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Developing applications with Visual Studio.NET
Authors: Richard Grimes
Venue: Addison Wesley Developmentor Series (2002)

Developing applications with Visual Studio.NET is an in-depth guide that takes Windows programming to the next level: creating.NET application that leverage the prior knowledge and experience of C++ Win32 programmers. The .NET framework supplies programmers with rich standard run-time services, supports the development of Web-based services, and provides both inter-language and inter-machine interoperability. Programmers can now focus on creating more complex, more distributed, and more Web-enabled application.
Fresh Ideas in PhotoShop: Includes Techniques and Concept Information for over 100 Pieces, 1st edition
Authors: Poppy Evans
Venue:  (1998)

:The introduction of Adobe Photoshop shattered boundaries in graphic arts, challenging users to venture into unexplored territories of photo-manipulation, type design and illustration. See the results in Fresh Ideas in Photoshop, a current gallery of the most innovative work done in Photoshop. It contains more than 100 case studies - posters, self-promotions, packaging, brochures, fine art and other projects - complete with details from the creators on how they achieved these great effects. 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 n-tier hub technology
Authors: Rainer A. Sommer, Thomas R. Gulledge, David Bailey
Venue: ACM SIGMOD Record (2002)

During 2001, the Enterprise Engineering Laboratory at George Mason University was contracted by the Boeing Company to develop an eHub capability for aerospace suppliers in Taiwan. In a laboratory environment, the core technology was designed, developed, and tested, and now a large first-tier aerospace supplier in Taiwan is commercializing the technology. The project objective was to provide layered network and application services for transporting XML-based business transaction flows across multi-tier, heterogeneous data processing environments. This paper documents the business scenario, the eHub application, and the network transport mechanisms that were used to build the n-tier hub. Contrary to most eHubs, this solution takes the point of view of suppliers, pushing data in accordance with supplier requirements; hence, enhancing the probability of supplier adoption. The unique contribution of this project is the development of an eHub that meets the needs of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and first-tier suppliers.
The Politics of Information Management
Authors: Paul A. Strassmann
Venue:  (1994)

:The title of this book contains the word "politics" because this term describes, perhaps more aptly than any other, what information management is mostly about. Information management is the process by which those who set policy guide those who follow policy. Politics concerns power, and applying an understanding of power to the management of information technologies is not only appropriate, but timely. The proliferation of computers has now reached a stage of development where they are shaping relationships between suppliers and customers in business, as well as how public institutions relate to private organizations and individuals. Written by a former chief information executive (1956-1978) and vice president of strategic planning (1978-1985) for three large multinational corporations. Strassmann also served as chief information executive of the U.S. Department of Defense and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense. The book covers the following topics: Centralization vs. decentralization of computing power. The role of a corporate systems staff in guiding business units. Linking business and information technology plans. Privacy of personal information on personal computers. Information architecture as a reflection of organizational design. Organizing for information security. Responsibilities of the Chief Information Officer. Reengineering, business process improvement and information systems. Totalitarian tendencies and violence implicit in computerized controls. Outsourcing of computer services. Information management as a core competency of a business. How to define goals and principles of information management. Preservation of organizational knowledge as software. The use of standards as a balance between rigidity and chaos. The economics of open systems. The value of employee training and cumulative learning. Cost reduction as a prerequisite of all good information management. What auditors need to check. The prospects of a widespread computer literacy. Threats to a prosperous information-based society. "Paul Strassmann's new book is nothing less than an attempt to create a "unified theory" of information management."-- Enterprise Reengineering
Your Family Tree Using Your PC
Authors: Jim Oldfield
Venue:  (1996)

:Your Family Tree is a beginner's guide to researching, organizing and sharing your family's heritage with relatives and friends. If you want to trace your family roots, get started by using this book and companion CD-ROM. The personal computer is a powerful and versatile tool for family historians. This guide is the fastest and easiest way to start you out as the family's historian. 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
SmartSuite Millennium: Fast and Easy
Authors: Diane Koers
Venue:  (1998)

:There's no need to feel overwhelmed by the many features of SmartSuite 98. From writing a simple document to creating databases, professional slide-show presentations, and converting files to Web pages, users will progress quickly with SmartSuite 98 Fast & Easy and its step-by-step approach.
A file system interface for concurrent access
Authors: Andrea Skarra, Herman Rao
Venue: Proceedings of the 6th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: Matching operating systems to application needs (1994)

The paper introduces a transparent service .for synchronized replication across loosely-connected, heterogeneous file systems, and it focuses on the part of the service that supports transactional synchronization. The transaction paradigm is useful for grouping together the file accesses in a program that are logically connected, such that each group of accesses is synchronized as an atomic unit. The service, Parrot, is implemented as a library that an application links and runs in its own address space. The library redefines and extends the file system interface open/close/read/write, while preserving its syntax and semantics. Parrot implements a read-one write-all synchronization protocol that (1) guarantees consistency across all copies of each replicated file at the granularity of individual read and write operations and (2) supports transactional synchronization for sequences of read and write operations on one or more files.
Microsoft SQL Server 7 Administrator's Guide
Authors: Ronald R. Talmage
Venue:  (1999)

:Take full advantage of the power of Microsoft SQL Server 7 with this comprehensive administrator's guide. As a SQL Server administrator or developer, you need a book that helps you build and manage a SQL Server 7 database. This indispensable reference was written for you. From upgrading and configuring to securing and troubleshooting, this complete guide covers everything you need to know about SQL Server 7. You'll learn essentials of defining data to be stored in a database and implement design features and constraints. You'll also learn the ins and outs of the Transact-SQL programming language to manipulate data. Use several available tools to help tune your performance and optimize queries. Finally, you'll manage replication, linked servers, and the Microsoft Decision Support engine.
The Guide to the Jewish Internet with 3.5 Disk
Authors: Michael Levin
Venue:  (1996)

:From the much-celebrated author of The Socratic Method, Settling the Score and Alive and Kicking comes this wide-ranging tour of the Internet and other online destinations from a Jewish perspective.
A new method for polynomial real root isolation
Authors: Alkiviadis G. Akritas
Venue: Proceedings of the 16th annual Southeast regional conference (1978)

A new method is presented for the isolation of the real roots of a given integral, univariate, square-free polynomial P. This method is based on Vincent's theorem and only uses: (i) Descartes' rule of signs, and (ii) transformations of the form x = a1 + 1/x&prime;, x&prime; = a2 + 1/x&Prime;, x&Prime; = a3 + 1/x&tprime;, ..., for positive, integral ai's. The key element in this procedure is the calculation of the quantities a1, a2, a3,... . We compute them as "positive lower root bounds" of polynomials and the resulting algorithm has the best theoretical computing time achieved thus far. Empirical results also verify the superiority of our method over all others existing.
Graph colourings and partitions
Authors: V. Yegnanarayanan
Venue: Theoretical Computer Science (2001)

In this paper we have investigated mainly the three colouring parameters of a graph G, viz., the chromatic number, the achromatic number and the pseudoachromatic number. The importance of their study in connection with the computational complexity, partitions, algebra, projective plane geometry and analysis were briefly surveyed. Some new results were found along these directions. We have rede0ned the concept of perfect graphs in terms of these parameters and obtained a few results. Some open problems are raised.
Computer Confluence: Exploring Tomorrows Technology, 2nd edition
Authors: George Beekman
Venue:  (1997)

:Computer Confluence is more than a textbook; it's the confluence of three information sources:an illustrated textbook, a multimedia cd-rom, and a World Wide Web site on the internet. This integrated learning package takes advantage of the unique strengths of the three media types.
Applied Data Communications: A Business-Oriented Approach, 1st edition
Authors: James E. Goldman
Venue:  (1994)

:In this practical guide, James Goldman shows you how to do data communications, rather than just read about it. With a unique "business-first, problem-solving" approach, he uses actual company cases to spotlight real networking issues and provide a forum for applying network analysis skills.
An algorithm for conjunct identification in a natural language processing system
Authors: Rajeev Agarwal
Venue: Proceedings of the 30th annual Southeast regional conference (1992)

This paper presents an approach taken by the author to identify the parts of the sentence that get conjoined by the co-ordinate conjunctions in English sentences. This identification is important for a natural language processing system for it to properly understand the sentence. The test domain being used for the algorithm presented here is a 10,000 word chapter of the Merck Veterinary Manual, which contains over 700,000 words. The primary features of the algorithm are that it is domain independent in nature and that it is being tested on such a large real-life domain.
Introductory Digital Image Processing: A Remote Sensing Perspective, 2nd edition
Authors: John R. Jensen
Venue:  (1995)

:Explains how to apply digital image processing techniques to remotely sensed imagery, and how to obtain useful results and information during this process. It assumes a course in introductory remote sensing or air photo interpretation, college algebra, and basic statistics.
Building Internet Apps with Delphi 2
Authors: Davis Chapman
Venue:  (1996)

:Build Internet applications that access the World Wide Web, Internet Relay Chat and send electronic mail, along with an actual Internet server with this book. It enables readers to write applications that use graphics, multimedia, sound and video, create an Internet server, and write applications that allow customers to access their Internet information quickly and easily.
Using Quattro Pro 5, 2nd edition
Authors: Patrick J. Burns
Venue:  (1993)

:This book serves as both a tutorial and reference-covering nearly all of the Quattro Pro commands and functions!Provides advice to help readers boost worksheet, database, and graphics performanceFeatures a troubleshooting section at the end of each chapter
10 Minute Guide to 1-2-3 for Windows 95, 1st edition
Authors: Peter G. Aitken
Venue:  (1996)

:10 minutes is all you need to learn how to use Smart Icons and built-in formulas to create spreadsheets, create and enhance charts, create and search a database, use 1-2-3 with Lotus Notes, use 1-2-3 with the World Wide Web, and participate in 1-2-3's team activities.
Mastering Windows NT Server 4, 6th edition
Authors: Mark Minasi
Venue:  (1999)

:The world's #1 best-selling NT Server book has just been updated! This landmark, must-have, 1650-page hardcover edition (with CD) is massively revised with new undocumented material on system policies, unattended installs, registry tricks for administrators, Service Pack 4 details...and much more. The 6th edition of this classic high-level, yet readable, book on NT Server in the Enterprise provides the best discussion of NT architecture and TCP/IP in print, and includes scores of exclusive secrets, tips, tricks, and workarounds. If you call Microsoft with an NT question, they can charge up to $150! If this book answers only one of your questions, you've saved nearly $100! This edition has a CD that includes scores of NT utilities and programs, plus the entire text and figures of the book as a fully-searchable electronic book. You won't need to buy another NT book until version 5 arrives! |
Distributed query processing in a relational data base system
Authors: Robert Epstein, Michael Stonebraker, Eugene Wong
Venue: Proceedings of the 1978 ACM SIGMOD international conference on management of data (1978)

In this paper we present a new algorithm for retrieving and updating data from a distributed relational data base. Within such a data base, any number of relations can be distributed over any number of sites. Moreover, a user supplied distribution criteria can optionally be used to specify what site a tuple belongs to.The algorithm is an efficient way to process any query by "breaking" the qualification into separate "pieces" using a few simple heuristics. The cost criteria considered are minimum response time and minimum communications traffic. In addition, the algorithm can optimize separately for two models of a communication network representing respectively ARPANET and ETHERNET like networks. This algorithm is being implemented as part of the INGRES data base system.
OCP: Oracle8i DBA Performance Tuning and Network Administration Study Guide
Authors: Joseph C. Johnson
Venue:  (2000)

:Here's the book you need to prepare for the Oracle8i Performance Tuning and Network Administration exams (1Z0-024 and 1Z0-026). Written by Oracle8i experts, this affordable and comprehensive Study Guide provides: Full coverage of every exam objective-all the information you need to know Practical information on performance tuning and network administration in a real-world Oracle8i environment Hundreds of challenging review questions, in the book and on the CD Leading-edge exam preparation software, including testing engines and electronic flashcards A bonus chapter, exclusively on the CD, which concisely details each of the new features of Oracle8i Net8 in one convenient location
Haptic display for a virtual reality simulator for flexible endoscopy
Authors: Olaf Körner, Reinhard Männer
Venue: Proceedings of the workshop on Virtual environments 2002 (2002)

A simulation system for flexible endoscopy is described, based on virtual reality techniques. The physician moves the flexible endoscope inside a pipe, in which forces are applied to it. In addition the navigation wheels provide force feedback from the bending of the endoscope's tip. The paper focuses on the special purpose haptic display which actively generates forces to model the complex interaction of physician, endoscope and patient with high accuracy. Moreover fast algorithms for the force simulation in real-time are presented.
Stack inspection: theory and variants
Authors: Cédric Fournet, Andrew D. Gordon
Venue: Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages (2002)

Stack inspection is a security mechanism implemented in runtimes such as the JVM and the CLR to accommodate components with diverse levels of trust. Although stack inspection enables the fine-grained expression of access control policies, it has rather a complex and subtle semantics. We present a formal semantics and an equational theory to explain how stack inspection affects program behaviour and code optimisations. We discuss the security properties enforced by stack inspection, and also consider variants with stronger, simpler properties.
Using the Internet, 2nd edition
Authors: Jerry Honeycutt
Venue:  (1996)

:User-Friendly means you can get on the Internet hassle-free; use the most popular Internet services, including the World Wide Web and e-mail; find the hottest Web sites available, understand multimedia and other cool things on the Web; find the best Internet resources; help plan trips, do research, read the news, and entertain on the Internet; and get the most out of the money you spend on the Internet.
Power of Intranets
Authors: Evan Callahan
Venue:  (1999)

:The Power of Intranets is designed to show you how to use Microsoft Office 2000 and Microsoft FrontPage 2000 to create an intranet site, to prototype an intranet site for other intranet users, to set up a site on a server, and to sell an IT department on hosting a site. If you are Office user who accesses or contributes to a web, a FrontPage user organizing a web, or an intranet or Web server administrator - in fact, anyone who uses Office on a network - The Power of Intranets has valuable information focused on your specific needs.
Telecommunications essentials: the complete global source for communications fundamentals, data networking and the Internet, and next-gernation networks
Venue:  (2002)

Telecommunications Essentials is an in-depth introduction to the rapidly growing world of telecommunications. The book provides a global perspective, which ensures a complete understanding of telecommunications technologies and standards worldwide. Providing a comprehensive, one-stop reference for anybody wanting to get up to speed on the $2.5 trillion telecommunications industry, this book not only covers the basic building blocks but also introduces the most current information on new technologies like wireless, broadband, and optical networking.
Software reuse antipatterns
Authors: John Long
Venue: ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes (2001)

Software reuse is a productivity technique attempted by many development organizations, with mixed success. In analyzing reuse failures, a number of antipatterns emerge. Antipatterns are obvious, but wrong, solutions to recurring problems. This article outlines a number of reuse antipatterns that have been observed within the software industry.
Vertex cover on 4-regular hyper-graphs is hard to approximate within 2 - &egr;
Authors: Jonas Holmerin
Venue: Proceedings of the thiry-fourth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing (2002)

(MATH) We prove that Minimu Vertex Cover on 4-regular hyper-graphs (or in other words, Minimum Hitting Set where all sets have size exactly 4), is hard to approximate within $2 - &egr;. We also prove that the maximization version, in which we are allowed to pick B = pn elements in an n-vertex hyper-graph, and are asked to cover as many edges as possible, is hard to approximate within 1/(1 &mdash; (1&mdash;p)4) - &egr; when p &rhoe; 1/2 and within ((1&mdash;p)4 + p4)/(1 &mdadsh; (1&mdash;p)4) &mdash; &egr; when p &xi; 1/2. From this follows that the general problem when B is part of the input is hard to approximate within 16/15 - &egr;.
SQL, with CD-ROM (Unleashed), 1st edition
Authors: Hans Ladanyi
Venue:  (1997)

:SQL Unleashed is broken into four distinct parts to help readers find the information they need: Retrieving Information The largest section focuses on the accurate, reliable, and efficient retrieval of information. Readers will become proficient at creating, testing and improving select (simple, nested, or correlated). Manipulating Information and Database Objects This section deals with manipulating information and database objects. Readers will understand the best ways to manipulate single table data while controlling transactions. They will also learn the most efficient way to create tables and relationships, and to customize the appearance of tables through views. Optimizing Issues This section identifies the key optimization and performance issues that are vital to SQL programming. The reader will learn ways to improve performance, to optimize statements, and to avoid unnecessary database accesses. Advanced Issues A catch-all section for many difficult to classify topics, this section will key on some specific issues that have not been addressed in other books. Ensuring the accuracy of complex queries, modularized reporting, data warehousing, integrating and scrubbing data, and security issues will all be described in detail.SQL Unleashed will serve as the one comprehensive resource for SQL programming.The market lacks a large, encompassing SQL book. This book fills that void!SQL is the standard command set used to communicate with the most important relational database systems on the market today (Oracle, Informix, Sybase, DB2, MS SQL-Server and Access) and a working knowledge of SQL is needed by all database programmers and administrators. 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
Linux firewalls, 2nd edition edition
Authors: Robert Ziegler
Venue:  (2001)

Linux Firewalls, Second Edition, is a revision of Bob Ziegler's best-selling Linux Firewalls. This security bible includes a comprehensive summary of iptables and how to use this powerful new technology effectively with the new Linux kernel. Focusing primarily on the security needs of residential users and small to mid-sized businesses, this book shows you how to secure your system quickly and efficiently.
Sams Teach Yourself Windows NT Workstation 4 in 24 Hours, 1st edition
Authors: Martin Kenley
Venue:  (1996)

:In just 24 hours, you'll master the basics of setting up and maintaining a Windows NT Workstation - from the ground up. Using this hands-on, easy-to-understand tutorial, you'll find out how to successfully install applications in a secure environment, learn to optimize memory and monitor performance, and discover the best way to set up a secure multi-user system. Each one-hour lesson is complete with step-by-step instructions to make learning a breeze. 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
Solving convex programs by random walks
Authors: Dimitris Bertsimas, Santosh Vempala
Venue: Proceedings of the thiry-fourth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing (2002)

In breakthrough developments about two decades ago, L. G. Khachiyan [14] showed that the Ellipsoid method solves linear programs in polynomial time, while M. Gr&ouml;tschel, L. Lov&aacute;sz and A. Schrijver [4, 5] extended this to the problem of minimizing a convex function over any convex set specified by a separation oracle. In 1996, P. M. Vaidya [21] improved the running time via a more sophisticated algorithm. We present a simple new algorithm for convex optimization based on sampling by a random walk; it also solves for a natural generalization of the problem.