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Mysql Developer's Handbook
Authors: Joseph D. Gradecki, Jeremy Zawodny
Venue:  (2001)

:MySQL Developer's Handbook is a one-stop resource for developers who want to learn or to expand their knowledge of MySQL. Beginning with a short tutorial on the installation, use, and administration of MySQL, the book quickly moves into the advanced features of the latest MySQL release and offers complete coverage of the application program interfaces to MySQL. The authors also offer real-world examples of using MySQL in business and Web environments. Readers will learn: Database installation and administration Determining what to store, building the right structure for data, retrieving data, and error handling Replication, transactions, and locking Using MySQL with a variety of programming languages Coordinating the use of Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP Application programming interfaces: C/C++, Java and JDBC, etc. Database maintenance Performance and tuning MySQL utilities Tips and solutions for common tasks and problems
Corporation of the 1990s: Information Technology and Organizational Transformation
Authors: Michael Scott Morton
Venue:  (1990)

:The Corporation of the 1990's presents an expert view of how information technology will influence organizations and their ability to survive and prosper in this decade and beyond.
Beyond the It Productivity Paradox
Authors: Leslie P. Willcocks, Stephanie Lester
Venue:  (1999)

:The 'IT Productivity Paradox' is the concept that, despite massive investment and resourcing by companies and organizations worldwide in their IT systems, there still seems to be little pay-off. Information systems can no longer be viewed as a support service for a business - information technology now has a lead role to play in the strategic planning processes of any organization. As we move further and further into a technology-based working environment, a critical question is how the value of IT can be measured and evaluated. This book brings together a group of the most eminent academic and practitioner thinkers in the area, to consolidate what we know about best IT evaluation practice in a comprehensive and integrated manner, and also provide new ways forward. The key to understanding the productivity paradox is the methods of IT measurement used. Improved measurement can not only reveal the IT has often been more productive than is believed, but can also focus in on ways in which benefits can be improved across the IT systems life-cycle. Critical areas where improved assessment is essential include development, and better risk analysis; sourcing, including IT outsourcing; and infrastructure, including transforming an organization's IT architecture. The authors also take a look at stakeholder interests as a part of the overall evaluation process.
Flash deConstruction: The Process, Design and Actionscripting of Juxt Interactive
Authors: Todd Purgason, Bonnie Blake, Brian Drake, Phil Scott
Venue:  (2001)

:The complete book on best-business practices for the Flash professional. 1 This is a book by professionals for professionals: It has a great combination of hard-edged ActionScripting techniques for the ambitious developer, wrapped in the context of proper workflow and innovative design and development. 1 The authors are high-profile authors recognized by consumers: with 100,000 visitors to the JuxtInteractive site monthly, plus the authors are regular presenters at industry conferences. 2 Gives best-of-breed expert advice. Working professionals-designers and non-designers alike-want to learn ActionScript as it's used in the real world. This book, however, combines referential explorations of ActionScripting functionality with used-in-the-trenches techniques honed by one of the top Flash design houses-JuxtInteractive-and then adds further perspective on each subject area by including a substantive inspirational profile of how other high-profile Flash designers do it. The first part presents ActionScripting Fundamentals, not only for those new to ActionScripting, but also to explain best practices and proper workflow to those already using ActionScripting. The second part requires the readers to walk through a deconstruction of the design house's own Website; the third part requires the reader to work through the building and deconstruction of a special site developed especially for the seminar.
Subject categorization of query terms for exploring Web users' search interests
Authors: Hsiao-Tieh Pu, Shui-Lung Chuang, Chyan Yang
Venue: Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (2002)

Subject content analysis of Web query terms is essential to understand Web searching interests. Such analysis includes exploring search topics and observing changes in their frequency distributions with time. To provide a basis for in-depth analysis of users' search interests on a larger scale, this article presents a query categorization approach to automatically classifying Web query terms into broad subject categories. Because a query is short in length and simple in structure, its intended subject(s) of search is difficult to judge. Our approach, therefore, combines the search processes of real-world search engines to obtain highly ranked Web documents based on each unknown query term. These documents are used to extract cooccurring terms and to create a feature set. An effective ranking function has also been developed to find the most appropriate categories. Three search engine logs in Taiwan were collected and tested. They contained over 5 million queries from different periods of time. The achieved performance is quite encouraging compared with that of human categorization. The experimental results demonstrate that the approach is efficient in dealing with large numbers of queries and adaptable to the dynamic Web environment. Through good integration of human and machine efforts, the frequency distributions of subject categories in response to changes in users' search interests can be systematically observed in real time. The approach has also shown potential for use in various information retrieval applications, and provides a basis for further Web searching studies.
Web access for elderly citizens
Authors: Vicki L. Hanson
Venue: Proceedings of the 2001 EC/NSF workshop on Universal accessibility of ubiquitous computing: providing for the elderly (2001)

With elderly citizens becoming an increasingly large proportion of the population in many countries, social as well as economic considerations suggest that they must be considered in the development of current and future technologies. This paper addresses issues of Internet access, and discusses a research project designed to make the web more usable by elderly citizens. This project uses a proxy server to transcode web pages according to user-specified preferences and capabilities. Users access web pages as usual, with no specialized hardware required.
Practical Update Criteria for Reduced Hessian SQP: Global Analysis
Authors: Y. F. Xie, R. H. Byrd
Venue: SIAM Journal on Optimization (1999)

In this paper, a new update criterion is proposed to improve the Nocedal--Overton update criterion for reduced Hessian successive quadratic programming (SQP). Global and R-linear convergence is proved for the new criterion and the Nocedal--Overton criterion using nonorthogonal basis matrices, which allow efficient implementations of the reduced Hessian SQP for solving large-scale equality constrained problems.
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 7th edition
Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon, Jane Price Laudon
Venue:  (2001)

:It's not business as usual anymore . . . Why? Because digital firms are emerging. Businesses can no longer survive today without becoming digital. That's why you need the Laudons' Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, seventh edition, an indispensable text for anyone who wants to succeed in the e-business world. What is the Digital Firm? It's a firm where any piece of information required for business decisions is available at any time and anywhere in the organization. It's a firm where all the significant business relationships are digitally enabled. The Laudons will show you how to organize, manage, communicate, and lead as more firms go digital in the coming years. THE LAUDON ADVANTAGE The Laudons' Management Information Systems is the world's top-selling MIS text. Here you'll find opportunities to build the skills and acquire the knowledge you'll need to use information systems successfully in your business career. Leading-Edge If you want to know how to take maximum advantage of the latest technology and business trends, the Laudons are the place to start. Along with MIS foundation concepts, you'll find the most up-to-the-minute coverage of leading-edge topics, such as: digital firms, e-commerce, e-business, the wireless Web, enterprise systems, customer relationship management, supply chain management, application service providers, on-line storage services, optical networks, broadband access, peer-to-peer computing, business-to-business exchanges, scalability, and high-availability computing. The Laudon Management-Organisation-TechnologyFramework You'll need a framework to help you understand and analyze business problems and information systems as you move into the business world. The Laudons' Management-Organization-Technology framework is a well respected methodology in the field of Management Information Systems. You'll see it emphasized in cases, in-text explanations, and projects throughout the text. The Laudons' Management Information Systems, seventh edition, is a text that not only offers you the most current and well-respected insights into the MIS field but a companion you'll want to use over and over again in your current courses and future career.
Draconus
Authors: Prima Temp Authors, Mel Odom
Venue:  (2000)

:Embark on an epic quest to unite the shattered kingdoms of the world and save them from a rampaging dragon in Draconus: Cult of the Wyrm. Become an armor-clad warrior or a powerful sorceress to slay more than 30 different enemies in this dark action/adventure game. Prepare yourself for 15 levels of medieval mayhem with Draconus: Prima's Official Strategy Guide. The guide reveals all spells and provides complete walkthroughs, advanced combat tactics, detailed maps, and definitive monster and weapon indexes.
Peoplesoft Developer's Handbook with CD-ROM, 1st edition
Authors: Richard Gillespie, Joann Gillespie
Venue:  (1999)

:One of the first books on PeopleSoft,the fast-growing enterprise resource planning (ERP) tools second only to SAP,and the only PeopleSoft guide to focus on developing applicationsthe real computer side of ERPusing PeopleTools. Hands-on package contains real-world examples in text,figures,and move files so readers can follow along,step by step,in their choice of media. CD-ROM provides essential third-party tools
The Business Information Desk Reference
Authors: Virgil P. Diodato
Venue:  (1997)

:This valuable resource tells readers where to learn how to: launch, protect, and market a new product; do business with the U.S. government; appraise the value of a firm; find answers to consumer questions and concerns; learn how to write a business plan; locate the business rules, regulations, and customs of foreign nations; find information about competitors and suppliers; prepare for a meeting with potential investors in one's company, and find names and addresses of venture capitalists.
The Public Availability of Actions andArtefacts
Authors: Toni Robertson
Venue: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (2002)

This paper introduces and describes some concepts basic to a phenomenological understanding of human perception that is derived from the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty. His account of the lived experience of the embodied subject, as the basis of both our experience in our world and our agency in our actions within it, is consistent with the focus on designing CSCW technology for flexible use that underlies so much of the recent work on awareness. My aim is to approach a complex and difficult body of work from the perspective of technology design in order to extract from it some relevant insights and theoretical principles that may, in turn, extend our understanding of what the public availability of actions and artefacts means in virtual space and how it might be supported. For Merleau-Ponty perception is active, embodied and always generative of meaning. This paper prioritises the relations between awareness, perception and the public availability of actions and artefacts because the challenge for designers of awareness resources for shared virtual spaces is that if people are to be aware of anything, then it has to be explicitly made available to their perceptions within those virtual spaces.
Convergence of Optimal Prediction for Nonlinear Hamiltonian Systems
Authors: Ole H. Hald, Raz Kupferman
Venue: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (2001)

Optimal prediction is a computational method for systems that cannot be properly resolved, in which the unresolved variables are viewed as random. This paper presents a first analysis of optimal prediction as a numerical method. We prove the convergence of the scheme for a class of equations of Schrödinger type and derive error bounds for the mean error between the optimal prediction solution and the set of exact solutions with random initial data. It is shown that optimal prediction is the scheme that minimizes the mean truncation error.
Making Movies with Your PC
Authors: Robert Hone, Margy Kuntz
Venue:  (1993)

:Discover the cinematic elements exploited by filmmakers from Chaplin to Spielberg to create your own effective, professional multimedia presentations at home! Making Movies with Your PC explains the workings of digital video and how you can use this powerful technology to create your own digital movies. Drawing upon their extensive experience in the video and multimedia industries, authors Hone and Kuntz reveal tricks of the trade and show you how to: integrate audio, video, and graphics; combine animation and live-action; incorporate special effects to add sizzle to your video clips. The authors also demonstrate the use of current digital video editing software such as Adobe Premiere for Windows and Digital Morph to edit and produce exciting digital movies. In addition, you learn valuable production techniques, such as dialog cutting, blue screening, audio mixing, and using special effects such as morphing, and more! You also learn the theory behind communicating effectively in the visual world, including the "grammar" of video editing - how to fabricate a reality for the viewer; the power of montages - how to mix images to create compelling, impressionistic sequences; the method of conceptual compression - how to use few images to tell a larger, complex story. Throughout this extensively illustrated book, you are shown examples of camera setups, storyboards demonstrating sequences of shots, and screen shots.
Modelling Distributed Control Systems Using IEC 61499
Authors: R. W. Lewis
Venue:  (2001)

:New technologies and standards are emerging which will have a dramatic effect on the design and implementation of future industrial control systems. PLCs and PC-based soft controllers are beginning to use software components, such as object-oriented technology, to bring together the hitherto different worlds of factory automation and business systems. New tools and techniques are needed to design and model these systems, such as UML and modern fieldbus technology. The new IEC 61499 standard has been developed specifically to model distributed control systems, defining concepts and models so that software in the form of function blocks can be interconnected to define the behavior of a distributed control system. Tools based on IEC 61499 are likely to emerge soon to model, validate and simulate the behaviour of complex networks of function blocks and it is expected that this standard will become key to complex distributed systems. Author Biography: Robert Lewis is the UK expert on two IEC working groups defining new standards for industrial control software, covering distributed control systems (IEC 61499) and PLCs (IEC 61131). He is a fellow of the IEE and had been involved with the development of software for industrial control applications for over 15 years. Recently, he has been working in the field of design and verification of safety critical systems. He is also the author of the book Programming Industrial Control Systems Using IEC 61131 (IEE, 1998).
Getting Started with Lotus 1-2-3, Release 2.3, 1st edition
Authors: Barbara Farrell
Venue:  (1992)

:Features carefully tested, practically oriented tutorials; numerous screen dumps and practice exercises; and coverage of the latest release of Lotus 1-2-3. Also includes a data disk which will allow students to focus on key concepts, commands and functions.
Building Accounting Systems: A Transaction Cycle Approach
Authors: James T. Perry, Gary P. Schneider
Venue:  (1999)

:In order to go the distance in accounting, you need hands-on materials that show how accounting systems actually work. Building Accounting Systems Using Access 7.0 and Windows 95, 2E by James Perry & Gary Schneider provides the unique opportunity to use, audit, and help design database management systems. Reach new heights by incorporating the following innovative features: in-depth coverage of Access enables you to be productive even if you have no prior experience with database software; easy to understand programming allows effortless use of the graphical interface of Microsoft Access to build functional accounting system components; dynamic companion CD-ROM contains tables, files, queries, forms, reports, and other information for your involvement in the class; and new "Before" and "After" versions of database tables, forms, queries, and reports enable you to use any chapter independently of other chapters. Building Accounting Systems, 2E is a clear, concise text, that involves you in the accounting systems creation and capitalizes with a realistic experience using Access 7.0 and Windows 95.
Microsoft Access 2000: Cheat Sheet
Authors: Joe Habraken, Doug Klippert
Venue:  (1999)

:Access 2000 MOUS Cheat Sheet provides you with the knowledge base you will need to ready yourself for the Access 2000 MOUS Exam. Each chapter is designed to introduce, explain, and teach the skills necessary to pass the certification exam. Your knowledge of these features is then tested with review questions. Since the MOUS Exams are hands-on, each chapter also includes practice labs that require you to use the skills learned in the chapter. The author has highlighted what's important to remember in each chapter and added margin notes with quick reminders for the exam.
Kris Jamsa's Starting with Microsoft Visual C++
Authors: Charles Wright
Venue:  (2001)

:Kris Jamsa's Starting with Microsoft Visual C++ is your guide to learning, running, and working with Visual C++. You'll start with the basics by learning how to install Visual C++, creating your first program, and making Visual C++ work for you. You'll then move into more advanced topics, building on each lesson that you learn. From creating and improving programs to handling program errors, this book includes all of the information you will need to learn and utilize Visual C++!
The E-Learning Question and Answer Book: A Survival Guide for Trainers and Business Managers
Authors: Allan J. Henderson
Venue:  (2002)

:The application of technology-based learning to employee development has spawned a multibillion dollar industry that continues togrow. For all its potential, though, e-learning is a complex issue that elicits a myriad of questions. The E-Learning Question and Answer Book is a clear and concise guide that addresses common questions, as well as several that should be asked more often. Author Allan Henderson develops internal and client e-learning solutions for IBM. His crucial insights are supported by examples and case studies of how to (and how not to) launch and run an e-learning program. The E-Learning Question and Answer Book asks and answers more than 70 questions in all, including: What is e-learning? How can your company benefit? How much will it cost? Do you need to scrap your classroom training? How do instructors adjust? How do you set up e-learning systems? Will your IT structure support future growth? Should you host your own e-learning system? Should you use a public system? What are e-learning standards? Should you care about them? Writing from experience, Henderson answers real business questions about e-learning. Author Biography: Allan Henderson (Marietta, GA) is Senior Global E-Learning Strategy Analyst at IBM, where he has also managed business transformation and software development organizations.
Apache Server: Administrator's Handbook, 1st edition
Authors: Mohammed J. Kabir, J. Mohammed
Venue:  (1999)

:Your company wants that Web site back online - immediately. Sound familiar? Apache Server Administrator's Handbook is the book that will bail you out - a one-stop nuts-and-bolts reference that puts real-world solutions at your fingertips. Superbly organized and packed with crystal clear action steps, it's the one book you'll carry around and consult every day.
Knowledge Representation and Relation Nets
Authors: Aletta E. Geldenhuys, Rooyen Hendrik O. Van, Franz Stetter
Venue:  (1999)

:Knowledge Representation and Relation Nets introduces a fresh approach to knowledge representation that can be used to organize study material in a convenient, teachable and learnable form. The method extends and formalizes concept mapping by developing knowledge representation as a structure of concepts and the relationships among them. Such a formal description of analogy results in a controlled method of modeling "new" knowledge in terms of "existing" knowledge in teaching and learning situations, and its applications result in a consistent and well-organized approach to problem solving. Additionally, strategies for the presentation of study material to learners arise naturally in this representation. Knowledge Representation and Relation Nets is an excellent resource for teachers, courseware designers and researchers in knowledge representation, cognitive science, theories of learning, the psychology of education, and structural modeling.
A Sharp Lagrange Multiplier Rule for Nonsmooth Mathematical Programming Problems Involving Equality Constraints
Authors: X. Wang, V. Jeyakumar
Venue: SIAM Journal on Optimization (1999)

It is shown that a Lagrange multiplier rule that uses approximate Jacobians holds for mathematical programming problems involving Lipschitzian functions, finitely many equality constraints, and convex set constraints. It is sharper than the corresponding Lagrange multiplier rules for the convex-valued subdifferentials such as those of Clarke [Optimization and Nonsmooth Analysis, 2nd ed., SIAM, 1990] and Michel and Penot [Differential Integral Equations, 5 (1992), pp. 433--454]. The Lagrange multiplier result is obtained by means of a controllability criterion and the theory of fans developed by A. D. Ioffe [Math. Oper. Res., 9 (1984), pp. 159--189, Math. Programming, 58 (1993), pp. 137--145]. As an application, necessary optimality conditions are derived for a class of constrained minimax problems. An example is discussed to illustrate the nature of the multiplier rule.