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Machine Intelligence: Perspectives on the Computational Model
Authors: Andy Clark, Josefa Toribio
Venue:  (1998)

:Summarizes and illuminates two decades of researchGathering important papers by both philosophers and scientists, this collection illuminates the central themes that have arisen during the last two decades of work on the conceptual foundations of artificial intelligence and cognitive science. Each volume begins with a comprehensive introduction that places the coverage in a broader perspective and links it with material in the companion volumes. The collection is of interest in many disciplines including computer science, linguistics, biology, information science, psychology, neuroscience, iconography, and philosophy. Examines initial efforts and the latest controversies The topics covered range from the bedrock assumptions of the computational approach to understanding the mind, to the more recent debates concerning cognitive architectures, all the way to the latest developments in robotics, artificial life, and dynamical systems theory. The collection first examines the lineage of major research programs, beginning with the basic idea of machine intelligence itself, then focuses on specific aspects of thought and intelligence, highlighting the much-discussed issue of consciousness, the equally important, but less densely researched issue of emotional response, and the more traditionally philosophical topic of language and meaning. Provides a gamut of perspectives The editors have included several articles that challenge crucial elements of the familiar research program of cognitive science, as well as important writings whose previous circulation has been limited. Within each volume the papers are organized to reflect a variety of research programs and issues. The substantive introductions that accompany each volume further organize the material and provide readers with a working sense of the issues and the connection between articles.
Borland C++Builder
Authors: Matt A. Telles
Venue:  (1997)

:"Borland's C++Builder is one of the first true RAD (rapid application development) tools for C++ and the only one so far to provide true component-based drag and drop programming. Unlike other books on C++Builder, High Performance Borland C++Builder is intended for C++ programmers who want to learn more about the internals of the C++Builder system and how to optimize the results of your work. Coriolis' High Performance Borland C++Builder provides complete coverage of using VCLs and ActiveX controls, extending forms, writing components, developing database applications, and many other important topics. In addition, programmers will learn how to create complex applications in C++Builder and to extend the environment in ways that make the development process even easier." Teaches readers to build wizard applications, create components at runtime, and embed complete objects in Object Inspector. Illustrates how to develop a simple HTML viewer for viewing HTML forms and documentation. Allows programmers to use simple building block components to develop the more difficult pieces of an application. Presents ways to develop complete database applications, including creating tables on the fly. Provides a question and answer section detailing common problems that developers have with C++Builder. All the examples and source code used in the book Actual working code that can be immediately applied to C++Builder projects Tons of shareware and freeware utilities that you can use including components, IDE extensions, wizards, and more! Matt Telles (Lakewood, CO) has been working with C++ for 10 years and effectivelycommunicates the underlying functionality of C++Builder to developers. Matt has written IntraBuilder FrontRunner, Beginning Visual C++ Components, and Windows 95 API How-To.
An Agent-Based Connection Management Protocol for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
Authors: Romit Roy Choudhury, Krishna Paul, Somprakash Bandyopadhyay
Venue: Journal of Network and Systems Management (2002)

Supporting high volume of data transmission in a highly dynamic architecture like Mobile Ad hoc Networks &lpar;MANET&rpar; still remains a major point of research. In this paper, we have attempted to address the issue of managing an uninterrupted connection between a source and a destination through multiple paths in a temporal domain. We have developed an agent-centric protocol that would accomplish uninterrupted communication over adaptively selected routes. The protocol ensures minimal consumption of network resources. We have organized this work in two logical steps. In the first part, we have described an agent-based framework with its associated protocols and mechanisms. The primary objective of this mobile multiagent framework is to make all nodes in the system topology-aware. We have used the GPS &lpar;Global Positioning System&rpar; support at each node for the extraction of geographical coordinates, velocity, and direction of movement of each node. The second part of the work attempts to make use of this topology awareness in the context of establishing and managing a connection between two nodes. The agent-enabled proactive replenishment of fresh topology information enables each node to constantly evaluate network conditions and to take decisions on adaptive route selection.
Lower Bounds for Lucas Chains
Authors: Martin Kutz
Venue: SIAM Journal on Computing (2002)

Lucas chains are a special type of addition chains satisfying an extra condition: for the representation ak = aj + ai of each element ak in the chain, the difference aj - ai must also be contained in the chain. In analogy to the relation between addition chains and exponentiation, Lucas chains yield computation sequences for Lucas functions, a special kind of linear recurrences.We show that the great majority of natural numbers n does not have Lucas chains shorter than $(1-\epsilon)\log_\phi n$ for any $\epsilon > 0$, where $\phi$ is the golden ratio.Peter L. Montgomery was the first to consider Lucas chains, in the early eighties. He discovered a decomposition theorem for Lucas chains and a lower bound on their length in terms of Fibonacci numbers. His work was not published. Therefore several of Montgomery's original ideas are represented in this paper.
PC Learning Labs Teaches Microsoft Project 4.0 for Windows, 1st edition
Authors: Logical Operations, Pc Learning Labs
Venue:  (1994)

:This classroom-tested book/disk learning system provides a comprehensive introduction to this word processing program. The step-by-step instructions are designed to work with the example-filled disk so readers can learn by doing.Disk contains examples that work together with instructions in the book-saves time and speeds learning
Easy Web Page Creation
Authors: Mary Millhollon, Jeff Castrina
Venue:  (2001)

:Want to build a Web page for yourself or your family, club, committee, school, or small business, but don't know where to start? This book demystifies the entire process of creating a Web page or a Web site so you can get your ideas on line right away. Basic computer skills are all you need to master the concepts and mechanics of building and publishing great-looking Web pages.You'll learn how to plan, create, post, and maintain everything from simple pages to full-blown sites.You'll also discover the Web writing, design, and information-organizing techniques of the Web professionals. Create and post your pages like a pro by learning to: Master the Web process: Understand the entire Web-page creation process, from planning a single page to uploading a whole site. Make your ideas flourish on line: Plan, write, organize, and format Web text users will return to time and again, and enhance and illustrate your information with elegant art, colors, backgrounds, and graphics. Work with the tools you already use: Create complete, professionallooking sites by hand-coding pages in Microsoft&copy;Windows® Notepad or by using the powerful Web features of MicrosoftWord and Microsoft FrontPage®. Post your page within an hour: Use the MSN® online service to host your personal page, family page, resume, group site, or other information on the Web. Put it all together on the Web: Use Web-design rules and planning checklists that won't let you down, and keep your site healthy by updating wand troubleshooting your Web pages. Find further help on line: Get additional help on the author's Web site at: www.creativeguide.com.
Graphics Concepts with Solidworks, 1st edition
Authors: Richard M. Lueptow, Michael Minbiole
Venue:  (2000)

:FEATURES: PART I: UL> Chapter 1-5: Basic Concepts introduce the reader to fundamentals that they will need to learn for engineering graphics and design. PART II: Solidworks tutorial is self-paced and allows the reader to create and assemble a pizza cutter with Solidworks. "Great for self-study or short courses; This text provides an inexpensive solution that gets the user up-and-running on Solidworks.
Generic programming for high performance scientific applications
Authors: Lie-Quan Lee, Andrew Lumsdaine
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 joint ACM-ISCOPE conference on Java Grande (2002)

We present case studies that apply generic programming to the development of high-performance parallel code for solving two archetypal PDEs. We examine the overall structure of the example scientific codes and consider their generic implementation. With a generic approach it is a straight-forward matter to reuse software components from different sources; implementations with components from ITL, MTL, Blitz++, A++/P++, and Fortran BLAS are presented. Our newly-developed Generic Message Passing framework is used for communication. We compare the generic implementations to equivalent implementations developed with alternative libraries and languages and discuss not only performance but software engineering issues as well.
Telecommunications Network Planning
Authors: Brunilde Sanso, Patrick Soriano
Venue:  (1998)

:Telecommunications Network Planning will benefit both telecommunications practitioners looking for efficient methods to solve their problems and operations researchers interested in telecommunications. The book examines network design and dimensioning problems; it explores Operation Research issues related to a new standard Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM); it overviews problems that arise when designing survivable SDH/SONET Networks; it considers some broadband network problems; and it concludes with three chapters on wireless and mobile networks. Leading area researchers have contributed their recent research on the telecommunications and network topics treated in the volume.
Calculating the Maximum Modulus of a Polynomial Using Steckin's Lemma
Authors: J. J. Green
Venue: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (1999)

An algorithm for the calculation of the maximum modulus of a complex polynomial on the unit disc is described and evaluated. The algorithm is based on a lemma of Steckin.
Optimal Sampling Strategies in Quicksort and Quickselect
Authors: Conrado Martínez, Salvador Roura
Venue: SIAM Journal on Computing (2002)

It is well known that the performance of quicksort can be improved by selecting the median of a sample of elements as the pivot of each partitioning stage. For large samples the partitions are better, but the amount of additional comparisons and exchanges to find the median of the sample also increases. We show in this paper that the optimal sample size to minimize the average total cost of quicksort, as a function of the size n of the current subarray size, is $a\cdot \sqrt{n} + o(\sqrt{n}\,)$. We give a closed expression for a, which depends on the selection algorithm and the costs of elementary comparisons and exchanges. Moreover, we show that selecting the medians of the samples as pivots is not the best strategy when exchanges are much more expensive than comparisons. We also apply the same ideas and techniques to the analysis of quickselect and get similar results.
Sams Teach Yourself Borland C++ Builder 4, 1st edition
Authors: Kent Reisdorph
Venue:  (1999)

:Revised, updated, and packaged in the successful "24 Hours" format, this book teaches what is needed to get programming with C++Builder. The CD-ROM includes a 60-day trial enterprise version of C++Builder 4, allowing readers to use this as a complete starter kit in earning C++.
The Visual Guide to Visual C++: The Pictorial Encyclopedia to the Windows Programming Language, 1st edition
Authors: Steve Oualline, Nicolaisen
Venue:  (1994)

:A uniquely visual reference for Visual C++--written for new and experienced programmers alike--featuring a complete overview of tools and features in each class of the Visual C++ Foundation Class Library, including names and prototypes, descriptions, parameters, return values, notes, and examples. Disk contains all files necessary to complete the examples in the book.
On recommending
Authors: Jonathan Furner
Venue: Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (2002)

The core of any document retrieval system is a mechanism that ranks the documents in a large collection in order of the likelihood with which they match the preferences of any person who interacts with the system. Given a broader interpretation of recommending than is commonly accepted, such a preference ordering may be viewed as a recommendation, made by the system to the information seeker, that is itself typically derived through synthesis of multiple preference orderings expressed as recommendations by indexers, information seekers, and document authors. The ERIn (Evaluation-Recommendation-Information) model, a decision-theoretic framework for understanding information-related activity, highlights the centrality of recommending in the document retrieval process, and may be used to clarify the respects in which indexing, rating, and citation may be considered analogous, as well as to make explicit the points at which content-based, collaboration-based, and context-based flavors of document retrieval systems vary.
Reference Guide to C and C++
Authors: James L. Antonakos, Kenneth C. Mansfield,  Jr.
Venue:  (1998)

:Suitable for readers in any technological field, this all-in-one reference describes the C and C++ programming languages -- by example -- to both experienced and inexperienced programmers alike. Covers in detail topics such as C/C++ Fundamentals; Functions; Relational, Bitwise, and Boolean Operations; Looping and Recursion; Pointers; Strings; Numeric Arrays; Data Structures; Disk I/O; and Classes and Objects. Uses more than 60 figures to illustrate the necessary concepts and featuring over 80 tested and working programs. Provides a companion diskette with the C/C++ source code files for all of the programs presented in the book. For beginning and experienced programmers who want to learn to program in C/C++.
Core JSTL: Mastering the JSP Standard Tag Library
Authors: David M. Geary
Venue:  (2002)

The breakthrough solution for easier, faster, and more powerful Web development. Powerful techniques for accelerating, simplifying, and standardizing Web application development In-depth coverage of JSTL 1.0, including built-in tags, the new JSTL expression language, and custom tag development Written for both experienced Java platform developers and Web page authors By the best-selling author of Graphic Java and Advanced JavaServer PagesUsing JSTL, software developers and Web page authors can create robust, flexible Web applications more quickly and easily than ever before. Now, best-selling author and JSTL expert David Geary presents the definitive guide to JSTL: its built-in tags, powerful expression language, and extensibility. Through practical examples and extensive sample code, Geary demonstrates how JSTL simplifies, streamlines, and standardizes a wide range of common Web development tasks and helps you build Web applications far more easily than JavaServer Pages technology alone.Key topics covered: Building HTML forms; accessing form data, JavaBeans components (beans), collections, and maps; constructing URLs and importing their content; redirecting HTTP responses; iterating over collections of objects; handling errors Localizing Web sites for multiple languages and countries, including localizing text and formatting and parsing numbers, currencies, percents, and dates. Creating and accessing data sources, making queries and iterating over the results; performing database inserts, updates, and deletes; executing database transactions Parsing XML documents; using XPath with JSTL custom actions; transforming XML with XSLT, filtering XML; accessing external entitiesCore JSTL shows you how to: Use JSTL to simplify Web development tasks Use the new JSTL expression language Access databases and execute transactions Develop internationalized Web sites Work with XML documents and JSP technology Extend JSTL with custom tags
Network+ Certification Training Guide, 1st edition
Authors: Randy L. Ratliff
Venue:  (2000)

:COMPLETE  INNOVATIVE  ACCURATE  THOROUGH The NETWORK+ certification is a company-neutral, industry-wide recognition of computer networking knowledge. It is a logical next step from the A+ certification (the standard for computer service technicians) as well as a path for entering into a networking career. Over 50 leading companies and training organizations, including Marcraft, Novell, Compaq, Digital Equipment, US West, Lotus, US Robotics, and the Information Technology Training Association (ITTA), support this industry-wide NETWORK+ certification program. The Marcraft Network Certification Course is a superbly illustrated theory text and hands-on lab guide designed to prepare students and technicians for the Computing Technology Industry Association's Network+ certification exam, Microsoft's® Networking Essentials exam, and/or the ETA's (Electronics Technicians Association) Certified Network Systems Technician (CNST) certification exam. The Marcraft program includes hands-on CISCO® router setup and configuration labs. It's an ideal introduction for students planning to enroll in the CISCO® Network Academy program. Network Knowledge Operating a Network Management System Setting Up Standard Operating Procedures Administering the Network Planning a Customer's Job Maintaining the Network Implementing a Change Control System Network Practices Implementing the Installation of a Network Managing Support EffortsTroubleshooting the Network Designing the Network Analyzing/Evaluating the Accountability of New Technology Developing Documentation and SOPS
Install, Configure, and Customize Slackware Linux 4.0 with Cdrom, 1st edition
Authors: Joe Zonker Brockmeier, Jacek Artymiak
Venue:  (2000)

:Every distribution of Linux comes equipped with its own quirks and curiosities. Find out how to get it right the first time. Using step-by-step instructions and a multitude of helpful screenshots, this book takes you through the installation, configuration, and customization process specific to Slackware Linux. Find out how to avoid time-consuming mistakes and use the helpful tips found in the book to make Slackware work more effectively for you. The included CD-ROM contains a full version of the latest release of Slackware Linux.Learn Faster:Install Slackware from a CD or boot floppy Explore the K Desktop Environment or GNOME and customize either to look the way you want Configure drivers for hardware options such as modems and video cards Learn More:Discover dual-booting options available with Windows Set up network connections, printers, sound, and other devices Make life easier by creating useful shortcuts that save time and energy Troubleshoot common Slackware installation and configuration issues before they compromise your system What's on the CD:Slackware Linux: The latest release of Slackware includes the X Window System, C/C++ development environments, The GIMP, Netscape Communicator, mail, news, Web, and ftp servers, plus much more.
Vpns: A Beginner's Guide
Authors: John L. Mairs
Venue:  (2001)

:Ideal for connecting branch offices and remote workers,Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) provide a cost-effective,secure method for connecting to a network. This book is a step-by-step guide to deploying one of the fastest growing methods for remote access,global connections,and extranet connectivity. From understanding VPN technology to security features of VPN to actual implementations,this book covers it all. Design and implement a virtual private network from start to finish Take advantage of the most cost-effective and secure method for connecting branch offices and enabling remote access using VPNs: A Beginner's Guide. This instructive guide shows you how design and implement a virtual private network from start to finish. Learn everything you need to know about VPNs beginning with networking fundamentals and layering principles to VPN protocols and security methods. Get details on the latest in tunneling technologies,including point-to-point tunneling protocol (PPTP) and layer two tunneling protocol (L2TP),and find out how to prevent hacker attacks. Learn about the latest and most advanced VPNs,such as IP Overlay VPNs and MPLS. Eight pages of blueprints depicting various types of VPNs help illustrate the concepts you've just read about. If you want a solid introduction to the inner workings of virtual private networks,this is the ideal book for you. Get an overview of networking basicsincluding the OSI model,LANs,WANS,and TCPLearn all about security componentspolicies,concepts,and architectures Discover ways to filter out malicious information,and prevent threats and intrusions Understand how VPNs relate to both public and privatenetworks Know the different types of tunneling methods and where they are usually implemented Get details on the various VPN protocolsGRE,PPTP,L2F,and L2TP,and IPSec Identify the components that define QoSdelay,bandwidth,jitter,and reliability Preview the future of VPNs and understand MPLS,IP over ATM,tag switching,and more
Information Systems: A Management Approach, 2nd edition
Authors: Judith R. Gordon, Steven R. Gordon
Venue:  (1998)

:Information Systems: A Management Approach, 2e focuses on the use of information technology to support the management of information. Specifically, it addresses the use of computer-based systems for determining the type of information that is needed for the effective performance of organizational activities; collecting, accessing, and organizing this information, retrieving, handling, and processing the information once it is available; and interpreting and communicating it to diverse constituencies both inside and outside the organization. The book looks at the management of information from the perspectives of diverse levels and types of job holders in both the private and public sectors. In particular, it considers the management of information by staff, managers, and executives in diverse functions, such as marketing, manufacturing, human resources management, engineering, and finance, in all sized organizations.
Modular techniques in information visualization
Authors: David Duke
Venue: Proceedings of the 2001 Asia-Pacific symposium on Information visualisation - Volume 9 (2001)

The use of visualization to explore and understand data is often partitioned into two areas, scientific visualization in which the data sets are typically derived from measurements or simulations grounded in physical space, and information visualization where data sets are defined over abstract spaces. Although there are certain pragmatic differences based on the way that visualization is used, this paper argues that there is interesting progress to be made by ignoring such distinctions, and working with a general model in which visualization is about representing structures within particular kinds of space. This applies both at the conceptual level, and at the level of practice and implementation. This paper sets out the motivation for thinking in these terms, and describes initial work on using a toolkit, designed primarily for scientific and engineering applications, in a rather more abstract domain, graph visualization.