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Potentials and problems of the classification space method
Authors: Mark Paulk
Venue: Proceedings of the 17th annual Southeast regional conference (1979)

A technique for representing human knowledge and judgments developed by Ossorio 1 is described. A matrix of judgments obtained from human experts is factor analyzed, and the resulting factors are used to define an n-dimensional space. Items may be assigned positions in the space by a weighted sum of their component factors. Items close to one another geometrically should be close conceptually. Is a significant amount of information lost in the factor analysis? How stable is the technique? Does the factor analysis extract "conceptually significant" factors? The technique is "humanistic" in approach, and there are ways to determine how well objects are represented in the space. Systems using this method have been promising in information retrieval and medical diagnosis.
DB2 Developer's Guide with Cdrom, 3rd edition
Authors: Craig S. Mullins
Venue:  (1997)

:DB2 Developers Guide, Third Edition is a comprehensive guide to DB2 for Developers and Administartors. It serves as the blueprint for implementing optimized DB2 application systems. The book shows readers how toCompletely updated and revised to cover the latest releases of DB2 on MVS and new features added to DB2 Version 4 and Version 5Comprehensive guide to DB2 that shows the reader how to build high-performance DB2 application systems and to administer and support large DB2 databasesIncludes information about accessing DB2 via the World Wide Web
Optimal policy for batch operations: backup, checkpointing, reorganization, and updating
Authors: Guy M. Lohman, John A. Muckstadt
Venue: Proceedings of the 1977 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data (1977)

Many database maintenance operations are performed periodically in batches, even in real-time systems. The purpose of this paper is to present a general model for determining the optimal frequency of these batch operations. Specifically, optimal backup, checkpointing, batch updating, and reorganization policies are derived. The approach used exploits inventory parallels, by seeking the optimal number of items --- rather than a time interval --- to trigger a batch. The Renewal Reward Theorem is used to find the average long run costs for backup, recovery, and item storage, per unit time, which is then minimized to find the optimal backup policy. This approach permits far less restrictive assumptions about the update arrival process than did previous models, as well as inclusion of storage costs for the updates. The optimal checkpointing, batch updating, and reorganization policies are shown to be special cases of this optimal backup policy. The derivation of previous results as special cases of this model, and an example, demonstrate the generality of the methodology developed.
Online Investing: How to Find the Right Stocks at the Right Time, Second Edition, 2nd edition
Authors: Jon D. Markman
Venue:  (2000)

:Using one of author Jon Markmans momentum-stock models, a single $10,000 investment in 1986 would be worth $5.4 million today. Thats ten times what the S&P 500 did! In Online Investing, Second Edition, Markman builds on his innovative year-trading model and shares new wealth-building strategiesonce again demonstrating how to use the power of the Internet and a home PC to do in minutes what Wall Street professionals do full time. The book provides updated information on growth year-trading and delivers new content on month-trading, seasonal trading patterns, where momentum comes from, and how to pick the stocks with the potential to gain 10,000% in 10 years! In the books highly regarded first edition, this award-winning author made complex investment terminology and trading strategies accessible to even the lay investor. Oonline Investing, Second Edition delivers more of Markmans expert and easy-to-read advice, complete with powerful new techniques for findingand buyingthe right stocks at the right time. 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
Principles of Information Systems Management
Authors: John Ward
Venue:  (1995)

:This book leads the reader through the processes for identifying, devising and implementing strategies, and managing information needs in terms of technology.
Guerrilla Markeing with Technology: Unleashing the Full Potential of Your Small Business, 1st edition
Authors: Jay Conrad Levinson
Venue:  (1997)

:Guerrilla Marketing with Technology shows entrepreneurs how virtually every aspect of a small business can be enhanced through technology--from creating and distributing newsletters to staying a head of industry trends. Includes a Glossary of key terms, an IQ quiz, case examples of pioneering companies, and more. Website promo.
DSL: Simulation Techniques and Standards Development for Digital Subscriber Lines
Authors: Walter Y. Chen
Venue:  (1997)

:The only book on the market that deals with ADSL technologies at this level, Digital Subscriber Lines: Toward, Above, and Beyond ADSL is ideal for computing professionals who are looking for new high-speed communications technology, who must understand the dynamics of ADSL communications in order to create compliant applications, or who simply want to better understand this new wave of technology.Includes calculation examples for all signal environmentsCovers ADSL and a multitude of other xDSL technologiesCompares and contrasts ADSL to current MODEM-based technologies
Real-Time Processing in Client-Server Databases
Authors: Vinay Kanitkar, Alex Delis
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Computers (2002)

In this paper, we propose and experimentally evaluate the use of the client-server database paradigm for real-time processing. To date, the study of transaction processing with time constraints has mostly been restricted to centralized or ¿single-node¿ systems. Recently, client-server databases have exploited locality of data accesses in real-world applications to successfully provide reduced transaction response times. Our objective is to investigate the feasibility of real-time processing in a data-shipping client-server database architecture. We compare the efficiency of the proposed architecture with that of a centralized real-time database system. We discuss transaction scheduling issues in the two architectures and propose a new policy for scheduling transactions in the client-server environment. This policy assigns higher priorities to transactions that have a greater potential for successful completion through the use of locally available data. Through a detailed performance scalability study, we investigate the effects of client data-access locality and various updating workloads on transaction completion rates. Our experimental results show that real-time client-server databases can provide significant performance gains over their centralized counterparts. These gains become evident when large numbers of clients (more than 40) are attached per server, even in the presence of high data contention.
Most sequences are stochastic
Authors: V. V. V'yugin
Venue: Information and Computation (2001)

The central problem in machine learning (and stastistics) is the problem of predicting future events xn+1 based on past observations x1x2...xn, where n = 1, 2, .... The main goal is to find a method of prediction that minimizes the total loss suffered on a sequence x1x2...xn+1 for n = 1,2 .... We say that a data sequence is stochastic if there exists a simply described prediction algorithm whose performance is close to the best possible one. This optimal performance is defined in terms of Bovk's predictive complexity, which is a generalization of the notion of Kolmogorov complexity. Predictive complexity gives a limit on the predictive performance of simply described prediction algorithms. In this paper we argue that data sequences normally occurring in the real world are stochastic; more formally, we prove that Levin's a priori semimeasure of nonstochastic sequences is small. Copyright 2001 Academic Press.
Introduction to Visual Basic 6.0: David I. Schneider, 1st edition
Authors: David I. Schneider
Venue:  (2000)

:For Freshman or Introductory courses in Engineering and Computer Science. ESourcePrentice Hall's Engineering Sourceprovides a complete, flexible introductory engineering and computing program. Featuring over 28 modules and growing, ESource allows professors to fully customize their textbooks through the ESource website. Professors are not only able to pick and choose modules, but also sections of modules, incorporate their own materials, and re-paginate and re-index the complete project. http://www.prenhall.com/esource. ***Note: The book contains a misprint regarding an accompanying CD-ROM. This title does NOT contain a CD-ROM. 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
An Introduction to Fuzzy Logic Applications
Authors: John Harris
Venue:  (2000)

:Fuzzy Logic provides a unique method of approximate reasoning in an imperfect world. This text is a bridge to the principles of fuzzy logic through an application-focussed approach to selected topics in Engineering and Management. The many examples point to the richer solutions obtained through fuzzy logic and to the possibilities of much wider applications.
Introduction to Control System Technology, 5th edition
Authors: Robert N. Bateson
Venue:  (1995)

:Marrying an academic examination on control system technology with a reference that practicing engineers and technicians can include in their personal libraries, this carefully balanced study covers the terminology, concepts, principles, procedures, and computations used by engineers and technicians to analyze, select, specify, design, and maintain control systems. An accompanying diskette provides computer programs that emulate proven graphical design methods of analysis and design. Basic concepts and terminology, measurement, manipulation, analysis and design. For engineers and technicians interested in a comprehensive addition to their libraries.
Intranetware/NetWare 4.11: Administration, Troubleshooting, and TCP/IP, 1st edition
Authors: Mike Mutasem Awwad
Venue:  (1999)

:This one-stop, comprehensive guide covers the essentials of data communications using the Network operating system NetWare 4.11 and TCP/IP, and provides all the practical, hands-on experience needed to become a professional network technician or administrator. Discusses the basic fundamentals of data communications (i.e., concepts of data communication through the OSI model); how to develop, design, and administer a NetWare 4.11 network; how to install, upgrade and configure a NeWare 4.11 network; essential skills a LAN technician needs to troubleshoot a NetWare or non-NetWare network; and fundamental concepts of TCP/IPimplementation, troubleshooting, and administration on a NetWare 4.11 network. Demonstrates step-by-step troubleshooting techniques for a network with up to 500 users; considers various Novell networking components that will lead users to more effective choices of networking equipment; and discusses more advanced topics in network administration for better optimizing and maintenance, and in designing a LAN or WAN. An excellent resource for those studying for their CAN (Certified Network Administrator) or CNE (Certified NetWare Engineer) program certification. 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
Mobilizing a graduate school
Authors: Simon Graham
Venue: Proceedings of the 29th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference on User services (2001)

This presentation aims to disseminate some of the experience gained by the author in planning, implementing and evaluating laptop programs at RAIUL, and to flag up some of the issues and opportunities which may be encountered by those choosing similar solutions in other universities.
Neutralizing windows-based malicious mobile code
Authors: James A. Whittaker, Andres De Vivanco
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing (2002)

Mobile code---executable programs that get copied from computer-to-computer via e-mail, web browsers, etc.---is a popular way to stage malicious attacks against users. The Windows operating system is often the target of such attacks, in part because of its ubiquity and in part because of the vast functionality it provides. Some of this functionality, like executable e-mail attachments and scripting, provides opportunity for mobile code to cause significant damage to a host system. One obvious solution is to disable such features in Windows. However, many users find such features a convenient and productive way to conduct their business. Thus, techniques that can protect against mobile code without sacrificing functionality are needed.But even disabling functionality such as scripting will not provide complete security; it only catches the most sophomoric exploits. All operating systems, including Windows, are vulnerable to malicious use at their lowest level of operation: executing compiled code. Mobile programs, just like local programs, can access operating system components in ways that damage a users' data or render their computer useless. These programs can be written in system-level languages such as C and assembly, which are capable of compiling OS components directly into their binaries and writing directly to interrupt vectors. Disabling such functionality will mean an operating system that simply doesn't work.This paper investigates techniques to protect Windows-based systems from malicious mobile code while minimizing functionality loss. Our solution involves writing a layer of protective code that is able to detect mobile code running on a system and then monitors its behavior. Behaviors deemed benign are allowed to execute; behaviors deemed malicious are either shutdown, quarantined or logged (so that restoration procedures can be constructed). We describe new techniques for identifying. monitoring and neutralizing malicious mobile code. We demonstrate the techniques by testing our "vaccine" against a number of the most notorious Windows viruses and worms. Further, we demonstrate how our solution maintains functionality while minimizing false positives during execution of benign programs.
A mobility and traffic generation framework for modeling and simulating ad hoc communication networks
Authors: Chris Barrett, Madhav V. Marathe, James P. Smith, S. S. Ravi
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing (2002)

We present a generic mobility and traffic generation framework that can be incorporated into a tool for modeling and simulating large scale ad hoc networks. The basic framework consists of the following components:1. A Mobility Data Generator (MDG) that generates positions and states of transceivers at specified times of the simulation clock. This module can support a variety of mobility models.2. A Graph Structure Generator (GSG) that constructs the graph corresponding to the ad hoc network from the mobility data provided by MDG. This module can generate directed or undirected graphs depending on the radio range and propagation models.3. A Terrain Modification Tool (TMT) that modifies the connectivity of the graph produced by GSG to allow for terrain effects or arbitrary obstructions.4. An Activity Data Generator (ADG) that generates sessions (i.e., packet transmission activities) for a specified fraction of the transceivers that are active at specified times of the simulation clock.The design allows a user to incorporate various realistic parameters crucial in simulating and modeling ad hoc communication networks. We illustrate the utility of our tool with two examples. The first example shows how purely synthetic movement patterns can be used in driving a simulation. The second example shows realistic movement patterns obtained via an urban population mobility modeling tool developed at Los Alamos.
Fundamentals of Programmable Logic Controllers, Sensors, and Communications, 2nd edition
Authors: Jon Stenerson
Venue:  (1998)

:This practical, affordable book uses a generic approach to introduce various brands and types of industrial controllers while reflecting the latest techniques and technology. It covers new and emerging technologies and techniques such as IEC 1131 programming, industrial automation controllers, embedded controllers, supervisory control and data acquisition, fuzzy logic, radio frequency, step, stage and state logic programming, and lockout/tagout.
Personal information geographies
Authors: Daniel Bauer
Venue: CHI '02 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (2002)

We need increasingly better tools to help us manage today's flood of information. This research explores the use of visual maps as workspaces which help us both to organize new material and to relocate past resources. In particular, visual workspaces can facilitate the process of sensemaking, the gradual evolution of an inquiry through our repeated interaction with information. This interaction can serve as an organizing structure for personally meaningful information geographies: map-like workspaces which accumulate 'trails' of our activity, which evolve over time but remain stable enough to provide the same fluency that we have with maps of physical places.
Virtual Spaces: Sex and the Cyber Citizen
Authors: Cleo Odzer
Venue:  (1997)

:Cyberspace. The new frontier. Its pioneers bear names such as LoveSearch, Tomato, Hot Chick, and Satan. They explore an endless variety of virtual spaces like "The Den of Love," "The Lady's Orgy Room," the "Romance Chamber," and the "Dungeon." Their dialogue ranges from the sexually direct ("What are your wearing?", "Would you like to make love to another female?") to the self-reflective ("You don't seem interested in me," and "Will I ever have sex again with a real person?") These are the voices of a new sexual revolution, waged on the virtual frontier of the internet, where personal anonymity and global access provide unlimited opportunities for sexual exploration. Who exactly are these explorers? What are they looking for? And what do they find? Cleo Odzer, an anthropologist and Internet pioneer, has spent years studying human sexuality and has now applied her expertise and experience to unraveling the complex evolution of human relationships on the Web. Dr. Odzer's engaging account of sex in cyberspace takes us from the on-line equivalent of playing footsie to private Internet rooms that only the most hardened sexual adventurer would dare enter. By explicitly chronicling her own life and adventures on the Web, she reveals our deepest wishes, or darkest desires, and our universal need to connect. She tackles such controversial issues as Net sex and pornography, ethics in cyberspace, digital obsessions and love affaris. In the end, she discovers a virtual community as rich and diverse as any real-life counterpart -- a brave new world of E-mail, chat rooms, and video-conferencing that, despite its modern trappings, provides a direct line to the most basic of human desires: the need for intimacy, passion, a sense of belonging, and love. A brave and exciting voyage into the sexual cyberspace, Virtual Spaces offers not only a glimpse of our technological future but a timeless exploration of the human heart.
Computer applications in the humanities: a SNOBOL4 procedure for conflating the variants produced by textual collation
Authors: Susan L. Follett, Miriam J. Shillingsburg
Venue: Proceedings of the 14th annual Southeast regional conference (1976)

Highly trained humanists who edit literary texts now spend vast amounts of time in what is universally acknowledged to be the necessary but tedious comparison of texts and the sorting and merging of the variants between the editions. The computer has the capability to relieve much of this drudgery and do the job more rapidly and accurately than can humans. A research project in computerized textual comparison is currently underway at Mississippi State University. This paper discusses one phase of this project, a procedure for the computerized production of a report giving the conflated (merged) results of collating (comparing character-by-character) any number of texts. This procedure, which is implemented in the SNOBOL4 programming language, is described and discussed in terms of the overall goals and efforts of the total research project.
NetScape IFC (Mastering)
Authors: Steven Holzner
Venue:  (1997)

:Mastering Netscape IFC is the complete, authoritative guide to Netscape's next generation of Java tools - the Internet Foundation Classes. These pre-built class libraries dramatically extend the efficiency, power, and consistency of Java programming, and this book helps you take full advantage of them to build better Java applets and applications - more quickly than you ever thought possible. Learn by working with real-world code. Inside, the emphasis is on actual programming examples, not theory and concepts. You'll cut your teeth on over fifty practical examples and exercises, each teaching a specific skill or technique. All of the book's sample code is available on the Sybex Web site (www.sybex.com), ready for you to download and run. Let the IFC make your work easier. IFC provides you with a better, faster way to program Java. Mastering Netscape IFC includes coverage of every topic, from the simplest to the most advanced. You also get a solid introduction to Netscape Constructor for IFC - Netscape's all-Java visual tool for designing and testing your UI. Make IFC work with Java 1.1. Right now, the Netscape IFC is designed for use with Java 1.02. But there is a simple, effective way to integrate IFC and Java 1.1 applets, and Mastering Netscape IFC tells you all about this essential trick of the trade.
Ontological engineering for B2B E-commerce
Authors: Leo Obrst, Robert E. Wray, Howard Liu
Venue: Proceedings of the international conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Volume 2001 (2001)

In this paper we discuss the nature of our overall enterprise to create ontologies in the product and service knowledge space for Business-to-Business (B2B) electronic commerce. We describe one crucial problem: the mapping problem, i.e., mapping among ontologies, taxonomies, and classification systems, some of which are more semantically sound and coherent than others. This problem we consider to be in need of a sustained research program if tenable solutions are to be found, since the lack of a solution will preclude widespread adoption of ontologies by the commercial world. Finally, we summarize the general issues we faced and indicate prospective future research.
Domain, task, and user models for an adaptive hypermedia performance support system
Authors: Peter Brusilovsky, David W. Cooper
Venue: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces (2002)

Electronic Performance Support Systems (EPSS) is a challenging application area for developing intelligent interfaces. Some possible scenarios for using domain, task, and user models for adaptive performance support were explored in the context of the Adaptive Diagnostics and Personalized Technical Support (ADAPTS) project. ADAPTS provides an intelligent, adaptive EPSS for maintaining complex equipment.