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Optimal Signal Sets for Non-Gaussian Detectors
Authors: Mark S. Gockenbach, Anthony J. Kearsley
Venue: SIAM Journal on Optimization (1999)

Identifying a maximally separated set of signals is important in the design of modems. The notion of optimality is dependent on the model chosen to describe noise in the measurements; while some analytic results can be derived under the assumption of Gaussian noise, no such techniques are known for choosing signal sets in the non-Gaussian case. To obtain numerical solutions for non-Gaussian detectors, minimax problems are transformed into nonlinear programs, resulting in a novel formulation yielding problems with relatively few variables and many inequality constraints. Using sequential quadratic programming, optimal signal sets are obtained for a variety of noise distributions.
Recent duplication, evolution and assembly of the human genome
Authors: Evan E. Eichler
Venue: Proceedings of the sixth annual international conference on Computational biology (2002)

It has been estimated that 5% of the human genome consists of interspersed duplicated material that has arisen over the last 30 million years of evolution. Two categories of recent duplicated segments can be distinguished: segmental duplications between non-homologous chromosomes (transchromosomal duplications) and duplications largely restricted to a particular chromosome (chromosome-specific duplications). A large proportion of these duplications exhibit an extraordinarily high degree of sequence identity at the nucleotide level (>95%) spanning large (1--100 kb) genomic distances. Through processes of paralogous recombination, these same regions are targets for rapid evolutionary turnover among the genomes of closely related primates. The dynamic nature of these regions in terms of recurrent chromosomal structural rearrangement and their ability to create fusion genes from juxtaposed cassettes suggests that duplicative transposition has been an important force in the evolution of our genome. Cycles of segmental duplication over periods of evolutionary time may provide the underlying mechanism for domain accretion and the increased modular complexity of the vertebrate proteome. Further, our data suggest that a small fraction of important human genes may have emerged recently through duplication processes and will not possess definitive orthologues in the genomes of model organisms. I will discuss computational methods developed in my laboratory to 1) unambiguously identify recent genomic duplicates within the human genome and 2) to assess their importance in hominoid gene innovation. The impact of this chromosomal architecture for assembly of the final draft sequence will be discussed.
Evolving Programs and Solutions Using Genetic Programming with Application to Learning and Adaptive Control
Authors: Kuan Luen Ng, Rolf Johansson
Venue: Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (2002)

This paper discusses two feasibility studies of Genetic Programming (GP) to the field of control theory, GP being a method inspired from nature where the goal is to create a computer program automatically from high-level statements of problems&apos; requirements. The first feasibility study derives from stability theory and deals with evolving a program that can solve discrete-time Lyapunov equations. The second application of GP tackles the problem of producing a self-evolved Model Reference Adaptive System (MRAS). Basic structure of the programs used in the experiments are only marginally different, yet applied to seemingly quite different problems. In the first feasibility study, it was observed that GP, beside correct usage of global variables, could also purposely arrange mathematical functions and operations in an iterative manner without being explicitly programmed for the task. In the second feasibility study, a controller was evolved for a second-order process based on a pre-defined reference model.
Organize Your Finances with Quicken Deluxe 98 in a Weekend, 1st edition
Authors: Diane Tinney, Michael Meadhra, Gail Perry
Venue:  (1998)

:It's now possible to keep track of balances on bank accounts and credit cards, create a budget and learn how to use it, track potential investments, project income tax, and plan for retirement, all with one simple program. This book offers much more than typical "how-to-use-the-software" books: in addition to learning the best-selling Quicken 98 software, readers of this unique book will lay the groundwork for sound financial planning.
Sortability of Multi-partitions
Authors: F. K. Hwang, Y. M. Wang, J. S. Lee
Venue: Journal of Global Optimization (2002)

Recently, the theory of sortability of partition property has been shown to be an effective tool to prove the existence of an optimal partition with that property. In this paper, we extend the theory to multi-partition where the partition is on i>t types of components. We apply our results to settle an optimal assignment problem whose proof was incomplete as given in the literature.
Fair Scheduling in Internet Routers
Authors: Nan Ni, Laxmi Narayan Bhuyan
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Computers (2002)

Input buffered switch architecture has become attractive for implementing high performance routers and expanding use of the Internet sees an increasing need for quality of service. It is challenging to provide a scheduling technique that is both highly efficient and fair in resource allocation. In this paper, we first introduce an iterative fair scheduling(i FS) scheme for input buffered switches that supports fair bandwidth distribution among the flows and achieves asymptotically 100 percent throughput. The iFS is evaluated both under synthetic workload and with Web traces from the Internet. Compared to the commonly used synthetic input, our simulation results reveal significant difference in performance when the real network traffic is employed. We then consider fair scheduling under various buffer management mechanisms and analyze their impact on the fairness in bandwidth allocation. Our studies indicate that early packet discard in anticipation of congestion is necessary and per-flow based buffering is effective for protecting benign users from being adversely affected by misbehaved traffic. Buffer allocation according to bandwidth reservation is especially helpful when the input traffic is highly bursty.
Managing Microsoft Exchange Server, 1st edition
Authors: Paul Robichaux
Venue:  (1999)

:Microsoft Exchange is a big, complicated application; it requires more disk storage than Windows NT Server and has several hundred configuration property pages and dialogs. But it is also a very powerful and flexible messaging system. However, knowing that it can be made to do something and understanding how to do it are often worlds apart. Managing Microsoft Exchange Server bridges this gap. This book is a no-nonsense, practical guide to planning, installing, managing, maintaining, and troubleshooting Exchange networks. Targeted at medium-sized installations and up, Managing Microsoft Exchange Server addresses the difficult problems these users face: Internet integration, storage management, cost of ownership, system security, and performance management. It goes beyond the basics to provide real hands-on advice about what you need to know after you have your first site up-and-running and are facing issues of growth, optimization, or recovery planning. Managing Microsoft Exchange Server comprehensively explains how Exchange works, what it can do, and how you can make it work for you.
Microsoft Access X/2002: Illustrated Complete, 1st edition
Authors: Elizabeth Eisner Reding, Lisa Friedrichsen
Venue:  (2001)

:Part of the Illustrated series, this text offers a visual, flexible way to build Microsoft Access 2002 skills.
Information Technologies and Global Politics: The Changing Scope of Power and Governance
Authors: James N. Rosenau, J. P. Singh
Venue:  (2002)

:Returning to the fundamentals of political science, namely power and governance, this book studies the relationship between information technologies and global politics. Key issue-areas are carefully examined: security (including information warfare and terrorism); global consumption and production; international telecommunications; culture and identity formation; human rights; humanitarian assistance; the environment; and biotechnology. Each demonstrates the validity of the view now prevalent within international relations research-the shifting of power and the locus of authority away from the state. Three major conclusions are offered. First, the nation-state must now confront, support, or coexist with other international actors: non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations; multinational corporations; transnational social movements; and individuals. Second, our understanding of instrumental and structural powers must be reconfigured to account for digital information technologies. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, information technologies are now reconstituting actor identities and issues.
Practical Data Analysis: Case Studies in Business Statistics, 1st edition
Authors: Peter G. Bryant, Marlene A. Smith
Venue:  (1994)

:Practical Data Analysis provides short cases from real situations for your students to work on. They must understand the problem and the context,choose a method of analysis,discover what the data indicates,and communicate that message to you and/or their classmates. They learn that statistics is not a spectator sport: to understand and use statistics in business,you must actually analyze data and make decisions.
Beginning XML
Authors: Kurt Cagle, Nikola Ozu, Jon Pinnock, Dave Gibbons, David Hunter
Venue:  (2000)

:XML is the latest buzz-word on the internet. It's a rapidly maturing technology with powerful real-world applications, particularly for the management, display and organization of data. Together with its display language (XSL) and the standardized Document Object Model, it is essential technology for anyone looking for more efficient and cost effective ways of both managing and transfering data. Perhaps the most well known applications are web related (especially with the latest developments in handheld web access - for which the technology is XML-based). But there are many other non-web based applications where XML is useful - for example as a replacement for (or to complement) traditional databases or for the transfer of financial information between businesses.
Memory leak detection in embedded systems
Authors: Cal Erickson
Venue: Linux Journal (2002)

Erickson discusses some of the best tools for memory leak detectionfor embedded programmers.
An optimal service ordering for a world wide web server
Authors: Amy Csizmar Dalal, Scott Jordan
Venue: ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review (2001)

We consider alternative service policies in a web server with impatient users. User-perceived performance is modeled as an exponentially decaying function of the user's waiting time, reflecting the probability that the user aborts the download before the page is completely received. The web server is modeled as a single server queue, with Poisson arrivals and exponentially distributed file lengths. The server objective is to maximize average revenue per unit time, where each user is assumed to pay a reward proportional to the perceived performance. When file lengths are i.i.d., we prove that the optimal service policy is greedy, namely that the server should choose the job with the highest potential reward. However, when file lengths are independently drawn from a set of exponential distributions, we show the optimal policy need not be greedy; in fact, processor sharing policies sometimes outperform the best greedy policy in this case.
MAC OS X with Cdrom, 1st edition
Authors: Against the Clock Inc.
Venue:  (2001)

: Part of the Against The Clock Series! Already popular in corporate training environments! All books in this series are built with the same pedagogical structure, designed to be used separately or in sets. Project-based instruction lets users learn the basics of the software programs while they complete real-world projects. All books are two-color & spiral bound for easy use and reference while working at the computer. All titles work for software across hardware platforms—both Mac and Windows. With the release of OS-X (System 10) for the Macintosh workstation, Apple Computer has taken a dramatic leap forward to the world of preemptive multitasking, built-in support for a wide range of multimedia objects, and an underlying UNIX platform. Mac Os X offers the reader an in-depth look at the core kernel of the new OS - Aqua. With unparalleled support for Internet connections, digital video, audio, QuickTime, and other rich media technologies, Mac Os X is also capable of handling older software in Classic mode. Mac Os X provides insight into every aspect of this powerful new computing platform from Apple - and is sure to please even the most diehard Macintosh user. Ellenn Behoriam is the President and founder of Against The Clock, which has its roots in on-site training in many of the nation's leading publishing, design, prepress and printing companies. Today, Ellenn and her staff, along with dozens of professional writers, educators, illustrators, and artists collaborate via a worldwide network to develop, illustrate, test, and publish courses for the Prentice Hall Against The Clocklibrary. The group is dedicated to delivering the most helpful and well thought out series available for the graphic arts industry. 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
A general concept for design modification of shell meshes in structural-acoustic optimization: part II: Application to a floor panel in sedan interior noise problems
Authors: Steffen Marburg
Venue: Finite Elements in Analysis and Design (2002)

The second part of this paper is dedicated to the application of the new concept that was outlined in the first part. Using this concept, one manipulates the geometry of a finite element shell mesh directly. Part of a sedan floor structure is chosen for this application. A plane rectangular domain of the floor panel is defined as modification domain. The number of 33 design variables consists of nine defining the global modification function and 24 that altogether define four local modification functions, It will be demonstrated in this paper that combination of global and local modification functions allows a great variety of new shapes. In the particular case of design optimization, the root mean square value of the noise transfer function is decreased by about two decibel. Contribution analysis allows to detect reasons for decrease and increase of the optimum's noise transfer function at certain frequencies in comparison to the original model. Finally, this result is discussed and compared with other results of structural-acoustic optimization.
Professional Visual Basic 6 Web Programming
Authors: Michael Lane Thomas, Charles Crawford Caison, Dwayne Gifford, Matt Brown, Pierre Boutquin
Venue:  (1999)

:With Version 6, VB has added the ability to develop internet applications on Internet Information Server (IIS), the free web server that comes with NT Server. Previously web functionality was static and limited but using IIS, ASP and ADO sophisticated, dynamic, data-driven web applications can be created. The web is the fastest growing programming area, now a powerful new platform for VB6 programmers to program web-based applications exists.
Comments on an optimized protocol for mobile network authentication and security
Authors: Keith M. Martin, Chris J. Mitchell
Venue: ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review (1999)

The level of network authentication and security offered by a protocol proposed in [3] is considered
The Waite Group's New C Primer Plus, 2nd edition
Authors: Mitchell Waite, Stephen Prata
Venue:  (1993)

:The most complete tutorial and reference for powerful C programming! This friendly, easy-to-use guide is a completely updated edition of one of Sams' all-time bestsellers.Presents hundreds of sample programsIncludes a handy tear-out cardCovers recently released compilers such as Microsoft C/C++ 7 and Borland C++ 3.1
Overview of excelsior JET, a high performance alternative to java virtual machines
Authors: V. Mikheev, N. Lipsky, D. Gurchenkov, P. Pavlov, V. Sukharev, A. Markov, S. Kuksenko, S. Fedoseev, D. Leskov, A. Yeryomin
Venue: Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Software and performance (2002)

This paper describes the architecture of Excelsior JET, a Java optimizing environment based upon ahead-of-time compilation of Java bytecode to platform-specific (native) code. Advantages of static compilation originate from the possibility of employing powerful resource-expensive optimizations resulting in much better code quality than in the case of dynamic (just-in-time) complation implemented in contemporary Java Virtual Machines (JVMs). Moreover, a noticeable innovation of JET is the Mixed Compilation Model that allows a compiled program to load classes dynamically as the Java Language Specification requires. Along with a highly optimizing compiler, JET includes a scalable run-time system that provides effective memory management with garbage collection, threading, etc. The experimental results presented in the paper were obtained on a variety of benchmarks and real-world Java applications. Tested against two most popular JVMs (Sun HotSpot and IBM JIT), programs optimized by JET demonstrated better performance and lower resource demand in most cases.
Planning Support Systems: Integrating Geographic Information Systems,Models,and Visualization Tools
Authors: Richard K. Brail
Venue:  (2001)

:The integration of community concerns with GIS technologies has had the effect of bringing community planners and designers together at the planning table. Planners no longer plan for the people in the communities, they plan with them. With planning support software, citizen planners can move buildings from block to block, tear them down, build complete subdivisions, run new highways in and around town, analyze any number of scenarios, and see with their own eyes the consequences of each action. This reference offers new possibilities and discusses the most important aspects of computer-aided land-use planning. Topics covered include urban modeling, simulation and scenario construction, collaborative planning, and visualization.Author Biography: Richard K. Brail is a professor at Rutgers University Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. He lives in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Richard E. Klosterman is a professor at the University of Akron. He lives in Akron, Ohio.
Designing with Flash Memory
Authors: Brian Dipert, Markus Levy
Venue:  (1993)

:Since its introduction as a commercial product, flash memory has been adopted into a very broad range of applications, ranging from proprietary embedded systems to personal computers. Finally, a book has been written on this innovative technology, helping you master techniques for integrating it into your designs. Here's where you'll get all of your flash-related questions answered: How does it work? What are the different types, and how do they differ? What is a flash file system? What special hardware and software do flash cards require? Learn detailed flash memory design principles. Become an expert in implementing and optimizing systems containing flash memory, whether used for embedded firmware or secondary mass storage. Starting with the fundamentals, this book explains the read, write and erase mechanisms of the flash cell, including the software algorithms for the various flash memory technologies. Flash memory voltage generation and power consumption is another very important, and often overlooked, topic covered here. This book sorts out the essential elements of a flash file system and provides an analysis of the different approaches in use today. Learn how to implement the flash memory control signals and interpret AC timing waveforms. Discover what it takes to integrate flash cards into your PCMCIA or ExCA compatible systems, both from a hardware and a software standpoint (including a detailed explanation of Socket Services). Designing with Flash Memory is the flash "bible". If your job requires you to be up to date on the newest technology, you need this book now!
Process Color Manual, 24,000 Cmyk Combinations for Design, PrePress, and Printing
Authors: Michael Rogondino, Pat Rogondino
Venue:  (2000)

:Today graphic design is done almost exclusively on screen, where colors look different than when they are printed. To help designers and the people who work with them address this critical disparity, authors Michael and Pat Rogondino have completely revised and expanded their standard manual, Computer Color (0-87701-739-5). A boon for all designers, production people, artists, and printers, Process Color Manual provides an astounding 24,000 colors that match from computer display to printed page. The standard-issue Pantone color books, by comparison, can cost as much as $175 and offer only 3000 colors!Also included with the book is a handy cardboard mask, white on one side and black on the other, that allows the user to isolate a specific block of color. This sturdy color guide partly came about due to demand from the people who have sworn by the previous edition: Chronicle Books designers. For accuracy, accessability, value, and sheer volume, Process Color Manual is indispensible to everyone who works with graphics and colors.
A user interface for interactive cinematic shadow design
Authors: Fabio Pellacini, Parag Tole, Donald P. Greenberg
Venue: ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) (2002)

Placing shadows is difficult task since shadows depend on the relative positions of lights and objects in an unintuitive manner. To simplify the task of the modeler, we present a user interface for designing shadows in 3d environments. In our interface, shadows are treated as first-class modeling primitives just like objects and lights. To transform a shadow, the user can simply move, rescale or rotate the shadow as if it was a 2d object on the scene's surfaces.When the user transforms a shadow, the system moves lights or objects in the scene as required and updates the shadows in realtime during mouse movement. To facilitate interaction, the user can also specify constraints that the shadows must obey, such as never casting a shadow on the face of a character. These constraints are then verified in real-time, limiting mouse movement when necessary. We also integrate in our interface fake shadows typically used in computer animation. This allows the user to draw shadowed and non-shadowed regions directly on surfaces in the scene.
Crime in the Digital Age: Controlling Telecommunications and Cyberspace Illegalities
Authors: Peter N. Grabosky, Russell G. Smith
Venue:  (1998)

:Crime in the Digital Age takes us on a journey to illegality in cyberspace, outlining the issues facing domestic and international communities and law enforcement agencies. Potential for crime now mirrors the global reach of telecommunications. The technologies of secrecy and anonymity make detection difficult. Grabosky and Smith illustrate that technology also provides the means to prevent and detect such crimes. Whilst the varied nature of these crimes defies a single policy solution, this analysis is compulsive reading for anyone with an interest in electronic crime.