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On computing the Weierstrass points of a plane algebraic curve
Authors: Mark Heiligman, Emil Volcheck
Venue: ACM SIGSAM Bulletin (1998)

Weierstrass points are an important geometric feature and birational invariant of an algebraic curve. A place P on a curve of genus g is a Weierstrass point if the corresponding point on the canonical embedding of the curve is an inflection point where the tangent plane is tangent to order at least g. This condition is equivalent to there being a holomorphic differential with a g-fold zero at P.Knowing the Weierstrass points of a curve gives you information about its automorphisms, since an automorphism must carry a Weierstrass point to a Weierstrass point of the same type. Also there is ongoing research into determining the gonality of a curve by studying its Weierstrass points.In this poster, we present an algorithm to compute the Weierstrass points of a curve and show technical improvements over the classical method. We partially estimate the complexity of this algorithm at O(g9d2) operations for certain key steps.The algorithm follows a classical construction that determines Weierstrass points by the vanishing of the Wronskian determinant. Our improvements relate to two aspects:1. avoiding the direct computation of the full Wronskian determinant as a rational function in favor of an interpolation strategy where we evaluate the determinant at closed points, and2. computing a partial resultant of the Wronskian numerator polynomial with the curve equation to obtain the factors corresponding to Weierstrass points, thus avoiding the contribution of singularities.A manuscript describing this work in detail can be found at the website listed above.
Design Rules: The Power of Modularity Volume 1
Authors: Carliss Y. Baldwin, Kim B. Clark
Venue:  (1999)

:We live in a dynamic economic and commerical world, surrounded by objects of remarkable complexity and power. In many industries, changes in products and technologies have brought with them new kinds of firms and forms of organization. We are discovering news ways of structuring work, of bringing buyers and sellers together, and of creating and using market information. Although our fast-moving economy often seems to be outside of our influence or control, human beings create the things that create the market forces. Devices, software programs, production processes, contracts, firms, and markets are all the fruit of purposeful action: they are designed. Using the computer industry as an example, Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim B. Clark develop a powerful theory of design and industrial evolution. They argue that the industry has experienced previously unimaginable levels of innovation and growth because it embraced the concept of modularity, building complex products from smaller subsystems that can be designed independently yet function together as a whole. Modularity freed designers to experiment with different approaches, as long as they obeyed the established design rules. Drawing upon the literatures of industrial organization, real options, and computer architecture, the authors provide insight into the forces of change that drive today's economy.
Edutainment Comes Alive
Authors: William P. Mann, Brian Prestwood
Venue:  (1994)

:Users are guided through the wonderful world of edutainment by exploring the field of educational and entertainment software. This book also discusses basic features and explains how to upgrade a PC for edutainment use.Extensive coverage of edutainment titles that are available, their features, and how to get them up and runningExamines the features of edutainment software, including reference, entertainment, and game titlesCD-ROM features over 500 MB of demos and playable games
The Creating an Web Page
Authors: Paul McFedries
Venue:  (1999)

:The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating an HTML Web Page, Fourth Edition, provides you with the tools you need to create and customize your Web pages. A careful, step-by-step approach enables you to build and publish your first Web page. With the basics in place, you are slowly introduced to more advanced concepts such as tables, forms, frames, and style sheets. Many examples illustrate each new concept, and you are encouraged to use and build upon these examples. Many new Web page concepts are covered, including XML, style sheets and JavaScript programs.
The Internet for Physicians, 3rd edition
Authors: Roger P. Smith, Margaret J. Edwards
Venue:  (2001)

:In this Third Edition, the author describes, in clear, easy-to-read language, how the Internet is useful to the physician in practice, how to employ its various tools, and what hardware and software are required to "log on." Building on the success of the previous editions, this book continues to provide thorough coverage of Internet basics and now includes all-new chapters on advanced issues and options facing the seasoned surfer. Updates address choosing a service provider, search secrets, designing a personal Web page, HTML programming, Internet security, laptop vs. desktop, and hardware decisions such as choosing a platform. An expanded glossary explains Internet-related terms and a detailed bibliography suggests further reading. Additionally, the book offers an extensive directory of over 600 Internet medical resources, organized by disease and medical specialty, for both physicians and patients. With each site personally reviewed by the author, it is a treasure trove of information available on the Internet. A CD-ROM brings the reader links to Web sites with the click of a mouse.
Supporting diverse mobile applications with client profiles
Authors: Laura Bright, Samrat Bhattacharjee, Louiqa Raschid
Venue: Proceedings of the 5th ACM international workshop on Wireless mobile multimedia (2002)

We describe a best-effort scheme to support diverse applications in low-bandwidth mobile networks. The improvements due to our scheme are motivated by the observation that different applications typically have different preferences for latency and recency of data, which are not considered by traditional caching techniques. In our scheme, clients express their preferences using voluntary profiles: application-specific targets for latency and recency of data. We describe a complete framework for incorporating profile-based decision making into the cache utilization, downloading, and scheduling decisions at a mobile base station. We analyze the performance of profiles using simulations. Our results show that even simple profiles are useful in discriminating the service received by different applications, and using profiles in both caching and scheduling decisions improves performance. Further, clients who give uncooperative profiles increase the latencies of their own applications, thus providing all clients an incentive to provide fair and accurate profiles.
The BeOS Bible, 1st edition
Authors: Scot Hacker, Henry Bortman, Chris Herborth
Venue:  (1999)

:Fast, elegant, powerful, and new, the Be operating system, like Linux, delivers workstation power on inexpensive desktop hardware. An OS you have to see to believe, it's designed to give digital artists and content creators who work with video, animation, graphics, audio, and Internet publishing unprecedented power and speed. Plus it's ready to go "out of the box" on both PowerPC and Intel platforms. The BeOS Bible is the complete guide for this exciting new operating system, and the first book on Be written with non-programmers in mind. Like all books in the "Bible" series, The BeOS Bible covers it all, from starting up to running servers. The expert authors, all intimately involved with Be, guide readers through the details with instructive explanations and graphics. The most complete end user guide to the BeOS available-everything you need to know to use, configure, print, network, and run applications on the BeOS. Foreword by Jean Louis Gassee, CEO of Be, Inc. Includes over 11 interviews with key Be engineers and collaborators. Part of the popular "Peachpit Bible" series, long respected as the best computer reference in print.
Holistic twig joins: optimal XML pattern matching
Authors: Nicolas Bruno, Nick Koudas, Divesh Srivastava
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data (2002)

XML employs a tree-structured data model, and, naturally, XML queries specify patterns of selection predicates on multiple elements related by a tree structure. Finding all occurrences of such a twig pattern in an XML database is a core operation for XML query processing. Prior work has typically decomposed the twig pattern into binary structural (parent-child and ancestor-descendant) relationships, and twig matching is achieved by: (i) using structural join algorithms to match the binary relationships against the XML database, and (ii) stitching together these basic matches. A limitation of this approach for matching twig patterns is that intermediate result sizes can get large, even when the input and output sizes are more manageable.In this paper, we propose a novel holistic twig join algorithm, TwigStack, for matching an XML query twig pattern. Our technique uses a chain of linked stacks to compactly represent partial results to root-to-leaf query paths, which are then composed to obtain matches for the twig pattern. When the twig pattern uses only ancestor-descendant relationships between elements, TwigStack is I/O and CPU optimal among all sequential algorithms that read the entire input: it is linear in the sum of sizes of the input lists and the final result list, but independent of the sizes of intermediate results. We then show how to use (a modification of) B-trees, along with TwigStack, to match query twig patterns in sub-linear time. Finally, we complement our analysis with experimental results on a range of real and synthetic data, and query twig patterns.
Enterprise Integration: An Architecture for Enterprise Application and Systems Integration
Authors: Fred A. Cummins
Venue:  (2002)

:Businesses are being challenged to exploit new technologies while reducing costs, improving quality, and responding faster to opportunities. Electronic commerce, global markets, and Internet-speed business transactions demand fundamental changes. Business-to-business communications, enterprise portals, and application components are only some of the capabilities businesses must develop in order to compete. Fred Cummins provides guidelines for implementing an enterprise integration architecture that will enable you to capitalize on current and future technologies.This comprehensive book begins by assessing the technology landscape, defining enterprise integration objectives, and providing a general enterprise integration architecture. The author then dives into the keytechnologies for implementing this architecture, including: Messaging for EAI and communication between major business systems Component-based applications based on EJB and CORBA for rapid development and flexibility Using Extensible Markup Language (XML) for document exchange and electronic signatures Managing workflow for process automation and streamlining Web access and Web services for electronic commerce and supply-chain integration Security and public key infrastructure (PKI) to support single sign-on, encryption, and protection from hackers Author Biography: FRED A. CUMMINS is an enterprise Consultant with EDS, chair of the Common Enterprise Models Domain Task Force for the OMG, and has over thirty years of experience in management consulting and information systems development. He also contributed to the UML Profile for Enterprise Distributed Object Computing specification.
Recovery Mechanisms in Database Systems, 1st edition
Authors: Vijay Kumar, Meichun Hsu
Venue:  (1997)

:This is the first book to bring together all you need to know about database recovery - both theory and practice. It covers not just recovery mechanisms in today's relational databases, but also the critically important new techniques for main memory databases, mobile computing, and enterprise workflow systems. Recovery Mechanisms in Database Systems will be an essential resource for all database designers, architects, decision-makers, and advanced students in the field.
Cisco CCNA Exam #640-507 Preparation Library, with CD-ROM
Authors: Stephen McQuerry
Venue:  (2000)

:Cisco CCNA Training Kit, Exam #640-507 is a unique CBT product designed to offer both in-depth instruction on exam topics and a robust test bank of practice exam questions. This product offers a complete solution for truly learning the concepts behind the questions, so that candidates are not only prepared to succeed on the exam, but also in their daily jobs as CCNA certified networking professionals. The tutorials are based on the content of the two Cisco recommended training Coursebooks for the new CCNA Exam #640-507: Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices and Internetworking Technologies Handbook, Second Edition. This new CCNA exam tests a candidate's ability to build multirouter, multigroup internetworks using LAN and WAN interfaces for the most commonly used routing and routed protocols. Each computer-based course in the Cisco CCNA Training Kit, Exam #640-507 offers concise tutorials, exercises and labs, study mode exams, adaptive exams, and simulated practice exams. The course navigator allows users to easily jump between topics, reading assignments, and exam modes. It keeps an account of a user's progress through reading assignments and tracks the results of each practice exam for easy reference. Users can read through the course materials that correspond to a given section, or go directly to practice exams.
Internet 6-in-1, 1st edition
Authors: Joe Kraynak, Joe Habraken
Venue:  (1997)

:Learn about Internet Explorer's new Active Desktop with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 6 in 1 from Que. It enables you to subscribe to your favorite Web sites for automatic downloading of information - freeing you to perform other tasks. Enhance your Web browsing with plug-ins and ActiveX controls. Chat with friends, view movies, listen to radio stations from around the globe, schedule tasks, and add your own stock ticker to your desktop. Use FrontPage Express to easily create a fully functional Web page, complete with tasks, background schemes, forms, and audio/video clips for a high-powered interactive site.
Existence, Multiplicity, and Regularity for sub-Riemannian Geodesics by Variational Methods
Authors: Roberto Giambò, Fabio Giannoni, Paolo Piccione
Venue: SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (2001)

We develop a variational theory for geodesics joining a point and a one dimensional submanifold of a sub-Riemannian manifold. Given a Riemannian manifold (M,g), a smooth distribution $\Delta\subset T{M}$ of codimension one in M, a point $p\in{M}$, and a smooth immersion $\gamma:\R\rightarrow{M}$ with closed image in M and which is everywhere transversal to $\Delta$, we look for curves in M that are stationary with respect to the Riemannian energy functional among all of the absolutely continuous curves horizontal with respect to $\Delta$ and that join p and $\gamma$. If (M,g) is complete, such extremizers exist, and they are curves of class C2 characterized as the solutions of an integro-differential equation or by a system of ordinary differential equations. We present some results concerning a sort of exponential map relative to the integro-differential equation and some applications. In particular, we obtain that if p and $\gamma$ are sufficiently close in M, then there exists a unique length minimizer. We obtain existence and multiplicity results by means of the Ljusternik--Schnirelman theory.
Inside MacIntosh, 1st edition
Authors: Apple Computer Inc., Apple Computer Inc Staff
Venue:  (1994)

:Inside Macintosh: Networking describes how to write software that uses any of the AppleTalk networking protocols. You need this book if you want to write an application specifically designed to use AppleTalk, and AppleTalk network server, or a new networking protocol that is a client of any of the AppleTalk protocols. This book will also enhance your understanding of Macintosh communications and collaborative computing products such as the Communications Toolbox and the PPC Toolbox. Inside Macintosh: Networking covers the following topics in detail: The components and organization of AppleTalk how to select and AppleTalk protocol application interface to all AppleTalk protocols, including Name-Binding Protocol (NBP), Datagram Delivery Protocol (DDP), AppleTalk Transaction Protocol (ATP), Zone Information Protocol (ZIP), AppleTalk Session Protocol (ASP), AppleTalk Filing Protocol (AFP), and AppleTalk Data Stream Protocol (ADSP) the Link Access Protocol (LAP) Manager the .ENET driver and Ethernet protocol handlers Because all AppleTalk protocols are implemented as device drivers, to use this book you should be familiar with the Device Manger, which is described in Inside Macintosh: Devices. If you want to design your own protocol to work with the AppleTalk protocols or if you want to implement an AppleTalk protocol on a non-Macintosh platform, you should also consult Inside AppleTalk.
Scanning and Image Processing for the PC
Authors: Frank Frank Baeseler, Bruce Bovill
Venue:  (1994)

:Scanning and Image Processing for the PC tells you everything you need to know to select, install, and work with today's most powerful scanners and imaging software. Frank Baeseler and Bruce Bovill take you on a comprehensive tour through the latest scanning technologies and applications - what's available, what they can and can't do, and how to optimize their performance. Inside, you'll find dozens of scanned image illustrations and practical information on resolution, gray shades and screens, color scanning, image enhancement, optical image storage, file size and formats, and types of original images that are best suited for scanning.
Software Process Improvement
Authors: Robin B. Hunter, Richard H. Thayer
Venue:  (2001)

:The best practices for software process improvement (SPI) and related international standards are the focus of this new and valuable reference. It is a collection of original and republished papers providing a significant survey on the use of SPI and software process assessment (SPA) as practiced by companies such as Lockheed Martin, Siemens, and Hewlett Packard. Software Process Improvement benefits: Software managers who want to learn about the requirements and benefits of SPI Software process staff who need to understand the mechanisms of SPA and SPI Software developers who are affected by SPI and need to know how to apply it College students who want to understand the various methods of SPA and SPI
Modelling Brain Function: The World of Attractor Neural Networks, 1st edition
Authors: Daniel J. Amit
Venue:  (1992)

:Substantial progress in understanding memory, the learning process, and self-organization by studying the properties of models of neural networks have resulted in discoveries of important parallels between the properties of statistical, nonlinear cooperative systems in physics and neural networks.
ATL COM: Programmer's Reference
Authors: Richard Grimes
Venue:  (1998)

:COM (the Component Object Model) is the basis for Windows programming into the 21st century. COM is the grand unifying technology on Microsoft platforms, providing the core infrastructure for current and future generations of Windows programmers. It is the object model underlying ActiveX controls, DirectX, OLE DB, ADO, ADSI, and just about every significant technology to have emerged from Microsoft in the last 3 years. COM allows the creation of component-based applications and distributed business solutions. ATL (the Active Template Library) is the premiere C++ class library for COM development. ATL is currently at version 3.0 (distributed with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0) and is available with other compilers and on non-Windows operating systems. . The Cliff Notes to ATL for C++ programmers . Covers COM programming with ATL . Clear and concise explanations . Diagrams illustrate the major topics . Extensive reference with descriptions, examples, and notes . Complex topics explained simply . Covers class factories and the ATL architecture . Version 3.0 features explored Professional ATL COM Programmers' Reference is for intermediate to advanced C++ programmers who want to get to grips with ATL quickly. The book assumes a good general familiarity with programming on 32-bit Windows systems (Windows 95/98 or Windows NT), and an understanding of the essence of COM. It requires no specific knowledge of ATL, but some prior exposure would be useful. This book is ideal for experienced COM programmers new to ATL, intermediate COM programmers with a basic re hundreds of objects and components even in the basic VB environment. So what's going on. What is COM. Why is it important. What can VB programmers do with COM. For newcomers to COM, this is all a bit mysterious. For competent but relatively non-technical VB professional programmers, the full story of COM is still somewhat disjointed. Meanwhile, a new type of programming consultant is coming into existence: COM design experts. Why. Because as soon as start writing professional VB applications, you are making COM decisions (or VB is making them for you), whether it be with ActiveX, MTS, DCOM. and some of these decisions have real implications for the success of your software design and performance. Tackles the important but often underdiscussed issue of COM and VB. Offers a global look at COM issues, starting from first principles. Puts new technologies such as ActiveX, DCOM and MTS within the COM context. Discusses the real COM future and discusses some possible implications of COM+ Keeps a well-paced, practical tutorial format. This book is geared towards the Visual Basic programmer who wants to begin discovering the benefits of Microsoft's Component Object Model (called COM) and how to use COM to build more dynamic applications.
2002 editors' choice awards
Authors: Linux Journal Staff
Venue: Linux Journal (2002)

Nineteen categories and 21 winners--read all about it.
Emerging applications for the connected home
Authors: Andrew Wolfe
Venue: Proceedings of the 34th annual ACM/IEEE international symposium on Microarchitecture (2001)

The telegraph was the first effective electronic system for communicating over long distances,but it was inconvenient to use and required specialized training.It wasn't until the emergence of the telephone that consumers appreciated the benefit of easy to use, ubiquitous communication.In the past decade, the typical PC has emerged as the new household tool for communication, whether through email, web browsing, or file sharing. However, for most consumers, the PC is an awkward first-generation system that is complex and unreliable.