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Modeling road traffic on airport premises
Authors: Marco C. van Burgsteden, Paul E. Joustra, Michiel R. Bouwman, Mark Hullegie
Venue: Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation (2000)

This paper describes the development of a traffic-modeling tool as an Arena template and two applications of it: one to evaluate alternative designs for the road network on the premises of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and one to assess the effects of traffic signaling on a junction. The tool uses discrete event simulation, very suited for modeling traffic in areas where there are a lot of interactions other than car-following. Generation of the O/D matrix was done automatically by a custom-made application.
An effective congestion driven placement framework
Authors: Ulrich Brenner, André Rohe
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 international symposium on Physical design (2002)

We present a fast but reliable way to detect routing criticalities in VLSI chips. In addition, we show how this congestion estimation can be incorporated into a partitioning based placement algorithm. Different to previous approaches, we do not rerun parts of the placement algorithm or apply a post-placement optimization, but we use our congestion estimator for a dynamic avoidance of routability problems in one single run of the placement algorithm. Computational experiments on chips with up to 1,300,000 cells are presented: The framework reduces the usage of the most critical routing edges by 9.0% on average, the running time increase for the placement is about 8.7%. However, due to the smaller congestion, the running time of routing tools can be decreased drastically, so the total time for placement and (global) routing is decreased by 47% on average.
Extracting targeted data from the web
Authors: Tom Mitchell
Venue: Proceedings of the seventh ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining (2001)

Tom M. Mitchell is author of the textbook "Machine Learning" (McGraw Hill, 1997), President of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and a member of the National Research Council's Computer Science and Telecommunications Board. He is Vice President and Chief Scientist at WhizBang Labs and is currently on a two-year leave of absence from Carnegie Mellon University where he is the Fredkin Professor of Learning and AI in the School of Computer Science and founding Director of CMU's Center for Automated Learning and Discovery. Mitchell's research interests span many areas of Machine Learning theory and practice. His current work at WhizBang Labs involves developing machine learning methods for extracting information from text. For example, WhizBang has developed the world's largest database of job openings by training its software to automatically locate and extract detailed information from job postings on corporate web sites (see www.flipdog.com).
Do It Yourself Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
Authors: Bjoern-Erik Hartsfvang
Venue:  (2000)

:Microsoft Windows Millennium Edtion is the first milestone toward simplifying the home computing experience. It will take steps toward achieving the goals of Windows for consumers focusing primariely on four key areas: PC Health, and enhanced Online Experience, Digital Media, and Home Networking. The Windows Millennium Edition product is another in the evolution of consumer operating systems developed by Microsoft, and delivers clear customer value by focusing in on a few feature areas. If you fit one of the following profiles, purchasing Windows Millennium Edition as an upgrade or on a new PC should be a no-brainer for you: You take digital pictures and want to share them with people You spend time on the internet You have multiple PCs at home You want to take advantage of the latest hardware advancements in PCs You want to have a more supportable, more quickly available PC And Consumers who buy Windows Millennium Edition will: Spend more time on the internet Have more PCs in the home and share more information between them Play more music on their PCs and store more pictures Spend more time playing games locally or on the internet Spend less time on a support line or waiting for the system to boot
Macworld® Mac Upgrade and Repair Bible: 2nd Edition, 2nd edition
Authors: Todd Stauffer
Venue:  (2000)

:Keep your Mac® smiling Does your Mac crash a lot? Does it choke on big media files? Or limp along on the Web? Are you overdue for an upgrade? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you've come to the right place. Now revised to cover all of the latest Mac operating systems, models, and technologies  including Mac OS 9, an overview of Mac OS X, iMacs, iBooks, USB, FireWire®, and DVD  this comprehensive do-it-yourself reference is just what you need to get a handle on problems, analyze annoyances, and implement the right repair or upgrade solution. Inside, you'll find complete coverage of Mac repairs and upgradesRefurbish an old Mac II  or fine-tune the latest modelsIdentify the most common Mac problems  and what to do about themUnderstand your Mac's innards, from chips and cards to slots and portsGet hands-on advice for upgrading sound, networking, storage, and other subsystemsGet the scoop on 3D graphics, digital video editing, and other cutting-edge upgrade optionsTroubleshoot problems and resolve Sad Mac and compatibility issuesOptimize and manage the Mac OS, including backups and reinstallationBonus CD-ROMAladdin Flashback and Shrinkwrap demo versionsBBEdit demo from Bare Bones Software, Inc.TechTool® and Extension Overload evaluation versionsAnd morewww.idgbooks.com System Requirements: PowerPC Mac running system OS 7.5.5 or later; CD-ROM driveAuthor Biography: About the Author Todd Stauffer is the author or coauthor of over 20books, including Upgrading and Fixing Macs and iMacs for Dummies, the first edition of Macworld Mac Upgrade and Repair Bible, and Macworld Mac OS 9 Bible, cowritten with Lon Poole. He's also a magazine columnist and contributing writer for various publications including Publish, MacAddict, Silicon Alley Reporter, and CMP's PlanetIT. Todd is the "Upgrade Guy" columnist at MacCentral.com. Todd has worked as a magazine editor, radio host, TV host, and advertising copywriter, all in technical fields. He received a B.A. in English Literature from Texas A&M University. He lives in New York City.
Algorithms counting monotone Boolean functions
Authors: Robert Fidytek, Andrzej W. Mostowski, Rafał Somla, Andrzej Szepietowski
Venue: Information Processing Letters (2001)

We give a new algorithm couting monotone Boolean functions of n variables (or equivalently the elements of free distributive lattices of n generators). We computed the number of monotone functions of 8 variables which is 56 130 437 228 687 557 907 788.
Creating Value in the Digital Era: Achieving Success Thorught Insight, Imagination, and Innovation.
Authors: Alf Chattell
Venue:  (1998)

:In Creating Value in the Digital Era, Alf Chattell presents the principles of success in the emerging digital economy. New models of business are needed to provide fresh perspectives on creating and sustaining value in an economy founded on human talent. Using extensive illustrations from pioneering companies, this practical guide explains how to revolutionize your management strategies, create value for your customers, and grasp the new opportunities offered by the digital era. 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
Sams Teach Yourself ColdFusion in 21 Days, 1st edition
Authors: Charles Mohnike
Venue:  (2000)

:Sams Teach Yourself ColdFusion in 21 Days quickly empowers you to create your own dynamic database-driven Web applications using Allaire's ColdFusion. Using client-proven methods, and the success of his popular ColdFusion tutorial for Wired, expert author Charles Mohnike provides you with an understanding of the ColdFusion Server and guides you through the use of the ColdFusion Studio, enabling you to create your own ColdFusion applications quickly and easily. Topics such as installing and configuring the ColdFusion Server, working with the ColdFusion Studio, working with SQL, optimizing your datasource, understanding templates and ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML), using ColdFusion tags, manipulating data, creating e-commerce solutions with ColdFusion, and debugging ColdFusion applications. Finally! A ColdFusion book in the best-selling Sams Teach Yourself in 21 Days Series Charles Mohnike is the author of the popular ColdFusion on-line tutorial for Wired Reviewed and endorsed by Ben Forta, best-selling ColdFusion author and Allaire insider CD-ROM includes an evaluation copy of Allaire ColdFusion 4.0, examples, project files and web development tools
Microsoft Excel 5.0 for MacIntosh: Quick Course
Authors: Patricia Murphy
Venue:  (1996)

:Covers the most important features of Microsoft Excel 5.0 for Macintosh. This self-paced instructional guide is complemented by many screen illustrations and hands-on exercises for reinforcement. In addition, there are numerous hints on how to increase productivity. The text is designed to teach the software in 12-15 hours. It's a no-frills, sensible approach to software proficiency.
Scaling trends of on-chip Power distribution noise
Authors: Andrey V. Mezhiba, Eby G. Friedman
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 international workshop on System-level interconnect prediction (2002)

The design of power distribution networks in high performance integrated circuits has become significantly more challenging with recent advances in process technology. As on-chip currents exceed tens of amperes and circuit clock periods are reduced well below a nanosecond, the signal integrity of the on-chip power supply has become a primary concern in integrated circuit design. The existing work on power distribution noise scaling is reviewed and extended to include the scaling of the inductance of the on-chip global power distribution networks in high performance flip-chip packaged integrated circuits. As the dimensions of the on-chip devices are scaled by S, where S&rho;1, the resistive voltage drop across the power grids remains constant and the inductive voltage drop increases by S, if the metal thickness is maintained constant. Consequently, the signal-to-noise ratio decreases by S in the case of resistive noise and by S2 in the case of inductive noise. As compared to the constant metal thickness scenario, ideal interconnect scaling in the global power grid mitigates unfavorable scaling of the inductive noise but exacerbates the scaling of resistive noise by a factor of S. On-chip inductive noise will therefore become of greater significance with technology scaling. Careful tradeoffs between the resistance and inductance of the power distribution networks will be necessary in nanometer technologies to achieve minimum power supply noise levels.
The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet
Authors: Margaret Wertheim
Venue:  (1999)

:The Internet may seem an unlikely gateway for the soul but, as Margaret Wertheim argues in this imaginative book, cyberspace has in recent years become a repository for immense spiritual yearning. The perfect realm awaits, we are told, not behind the pearly gates but behind electronic gateways labeled ".com" and ".net." Seeking to understand this mapping of spiritual desire onto digitized space, Wertheim takes us on an astonishing historical journey, tracing the evolution of our conception of space from the Middle Ages to today. Beginning with the cosmology of Dante, we see how the medievals saw themselves embedded in both physical space and spiritual space. With the rise of modern science, however, space came to be seen in purely physical terms - with spiritual space written out of the realm of reality. Within this context, Wertheim suggests that cyberspace returns us to an almost medieval position: Once again we have a physical space for body and an immaterial space that many people hope will be a new space for soul. By linking the science of space to the wider cultural and religious milieu, Wertheim shows that the spiritualizing of cyberspace fits into a long history of imagined spaces. In particular, it may be seen as an attempt to realize a technological version of the Christian space of heaven.
The complexity of approximating entropy
Authors: Tuǧkan Batu, Sanjoy Dasgupta, Ravi Kumar, Ronitt Rubinfeld
Venue: Proceedings of the thiry-fourth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing (2002)

(MATH) We consider the problem of approximating the entropy of a discrete distribution under several models. If the distribution is given explicitly as an array where the i-th location is the probability of the i-th element, then linear time is both necessary and sufficient for approximating the entropy.We consider a model in which the algorithm is given access only to independent samples from the distribution. Here, we show that a &lgr;-multiplicative approximation to the entropy can be obtained in O(n(1+&eta;)/&lgr;2 < poly(log n)) time for distributions with entropy &Omega;(&lgr; &eta;), where n is the size of the domain of the distribution and &eta; is an arbitrarily small positive constant. We show that one cannot get a multiplicative approximation to the entropy in general in this model. Even for the class of distributions to which our upper bound applies, we obtain a lower bound of &Omega;(nmax(1/(2&lgr;2), 2/(5&lgr;2&mdash;2)).We next consider a hybrid model in which both the explicit distribution as well as independent samples are available. Here, significantly more efficient algorithms can be achieved: a &lgr;-multiplicative approximation to the entropy can be obtained in O(&lgr;2.Finally, we consider two special families of distributions: those for which the probability of an element decreases monotonically in the label of the element, and those that are uniform over a subset of the domain. In each case, we give more efficient algorithms for approximating the entropy.
CHI@20: fighting our way from marginality to power
Authors: Ben Shneiderman, Stuart Card, Donald A. Norman, Marilyn Tremaine, M. Mitchell Waldrop
Venue: CHI '02 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (2002)

The Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction (SIGCHI) has had a successful history of 20 years of growth in its numbers and influence. To help guide the continued evolution of the academic discipline and professional community, we invite several senior members to offer their visions for what the field of CHI actually accomplished over the past several decades, and what do we still need to accomplish? What do we need to do differently/ better/smarter? What haven't we tried because the technology, the money or the will wasn't there in the past, but perhaps is now.The CHI field is more than just technology. We understand that our work can have a profound effect on individuals, families, neighborhoods, corporations, and countries. We know that we can influence education, commerce, healthcare, and government. How can we contribute to bridging the digital divides in developed and developing countries? What agendas can we offer for the academic, research, industrial, and civic spheres for the next 20 years? How can we be more ambitious? How can we truly serve human needs.
Word 6 Companion
Authors: Tonya Engst
Venue:  (1994)

:Written for Macintosh users who need a guide to help with the word processing and layout features of Word 6, this book presents material as the user thinks rather than how the program works. This avoids technical jargon and focuses on the solutions for which users are searching. The "Quick Tour" and "Concept Tour Glossary" offer quick reference areas for the most common issues and problems.
Field Guide to Microsoft Word for Windows 95
Authors: Stephen L. Nelson
Venue:  (2000)

:This easy-access, illustrated quick reference provides step-by-step coverage of all the essential tasks, terms, and techniques you need to quickly get to work using Word for Windows 95. It's an easy-to-use pocket-size guide that's handy at the office, at home, or on the road. Experience Level: Beginner/ Intermediate
Worst-case analysis of the Iterated Longest Fragment algorithm
Authors: József Békési, Gábor Galambos
Venue: Information Processing Letters (2001)

For parallel machine architecture the Iterated Longest Fragment algorithm was investigated by Stauffer and Hirschberg [Proc. 8th Int. Parallel Process. Symp., 1994, pp. 344-348] for compressing a text with a static dictionary. Later Nagumo, Lu and Watson [Inform. Process. Lett. 59 (1996) 91-96] proved that the algorithm can be implemented in an on-line way for the classical architecture as well. Beside some experimental results the efficiency of the algorithm has not been analyzed yet. In this paper we will investigate the asymptotic worst-case behaviour of the ILF algorithm for several types of static dictionaries. 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PowerPoint 97, 1st edition
Authors: Nat Gertler
Venue:  (1999)

:Users wanting to learn about the newest release of PowerPoint won't want to be without this tutorial. They will learn how to create dynamic presentations with slides and graphs all with this clear, two-color graphical resource. Mini-tutorials round out this handy guide that allows users to find the information they need in a flash!Provides Timesaving Tips, Plain English definitions, and Panic Button advice throughout the bookOutlines how to work with, print, rearrange, and draw objects on slidesTeaches the basic features and functions of PowerPoint with expert information and advice
The Fax Modem Sourcebook
Authors: Andrew Margolis
Venue:  (1994)

:The odds are that if you are one of the growing number of people using programmable faxes you will at least be thinking about some of the customization and adaptation features that are not possible with old plug-in-and-go fax technology. And you may find that a lot of the difficulties you have experienced are down to a pure lack of hard facts about standards and compatibilities. As well as being the only single source reference for international standards as they affect fax communications, the book contains: details of the command sets for programming the most common types of fax modem (EIA Classes 1, 2 and 2.0); an account of the TIFF specification for storing fax images; an introduction to basic fax information for communications engineers; and a fax TOOLKIT (included on disk) complete with C source code, which supports all the major fax modems and functions required for successful faxing. Wherever possible, the author provides practical programming advice and also helpful hints on how to interpret and implement the standard recommendations. This is as comprehensive a resource as you will need or find. 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
Active Directory Services for Microsoft Windows 2000
Authors: David Iseminger
Venue:  (1999)

:Windows 2000 Server delivers a hierarchical, extensible, standards-based directory service known as Active Directory. It enables users to store, find, or update data about objects such as users, files, applications or printers in one central location, instead of in multiple directories across the network. Active Directory Services for Microsoft Windows 2000 Technical Reference is the Active Directory bible for the enterprise IT department. It covers the how and the why of this powerful new directory system, and includes hands-on design and deployment information. Provides an explanation, reference, and practical roadmap into distributed, directory-based computing with Windows 2000 Server. Focuses on practical, hands-on design and deployment information, rather than a high-level approach Provides information necessary to plan for and deploy Windows 2000 Server by making the paradigm shift to the next-generation directory-services model of Active Directory. Provides an architectural background for directory services deployment, describes sample programs and scripts for directory-enabled applications, and shows how to implement a directory structure on existing Windows NT Server systems.
Mastering Database Programming with Visual Basic 6, 4th edition
Authors: Evangelos Petroutsos
Venue:  (1999)

:More than three-quarters of Visual Basic programmers are involving in developing database applications. In this book, popular VB author Evangelos Petroutsos (who wrote the best-selling Mastering Visual Basic 6 and Visual Basic 6 Developer's Handbook) takes beginning to intermediate VB programmers through all the steps of developing sophisticated database applications. The new Microsoft database access technology, ADO, is covered in depth, as is development of both two- and three-tier applications. The book offers coverage not just of Microsoft SQL Server but Oracle as well.
SAS Guide: For DOS Version 5.0 and Windows Version 6.10, 2nd edition
Authors: Kilman Shin
Venue:  (1995)

:The IRWIN Statistical Software Guide Series consists of four guides (Minitab, SAS, SPSS and Statgraphics). The bulk of each guide is an "applications" section that shows how to use the various statistical tests and functions of the software using examples and exercises drawn from Irwin texts. 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
All-out Internet Access: The Cambridge Public Library Model, 1st edition
Authors: Miles R. Fidelman
Venue:  (1997)

:Now that you've committed to providing your community with the best possible Internet access, learn from your trailblazing colleagues how to plan, implement, operate, and support all-out Internet patron access. In this special report, experts from the renowned Cambridge (Mass.) Public Library help prepare you for patrons' diverse questions, for the support you'll be required to offer, for the problems you'll encounter.Author Miles R. Fidelman, President of the Center for Civic Networking, outlines the challenges and success stories of these pioneers of high-speed, graphical Internet service that supports the full range of multimedia materials available across the Internet.Complete with time-saving checklists and illuminating worksheets, this one-of-a-kind planning and tracking tool offers strategies for establishing service goals, configuring effective workstations, integrating Internet access with other networks, and building multimedia capabilities. 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