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Robot Force Control, 1st edition
Authors: Bruno Siciliano, Luigi Villani
Venue:  (2000)

:One of the fundamental requirements for the success of a robot task is the capability to handle interaction between manipulator and environment. The quantity that describes the state of interaction more effectively is the contact force at the manipulator's end effector. High values of contact force are generally undesirable since they may stress both the manipulator and the manipulated object; hence the need to seek for effective force control strategies. The book provides a theoretical and experimental treatment of robot interaction control. In the framework of model-based operational space control, stiffness control and impedance control are presented as the basic strategies for indirect force control; a key feature is the coverage of six-degree-of-freedom interaction tasks and manipulator kinematic redundancy. Then, direct force control strategies are presented which are obtained from motion control schemes suitably modified by the closure of an outer force regulation feedback loop. Finally, advanced force and position control strategies are presented which include passivity-based, adaptive and output feedback control schemes. Remarkably, all control schemes are experimentally tested on a setup consisting of a seven-joint industrial robot with open control architecture and force/torque sensor. The topic of robot force control is not treated in depth in robotics textbooks, in spite of its crucial importance for practical manipulation tasks. In the few books addressing this topic, the material is often limited to single-degree-of-freedom tasks. On the other hand, several results are available in the robotics literature but no dedicated monograph exists. The book is thus aimedat filling this gap by providing a theoretical and experimental treatment of robot force control.
Analysis of Inexact Trust-Region SQP Algorithms
Authors: Matthias Heinkenschloss, Luis N. Vicente
Venue: SIAM Journal on Optimization (2002)

In this paper we extend the design of a class of composite-step trust-region SQP methods and their global convergence analysis to allow inexact problem information. The inexact problem information can result from iterative linear system solves within the trust-region SQP method or from approximations of first-order derivatives. Accuracy requirements in our trust-region SQP methods are adjusted based on feasibility and optimality of the iterates. Our accuracy requirements are stated in general terms, but we show how they can be enforced using information that is already available in matrix-free implementations of SQP methods. In the absence of inexactness our global convergence theory is equal to that of Dennis, El-Alem, and Maciel [SIAM J. Optim., 7 (1997), pp. 177--207]. If all iterates are feasible, i.e., if all iterates satisfy the equality constraints, then our results are related to the known convergence analyses for trust-region methods with inexact gradient information for unconstrained optimization.
GroupWise 5.5 Quick Source Guide
Authors: Quick Source Staff
Venue:  (1999)

:This 6 page, tri-fold full-color guide is an invaluable resource for anyone who uses GroupWise 5.5! It provides step by step instructions on how to send and receive messages, send attachments, create and grant access to folders, create appointments, assign tasks, print a calendar, create notes, create library documents, filter messages, participate in discussions, use the address book, and much more. An excellent instructional tool for a user new to GroupWise, it also serves as a handy reference tool for the more experienced user. 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
Videoconferencing for the Real World: Implementing Effective Visual Communication Systems
Authors: John D. Rhodes
Venue:  (2001)

:* Guidelines for the deployment of videoconferencing and other types of networked video * Step-by-step planning for the selection, installation, and operation of an effective videoconferencing solution * Up-to-date, annotated list of resources and links Designed to be useful to both technical and non-technical managers, Videoconferencing for the Real World demystifies the subject of video communications. It provides easy-to-follow guidelines for deploying a cost-effective videoconferencing solution tailored to an organization's specific needs. Developed to be flexible to the reader's need, this text offers dynamic problem-solving techniques for the communication challenges facing managers today. Examining the technical, economic, and organizational aspects of each requirement and solution, this book offers sound technical information and provides practical advice based on a wealth of professional experience. Combining his own ideas with the input of system managers and users, service providers, consultants, and manufacturers, John Rhodes has developed a guide that will help readers to make informed investments with their time and money. Covering a variety of solutions, Videoconferencing for the Real World explores the advantages and disadvantages of desktop systems, set-top systems, rollabout systems, and room systems. In addition to compression, multipoint conferencing and video distribution systems, this book also addresses topics such as, pilot projects, the preparation of RFPs, service contracts, training, content creation, and convergence. The text also includes information on conducting an effective needs analysis and the developing of solutions that will adapt easily to future changes in organizational requirements.
The WARM-UP Algorithm: A Lagrangian Construction of Length Restricted Huffman Codes
Authors: Ruy Luiz Milidiú, Eduardo Sany Laber
Venue: SIAM Journal on Computing (2000)

Given an alphabet {a,1, . . . ,an} with the corresponding list of weights [w1, . . . ,wn], and a number $L \geq \lceil \log n \rceil $, we introduce the WARM-UP algorithm, a Lagrangian algorithm for constructing suboptimal length restricted prefix codes. Two implementations of the algorithm are proposed. The first one has time complexity $ O(n \log n + n \log \fMax) $, where {\mbox{$\overline{w}$} } is the highest presented weight. The second one runs in O(nL log (n/L)) time. The number of additional bits per symbol generated by WARM-UP when comparing to Huffman encoding is not greater than ${1/ \psi^{L-\lceil \log (n+ \lceil \log n \rceil -L) \rceil-2}}$. Even though the algorithm is approximated it presents an optimal behavior for practical settings.An important feature of the proposed algorithm is its implementation simplicity. The algorithm is basically a selected sequence of Huffman tree constructions for modified weights. The approach gives some new insights on the problem.
Measures for Excellence: Reliable Software on Time, within Budget, 1st edition
Authors: Lawrence H. Putnam, Ware Myers
Venue:  (1991)

:This book helps you accurately measure the completion time frames for small-to-medium software development projects, with practical techniques for performing software estimates, productivity measurements and quality forecasts. It forms a common underlying methodology, helping you plan the project, create a budget, and set schedules and quality standards. Throughout, the handbook answers the management questions you've always been asking yourself about software projects, including: How long is it going to take? ... How much will it cost? ... How many people will I need? ... What is my risk on meeting the budget? ... What is my risk on meeting the schedule? Appropriate for software engineers, developers, and managers.
Net Results.2: Best Practices for Web Marketing
Authors: Rick Bruner, MIA Amato, Leland Harden
Venue:  (2000)

:With the dot-com revolution, an entire new breed of bookthe technology/commerce title has emerges as the pioneer's guide. Discounting the initial-sales spike for this title, demand for Net Results has been growing, particularly over the last 14 months (coinciding with the increased attention paid to e-commerce). Net Results has received superlative reviews; the consistent theme in the comments is that the book is comprehensive; full of real-world advice; written by authorities of exceptional qualification; and has advice that is not easily outdated, reflecting an impressive understanding of and vision for web marketing issues of the near future. Simply: Net Results is a proven winner. This book is a walking tour of what to do and what to avoid, hosted not by a professional writer (as many competitive titles are), but by experts who rely on their own advice for continued success in their own dot-com businesses.
Linux Filesystems
Authors: William Von Hagen
Venue:  (2001)

:High-performance, high-availability journaling and distributed filesystems are one of the most exciting areas of Linux today. This book provides a thorough explanation of the underlying concepts behind these types of filesystems and gives complete, hands-on instructions for building, installing, using, and administering journaling and distributed filesystems on computers running Linux. Beyond simply discussing advanced filesystems on Linux, this book also explains how to install interoperability software that lets Linux systems share data with networked Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, and Novell NetWare systems. It also includes procedural, hands-on information on related technologies such as Logical Volume Management and networked backup systems, and discusses how to use all of these to maximize the power, flexibility, and viability of Linux in enterprise computing environments.
Data Structures, Algorithms, and Software Principles, 1st edition
Authors: Thomas A. Standish
Venue:  (1993)

:It is assumed that students using this book for a CS2 course will have already taken a CS1 course covering introductory programming using Pascal. Highlights Develops the concepts and theory of data structures and algorithm analysis step-by-step, in a gradual fashion, proceeding from concrete examples to abstract principles Uses recurring themes such as recursion, levels of abstraction, efficiency, and trade-offs to unify the material completely Provides mathematical foundations that can be engaged at a variety of depths Covers traditional software engineering principles as well as introducing new concepts such as risk-based software lifecycle models, rapid prototyping, and reusable software components Introduction to object-oriented programming
In support of user interface design in the rational unified process
Authors: Chris Phillips, Elizabeth Kemp
Venue: Proceedings of the Third Australasian conference on User interfaces - Volume 7 (2002)

The Rational Unified Process (RUP) is a use case driven iterative software engineering process User Interface design within the RUP involves user interface modelling and user interface prototyping. This paper describes two support artefacts - extended tabular use cases and UI element clusters - which provide a bridge between these two activities. They provide support for 'flow of events' storyboarding, the clustering of user interface elements and identification of UML boundary classes, and the initial sketching of user interface prototypes.
Start with a Digital Camera: A Guide to Using Digital Photography to Create High-Quality Graphics
Authors: John Odam
Venue:  (1999)

:Digital photography is well established as the next wave of image creation. Cameras are becoming more affordable, image manipulation technology is becoming more powerful, and an increasing number of users are finding the lure of digital photography too strong to resist. Whether you are about to purchase a digital camera or you already have one and aren't sure what to do with it, this book gives you both the knowledge and the inspiration to create top quality digital photographs and incorporate them into graphic designs. The co-author of the succesful Start with books provides clear guidance, beautiful full color photographs, and simple instructions aimed at getting users started on the road to digital photography.Shows how to create high-quality digital photosProvides design ideas and inspirationIntroduces amateurs and professionals to this new technologyProvides camera buying tips 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
On the Various Realizations of the Basic Representation of An−1(1) and the Combinatorics of Partitions
Authors: Séverine Leidwanger
Venue: Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics: An International Journal (2001)

The infinite dimensional Lie algebra i>&scirc;ln &equals; i>Ai>n&minus;1(1) can be realized in several ways as an algebra of differential operators. The aim of this note is to show that the intertwining operators between the realizations of i>&scirc;ln corresponding to all partitions of i>n can be described very simply by using combinatorial constructions.
Falcon 4.0: The Official Strategy Guide, 1st edition
Authors: Pete Bonanni, Jamie Reiner, James Reiner
Venue:  (1999)

:Soar beyond all bounds in Falcon 4.0: Prima's Official Strategy Guide with superb details on strategies, tactics, and secrets you need to win. Learn to select your own targets, locate them, and jump in the fray with steely confidence.
Reducing cognitive overhead on the world wide web
Authors: Rebecca J Witt, Susan P Tyerman
Venue: Proceedings of the twenty-fifth Australasian conference on Computer science - Volume 4 (2002)

HyperScout, a Web application, is an intermediary between a server and a client. It intercepts a page to the client, gathers information on each link, and annotates each link with the discovered information. This paper reports on the development of HyperScout var UniSA, a development of the HyperScout model and application, that dramatically extends static and dynamic link annotations. Annotations provide the user with additional information, which they use to make better navigational choices. On the web, it is common for long lists of hyperlinks to be presented to the user, from which they select links to follow or ignore. The user's mental state in this situation is termed cognitive overhead, a potentially overwhelming condition. To assist the user in making their choice, various characteristics of a link may be presented to the user. Despite these characteristics being readily available from a number of sources, current web servers and browsers do not attempt to retrieve, let alone display, such attributes. To show that cognitive overhead is easily, and immediately, reducible, a number of techniques were explored. Development progressed from statically created annotations, through to dynamically generated annotations. The static annotations were implemented with a combination of tools available to every web author. It was found that, while simple enough for every author to implement, static annotations bearing static information would not be accurate or timely enough to guide the user. Therefore, information must be gathered dynamically. The solution is either an intermediary between server and client, or a more sophisticated browser.
Fuzzy Modeling and Control: Selected Works of M. Sugeno, 1st edition
Authors: Nadipuram R. Prasad, Michio Sugeno
Venue:  (1998)

:The publication of Fuzzy Modeling and Control: Selected Works of M. Sugeno highlights the unique and fundamental contributions of Professor Sugeno to the development of fuzzy set theory and its applications. The papers, in this volume are more than a tribute to Professor Sugeno's profound influence - they serve, above all, to provide access to some of the most important ideas and results within the theory of fuzzy sets and point to new directions, especially in the areas of control, systems, and decision analysis.
Plausible and adaptive requirement traceability structures
Authors: George Spanoudakis
Venue: Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software engineering and knowledge engineering (2002)

This paper presents an extension of a traceability system which automates the generation of traceability relations between textual requirement artefacts and object models using heuristic traceability rules. These rules match syntactically related terms in the textual parts of the requirements artefacts with related elements in an object model (e.g. classes, attributes, operations) and create traceability relations of different types when a match is found. The extension described in this paper measures beliefs in: (1) the ability of specific traceability rules to generate correct traceability relations, (2) the satisfiability of traceability rules by particular types of artefacts, and (3) the correctness of individual traceability relations. It also provides a mechanism with well-founded semantics for revising these beliefs on the basis of partial (and even conflicting) assessments of the relations that these rules generate provided by different users.
The Insider's Guide to America Online
Authors: Meg Booker, Songline Studios
Venue:  (1997)

:Discover how to ram up your AOL expertise. Meg's savvy insights will show you how to manage your personal finances and investments online, learn where to find the best sports columnists and the most complete stats, locate the best areas for kids and families, use AOL to explore the best sites on the World Wide Web, get the very latest news and information, and use AOL as effectively as possible, at the office and at home.
E-Commerce: Fundamentals and Applications
Authors: Henry Chan, Raymond Lee, Tharam Dillion
Venue:  (2001)

:This book provides a broad approach to the subject of e-commerce, complete with extensive coverage of key technologies and ideas on integrating them into useful applications. It provides expert coverage of the technical aspects of web-based e-business.
Mastering XML Premium Edition
Authors: Chuck White, Linda Burman
Venue:  (2001)

:Master the newest and hottest building block of the web, XML. Our experts lead you step by step through everything from the basics to data design, tools, and applications.This Premium Edition contains all the detailed techniques, tips, and real world case studies of our original, but is enhanced with additional case studies, all the new specs, and bonus reference materials. CD includes all the code in the book and numerous thirdparty tools.
PC Card - PCMCIA Software Developer's Handbook, 2nd edition
Authors: Steven M. Kipisz, Dana L. Beatty, Brian E. Moore
Venue:  (1999)

:PC/PCMCIA cards are used in tens of millions of notebook computers for modems, memories, scanners, and all kinds of devices. This title gives expanded coverage of software aspects of multifunction cards, power management, and other essential PC topics.
Linux timeline
Authors: LWN, Linux Journal Staff
Venue: Linux Journal (2002)

All grown up and old enough to have a history--take a look at 100 of the most memorable Linux events.
Logic programming and knowledge representation-the A-prolog perspective
Venue: Artificial Intelligence (2002)

In this paper we give a short introduction to logic programming approach to knowledge representation and reasoning. The intention is to help the reader to develop a `feel' for the field's history and some of its recent developments. The discussion is mainly limited to logic programs under the answer set semantics. For understanding of approaches to logic programming built on well-founded semantics, general theories of argumentation, abductive reasoning, etc., the reader is referred to other publications.
Two approaches to teaching software components using Ada 95
Authors: David S. Gibson
Venue: ACM SIGAda Ada Letters (2000)

Abstract data types (ADTs) have been used for many years to teach the specification and implementation of software components. With the advent of object-oriented programming languages (OOPLs), many ADT specifications and implementations are now encoded in OOPLs as classes. OOPLs typically provide a variety of language mechanisms that support data abstraction and make classes convenient for encoding ADT specifications and implementations. In particular, the inheritance mechanism supported by OOPL classes provides useful ways of relating ADT specifications and implementations. The Ada programming language has always provided solid support for specification and implementation of ADTs with its package construct. The 1995 revision to Ada (Ada 95) added a variety of powerful new language mechanisms such as tagged types (full-fledged inheritance), abstract types, and hierarchical library units. Each of these new Ada language mechanisms, in addition to packages, can be used in various combinations to support the specification, implementation, and extension of ADTs. In this paper, we compare two approaches used to teach to second-year undergraduates specification and implementation of software components in Ada. The first approach is a traditional Ada approach relying solely on the package mechanism to support data abstraction. The second approach relies heavily on Ada's newer object-oriented language mechanisms in addition to hierarchical library units.
Virtual University: An Action Paradigm and Process for WorkPlace Learning
Authors: Richard Teare, David Davies, Eric Sandelands
Venue:  (1999)

:This book examines the growing potential of interactive training and learning materials at the workplace. It looks at how in-company internet and intranet infrastructures can enable staff training and management development on a world-wide scale.
Oracle9i Xml Handbook
Authors: Ben Chang, Mark Scardina, Stefan Kiritzov
Venue:  (2001)

:From the official Oracle Press comes a comprehensive guide to developing XML-based e-Commerce applications on the Oracle Internet Platform. Written by the Oracle XML Development Team,this insider's resource explains how to take full advantage of the Oracle XML Developer's Kit (XDKs) and maximize Oracle9i's XML-enabled features. Maximize XML-enabled Oracle9iCreate and deploy cross-platform,transaction-based applications on Oracle9i with XMLthe industry standard for describing data for e-business application integration and business-to-business exchanges. Written by members of the Oracle XML Development Team,this insider's resource explains how to take full advantage of the Oracle XML Developer Kit (XDK) to build,manipulate,transform,and view XML documents. You'll also learn from real-world case studies illustrating how Oracle customers make the most of the built-in XML-enabled features. Take advantage of the Oracle9i XML infrastructure and XML Developer Kit (XDK)Use the parsers,processors,generators,viewers,and utilities included in the XDKDevelop robust Oracle9i applications with Java XML componentsMaximize the new built-in XML SQL and PL/SQL functions and XML-based messaging capabilitiesUnderstand the differences between Oracle Application Server (OAS) and Oracle9i Application Server (Oracle9iAS)Develop and deploy transaction-oriented applications for OAS and Oracle9iASEnable enterprisewide access to XML documents by storing them in the Internet File System (iFS)Manage diverse types of datatext,images,audio,and videoas data types by using OracleTextDevelop Web-enabled e-business applications with the Oracle e-Business XML Services component CD-ROM Includes the Official Oracle XML Developer Kit (XDK)
Teach Yourself HTML Visually, 1st edition
Authors: Ruth Maran
Venue:  (1999)

:HTML is the markup language that designed for creating Web pages. But how do you learn the code, techniques, and cascading stylesheets when you can't see what you're building? Armed with Teach Yourself HTML Visually, you get the building blocks you need to master links, embedded images, sounds and video, and frames to create a dynamic site with visual appeal. With a graphical format and step-by-step examples, Teach Yourself HTML Visually will help you can take on HTML and enhance your Web site at your own pace.