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Professional MTS & MSMQ Programming with VB & ASP
Authors: Alex Homer, David Sussman
Venue:  (1998)

:Microsoft are promoting their Distributed interNet Architecture (DNA) as a platform for developing fully distributed applications, but they don't seem to be having to much success at getting DNA adopted. The fault lies in trying to push DNA as a solution in itself, rather that pushing the ideas that make it good, i.e.:n-tier client/server applications~Client transparency~Distributed applications~Fully transactional~Fault tolerant~The core of DNA is the use of business objects in a middle tier of the application, and this is supported by two new technologies: Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS), which is a component manager offering full transaction support; and Microsoft Message Queue Server (MSMQ), which provides the fault-tolerance required in distributed application. Together, these make it simple to build into the DNA dream. This book gets straight down to basics, introducing the concept of DNA and showing it in action. It allows developers to grasp the whole structure of distributed and web-based applications, and then see how the various parts and built and how they interact. There will be a case study around which the book is organized, giving a logical progression through the principles and implementation of the design, development, and final result. This case study is a car retail showroom, where the availablability of cars can be checked, and order placed with the manufacturer.
Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information
Authors: Murtha Baca, Anne Gilliland-Swetland
Venue:  (1998)

:As the World Wide Web has emerged as a major research tool across all fields of study, the concept of metadata has become a crucial topic. Metadata, which can be broadly defined as "data about data", refers to the searchable definitions used to Locate information. This issue is particularly relevant to searches on the Web, where metatags may determine the ease with which a particular Web site is located by searchers. This book defines this little-understood concept, explains its importance and potential uses in the networked environment, and describes existing metadata standards in the field of cultural heritage information.
Program library maintenance and monitoring
Authors: John R. Ehrman
Venue: Proceedings of the 4th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference on User services (1976)

This memorandum describes the organization of the SLAC Triplex Program Library, and the methods to be used for its maintenance. Also described is an important maintenance tool, the Library Monitoring System.
Scrambling Techniques for Digital Transmission: Telecommunications Networks and Computer........
Authors: Byeong Gi Lee, Seok Chang Kim
Venue:  (2000)

:The use of powerful mathematical and signal processing methods have enabled the authors to write the first book on scrambling techniques for modern digital telecommunications. These techniques will be particularly important in the future since they can support voice, video, and data services in Local and Metropolitan Area Networks. Approx.
Softimage 3D Guide, 10th edition
Authors: Barry Ruff, Gene Bodio
Venue:  (1997)

:Softimage 3D Design Guide illustrates the tools and techniques of modeling, animating, and rendering with Softimage. Geared toward users with some 3D experience, the text delves into practical examples and applications that will enhance your Softimage skills. Time-saving tips, common pitfalls, and work-flow wins are covered, as tools and concepts are introduced in the context of working examples and real-world projects. Full-color examples show the final results.
Universal access to mobile telephony as a way to enhance the autonomy of elderly people
Authors: Julio Abascal, Antón Civit
Venue: Proceedings of the 2001 EC/NSF workshop on Universal accessibility of ubiquitous computing: providing for the elderly (2001)

The rise of mobile telephony has opened a vast diversity of new opportunities for older people with different levels of physical restrictions due to ageing. Mobile technology allows not only ubiquitous communications but also anytime access to some services that are vital for elderly people's security and autonomy. Nevertheless, with the numerous advantages, remote services can also introduce important social and ethical risks for this group of users. This paper tries to analyse the novelties that mobile technology may introduce into the lives of older users, points out some dangers and challenges arising from the use of these technologies and revises some future applications of the present mobile technologies.
Sams Teach Yourself Visual C++ 6 in 21 Days
Authors: Davis Chapman, Anderson
Venue:  (1998)

:Users will learn Visual C++ through the elements of the Teach Yourself series: Q&A sections Do s and Don ts sections Workshop sections Shaded syntax boxes Type/Output/Analysis icons Week One gets users started with Visual C++. After installing and moving around the components of the software, users will examine a preliminary program to get the feel for C++ and Visual C++ specifically. Users will learn about: C++ basics; hierarchies; members, functions, and objects; inheritance; MFC; installing Visual C++, the Visual C++ compiler. In Week Two, users will look at components of Windows applications, and how they are invoked with Visual C++. Topics include: keyboard input; using the mouse; handling data files; lists and serialization; toolbars and status bars; graphics; and projects. Week Three looks at some more involved aspects of Visual C++ and Windows applications. Topics include: multimedia and video links; C++ classes; DLLs; ActiveX; OCX; debugging and program optimization; code profiling and assessment; common programming problems and their solutions.The most hands-on tutorial available for Visual C++.Takes programmers and non-programmers through all the steps of developing C++ application with Visual C++.New and Improved: Not only does this edition include coverage of the latest version of Visual C++, it also has been created to include more hows and whys so that the reader can apply Visual C++ to their own applications even easier
Real World Scanning and Halftones: The Definitive Guide to Scanning and Halftones from the Desktop, 2nd edition
Authors: David Blatner, Steve Roth, Glenn Fleishman
Venue:  (1998)

:This expanded and updated second edition covers new file types and software applications, and addresses the special concerns of Web publishers.It offers sage advice on producing top-notch scans and halftones from three of the best-known experts in Web and desktop publishing. You'll gain insight into the key scanning technologies and learn valuable techniques that will save you time, money, and hassle.
On "Sluggish Transients" in Markov Chains
Authors: Colm O'Cinneide
Venue: SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (2002)

The distance between the powers Pm of an aperiodic stochastic matrix and their limit behaves roughly like $\rho^m$ as $m \to \infty$, where $\rho$ is the maximum modulus of the eigenvalues whose moduli are less than 1. G. W. Stewart noted (see [Stochastic Models, 31 (1997), pp. 85--94]) that when there are defective eigenvalues that are close to 1 in modulus, the powers of P may initially display slower convergence than might be expected based on the magnitudes of the eigenvalues alone. Stewart introduced a quantity $\sigma$ that has a bearing on the strength of this effect. Numerical experimentation led him to suggest that $\sigma$ cannot be too large. We derive upper bounds on $\sigma$ which help to explain Stewart's empirical observations.
Power Plant Surveillance and Diagnostics: Applied Research with Artificial Intelligence
Authors: Da Ruan
Venue:  (2002)

:This edited book is directed primarily to the discussion of the most recent developments and on-going research related to all areas pertaining to plant surveillance and diagnosis. The secondary aim of this book is to identify the successful applications of already well-settled methodological tools in the field. It will highlight advantages of intelligent systems, AI techniques, and integration of soft computing tools and traditional tools, for a better service in all aspects related to power plant surveillance and diagnostics. It also reports recent research results and provides a state of the art on AI in power plant surveillance and diagnostics. The book especially focuses on theoretical and analytical solutions to the problems of real interest in AI techniques, possibly combined with other traditional computing tools.
Proteum: a family of tools to support specification and program testing based on mutation
Authors: José Carlos Maldonado, Márcio Eduardo Delamaro, Sandra C. P. F. Fabbri, Adenilso da Silva Simão, Tatiana Sugeta, Auri Marcelo Rizzo Vincenzi, Paulo Cesar Masiero
Venue: Mutation testing for the new century (2001)

The qualification of the VV&T- Verification, Validation and Testing - activity is extremely relevant to the software development process. The establishment of a low-cost, effective testing and validation strategy and the development of supporting tools have been pursued by many researchers. This presentation discusses the main architectural and operational aspects of a family of tools that support specification and program testing based on mutation. The testing of C programs is supported by Proteum/IM 2.0, at the unit and at the integration level as well. Proteum is an acronym for PROgram Testing Using Mutants. At the specification level the application of mutation testing for validating Reactive Systems (RS) specifications based on Finite State Machines (FSM), Statecharts and Petri Nets is support by Proteum/RS.
Eat More Weight Less Diet, 1st edition
Authors: Terry Shintani, D. A. Cooper, R. T. Cleary
Venue:  (1993)

:Learn how to use adaptive thermogenesis - an approach that often works against you on starvation diets'. Discover how you actually need to eat more, and increase carbohydrates to increase your metabolism. Includes recipes with various cooking methods.
Designing RNA structures: natural and artificial selection
Authors: Barry Cohen, Steven Skiena
Venue: Proceedings of the sixth annual international conference on Computational biology (2002)

Messenger RNA (mRNA) sequences serve as templates for proteins according to the triplet code, in which each of the 43 = 64 different codons (sequences of three consecutive nucleotide bases) in RNA either terminate transcription or map to one of the 20 different amino acids (or residues) which build up proteins. Because there are more codons than residues, there is inherent redundancy in the coding. Certain residues (e.g. tryptophan) have only a single corresponding codon, while other residues (e.g. arginine) have as many as six corresponding codons. This freedom implies that the number of possible RNA sequences coding for a given protein grows exponentially in the length of the protein.Thus nature has wide latitude to select among mRNA sequences which are informationally equivalent, but structurally and energetically divergent. In this paper, we explore how nature takes advantage of this freedom, and how to algorithmically design structures more energetically favorable than have been built through natural selection. In particular:Natural Selection, -- We perform the first large-scale computational experiment comparing the stability of mRNA sequences from a variety of organisms to random synonymous sequences which respect the codon preferences of the organism. This experiment was conducted on over 27,000 sequences from 34 microbial species with 36 genomic structures. We provide evidence that in all genomic structures highly stable sequences are disproportionately abundant, and in 19 of 36 cases highly unstable sequences are disproportionately abundant. This suggests that the stability of mRNA sequences is subject to natural selection.Artificial Selection -- Motivated by these biological results, we examine the algorithmic problem of designing the most stable and unstable mRNA sequences which code for a target protein. We give a polynomial-time dynamic programming solution to the most stable sequence problem (MSSP), which is asymptotically no more complex than secondary structure prediction. We show that the corresponding least stable sequence problem (LSSP) is NP-complete, and develop two heuristics for the construction of such sequences.We have implemented these algorithms, and present experimental results placing the high/low stability sequences in context with both wildtype and random encodings. Our implementation has already been applied to the design of RNA "code-words" creating little or no secondary structure in RNA computing [1, 12], and we anticipate a variety of other applications of this work to sequence design problems [16].
HP-UX Tuning and Performance: Concept, Tools, and Methods, 1st edition
Authors: Robert F. Sauers, Peter S. Weygant
Venue:  (1999)

From the Book:PREFACE: Preface Maximizing the performance of Unix systems is a challenge that requires a specialized understanding of operating system behavior and an intimate acquaintance with system tools that assist in tuning. This book brings you some of this complex knowledge in chapters that provide general background, hardware and software performance concepts, reference material on performance tools, and detailed practical suggestions for application development and tuning. Part 1 offers a performance management methodology as a way of introducing the world of performance management. Part 2 presents an array of performance monitoring tools, some of them specific to HP-UX, and some of them available on other Unix operating systems as well. Part 3 describes bottleneck analysis, and relates operating system concepts to tuning strategies that use the tools presented in Part 2. Finally, Part 4 sketches the complex topic of application tuning. Tuning the operating system is often not enough; designing for performance is equally important. Hewlett-Packard's HP 9000 computer systems (both Series 700 workstation and Series 800 servers) use the HP-UX operating system. This is a version of Unix that is based on both System V Unix and BSD (Berkeley) Unix. The authors are most familiar with HP-UX, and therefore, the specific operating system architecture and tuning suggestions presented in this book apply directly to HP-UX. However, HP-UX conforms to the IEEE Portable Operating System Standard (Posix) P1003.1 and P1003.2. It also conforms to the System V Interface Definition (SVID) Release 3 (based on System V Release 4)andthe X/Open Portability Guide. Because of this conformance to both de jure and de facto standards by the HP-UX operating system, the concepts presented in this book may be applied to other versions of the Unix operating system, although the specifics may differ.
Efficient high-order methods for ODEs and DAEs
Authors: Jens Hoefkens, Martin Berz, Kyoko Makino
Venue: Automatic differentiation of algorithms: from simulation to optimization (2000)

We present methods for the high-order differentiation through ordinary differential equations (ODEs), and more importantly, differential algebraic equations (DAEs). First, methods are developed that assert that the requested derivatives are really those of the solution of the ODE, and not those of the algorithm used to solve the ODE. Next, high-order solvers for DAEs are developed that in a fully automatic way turn an n-th order solution step of the DAEs into a corresponding step for an ODE initial value problem. In particular, this requires the automatic high-order solution of implicit relations, which is achieved using an iterative algorithm that converges to the exact result in at most n+1 steps. We give examples of the performance of the method.
Decision Support in the Data Warehouse
Authors: Hugh J. Watson, Paul Gray
Venue:  (1997)

:Decision Support in the Data Warehouse demystifies data warehousing's technical jargon and provides a complete framework for building, maintaining, and using a data warehouse for decision support. This is the first book that integrates building and operating a data warehouse; developing decision support applications using the warehouse; and using the right warehouse tools. The book clearly describes the business and technical issues important to data warehousing success. They are brought to life with up-to-the-minute case studies drawn from today's leading organizations. Learn how to have a strategic business impact with your warehouse.
ProModel/MedModel: simulation modeling and optimization using ProModel technology
Authors: Charles R. Harrell, Kevin C. Field
Venue: Proceedings of the 33nd conference on Winter simulation (2001)

The ProModel Optimization Suite is a powerful yet easy-to-use simulation tool for modeling all types of manufacturing systems ranging from small job shops and machining cells to large mass production, flexible manufacturing systems, and supply chain systems. ProModel is a Windows based application with an intuitive graphical interface and object-oriented modeling constructs that eliminate the need for programming. It combines the flexibility of a general-purpose simulation language with the convenience of a data-driven simulator. The ProModel Optimization Suite includes an optimization tool called SimRunner that performs sophisticated "what-if" analysis by running automatic factorial design of experiments on the model, providing the best answer possible. This paper provides an overview of the ProModel Optimization Suite and presents its modeling, analysis, and optimization capabilities.
Visual C++ 6 Interactive Course with Cdrom, 1st edition
Authors: Jeff Kurtz, Jerry Kurtz
Venue:  (1998)

:The only book that provides a Web learning component, mentor assistance, and student interaction, "Visual C++ 6 Interactive Course" teaches the reader, through a series of lessons and quizzes, how to get the most from the preferred development tool used by professional developers.
Evaluating Padé Approximants of the Matrix Logarithm
Authors: Nicholas J. Higham
Venue: SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (2000)

The inverse scaling and squaring method for evaluating the logarithm of a matrix takes repeated square roots to bring the matrix close to the identity, computes a Padé approximant, and then scales back. We analyze several methods for evaluating the Padé approximant, including Horner's method (used in some existing codes), suitably customized versions of the Paterson--Stockmeyer method and Van Loan's variant, and methods based on continued fraction and partial fraction expansions. The computational cost, storage, and numerical accuracy of the methods are compared. We find the partial fraction method to be the best method overall and illustrate the benefits it brings to a transformation-free form of the inverse scaling and squaring method recently proposed by Cheng, Higham, Kenney, and Laub [ SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl., 22 (2001), pp. 1112--1125]. We comment briefly on how the analysis carries over to the matrix exponential.
Learning to Create a Web Page with Office 97
Authors: Chris Katsaropoulos
Venue:  (1997)

:Some 60,000,000 people have logged onto the Internet since its inception. About 3,000,000 new users log on each month, exploring millions of informative sites on any subject imaginable. How does your company, your school, or your club stake its place on the Internet? The first step is to learn how to create a Web page. Whether you want to insert a hyperlink, insert clip art, or save a Word document in HTML format, we teach you how. Four lessons start you with the basics of Web page creation, then quickly move you into advanced skills. We present you with a concept, then show you how to apply the procedure.
COCA: A secure distributed online certification authority
Authors: Lidong Zhou, Fred B. Schneider, Robbert Van Renesse
Venue: ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS) (2002)

COCA is a fault-tolerant and secure online certification authority that has been built and deployed both in a local area network and in the Internet. Extremely weak assumptions characterize environments in which COCA's protocols execute correctly: no assumption is made about execution speed and message delivery delays; channels are expected to exhibit only intermittent reliability; and with 3t + 1 COCA servers up to t may be faulty or compromised. COCA is the first system to integrate a Byzantine quorum system (used to achieve availability) with proactive recovery (used to defend against mobile adversaries which attack, compromise, and control one replica for a limited period of time before moving on to another). In addition to tackling problems associated with combining fault-tolerance and security, new proactive recovery protocols had to be developed. Experimental results give a quantitative evaluation for the cost and effectiveness of the protocols.
Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications, 5th edition
Authors: Kenneth H. Rosen
Venue:  (2002)

:This text is designed for the sophomore/junior level introduction to discrete mathematics taken by students preparing for future coursework in areas such as math,computer science and engineering. Rosen has become a bestseller largely due to how effectively it addresses the main portion of the discrete market,which is typically characterized as the mid to upper level in rigor. The strength of Rosen's approach has been the effective balance of theory with relevant applications,as well as the overall comprehensive nature of the topic coverage.
Microsoft Office 2000: Introductory Concepts and Techniques
Authors: Gary B. Shelly, Thomas J. Cashman, Misty E. Vermaat
Venue:  (1999)

:Part of the highly successful Shelly Cashman Series, this text provides step-by-step instructions accompanied by full-color screen shots, helping students learn basic Office skills quickly and easily. Enhanced with new end-of-project exercises, new Web-based activities, an updated Introduction to Computers, coverage of Windows 2000, and more!
Robust Motion Analysis
Authors: Miroslaw Z. Bober
Venue:  (1999)

:This book presents in detail two novel approaches to robust motion analysis and shows examples of specific algorithm design for several applications, such as optic flow extraction, motion segmentation and motion tracking. It also covers all aspects of motion analysis, including optic flow estimation, establishing point-to-point correspondence, Pentation of moving objects and estimation of their motion parameters. The book has new algorithms are compared to the state of the art and show dramatically improved performance, and reviews progress in motion analysis over recent years. This book presents in detail two novel approaches to robust motion analysis and shows examples of specific algorithm design for several applications, such as optic flow extraction, motion segmentation and motion tracking. It also covers all aspects of motion analysis, including optic flow estimation, establishing point-to-point correspondence, segmentation of moving objects and estimation of their motion parameters. The book has new algorithms are compared to the state of the art and show dramatically improved performance, and reviews progress in motion analysis over recent years.