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Accounting And Auditing on Aix 5l
Authors: Octavian Lascu
Venue:  (2004)

This IBM Redbook is a comprehensive guide to setting up, maintaining, and troubleshooting the advanced auditing and accounting features on AIX 5L systems. It goes through the steps to develop, monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize best practices for auditing and accounting in your environment. We provide an overview of what auditing and accounting can do for you, how to set up an auditing system, procedures for creating the right accounting system for your environment, and a summary of available third-party accounting systems that can plug into the AIX suite. Learn to decide how much accounting and auditing you need to do on your system and how to size subsystems to handle your requirements, and find a list of rules to help prevent and fix common mistakes. We also present the new AIX 5L V5.3 feature Advanced Accounting, which is based on mainframe technology such as interval accounting and transaction accounting. Advanced Accounting supports LPAR (logical partitioning), WLM (Workload Management), and Micro-Partitioning. This book is useful for system administrators, system security officers, companies needing to bill clients for system resource use, and anyone else looking for a flexible system to monitor system resources.
Finding probably best system configurations quickly
Authors: Takayuki Osogami
Venue: ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review (2006)

Computer systems often have many possible configurations, and designing a high performance system often requires selecting the best configuration. Unfortunately, the performance of complex systems can often be estimated only via simulations, or with measurements of real systems. Since longer simulation times are required to estimate the performance more accurately, it is often computationally intractable to estimate the performance of all configurations accurately via simulations. (Measurements of real systems can take even longer.)
Using the introductory simulation course to teach process dynamics and extended operations management concepts
Authors: Timothy S. Vaughan
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

The introductory simulation course is typically structured around a series of exercises designed to successively expand the students' repertoire of modeling and analysis skills. This paper describes an introductory simulation course in which the student exercises, while still providing an introduction to simulation modeling and analysis, are designed and sequenced to develop understanding and intuition regarding the behavior of stochastic dynamic systems. These exercises present an opportunity to extend a number of simpler analyses typically presented in the introductory Operations Management course.
Sound Forge 8 Power!: The Official Guide (Power!)
Authors: Scott R. Garrigus
Venue:  (2005)

Coverage includes- Scott R. Garrigus has been involved with music and computers since he was 12 years old. After graduating from high school, he went on to earn a B.A. in music performance with an emphasis in sound recording technology at UMass, Lowell. In 1993, he released his first instrumental album on cassette, entitled "Pieces Of Imagination." In 1995, he began his professional writing career when his first article appeared in Electronic Musician magazine. In 2000, he authored his first book, Cakewalk Power! This was the first book to deal exclusively with the Cakewalk Pro Audio, Guitar Studio, and Home Studio software applications. Since then he has authored a number of other titles including Sound Forge Power!, SONAR Power!, SONAR 2 Power!, Sound Forge 6 Power!, SONAR 3 Power!, and SONAR 4 Power! Today, Garrigus continues to contribute articles to a number of print and online publications. He also publishes his own music technology e-zine, called DigiFreq (www.digifreq.com), which provides free news, reviews, tips, and techniques for music technology and home recording users. Provides detailed explanations of the many features within the newest version of the popular audio editing application, Sound Forge 8. Geared towards current users of Sound Forge who want to gain an in-depth understanding of this application. Includes a very detailed index so readers can find information quickly and easily. Covers all the essential, as well as the not so common, functions that can save time for Sound Forge users. 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
Show Me Microsoft Office Word 2003
Authors: Steve Johnson
Venue:  (2003)

See it done, do it yourself! Spend less time reading and more time doing with this simple, step-by-step approach to learning Word 2003. Word 2003 provides powerful new tools with which to create, share, review, and publish documents such as reports, letters, business plans, and more for the Web and for print. Based on a proven, successful series format, this book uses a visual page design with easy-to-read text to teach beginning to intermediate level Word tasks. Troubleshooting guides, "see also" referencing, sample projects, and MOS objectives add even more for the ambitious learner. Author Steve Johnson is a professional trainer and author of several best-selling books. 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
Qualitative simulation for manager selection decision-making based on managerial self-efficacy
Authors: Hu Bin, Dong Shengping
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

To explore the dynamics of managerial self-efficacy, a causality model is proposed based on the theory of Bandura's Self-efficacy and Human Resource Management. Furthermore, a qualitative simulation model is built and a simulation algorithm is designed. The simulation is achieved using Visual Basic 6.0. An example of application is illustrated. Simulation results show that the proposed method can be served as a decision making tool on manager selection for enterprise.
MITRE Meteor: An off-road autonomous vehicle for DARPA's Grand Challenge: Field Reports
Authors: Robert Grabowski, Richard Weatherly, Robert Bolling, David Seidel, Michael Shadid, Ann Jones
Venue: Journal of Robotic Systems (2006)

The MITRE Corporation's (McLean, VA) Meteor team fielded an autonomous vehicle that competed in DARPA's 2005 Grand Challenge race. This paper describes the team's approach to building its robotic vehicle, the vehicle and components that let the vehicle see and act, and the computer software that made the vehicle autonomous. Also presented are details of how the team prepared for the race and how their vehicle performed. &copy; 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
The Mac mini Guidebook
Authors: David Coursey
Venue:  (2005)

At 2 inches high and 6-1/2 inches square and with a price tag under $500, Apple's Mac mini provides just what you've been looking for -- a viable, low-cost way to move to a Mac and its software without giving up all of your existing peripherals (keyboard, display, and mouse). Here to get you going is the definitive guide from award-winning technology writer David Coursey. There's a lot involved in moving to a new OS--you have to transfer files, learn software, and unravel a new interface -- but David helps you with everything you need to get up to speed quickly. This book begins by explaining why, where, and when to get a Mac mini before launching into a thorough description of the Mac mini and its uses. David then shows you how to do on your Mac mini all the things you've been doing on your Windows machine -- and how to use all the great software that is available only for Macs. And finally, David gets into more advanced topics such as troubleshooting your Mac mini and, for those who can't give up all of their PC-only applications, how to run Windows on it.
Output analysis for simulations
Authors: Marvin K. Nakayama
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

We discuss methods for statistically analyzing the output from stochastic discrete-event or Monte Carlo simulations. Terminating and steady-state simulations are considered.
The effect of imbalanced data sets on LDA: A theoretical and empirical analysis
Authors: Jigang Xie, Zhengding Qiu
Venue: Pattern Recognition (2007)

This paper demonstrates that the imbalanced data sets have a negative effect on the performance of LDA theoretically. This theoretical analysis is confirmed by the experimental results: using several sampling methods to rebalance the imbalanced data sets, it is found that the performances of LDA on balanced data sets are superior to those of LDA on imbalanced data sets.
Continuous electronic data capture of physiology, behavior and experience in real life: towards ecological momentary assessment of emotion
Authors: Frank H. Wilhelm, Monique C. Pfaltz, Paul Grossman
Venue: Interacting with Computers (2006)

Emotions powerfully influence our physiology, behavior, and experience. A comprehensive assessment of affective states in health and disease would include responses from each of these domains in real life. Since no single physiologic parameter can index emotional states unambiguously, a broad assessment of physiologic responses is desirable. We present a recently developed system, the LifeShirt, which allows reliable ambulatory monitoring of a wide variety of cardiovascular, respiratory, metabolic, motor-behavioral, and experiential responses. The system consists of a garment with embedded inductive plethysmography and other sensors for physiologic data recording and a handheld computer for input of experiential data via touch screen. Parameters are extracted offline using sophisticated analysis and display software. The device is currently used in clinical studies and to monitor effects of physical and emotional stress in naturalistic settings. Further development of signal processing and pattern recognition algorithms will enhance computerized identification of type and extent of physical and emotional activation.
A 2D field-consistent beam element for large displacement analysis using the total Lagrangian formulation
Authors: P. Nanakorn, L. N. Vu
Venue: Finite Elements in Analysis and Design (2006)

In this study, a new 2D Euler-Bernoulli beam element for large displacement analysis using the total Lagrangian formulation is proposed. In large displacement analysis, the beam kinematics written based on the total Lagrangian description is complicated. As a result, it is not easy to find suitable interpolations that are field consistent for beam elements developed in this description. For this reason, existing total Lagrangian beam elements generally employ field-inconsistent interpolations, which result in degradation of element performances. In this study, field-consistent interpolations for a 2D Euler-Bernoulli beam element are proposed. The field consistency is obtained by using a set of interpolations that satisfy a required relationship between relevant displacement fields. The construction of the interpolations is made possible by allowing the interpolations to be expressed as nonlinear functions of nodal degrees of freedom. The validity and efficiency of the proposed element are shown by solving various numerical examples found in the literature.
Computational modelling with functional differential equations: identification, selection, and sensitivity
Authors: C. T. H. Baker, G. A. Bocharov, C. A. H. Paul, F. A. Rihan
Venue: Applied Numerical Mathematics (2005)

Mathematical models based upon certain types of differential equations, functional differential equations, or systems of such equations, are often employed to represent the dynamics of natural, in particular biological, phenomena. We present some of the principles underlying the choice of a methodology (based on observational data) for the computational identification of, and discrimination between, quantitatively consistent models, using scientifically meaningful parameters.We propose that a computational approach is essential for obtaining meaningful models. For example, it permits the choice of realistic models incorporating a time-lag which is entirely natural from the scientific perspective. The time-lag is a feature that can permit a close reconciliation between models incorporating computed parameter values and observations. Exploiting the link between information theory, maximum likelihood, and weighted least squares, and with distributional assumptions on the data errors, we may construct an appropriate objective function to be minimized computationally. The minimizer is sought over a set of parameters (which may include the time-lag) that define the model. Each evaluation of the objective function requires the computational solution of the parametrized equations defining the model. To select a parametrized model, from amongst a family or hierarchy of possible best-fit models, we are able to employ certain indicators based on information-theoretic criteria. We can evaluate confidence intervals for the parameters, and a sensitivity analysis provides an expression for an information matrix, and feedback on the covariances of the parameters in relation to the best fit. This gives a firm basis for any simplification of the model (e.g., by omitting a parameter).
Protocols and model for sink mobility in wireless sensor networks
Authors: S. Basagni, A. Carosi, E. Melachrinoudis, C. Petrioli, Z. M. Wang
Venue: ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review (2006)

This paper concerns the definition of an analytical model and of a distributed protocol, termed Greedy Maximum Residual Energy (GMRE), for determining the routes of a mobile data collector (sink) traveling through the nodes of a wireless sensor network (WSN). The routes are determined with the overall aim of maximizing the network lifetime. An ns2-based simulation comparison between GMRE, optical static sink placement and random sink mobility shows that GMRE yields remarkable improvements both for network lifetime and for balancing energy consumptions throughout the network.
Case&dash;Based Reasoning&colon; an overview
Authors: Ramon López de Mántaras, Enric Plaza
Venue: AI Communications (1997)

This paper contains a brief overview of Case&dash;Based Reasoning (CBR) with an emphasis on European activities in the field. The main objective was to have a balance between brevity and expressiveness and providing helpful pointers to the field. It identifies major open problems of CBR associated with&colon; retrieval/selection, memory organization, matching, adaptation/evaluation, forgetting and, finally, integration with other techniques. It is intended for readers with knowledge in the area and contains a list of more than one hundred references in the field.
Integrating FPGAs in high-performance computing: the architecture and implementation perspective
Authors: Nathan Woods
Venue: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM/SIGDA 15th international symposium on Field programmable gate arrays (2007)

Today, many enterprises are evaluating and in some cases deploying heterogeneous computing platforms that include some form of hardware acceleration or co-processing. Such systems typically consist of commodity computing clusters augmented by hardware accelerators like graphics processing units (GPUs), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), gaming platform chips like the Cell Processor, and other hardware accelerators.In this presentation we will identify desirable architectural features of a computing platform that includes FPGA co-processing, along with practical system design issues that arise when introducing an FPGA into a modern x86 computing blade, including mechanical, power and cooling issues.The main body of the presentation will highlight the promise of these systems using a concrete example. I will describe the architecture, technical capabilities, and limitations of a commercially available FPGA coprocessor, the XD1000™ coprocessor module from XtremeData. The XD1000 integrates a Stratix™ II FPGA into a multi-Opteron™ system by replacing one of the Opteron CPUs with the FPGA co-processor. The module communicates with other Opteron CPUs on the motherboard via point-to-point HyperTransport (HT) links with 3.2 GB/sec of bandwidth each. The FPGA coprocessor interfaces directly with motherboard DDR SDRAM memory DIMMs without the need for an intervening north bridge.Important architectural considerations include whether to provide and how to interface to local on-module memory (e.g. on-module SRAM), the ramifications of coherent vs. noncoherent HT protocol support on the coprocessor module, the coprocessor programming interface for the host system, FPGA configuration, and monitoring and test support for user debug. A block diagram of a system employing the XD1000 coprocessor is shown in Figure 1.
Mac OS X Power Hound
Authors: Rob Griffiths
Venue:  (2004)

In Mac OS X Power Hound, creator and editor of the extremely popular Mac OS X Hints Web site (http://www.macosxhints.com) Rob Griffiths lifts the hood on the Formula-One-powered operating system and delivers over 500 high-octane secrets for finding easier, faster, and better ways of using Panther and the programs that come with it--and even a bunch that don't. He includes chapters on Unix, the engine under Mac OS X's hood.
Web services-based network management: approaches and the WSNET system
Authors: John Soldatos, Dimitris Alexopoulos
Venue: International Journal of Network Management (2007)

While the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is still the dominant protocol for managing network elements in IP-based networks and the Internet, network managers are acknowledging its limitations with respect to configuration management, application development and decentralization of management tasks. Web Services (WS) have been recently proposed to alleviate these limitations, given their pertinence to both decentralized management paradigms (e.g., CORBA), and XML management systems which provide efficiency in configuration management operations. This paper reviews architectures for WS-based network management, outlining their advantages and disadvantages. These architectures address management of both individual network elements and composite multidevice networks. Moreover, the paper introduces the architecture of a prototype system for WS-based network management, namely WSNET. Along with presentation of the WSNET system, we provide a set of experimental results reporting performance figures for the WSNET system, as well as for systems based on other WS architectures. These figures allow for a comparative evaluation of the various systems, and manifest the benefits of the WSNET implementation. An important conclusion from our work is that WS should be seen as an accompaniment to conventional SNMP management rather than a replacement. However, there are also cases (e.g., need for secure remote access) where WS serve as a core rather than auxiliary solution, given that conventional methods are not applicable.
IBM Totalstorage Ds300 And Ds400 Best Practices Guide
Venue:  (2006)

This IBM Redbook represents a compilation of best practices for configuring the IBM TotalStorage DS300 (iSCSI) and DS400 (Fibre). These workgroup storage subsystems for IBM eServer xSeries and BladeCenter servers are designed to provide an exceptional solution for workgroup storage applications such as file, print and Web serving, as well as, remote boot storage for diskless servers. The redbook provides a conceptual framework for understanding the DS300 and DS400 in a Storage Area Network and includes recommendations, hints, and tips for the physical installation, cabling, and zoning. It shows: * Supported configurations * Proper use of the software and hardware initiators * Array and Logical drive configurations to support maximum throughput * DSM and MPIO usage * Understanding failover and failback * Best practices with installation (i.e., FC switches, BladeCenters, Ethernet switches) * Single to dual upgrade This book is intended for IBM technical professionals, Business Partners, and customers responsible for the planning, deployment, and maintenance of IBM TotalStorage DS300/DS400 products. 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
Windows XP in a Snap (Sams Teach Yourself)
Authors: Preston Gralla
Venue:  (2004)

So you have a great computer with the Windows XP operating system. You surf the web, send e-mail and play the occasional game of Solitaire. There are more programs on it than you know what to do with, but you don't delete any of them in case you ever figure out what they do. Windows XP In a Snap can show you all of that and more than you even knew was possible. Did you know you can learn to set up a wireless network at home? Customize your desktop to launch your favorite programs upon start-up? Even build a music library from your CDs? More than 140 essential tips, tricks and techniques will show you how to do all of this, as well as how to stop spam, maximize your computer's performance and troubleshoot hardware problems. Windows XP In a Snap makes it easy for your PC to perform at the top of its game!
Interactive linear programming as a learning tool in a graduate business school environment
Authors: Julius Surkis
Venue: Issue 17 (November 1974) (1974)

In introductory Operations Research courses that one encounters in interdisciplinary programs, or in the quantitative techniques courses in Business Schools, a significant amount of time is devoted to the development as well as the computational mechanics of Linear Programming. The average student whose undergraduate background is non-quantitative usually gets lost in the arithmetic operations of pivoting. As a result, the essentials of the simplex method are obscured. An alternative is to use "canned" linear programming codes or routines. This is quite unsatisfactory since all that the student does is punch or type the data in and the results are spewed out. There is no feel for what and how one proceeds to a solution, if a solution should exist.
ACE the IT Resume, 2 edition
Authors: Paula Moreira
Venue:  (2007)

Create a first-rate resume that will get you hired in IT Stand out in a crowd of IT job applicants by creating and submitting a winning resume and cover letter with help from this practical guide. Fully revised and updated for the latest trends, technologies, and in-demand jobs, Ace the IT Resume, Second Edition reveals how to best showcase your IT skills and experience. You'll get tips for adapting your resume for different formats, using the right keywords, and getting your resume in the hands of the hiring manager. With an encyclopedia of sample resumes, job descriptions, and resume strategies, this is your must-have guide to landing a great IT job. Present your skills, experience, and education in the most effective formatOptimize your online resumeCustomize your resume based on the job you're seeking Write compelling and relevant cover lettersAvoid common pitfalls and analyze your resume for errors Discover ways to quickly get hands-on experience Network with IT professionals to make connectionsTable of contents Part I: Creating a Winning IT Resume Chapter 1: Standing Out from the CrowdChapter 2: The Anatormy of a Technical ResumeChapter 3: The Online Resume WorldChapter 4: Uncovering Your Hidden TalentsChapter 5: The Cover LetterChapter 6: Common Resume DilemmasChapter 7: Creative Ways to Get Hands-On ExperienceChapter 8: How to Network When You Don't Know AnyoneChapter 9: Resume Faux-Pas: Why You Are Not Getting Any Phone CallsChapter 10: The Interview Part 2: Resume Encyclopedia Chapter 11: Resume EncyclopediaIndex