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The Painter 7 Wow! Book with Cdrom
Authors: Cher Threinen-Pendarvis
Venue:  (2002)

:Get artistic inspiration and practical techniques in one full-color, example-packed volume: The Painter 7 Wow! Book. The definitive guide to this popular paint program is backthoroughly revised to include a plethora of new tips, step-by-step techniques, and illustrations that make deciphering this new version a breeze. Author Cher Threinen-Pendarvis shows you how to get the most out of Painter 7's improved interface and tools, including its awesome natural-media brushes and effects. Plus, she's added new projects and galleries as well as special Primer sections to cover Painter 7's new Water Color and Liquid Ink media layers and brushes.The Painter 7 Wow! Book strikes the perfect balance between hands-on, step-by-step instruction and visual inspiration. You'll find thorough coverage of the basicsPainter's tools, functions, and preferencesas well as plenty of real-world examples from print, multimedia, and the Web. Best of all, the book's galleries feature work from a top-notch cast of fine artists, designers, photographers, and illustrators who use Painter to illuminate books and magazines, CD-ROMs, gallery walls, and the Web. On the accompanying CD-ROM you'll discover loads of custom brushes, papers, patterns, and scripts created by the author; goodies shared by contributing artists; high-resolution stock photographs and video clips; and a demo of Painter 7. Novices and pros alike will be creating digital master works in no time with Painter 7 on their computers and this dazzling guide at their side.
QuarkXPress 3.2 Design Techniques (MacIntosh Edition)
Authors: Scott Cook, Anthony Nex
Venue:  (1993)

:An illustrated guide for working with QuarkXPress. Besides fully illustrated, step-by-step instructions for specific techniques, this text provides hints and guidelines for creating common desktop publishing projects, including ads, posters, annual reports, forms, stationery, and brochures.
Squirrel: a decentralized peer-to-peer web cache
Authors: Sitaram Iyer, Antony Rowstron, Peter Druschel
Venue: Proceedings of the twenty-first annual symposium on Principles of distributed computing (2002)

This paper presents a decentralized, peer-to-peer web cache called Squirrel. The key idea is to enable web browsers on desktop machines to share their local caches, to form an efficient and scalable web cache, without the need for dedicated hardware and the associated administrative cost. We propose and evaluate decentralized web caching algorithms for Squirrel, and discover that it exhibits performance comparable to a centralized web cache in terms of hit ratio, bandwidth usage and latency. It also achieves the benefits of decentralization, such as being scalable, self-organizing and resilient to node failures, while imposing low overhead on the participating nodes.
A location management technique to support lifelong numbering in personal communications services
Authors: Derek Lam, Yingwei Cui, Donald C. Cox, Jennifer Widom
Venue: ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review (1998)

This paper presents a novel location management technique, HOPPER, that is designed to support in a scalable and efficient manner non-geographical (lifelong) personal numbers in Personal Communications Services (PCS). Performance comparisons between our scheme and previous schemes are derived from large scale simulations using a realistic traffic modeling framework for the ten largest cities of the United States. Results show that, in addition to inherently providing nongeographical numbers, the proposed scheme significantly improves lookup performance and requires relatively little database access and network signaling resources.
Introduction to Reinforcement Learning, 1st edition
Authors: Richard S. Sutton, Andrew G. Barto
Venue:  (1998)

:In Reinforcement Learning, Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto provide a clear and simple account of the key ideas and algorithms of reinforcement learning. Their discussion ranges from the history of the field's intellectual foundations to the most recent developments and applications. The only necessary mathematical background is familiarity with elementary concepts of probability.
Mining Spatio-Temporal Information Systems
Authors: Roy Ladner, Michael Malone
Venue:  (2002)

:"Mining Spatio-Temporal Information Systems, an edited volume is composed of chapters from leading experts in the field of Spatial-Temporal Information Systems and addresses the many issues in support of modeling, creation, querying, visualizing and mining. Mining Spatio-Temporal Information Systems is intended to bring together a coherent body of recent knowledge relating to STIS data modeling, design, implementation and STIS in knowledge discovery. In particular, the reader is exposed to the latest techniques for the practical design of STIS, essential for complex query processing." Mining Spatio Temporal Information Systems is structured to meet the needs of practitioners and researchers in industry and graduate-level students in Computer Science.
Survey and Review
Authors: Nick Trefethen
Venue: SIAM Review (2001)

We can all understand intuitively why a female bear is more aggressive when she has cubs, why a squirrel hoards food as winter approaches, or why a blackbird may sing to attract a mate though he risks attracting a cat instead. As soon as more complex behavioral choices are involved, however, one must graduate from intuition to mathematics, and this is the subject of this issue's article by John McNamara, Alasdair Houston, and Sean Collins of the Centre for Behavioural Biology at the University of Bristol. The authors show that for dozens of problems involving behavioral choices by animals, quantitative predictions can be made if one assumes that the behavior has been approximately optimized by natural selection. Many mathematical tools are employed along the way, ranging from calculus for a simple problem concerning one individual to game theory when multiple individuals interact and compete. I note with pleasure that SIAM Review has published several Survey and Review articles in recent years on biological topics. Perhaps this is an occasion to review the subjects we have addressed since SIAM Review turned blue in 1999. Sixteen Survey and Review articles have appeared in this time; the average one is 40 pages long and cites 110 items in the bibliography. One might also add that our average author is rather eminent! Here is a rough attempt at the procrustean task of classifying this very special set of articles into categories: Modeling of biological systems: Durrett, Stochastic spatial models Hethcote, Infectious diseases McNamara, Houston, and Collins, Behavioral biology Perelson and Nelson, HIV-1 dynamics Modeling of physical systems: Chapman, Type-II superconductors Stewart, Rigid-body dynamics Xin, Front propagation in heterogeneous media Computations and algorithms: Colton, Coyle, and Monk, Inverse scattering theory Du, Faber, and Gunzburger, Centroidal Voronoi tesselations Sethian, Fast marching methods Tisseur and Meerbergen, Quadratic eigenproblems Fundamental mathematics and methods: Berry and Keating, Riemann zeros and eigenvalue asymptotics Chapman, Lawry, Ockendon, and Tew, Complex rays Diaconis and Freedman, Iterated random functions Thunberg, One-dimensional dynamics Finance: Steinbach, Portfolio analysis Are you tempted to interpret this list as SIAM's map of the territory of applied mathematics? Please don't! There are a hundred important topics missing from this list on which we would be equally happy to publish articles. If a particular omission strikes you as especially glaring, and if you have the perfect author in mind for an authoritative review, we would be glad to hear from you.
Computers in the Professional Practice of Design
Authors: Karen M. Brown, Curtis B. Charles
Venue:  (1994)

:While CADD technology is becoming commonplace in most design firms today,the wherewithal to take full advantage of computer technology generally as a business tool is often missing. This book will give the reader that "holistic" information on how to integrate the CADD function with other common applicationsfrom word processing of construction documents to creating project budget spreadsheets to project management to database management. The book will touch on examples of commonly used software packages and hardware platforms,but will otherwise treat those subjects generically.
The Windows 98 Bible, 1st edition
Authors: Fred E. Davis, Kip Crosby
Venue:  (1998)

:Everything you need to know about Windows 98 is here, from installation and interface changes to built-in Internet components, the new TV and multimedia enhancements, and a vastly expanded technical reference section. This easy-to-use, must-have reference is packed with hundreds of pages of detailed illustrations, tricks, and tips from the industry's top Windows authority. Reviewing a previous edition, Peter Lewis of the New York Times wrote, "Toss out the other Windows books. This one is the best."
A Network Orange: Logic and Responsibility in the Computer Age, 1st edition
Authors: Richard E. Crandall, Marvin Levich
Venue:  (1998)

:As the computer emerges as an elemental force in our society, the claims made for it grow more and more astonishing. Machine consciousness will be achieved; virtual reality will become so convincing you'll literally forget you're in an unreal world; computers in every classroom will revolutionize education. It's becoming hard to tell where technology forecasting leaves off and hype begins! In a remarkably clear-eyed look at some of the major unexamined assumptions of our times, computer scientist Richard Crandall and philosopher Marvin Levich look at the ideas underlying the Information Revolution, with the belief that it is time for sharper scrutiny of a revolution that gives rise to profound problems of responsibility for computer users, educatiors and designers. The six essays making up A Network Orange provide new views of such subjects as: * Why market forces make your computer clumsy and inefficient. * Why we must differentiate between machine intelligence and machine consciousness. * Why the educational value of bulletin boards, chat rooms and other network forums is essentially nil. * Why the concept of virtual reality is fraught with logical absurdities. Lucid, penetrating and relentlessly logical, A Network Orange is a much-needed antidote to the dreamy hype surrounding so many aspects of modern computing. Richard Crandall is currently the Chief Cryptographer of Apple Computer, Inc. In 1991 he received the national Computerworld-Smithsonian Award for achievement in the Science category. Crandall is the holder of several U.S. patents, including the Fast Elliptic Encryption (FEE) patent which has achieved wide usage in the cryptographyfield. Marvin Levich is Professor of Philosophy at Reed College. He was named in the annual E. Harriss Harbison awards by the Danforth Foundation as one of the ten best scholar-teachers in the nation. Author of Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Criticism and numerous papers, including the first paper to arise from the liberal arts sector that was authored on a personal Macintosh computer, Levich has been influential in the design of academic software and in pioneering scholarly uses of the Internet.
A formal model of real-time program compilation
Authors: Karl Lermer, Colin Fidge
Venue: Theoretical Computer Science (2002)

Program compilation can be formally defined as a sequence of equivalence-preserving transformations, or refinements, from high-level language programs to assembler code. Recent models also incorporate timing properties, but the resulting formalisms are intimidatingly complex. Here we take advantage of a new, simple model of real-time refinement, based on predicate transformer semantics, to present a straightforward compilation formalism that incorporates real-time constraints.
Cisco IOS Wide Area Networking Solutions
Authors: Cisco Systems Inc.
Venue:  (1998)

:Cisco IOS WAN Solutions is your one-stop guide that provides thorough, comprehensive coverage of internet-working technologies. Gain insight on implementing ATM, Frame Relay, SMDS, LAPB, and X.25. Learn how to configure the technologies in LAN/WAN environments. Configuration examples are provided throughout the book, and chapter by chapter command references make solutions simple. This comprehensive guide details Cisco internetworking alternative wide area networking solutions. You will find the most current technologies for WANs and learn how to effectively implement these technologies on a network. This book will provide you with a greater understanding of WAN protocols and services supported by Cisco IOS software and demonstrate how to configure them in a network - letting you make more intelligent, cost-effective, and quantifiable networking decisions for your environment.
Middle-tier database caching for e-business
Authors: Qiong Luo, Sailesh Krishnamurthy, C. Mohan, Hamid Pirahesh, Honguk Woo, Bruce G. Lindsay, Jeffrey F. Naughton
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data (2002)

While scaling up to the enormous and growing Internet population with unpredictable usage patterns, E-commerce applications face severe challenges in cost and manageability, especially for database servers that are deployed as those applications' backends in a multi-tier configuration. Middle-tier database caching is one solution to this problem. In this paper, we present a simple extension to the existing federated features in DB2 UDB, which enables a regular DB2 instance to become a DBCache without any application modification. On deployment of a DBCache at an application server, arbitrary SQL statements generated from the unchanged application that are intended for a backend database server, can be answered: at the cache, at the backend database server, or at both locations in a distributed manner. The factors that determine the distribution of workload include the SQL statement type, the cache content, the application requirement on data freshness, and cost-based optimization at the cache. We have developed a research prototype of DBCache, and conducted an extensive set of experiments with an E-Commerce benchmark to show the benefits of this approach and illustrate tradeoffs in caching considerations.
A cooperative cache architecture in support of caching multimedia objects in MANETs
Authors: W. H. O. Lau, M. Kumar, Svetha Venkatesh
Venue: Proceedings of the 5th ACM international workshop on Wireless mobile multimedia (2002)

This paper presents a cooperative caching architecture suitable for continuous media (CM) proxy caching in MANET environments. The proposed scheme introduces an application manager component, which is interposed between traditional Internet CM applications and the network layer. The application manager transparently performs data location and service migration of active CM streaming sessions so as to exploit nearby data sources based on the dynamic topology of a MANET. We propose two data location schemes - Cache-State - a link-state based scheme and Reactive - an on-demand scheme. Since service migration can occur frequently, the application manager uses soft-state signaling techniques to communicate between remote application managers by translating hard-state application signaling, such as Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) into soft-state messages. The proposed schemes are evaluated through simulation studies using the NS simulator. Simulation studies show that both Cache-State and Reactive schemes demonstrate significant QoS improvements and reduced bandwidth consumption.
A Globally Convergent Smoothing Newton Method for Nonsmooth Equations and Its Application to Complementarity Problems
Authors: Kouichi Taji, Motohiro Miyamoto
Venue: Computational Optimization and Applications (2002)

The complementarity problem is theoretically and practically useful, and has been used to study and formulate various equilibrium problems arising in economics and engineerings. Recently, for solving complementarity problems, various equivalent equation formulations have been proposed and seem attractive. However, such formulations have the difficulty that the equation arising from complementarity problems is typically nonsmooth. In this paper, we propose a new smoothing Newton method for nonsmooth equations. In our method, we use an approximation function that is smooth when the approximation parameter is positive, and which coincides with original nonsmooth function when the parameter takes zero. Then, we apply Newton's method for the equation that is equivalent to the original nonsmooth equation and that includes an approximation parameter as a variable. The proposed method has the advantage that it has only to deal with a smooth function at any iteration and that it never requires a procedure to decrease an approximation parameter. We show that the sequence generated by the proposed method is globally convergent to a solution, and that, under semismooth assumption, its convergence rate is superlinear. Moreover, we apply the method to nonlinear complementarity problems. Numerical results show that the proposed method is practically efficient.
Compactness theorems for geometric packings
Authors: Greg Martin
Venue: Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A (2002)

Moser asked whether the collection of rectangles of dimensions 1×½, ½ ×⅓, ⅓×¼ ..., whose total area equals 1, can be packed into the unit square without overlap, and whether the collection of squares of side lengths ½, ⅓, ¼, ... can be packed without overlap into a rectangle of area π2/6 - 1. Computational investigations have been made into packing these collections into squares of side length 1 + ɛ and rectangles of area π2/6 - 1 + ɛ, respectively, and one can consider the apparently weaker question of whether such packings are possible for every positive number ɛ. In this paper we establish a general theorem on sequences of geometrical packings that implies, in particular, that the "for every ɛ" versions of these two problems are actually equivalent to the original tiling problems.
Interactive Video-on-Demand Systems: Resource Management and Scheduling Strategies
Authors: T. P. Jimmy To, Babak Hamidzadeh
Venue:  (1998)

:Interactive Video-on-Demand Systems: Resource Management and Scheduling Strategies addresses issues in scheduling and management of resources in an interactive continuous-media (e.g., audio and video) server. The book emphasizes dynamic and run-time strategies for resource scheduling and management. Such strategies provide effective tools for supporting interactivity with on-line users who require the system to be responsive in serving their requests, and whose needs and actions vary frequently over time. Interactive Video-on-Demand Systems: Resource Management and Scheduling Strategies is an excellent reference for researchers, practitioners and educators in the field of multimedia systems, and may be used for advanced courses on multimedia systems and Video-on-Demand servers.
Upgrading and Repairing Personal Computers, 10th edition
Authors: Scott Mueller, Craig Zacker
Venue:  (1998)

:Scott Mueller is making this edition the most complete reference to current technologies that he has ever written and his best book ever. Just a few of the many improvements for readers are: 1. Completely revised approach: This edition has a new philosophy and organization based around Intel processor families, chipsets, and motherboards instead of the old IBM PC family approach2. New Chapters: Totally new chapters on-- Printer upgrades, repairs, and maintenance-- File systems and data recovery3. Restructured coverage of storage, I/O, and buses: Magnetic drive technologies are treated in a more integrated and cohesive fashion as well as other storage technologies. I/O and bus technologies has been reorganized to better address current new I/O and bus types such as PCI, AGP, and USB4. Scott's focus on core chapters: Scott is doubling his efforts on the processor, motherboard, and memory coverage to add more current details. There are over 100 pages of new coverage on these core topics alone!5. New CD-ROMs with features listed below. Updated and expanded glossary. Better coverage of hardware/OS dependencies and diagnostics.
Tcl/Tk for Programmers with Solved Exercises That Work with UNIX and Windows, 1st edition
Authors: J. A. Zimmer, Atrian J. Zimmer
Venue:  (1998)

:Author's comment Here's some help deciding if I wrote this book for you. I wrote for people who already know how to write computer programs and don't particularly want a treatment aimed at neophytes. For the most part, I introduce Tcl/Tk without introducing programming concepts. However, I do give introductory treatments to some topics that may not be universally understood among programmers. These are regular expressions, GUI programming, and TCP/IP client/server programming. Imagine an elementary text, a comprehensive manual, and a collection of production quality scripts. My approach in writing Tcl/Tk for Programmers lies somewhere between these things.
Geometric Computation of Curvature Driven Plane Curve Evolutions
Authors: Frédéric Cao, Lionel Moisan
Venue: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (2001)

We present a new numerical scheme for planar curve evolution with a normal velocity equal to $F(\kappa)$, where $\kappa$ is the curvature and F is a nondecreasing function such that F(0)=0 and either $x\mapsto F(x^3)$ is Lipschitz with Lipschitz constant less than or equal to 1 or $F(x)=x^\gamma$ for $\gamma\geq 1/3$. The scheme is completely geometrical and avoids some drawbacks of finite difference schemes. In particular, no special parameterization is needed and the scheme is monotone (that is, if a curve initially surrounds another one, then this remains true during their evolution), which guarantees numerical stability. We prove consistency and convergence of this scheme in a weak sense. Finally, we display some numerical experiments on synthetic and real data.
A Technical Guide to Ipsec Virtual Private Networks, 1st edition
Authors: James S. Tiller
Venue:  (2000)

:What is IPSec? What's a VPN? Why do the need each other? Virtual Private Network (VPN) has become one of the most recognized terms in our industry, yet there continuously seems to be different impressions of what VPNs really are and can become. A Technical Guide to IPSec Virtual Private Networks provides a single point of information that represents hundreds or resources and years of experience with IPSec VPN solutions. It cuts through the complexity surrounding IPSec and the idiosyncrasies of design, implementation, operations, and security.Starting with a primer on the IP protocol suite, the book travels layer by layer through the protocols and the technologies that make VPNs possible. It includes security theory, cryptography, RAS, authentication, IKE, IPSec, encapsulation, keys, and policies. After explaining the technologies and their interrelationships, the book provides sections on implementation and product evaluation. A Technical Guide to IPSec Virtual Private Networks arms information security, network, and system engineers and administrators with the knowledge and the methodologies to design and deploy VPNs in the real world for real companies. 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