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A modular software real-time brain wave detection system
Authors: A. A. Arroyo, D. G. Childers
Venue: Proceedings of the 20th annual Southeast regional conference (1982)

The philosophy behind the modular design and implementation of a computer-driven facility to collect and process EEG records is illustrated. The software modules are stand-alone programs in their own right that can externally be reconfigured into the components to solve a more complex problem. As such, they behave like the "commands" of a command line interpreter (CLI). They are easily invoked by the use of operating system macros without increasing the demands on the system operator. By the use of an experiment parameter and specifications table (a common data base) the specifics of a given series of experiments are prestored well in advance of data collection; specification of a new table filename changes the nature of the experiment. Complete operating system macro "menus" can be predesigned and stored. To change the experiment the operator simply changes the "menu". The system has been used to collect and process single visual evoked responses (unaveraged EEG records) elicited from human subjects for a series of cognitive experiments with relatively good classification error rates.
Iterative Dynamic Programming, 1st edition
Authors: Rein Luus
Venue:  (2000)

:Dynamic programming is a powerful method for solving optimizationproblems, but has a number of drawbacks that limit its use to solving problems of very low dimension. To overcome these limitations, author Rein Luus suggested using it in an iterative fashion. Although this method required vast computer resources, modifications to his original scheme have made the computational procedure feasible. With iteration, dynamic programming becomes an effective optimization procedure for very high-dimensional optimal control problems and has demonstrated applicability to singular control problems. Recently, iterative dynamic programming (IDP) has been refined to handle inequality state constraints and noncontinuous functions. Iterative Dynamic Programming offers the first comprehensive presentation of this powerful tool. It brings together the results of work carried out by the author and others - previously available only in scattered journal articles - along with the insight that led to its development. The author provides the necessary background, examines the effects of the parameters involved, and clearly illustrates IDP's advantages.
Data Management: An Organizational Perspective, 1st edition
Authors: Richard T. Watson
Venue:  (1995)

:Contains complete coverage of database management with the correct balance of business and technical material for the MIS professional. This book covers the technical aspects of database design and implementation, with an equal emphasis on the "why" and "how" of the management of databases and the managerial uses and philosophy behind databases. Contains balanced coverage of managerial and technical issues. Includes traditional as well as current topics such as imaging, hypertext and video.
Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 Step by Step with CD-ROM, 1st edition
Authors: CORPORATE Perspection Inc
Venue:  (1999)

:Easy-to-follow lessons that include clear objectives and real-world examples on the new features of PowerPoint 2000. The CD-ROM contains practice files that are tightly integrated with the lessons. A special binding stays flat when the book is open.
The Shell Hacker's Guide to X and Motif: Custom Power Tools and Window Manager Tricks
Authors: Alan Southerton
Venue:  (1993)

:If you want to design better icons or different menus, this book is for you. Clearly explains how power UNIX users can develop utilities that can be used with a variety of desktop systems. The book/disk set presents a complete environment for customizing the X Window system. Features a significant amount of illustrations.
Crossing the bridge while you build it: a smooth migration to new servers and services
Authors: Wlliam R. Anderson, Larry Fields, Thelma Simons, Kathy Pribbenow, Christopher Jones
Venue: Proceedings of the 29th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference on User services (2001)

This paper accompanies a panel discussion by members of the computing support staff at Georgetown University, The University of Kansas, and The University of Oregon. Each school migrated its customers to a new e-mail system; some of the migrations included other services, such as web hosting and calendaring.Georgetown University migrated from a GroupWise mail and calendaring system and UNIX mail to Netscape (now iPlanet) Messaging Server and Steltor CorporateTime. Computing support staff learned a few things in the process: time spent ahead of time analyzing the scope of the project will save time during the migration; users will not migrate voluntarily, so it is important to set a firm deadline and stick to it; and users need more help than you think they will, especially faculty.The University of Kansas migrated its e-mail service from a wide variety of systems to a central Microsoft Exchange server, with most customers using Microsoft Outlook as their client. Computing staff spent extra time with faculty and staff, arranged relationships with departmental "superusers," and migrated students using an automated on-line process.The University of Oregon's School of Architecture and Allied Arts retired an aging Linux server that was providing web hosting, e-mail accounts, and e-mail list service. Since the server was small, with only a few dozen accounts, it was possible to give personal attention to each customer who needed to be migrated. All of the services were moved to the central Computing Center's servers, while maintaining e-mail forwarding and virtual domains for web hosting.Although our migrations of e-mail and other services varied in scale and complexity, all of them involved similar steps: recognition of a problem to be solved, analysis of the options, assessment of what it will take to make the transition from the old way to the new way, and considerable hand-holding on the way to the other side.
Task assignment with unknown duration
Venue: Journal of the ACM (JACM) (2002)

We consider a distributed server system and ask which policy should be used for assigning jobs (tasks) to hosts. In our server, jobs are not preemptible. Also, the job's service demand is not known a priori. We are particularly concerned with the case where the workload is heavy-tailed, as is characteristic of many empirically measured computer workloads. We analyze several natural task assignment policies and propose a new one TAGS (Task Assignment based on Guessing Size). The TAGS algorithm is counterintuitive in many respects, including load unbalancing, non-work-conserving, and fairness. We find that under heavy-tailed workloads, TAGS can outperform all task assignment policies known to us by several orders of magnitude with respect to both mean response time and mean slowdown, provided the system load is not too high. We also introduce a new practical performance metric for distributed servers called server expansion. Under the server expansion metric, TAGS significantly outperforms all other task assignment policies, regardless of system load.
Authentication Systems for Secure Networks, 1st edition
Authors: Rolf Oppliger
Venue:  (1996)

:As information processing continues to move toward an open systems environment, the advantages of authentication and key distribution systems over traditional passwords are becoming more and more evident. In this timely guide for computer scientists, electrical engineers, and networking specialists, author Rolf Oppliger explains and compares the various authentication and key distribution systems available today, including Kerberos, NetSP, SPX, TESS, and SESAME. The book explores the cryptographic techniques used for these systems - and shows how to use them to provide the best security for your network.
Banking and Finance on the Internet
Authors: Mary J. Cronin
Venue:  (1997)

:Banking and Finance on the Internet analyzes the technological developments and electronic strategies that are driving full-scale online commerce into the financial services sector. Edited by Internet expert Mary J. Cronin, Ph.D., with contributions from online innovators at leading firms worldwide, the book examines the impact of Web-based commerce on key issues and challenges for financial services.
Facilitating localized exploitation and enterprise-wide integration in the use of IT infrastructures: the role of PC/LAN infrastructure standards
Authors: Timothy R. Kayworth, V. Sambamurthy
Venue: ACM SIGMIS Database (2000)

Two often-contradictory dilemmas confront firms in their efforts at promoting IT-based innovation: facilitate localized exploitation of the IT infrastructure within individual business units, but also ensure enterprise-wide integration of IT innovation initiatives to facilitate business applications that exploit inter-unit synergies. Therefore, developing an IT infrastructure that is conducive to both localized exploitation and enterprise-wide integration is important. In this context, IT infrastructure standards are an important element of the IT infrastructures that shape managers' perceptions about the responsiveness of their infrastructures to their firms' IT innovation needs.This study examines the role of PC/LAN infrastructure standards in facilitating attention to localized exploitation and enterprise-wide integration. It identifies three attributes of PC/LAN infrastructure standards: comprehensiveness, flexibility, and level of enforcement. Through rich case studies in four bureaucratic organizations, the study develops insights about how PC/LAN infrastructure standards influence perceptions about the responsiveness of the PC/LAN infrastructures for localized exploitation and enterprise-wide integration. The emergent findings point to the influence not only of the standards, but also of the organizational context within which these standards are evolved, implemented, and used. The study offers valuable insights for both IS practitioners and researchers about the use of PC/LAN infrastructure standards in organizations.
Radio Propagation in Cellular Networks, 1st edition
Authors: Nathan Blaunstein
Venue:  (1999)

:Radio Propagation in Cellular Networks delivers the most comprehensive description of propagation phenomena in urban, suburban, and rural environments to help you improve the efficiency of wireless communications systems. It is also the first book to consider the full algorithm for radio coverage prediction and cellular characteristic prediction to increase performance of radio and cellular map design. This thorough book helps wireless local loop, stationary and wireless system designers construct radio coverage maps, predict cellular characteristics in communications channels, design and split cellular maps, and predict cellular systems performance in complex, urban environments. This book includes analysis of free space propagation over regular and irregular terrain, reflection and diffraction by various obstacles, including hills, buildings, and trees, and well as the effects of scattering due to such obstacles and terrain. This is an essential sourcebook on radio propagation for wireless communication planners, designers and engineers, and it emphasizes behavior of waves in the UHF/L-frequency band throughout.
Introduction to Java Programming with JBuilder 3
Authors: Y. Daniel Liang
Venue:  (2000)

:This book covers the major topics in Java programming, including programming structures, methods, objects, classes, inheritance, graphics programming, applets, exception handling, internationalization, multithreading, multimedia, I/Q, and networking. Based completely on Java 2, the graphics' examples are built using Swing components, tested using Java 2 on Windows and on Sun Solaris using no depreciated API. The source code for all examples can be found on the companion CD-ROM, which also contains JBuilder 3 University Edition. The overall objective of this book is to teach the reader how to use many levels of abstraction to solve problems, both small and large. FEATURES AND BENEFITS Teaches programming concepts and techniques as well as the Java language Provides modern graphics programming using Swing components Offers incremental approach coverage of new JBuilder 3 features in relation to the topics in each chapter Includes good representative examples that can run in stand-alone applications or applets Contains source code on the companion CD-ROM Companion Website features supplemental material
Evolution: The World of Sacred Device, 4th edition
Authors: Mark Asher
Venue:  (1999)

:The first RPG for Sega's Dreamcast system is here! Set in the 1930's, Evolution centers around a single town surrounded by four randomly generated dungeons waiting to be explored. In Evolution: Prima's Official Strategy Guide you'll find complete walkthroughs for every level, secret areas explored, weapons and items tables, a definitive character compendium, and much, much 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
How to Do Everything with Your iMac, 1st edition
Authors: Todd Stauffer
Venue:  (1999)

From the Book:Apple includes almost no documentation with the iMac. This book fills that void with aplomb-it's the killer user manual Apple, thankfully, forgot. Todd Stauffer is a darn good writer and this is the perfect book for the first-time iMac user who wants to know everything about his or her iMac. From the simple (the Finder, the Internet, Sherlock, etc.) to the sublime (AppleWorks hints, Nanosaur tips, and so on) this is the one book that quite literally tells you everything about your iMac. I declare this book to be the perfect accompaniment to any iMac. Todd's love for the iMac and intimate knowledge of how things work, along with his coverage of almost every detail from hardware to bundled software, make this book the perfect for every iMac user. When the nice folks at McGraw-Hill asked me to give the book a once over with my critical eye, I thought I was going to have to work hard for my money. That turned out not to be the case. On the contrary, Todd thought of almost everything you'd need to know about your iMac for each chapter, and what he forgot, tech editor John Rizzo remembered. By the time I saw the chapters, there wasn't a whole lot left to be said. And for me to be left without a whole lot to say is, shall we say, not the normal state of affairs. I guess what I'm trying to say is that this book is supremely comprehensive. From the bundled software to anything and everything about the iMac itself, Todd's got you covered. And last but not least, the book is well and clearly written, a definite plus these days. The bottom line is this: I think you'll like this book a lot.
Brain Makers, 1st edition
Authors: Harvey Newquist
Venue:  (1994)

:Over the past four decades, large corporations and research labs have tried to find a way to make computers behave more like humans. In particular, they have wanted to create thinking machines - computers that could learn, reason, and even understand the spoken word. The technology that attempts to do this is known as artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is about power: the power of man to recreate human intelligence in machines, and the power of man over those machines. Yet AI is also about the power to use intelligent computers as a weapon - literally - in the wars of corporate competition and personal egos, because in the story of man and machines, man is the real story. In the quest to create thinking computers, there are plenty of outsized egos to match the relative normalcy of the people that worked tirelessly to make AI a reality. People who had been tossed out of every other respectable job in the computer business often found a safe haven in AI, where they worked side by side with post-pubescent geniuses who would rather sleep in a room with a computer than in a room with a member of the opposite sex. Still other people, with no pretensions of greatness, made remarkable breakthroughs that pushed the technology further than it was ever expected to go. You do not have to understand anything about machines to understand the business of artificial intelligence. Even if you've never used a computer, you are not at a loss in the pages that follow. Nor do you need to know anything concerning the age-old quandary about what really constitutes "thinking." This is the story of a technology that is being used by all of the world's major corporations - a technology that passes approval on credit card purchases, schedules the flights of airplanes, helps the IRS catch tax cheats, assists the FBI in tracking down serial killers, and makes life-and-death decisions in emergency rooms. It is a technology that is becoming an integral part of the world around
Massive WDM and Tdm Soliton Transmission Systems: Proceedings from an International Symposium on Massive WDM and Tdm Soliton Transmission_Systems_Held
Authors: Akira Hasegawa
Venue:  (2000)

:This book summarizes proceedings of the invited papers presented at the International Symposium on Massive WDM and TDM Soliton Transmission Systems held in Kyoto, Japan in the fall of 1999. The symposium is the third of the series and is considered to be the most representative symposium on the subject of use of optical solitons for ultrafast communications. In particular, this symposium focuses on the newly developed technologies of dispersion managed soliton transmission capabilities. Studies of properties of new solutions that appear in fibers with periodic variation of dispersion are also presented.
Acrobat 2.1: Your Personal Consultant
Authors: Roy Christmann
Venue:  (1995)

:A guide to using and developing applications with Adobe Acrobat, the first half of this book is a tutorial on using the Acrobat tools. The second half describes how to use Acrobat in real applications, including the Internet and CD-ROM publishing. This section also covers material available in the Acrobat Software Developer's Kit.
DOS beyond 640k, 3rd edition
Authors: James S. Forney
Venue:  (1993)

:Break through the 640K memory barrier with low-cost hardware and software upgrades! How would you like to be able to maintain larger data files, create more flexible work environments, and run more powerful programs on your PC? Well, you CAN! Now completely revised to include in-depth information on the latest alternatives and options available to RAM-restricted DOS users, this third edition of DOS Beyond 640K is the perfect guide to breaking through the 640K memory barrier. Inside, you'll find details on multiple start-up configurations for popular operating systems, new extended and expanded memory options, improved memory managers, DOS-extended applications, real vs. protected mode memory management schemes and memory requirements for major software packages. The ACM Portal is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Copyright © 2010 ACM, Inc. Terms of Usage Privacy Policy Code of Ethics Contact Us Useful downloads: Adobe Acrobat QuickTime Windows Media Player Real Player
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Parallel Processing: Workshop on Recent Advances in Parallel Processing
Authors: Tse-Yun Feng
Venue:  (1995)

:This set of technical books contains all the information presentedat the 1995 International Conference on Parallel Processing. This conference, held August 14 - 18, featured over 100 lectures from more than 300 contributors, and included three panel sessions and three keynote addresses. The international authorship includes experts from around the globe, from Texas to Tokyo, from Leiden to London. Compiled by faculty at the University of Illinois and sponsored by Penn State University, these Proceedings are a comprehensive look at all that's new in the field of parallel processing.
Deciding first-order properties of locally tree-decomposable structures
Authors: Markus Frick, Martin Grohe
Venue: Journal of the ACM (JACM) (2001)

We introduce the concept of a class of graphs, or more generally, relational structures, being locally tree-decomposable. There are numerous examples of locally tree-decomposable classes, among them the class of planar graphs and all classes of bounded valence or of bounded tree-width. We also consider a slightly more general concept of a class of structures having bounded local tree-width.We show that for each property &phi; of structures that is definable in first-order logic and for each locally tree-decomposable class C of structures, there is a linear time algorithm deciding whether a given structure A &isin; C has property &phi;. For classes C of bounded local tree-width, we show that for every k &ge; 1 there is an algorithm solving the same problem in time O(n1+(1/k)) (where n is the cardinality of the input structure).
Get Your Family on the Internet In a Weekend
Authors: Katherine Murray
Venue:  (1999)

:From a light discussion of Internet basics to how-to informaton on creating and maintaining a family-safe PC, this hands-on book enables parents and kids to explore cyberspace and the variety of vehicles for traveling there, via the PC.
How to Use Lotus Notes 4.5
Authors: Erica Kerwien
Venue:  (1997)

:This full-color book gives you step-by-step instructions plus numerous screen shots and examples so that you can get the most out of Lotus Notes. You'll easily learn everything you need to know - from setting up Notes, to managing workspace pages and customizing mail, to formatting and printing documents. Mobile computer users will discover how the Notes Replicator helps them stay productive. This comprehensive book even tells you how to create an Agent, maintain a secure Notes desktop, and use your personal Web navigator. Full-color, two-page spreads illustrate and clearly explain each task. "Tip Sheet" tidbits make learning easy. Friendly, hands-on "Try It" sections help you understand concepts as they are presented. 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
Atomicity and isolation for transactional processes
Authors: Heiko Schuldt, Gustavo Alonso, Catriel Beeri, Hans-Jörg Schek
Venue: ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) (2002)

Processes are increasingly being used to make complex application logic explicit. Programming using processes has significant advantages but it poses a difficult problem from the system point of view in that the interactions between processes cannot be controlled using conventional techniques. In terms of recovery, the steps of a process are different from operations within a transaction. Each one has its own termination semantics and there are dependencies among the different steps. Regarding concurrency control, the flow of control of a process is more complex than in a flat transaction. A process may, for example, partially roll back its execution or may follow one of several alternatives. In this article, we deal with the problem of atomicity and isolation in the context of processes. We propose a unified model for concurrency control and recovery for processes and show how this model can be implemented in practice, thereby providing a complete framework for developing middleware applications using processes.
Model-Based Design and Evaluation of Interactive Applications, 1st edition
Authors: Fabio Paterno
Venue:  (1999)

:If you are interested in understanding how the systematic use of task models in the design, development, and usability evaluation of interactive software applications can open new opportunities and possibilities then this book will help you do just that. Fabio Paterno also discusses related issues relevant to designing user interfaces and provides a state-of-the-art review of the field, including recently developed methods, current results and problems and trends." "Software Engineers will also find Model-Based Design and Evaluation of Interactive Applications a great help when developing projects.