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Democracy in the Digital Age: Challenges to Political Life in Cyberspace
Authors: Anthony G. Wilhelm
Venue:  (2000)

:Is the Internet an antidote to America's political afflictions? Much of the writings on the prospects of a digital democracy are only impassioned predictions from Internet doomsayers or Silicon Valley faithfuls, sorely lacking a critical eye and sound research. Anthony G. Wilhelm counters claims on both sides with a well-reasoned factual argument: political conversations occurring online are neither thoughtful nor inclusive, suggesting that current new technologies are as much threats to progress as they are vehicles of progress. 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
IIPS: an intelligent information presentation system
Authors: Yuangui Lei, Enrico Motta, John Domingue
Venue: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces (2002)

This paper presents the framework of an Intelligent Information Presentation System (IIPS), which provides intelligent interface presentation support for data-intensive web-based applications through the use of ontologies to drive the web site generation and maintenance process. IIPS defines a comprehensive set of ontologies to model the navigational structure, the compositional structure, and the user interfaces of data-intensive web sites, and provides a suit of tools to support site generation, maintenance, and personalization.
GI/G/1 type processes: a non-inversive matrix analytical solution
Authors: Árpád Szlávik
Venue: ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review (2001)

A new general solution method is derived for the general GI/G/1 type processes --- for the steady-state distribution of infinite block-structured Markov chains with repetitive structure. While matrix inversion is needed in each iterational step of other general (and of more special) matrix analytical procedures, the method presented here uses matrix addition and matrix multiplication only. In exchange, the computational complexity and the memory requirement is increasing in each iterational step of the proposed method. This paper, however, lays priority on the theoretical aspect of the general solution.
PERL Core Language Little Black Book
Authors: Steve Holzner
Venue:  (1999)

:Covers Perl syntax and programming thoroughlyfrom the essentials up through the issues of security, creating Perl packages, and topics like dynamic multiple class inheritance. Includes step-by-step solutions on object-oriented programming in Perl. Covers how to handle syntax, math, files, modules, CGI, and OLE for Perl programming. Contains a solution guide to debugging and error messaging. Provides highly referenceable, task-oriented answers to scripting with Perl. Written by Steven Holzner, former contributing editor for PC Magazine and the author of 50 computer books. There are over a million copies of his books in print. More than a syntax summary; includes a detailed reference on creating code structures with the Perl language. Answers the question in the Little Black Book format of "How do I ____ in Perl?" Unlike other books on the market. Includes a tear-out, quick-reference card summarizing the Perl language and the most common commands.
The Computer in the Visual Arts
Authors: Anne Morgan Spalter
Venue:  (1998)

:Introducing a dynamic medium for artistic expression and graphic communication "This is a seminal contribution-a must-read for anyone interested in how computers are used in art and design. Spalter masterfully presents the principles and practices of this vital and rapidly growing field. She blends just the right amount of technology with applications and implications to the visual arts, in an easy-to-read, informative style.." -- Andries van Dam, T. J. Watson, Jr. University Professor of Technology and Education and Professor of Computer Science, Brown University, and coauthor of the authoritative book, Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice. "At last!" Those are the words that most often greet Anne Morgan Spalter's new book--an introduction to computer graphics uniquely focused on the computer as a medium for artistic expression and graphic communication--the first comprehensive work to combine technical and theoretical aspects of the emerging field of computer art and design. Integrating theory, examples, and the concepts underlying all the major types of graphics software, Spalter explains the principles and practices that artist, designers, illustrators, and photographers simply must understand to take full advantage of this dynamic, visual medium. Each program is presented as part of a larger picture, profusely illustrated with diagrams and art works, including many in color. Coverage includes: Digital painting and photoediting Digital design and layout The building and rendering of 3D worlds Animation Multimedia The World Wide Web Chapters on input and output address the wide range of tools and techniques for working with art and design software, and for creating both screen-based and printed works. Excerpts from interviews with artists and computer scientists add perspective to both the origins and the future directions of the field. Although some of the book's exercises require common application software, the main body of this text is platform- and application-independent. "For years I've been searching the shelves for a book like this, a book that gathers together the loose strands of the 'computer art' movement.... She gives the whole picture- pioneer artists, technical principles, artistic choices, creative uses and misuses, all with the freshness of the hands-on practitioner." -- James Faure Walker has spent the past 10 years integrating computer graphics into his painting, and is currently a lecturer in painting/computer graphics at UCE, Birmingham, England.
Visor! I Didn't Know You Could Do That...
Authors: Neil J. Salkind
Venue:  (2000)

:The easy-to-follow instructions and useful software included in this book and companion CD provide you with tons of amazing tools and clever techniques for getting the most out of your Visor today. Take advantage of all the tools and utilities Visor has to offer to organize everything and anything, keep track of your finances, communicate with other computers, and calculate problems that would put Einstein to shame. The perfect travel companionVisor can be entertainment on long plane rides, convert currency and time zones, and even keep track of your spending. The possibilities are endless. Inside you'll learn how to: Determine your net worth Play bingo during your business meetings Read Tom Swift and His Motor Cycle. . . on the train Browse Web pages Keep all your passwords in one place Calculate the future value of your investments And much more!
Towards the design of multimodal interfaces for handheld conversational characters
Authors: Timothy Bickmore
Venue: CHI '02 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (2002)

This paper presents a study of individuals having conversations with animated characters on PDAs, and characterizes their use of natural nonverbal behavior compared to behavior exhibited in similar conversations with another person. The study finds that most people use the same nonverbal behavior in conversation handheld characters that they use in conversations with people, although the frequency is somewhat lower in the handheld case. These results can inform the design of new PDA input modalities which leverage the natural nonverbal behavior observed.
Parallel database processing on a 100 Node PC cluster: cases for decision support query processing and data mining
Authors: Takayuki Tamura, Masato Oguchi, Masaru Kitsuregawa
Venue: Proceedings of the 1997 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing (CDROM) (1997)

We developed a PC cluster system consists of 100 PCs. Each PC employs the 200MHz Pentium Pro CPU and is connected with others through an ATM switch. We picked up two kinds of data intensive applications. One is decision support query processing. And the other is data mining, specifically, association rule mining.As a high speed network, ATM technology has recently come to be a de facto standard. While other high performance network standards are also available, ATM networks are widely used from local area to widely distributed environments. One of the problems of the ATM networks is its high latencies, in contrast to their higher bandwidths. This is usually considered a serious flaw of ATM in composing high performance massively parallel processors. However, applications such as large scale database analyses are insensitive to the communication latency, requiring only the bandwidth.On the other hand, the performance of personal computers is increasing rapidly these days while the prices of PCs continue to fall at a much faster rate than workstations'. The 200MHz Pentium Pro CPU is competitive in integer performance to the processor chips found in workstations. Although it is still weak at floating point operations, they are not frequently used in database applications.Thus, by combining PCs and ATM switches we can construct a large scale parallel platform very easily and very inexpensively. In this paper, we examine how such a system can help the data warehouse processing, which currently runs on expensive high-end mainframes and/or workstation servers.In our first experiment, we used the most complex query of the standard benchmark, TPC-D, on a 100 GB database to evaluate the system compared with commercial parallel systems. Our PC cluster exhibited much higher performance compared with those in current TPC benchmark reports. Second, we parallelized association rule mining and ran large scale data mining on the PC cluster. Sufficiently high linearity was obtained. Thus we believe that such commodity based PC clusters will play a very important role in large scale database processing.
8th European workshop on software process technology: report and future directions
Authors: Vincenzo Ambriola, R. Mark Greenwood
Venue: ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes (2001)

In this paper we report on the 8th European Workshop on Software Process Technology held in Witten (Germany) in June 2001. We also report on the outcome of a working session about the future directions of research in software process technology that will be addressed in the next workshop of this series.
Partial order relations in distributed object environments
Authors: Laurence Duchien, Gérard Florin, Lionel Seinturier
Venue: ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review (2000)

We describe several order relations for group cooperative applications. Our goal is to define the main interleaving semantics existing in distributed object environments with group invocations and variable sharing. We generalize the Lamport's Happened-before relation defined for message passing applications to a causal relation between actions or methods in object world. Next, we precise a set of order properties for group method invocations. It includes the local, causal and total ordering deduced from the similar ordering in message broadcast protocols, and causally coherent and serializable transactions deduced from the concurrency control. Finally, we present two implementations of one of these order property on distributed object systems GUIDE and CORBA.
Some problems with the notion of context-aware computing
Authors: Thomas Erickson
Venue: Communications of the ACM (2002)

Ask not for whom the cell phone tolls.
Growing Your Business Online: Small-Business Strategies for Working the World Wide Web, 1st edition
Authors: Phaedra Hise
Venue:  (1997)

:The World Wide Web is home to the most innovative advertising today. Since everybody is on the same level playing field and creating a site can be done at home on your laptop, anyone can compete with the corporate giants. With thirty-eight clear screen images from the Web, you will see how other businesses have successfully grown, or failed, through the use of their Web site. You will explore cutting-edge sites for hints on how to maintain a fresh computer interface with the marketplace and look at the real-life experiences of a variety of small businesses, from manufacturers to wholesalers and retailers, from consultants to service providers. 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
Reduction of discriminant rules based on frequent item set calculation
Authors: María C. Fernández-Baizán, Ernestina Menasalvas Ruiz, Juan Fransisco Martínez Sarrías
Venue: New learning paradigms in soft computing (2002)

Reduction of the number of attributes to calculate rules in large data-bases is of great interest in data mining. In this paper, we propose a method for reducing the number of attributes in rules using frequent item sets calculation. The method is based in a basic step model. In our approach algorithms are divided in atomic operations that have been called basic steps so that it is easier to optimize the execution of any algorithm. We also present the implementation of this approach in Damisys what demonstrates that our approach is implementable and effective dealing with large datasets.
Binary interpolation search for solution mapping on broadcast and on-demand channels in a mobile computing environment
Authors: Jiun-Long Huang, Wen-Chih Peng, Ming-Syan Chen
Venue: Proceedings of the tenth international conference on Information and knowledge management (2001)

We explore in this paper the problem of dynamic data and channel allocations with the number of communication channels and the number of data items given. It is noted that the combined use of broadcast and on-demand channels can utilize the bandwidth effectively for data dissemination in a mobile computing environment. We first derive the an-alytical models of the expected delays when the data are requested through the broadcast and on-demand channels. Then, we transform this problem into to a guided search problem. In light of the theoretical properties derived, we devise an algorithm based on binary interpolation search, referred to as algorithm BIS, to obtain solutions of high quality efficiently. In essence, algorithm BIS is guided to explore the solution space with higher likelihood to be the optimal first, thereby leading to an efficient and effective search. It is shown by our simulation results that the solution obtained by algorithm BIS is of very high quality and is in fact very close to the optimal one. Sensitivity analysis on several parameters, including the number of data items and the number of communication channels, is conducted.
Developing an efficient technique of selection and manipulation in immersive V.E.
Authors: Chang Geun Song, No Jun Kwak, Dong Hyun Jeong
Venue: Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology (2000)

An Interaction Task in Virtual Reality is such that a user can modify a computer generated virtual world using various techniques. But current interaction techniques cannot be applicable for most virtual environments due to their inefficiency and inconvenience. In this paper, we propose a selection and manipulation technique called the Finger-gesture. We evaluate its usefulness by conducting quantitative and qualitative experiments within a specific environment. Results indicate our new technique is more efficient in selection and modification tasks than other existing techniques including Go-Go and Ray-casting in terms of the task completion time and accuracy.
The Simulation of Surveillance: Hyper-Control in Telematic Societies
Authors: William Bogard
Venue:  (1996)

:An exploration of the imaginary of perceptual control technologies and how the revolution in simulation technology reconfigures and intensifies the role of surveillance in war, work, sexuality, and private life.
The Illustrator 6 Book, 3rd edition
Authors: Deke McClelland
Venue:  (1996)

:New and experienced users alike will find this book to be the most comprehensive, friendly, and up-to-date guide to Adobe Illustrator on the market. Veteran author Deke McClelland has completely reorganized this best-seller to provide hands-on explanations to every tool and feature of Illustrator, including the latest additions and enhancements to version 6. Whether you're looking to create simple drawings or sophisticated color illustrations, the step-by-step instructions will make you a graphics expert in no time. You'll also appreciate the light-hearted tips, hints, warnings, and notes. The Illustrator 6 Book is the next best thing to having your own on-call graphics guru.
Two Variations on Fisher's Linear Discriminant for Pattern Recognition
Authors: Tristrom Cooke
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (2002)

Discriminants are often used in pattern recognition to separate clusters of points in some multidimensional ¿feature¿ space. This paper provides two fast and simple techniques for improving on the classification performance provided by Fisher's linear discriminant for two classes. Both of these methods are also extended to nonlinear decision surfaces through the use of Mercer kernels.
ATM Network Resource Management
Authors: Zbigniew Dziong
Venue:  (1997)

:Many companies are turning to ATM to speed the transfer of information over networks: However,ATM is especially complex and costly to manage. This book covers ATM network management in both technical and dollars and cents terms. It presents a coherent detailed framework to help network managers optimize their resources in implementing and maintaining ATM. Readers will also find guidance on managing non-ATM high-performance broadband networks.
Processing Medical Documents, 2nd edition
Authors: Robert P. Poland
Venue:  (1998)

:Processing Medical Documents, Second Edition, will acquaint you with several medical specialties as you format a variety of medical documents. The documents can be completed using any word processing program.
A practical philosophy for managing a disk limited instructional computing facility
Authors: Donald E. Elliott
Venue: Proceedings of the 16th annual Southeast regional conference (1978)

One of the problems associated with managing a computer used by students and instructors having a limited disk space is which programs and files should be on disk at any one time. One solution to this problem is to make extensive use of library tapes to keep unneeded programs and files off of disk, yet allow them to be loaded easily without much effort by the user. This necessitates a library scheme that is not only easily implemented, but is understandable to the user. Once such a scheme is developed and implemented the computer center can handle a larger number of active programs more effectively and provide better service to the user. 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
Fractal Design Painter Creative Techniques
Authors: Jeremy Sutton
Venue:  (1996)

:Artists, illustrators, designers, and Painter enthusiasts: We dare you to flip through this book and not be completely enthralled! You'll find two-page spreads detailing the latest and greatest Painter techniques. Learn everything from the simplest Painter tasks, such as sketching and applying paint, to more complex tasks like transforming photos and creating animations. You'll find award-winning artwork from some of the best Painter artists in the world, including Hiroshi Yoshii, Dorothy Krause, S. Swaminathan, Jerry Garcia, and more. Each piece of artwork highlights what can be accomplished by using a particular Painter technique. With Fractal Design Painter Creative Techniques, you'll have professional, practical advice for creating eye-catching designs and beautiful fine art.
Common Knowledge: How Companies Thrive by Sharing What They Know
Authors: Nancy M. Dixon
Venue:  (2000)

:While external knowledge  about customers, about competitors  is critical, it rarely provides a competitive edge for companies because such information is equally available to everyone. But internal "know-how" that is unique to a specific company  how to introduce a new drug into the diabetes market, how to decrease assembly time in an automobile plant  is the stuff of which sustained competitive advantage is made. Nancy Dixon, an expert in the field of organizational learning, calls this knowledge borne of experience "common knowledge," and argues that in order to get beyond talking about knowledge management to actually doing it, companies must first recognize that all knowledge is not created  and therefore can't be shared  equally. Creating successful knowledge transfer systems, Dixon argues, requires matching the type of knowledge to be shared to the method best suited for transferring it effectively. Based on an in-depth study of several organizations  including Ernst & Young, Bechtel, Ford, Chevron, British Petroleum, Texas Instruments, and the U.S. Army  that are leading the field in successful knowledge transfer, Common Knowledge reveals groundbreaking insights into how organizational knowledge is created, how it can be effectively shared and why transfer systems work when they do. Until now, most organizations have had to rely on costly "trial and error" to find a knowledge transfer system that works for them. Dixon helps managers take the guesswork out of this process by outlining three criteria that must be considered in order to determine how a transfer method will work in a specific situation: the type ofknowledge to be transferred, the nature of the task, and who the receiver of that knowledge will be. Drawing from the successful  but very different  ractices of the companies in her study and providing compelling illustrative stories based on the experiences of real managers, Dixon distills five distinct categories of knowledge transfer, explains the principles that make each of them work, and helps managers determine which of these systems would be most effective in their own organizations.Common Knowledge gets to the heart of one of the most difficult questions in knowledge transfer today: What makes a system work effectively in one organization but fail miserably in another? Going beyond "one-size-fits-all" approaches and simple generalities like upper management involvement and cultural issues, this important book will help organizations of every kind construct knowledge transfer systems tailored to their unique forms of "common knowledge"  and in the process create the best kind of competitive advantage there is: the kind that can't be copied.
SAS/ETS Software: Changes and Enhancements,Release 8.1, 1st edition
Authors: CORPORATE SAS Institute Staff
Venue:  (2000)

:Learn about changes and enhancements to Release 8.1 of SAS/ETS software, including the new X12 seasonal adjustment procedure, the new Investment Analysis System, and the new SASECRSP data access engine for accessing CRSP databases. Also included is documentation for a new experimental procedures, PROC VARMAX, for multivariate time series analysis. Supports releases 8.1 and higher of SAS software. 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 BVP solver based on residual control and the Maltab PSE
Authors: Jacek Kierzenka, Lawrence F. Shampine
Venue: ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS) (2001)

Our goal was to make it as easy as possible to solve a large class of boundary value problems (BVPs) for ordinary differential equations in the Matlab problem solving environment (PSE). We present here theoretical and software developments resulting in bvp4c, a capable BVP solver that is exceptionally easy to use.