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Change management of distributed systems
Authors: Jeff Kramer, Jeff Magee
Venue: Proceedings of the 3rd workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: Autonomy or interdependence in distributed systems? (1988)

One of the major challenges in the use of distributed computing systems is the accomodation of evolutionary change. Systems evolve as human needs change, technology changes and the application environment changes. These changes may require modification of a function already provided by the system, or extension by the introduction of new functions. In general, evolutionary changes are difficult to accomodate as they cannot be predicted at the time the system is designed. Consequently, systems should be sufficiently flexible to permit arbitrary, incremental changes. Furthermore we believe that systems must be capable of supporting such change dynamically, without interrupting the processing of those parts of the system which are not directly affected.Distributed systems are specified and constructed in terms of their software structure (configuration). It is therefore appropriate that changes should be specified in terms of structure and managed at the configuration level in terms of software components (nodes) and their interconnections [1]. Change management should thus permit the introduction of arbitrary changes to a system configuration and separate the application concerns from those at the configuration level. This permits the formulation of general structural rules for change without the need to consider application state, and the specification of application actions without knowledge of the actual changes which may be introduced. In addition, the changes can be effected in such a way as to leave the modified system in a consistent state, and cause minimal disturbance to the application during change.As in most issues, that of autonomy versus interdependence is not a clearcut choice. Interdependence is obviously essential for the interactions between software nodes, while autonomy is desirable for resource control and fault tolerance. As far as change management is concerned, autonomous software nodes enable change to be more easily introduced. In addition, one can identify degrees of autonomy/interdependence. The current work on change management has identified two particular classes of interdependence involving dependent and independent transactions which 'quantify' the effect of interdependence on change. In addition, the complexity of the application contribution in terms of initialisation and finalisation actions to preserve consistency, provide some 'qualitative' indication of the effect of interdependence.This position paper briefly outlines the model adopted for change management and indicates the conclusions that can be drawn relating to autonomy/interdependence. A full description of the model together with a detailed example is given in [2]. The principles described in the model have been implemented and tested in the Conic environment [1,3,4] for distributed systems.
Optimizing designs containing black boxes
Authors: Tai-Hung Liu, Adnan Aziz, Vigyan Singhal
Venue: ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) (2001)

We are concerned with optimizing gate-level netlists containing &quote;black boxes,&quote; that is, components whose functionality is not available to the optimization tool. We establish a notion of equivalence for gate-level netlists containing black boxes, and prove that it is sound and complete. We show that conventional approaches to optimizing such netlists fail to fully exploit the don't care flexibility available for synthesis. Based on our new notion of equivalence, we introduce a procedure that computes the complete don't care set. Experiments indicate that our procedure can achieve more minimization than conventional synthesis.
Sams Teach Yourself PCs in 24 Hours, 1st edition
Authors: Greg M. Perry
Venue:  (1998)

:In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you will be up and running with your PC. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds upon the previous one, allowing you to learn the essentials about your PC from the ground up.
Sams Teach Yourself Oracle8i on Windows NT in 24 Hours, 1st edition
Authors: Meghraj Thakkar
Venue:  (1999)

:Sams Teach Yourself Oracle8i on Windows NT in 24 Hours introduces Oracle's new product in a way that's specific to Windows NT. Each chapter is designed to be read in an hour's time, so you can become productive quickly. Focus is mainly on the graphical tools, such as Oracle Enterprise Manager. You'll find basic database information but not theory.
An application of hash codes for disk file access, using multiple buckets
Authors: William L. Flack
Venue: Proceedings of the 14th annual Southeast regional conference (1976)

Hash code methods are widely used for retrieval of information from tables in memory and from direct access storage devices. A key is input to an algorithm which calculates the memory location or the disk address wanted. This paper explains hash code methods for direct disk access by way of a particular application example.The application includes the use of multiple buckets, where each bucket is a separate disk file. Synonym overflow is handled by trying to place a record only once in each bucket (file), and finally placing the record in an overflow bucket (file) if no place could be found in the primary files.The main goal of this design was to utilize 90-95% of the allocated disk space before the average access time became significantly degraded. This is in contrast with the usual requirement for hash code disk access in a single large file that there be about 20% excess space over the amount actually needed.The application was first implemented on an IBM 1130 and was originally conceived to overcome limitations on the size of a single physical file on that machine. It is now running on a Hewlett Packard 3000. The file capacity is 18,000 optometric clinic patient records. 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
PCs Network Deployment
Authors: John Tsakalakis
Venue:  (1996)

:Here is everything an engineer or manager needs to know in order to build and operate a fully functional PCS (Personal Communications Systems) networkthe main competitor to cellular technology for the multi-billion-dollar mobile telecommunications market. This clear,carefully structured guide covers all competing PCS standardsand clearly explains the design of radio and switching systems,network management and billing,network infrastructure,and network maintenance and expansion. Everything you need to know to design,deploy,and maintain a state-of-the-art PCs network Personal Communications Systems (PCS) networks are on the verge of giving cellular technology a run for its money. By enabling users to carry a single,multi-purpose numberindependent of time,location,technology,or type of informationPCS is poised to carve out an ever-growing niche in the multibillion dollar mobile telecommunications market. Now this practical,hands-on guide reveals all the basics you need in order to design,build,market,implement,and operate,a fully functional PCS network. You'll find a cogent description of what PCS is,how it works,and how it measures up to all the competing standards. You'll also find the most down-to-earth treatment available in any single source of such crucial topics as: Fundamental guidelines for developing operational support,network management,and billing systems; Design parameters of radio and switching system architectures; Building a network of infrastructure,locating vendors,and switching platforms; Network infrastructure support,ranging from operations and maintenance,to configuration,to performance measurement,to fault detection;Expansion possibilities,system capacity issues,and traffic forecasts. Whether you're a telecommunications engineer,network manager,technology marketer,or anyone else who needs clear,reality-based information on the next generation of wide-area,high-mobility services,PCS Network Deployment delivers the goods. 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
The Internet
Authors: Kerry Cochrane
Venue:  (1996)

:An introduction to the Internet, a worldwide network of computers that communicate with each other, and its many uses. 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
Wireless Spectrum Finder: Telecommunications,Government and Scientific Radio Frequency Allocations in the Us 30 MHz - 300 GHz
Authors: Bennett Z. Kobb
Venue:  (2002)

From the Book:One hundred and fifty years ago, the best-selling. books in America were emigrant's guides describing trails and their landmarks, watering places, and potential dangers to the thousands of people planning or making their ways across our continent. Wireless Spectrum Finder is today's essential equivalent for all of us involved in spectrum-dependent technologies and services. Momentous changes are occurring in spectrum management, and any assumption about the future is fragile. Even so, unimaginable fortunes are being risked (and some are being made) through creative spectrum acquisition and habitation. Some nineteenth-century emigrant's guides were assembled by people who never reached St. Louis, but this guide has unassailable credibility because, when it comes to making or describing a trail through the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules, Bennett Kobb has "been there" and "done that." To would-be users of spectrum, making one's way through the FCC process resembles the most antagonistic video-game treasure hunt ever, with unspeakable threats popping up everywhere. The format of the FCC rules is in part responsible. For any given frequency band, the applicable regulations may be strewn throughout five microscopic-print tomes of the Federal Code. Understanding a rule may also require combing the record of the proceeding in which it was developed and often reports from both the FCC and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). Wireless Spectrum Finder does this research for us, and, along with straightforward facts and clear pointers to all the regulations for each band, the author develops especially insightful commentaries. Anyone who hopes to exploit or bring about changes in the FCC rules needs the most effective and dependable guidebook. If Wireless Spectrum Finder didn't exist, each of us would have to create our own. We couldn't possibly do it as well. James F. Loves Jim Lovette is Director of Strategic Policies at Fantasma Networks, Ina. 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
Super Mario 64: Game Secrets Unauthorized
Authors: Simon Hill
Venue:  (1996)

:Mario can now move anywhere in the 3D world, and so can gamers with this book! Game controls allow players to change their camera angle view of Mario. This guide helps players move with ease through the game's 15 worlds and 10 special courses. 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
Evaluating the Year 2000 Project: A Management Guide for Determining Reasonable Care
Authors: Timothy Braithwaite
Venue:  (1998)

:The "Millennium Bug" or "Year 2000" issue can cause widespread, disastrous computer software problems plaguing mainframes, client/server networks, and PCs. Most computer systems record the year in two digits instead of four, so software systems falsely read the "00" from the year 2000 as 1900, causing many data computations to fail. This guide explains where a company should be in its "mid-correction" process by mid-year 1998. 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
CORBA for Real Programmers, 1st edition
Authors: Reaz Hoque
Venue:  (1999)

:CORBA for Real Programmers is a complete handbook on topics that developers will reference time and time again. This book contains the information necessary for developing CORBA compliant applications. Whether you are using C/C++, COM/DCOM, Java, or Enterprise JavaBeans with CORBA, this book will provide you with the tools needed for faster development. The accompanying CD-ROM contains IBM's VisualAge for Java, Entry Edition for Windows, Version 2.0, and Inprise's Visibroker. A must-have reference guide that covers topics such as: -- C/C++ Language Mapping -- Mapping of COM/DCOM -- Mapping of OLE Automation -- IDL to Java Mapping -- IDL to Enterprise JavaBeans Mapping
Legislating Privacy: Technology, Social Values, and Public Policy
Authors: Priscilla M. Regan
Venue:  (1995)

:This book explores the dynamics of congressional policy formulation on privacy issues and explains why legislation has lagged so far behind technological development.
Super Smash Brothers: Official Strategy Guide
Authors: Brady Games
Venue:  (1999)

:BradyGAMES Super Smash Bros. Official Strategy Guide FEatures: All the movesEvery punch, throw, kick, and airborne attack. Learn how to Uncover Every Secret, Complete Every Bonus Level, Defeat Master Hand, and Much Much MORE!
Xml: The Complete Reference
Authors: Heather Williamson
Venue:  (2001)

:Master eXtensible Markup Language! This complete reference covers a very broad range of topicsincluding XML parsers,validators,schemas,DTDs,style sheets (both XSL and CSS),namespaces,XLink and XPointers,XBase,and XML Queries. In addition,several supporting standards,including the Resource Description Framework (RDF),XML Digital Sigs,Synchronized Markup Languages,and Scalable Vector Graphics formats are addressed. Using this book,you'll be able to go from creating simple XML documents to developing full-fledged Web-based XML solutions. The Most In-Depth Guide to XML Available Create simple to complex XML documents and build full-fledged Web applications using this one-stop resource. Covering a wide range of topicsfrom reviewing XML parsers and validators to using scripts and converting databases into XML documentsthis all-inclusive reference shows you everything you need to work with this popular tag-based language. Learn to enhance text with either cascading or extensible style sheets,use schemas to improve functionality,select portions of a document using XLink and XPointer,and much more. Additionally,XML: The Complete Reference covers SMIL and Mathlanguages used for multimedia presentations and displaying mathematical equations. Thorough,useful,and comprehensive,this is the only XML book you'll need. Get an overview of related standards and requirements for using XML Create organized,well-formed XML document structures Identify attributes and add data to your XML documents Use schemas in XML applications to restrict values and create reports Discover where and when to use style sheets,including CSS and XSLExpand XML applications with XLinks,XPointers,and XQuery Learn how to change HTML to XHTML Manipulate XML with JavaScript,and use CGI to convert database information to an XML document
Operating Systems: A Design-Oriented Approach
Authors: Charles Crowley
Venue:  (1996)

:Written for the introductory Operating Systems course,this book is organized around basic concepts in the design of an operating system with plenty of actual code and case studies. Design is emphasized throughout using problems,applications,and design technique sidebar discussions.
Termination analysis of active rules modular sets
Authors: Alain Couchot
Venue: Proceedings of the tenth international conference on Information and knowledge management (2001)

This paper presents an algorithm for static termination analysis of active rules in a context of modular design. Several recent works have suggested proving termination by using the concept of triggering graph. We propose here an original approach, based on these works, and that allows to guarantee the termination of a set of rules, conceived by several designers, even when none of the designers knows the set of the active rules. We introduce the notions of private event and of public event, and we refine the notion of triggering graph (by enclosing also events in graphs). We replace then the notion of cycle (which is no more relevant in a context of modular design) by the notion of maximal private path preceding a rule. By means of these tools, we show that it is possible to prove termination of active rules modular sets.
Computational intelligence systems and applications: neuro-fuzzy and fuzzy neural synergisms
Authors: Marian B. Gorzałczany
Venue: Physica-Verlag Studies In Fuzziness And Soft Computing Series (2002)

The book present new concepts and implementations of Computational Intelligence (CI) systems (based on neuro-fuzzy and fuzzy neural synergisms) and a broad comparative analysis with the best-known existing neuro-fuzzy systems as well as with systems representing other knowledge-discovery techniques such as rough sets, decision trees, regression trees, probabilistic rule induction etc. This presentation is preceded by a discussion of the main directions of synthesizing fuzzy sets, artificial neural networks and genetic algorithms in the framework of designing CI systems. In order to keep the book self-contained, introductions to the basic concepts of fuzzy systems, artificial neural networks and genetic algorithms are given. This book is intended for researchers and practitioners in AI/CI fields and for students of computer science or neighbouring ares.
A high resolution disk I/O trace system
Authors: Tao Huang, Teng Xu, Xianliang Lu
Venue: ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review (2001)

Disk access patterns are more important to understand as the gap between processor and disk performance is increasing. Obtaining disk I/O traces from real system is the first step to analyze disk access patterns, and tracing disk I/O is the first step to obtain disk I/O traces from real system. This paper implements a high resolution disk I/O trace system built into Linux, without adding noticeable processor load to the system. Each trace record contains the following content about a single physical I/O to a specified disk: timings (including start and completion time) to 1 &micro; s resolution, disk number and partition, start address, transfer size, flags for read/write, and the type of block accessed.
Facilitating level three cache studies using set sampling
Authors: Niki C. Thornock, J. Kelly Flanagan
Venue: Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation (2000)

We discuss some of the difficulties present in trace collection and trace-driven cache simulation. We then describe our multiprocessor tracing technique and verify that it accurately collects long traces. We propose sampling as a method to reduce required disk space, enable simulations to run faster, and effectively enlarge the trace buffer of our hardware monitor, decreasing trace distortion. To this end, we investigate time sampling and two types of set sampling. We conclude that the second set sampling technique achieves the most accurate results. The miss rate for the second set sampling method is calculated as the number of misses to sampled sets divided by the total number of references scaled by the sample size. We determined that a 10% sample size was the most accurate while still reducing required disk space.
The Turk, Chess Automation
Authors: Gerald M. Levitt
Venue:  (2000)

:With all-new research and facts unknown for two centuries, this is a richly detailed and comprehensive account of The Turk, Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen's amazing but fraudulent Chess Automaton that held the world spellbound for 85 years beginning in 1770. In actuality, the Turk was manipulated by a man housed in a hot box, working by candlelightbut the secret was kept for decades. Besides playing a good game of chess within an hour's time, the manipulator had to keep track of the moves, work the pantograph arm apparatus, nod the head, roll the eyes, cover up sneezes and coughs, and work the sound mechanism. This work contains a detailed discussion of the literature surrounding the Turk along with an analysis of its hidden operation. The complete collection of published games played by the Turk, many, again, unknown for 200 years, is also included. 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
Wisdom of the Gurus: A Vision for Object Technology
Authors: Charles Bowman
Venue:  (1996)

:Wisdom of the Gurus contains up-to-date articles by the top gurus in object technology, including Bilow, Booch, Coplien, Duffy, Jacobson, Meller, Odell, Rumbaugh, and Shlaer. The editor of this volume has culled the best and most relevant articles from JOOP, Object Magazine, C++ Report, ROAD, and The Smalltalk Report. The result is a single, comprehensive source for advanced information on OT. Timely, accurate, and advanced, this book covers every facet of the object-oriented paradigm. 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
Writers.Net: Every Writer's Essential Guide to Online Resources and Opportunities, 1st edition
Authors: Gary Gach
Venue:  (1997)

:The Internet is every writer's best friend - if you can figure out how to use it. With this writer-friendly book by your side, you can conquer this brave new world and propel your writing career right into the 21st century. You'll learn how to establish valuable industry contacts, including agents, publishers, editors, and more; obtain writing assignments; go where the writers are - discussion groups and workshops that will help you become a better - and better-paid - writer; research topical material for your fiction or nonfiction; self-publish and self-promote on the World Wide Web; find the right publications for your work; and discover online resources, services, and companions in your genre.
Macworld Illustrator 6 Bible, 2nd edition
Authors: Ted Alspach
Venue:  (1995)

:Spotlighting all the latest features, here is a complete guide to mastering Adobe Illustrator, one of the world's most powerful drawing programs. The book reveals techniques for color separations, how to use filters and traps like the pros, and more, while the CD-ROM features product demos, electronic artwork, fonts, and more.