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The Digital Document: A Handbook for Architects, Engineers and Design Professionals
Authors: Bruce Duyshart
Venue:  (1997)

:Documents, such as drawings, memos and specifications, form an essential function in the design and construction industry. Throughout the lifecycle of a built asset, starting from an initial design idea, right through to a final built form and its ongoing management, thousands, even millions of documents can be used to convey various forms of information to a range of interested parties. In many ways, therefore, the success of a design, or construction-based company, relies upon an understanding of the use of documents, as well as the technologies and techniques that are used to create them. The Digital Document provides an extensive background to the issues and technologies surrounding this very important topic. It examines a technical subject in an insightful manner that is neither intimidating nor confusing, even to the novice computer user. By introducing the subject through a series of preliminary reviews of current practices and essential computing technologies, the reader is able to better appreciate the benefits and capabilities of a wide range of digital document types. This book explores the role of documents in a professional practice, examines the components, capabilities, viability, and use of digital documents in the design and construction industry, and identifies and explains many of the standards in use today. The Digital Document is an essential reference for the architect, engineer or design professional that wants to find out more about effective communication in the digital workplace.ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Bruce Duyshart is an IT Project Manager with Lend Lease Corporation and specializes in the development and implementation of digital media andinformation management technologies on design and construction projects. He holds a Masters degree in Architecture and is also an academic associate of the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne. He has written numerous papers on emerging technologies in the architecture, engineering and construction industry, and has developed Internet web sites for the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and Architecture Media. 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
Paint Shop Pro 7 Fast and Easy
Authors: Diane Koers
Venue:  (2000)

:Paint Shop Pro offers an inexpensive way to edit photos, create Web graphics, paint, draw, and animate. Readers of all levels will appreciate the easy-to-understand approach that Paint Shop Pro 7 Fast & Easy takes to learning Paint Shop Pro's digital imaging tools, artistic effects and productivity tools. Home users can use this guide to maximize the use of their scanners and/or digital cameras. Web designers can learn to use the Paint Shop Pro optimizer and dynamic animations. Whether you want to paint, draw, edit, or frame your images, Paint Shop Pro 7 Fast & Easy will tell you how!
Teaching simulation using case studies
Authors: Charles R. Standridge
Venue: Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation (2000)

We have developed and implemented a case-based approach for introducing discrete event simulation to undergraduate and graduate manufacturing engineering students. Students learn only the simulation methods necessary to support the case studies. Case studies are derived from topics of interest to practicing manufacturing engineers. Cases are organized into four modules: basic systems organizations, systems operating strategies, material handling, and supply chain management. Course instruction is based on active learning. Tutorials and laboratories assist students in comprehending the simulation methods. Courses are taught in a computer-aided teaching studio, so that the mix of passive and active learning can be adjusted as appropriate to each class meeting. An industry-based project serves as the course capstone.
Mastering VBA 6 with Cdrom
Authors: Guy Hart-Davis
Venue:  (2000)

:Learn Programming with VBA to Automate Your Work. Visual Basic for Applications is the most widespread application programming language around, offering you the ability to automate and customize the behavior of hundreds of VBA-compliant applications. Mastering VBA 6 begins by equipping you with a solid foundation in VBA programming, then moves on to clear, tutorial-based instruction in the specific techniques you need to know to get the performance you want.
Alone but Together: Adult Distance Study through Computer Conferencing, 1st edition
Authors: Daniel V. Eastmond
Venue:  (1995)

:As educators increasingly use computer networks to reach out to adult students at a distance, they are confronted with questions about this unknown realm of learning. Why are these distance students attracted to online courses? What are their impressions of the computer conferencing environment? How do they approach learning in an unfamiliar setting utilizing computer resources? What are the dynamics associated with discussions between dissimilar participants of a computer conference? How do online relationships foster learning? What do these and similar technologies mean for us as a society as we live and learn in an information age? Through research that spanned over a year and a half, the author explored these questions by interviewing adult students taking several different computer conference courses. Not only does Alone but Together investigate student perception of learning through this medium, it also presents a model explaining the factors affecting student participation, learning, and success in online courses. The book helps practitioners design and deliver effective distance education through computer conferencing that meets adult learner needs and fits the demands of the online instructional environment.
On the high-speed VLSI implementation of errors-and-erasures correcting reed-solomon decoders
Authors: Tong Zhang, Keshab K. Parhi
Venue: Proceedings of the 12th ACM Great Lakes symposium on VLSI (2002)

Recently a novel algorithm transformation was proposed to reduce the critical path of Berlekamp-Massey algorithm implementation for errors-alone Reed-Solomon decoding. In this paper, we apply the same methodology to transform the Berlekamp-Massey algorithm for errors-and-erasures RS decoding. We present a regular hardware architecture to implement the reformulated Berlekamp-Massey algorithm, which can achieve high throughput. Moreover, an operation scheduling scheme is proposed to further reduce the hardware complexity without loss of throughput.
Presenting C#
Authors: Christopher Wille
Venue:  (2000)

:C#(C Sharp) is a simple, modern, object-oriented and type-safe programming language that provides the simplicity of Visual Basic with the power of C++. Written by Christoph Wille, one of only a handful of developers with early access to this exciting new language, this book covers the C# language from the ground up with rich coding examples, and expert insight into issues you will need to understand to fully take advantage of the power of C#. Presenting C# assumes you are already familiar with key programming concepts such as variables, and programming constructs. With this concise, code-intensive guide, you can get up to speed on Microsoft's new C# language, and begin creating next-generation applications and Web services today.
Documentation meets version control: an automated backup system for HTML-based help
Authors: Robin Green
Venue: Proceedings of IEEE professional communication society international professional communication conference and Proceedings of the 18th annual ACM international conference on Computer documentation: technology & teamwork (2000)

Software developers have used version control systems for years, to manage source code changes and to enable them to reproduce any given level of their software from the source code that created it. Most writing departments, however, tend to perform full-scale weekly backups at best, or tempt fate at worst. The two major reasons for this neglect of document version control are lack of adequate tools and the effort required by writers to deal with the inadequate tools presently available. This paper describes a tool I developed at IBM, the Automated Backup Manager (ABM), which attempts to connect the writer's documentation to a true source version control system, without reducing writer productivity. 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
Comparison between graph-based and interference-based STDMA scheduling
Authors: Jimmi Grönkvist, Anders Hansson
Venue: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking computing (2001)

Spatial reuse TDMA is a fixed assignment access scheme for multi-hop radio networks. The idea is to increase network capacity by letting several radio terminals use the same time slot when the interferences caused are not too severe. We consider two methods of generating traffic controlled reuse schedules. One method uses full knolwedge of the interference environment to generate schedules. The other method uses a graph representation of the network, assuming limited knowledge of the interferences. By simulations, we evaluate the proposed methods in terms of average delay and throughput. The simulation results indicate that the network performance of the graph-based scheduling may suffer compared to the interference-based scheduling, depending on how the graph is created. In a stationary situation, or temporary stationary situation, where knowledge of the full interference environment can be assumed, interference based scheduling can improve the network capacity by up to one thrid, thereby being worth its increased complexity
High-Speed Wireless ATM and LANs, 1st edition
Authors: Benny Bing
Venue:  (2000)

:Understand the technological issues associated with wireless local area networks (WLANs) as a means of providing cable-free data access, easy upgrading and flexible reconfiguration compared to the extensive multimedia and intensive application support provided by terrestrial and satellite asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) networks using this new resource. You see the benefits and the issues related to developing wireless ATM and get a comprehensive overview of both WLAN and WATM technologies, as well as their global standards, performance evaluations of the two network options, and the pros and cons of each, written by an acknowledged expert in the fields of wireless communications and high-speed networking. Designed to provide a survey of requirements for third-generation wireless networks, Wireless Local and ATM Networks discusses how WLANs offer great flexibility, and simple methods for reconfiguring or expanding networks without much expense or redesign, making upgrades inexpensive and easy. It also depicts how ATM is capable of supporting precise and demanding applications, including today's most intense multimedia functions, and it explores the technical issues related to extending ATM from wireline to wireless environments. Current ATM standards have been developed dependent upon high data rates and reliable transmission links, which today's wireless channels' narrow bandwidth and high error rates cannot provide. Containing a review of new IEEE 802.11 and HIPERLAN standards for WLANs, and an examination of progress being made on standards development for wireless ATM, this timely book is an essential addition to the library of data and telecommunicationsnetwork engineers, cellular planners and designers, researchers, and post-graduate students of wireless networking technology. It also includes real-world performance reviews of existing WLANs.
Introducing Systems Design, 2nd edition
Authors: Steve Skidmore
Venue:  (1996)

:In this new edition of Introducing Systems Design, (the companion text by the same author to Introducing Systems Analysis) the focus is on the design of computer systems. The author describes the skills necessary to be a successful systems designer and addresses the fundamental models that such a designer should follow (such as data flow diagrams and entity-relationship models). This edition retains the hypothetical case study of the first edition (a course bookings system) to explore crucial design issues. New coverage includes discussions of object oriented systems design and Rapid Application Development (RAD), including the impact of Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE). Use of the integral case study and exercises at the end of each chapter provide the practical element essential to effective teaching of systems design.
CLIP: a checkpointing tool for message-passing parallel programs
Authors: Yuqun Chen, James S. Plank, Kai Li
Venue: Proceedings of the 1997 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing (CDROM) (1997)

Checkpointing is a useful technique for rollback recovery of parallel applications. While extensive research has been performed on checkpointing in parallel environments, there are few checkpointers available to application users on commercial parallel computers. This paper presents one such checkpointer: CLIP. CLIP is a user-level library that provides semi-transparent check-pointing for parallel programs on the Intel Paragon multicomputer. It is publicly available to Paragon users at no cost.Conceptually, checkpointing a multicomputer is quite straightforward. However, when creating an actual tool for checkpointing a complex machine like the Paragon, many more issues arise that require careful design decisions to be made. Sometimes ease-of-use must be sacrificed for efficiency and/or correctness. This paper details what these decisions are, and how they were made in CLIP.We also present performance data when checkpointing several long-running Paragon applications with CLIP. The bottom line is that a convenient, general-purpose checkpointing tool like CLIP can provide fault-tolerance on a massively parallel multicomputer like the Paragon with very good performance.
I Hate Excel, 2nd edition
Authors: Patrick J. Burns
Venue:  (1993)

:This is the updated version of the wildly popular and entertaining guide to learning just the important stuff about creating and working in spreadsheets with Excel.A lighthearted and humorous tone explains to readers such topics as effective formatting, utilizing key functions, and building in macro shortcutsQuick and Dirty Dozens provide tips, reminders, and cautions throughout the book
Learning wireless Java: help for new J2ME developers
Venue:  (2002)

Learning Wireless Java is for Java developers who want to quickly come up to speed and create applications for the Micro Edition audience. This book covers the Connected, Limited Device Configuration and the Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP), both currently available from Javasoft. The CLDC contains APIs for small devices that are constrained by both memory and processing power. MIDP builds on top of the CLDC and adds APIs specifically for devices such as mobile phones and pagers, allowing programmers to create MIDlet applications.
Fast and secure distributed read-only file system
Authors: Kevin Fu, M. Frans Kaashoek, David Mazières
Venue: ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS) (2002)

Internet users increasingly rely on publicly available data for everything from software installation to investment decisions. Unfortunately, the vast majority of public content on the Internet comes with no integrity or authenticity guarantees. This paper presents the self-certifying read-only file system, a content distribution system providing secure, scalable access to public, read-only data.The read-only file system makes the security of published content independent from that of the distribution infrastructure. In a secure area (perhaps off-line), a publisher creates a digitally signed database out of a file system's contents. The publisher then replicates the database on untrusted content-distribution servers, allowing for high availability.The read-only file system avoids performing any cryptographic operations on servers and keeps the overhead of cryptography low on clients, allowing servers to scale to a large number of clients. Measurements of an implementation show that an individual server running on a 550-Mhz Pentium III with FreeBSD can support 1,012 connections per second and 300 concurrent clients compiling a large software package.
Advanced grouping and aggregation for data integration
Authors: Eike Schallehn, Kai-Uwe Sattler, Gunter Saake
Venue: Proceedings of the tenth international conference on Information and knowledge management (2001)

New applications from the areas of analytical data processing and data integration require powerful features to condense and reconcile available data. As outlined in [1], the general concept of grouping and aggregation appears to be a fitting paradigm for a number of these issues, but in its common form of equality based groups or with current extensions like simple user-defined functions to derive group-by values on a per tuple basis and restricted aggregate functions a number of problems remain unsolved. We describe two extensions to the grouping mechanism, a generic one to support holistic user-defined grouping functions and higher level construct that provides similarity based grouping suitable in a number of applications like duplicate detection and elimination.
Web Publishing with HTML Version X (Easy)
Authors: Que Corporation
Venue:  (1997)

:Step-by-step lessons show you how to quickly create your first Web page, add graphics to your Web pages, organize pages with lists, use frames to create cool page layouts, add counters and guestbooks to your page, and covers the latest Netscape and Internet Explorers tags.
Odour Detection by Mobile Robots
Authors: R. Andrew Russell
Venue:  (2000)

:Insects are extremely successful creatures, thriving in our ever-changing and unpredictable world. One of the factors behind their success is the use of odour to increase their efficiency when searching for food, to help navigate between a source of food and their nest and to enable them to find a mate. Mobile robots would have their capabilities greatly enhanced if they could make use of similar techniques. This important book describes current research aimed at giving robots the ability to generate, detect and discriminate between odours, together with the control algorithms using such sensory information.
Formal Specification Techniques for Engineering Modular C Programs
Authors: Yang Meng Tan
Venue:  (1996)

:Software is difficult to develop, maintain, and reuse. Two contributing factors to this difficulty are the lack of modular design and good program documentation. The lack of modular design in software makes software changes more difficult to implement. The lack of good program documentation makes programs more difficult to understand and to maintain. Formal Specification Techniques for Engineering Modular C Programs describes a novel approach to promote program modularity. This book presents a formal specification language that promotes software modularity through the use of abstract data types even though the underlying programming language does not have such support. This language is structured to allow useful information to be extracted from a specification and used to perform some consistency checks between the specification and its implementation. Formal Specification Techniques for Engineering Modular C Programs also describes a specification-driven software reengineering process model for improving existing programs. The aim of this process is to make existing programs easier to maintain and reuse while keeping their essential functionalities unchanged. Formal Specification Techniques for Engineering Modular C Programs is suitable as a secondary text for graduate level courses in software engineering, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry.
Developing Applications With Microsoft Visual Basic Advanced Topics, 10th edition
Authors: Michael V. Ekedahl
Venue:  (1998)

:This text is designed for an advanced course in Visual Basic. It provides the tools to create Visual Basic programs that conform to well-adopted Windows standards. It also provides the necessary skills to pass the Developing Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic certification exam (70-165). An easy-to-reference table helps you locate the section of the book corresponding to a particular skill. This book is for anyone who needs a rich set of tools to create programs that satisfy the demands of today's business environment.
How the World Was One: Towards the Tele-Family of Man
Authors: Arthur C. Clarke
Venue:  (1992)

:Arthur C. Clarke, visionary author of both science fact and science fiction, first conceived of satellite communications in 1945--and twenty-five years later his dream became reality. Now, in this new personal and colorful nonfiction work, Clarke examines the rapid transformation of our society by technology and communication. As the infant field of communications began growing in the early part of this century, so did the boy named Arthur C. Clarke--who watched, wide-eyed, as his small English village was transformed overnight. In his job as the village switchboard operator he once overloaded the circuits, excitedly eavesdropping on his first transatlantic call. From there his involvement grew more and more technical, culminating in his now-famous paper "Extra-Terrestrial Relays," which anticipated many of the developments of the next fifty years. For five thousand years communication never advanced beyond the speed of horse and wind-driven ship--but in the explosive span of thirty years, it changed forever. Newer, faster communication toppled tyranny, won wars, and changed history all the way from the second Russian Revolution to the Gulf war. Here is the story of the stranger-than-fiction mishaps, oversights, capricious acts of fate, and incredible human energy that eventually transformed the earth into our modern global village. Clarke brings unique expertise and a lifetime of experience to How the World Was One. Beginning with submarine cables, through the development of fiber optics and communications satellites, and then projecting far into a future of neutrino, gravitational, and tachyon (faster than light) communications, Arthur C. Clarke shows how these remarkable innovations shaped and changed the earth--and made the world one.
The Computer Glossary: The Complete Illustrated Desk Reference, 7th edition
Authors: Alan Freedman
Venue:  (1994)

:If you want instant access to the latest computer terms and technology, The Computer Glossary is for you. Becauseyou can load this best-selling reference right on your computer! The software (both DOS and Windows versions) has so many useful features it's hard to list them all. For starters, it's chock full of up-to-the-minute information, written in a concise, jargon-free style that's jperfect for every level of computer user. Even technophobes love it! Easy on the eyes, and easy to use, this electronic dictionary will give you faster access to related definitions than you ever would have thought possible. Just click on a term and presto -- you're there! Or use the scroll bars to get you where you want to go. It's that simple.