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Advanced Control System Design
Authors: Bernard Friedland
Venue:  (1995)

:Stressing the importance of simulation and performance evaluation for effective design, this new text looks at the techniques engineers use to design control systems that work. It covers qualitative behavior and stability theory; graphical methods for nonlinear stability; saturating and discontinuous control; discrete-time systems; adaptive control; and more. For electrical engineers working in modern control system design.
Second graders decide when to use electronic editing tools
Authors: David C. Fletcher
Venue: Information Technology in Childhood Education Annual (2001)

This is a case study of one teacher's classroom action research project in which she explores how and when her 2nd graders decided to use electronic editing tools to revise and edit their writing. Several discoveries were made along the way: students were able to make better editing choices when they typed their writing, but they did not necessarily use the information provided to them by the editing tools. Implications for the use of word processing tools in a collaborative and engaging literacy classroom and observations on the merits of the teachers' application of action research are discussed.
Differentiated Services for the Internet
Authors: Kalevi Kilkki
Venue:  (1999)

:Differentiated Services is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards effort to create a simple scheme which provides a range of quality of service (QoS) levels. It is one of the few technologies to date that will enable networks to handle traffic in a specific manner to meet the service demands of particular applications. This book offers network architects, engineers, and managers of Internet and other packet networks critical insight into the continuing development of Differentiated Services. Differentiated Services for the Internet includes: Exploration of how Diffserv can be used to diversify Internet service offerings Detailed evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of Differentiated Services (Diffserv) in comparison to traditional best effort network services Coverage of the IETF's Diffserv specification-the necessary basis for implementations of the technology Detailed coverage of interworking Diffserv with Integrated Services (Intserv) networks
Neural Network and Fuzzy Logic Applications in C-C++, 1st edition
Authors: Stephen T. Welstead
Venue:  (1994)

:Many books discuss the theory of neural and fuzzy systems, but this is the only one that gives you everything you need to actually design and implement neural and fuzzy programs for real-world scientific, engineering, and financial applications. Each chapter is self-contained and takes the reader through all the steps - from data preparation to the presentation of results - necessary to develop a complete working application, many of which feature interactive graphics. In addition to basics such as backpropagation for feedforward networks, the book also covers a number of advanced methods, including genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, and conjugate gradient methods. A complete, step-by-step guide to developing fuzzy and neural applications; applications for financial forecasting, modeling of chaotic dynamics, pattern classification, and control of unstable systems; provides a wealth of sample code for all applications; critically evaluates how well each application works; and features a guide to creating a complete object-oriented interactive interface framework through which all applications can be run. 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
EVE: a CAD tool for manual placement and pipelining assistance of FPGA circuits
Authors: William Chow, Jonathan Rose
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM/SIGDA tenth international symposium on Field-programmable gate arrays (2002)

As FPGAs push ever deeper into mainstream digital design, there is an increasing desire for high-performance circuits. This paper describes a manual editor, called EVE, which can assist a designer to perform manual packing, placement and pipelining of commercial FPGA circuits to achieve a meaningful increase in performance. This effort is inspired by Von Herzen's paper [15] [16], which proposed the notion of an "Event Horizon" - a high-speed circuit design approach in which complete knowledge of the timing effect of every synthesis change is used. It is very laborious to implement circuits using this approach; therefore we try to augment manual design tools in order to make this Event Horizon methodology easier to perform. This paper describes a first step in that direction, which focuses on placement, packing and pipelining. EVE provides an interactive environment that immediately reroutes and timing analyzes after each user circuit modification, giving an exact value for critical path delay. It can also suggest good placement positions and provide flip-flop insertion assist during pipelining. Compared to a state-of-the-art Synthesis and place and route flow, we used EVE to achieve an average of 12.7% higher operating frequency on a set of eight Xilinx Virtex-E circuits of 250 or fewer LUTs.
Hybrid Problems, Hybrid Solutions: Proceedings of AISB '95, 1st edition
Authors: J. Arne Hallam
Venue:  (1995)

:Hybridness is a topical if somewhat ambiguous, concept. In a research environment where there is increasing acceptance of multiple coexistent research paradigms - at the very least, the so-called Good Old-fashioned AI approach. AI with its emphasis on reasoning with abstract symbols. There is also the Connectionist approach, with its exploration of the synergies of many interconnected simple structures. ``Nouvelle Robotics'' with a focus on the interplay between systems generating skill or behaviour in complete agents - there is scope for considerable argument about principles, research programmes, and the Nature of Things. There is also of course, room for compromise and synthesis. This collection of papers, presented at AISB95 (the 10th biennial conference on AI and the Simulation of Behaviour) reveals both argument and synthesis. 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
Microsoft Exchange Server for Windows 2000: Planning, Design and Implementation
Authors: Tony Redmond
Venue:  (2000)

:An entirely new edition of the Exchange Server "bible" specifically for Windows 2000, this book by a bestselling author targets a major new version of Microsoft Exchange Server. The book teaches readers how to design, deploy, and manage an Exchange Server operation. It describes Exchange "best practices" learned by the author and his colleagues at Compaq, the leading reseller of Exchange Server.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Javascript, 2nd edition
Authors: Aaron Weiss
Venue:  (1997)

:As more and more non-programmers are required to create sizzling Web content, the need for a friendly, easy-to-use book continues to grow. Based on the highly successful first edition, this book provides users with the information they need to effectively use JavaScript to create and manage powerful, interactive Web sites.Updated to cover the latest version of Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer
Fighting the politics with technology
Authors: Andrew Herbert, Dave Otway
Venue: Proceedings of the 5th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: Models and paradigms for distributed systems structuring (1992)

In this position paper we agree with the thesis of the workshop that a significant body of experience in the design and implementation of distributed systems has been developed. This makes us wonder why the concepts that have been developed are so little used in the world of real systems. Our view is that so far the distributed systems community has paid insufficient attention to the nature of the organizations that use distributed systems and the impact. We argue that several of the paradigms for distributed computing will fail when tackling the problem of interworking between heterogeneous systems under the control of autonomous administrative domains. In particular we argue against architectures dependent upon global naming, access control and interaction models based upon a data communication paradigm.When distribution spans organizational and technology boundaries it becomes necessary to consider the overall structure as an evolving federation of cooperating autonomous systems: the federation is not itself a distributed system in the sense of being a superior naming, management and security domain. We are content to be accused of describing distributed "unsystems", since we feel this is the basis for successful distributed computing.This paper is based on our experiences in developing the ANSA architecture in the context of the ESPRIT ISA Project.
Automatic Control: The Power of Feedback Using MATLAB, 1st edition
Authors: Theodore Euclid Djaferis
Venue:  (1999)

:This unique, brief, interdisciplinary text uses the concept of automatic control as a unifying idea to explain the field of engineering - and the kinds of problems engineers solve - to first-year students. The author focuses on the basic principle of feedback and shows how it is used to design automatic controllers. Students learn how to develop explicit engineering models, expressed as linear differential equations with constant coefficients for each of the systems they study. Then, they will learn to solve these equations both analytically and numerically. Numerical solutions are performed using SIMULINK&reg;. System stability and system performance are introduced, and the book concludes with a capstone project in which students use simulations and experiments to develop automatic controllers for a computer-controlled model car. This updated printing makes the book and code examples (available for downloading from the Brooks/Cole Thomson Learning Bookware Companion Series Resource Center) current for MATLAB&reg; V5.
Object-oriented composition untangled
Authors: Klaus Ostermann, Mira Mezini
Venue: Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications (2001)

Object-oriented languages come with pre-defined composition mechansims, such as inheritance, object composition, or delegation, each characterized by a certain set of composition properties, which do not themselves individually exist as abstractions at the language level. However, often non-standard composition semantics is needed, with a mixture of composition mechanisms. Such non-standard semantics are simulated by complicated architectures that are sensitive to requirement changes and cannot easily be adapted without invalidating existing clients. In this paper, we propose compound references, a new abstraction for object references, that allows us to provide explicit linguistic means for expressing and combining individual composition properties on-demand. The model is statically typed and allows the programmer to express a seamless spectrum of composition semantics in the interval between object composition and inheritance. The resulting programs are better understandable, due to explicity expressed design decisions, and less sensitive to requirement changes.
PhotoDraw 2000 Fast & Easy, 1st edition
Authors: Coletta Witherspoon
Venue:  (1999)

:PhotoDraw 2000 fast & easy is a tutorial for individuals who have a limited amount of time to become proficient at creating and editing images with PhotoDraw 2000. This book guides the reader from a beginning user level to an intermediate user level.With this book, readers become proficient at creating images for use in print material, in other Office programs, or on the Web. The material is presented visually with numerous screen shots to lead the reader step-by-step through tasks and it is organized to provide hands-on experience using PhotoDraw 2000.
Benchmark health considered harmful
Authors: Craig B. Zilles
Venue: ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News (2001)

In the past couple of years, a number of software and architectural techniques have been proposed for improving the performance of linked data structrues. These research ideas are often evaluated using the Olden benchmark suite [1]. Frequently, in such experients, the largest speed-up is attained for the benchmark called health. This article demonstrates that this benchmark is a micro-benchmark for enormous linked lists traversals, and not a good one at that. Given that linked lists of such size are not an efficient data structure, it is unlikely that this benchmark corresponds to any real program. Hence the benchmark should not be used. To demonstrate the inherent inefficiency in its use of linked data structures, the health program was modified algorithmically to generate the same output, while improving the execution time by over a factor of 200 on a 500Mhz Pentium II Xeon.
Error repair with validation in LR-based parsing
Authors: Ik-Soon Kim, Kwang-Moo Choe
Venue: ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS) (2001)

When the compiler encounters an error symbol in an erroneous input, the local error-repair method repairs the input by either inserting a repair string before the error symbol or deleting the error symbol. Although the extended FMQ of Fischer et al. and the method of McKenzie et al. report the improved quality of diagnostic messages, they suffer from redundant parse stack configurations.This article proposes an efficient LR error-recovery method, with validation-removing repairs that give the same validation result as a previously considered, lower-cost repair. Moreover, its execution speed is proportional to the length of the stack configuration. The algorithm is implemented on a Bison, GNU LALR(1), parser generating system. Experimental results are presented.
Corel WordPerfect 8: Tutorial, 1st edition
Authors: Mary Alice Eisch
Venue:  (1999)

:Corel WordPerfect 8 Tutorial covers the most widely used features of Corel WordPerfect 8 software. This self-paced, self-teaching guide provides engaging lessons, helpful illustrations, and many challenging applications to aid in building WordPerfect expertise. Written by Mary Alice Eisch, one of the nation's leading authors of WordPerfect instructional materials, this 35+ hour book provides hands-on exercises and realistic simulations that prepare the learner for workday expectations.
Delta Force 2: Official Strategy Guide
Authors: Bart Farkus
Venue:  (2000)

:Delta Force 2 has players serving as part of the US Army's elite anti-terrorist Special Forces unit again. Players will travel around the world rescuing hostages and completing covert missions with tons of new equipment and weapons. Players are now able to shout out commands to their computer generated squad team with the use of the Voice-Over-Net
Building Windows 95 Help, with Disk
Authors: Nancy Hickman
Venue:  (1996)

:Learn to use WinHelp 4, the Help file development tool for Windows 95, with Building Windows&reg; 95 Help. The book guides you through the process of creating links, jumps, lists, tables, and indexes, compiling them into Help files, linking them with outside DLLs and existing applications, and incorporating macros, graphics, and multimedia. Building Windows 95 Help includes a floppy disk loaded with sample Help files that assist you in planing, designing, and creating professional Help systems from beginning to end. 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
Coarse-Grained Thread Pipelining: A Speculative Parallel Execution Model for Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
Authors: Iffat H. Kazi, David J. Lilja
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (2001)

This paper presents a new parallelization model, called coarse-grained thread pipelining, for exploiting speculative coarse-grained parallelism from general-purpose application programs in shared-memory multiprocessor systems. This parallelization model, which is based on the fine-grained thread pipelining model proposed for the superthreaded architecture, allows concurrent execution of loop iterations in a pipelined fashion with runtime data-dependence checking and control speculation. The speculative execution combined with the runtime dependence checking allows the parallelization of a variety of program constructs that cannot be parallelized with existing runtime parallelization algorithms. The pipelined execution of loop iterations in this new technique results in lower parallelization overhead than in other existing techniques. We evaluated the performance of this new model using some real applications and a synthetic benchmark. These experiments show that programs with a sufficiently large grain size compared to the parallelization overhead obtain significant speedup using this model. The results from the synthetic benchmark provide a means for estimating the performance that can be obtained from application programs that will be parallelized with this model. The library routines developed for this thread pipelining model are also useful for evaluating the correctness of the codes generated by the superthreaded compiler and in debugging and verifying the simulator for the superthreaded processor.
Shogun: Total War: Prima's Official Strategy Guide
Authors: Dean Evans
Venue:  (2000)

:You are the feuding warlord, a daimyo, who is attempting to unite Japan by any means necessary. If you can build the greatest army in Japan, then you can crown yourself Shogun. With Shogun: Total War--Prima's Official Strategy Guide, you'll have everything you need to unite Japan under one leader: you. Inside you'll find key strategies to help you become the Shogun, walkthroughs of every level, explanations of all of the daimyo's unique moves and actions, descriptions of every unusual character, plus more! 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
Kent Beck's Guide to Better Smalltalk
Authors: Kent Beck
Venue:  (1997)

:Kent Beck's Guide to Better Smalltalk, is a collection of his best work from Object Magazine, The Smalltalk Report, Dr. Dobbs Journal, and more. Each article has a new introduction that takes a retrospective view of the writing. Topics include: idioms and environments, methods and metamodels, architecture and pattern languages, objects, classes, inheritance, and all things Smalltalk! While demonstrating the elegance of Smalltalk and how some of its most powerful features can be exploited profitably, this collection also illuminates breakthrough concepts in object-oriented development. This book is for Smalltalk programmers and anyone working in object-oriented software development.
A Guide to Office 2000: Troubleshooting and Problem Solving, 1st edition
Authors: Kate Chase
Venue:  (2000)

:This book familiarizes help desk personnel with the applications of the new Microsoft Office 2000 suite from a user and usage perspective, and prepares readers to offer support based on this enhanced understanding.
Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach, 4th edition
Authors: Roger S. Pressman
Venue:  (1996)

:Well-suited for both the student and the working professional,Software Engineering A Practitioner's Approach recognizes the dramatic growth in the field of software engineering and emphasizes new and important methods and tools used in the industry.
Reflections on "Seven Issues": hypertext in the era of the web
Authors: Frank G. Halasz
Venue: ACM Journal of Computer Documentation (JCD) (2001)

Frank Halasz revisits his papers "Reflections on NoteCards: Seven Issues for the Next Generation of Hypermedia Systems" and "Seven Issues: Revisited" from a Web perspective. His goal is to better understand how the Web has shaped and often overshadowed how we look at the tremendous possibilities of hypertext.
The Internet for MACs for Dummies: Quick Reference, 3rd edition
Authors: Dan Parks Sydow
Venue:  (1997)

:Looking for the fastest and easiest way to have the power of the Internet at your fingertips? Then keep The Internet For Macs For Dummies Quick Reference, 3rd Edition, by your computer and never worry about remembering how all of your Internet software works. Quickly look up step-by-step instructions for sending and receiving e-mail, transferring files via FTP (File Transfer Protocol), surfing the World Wide Web, and much more. Find what you need quickly with our ...For Dummies&reg: Quick References! The design features tasks and commands in alphabetical order, clear-cut, step-by-step instructions, and easy-to-follow advice. "Get in and get out" quickly and find the information you really need without reading lots of extra material. Look for IDG Books Worldwide's The Internet For Macs For Dummies&reg;, 3rd Edition, for even more information on using the Internet.
Windows NT Microsoft Cluster Server, 1st edition
Authors: Richard R. Lee
Venue:  (1998)

:Master Microsoft's most critical component for Enterprise Computing! Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) is the key component in creating a true enterprise computing infrastructure based on Windows NT. MSCS provides substantial increases in availability,scalability,andmanageability to meet the challenges of enterprise computing. Learn to deploy Phase 1 of MSCS today for increased availability and manageability,while planning for Phase 2,with its linear scalability,fault-tolerant architectures,and mission-critical application support. Written by clustering expert Richard Lee,this unique hands-on guide provides you with everything you need to design,deploy,administer,and troubleshoot your clusters today. Coverage includes: using MCSC with cluster-aware versions of IIS,MSMQ,and MTS to provide high-availability and enhanced scalability and manageability; a hands-on guide for designing,deploying,and administering MSCS clusters; a primer on cluster-aware applications for MSCS,including the cluster-aware conversion of legacy applications; a side-by-side comparison between MSCS and competing high-availability solutions for Windows NT; technical overview and long-range deployment planning information for MSCS Phase 2; troubleshooting tips for MSCS,including a detailed problem diagnosis resource guide; a detailed overview of MSCS' theory and features 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
Teach Yourself Visual Basic 6, 1795th edition
Authors: Scott L. Warner
Venue:  (1998)

:Follow the Teach Yourself Path to Marketable Programming Skills! The single easiest way to master Visual Basic programming. Visual Basic 6's new features make it more powerful than ever, and inside this book is an easy-to-follow course for learning Visual Basic 6 at your own pace. From the day you start the Teach Yourself plan, you'll begin building practical and marketable skills in today's 1 Windows programming language! The Teach Yourself path offers programmers of every skill level a structured, lesson-like approach. In each chapter, you'll master one concept at a time with progressively challenging, real-life exercises. Test your knowledge throughout using the valuable Skill Checks at the end of each chapter. Highlighted keywords give you the added benefit of having a Visual Basic 6 reference tool at your fingertips, and a comprehensive glossary gives you access to definitions for many Visual Basic and other programming terms.