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Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Illustrator 9 in 24 Hours, 1st edition
Authors: Mordy Golding
Venue:  (2000)

:Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Illustrator 9 in 24 Hours is a step-by-step tutorial that uses a friendly, conversational, and non-condescending approach to teach you the basics of Illustrator 9. The book's tone is one of a teacher sitting with you explaining how to use the program. Covering both the Macintosh and Windows platforms, Sams Teach Yourself Illustrator 9 covers the following topics: the interface, tools, and palettes; setting preferences; drawing and editing objects; layers; working with selections; Bezier paths; and masks, transformations and color, and more.
Multimedia IR in context
Authors: Sharon Flank
Venue: Proceedings of the 2001 ACM workshops on Multimedia: multimedia information retrieval (2001)

In this keynote address, we consider some practical issues regarding multimedia information retrieval. These are issues that will inevitably affect future technology and its adoption in the marketplace.
A framework for data mining and KDD
Authors: Ingolf Geist
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing (2002)

The KDD process is a non-trivial, iterative, interactive and multi-step process, that requires the development of a unifying model. This model have to ensure an uniform description of data and patterns and the control of the manipulation of the data and patterns. Thus, the model defines operations within the pattern and data, as well as transition operations between data and patterns.This paper proposes a framework consisting of a model view, a data view and a process view. It focuses on the model and data view. The model view contains a set of mining models, which contain all information of a data mining result, that are based on constraints. The proposed model algebra uses concepts of constraint databases as well as collective and parallel data mining. The whole process is supported by using operations between data and model view.
Interactive simulation using virtual systems: web based robot simulation using VRML
Authors: Martin Rohrmeier
Venue: Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation (2000)

The Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) enables the integration of interactive 3D graphics into the web. At the German Aerospace Center we have been using the new language in robotic applications from its beginning on. The shown project is an example of the possibilities of using it in web-based simulations. Specialized and expensive hardor software is not needed, any web browser with a vrml viewer is able to run the program which makes the application independent from any underlying hardware platform. There was put a special attention to building an efficient and usable interface for the standard pointing device. The functionalities provided by the 3D GUI are easy to use and internationalized because self-explaining symbols were used instead of language. Together with Java and VRML's External Authoring Interface (EAI) the simulation can also be used for visualizing and telemanipulating real robots which was the original intention behind the development of this work.
The Valuation of Information Technology: A Guide for Strategy Development, Valuation, and Financial Planning, 1st edition
Authors: Chris Gardner
Venue:  (2000)

:The Valuation of Information Technology demonstrates how to assess the shareholder value created by a system before it is built. Top management consultant Christopher Gardner provides a unique framework for analyzing the value of an IT system in a quantitative fashion." "This solution-oriented book walks you through every aspect of evaluating an IT system for your business, from concept to shareholder value. Gardner lays out a method that will allow you to not only determine the contribution of a system to shareholder value, but also guide the activities involved in its construction so they create value.
High Speed VLSI Interconnections: Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation
Authors: Ashok K. Goel
Venue:  (1994)

:High-Speed VLSI Interconnections is the first and only book of its kind. It focuses on a variety of numerical and computer techniques used for the modeling, analysis, and simulation of phenomena that have become major factors in the evolution of very high speed integrated circuit (VHSIC) technology. Separate chapters are devoted to: parasitic effects such as capacitances and inductances, crosstalk, propagation delays, and electro-migration-induced failure, all of which are associated with VLSI interconnections. The final chapter discusses three interconnection technologies that may shape the future of integrated circuits. Each chapter is self-contained and can be read independently but also functions as part of a coherent overall presentation. Several techniques are provided for the analysis of each interconnection characteristic, and numerous illustrations provide the results of computer simulations. Challenging exercises at the end of each chapter are designed to help students gain further insight into the material presented. End-of-chapter appendices contain source codes of several computer programs for simulating VLSI interconnections. An excellent graduate-level text, High-Speed VLSI Interconnections offers a clear and accessible presentation of information that is not otherwise available in book form. As a professional reference, it is an indispensable source for researchers and engineers who seek a fuller understanding of this complex subject. It will also be of immense help to chip designers in developing VLSI interconnections with reduced parasitics, crosstalk, delay, and failure.
Easy WordPerfect for Windows Version 6
Authors: Shelley O'Hara
Venue:  (1993)

:This colorful guide to the basics is easy to read, easy to understand, and just the right amount for true beginners!Before and after screen shots illustrate each taskIdeal for beginners with no computer experienceFull-color format helps to lessen beginning computer anxiety and makes learning more inviting
The Writer's Online Marketplace: How and Where To Get Published Online, (includes 300+ markets)
Authors: Debbie Ridpath Ohi
Venue:  (2000)

:Contains over 250 paying online markets, plus advice on the unique marketing and writing techniques needed to succeed in the online writing world. 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
ECommerce Strategies, 1st edition
Authors: Charles Trepper
Venue:  (2000)

:In the coming years, digital technology will radically increase the speed at which business is conducted. Ultimately, digital technology will transform three major elements of any business: relationships to customers and business partners (commerce), information flow and relationships among workers within a company (knowledge management), and internal business processes (business operations). E-Commerce Strategies deals with the first of these elements by providing IT decision-makers with a broad education about the benefits of implementing e-commerce solutions in the enterprise. It also provides case studies of successful e-commerce implementations using Microsoft technologies that offer benefits such as increased productivity, faster order cycles, lower manufacturing costs, and lower total cost of ownership. The book leads the reader through each case study, describes and quantifies its benefits in detail, and provides an evaluation guide to help the reader determine whether the case study and implementation is relevant to their own business. It also describes a set of consistent e-commerce business applications and ties them together chapter by chapter. The end of the book describes how these solutions can be woven together into a comprehensive, enterprise-wide system of digital solutions--what Microsoft calls a Digital Nervous System (DNS). Uniquely helps IT decision-makers choose when and how to implement enterprise-wide e-commerce solutions based upon Microsoft technologies. Provides IT decision-makers with a broad education about available e-commerce solutions for the enterprise. Supplies in-depth case studies that IT decision-makers can apply to their own businesses. Helps IT decision-makers understand issues they may face in planning enterprise e-commerce solutions
Verilog Digital Computer Design: Algorithms into Hardware
Authors: Mark Gordon Arnold
Venue:  (1998)

:Understand the fundamental goals, structure, and behavior of Verilog; Discover how to use ASMs as the "master plan" for digital design; Walk through the three stages of Verilog design: behavioral, mixed, and structural; Learn Verilog simulation techniques for Mealy machines and bottom-testing loops; Use Verilog simulation techniques to model propagation delay; Leverage special-purpose design techniques to build general-purpose processors; Build a CPU from a ready-to-synthesize programmable logic example. Verilog Digital Computer Design: Algorithms to Hardware is more than a great guide to Verilog: it's a primer on the enduring concepts of computer design that will apply no matter which tools you choose.
Routing with a clue
Authors: Yehuda Afek, Anat Bremler-Barr, Sariel Har-Peled
Venue: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON) (2001)

We suggest a new simple forwarding technique to speed up IP destination address lookup. The technique is a natural extension of IP, requires 5 bits in the IP header (IPv4, 7 in IPv6), and performs IP lookup nearly as fast as IP/Tag switching but with a smaller memory requirement and a much simpler protocol. The basic idea is that each router adds a "clue" to each packet, telling its downstream router where it ended the IP lookup. Since the forwarding tables of neighboring routers are similar, the clue either directly determines the best prefix match for the downstream router, or provides the downstream router with a good point to start its IP lookup. The new scheme thus prevents repeated computations and distributes the lookup process across the routers along the packet path. Each router starts the lookup computation at the point its upstream neighbor has finished. Furthermore, the new scheme is easily assimilated into heterogeneous IP networks, does not require routers coordination, and requires no setup time. Even a flow of one packet enjoys the benefits of the scheme without any additional overhead. The speedup we achieve is about 10 times faster than current standard techniques. In a sense, this paper shows that the current routers employed in the Internet are clue-less; namely, it is possible to speed up the IP lookup by an order of magnitude without any major changes to the existing protocols.
MCSE TestPrep: TCP/IP
Authors: Emmett A. Dulaney
Venue:  (1997)

:The MCSE TestPrep series is a unique way to prepare for MCSE exams. Each of the chapters covers a different exam objective. Each objective is further broken down into manageable sections. The information will be presented in a brief, outline format with supporting tables, figures, screen shots, and lists. Following each section will be a series of review questions, exercises, and answer explanations. Two complete practice exams and a glossary will be located at the end of the book.The only MCSE study guide of its kind organized like the successful study materials created by ARCOIncludes only the ESSENTIAL information needed and hundreds of questionsPRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE rather than read pages of text everything is written in concise chunks.
Internet Programming with Visual Basic 5.0 and Activex
Authors: Ted Coombs
Venue:  (1997)

:This book shows programmers and Web developers how to use ActiveX and Visual Basic 5.0 to create interactive applications and network applications for Web sites and Intranets.
Structured virtual synchrony: exploring the bounds of virtual synchronous group communication
Authors: Katherine Guo, Werner Vogels, Robbert van Renesse
Venue: Proceedings of the 7th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: Systems support for worldwide applications (1996)

Multipoint communication protocols that offer group membership and virtually synchronous message delivery are commonly believed to be heavyweight and non-scalable. To meet the needs of large-scale computer-supported collaborative work, distributed parallel computing, and future worldwide applications, we designed the Structured Virtual Synchrony (SVS) protocol. The protocol has been implemented as part of Horus, a group communication system developed at Cornell University. It scales up to 800 members, while achieving a one-way latency of 100 milliseconds over groups of 500 members.
Advanced Technology for Road Transport: IVHS and Att, 1st edition
Authors: Ian Catling
Venue:  (1993)

:Better understand the application of telematics to road transport, including the latest ITS/ATT developments in the US, Europe, and Japan with this book. It concentrates on key developments in road transport technology, particularly on advances that will affect the way in which people travel over the next decade.
Our guest agents are welcome to your agent platforms
Authors: Laurent Magnin, Viet Thang Pham, Arnaud Dury, Nicolas Besson, Arnaud Thiefaine
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing (2002)

Multiagent applications will appear more and more in open, heterogeneous, evolving and distributed environments, such as the Internet. In order to run in such environments, agents will need to adapt themselves to new platforms and protocols. We propose a model of agents that are able to run, communicate and move between different multiagent platforms. This model is based on a middleware between such agents and platforms. It has been implemented on a kind of agents called Guest which can be used the same way regardless of what kind of servers they run on, notably, through tools such as a graphical management tool or a server launcher. Also, we provide a mechanism based on plug-ins that allows modification of basic agent behaviors like manipulation of messages, control of migration, etc. Lastly, we propose two kinds of dynamic agent hierarchies based on plug-ins or middleware.
An efficient multicast routing protocol in wireless mobile networks
Authors: Young-Joo Suh, Hee-Sook Shin, Dong-Hee Kwon
Venue: Wireless Networks (2001)

Providing multicast service to mobile hosts in wireless mobile networking environments is difficult due to frequent changes of mobile host location and group membership. If a conventional multicast routing protocol is used in wireless mobile networks, several problems may be experienced since existing multicast routing protocols assume static hosts when they construct the multicast delivery tree. To overcome the problems, several multicast routing protocols for mobile hosts have been proposed. Although the protocols solve several problems inherent in multicast routing proposals for static hosts, they still have problems such as non-optimal delivery path, datagram duplication, overheads resulting from frequent reconstruction of a multicast tree, etc. In this paper, we summarize these problems of multicast routing protocols and propose an efficient multicast routing protocol based on IEFT mobile IP in wireless mobile networks. The proposed protocol introduces a multicast agent, where a mobile host receives a tunneled multicast datagram from a multicast agent located in a network close to it or directly from the multicast router in the current network. While receiving a tunneled multicast datagram from a remote multicast agent, the local multicast agent may start multicast join process, which makes the multicast delivery route optimal. The proposed protocol reduces data delivery path length and decreases the amount of duplicate copies of multicast datagrams. We examined and compared the performance of the proposed protocol and existing protocols by simulation under various environments and we got an improved performance over the existing proposals.
Mining e-commerce data: the good, the bad, and the ugly
Authors: Ron Kohavi
Venue: Proceedings of the seventh ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining (2001)

Organizations conducting Electronic Commerce (e-commerce) can greatly benefit from the insight that data mining of transactional and clickstream data provides. Such insight helps not only to improve the electronic channel (e.g., a web site), but it is also a learning vehicle for the bigger organization conducting business at brick-and-mortar stores. The e-commerce site serves as an early alert system for emerging patterns and a laboratory for experimentation. For successful data mining, several ingredients are needed and e-commerce provides all the right ones (the Good). Web server logs, which are commonly used as the source of data for mining e-commerce data, were designed to debug web servers, and the data they provide is insufficient, requiring the use of heuristics to reconstruct events. Moreover, many events are never logged in web server logs, limiting the source of data for mining (the Bad). Many of the problems of dealing with web server log data can be resolved by properly architecting the e-commerce sites to generate data needed for mining. Even with a good architecture, however, there are challenging problems that remain hard to solve (the Ugly). Lessons and metrics based on mining real e-commerce data are presented.
Microsoft BackOffice Administrator's Survival Guide
Authors: Arthur E. Knowles
Venue:  (1996)

:This hands-on, step-by-step guide provides you with the detailed information necessary to run any combination of Microsoft BackOffice products smoothly and efficiently. Practical guides and step-by-step examples teach you the entire BackOffice environment - from installation to daily administration and maintenance. Additional chapters give you practical guides and tips of tuning, optimizing, and hassle-free on-the-fly problem solving.
Joint knowledge capture for grammars and ontologies
Authors: Udo Hahn, Korné G. Markó
Venue: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Knowledge capture (2001)

We introduce a methodology for automating the maintenance and growth of domain-specific concept taxonomies and grammatical class hierarchies simultaneously, based on knowledge capture from natural language texts. The assimilation process is centered around the linguistic and conceptual `quality' of various forms of evidence underlying the generation, assessment and on-going refinement of lexical and concept hypotheses. On the basis of the strength of evidence, hypotheses are ranked according to plausibility, and the most reasonable ones are selected for assimilation into the given lexical class hierarchy and domain ontology.
Sams Teach Yourself Windows 98 in 21 Days, 1st edition
Authors: Paul Cassel
Venue:  (1997)

:Examination of product features is much more in depth and detailed than the general user level. The primary notable addition to Windows 98 over Windows 95 is the inclusion of ActiveX controls in both the ActiveDesktop and Internet Explorer 4.0. ActiveDesktop, ActiveX, and IE4 work together to allow the user to access the desktop (and everything in/on their machine) through a browser interface. The distinction between files stored locally and those stored out on the Internet on someone else's webserver will blur. Web pages or parts of Web pages can be placed on the users' desktop and actively viewed and manipulated. This book is intended to allow knowledgeable users to understand and effectively use the powerful features built into the product. Chapters include in depth coverage of installing and navigating Windows 98 , customizing the Desktop, adding hardware and software, using multimedia, fonts, printing, faxing, telephony, networking, and mobile computing, conducting system maintenance, and fine tuning the registry. Chapters also highlight new features in Windows 98 (including the new ActiveDesktop and TV Viewer) for those moving up from earlier versions of Windows. Each chapter ends with Q&A, Quiz, and Exercise sections. The style is relaxed and friendly.
Using Microsoft Office for Windows 95
Authors: Ed Bott
Venue:  (1995)

:With the continuing success of Microsoft Office, there is a great demand for this conversational guide that explains the individual applications and how to use them together. This book covers all of the basics of Microsoft Office-quickly and easily.Filled with many helpful analogies to explain integration and customization of the suitesInformation is presented in a short, easily digestible format"Plain English, Please!" boxes demystify jargon and concepts
Official Online Marketing with NetScape Book, 11th edition
Authors: Greg Holden
Venue:  (1996)

:Create instant marketing. Eliminate runaway paper and printing costs. Automate market research and customer service. How? With Netscape Navigator - marketing muscle you can begin flexing today with this easy-to-follow guide. Create effective HTML publications - write, organize, design, and distribute zines, newsletters, and home pages; include graphics, sound, and animation in e-mail messages; add GIF animations, applets, frames, and tables to HTML pages. Maximize your marketing with e-mail - use e-mail and mailing lists to reach specific markets, send information automatically, compile customer lists, and gather information; incorporate eye-catching, interactive HTML into your e-mail. Develop one-to-one relationships that build your business - find out more about your customers through e-mail and HTML tables; provide instant customer service over the Net; create customized, personal news for your audience; distribute instant company news and updates to customers worldwide. Level the playing field - use low-cost electronic marketing techniques to create visibility that rivals larger competitors; learn the secrets of compelling content that brings readers back for more.
Past and future emergency response information systems
Authors: Murray Turoff
Venue: Communications of the ACM (2002)

Past and future objectives remain the same in crises, providing relevant communities collaborative knowledge systems to exchange information.
Simplifying and Isolating Failure-Inducing Input
Authors: Andreas Zeller, Ralf Hildebrandt
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (2002)

Given some test case, a program fails. Which circumstances of the test case are responsible for the particular failure? The Delta Debugging algorithm generalizes and simplifies the failing test case to a minimal test case that still produces the failure. It also isolates the difference between a passing and a failing test case. In a case study, the Mozilla web browser crashed after 95 user actions. Our prototype implementation automatically simplified the input to three relevant user actions. Likewise, it simplified 896 lines of HTML to the single line that caused the failure. The case study required 139 automated test runs or 35 minutes on a 500 MHz PC.
Trail Guide to America Online, 1st edition
Authors: Jonathan Price
Venue:  (1994)

:The Trail Guide to America Online gives new - and not so new - users a concise guide to getting around and getting things done on America Online, using the latest version of the America Online software, version 2.5 for Macintosh, and 2.0 for Windows. Both Macintosh and Windows users will learn how to: Make a first connection, and sign-on to America Online Send e-mail to others and pose messages in forums Get up-to-the-minute news, weather, travel, and financial information Exchange text and graphics files and download software Find specialized information from a vast array of online databases and libraries. Access Newsgroups, Mailing Lists, Gopher and WAIS databases, and other Internet resources.