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Efficient, flexible, and typed group communications in Java
Authors: Laurent Baduel, Francoise Baude, Denis Caromel
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 joint ACM-ISCOPE conference on Java Grande (2002)

Group communication is a crucial feature for high-performance and Grid computing. While previous works and libraries proposed such a characteristic (e.g. MPI, or object-oriented frameworks), the use of groups imposed specific constraints on programmers -- for instance the use of dedicated interfaces to trigger group communications.We aim at a more flexible mechanism. More specifically, this paper proposes a scheme where, given a Java class, one can initiate group communications using the standard public methods of the class together with the classical dot notation; in that way, group communications remains typed. Furthermore, groups are automatically constructed to handle the result of collective operations, providing an elegant and effective way to program gather operations. This flexibility also allows to handle results that are groups of remotely accessible objects, and to use a group as a means to dispatch different parameters to different group members (for instance in a cyclic manner). Furthemore, hierarchical groups can be easily and dynamically constructed; an important feature to achieve the use of several clusters in Grid computing.
Cisco Internetwork Design
Venue:  (1999)

:Official Cisco Systems training materials for CCDP certification.Prepare for CCDP certification while mastering the intricacies of internetwork designBuild your campus LAN design skills with information on the technical, business, hardware, topology, VLAN, LANE, and design issues affiliated with campus LANsMaster the skills needed for effective TCP/IP network design, including addressing and routing decisions, OSPF, IGRP, and EIGRPLearn to construct effective IPX, AppleTalk, and Windows Networking-based internetworksUnderstand how to create effective WANs using Frame Relay, X.25, and ATM, as well as how to contend with design using dedicated lines and remote accessRefine your knowledge of complex SNA internetworking conceptsApply your internetworking knowledge by redesigning networks presented in six exhaustive case studiesBased on the Cisco Systems instructor-led course available worldwide, Cisco Internetwork Design teaches you how to plan and design a network using various internetworking technologies. Created for those seeking to attain CCDP certification, this book presents the fundamental, technical, and design issues associated with campus LANs; TCP/IP networks; IPX, AppleTalk, and Windows-based networks; WANs; and SNA networks.By using this book, you will be able to identify internetwork requirements, determine appropriate infrastructure and routing issues within an internetwork, and construct a viable plan to deploy or upgrade to a more effective network topology.
Marketing on the Internet: A 7-Step Plan for Selling your Products, Services, and Image to Millions over the Information Superhighway, 3rd edition
Authors: Jan Zimmerman, Michael Mathiesen
Venue:  (1998)

:Updated to reflect the rapid changes in the online marketing arena, these pages provide a proven 12-step plan and countless marketing resources and opportunities for anyone looking to increase sales of their product or service or start a new business on the Internet. Detailed case studies help explain and support the advice. Includes a companion Web site.
Extremal Properties for Dissections of Convex 3-Polytopes
Authors: Jesús A. De Loera, Francisco Santos, Fumihiko Takeuchi
Venue: SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics (2001)

A dissection of a convex d-polytope is a partition of the polytope into d-simplices whose vertices are among the vertices of the polytope. Triangulations are dissections that have the additional property that the set of all its simplices forms a simplicial complex. The size of a dissection is the number of d-simplices it contains. This paper compares triangulations of maximal size with dissections of maximal size. We also exhibit lower and upper bounds for the size of dissections of a 3-polytope and analyze extremal size triangulations for specific nonsimplicial polytopes: prisms, antiprisms, Archimedean solids, and combinatorial d-cubes.
Playing Computer Chess: Getting the Most out of Your Game
Authors: Al Lawrence, Lev Alburt
Venue:  (1998)

:Don't get trounced by a machineimprove your chess skills and outwit your chess computer! Master tricks and tactics that exploit the computer's flaws-and help you beat people, too. You'll become adept at bewildering opponents with ruses, and increase your chess ability. Go move by move through a basic game, seeing openings you once might have missed, and proceed to middlegame strategy and to endgames no adversary (machine or otherwise) can predict. 144 pages, 120 b/w illus., 6 X 9.
Iterated relabeling tree transducers
Authors: Z. Fülöp, A. Terlutte
Venue: Theoretical Computer Science (2002)

In this paper we consider the closure UCI(Rel) of the class of relabeling tree transformations, under U=union, C=composition and I=iteration. We give a characterization of UCI(Rel) in terms of a short expression built up from Rel with composition and iteration. We also give a characterization of UCI(Rel) in terms of one-step rewrite relations of very simple term rewrite systems. We give a similar characterization of UC(FRel+), where FRel+ is the class consisting of the transitive closures of all functional relabeling tree transformations. Finally we show that UCI(Rel)=UCI(FRel).
Remote Access 24seven
Authors: Paul Robichaux, Nestor Reyes
Venue:  (1999)

:Network administrators and system professionals who need to implement remote access to their networks will find detailed coverage of all aspects: hardware, software, technologies, and compatibility with network operating systems. The 24x7 series area on the Sybex Web site delivers remote access resources, extra information, and a chance to ask the author about remote-access.
Wednesday, April 17th Dinner Keynote
Authors: Bill Lockyer
Venue: Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Computers, freedom and privacy (2002)

Bill Lockyer is California's 30th Attorney General. He was elected in November 1998 and assumed this statewide office in January of 1999. A veteran legislator, he was first elected to the State Assembly in 1973 to represent the East San Francisco Bay Area. He moved to the Senate in 1982. Twelve years later, in 1994, he was elected President Pro Tem of the California Senate by his fellow Senators. He served previously as Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee for nine years, overseeing numerous bills on judicial administration and civil and criminal law. A native of Oakland, Mr. Lockyer is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and received a secondary teaching credential from California State University at Hayward. He was awarded his law degree from McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento while serving in the Senate. Mr. Lockyer was named "Legislator of the Year" in 1996 by the California Planning and Conservation League for work on environmental protection. He received the same honor from the California Journal in 1997 for all-around legislative excellence. As a Senator, Mr. Lockyer was instrumental in passage of hundreds of laws toughening California criminal laws, protecting civil rights, enacting tax reforms and enhancing education quality and school safety.
Operators
Venue: ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad (1983)

The forms in this section are referred to as operators.Operators take scalar functions as arguments and produce functions, called derived functions, as results. For example, the operator reduction takes a single dyadic scalar-function as an argument and produces a monadic function as a result.Because f is restricted to scalar functions, the derived functions produced by scan and reduction may be viewed either as being applied between subarrays of rank 0&lceil;-1+&rho;&rho;B or as being repeated on vector subarrays. As an expository device, the evaluation sequences in this document use the vector definition. 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
Ambient touch: designing tactile interfaces for handheld devices
Authors: Ivan Poupyrev, Shigeaki Maruyama, Jun Rekimoto
Venue: Proceedings of the 15th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (2002)

This paper investigates the sense of touch as a channel for communicating with miniature handheld devices. We embedded a PDA with a TouchEngineTM --- a thin, miniature lower-power tactile actuator that we have designed specifically to use in mobile interfaces (Figure 1). Unlike previous tactile actuators, the TouchEngine is a universal tactile display that can produce a wide variety of tactile feelings from simple clicks to complex vibrotactile patterns. Using the TouchEngine, we began exploring the design space of interactive tactile feedback for handheld computers. Here, we investigated only a subset of this space: using touch as the ambient, background channel of interaction. We proposed a general approach to design such tactile interfaces and described several implemented prototypes. Finally, our user studies demonstrated 22% faster task completion when we enhanced handheld tilting interfaces with tactile feedback.
Computer and Network Professional's Certification Guide
Authors: J. Scott Christianson, Ava Fajen
Venue:  (1998)

:Whether you're just starting out, contemplating a career change, or wondering how to make the most of your computer or network experience, use this book to understand your options. Then get the certifications that will bring you the professional recognition and financial rewards you're after. If you hire, train, or advise computer and network professionals, you will find this to be an invaluable reference.
Chemical Engineering Dynamics: Modelling with PC Stimulation, 2nd edition
Authors: John Ingham, Irving J. Dunn, Elmar Heinzle
Venue:  (2000)

:In this book, the modelling of dynamic chemical engineering processes is presented in a highly understandable way using the unique combination of simplified fundamental theory and direct hands-on computer simulation. The mathematics is kept to a minimum, and yet the nearly 100 examples supplied on a CD-ROM illustrate almost every aspect of chemical engineering science. Each example is described in detail, including the model equations. They are written in the modern user-friendly simulation language Berkeley Madonna, which can be run on both Windows PC and Power-Macintosh computers.
Defying Gravity; The Making of Newton
Authors: Markos Kounalakis
Venue:  (1993)

:Defying Gravity: The Making of Newton is an intimate and dramatic account of Apple Computer's race to create a revolutionary new technology, once again drawing on its singular vision. Defying Gravity will explore the process by which an idea is born and translated into a product on which fortunes can be made or lost. Defying Gravity chronicles the technological quest and business adventure story behind Newton. It will show the human side of America's most innovative corporations' risky effort to stay on top in a domain where winners and losers succeed each other with bewildering speed. A classic story of fire and corporate intrigue, where an unprecedented information and communications convergence provides the backdrop as Apple struggles to re-invent itself. They empower project teams within the company, form partnerships with potential overseas competitors, and design a new model for an American business seeking to compete in a new global economy. Whether Newton succeeds or fails in the marketplace, it is a fascinating case study in late 20th century risk-taking entrepreneurship. What is Newton? Newton is a technology comprised of intelligent handwriting recognition and communications software combined with a powerful RISC processor. The first Newton product is a portable, pen-based, hand-held computing device that goes far beyond the capabilities of a desk-top computer. It allows the user to easily capture, organize and communicate information. Apple calls it a "personal digital assistant," and considers it to be its biggest market opportunity since the introduction of the Macintosh.
MCSE: SMS 2
Authors: Ian Turek
Venue:  (1999)

:Covers completely all the new features in SMS 2: easier installation and use, richer management information, stronger software distribution capabilities, administrators' tools, and desktop management. Discusses enterprise-level control of a network including network monitoring, packet filtering, remote help desk functionality, software inventory, and distribution. Features an exclusive tear-out Cram Sheet with tips, acronyms, and memory joggers (mnemonics) to improve recall immediately before the exam. Includes sections on proven test-taking strategies, time-saving study tips, and shortcuts. Designed to guide you through the MCSE elective exam 70-086, Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Systems Management Server 2.0. One of the most requested book topics by our readersa very difficult member of the Back Office family of products. SMS is an extremely powerful network management tool that offers Zero Administration Initiative for Windows features in this release. 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
Ethernet Networks: Design, Implementation, Operation, Management, 3rd edition
Authors: Gilbert Held
Venue:  (1998)

:The new generation of Ethernet networks can perform as fast as ATM and cost about a quarter of the price. A prolific author of computer books provides a detailed introduction to LAN technology, describes the operation of each type of Ethernet network and discusses LAN performance. This expanded and updated edition is the most comprehensive on the subject and covers new topics including switching hubs, routers and the Ethernet's role in multimedia networks. Contains over 100 charts, tables, halftones and diagrams.
UML For Visual Basic 6.0 Developers: Using Visual Modeler and Rational Rose 98, 1st edition
Authors: Paul Harmon, Brian Sawyer
Venue:  (1998)

:The growing trend toward objects and component-based application development is leading developers to rely increasingly on visual modeling tools as the preferred method for combining reusable components with visual code. By exploring the basics of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) notation and the use of UML diagrams, this book offers a useful introduction and tutorial for Visual Basic developers and designers. Features: Includes a full chapter on application development with Visual Basic 6.0, including coverage of COM, DCOM, OLE, ActiveX, and the Microsoft Repository Details the use of various visual modeling tools, including Microsoft's Visual Modeler 2.0 and Rational Software's Rose 98 Offers a UML job aid illustrating the key notational symbols used in UML diagrams Compares the top three OO notations: UML, OMT, and Booch About the Author Paul Harmon is the editor of Component Development Strategies newsletter and the former editor of CASE Strategies newsletter. He is also Service Director of the Cutter Consortium's Distributed Computing Architecture service. He consults with major corporations on trends in the software industry and has authored many books, including Understanding UML: The Developer's Guide (Morgan Kaufmann), The Object Technology Casebook (John Wiley), and the international bestseller Expert Systems: Artificial Intelligence for Business (John Wiley). Brian Sawyer is a software designer and writer who has developed several successful products, including VP Expert, the best-selling expert system-building tool, and ObjectCraft, a visual modeling tool for OO system development. Brian is the author of Creating Expert Systems for Business and Industry (John Wiley) and holds a BA in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Instant Flash 5
Authors: Jim R. Caldwell, Samuel Wan
Venue:  (2001)

:Now you can create innovative visual effects for the Web instantly using this collection of ready-to-use Flash solutions. Learn advanced development techniques from cutting-edge Web designer Jim Caldwell and integrate third party tools, 3D applications, screensavers, and much more.
The Successful CAD Manager's Handbook, 1st edition
Authors: Ralph Grabowski, Richard Huber
Venue:  (1994)

:From setting up and implementing a CAD system, to interfacing a variety of CAD drawing files in a single project, this definitive and comprehensive book is your source of essential CAD information. All of the technical and practical skills you need to be a successful CAD manager are covered.
Line generation for incremental and raster devices
Authors: R. A. Earnshaw
Venue: Proceedings of the 4th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques (1977)

The characteristics,properties and generative sequences of line generation algorithms for incremental and raster devices are summarized and the mappings from one into the other are discussed. Extensions to the basic algorithms to exploit a greater variety of possible operations in the basic hardware set of incremental devices and also to cater for various types of curve are summarized.A new method of partitioning based upon derived code sequences and code patterns is presented and is shown to lead to significant code sequence compression (more than 40%) in the majority of cases, and more importantly a significant overall reduction of between 20% and 43% in the total central processor usage. Algorithms for encoding the sequences are presented.
On Reachability Under Uncertainty
Authors: A. B. Kurzhanski, P. Varaiya
Venue: SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (2002)

The paper studies the problem of reachability for linear systems in the presence of uncertain (unknown but bounded) input disturbances that may also be interpreted as the action of an adversary in a game-theoretic setting. It defines possible notions of reachability under uncertainty emphasizing the differences between reachability under open-loop and closed-loop control. Solution schemes for calculating reachability sets are then indicated. The situation when observations arrive at given isolated instances of time leads to problems of anticipative (maxmin) or nonanticipative (minmax) piecewise open-loop control with corrections and to the respective notions of reachability. As the number of corrections tends to infinity, one comes in both cases to reachability under nonanticipative feedback control. It is shown that the closed-loop reach sets under uncertainty may be found through a solution of the forward Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman--Isaacs (HJBI) equation. The basic relations are derived through the investigation of superpositions of value functions for appropriate sequential maxmin or minmax problems of control.
The Difference between God and Larry Ellison: God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison
Authors: Mike Wilson
Venue:  (2002)

:A recent Forbes listed Ellison as the fifth richest man in the world, and the second richest active player (behind Gates) in the technology world. Oracle Corporation, of which he is founder and CEO, is the fastest-growing software database company in the world, and the darling of technology investors. If you withdraw cash from an ATM, make an airline reservation, hook up your TV to the Internet, then you're using Oracle. All of this makes Ellison the man investors, techies, and people-in-the-know want to know more about. The ultimate self-made man, Ellison began Oracle with a $1,200 investment and doubled its sales in eleven of its first twelve years. But he's a ruthless businessman who has used misdirection and half-truths to create one of the great high-tech success stories. He is also a daredevil sportsman with a 78-foot yacht, a number of fast jets, and beautiful women on his arm. If Gates is the nerd-King of the Valley, Ellison is its Warren Beatty. Mike Wilson has interviewed more than a hundred of Ellison's friends and enemies as well as Ellison himself to create an entertaining and provocative portrait of this enigmatic and visionary businessman. 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
Review of: Metamathematics, Machines, and G&ouml;dels Proof by N. Shankar
Authors: K. Puxang
Venue: ACM SIGACT News (1997)

This book, first published in 1994, is derived from the author's 1986 Ph.D dissertation, one of the main goals of which was to gauge the usefulness of automatic theorem proving technology in constructing and verifying proofs. The proofs chosen for this task were G ouml;del's first incompleteness theorem and the Church-Rosser theorem of the lambda calculus. The theorem prover used was the Boyer-Moore theorem prover which can be obtained by ftp [1]. A manual for the prover has been published as [2]. The author gives a detailed account of the more important steps leading to the mechanized verification of proofs of these theorems. The theorem prover did not discover the proofs but checked definitions and lemmas (about 2000 for the incompleteness theorem and supplied by the author) that lead to the theorems. 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
Compactly encoding unstructured inputs with differential compression
Authors: Miklos Ajtai, Randal Burns, Ronald Fagin, Darrell D. E. Long, Larry Stockmeyer
Venue: Journal of the ACM (JACM) (2002)

The subject of this article is differential compression, the algorithmic task of finding common strings between versions of data and using them to encode one version compactly by describing it as a set of changes from its companion. A main goal of this work is to present new differencing algorithms that (i) operate at a fine granularity (the atomic unit of change), (ii) make no assumptions about the format or alignment of input data, and (iii) in practice use linear time, use constant space, and give good compression. We present new algorithms, which do not always compress optimally but use considerably less time or space than existing algorithms. One new algorithm runs in O(n) time and O(1) space in the worst case (where each unit of space contains [log n] bits), as compared to algorithms that run in O(n) time and O(n) space or in O(n2) time and O(1) space. We introduce two new techniques for differential compression and apply these to give additional algorithms that improve compression and time performance. We experimentally explore the properties of our algorithms by running them on actual versioned data. Finally, we present theoretical results that limit the compression power of differencing algorithms that are restricted to making only a single pass over the data.
Embedded Systems Building Blocks, 2nd edition
Authors: Jean J. Labrosse
Venue:  (2000)

:Readers will learn key concepts unique to real- time kernels and embedded systems, and they will gain hands-on experience through exercises using the real-time system modules the author provides. This edition features a chapter on PC Services, and includes enhanced reference sections and minor bug corrections.