives, disk structure, tape drives and data protection, video systems, input devices, sound cards, serial ports and modems, parallel ports and printers, DOS, Windows 3.XX, 95/98 and NT and networks. It also includes appendices for error codes and a glossary. For anyone interested in becoming a PC technician, currently repairing PC's or taking the A+ technician exam.
KDnuggets interview with Jesus Mena
Authors: Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro
Venue: ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter (2001)

The KDnuggets newsletter has a new section of interviews with leaders in the field. This article presents the interview with Jesus Mena, CEO of WebMiner.
Transparent data-memory organizations for digital signal processors
Authors: Sadagopan Srinivasan, Vinodh Cuppu, Bruce Jacob
Venue: Proceedings of the 2001 international conference on Compilers, architecture, and synthesis for embedded systems (2001)

Today's digital signal processors (DSPs), unlike general-purpose processors, use a non-uniform addressing model in which the primary components of the memory system-the DRAM and dual tagless SRAMs-are referenced through completely separate segments of the address space. The recent trend of programming DSPs in high-level languages instead of assembly code has exposed this memory model as a potential weakness, as the model makes for a poor compiler target. In many of today's high-performance DSPs this non-uniform model is being replaced by a uniform model-a transparent organization like that of most general-purpose systems, in which all memory structures share the same address space as the DRAM systemIn such a memory organization, one must replace the DSP's tagless SRAMs with something resembling a general-purpose cache. This study investigates the performance of a range of traditional and slightly non-traditional cache organizations for a high-performance DSP, the Texas Instruments 'C6000 VLIW DSP. The traditional cache organizations range from a fraction of a kilobyte to several kilobytes; they approach the SRAM performance and, for some benchmarks, beat it. In the non-traditional cache organizations, rather than simply adding tags to the large on-chip SRAM structure, we take advantage of the relatively regular memory access behavior of most DSP applications and replace the tagless SRAM with a near-traditional cache that uses a very small number of wide blocks. This performs similarly to the traditional caches but uses less storage. In general, we find that one can achieve nearly the same performance as a tagless SRAM while using a much smaller footprint.
Linux Administration: A Beginner's Guide, 2nd edition
Authors: Steve Shah
Venue:  (2001)

:"A delight to read. I think this book is well-written enough in explaining what is behind much of Linux. " Harvey Friedman,Linux Journal Implement Linux across your network with this practical,hands-on guide. Learn to install and administer Linuxon an individual workstation or an entire networkwith this comprehensive,in-depth reference. You'll find everything you need to get up and running with any Linux distribution,including the latest version of Red Hat(r). Updated to cover the new 2. 4 kernel and complete with an expanded section on advanced networking,this book shows you how to install and configure Linux,set up Internet services,handle single host administration,and much more. Plus,you'll get 8 pages of blueprints illustrating the differences between Linux and Windows NT or Windows 2000. If you are a professional administrator wanting to bring Linux into your network topology,a home user with multiple machines wanting to build a simple home network,or are migrating from Windows,you need this book. Install Linux in a server configurationConfigure GNOME,KDE,X-Windows,and moreUnderstand single-host administration and manage usersLearn to use file systems,create partitions,and configure quota settingsCompile the Linux kernel and unpack source codeSet up Internet services and learn the mechanics of FTPProvide intranet services including NFS,NIS,SAMBA,DHCP,and LPDGet details on advanced networking with LinuxTCP/IP,packet filtering,cookbook firewalls,IP port forwarding,and much more
Productivity modeling of semiconductor manufacturing equipment
Authors: Mark Pool, Robert Bachrach
Venue: Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation (2000)

Optimizing a semiconductor wafer fab requires balancing technology and productivity. Recent work on productivity modeling will be described and focus on discrete event simulation models of unitary tool, modules, and whole fab. In addition, some related cost-modeling aspects will be presented. The Applied Materials Turbo Modules Environment is reviewed. Turbo-Modules Unitary Tool Models (UTM) were developed for determining a configured tool's performance, and the Tool Group Models (TGM) were developed for exploring module and fab modeling. Turbo-Modules is based on AutoSimulations, Inc. (ASI) AutoSched AP's open architecture and a customized Graphical User Interface (GUI). The presentation provides a case study performed to analyze the loss of accuracy in a tool group model by modeling unitary tools as black box. Some fab cost modeling will be discussed.