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Getting Started in Online Investing
Authors: David L. Brown, Kassandra Bentley
Venue:  (1999)

From the Book:Since we first wrote about online investing five years ago, the Internet has exploded in a frenzy of growth. Our first book, CyberInvesting: Cracking Wall Street with Your Personal Computer, listed a dozen investing Web sites in a hurriedly written two-page chapter just as the book was going to press (and we had to search hard to find those). In the second edition two years later, we expanded the Internet chapter to a dozen pages and spun it off, so to speak, into its own 350-page book about investing on the Web (Wall Street City: Your Guide to Investing on the Web). As we were writing that book, the commercial Internet was undergoingkaleidoscopic changes and, in the process, transforming virtuallyevery area of our lives- none more so than the way we invest. The averageinvestor now has access to information that once was the province ofprofessional investors. Investing Web sites now number more than 8000.Brokerage commissions for Web-based trades have dropped from hundredsof dollars a trade to as low as $5 per trade. In response, individualinvestors are logging on to the Internet in unprecedented numbers. Morethan 14 million are expected to become online investors by 2002. Sorting through the mind-boggling array of investing informationand tools, however, is not an easy task. That's why we wrote this book. As part of the "Getting Started In" series, this book is aimed at beginninginvestors. It will help you find and use the vast array of investing re-sourceson the Internet so you can make your own decisions as aninvestor. We do not, however, tell y ou how to make money in the stockmarket or advise you about investing strategies. So, is this book for you? It is if: You have an independent, do-it-yourself attitude. You like the idea of bypassing all the middlemen and digging outthe facts for yourself. You have confidence in your own judgment and decision-makingability. You have a basic knowledge of stocks and the stock market. You are familiar with the Internet- or if not, you're learningabout it on the side. You want to become an online investor.We think you will be surprised, pleased, and perhaps overwhelmedby the quantity and quality of investing information on the Internet.Much of it is free, and even more is likely to become free in the future.One of the trends of investing Web sites is to reduce premiums on informationand to move more resources into the free areas of their sites. So,not only is the information out there, much of it is yours for the taking.Information does not translate directly into talent, wisdom, or skills,but to the extent that information and related tools make for success, theInternet can help you become a successful investor. In this book, we'll introduceyou to some of the best investing tools on the World Wide Web.DAVID L. BROWNHouston, TexasKASSANDRA BENTLEYSan Diego, CaliforniaFebruary 1999
The extended partitioning problem: hardware/software mapping, scheduling, and implementation-bin selection
Authors: Asawaree Kalavade, Edward A. Lee
Venue: Readings in hardware/software co-design (2001)

In system-level design, applications are represented as task graphs where tasks (called nodes) have moderate to large granularity and each node has several implantation options differing in area and execution time. We define the extended partitioning problem as the joint determination of the mapping (hardware or software), the implementation option (called implementation bin), as well as the schedule, for each node, so that the overall area allocated to nodes in hardware is minimum and a deadline constraint is met. This problem is considerably harder (and richer) than the traditional binary partitioning problem that determines just the best mapping and schedule. Both binary and extended partitioning problems are constrained optimization problems and are NP-hard. We first present an efficient (0(N2)) heuristic, called GCLP, to solve the binary-partitioning problem. The heuristic reduces the greediness associated with traditional list-scheduling algorithms by formulating a global measure, called global criticality (GC). The GC measure also permits an adaptive selection of the optimization objective at each step of the algorithm; since the optimization problem is constrained by a deadline, either area or time is optimized at a given step based on the value of GC. The selected objective is used to determine the mapping of nodes that are "normal", i.e., nodes that do not exhibit affinity for a particular mapping. To account for nodes that are not "normal", we define "extremities" and "repellers". Extremities consume disproportionate amounts of resources in hardware and software. Repellers are inherently unsuitable to either hardware or software based on certain structural properties. The mapping of extremities and repellers is determined jointly by GC and their local preference. We then present an efficient (O (N3+N2 B), for N nodes and B bins per node) heuristic for extended partitioning, called MIBS, that alternately uses GCLP and an implementation-bin selection procedure. The implementation-bin selection procedure chooses, for a node with already determined mapping, an implementation bin that maximizes the area-reduction gradient of as-yet unmapped nodes. Solutions generated by both heuristics are shown to be reasonably close to optimal. Extended partitioning generates considerably smaller overall hardware as compared to binary partitioning.
The Little iMac Book, Second Edition, 2nd edition
Authors: Robin Williams, John Tollett
Venue:  (2000)

:Learn the ins and outs of the iMac with this completely updated, bestselling book from Robin Williams. The Little iMac Book, Second Edition, is up-to-date for OS 9, and covers all the basics from starting up and shutting down to using the mouse and working with the desktop; plus, it includes new coverage of wireless computing and the new iMac digital video capabilities.
Web information systems: the changing landscape of management models and web applications
Authors: Steve Hansen
Venue: Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software engineering and knowledge engineering (2002)

With the increasing use of web interfaces across organisations' corporate and supporting applications, has come a dramatic increase in the number of users in the resulting systems. Along with this trend to connect more and more of an organization's staff and clients together via web interfaces, has been the rise of user-centric design models which place user requirements higher on the priorities list in system design and also places user satisfaction as a major performance and quality indicator. In addition, the use of the web in capturing and making use of knowledge management ideas, especially with the help of collaborative tools is being experimented with and implemented in many organisations. This paper presents and discusses both a modelling of these changes and the effects on web application and systems development.
Automatic intra-register vectorization for the Intel architecture
Authors: Aart J. C. Bik, Milind Girkar, Paul M. Grey, Xinmin Tian
Venue: International Journal of Parallel Programming (2002)

Recent extensions to the Intel® Architecture feature the SIMD technique to enhance the performance of computational intensive applications that perform the same operation on different elements in a data set. To date, much of the code that exploits these extensions has been hand-coded. The task of the programmer is substantially simplified, however, if a compiler does this exploitation automatically. The high-performance Intel® C++/Fortran compiler supports automatic translation of serial loops into code that uses the SIMD extensions to the Intel® Architecture. This paper provides a detailed overview of the automatic vectorization methods used by this compiler together with an experimental validation of their effectiveness.
The Awesome Power of Java Beans, 1st edition
Authors: Lawrence Rodrigues
Venue:  (1998)

:With complete instructions for building Java Beans and a set of ready-to-use Java Beans for a wide variety of applications, this book is a serious reference for developers and programmers. This title includes steps for converting an applet into a bean and discusses the new Glasgow and InfoBus specifications.
Representation and reasoning for goals in BDI agents
Authors: John Thangarajah, Lin Padgham, James Harland
Venue: Proceedings of the twenty-fifth Australasian conference on Computer science - Volume 4 (2002)

A number of agent-oriented programming systems are based on a framework of beliefs, desires and intentions (BDI) and more explicitly on the BDI logic of Rao and Georgeff. In this logic, goals are a consistent set of desires, and this property is fundamental to the semantics of the logic. However, implementations based on this framework typically have no explicit representation of either desires or goals, and consequently no mechanisms for checking consistency. In this paper we address this gap between theory and practice by giving an explicit representation for a simple class of desires. The simplicity of this class makes it both straightforward and efficient to check for consistency. We provide a general framework for conflict resolution based on a preference ordering of sets of goals, and we illustrate how different rules for specifying consistent goal sets (corresponding to different preference orderings) relate to existing commitment strategies. We also report on some implementation experiments which confirm that the cost of consistency maintenance is not significant.
A new type system for JVM lock primitives
Authors: Futoshi Iwama, Naoki Kobayashi
Venue: Proceedings of the ASIAN symposium on Partial evaluation and semantics-based program manipulation (2002)

A bytecode verifier for the Java virtual machine language (JVML) checks that bytecode does not cause any fatal error before the code is executed. However, the present verifier does not check correctness of the usage of lock primitives. To solve this problem, we extend Stata and Abadi's type system for JVML by augmenting types with information about how each object is locked and unlocked. The resulting type system can guarantee that when a thread terminates it has released all the locks it has acquired and that a thread releases a lock only if it has acquired the lock previously.
Corel WebMaster Suite for Dummies (with CD-ROM), 1st edition
Authors: Paul Bodensiek, Corel Corporation
Venue:  (1997)

:Corel WebMaster Suite includes all the tools and utilities you need to create and publish your own Web site. Corel WebMaster Suite For Dummies helps you tap into and utilize these awesome resources without getting bogged down by dry, technical jargon. Build professional-looking Web sites for your home or business and discover tons of tricks that the professionals don't want you to know. Inside, find helpful advice on how to Create Web sites that people will want to visit Incorporate the latest Web technologies, such as frames, forms, tables, and even multimedia Publish Web pages that load quickly and easily on a variety of browsers Paint eye-catching graphics by using WEB.PhotoPaint Spice up your Web pages by using the latest animation and multimedia technologies Add information to your Web site -- information that you've already created in word processing, spreadsheet, and even database applications
Using Query/400
Authors: Patrice Gapen, Catherine Stoughton
Venue:  (1995)

:Using Query/400 is a textbook for any AS/400 user, from the traditional student to the professional user, an easy and fast tool for creating reports and files from AS/400 databases. You need no prior programming experience. Students will find this book most useful following an "Introduction to the AS/400" class.The book's emphasis is on hands-on AS/400 use. The fundamentals of Query/400 are presented moving from simple to complex. Topics include selecting and sequencing fields, generating new numeric and character fields, sorting within Query, joining database files, defining custom headings, creating new database files, and more. Each chapter reinforces the knowledge gained in previous chapters.
Special Edition Using Microsoft Office XP
Authors: Ed Bott, Woody Leonhard
Venue:  (2001)

:With this edition of Special Edition Using Office XP there is a continual emphasis on realistic applications and uses of the program features. While there are many other big books in the Office market today, there are few that tailor coverage uniquely for the intermediate to advanced Office user as Special Edition Using does, delivering more focused value for the customer. It has been updated to reflect Office XP's Smart tags, collaboration features, speech and dictation tools, built-in recovery features, "add network place" wizard and much more
Introduction to COBOL: A Guide to Modular Structured Programming with Cdrom, 1st edition
Authors: David M. Collopy
Venue:  (1999)

: Ideal for readers with little programming and/or mathematical background, this practical introduction to Cobol programming uses a simplified, "learn-by-example" approach that stresses top-down design and modular structured programming and emphasizes the planning and development of the program logic throughout - with complete programming examples that walk users through the problem analysis, logic design, program coding, testing, and debugging. Introduces two or more realistic sample programs in each chapter which demonstrate application of the program development process to an actual programming situation from start to finish - covering everything from problem definition to input/output specifications, processing requirements, hierarchy charts, program flowcharts, pseudocode, and program code. Stresses the importance of using top-down logic design and modular structure programming to construct high-quality, easy-to-read programs. Dissects program code and explains step-by-step how the program statements work together to produce the desired output. Examines menu-driven programming, data validation, guidelines for creating efficient and effective menu systems, and sequential, relative and indexed files. Checkpoint exercises, chapter summaries, and programming projects are included. For electronic and computer technology professionals. . 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
Stabilization of Nonlinear Uncertain Systems, 1st edition
Authors: Miroslav Krstic, J. W. Modestino, H. Deng
Venue:  (1998)

:This monograph presents the fundamentals of global stabilization and optimal control of nonlinear systems with uncertain models. It offers a unified view of deterministic disturbance attenuation, stochastic control, and adaptive control for nonlinear systems. The book addresses researchers in the areas of robust and adaptive nonlinear control, nonlinear H-infinity stochastic control, and other related areas of control and dynamical systems theory.
MCSE Six Pack, 1st edition
Authors: Barry Meinster
Venue:  (1999)

:6 Reasons Why You Need the MCSE Six PackThe fastest way to certification Reverse-engineered exam questions, easy-to-grasp mini-objectives, and cut-to-the-chase exam-day tips let you study exactly what IT professionals need to pass  and nothing more!Terrific test-prep software Hundreds of sample questions let you generate thousands of unique exam simulationsAn unbeatable practice tool Interactive exam simulations show you what to expect  and let you customize your practice sessions to focus on specific objectivesAccurate self-assessment Diagnostic exams tell you exactly when you're ready to pass each examThe most authoritative guidance Fully cross-referenced to the acclaimed MCSE Study Guide series from IDG Books WorldwideThe most effective study system Your ultimate all-in-one resource for six MCSE exams  reference materials, sample questions, tips and tricks, plus software exam simulationsInside, find two CD-ROMs withSelf-assessment testsInteractive, fully customizable exam simulationsHundreds of sample questionsGet a Free 30-day evaluation copyAuthor Biography: About the Author Barry Meinster, MCSE, Ed.D., has served as a consultant to Microsoft's Educational Development Group. A member of the SPI and ASTD, he is the author of several other books on computers and certification.
Sap Finance and Controlling with Cdrom, 1st edition
Authors: John Phillips
Venue:  (1999)

:This integrated book/CD-ROM package is the first complete training kit for end users of SAP software. The CD contains a multimedia presentation that maps to the text, demonstrating each screen as the reader progresses through the book, and includes sample SAP reports. 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
The Financial Planner's Guide to Moving Your Practice Online: Creating Your Internet Presence and Growing Your Business
Authors: Douglas H. Durrie, Securities America
Venue:  (2001)

:The ultimate Internet primer for financial planners. Packed with tips for finding and keeping clients through the Web, this is a soup-to-nuts marketing guide for financial planners who want to develop an Internet presence. From staking out a specialty to creating effective e-mail newsletters, The Financial Planner's Guide to Moving Your Practice Online takes advisers through every step, every consideration, and every precaution for navigating the uncertain seas of the Internet. This thorough, easy-to-use handbook is full of invaluable resources for planners striving to build their brand online. It includes chapters devoted to finding leading Web site developers, crafting an effective site design, and measuring and evaluating site traffic. Financial planners will also find invaluable information on how to prospect for clients through direct e-mail marketing, learn the pros and cons of Internet advertising venues, discover how to create a Web-based marketing campaign, and much more. Durrie details how planners can use databases to pool their efforts and mine more effectively for information. He also devotes a chapter to the crucial issue of regulatory compliance for financial planners marketing their practices on the Web. There isn't anything of its kind in the marketplace that is as practical, thorough, and useful for planners looking to integrate the Internet into their practices.Essential Guidance for Planners: * Strategies for reaching new groups of clients and better servicing existing clients * Helps planners determine which kind of marketing strategy best fits their practices * How to integrate an Internet plan with existing marketing efforts * Developing an effective Webcast seminar or online sales presentation * How to tell the difference between spamming and legitimate e-mail communications * Active and passive prospecting strategies geared specifically to the Internet Author Biography: Douglas H. Durrie is vice president of industry research and intelligence for Securities America Financial Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of American Express Financial Corporation and sister company of American Express Financial Advisors, Inc. With more than 20 years' experience in marketing and research, Durrie currently researches new marketing initiatives, with a particular focus on those involving new technology. He also has developed Web site strategies and coordinated Internet marketing and communications for Securities America.
Least Squares Residuals and Minimal Residual Methods
Authors: J. Liesen, M. Rozlozník, Z. Strakos
Venue: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (2001)

We study Krylov subspace methods for solving unsymmetric linear algebraic systems that minimize the norm of the residual at each step (minimal residual (MR) methods). MR methods are often formulated in terms of a sequence of least squares (LS) problems of increasing dimension. We present several basic identities and bounds for the LS residual. These results are interesting in the general context of solving LS problems. When applied to MR methods, they show that the size of the MR residual is strongly related to the conditioning of different bases of the same Krylov subspace. Using different bases is useful in theory because relating convergence to the characteristics of different bases offers new insight into the behavior of MR methods.Different bases also lead to different implementations which are mathematically equivalent but can differ numerically. Our theoretical results are used for a finite precision analysis of implementations of the GMRES method [Y. Saad and M. H. Schultz, SIAM J. Sci. Statist. Comput., 7 (1986), pp. 856--869]. We explain that the choice of the basis is fundamental for the numerical stability of the implementation. As demonstrated in the case of Simpler GMRES [H. F. Walker and L. Zhou, Numer. Linear Algebra Appl., 1 (1994), pp. 571--581], the best orthogonalization technique used for computing the basis does not compensate for the loss of accuracy due to an inappropriate choice of the basis. In particular, we prove that Simpler GMRES is inherently less numerically stable than the Classical GMRES implementation due to Saad and Schultz [SIAM J. Sci. Statist. Comput., 7 (1986), pp. 856--869].
Teach Yourself Microsoft Office 2000 Visually, 1st edition
Authors: Marangraphics, Marangraphics Staff
Venue:  (1999)

:Ruth Maran covers all the new Office applications, including Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook and Bookshelf Basics. This visual title gives full coverage of each key topic, clearly illustrated in color with step-by-step screen shots and 3D drawings.
DOS beyond 640k, 3rd edition
Authors: Jim S. Forney
Venue:  (1994)

:Break through the 640K memory barrier with low-cost hardware and software upgrades! How would you like to be able to maintain larger data files, create more flexible work environments, and run more powerful programs on your PC? Well, you CAN! Now completely revised to include in-depth information on the latest alternatives and options available to RAM-restricted DOS users, this third edition of DOS Beyond 640K is the perfect guide to breaking through the 640K memory barrier. Inside, you'll find details on multiple start-up configurations for popular operating systems, new extended and expanded memory options, improved memory managers, DOS-extended applications, real vs. protected mode memory management schemes and memory requirements for major software packages. 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
Official Bushido Blade Fighter's Guide
Authors: David Cassady, Hoobler
Venue:  (1997)

:You wanted a true-to-life fighting experience and you got it. All you need now is this strategy guide to ensure you come out the winner.Covers tactics and strategies for all the character/weapon combinations, plus special moves and combosIncludes a detailed fighting area mapReveals secret characters and hidden paths