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Official NetScape Internet Business Starter Kit, 1st edition
Authors: Larry M. Edwards
Venue:  (1997)

:Enables users to send and receive email, compose Web pages, participate in online discussion groups, and more.Guides readers on choosing an Internet Service Provider (ISP), avoiding common mistakes, saving and making money, and developing a budget.Demonstrates the eight essential steps to successfully launch a business on the Internet and make it profitable.Includes cost, start-up equipment, services, staffing, and more.Features real-world examples and case studies.Includes detailed information that identifies and evaluates the most qualified independent contractors and service providers.Contains HTML editors, graphics viewing & editing tools, and Web page templates.Includes multimedia players, email software, image-map tools, and compression utilities.Provides checklists, worksheets, planning guides, and demos. 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
How to Start a Business Website
Authors: Mike Powers
Venue:  (1999)

:Ride The Profit Wave Of The Future With millions of people throughout the world spending time on the Internet, online business is growing by leaps and bounds. Whether you have an established business or just a good idea, now is the time to cash in on this burgeoning market. How to Start a Business Website gives you a step-by-step plan for how to create a presence in this global multimillion dollar marketplace  and how to do it cheaply and wisely. With insider tips from successful cyber-entrepreneurs, you'll find all the know-how you need to profit from the cyber revolution.Find your way around cyberspace Learn who's online and what they want to buy Create the perfect attention-grabbing website Make the most of website marketing Find customers through newsletters, chat rooms and special-interest sitesGet your site "noticed" by search enginesConduct online financial transactionsProvide customer service on the WebUse enhancements to meet your growing needs Get Online  The Fast Track To Business Success!Author Biography: Jacqueline Powers is a "practical business expert" who has written numerous articles and books on personal finance. She lives in Ithaca, New York. 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
Computers as Assistants: A New Generation of Support Systems, 1st edition
Authors: Peter Hoschka
Venue:  (1996)

:Computer systems based on the notion of the computer as assistant have recently become the focus of intense interest. The expanding role of the computer in everyday life and the growing number of untrained users make it necessary to think about new ways of dividing labor between humans and machines. Future systems must take on more tasks and perform them more competently and autonomously than existing systems, but if they are to be adequately flexible and responsive to complexity, they cannot automate their performance completely. The aim of designers should be to create computer systems with capabilities similar to those of good assistants in the real world. Effective assistance has many characteristics. An assistant is expected, for instance, to be competent in some domains of expertise, to know the limits of his or her knowledge, to be able to process inexact instructions from clients, to adjust to and learn from them, to explain his or her behavior and suggestions, and to support clients in communication and cooperation with other people. Can such capabilities be built into computer systems? This book offers a strongly affirmative answer. The authors discuss the concepts and methods, particularly from the fields of artificial intelligence and computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), that they have drawn on to develop successful system prototypes, and present a number of these prototypes, including assistants for graphics design, knowledge discovery in databases, coordination support, organizational memory, user interface design, and knowledge base construction. 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
Coordination middleware for XML-centric applications
Authors: Paolo Ciancarini, Robert Tolksdorf, Franco Zambonelli
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing (2002)

This paper focuses on coordination middleware for distributed applications based on active documents and XML technologies. It introduces the main concepts underlying active documents and XML Then, the paper goes into details about the problem of defining a suitable middleware architecture to effectively support coordination activities in applications including active documents and mobile agents, by specifically focusing on the role played by XML technologies in that context. According to a simple taxonomy, the characteristics of several middleware systems are analyzed and evaluated. This analysis enables us to identify the advantages and the shortcoming of the different approaches, and to identify the basic requirements of a middleware for XML-centric applications.
The Essential Office 97 Book, 1st edition
Authors: Bill Bruck
Venue:  (1997)

:The Essential Office 97 Book provides hands-on tutorials and insightful tips for the installation and efficient use of Office 97 and its new features, including integrating the calendar, task list, address book, and e-mail with Outlook.
Mastering SQL, 1st edition
Authors: Martin Gruber
Venue:  (2000)

:A recognized SQL expert and author of "SQL Instant Reference" provides this guide for database programmers and administrators who need to learn SQL or want to know about changes in the new standard. The CD offers several commercial SQL compilers for the beginning to try out, code examples from the book, and an electronic reference to SQL commands.
Permission grids: practical, error-bounded simplification
Authors: Steve Zelinka, Michael Garland
Venue: ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) (2002)

We introduce the permission grid, a spatial occupancy grid which can be used to guide almost any standard polygonal surface simplification algorithm into generating an approximation with a guaranteed geometric error bound. In particular, all points on the approximation are guaranteed to be within some user-specified distance from the original surface. Such bounds are notably absent from many current simplification methods, and are becoming increasingly important for applications in scientific computing and adaptive level of detail control. Conceptually simple, the permission grid defines a volume in which the approximation must lie, and does not permit the underlying simplification algorithm to generate approximations outside the volume.The permission grid makes three important, practical improvements over current error-bounded simplification methods. First, it works on arbitrary triangular models, handling all manners of mesh degeneracies gracefully. Further, the error tolerance may be easily expanded as simplification proceeds, allowing the construction of an error-bounded level of detail hierarchy with vertex correspondences among all levels of detail. And finally, the permission grid has a representation complexity independent of the size of the input model, and a small running time overhead, making it more practical and efficient than current methods with similar guarantees.
Network Auditing: A Control Assessment Approach
Authors: Gordon E. Smith
Venue:  (1999)

:Written by Gordon Smith, a leading expert in the field, this new book - the first to take an in-depth look at intranets and the Internet from an audit and information systems perspective - shows you how to guard against potentially costly cyberhazards. Network Auditing provides the tools necessary to detect poorly secured network components and to install strong preventive measures to secure your network. It also provides a sound methodology and practical checklists to identify specific risks facing your network. Accompanied by a disk that contains auditing programs for either direct use or individual customization, Network Auditing is essential reading for anyone responsible for safeguarding interconnected corporate systems. 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
MCSE Study Tips for Dummies, 1st edition
Authors: Curt Simmons
Venue:  (1998)

:Get fast answers to all your MCSE questions, sharpen your study skills, and develop a personal plan to pass your Microsoft certification exams with flying colors. Here's the book that all MCSE candidates have been clamoring for: MCSE Study Tips For Dummies, a unique compendium of wisdom that includes everything from study plans to test-taking techniques and last-minute prep tips. All the resources you need to get ready for your certification exams are right at your fingertips. From an overview of the entire MCSE certification track to the finer points of the core MCSE Exam objectives, you'll find clear, jargon-free advice and solid skills to make the most of your study time. Combined with the complete line of MCSE For Dummies books, you'll be ready to take the exam and start planning a new future as a Microsoft-certified professional.
The SEMINAL workshop: reformulating software engineering as a metaheuristic search problem
Authors: Mark Harman, Bryan F. Jones
Venue: ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes (2001)

This paper reports on the first international Workshop on Software Engineering using Metaheuristic INnovative ALgorithms.The aim of the workshop was to bring together researchers in search-based metaheuristic techniques with researchers and practitioners in Software Engineering. The workshop sought to support and develop the embryonic community which straddles these two communities and which is working on the application of metaheuristic search-based techniques to problems in Software Engineering.The paper outlines the nature of the nascent field of Search-Based Software Engineering, and briefly outlines the papers presented at the workshop and the discussions which took place.
A Theory and Practice of Program Development, 1st edition
Authors: Derek J. Andrews
Venue:  (1997)

:A Theory and Practice of Program Development provides a comprehensive introduction to a formal software development method based on the specification language VDM-SL. The method starts with an abstract formal specification of a software system and uses a series of development steps that preserve correctness to produce an executable program. The development steps involve strategies and transformations to change an abstract specification into executable code - the method is both justified and explained mathematically. A Theory and Practice of Program Development is specifically designed for use by 3rd/4th year undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses in formal methods as part of a computer science or a software engineering degree. It is also relevant to software developers involved in the production of provably correct computer systems who need an understanding of the theory of and practice of formal methods. A package of teaching material in LaTeX source is available from the author.
Patent, Trademark and Copyright Searching on the Internet
Authors: Charles C. Sharpe
Venue:  (1999)

:In 1998 the U.S. Patent Office introduced searchable databases for patents and trademark registrations. Once available only through time-consuming trips to a Patent and Trademark Depository Library, such information now is as near as your PC - if you know how to look for it.. "Begin with a look through this handy guide. From basic definitions to step-by-step instructions, it offers all the information you need to find patent and trademark information online. Sample web pages illustrate the types of sites you may encounter. Also discussed are the definitions, laws, and application procedures for copyright. 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
On-line error detection and fast recover techniques for dependable embedded processors
Authors: Matthias Pflanz
Venue:  (2002)

This book presents a new approach to on-line observation and concurrent checking of processors by refining and improving known techniques and introducing new ideas.The proposed on-line error detection and fast recover techniques support and complement other established methods. In combination with other on-line observation priniciples and with a combined hardware-software test, these techniques are used to fulfill a complete self-check scheme for an embedded processor.
A new simulator workbench for comparing SIMD processing element architectures
Authors: Todd C. Marek
Venue: Proceedings of the 30th annual Southeast regional conference (1992)

The impact of machine structure on system performance is a critical consideration in designing highly integrated SIMD architectures. This issue is affected by PE granularity, PE complexity, and interconnection structure. Detailed analysis of the issues related to this structure/performance relationship is relevant in developing new massively parallel architectures. To meet this need, a simulator workbench which can be used to quantitatively evaluate the performance of a wide range of machine structures is presented in this paper. The set of PE granularities supported includes 1, 4, 8, and 16-bit processors. The simulator workbench also provides support for evaluating the functionality provided by different features included in an SIMD PE. Features include floating point operation support, multiplication support, local address modification, and support for generating flags during computation. An analysis of the impact of various I/O and communication path widths is also possible.Floating point support is provided in the form of an exponent register and a mantissa unit. Multiplication is supported by a recoding unit that examines two multiplier bits and recodes them in such a way that a partial product of the multiplicand and the two multiplier bits can be generated with only a single n-bit addition. Communication and I/O path widths are examined for each granularity, and the amount of time spent in communication and data I/O can be isolated for any application. The impact of local address modification is isolated, and flag sets are also investigated. Overall performance, communication balance, PE and feature utilization, and operand length are monitored using the workbench, and are used to assess the merits of the various granularities and feature sets.
A VHDL Synthesis Primer, 2nd edition
Authors: J. Bhasker
Venue:  (1998)

:Here is a practical and useful guide to VHDL synthesis. The purpose of this book is to explain the transformations that occur during the synthesis process from a VHDL model to a netlist. Constructs that are supported for synthesis are clearly explained with many examples with their synthesized netlists. The second edition is based on the IEEE standard NUMERIC_BIT/NUMERIC_STD arithmetic packages. 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
On some Sch&uuml;tzenberger conjectures
Authors: Clelia De Felice
Venue: Information and Computation (2001)

In this paper we consider factorizing codes C over A, i.e., codes verifying the factorization conjecture by Schützenberger. Let n be the positive integer such that anεC, we show how we can construct C starting with factorizing codes C' with anεC' and n' , under the hypothesis that all words aizaj in C, with zε(A\a) A*(A\a) ∪ (A\a), satisfy i, j, > n. The operation involved, already introduced by Anselmo, is also used to show that all maximal codes C=P (A-1) S+1 with P, SεZ(A) and P or S in Z(a) can be constructed by means of this operation starting with prefix and suffix codes. Old conjectures by Schützenberger have been revised. Copyright 2001 Academic Press.
Feature extraction and content analysis for sports videos annotation
Authors: J. Assfalg, M. Bertini, C. Colombo, A. Del Bimbo
Venue: Proceedings of the 2001 ACM workshops on Multimedia: multimedia information retrieval (2001)

This paper illustrates an approach to semantic video annotation in the specific context of sports videos. Videos are automatically annotated according to elements of visual content at different layers of semantic significance. Unlike previous approaches, videos can include several different sports and can also be interleaved with non sport shots. Each shot is decomposed into its visual and graphic content elements, including foreground and background, objects, text captions, etc. Several different low-level visual primitives are combined together by domain-specific rules in order to capture semantic content at a higher level of significance. Results of experiments on typical sports videos are presented and discussed.
Editorial
Authors: Martín Abadi, Leonid Libkin, Frank Pfenning
Venue: ACM Transactions on Computational Logic (TOCL) (2002)

This special issue of ACM Transactions on Computational Logic is devoted to papers first presented at LICS 2000, the 15th Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, held June 26--29, 2000, in Santa Barbara, California.In consultation with the LICS 2000 program committee, the guest editors selected five papers presented at the conference and invited their authors to submit full versions of the papers to this special issue. All submissions were refereed according to the usual standards of ACM Transactions on Computational Logic. They cover a range of lively areas within Logic in Computer Science, reflecting well the quality of the conference. We are grateful to the authors of the papers for their excellent contributions, and to all members of the program committee and reviewers for their efforts.
Scheduling of real-time messages in optical broadcast-and-select networks
Authors: Maurizio A. Bonuccelli, M. Claudia Clò
Venue: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON) (2001)

In this paper, we consider broadcast-and-select networks based on optical passive stars. In these single-hop networks, communicating pairs can exchange messages directly, without the need to store information at intermediate nodes for later forwarding. Messages are transmitted in a packetized way, and each message has an associated deadline. In order to guarantee the message reception timeliness, we ask that all the messages are received within their corresponding deadline. We show that this scheduling problem is strong NP-complete, even in a very restricted case. Then, we turn our attention to fast approximating heuristics. We present four of them, assess their average performance by means of computer simulation, and give their worst-case performance bounds. Such bounds can be effectively used to test the success of the schedule before generating it.
The Internet for Busy People, 2nd edition
Authors: Christian Crumlish
Venue:  (1997)

:Whether you set aside an evening or a lunch hour - or just reach for this Busy People guide as you need it - you'll soon be on the fast track with the Internet. Explore Windows 95's seamless Internet connection or follow simple instructions for using other versions of Windows. Delve into the World Wide Web in mere minutes. Master the mysteries of e-mail, mailing lists, and Usenet newsgroups faster than you thought possible. Discover the power of FTP, Telnet, and Gopher in a flash. Understand how to search the Net and find fascinating new sites. Organized for a quick orientation, The Internet for Busy People offers exceptional timesaving features, including fast forwards: quick reference sections at the beginning of each chapter that demonstrate all the essential commands and features - an ideal way for more experienced users to explore the Internet in no time; shortcuts: accelerated routes to completing a task or solving a problem; habits & strategies: timesaving tips and convenient techniques; definitions: fast and clever ways to learn and remember the jargon; and cautions: known pitfalls and problems to avoid to save you time and headaches.
The Official CompuServe 2000 Tour Guide
Authors: Charles Bowen
Venue:  (1999)

:The Official CompuServe® Tour Guide 2000 2nd Edition Your Guide to the Best of the Internet Whether you're a CompuServe beginner or a longtime member, this official tour guide will help you get the most out of a new and improved CompuServe Version 6.0 service. You'll get the inside scoop on established features, such as CompuServe Search, e-mail, and chats, as well as an introduction to new features  the customizable Main Menu, the new People & Chat channel, and the CompuServe Calendar. This tour guide helps you find out how to put CompuServe to work for you, from booking your vacation to managing your money. So what are you waiting for? Join the Internet revolution! Open the book and discover how to:Connect easily and find what you need on CompuServe  fastPersonalize your news, weather, and more on the all new Main MenuKeep in touch using e-mail, chats, and instant messagingStay organized with enhanced mailbox and filing cabinet featuresAccess your CompuServe CalendarBrowse the new Shop@CompuServe directory to find great online merchantsFind facts fast and get great deals on CompuServe channelsGive your career and finances a boost using CompuServe toolsView videos and listen to music using the new CS Media PlayerHelp your kids surf safelyCompuServe 2000 Easy enough for beginners  Advanced enough for power users!Author Biography: About the Author Charles Bowen has written several books about the online world, including How to Get the Most Out of CompuServe, which has been a popular reference for over a decade.
Free head motion eye gaze tracking without calibration
Authors: Carlos H. Morimoto, Arnon Amir, Myron Flickner
Venue: CHI '02 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (2002)

This paper introduces a novel technique for remote eye gaze tracking and detection of point of regard that is specially designed for wide use in HCI. It addresses and eliminates two of the major problems of commercial remote eye gaze tracking, namely the need for user calibration before each session and of accuracy degradation with head movement. The new technique uses a single calibrated camera, several light sources with known positions and a physical model of the eye to estimate the 3D position of the eye and its gaze direction. Simulation results using ray tracing are used to study the accuracy and robustness of the system, and demonstrate its operability.
Excel 97 (Basic Skills)
Authors: Jim Muir
Venue:  (1997)

:One of a series of practical guides covering the essentials of each version of Microsoft Excel. Focusing on the basic skills of version 97, the book assumes no prior knowledge of spreadsheets, and provides realistic business examples to give users a context in which to learn.
Easy Adobe PhotoShop 6
Authors: Kate Binder
Venue:  (2000)

:Easy Photoshop 6 uses a simple and friendly approach to teach you the basics of Photoshop 6. This book is based completely on visual learning. You don't have to read text in order to complete a given task. In addition, the book is focused on the topics and tools that are most frequently used for the most common Photoshop tasks and avoids the complex tasks of higher-level users. Some of the tasks covered include interface basics, selection tools, color, editing and manipulation, filters, printing and using Photoshop for the Web.