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CCSP Cisco Secure VPN Exam Certification Guide (CCSP Self-Study)
Authors: John Roland, Mark J. Newcomb
Venue:  (2003)

Official self-study test preparation guide for the Cisco 9E0-121 and 642-511 CSVPN examsCoverage of the CSVPN topics enables you to identify and fill your knowledge gaps before the exam date. You'll learn about: Configuring Cisco VPN 3000 concentrators and VPN 3002 Hardware Clients for remote access Enabling secure VPNs using IPSec technologies Peer authentication using preshared keys and digital certificates Using Network Address Translation (NAT) and Port Address Translation (PAT) over VPNs Administering and monitoring VPN concentrators in remote-access and LAN-to-LAN networksUtilizing IPSec protocols and features Configuring VPN Client personal firewall support through the VPN concentrator Integrated unit and interactive user authentication through the Cisco VPN 3002 Hardware Client Becoming a CCSP distinguishes you as part of an exclusive group of experts, ready to take on today's most challenging security tasks. Installation and configuration of Cisco VPN 3000 Series concentrators and Cisco VPN 3002 Hardware Clients are critical tasks in today's network environments, especially as reliance on the public Internet as an extension of business networks increases. Whether you are seeking a Cisco VPN Specialist Certification or the full-fledged CCSP Certification, learning what you need to know to pass the CSVPN (Cisco Secure Virtual Private Networks) exam qualifies you to keep your company's network safe while meeting its business needs.CCSP Cisco Secure VPN Exam Certification Guide is a comprehensive study tool that enables you to master the concepts and technologies required for success on the CSVPN exam. Each chapter of the CCSP Cisco Secure VPN Exam Certification Guide tests your knowledge of the exam subjects through sections that detail exam topics to master and areas that highlight essential subjects for quick reference and review. Challenging chapter-ending review questions and exercises test your knowledge of the subject matter, reinforce key concepts, and provide you with the opportunity to apply what you've learned in the chapter. In addition, a final chapter of scenarios pulls together concepts from all the chapters to ensure you can apply your knowledge in a real-world environment. The companion CD-ROM testing engine enables you to take practice exams that mimic the real testing environment, focus on particular topic areas, and refer to the electronic text for review.This book is part of a recommended learning path from Cisco Systems that can include simulation and hands-on training from authorized Cisco Learning Partners and self-study products from Cisco Press. To find out more about instructor-led training, e-learning, and hands-on instruction offered by authorized Cisco Learning Partners worldwide, please visit www.cisco.com/go/authorizedtraining.Companion CD-ROM This companion CD-ROM contains a test bank with more than 200 practice exam questions.
Notes from universities
Authors: Stanley Habib
Venue: ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter (1973)

Because of its small faculty (six professors in Computer Science), Brown does not offer a complete course in microprogramming. A substantial portion of the third semester in the Computer Science sequence is devoted to aspects of microprogramming. Microprogramming is treated as merely another level in the hierarchy running from the hardware to programs written in higher level languages. The student has already had substantial experience in the design and implementation of gates, registers, adders and the like. Using a simulator written in APL he has designed and implemented a simple control unit, and arithmetic/logic unit, and a random access memory. He has written several programs in both PL/I and BAL. In the third semester, the microprogramming system available on one of the computers at Brown (either a DSC Meta 4 or an Interdata Model 3) is covered and he codes and debugs one of the more complicated instructions (i.e., Translate and Test or Search Linked List or Table).
The role of norms and electronic institutions in multi-agent systems applied to complex domains. The HARMONIA framework: Thesis
Authors: Javier Vázquez-Salceda
Venue: AI Communications (2003)

Institutions are established to regulate the interactions between parties that are performing some (business) transaction. The main focus of the dissertation is how an electronic organization (e-organization) should be specified on the basis of the abstract patterns given by the institution on which the organization is formed (i.e., how can we define a formal relation between the abstract norms specified in the institutional regulations and the concrete rules and procedures of the organization such that the agents will operate within the organization according to the institutional norms or can be punished when they are violating the norms).
PHP-Nuke Garage (The Garage Series)
Authors: Don Jones
Venue:  (2005)

Enter your PHP-Nuke Garage... where you master the most powerful, cheap (and/or free) Web content system ever created, then use it to build great Web sites, portals, or communities... hands-on, step-by-step.PHP-Nuke is remarkably capable and reliable, but until now, it's been poorly documented. This book fills the gap. Best of all, you can use it even if you have no experience with PHP, databases, coding, or hosting. Drawing on practical examples from a live example site, top IT author/trainer Don Jones illuminates every facet of working with PHP-Nuke: installation, configuration, customization, security, day-to-day administration, and much more.Topics include: content delivery, design and themes, forums, journals, downloads, member lists, news/reviews, personalization, RSS, archiving, FAQs, feedback, statistics, surveys, pay sites, AvantGo mobile content, Amazon e-commerce links, and more. Jones even shows how to find a PHP-Nuke hosting service to handle the infrastructure for you -- so you can focus on content, not technology.Organized into 66 easy modules, designed for rapid learning, and based on real examples, PHP-Nuke Garage will help you create the interactive site you've always wanted -- faster than you ever thought possible.© Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved. 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
Combinatorial interpretations of the q-Faulhaber and q-Salié coefficients
Authors: Victor J. W. Guo, Martin Rubey, Jiang Zeng
Venue: Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A (2006)

Recently, Guo and Zeng discovered two families of polynomials featuring in a q-analogue of Faulhaber's formula for the sums of powers and a q-analogue of Gessel-Viennot's formula involving Salié's coefficients for the alternating sums of powers. In this paper, we show that these are polynomials with symmetric, nonnegative integral coefficients by refining Gessel-Viennot's combinatorial interpretations.
Simulation services to support the control design of rail infrastructures
Authors: Elisangela Mieko Kanacilo, Alexander Verbraeck
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

The design of rail infrastructure is a difficult task. Many parties are involved, and the tasks range from stakeholder issues to very detailed technical questions, such as control design. Simulation studies are often applied during infrastructure control system design, but the application of simulation is quite hard. One of the problems is the lack of flexibility in linking to information systems and databases. Another problem is that there are many potential users of the models, while most simulation systems can only be used by one user at a time. In addition, the tightly coupled structure of models makes model reuse and model maintenance hard. To overcome these problems, a service oriented simulation architecture is proposed for rail infrastructure modeling. The object-oriented simulation libraries that have been created within this architecture have been tested in a real project to estimate rail infrastructure capacity, and proved to work well.
Minimizing the maximum absolute deviation
Authors: V. A. Sposito
Venue: Issue 20 (February 1976) (1976)

In a recent educational technical note in SIGMAP, [3], Swanson and Woolsey outlined how one can determine the unknown parameters of a linear model under the criterion of minimizing the sum of absolute deviations. This note will demonstrate that one can also use linear programming procedures under the criterion of minimizing the maximum absolute deviation. This transformation to a linear programming problem is known, but not of wide extent; and is useful when one is trying to identify "outliers".
Children's informal learning in the context of schools of the knowledge society
Authors: Birgitte Holm Sørensen, Oluf Danielsen, Janni Nielsen
Venue: Education and Information Technologies (2007)

This paper builds on a key finding of a 5-year Danish research project con-cerning children in the 7 to 15 age group: children's principal use of computers and the internet takes place in their spare time, and it is during their spare time that the majority of children really learn how to use interactive media. The project shows that in children's spare-time use of ICT they employ informal forms of learning based to a large extent on their social interaction both in physical and virtual spaces. These informal learning forms can be identified as learning hierarchies, learning communities and learning networks; they are important contributions to the school of the knowledge society. The ICT in New Learning Environments project based on anthropologically inspired methods and social learning theories shows that students bring their informal forms of learning into the school context. This happens particularly when the school has undergone physical alterations and when its organisation of learning and teaching are also restructured, with project-based learning becoming an important part of the school work and with the media available in the learning environment. Using organisation theory, the school working with ICT and project-based learning is shown to simultaneously constitute a mixed mode between the school of the industrial and the knowledge society. The research shows that it is possible to tip the balance in the direction of the school of the knowledge society, and thus of the future, by comprehensively using ICT and project work in the day-to-day activities of the school, alongside and integrated with the traditional forms of learning, and not least by employing the informal learning processes children develop outside school. For teachers this will mean an extension of their function: no longer merely communicators of knowledge, they will have to become knowledge managers and overall leaders of projects, and this entails much more dialogue with the pupils.
The complexity of tree automata and XPath on grammar-compressed trees
Authors: Markus Lohrey, Sebastian Maneth
Venue: Theoretical Computer Science (2006)

The complexity of various membership problems for tree automata on compressed trees is analyzed. Two compressed representations are considered: dags, which allow to share identical subtrees in a tree, and straight-line context-free tree grammars, which moreover allow to share identical intermediate parts in a tree. Several completeness results for the classes NL, P, and PSPACE are obtained. Finally, the complexity of the evaluation problem for (structural) XPath queries on trees that are compressed via straight-line context-free tree grammars is investigated.
Application of stochastic optimization method for an urban corridor
Authors: Ilsoo Yun, Byungkyu "Brian" Park
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

This paper presents a stochastic traffic signal optimization method that consists of the CORSIM microscopic traffic simulation model and a heuristic optimizer. For the heuristic optimizer, the performance of three widely used optimization methods (i.e., genetic algorithm, simulated annealing and OptQuest Engine) was compared using a real world test corridor with 12 signalized intersections in Fairfax, Virginia, USA. The performance of the proposed stochastic optimization method was compared with an existing signal timing optimization program, SYNCHRO, under microscopic simulation environment. The results indicated that the genetic algorithm-based optimization method outperforms the SYNCHRO program as well as the other stochastic optimization methods in the optimization of traffic signal timings for the test corridor.
EBIMed---text crunching to gather facts for proteins from Medline
Authors: Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, Harald Kirsch, Miguel Arregui, Sylvain Gaudan, Mark Riethoven, Peter Stoehr
Venue: Bioinformatics (2007)

Summary: To allow efficient and systematic retrieval of statements from Medline we have developed EBIMed, a service that combines document retrieval with co-occurrence-based analysis of Medline abstracts. Upon keyword query, EBIMed retrieves the abstracts from EMBL-EBI's installation of Medline and filters for sentences that contain biomedical terminology maintained in public bioinformatics resources. The extracted sentences and terminology are used to generate an overview table on proteins, Gene Ontology (GO) annotations, drugs and species used in the same biological context. All terms in retrieved abstracts and extracted sentences are linked to their entries in biomedical databases. We assessed the quality of the identification of terms and relations in the retrieved sentences. More than 90% of the protein names found indeed represented a protein. According to the analysis of four protein--protein pairs from the Wnt pathway we estimated that 37% of the statements containing such a pair mentioned a meaningful interaction and clarified the interaction of Dkk with LRP. We conclude that EBIMed improves access to information where proteins and drugs are involved in the same biological process, e.g. statements with GO annotations of proteins, protein--protein interactions and effects of drugs on proteins. Availability: Available at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Rebholz-srv/ebimed Supplementary Data: Supplementary Data are available at Bioinformatics online. Contact: Rebholz@ebi.ac.uk
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Unleashed (R2 Edition) (Unleashed)
Authors: Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Alex Lewis
Venue:  (2006)

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Unleashed, 3rd Edition is the first book on the market to cover Windows Server 2003 R2. This latest edition will keep the text viable with the major "R2" update being released from Microsoft late in 2005. Many of the Windows Server 2003 titles have not been revised since release in 2003 even though Microsoft has released a service pack and now the R2 update.This book will provide detailed guidance focused on the most commonly used yet most complicated planning, installation, migration, and problem solving topics that challenge IT professionals. This title goes far beyond the basic installation and setup information found in hundreds of other resources and focus on the less understood yet most important details for system configuration, tips, tricks, and techniques to successfully implement and administer a Windows networking system.
KGraph: a system for visualizing and evaluating complex genetic associations
Authors: Reagan J. Kelly, Douglas M. Jacobsen, Yan V. Sun, Jennifer A. Smith, Sharon L. R. Kardia
Venue: Bioinformatics (2007)

Summary: The KGraph is a data visualization system that has been developed to display the complex relationships between the univariate and bivariate associations among an outcome of interest, a set of covariates, and a set of genetic factors, such as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). It allows for easy viewing and interpretation of genetic associations, correlations among covariates and SNPs, and information about the replication and cross-validation of the associations. The KGraph allows the user to more easily investigate multicollinearity and confounding through visualization of the multidimensional correlation structure underlying genetic associations. It emphasizes gene--environment and gene--gene interaction, both important components of any genetic system that are often overlooked in association frameworks. Availability: http://www.epidkardia.sph.umich.edu/software/kgrapher Contact: reagank@umich.edu Supplementary information: A description of system requirements and a full user manual are available at http://www.epidkardia.sph.umich.edu/software/kgrapher
Splitting for rare-event simulation
Authors: Pierre L'Ecuyer, Valérie Demers, Bruno Tuffin
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

Splitting and importance sampling are the two primary techniques to make important rare events happen more frequently in a simulation, and obtain an unbiased estimator with much smaller variance than the standard Monte Carlo estimator. Importance sampling has been discussed and studied in several articles presented at the Winter Simulation Conference in the past. A smaller number of WSC articles have examined splitting. In this paper, we review the splitting technique and discuss some of its strengths and limitations from the practical viewpoint. We also introduce improvements in the implementation of the multilevel splitting technique. This is done in a setting where we want to estimate the probability of reaching B before reaching (or returning to) A when starting from a fixed state x0 &isin; B, where A and B are two disjoint subsets of the state space and B is very rarely attained. This problem has several practical applications.
Practical Unix & Internet Security, 3rd Edition
Authors: Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford, Alan Schwartz
Venue:  (2003)

This new edition of Practical Unix & Internet Security provides detailed coverage of today's increasingly important security and networking issues. Focusing on the four most popular Unix variants today--Solaris, Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD--this book contains new information on PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules), LDAP, SMB/Samba, anti-theft technologies, embedded systems, wireless and laptop issues, forensics, intrusion detection, chroot jails, telephone scanners and firewalls, virtual and cryptographic filesystems, WebNFS, kernel security levels, outsourcing, legal issues, new Internet protocols and cryptographic algorithms, and much more.
Interpretation of ANOVA models for microarray data using PCA
Authors: J. R. De Haan, R. Wehrens, S. Bauerschmidt, E. Piek, R. C. Van Schaik, L. M. C. Buydens
Venue: Bioinformatics (2007)

Motivation: ANOVA is a technique, which is frequently used in the analysis of microarray data, e.g. to assess the significance of treatment effects, and to select interesting genes based on P-values. However, it does not give information about what exactly is causing the effect. Our purpose is to improve the interpretation of the results from ANOVA on large microarray datasets, by applying PCA on the individual variance components. Interaction effects can be visualized by biplots, showing genes and variables in one plot, providing insight in the effect of e.g. treatment or time on gene expression. Because ANOVA has removed uninteresting sources of variance, the results are much more interpretable than without ANOVA. Moreover, the combination of ANOVA and PCA provides a simple way to select genes, based on the interactions of interest. Results: It is shown that the components from an ANOVA model can be summarized and visualized with PCA, which improves the interpretability of the models. The method is applied to a real time-course gene expression dataset of mesenchymal stem cells. The dataset was designed to investigate the effect of different treatments on osteogenesis. The biplots generated with the algorithm give specific information about the effects of specific treatments on genes over time. These results are in agreement with the literature. The biological validation with GO annotation from the genes present in the selections shows that biologically relevant groups of genes are selected. Availability: R code with the implementation of the method for this dataset is available from http://www.cac.science.ru.nl under the heading "Software". Contact: L.Buydens@science.ru.nl
Pragmatic Software Testing: Becoming an Effective and Efficient Test Professional
Authors: Rex Black
Venue:  (2007)

A hands-on guide to testing techniques that deliver reliable software and systems Testing even a simple system can quickly turn into a potentially infinite task. Faced with tight costs and schedules, testers need to have a toolkit of practical techniques combined with hands-on experience and the right strategies in order to complete a successful project. World-renowned testing expert Rex Black provides you with the proven methods and concepts that test professionals must know. He presents you with the fundamental techniques for testing and clearly shows you how to select and apply successful strategies to test a system with budget and time constraints. Black begins by discussing the goals and tactics of effective and efficient testing. Next, he lays the foundation of his technique for risk-based testing, explaining how to analyze, prioritize, and document risks to the quality of the system using both informal and formal techniques. He then clearly describes how to design, develop, and, ultimately, document various kinds of tests. Because this is a hands-on activity, Black includes realistic, life-sized exercises that illustrate all of the major test techniques with detailed solutions. By the end of this book, you'll know more about the nuts and bolts of testing than most testers learn in an entire career, and you'll be ready to put those ideas into action on your next test project. With the help of real-world examples integrated throughout the chapters, you'll discover how to: * Analyze the risks to system quality * Allocate your testing effort appropriately based on the level of risk * Choose the right testing strategies every time * Design tests based on a system's expected behavior (black box) or internal structure (white box) * Plan and perform integration testing * Explore and attack the system * Focus your hard work to serve the needs of the project The author's companion Web site provides exercises, tips, and techniques that can be used to gain valuable experience and effectively test software and systems. Wiley Technology Publishing Timely. Practical. Reliable. Visit the author's Web site at http://www.rexblackconsulting.com/
A Genetic Algorithm with Conditional Crossover and Mutation Operators and Its Application to Combinatorial Optimization Problems
Authors: Rong-Long Wang, Shinichi Fukuta, Jia-Hai Wang, Kozo Okazaki
Venue: IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences (2007)

In this paper, we present a modified genetic algorithm for solving combinatorial optimization problems. The modified genetic algorithm in which crossover and mutation are performed conditionally instead of probabilistically has higher global and local search ability and is more easily applied to a problem than the conventional genetic algorithms. Three optimization problems are used to test the performances of the modified genetic algorithm. Experimental studies show that the modified genetic algorithm produces better results over the conventional one and other methods.