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Legend of Mana Official Strategy Guide
Authors: Craig Wessel, Mark H. Walker
Venue:  (2000)

:BradyGames-Legend of Mana Official Strategy Guide Features. Area Maps: Full-color area maps guide you throughout the world of Fa'Diel. Artifact List: A complete list of every artifact. Bestiary: Extensive stats for every enemy in the game. Walkthough: Every Event covered! Weapon and Armor Lists: Comprehensive list of all the Weapons and Armor in the game. Plus Much More!
Secure implementation of channel abstractions
Authors: Martín Abadi, Cédric Fournet, Georges Gonthier
Venue: Information and Computation (2002)

Communication in distributed systems often relies on useful abstractions such as channels, remote procedure calls, and remote method invocations. The implementations of these abstractions sometimes provide security properties, in particular through encryption. In this paper we study those security properties, focusing on channel abstractions. We introduce a simple high-level language that includes constructs for creating and using secure channels. The language is a variant of the join-calculus and belongs to the same family as the pi-calculus. We show how to translate the high-level language into a lower-level language that includes cryptographic primitives. In this translation, we map communication on secure channels to encrypted communication on public channels. We obtain a correctness theorem for our translation; this theorem implies that one can reason about programs in the high-level language without mentioning the subtle cryptographic protocols used in their lower-level implementation. 2002 Elsevier Science (USA).
Application of the difference Gaussian rules to solution of hyperbolic problems: global expansion
Authors: Sergey Asvadurov, Vladimir Druskin, Leonid Knizhnerman
Venue: Journal of Computational Physics (2002)

This work is the sequel to S. Asvadurov et al. (2000, J. Comput. Phys. 158, 116), where we considered a grid refinement approach for second-order finite-difference time domain schemes. This approach permits one to compute solutions of certain wave equations with exponential superconvergence. An algorithm was presented that generates a special sequence of grid steps, called "optimal," such that a standard finite-difference discretization that uses this grid produces an accurate approximation to the Neumann-to-Dirichlet map. It was demonstrated that the application of this approach to some problems in, e.g., elastodynamics results in a computational cost that is an order of magnitude lower than that of the standard scheme with equally spaced gridnodes, which produces the same accuracy. The main drawback of the presented approach was that the accurate solution could be obtained only at some a priori selected points (receivers). Here we present an algorithm that, given a solution on the coarse "optimal" grid, accurately reconstructs the solution of the corresponding fine equidistant grid with steps that are approximately equal to the minimal step of the optimal (strongly nonuniform) grid. This "expansion" algorithm is based on postprocessing of the approximate solution, is local in time (but not in space), and has a cost comparable to that of the discrete Fourier transform. An approximate inverse to the "expansion" procedure--the "reduction" algorithm--is also presented. We show different applications of the developed procedures, including refinement of a nonmatching grid. Numerical examples for scalar wave propagation and 2.5D cylindrical elasticity are presented.
Deus EX: The Conspiracy: Prima's Official Strategy Guide
Authors: Prima Temp, Joe Grant Bell, Chris McCubbin
Venue:  (2002)

:The decisions are yours as anti-terrorist agent J.C. Denton in Deus Ex: The Conspiracy. Deus Ex: The ConsperacyPrima's Official Strategy Guide gives you all the crucial information you need as a nanotechnology-augmented operative, infiltrate the conspirators' web of lies, and uncover the truth. PRIMA outlines all of the characters so you know whom to trust in your investigation of both the devious terrorists and the forces that claim to seek peace during a time of apocalypse. It is up to you, with Prema's Official Strategy Guide, to save the world.
The Management of Intangibles: The Organisations Most Valuable Assets
Authors: A. Bounfour
Venue:  (2001)

:This comprehensive volume provides an integrated and original approach to intangible resource management, and an evaluation of their contribution to the establishment of competitive advantage in the market place. 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
Learning Bayesian networks from data: an information-theory based approach
Authors: Jie Cheng, Russell Greiner, Jonathan Kelly, David Bell, Weiru Liu
Venue: Artificial Intelligence (2002)

This paper provides algorithms that use an information-theoretic analysis to learn Bayesian network structures from data. Based on our three-phase learning framework, we develop efficient algorithms that can effectively learn Bayesian networks, requiring only polynomial numbers of conditional independence (CI) tests in typical cases. We provide precise conditions that specify when these algorithms are guaranteed to be correct as well as empirical evidence (from real world applications and simulation tests) that demonstrates that these systems work efficiently and reliably in practice.
Performing W/MS Word 2002, 1st edition
Authors: Cathy Vento, Thompson Steele, Iris Blanc
Venue:  (2001)

:This new series by renowned authors Iris Blanc and Cathy Vento teaches Microsoft Word 2002 by having the learner assume the role of working in a business.
VB.NET Debugging Handbook, 1st edition
Authors: Jan Narkiewicz, Thiru Thangarathinam
Venue:  (2002)

:How ever simple or complex the applications that you develop are they all have one thing in common, at sometime you'll need to debug them. In fact when you considering the large amount of time most developers spend debugging you'll realize that this is one of the most important day to day skills! Visual Studio and the .NET Framework provide powerful tools to help you debug your applications. The book will look at the tools available and show you how to get the best out of them. This book does not just cover how to use the tools though, it looks at the problems that you encounter when debugging real world applications and also how to make your code easier to debug. Weather your developing basic WinForms applications or complex multithreaded distributed applications, the techniques discussed in this book will save you time and make your code more robust. Specifically this book will cover: Visual Studio Debugging Basics Remote Debugging Debugging Multithreaded Applications Exception and Error Handling Debugging Support in the .NET Framework (such as the Debugger class) Logging and Tracing Debugging Class Libraries Debugging Win Forms applications Debugging Web Applications Debugging Interop code Legacy errors Server Side Debugging Command Line Debugging
Artificial Intelligence: Strategies, Applications, and Models through Search, 2nd edition
Authors: Christopher Thornton, Chis Thornton, Bendict De Boulay
Venue:  (1998)

:This innovative book on artificial intelligence (AI) uses the unifying thread of Search to bring together the major application and modeling techniques that use symbolic AI. Comprehensive yet practical, this book will be of great value those experienced in AI, as well as to students with some programming background and academics and professionals lookit for a precise discussion of AI through Search.
Bracket capabilities for distributed systems security
Authors: Mark Evered
Venue: Proceedings of the twenty-fifth Australasian conference on Computer science - Volume 4 (2002)

The per-method access control lists of standard middleware technologies allow only simple forms of access control to be expressed and enforced. Research systems based on capabilities provide a more secure mechanism but also fail to support more flexible security constraints such as parameter restrictions, logging and state-dependent access. They also fail to enforce a strict need-to-know view of a persistent object for each user. In this paper we present the concept of bracket capabilities as a new, simple security mechanism which fulfils these requirements. We discuss the reasons for integrating bracketing and view types at a fundamental level of the security mechanism. We demonstrate the use of the mechanism in a simple E-commerce environment to provide secure electronic cheques and describe a prototype implementation of the mechanism in middleware for secure, distributed Java applications.
Principles of Digital Transmission: With Wireless Applications
Authors: Sergio Benedetto, Ezio Biglieri
Venue:  (1999)

:Principles of Digital Transmission is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate level students and professions in telecommunications. Teachers and learners can mix and match chapters to create four distinct courses: (1) a one-term basic course in digital communications; (2) a one-term course in advanced digital communications; (3) a one-term course in information theory and coding; (4) a two-term course sequence in digital communications and coding. The book provides rigorous mathematical tools for the analysis and design of digital transmission systems. The authors emphasize methodology in their aim to teach the reader how to do it rather than how it is done. They apply the fundamental tools of the discipline onto a number of systems, such as wireless data transmission systems.
Cumulated gain-based evaluation of IR techniques
Authors: Kalervo Järvelin, Jaana Kekäläinen
Venue: ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) (2002)

Modern large retrieval environments tend to overwhelm their users by their large output. Since all documents are not of equal relevance to their users, highly relevant documents should be identified and ranked first for presentation. In order to develop IR techniques in this direction, it is necessary to develop evaluation approaches and methods that credit IR methods for their ability to retrieve highly relevant documents. This can be done by extending traditional evaluation methods, that is, recall and precision based on binary relevance judgments, to graded relevance judgments. Alternatively, novel measures based on graded relevance judgments may be developed. This article proposes several novel measures that compute the cumulative gain the user obtains by examining the retrieval result up to a given ranked position. The first one accumulates the relevance scores of retrieved documents along the ranked result list. The second one is similar but applies a discount factor to the relevance scores in order to devaluate late-retrieved documents. The third one computes the relative-to-the-ideal performance of IR techniques, based on the cumulative gain they are able to yield. These novel measures are defined and discussed and their use is demonstrated in a case study using TREC data: sample system run results for 20 queries in TREC-7. As a relevance base we used novel graded relevance judgments on a four-point scale. The test results indicate that the proposed measures credit IR methods for their ability to retrieve highly relevant documents and allow testing of statistical significance of effectiveness differences. The graphs based on the measures also provide insight into the performance IR techniques and allow interpretation, for example, from the user point of view.
Red Hat Linux for Dummies Special Bundle
Authors: Jon Hall, Paul G. Sery
Venue:  (2000)

:Though user-friendly interfaces such as GNOME and KDE have pushed Linux toward the mainstream, this open source operating system can still be daunting for first-time users. This basic guide takes the mystery out of Red Hat Linux 6.1 with easy-to-understand advice on installation, maintenance, and Internet basics. Even better, the CD-ROMs include the latest Red Hat Linux distribution. Plus with this special bundle you'll get: Red Hat Linux For Dummies Red Hat/IDGB T-shirt (One size fits most) $18.95 Value Red Hat Incident Support Coupon 10% off Red Hat Training Course Coupon $150 off 4-5 day course About the Authors:Jon "maddog" Hall is the Executive Director of Linux International, a vendor organization dedicated to promoting the use of Linux Operating System. He has been in the computer industry for over a quarter century, the past eighteen years of which have been spent using , programming, and admiring the UNIX Operating System. Currently Jon works for Compaq Computer Corporation, where he is helping to shape Compaq's strategy in respect to Linux. He is the author of Linux For Dummies, 2nd Edition, and a frequent speaker at Linux conferences. Paul G. Sery works for Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He's a member of the Computer Service Unit, Special Projects which specializes in managing and troubleshooting UNIX and Linux systems.
Access Programming for Dummies
Authors: Rob Krumm
Venue:  (1994)

:If you busted your chops programming such databases as dBASE, Paradox, or FoxPro, you're in for a pleasant surprise. If you've never programmed a database before, you may wonder what all the complaining was about. Microsoft Access is a big step forward from those earlier database programs, thanks to such features as SQL (Structured Query Language), OLE/DDE (Object Linking and Embedding/Dynamic Data Exchange), and Wizards that lead you step-by-step through many tasks. Access Programming For Dummies offers the fastest and most practical means of making the most of these and many other powerful Access features. Best-selling author Rob Krumm shows you how to do everything from building your own programs by using Access Basic and obtaining data by using SQL statements to customizing forms and reports by using expressions and macros. Best of all, Krumm shares with you his own foolproof methods for testing code, so your users can work with a bug-free database.
Biological and computational annotation of the Drosophila Genome Sequence
Authors: Gerald M. Rubin
Venue: Proceedings of the sixth annual international conference on Computational biology (2002)

The nucleotide sequence of the Drosophila melanogaster genome is now available and efforts are ongoing to improve its accuracy and annotation. The value of these sequence data will be enormously enhanced if we can provide for each gene information on: (1) the structure and expression pattern of its transcripts; (2) the mechanisms and logic used to control their expression; and (3) the functions of their protein products. My presentation will be directed toward the challenges of obtaining and interpreting such information for the fruit fly. Gene sequence and expression pattern databases will be extremely powerful tools. However, the function of a protein in a multicellular organism depends on context and will almost certainly need to be determined by experimental analysis. Collection of the required large datasets will be difficult and neither the intellectual framework nor experimental tools for analyzing complex gene networks are currently in place. Nevertheless, there is reason for cautious optimism that the complete genomic sequence of organisms will enable the necessary global approaches to study gene function and regulation. The conservation of gene structure and function during evolution will allow for the linking and sharing of information garnered in different experimental systems. But what data should be collected and how to interpret these data are much less clear. I will describe recent attempts by the Berkeley Drosophila Genome project to address some of these issues.
A World's Fair for the Global Village with Cdrom and CD (Audio)
Authors: Carl Malamud
Venue:  (1997)

:A World's Fair for the Global Village is the story of how a grassroots collection of engineers, artists, and other volunteers set out to re-create the great world's fairs of the last century. In less than a year, they created the Internet 1996 World Exposition, which attracted 5 million visitors from 130 countries. Carl Malamud, the fair's founder, gives a behind-the-scenes look at the fair, from its inception through the closing ceremony. This book, full of funny anecdotes and clear, nontechnical explanations, includes profiles of the small group of people who made it happen, backstage glimpses into the elaborate preparations, visits to highlights of the pavilions, and visitors' guestbook comments.
Matrix Exponentials---Another Approach
Authors: William A. Harris,  Jr., Jay P. Fillmore, Donald R. Smith
Venue: SIAM Review (2001)

The exponential of a matrix and the spectral decomposition of a matrix can be computed knowing nothing more than the eigenvalues of the matrix and the Cayley--Hamilton theorem. The arrangement of the ideas in this paper is simple enough to be taught to beginning students of ODEs.
Big Book of Border Gateway Protocol RFCS, 1st edition
Authors: Peter Loshin
Venue:  (2000)

:One of the first applications implemented on the Internet, File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is also one of the most fundamental, supported by virtually all systems connected to the Internet. No single document defines FTP, but rather an entire sequence of documents published online as Requests for Comments (RFCs). This book collects and organizes these essential documents in a single printed volume, adding an introduction and extensive index. This means you no longer have to search through various RFCs in hopes of finding the answer to your FTP question - all the current and relevant RFCs are compiled here, with an extensive index that makes it simple to locate precisely the answer you need. Taken together, the FTP RFCs describe all the Internet protocols clients and servers can use to do file transfers via FTP. In addition to documenting file transfer mechanics, readers will find practical instructions on various techniques, including using file transfers for network booting and how to manage the security issues involved with file transfer over the Internet. If you buy one FTP reference, this is the one to choose. Written by members of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), this compilation is the most complete and authoritative file transfer reference available. FEATURES: Bootstrap loading using TFTP Background File Transfer Protocol (BFTP) Firewall-friendly FTP How to use anonymous FTP FTP security extensions and considerations Feature negotiation mechanism for FTP
An algorithm to enumerate all sorting reversals
Authors: Adam C. Siepel
Venue: Proceedings of the sixth annual international conference on Computational biology (2002)

The problem of estimating evolutionary distance from differences in gene order has been distilled to the problem of finding the reversal distance between two signed permutations. During the last decade, much progress was made both in computing reversal distance and in finding a minimum sequence of sorting reversals. For most problem instances, however, many minimum sequences of sorting reversals exist, and obtaining the complete set can be useful in exploring the space of genome rearrangements (e.g., in pursuit of solutions to higher-level problems). The problem of finding all minimum sequences of sorting reversals reduces easily to the problem of finding all sorting reversals of one permutation with respect to another. We derive an efficient algorithm to solve this latter problem, and present experimental results indicating that our algorithm offers a dramatic improvement over the best known alternative. It should be noted that in asymptotic terms the new algorithm does not represent a significant improvement: it requires O(n3) time (where n is the permutation size), while the problem can now be solved trivially in &THgr;(n3) time.
MCSE Workstation 4 Exam Cram, 1st edition
Authors: Ed Tittel, Kurt Hudson, James Michael Stewart
Venue:  (1997)

:Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4 has caused many companies to change their desktops to this powerful network client with enhanced security features. This move has created a need for training to help users make the transition without losing any productivity. Microsoft has created the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) program in an effort to train and certify professionals.Certification InsiderTM Press' MCSE NT Workstation 4 Exam Cram helps networking professionals gain the knowledge that directly applies to the NT Workstation test. The key technical topics are: Windows NT installation and automated installations, Windows NT boot process, advanced configuration settings, security and user administration, configuring workstations, printing, utilizing Microsoft and non-Microsoft network resources, and remote support (including RAS).Serves as a complement to study guides for Exam #70-073: Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0.Includes sections on proven test-taking strategies, warnings on trick questions, time-saving study tips, multiple-part question strategies, and shortcuts.Features unique editorial content that serves as an ideal complement to all of the other test study guides and training materials available.Provides practice exam questions arranged in a similar format to the ones found on the actual exam.Provides all of the necessary overviews, concepts, and Microsoft networking terminology to help potential test takers get up to speed as quickly as possible.Includes resource sections at the end of each chapter to help the reader make use of the best study aids available.Provides a special Cram Sheet with tips, acronyms, and memory joggers that readers can take with them to the exam.Guarantees long shelf life because tests for future versions are not made available until roughly 90-120 days after the release of the software.
Optimal scheduling in queuing network models of high-volume commercial web sites
Authors: Mark S. Squillante, Cathy H. Xia, Li Zhang
Venue: Performance Evaluation (2002)

The optimal control of various performance-based measures in high-volume commercial web sites requires a fundamental understanding of the interactions between the diverse set of Internet services that support customer needs and the different importance levels of these services to both the customer and the e-commerce merchant. We present here a study of the control policy for each server in a multiclass queuing network that maximizes a particular function of profit, or minimizes a particular function of cost, across the different classes of Internet services.
Your Official America Online Guide to Genealogy: 2nd Edition, 2nd edition
Authors: Matthew L. Helm, April Leigh Helm
Venue:  (2000)

:Your Official America Online® Guide to Genealogy Online 2nd Edition Includes AOL 5.0 with 500 Hours Free for a Month AOL makes it easy to create your family tree There are zillions of genealogical resources online. But if you've just decided to become your family's historian, how do you zero in on the best ones? This book gives you a road map. Drawing on years of experience, online genealogy pros Matthew and April Helm guide you step-by-step through everything you need to know, from mapping a research strategy and making the most of AOL tools to the fun stuff  creating a multimedia family tree, building a family history Web site, and even organizing a family reunion. Open the book and discover how to:*Start tracing your roots today using the Quick Start guide*Set goals and map a research strategy to save time and effort*Make the most of research tools on AOL and the Internet*Use message boards, chat rooms, and newsgroups to develop leads*Access census, military, property, and other records online*Choose a software package to help organize your research*Enhance your genealogical database with "You've Got Pictures"*Create an AOL Hometown Web site to display your findings*Start a family newsletter and organize a family reunionSystem Requirements: See CD Installation Instructions page inside