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The Joy of Linux
Authors: Michael Hall
Venue:  (2000)

:The Joy of Linux uncovers the "whys" of Linux. The fact is, there's a core to Linux that transcends a list of things you can type to get other things to happen. There's something to it that goes beyond "faster" and "better". People loved it before it was either. The Joy of Linux helps to clarify that love. This book will answer many questions. Why all the excitement? Where did all of the Linux users come from? What sort of community has room for a guy dressed like Obi Wan Kenobi and a blue-suited IBM old-timer? The Joy of Linux is also about making Linux work better. Some of the creative tools available to Linux users are almost inevitable because of the nature of the Linux community. You will learn about them and a little about how to use them. People who are living the Linux life will want to read it for a glimpse of themselves. People who want to live the Linux life will read it to understand the attraction. And the bystanders will read it because it's got some funny bits and might help explain why the guy in the server room is coming to work with black rings under his eyes. 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
Domain-specific search strategies for the effective retrieval of healthcare and shopping information
Authors: Suresh K. Bhavnani
Venue: CHI '02 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (2002)

An increasing number of users are performing searches on the Web in unfamiliar domains such as healthcare. However, because many users lack domain-specific search knowledge, their searches are often ineffective. An important remedy is to make domain-specific search knowledge in these new domains explicit and available. Towards that goal, healthcare and online shopping experts were observed while they performed search tasks within and outside their domains of expertise. The study: (1) identified domain-specific search strategies in each domain; (2) demonstrated that such knowledge is not automatically acquired from using general-purpose search engines. These results suggest that users should benefit from Strategy Portals that provide domain-specific knowledge to perform searches in unfamiliar domains.
Matrix browser: visualizing and exploring large networked information spaces
Authors: Jürgen Ziegler, Christoph Kunz, Veit Botsch
Venue: CHI '02 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (2002)

We present a new approach for visualizing and exploring large networked information structures which may represent, for instance, linked information resources or metadata structures such as ontologies. An interactive matrix display is used for showing relations between concepts and concept hierarchies displayed along the two axes of a matrix. Initial user testing shows performance advantages as well as reduced visual search in comparison to conventional graph representations.
From Writing to Computers
Authors: Julian Warner
Venue:  (1994)

:From Writing to Computers takes as its central theme the issue of a unifying intellectual principle to connect books and computers. Julian Warner uses an approach based on semiotics, but also draws on linguistics, information science, cognitive science, philosophy and automata studies. Covering a range of topics--from the relations between speech and writing, to transitions from orality to literacy and claims for a transition to an information society--the author aims throughout to render complex ideas intelligible without loss of rigor. This text addresses ordinary readers who, as social beings and members of political communities, are affected by significant developments in methods for storing, manipulating and communicating information. It is also intended for students of the disciplines on which the draws: semiotics, information studies, linguistics, computer science, philosophy and psychology.
What PC? Guide to Your PC, 2nd edition
Authors: Rob Young
Venue:  (1998)

:Written for both new users and existing computer users, this text covers buying a PC, hardware and peripherals, using a Windows PC, working with files, software and multimedia, the Internet. 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
Workshop on multi-dimensional separation of concerns in software engineering
Authors: Peri Tarr, William Harrison, Harold Ossher, Anthony Finkelstein, Bashar Nuseibeh, Dewayne Perry
Venue: ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes (2001)

Separation of concerns has been central to software engineering for decades, yet its many advantages are still not fully realized. A key reason is that traditional modularization mechanisms do not allow simultaneous decomposition according to multiple kinds of (overlapping and interacting) concerns. This workshop was intended to bring together researchers working on more advanced modularization mechanisms, and practitioners who have experienced the need for them, as a step towards a common understanding of the issues, problems and research challenges.
Business Data Communications, 5th edition
Authors: David A. Stamper
Venue:  (1998)

:This much anticipated revision of a leading business data communications book will offer the most current information available. New chapters will include coverage of the Internet, digital cash, and Internet technology.
Tom Swan's C++ Code Secret, with Disk, 1st edition
Authors: Tom Swan
Venue:  (1993)

:Take the riddle out of C++ programming with Tom Swan's Code Secrets. You can solve the mystery for writing streamlined, successful programs with this easy-to-understand book. Follow sage advice for storing objects efficiently that save memory and improve runtime performance. Learn how to overload the new and delete operators to implement a "mark and release" heap and trap memory errors. With this book you'll also learn about sparse and triangular matrices and understand how to read and write persistent objects in polymorphic, object-oriented database files. Rely on the full-featured class library for flawless fundamental, abstract, container, and iterator class templates. Plus, dozens of helpful illustrations clarify difficult concepts and clear code examples provide detailed explanations. All the program listings conform to ANSI C++ draft-standard.
Cyberspace Textuality: Computer Technology and Literary Theory
Authors: Marie-Laure Ryan
Venue:  (1998)

:Representative of the next generation of cybertext criticism, the essays in this book explore the concepts of texts and the forms of textuality emerging from the new electronic technologies. The first group examines contemporary literary theory and the texts of cyberspace. The second debates how identity is affected by the power of electronic technology to create virtual doubles of the body. The authors look at feminist and experimental writing, theatrical writing in virtual spaces, and rethinking the body in cyberspace. The final essays gather three "performance texts" that turn the critical investigation of cyberspace textuality into a quest for new forms of literary theoretical writing. 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 sensitivity of FPGA architectural conclusions to experimental assumptions, tools, and techniques
Authors: Andy Yan, Rebecca Cheng, Steven J. E. Wilton
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM/SIGDA tenth international symposium on Field-programmable gate arrays (2002)

Recent years have seen a tremendous increase in the capacities and capabilities of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA's). Much of this dramatic improvement has been the result of changes to the FPGAs' internal architectures. New architectural proposals are routinely generated in both academia and industry. For FPGA's to continue to grow, it is important that these new architectural ideas are fairly and accurately evaluated, so that those worthy ideas can be included in future chips. Typically, this evaluation is done using experimentation. However, the use of experimentation is dangerous, since it requires making assumptions regarding the tools and architecture of the device in question. If these assumptions are not accurate, the conclusions from the experiments may not be meaningful. In this paper, we investigate the sensitivity of FPGA architectural conclusions to experimental variations. To make our study concrete, we evaluate the sensitivity of four previously published and well-known FPGA architectural results: lookup-table size, switch block topology, cluster size, and memory size. It is shown that these experiments are significantly affected by the assumptions, tools, and techniques used in the experiments.
Staying in the flow with zoomable user interfaces
Authors: Lance Good
Venue: CHI '02 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (2002)

This research aims to investigate a collection of interactions in 2D workspaces with the goal of helping users stay in the flow of their activity. These interactions will be explored in the context of two software tools designed to support information work. The first tool, Niagara, addresses the early phases of this work that involve organization and synthesis. CounterPoint, the second tool, targets the later stages of this work that concern the authoring, delivery, and understanding of presentations.
Inside Lightwave 6 with Cdrom
Authors: Dan Ablan
Venue:  (2000)

:LightWave 6 is a revolutionary release from NewTek. It promises to have groundbreaking new architecture, revolutionary rendering technologies and amazing character animation and modeling tools for lifelike animation. In order to keep pace with the software changes, New Riders presents its second Inside LightWave book, this one covering all the technology advances that are introduced in LightWave 6. Inside LightWave 6 takes the reader beyond their basic knowledge of the features in LightWave, to learning how to apply that knowledge to create professional-level scenes and animations. Inspirational graphics combined with real-world tutorials and insider tips make Inside LightWave 6 a must-have for every LightWave user. The CD-ROM features the material you'll need to work with the author as he walks you through Lightwave's feature set and capabilities. You also get dozens of sample files and demo versions of plug-ins: explore, create, and expand your skill set!
Microsoft Office 2000 Deployment and Administration, 1st edition
Authors: Bill Camarda
Venue:  (2000)

:If you're managing, deploying, configuring or troubleshooting any version of Office 2000 or Office 97/98, you can't afford to be without Microsoft Office 2000 Administrator's Desk Reference. Discover how to integrate Microsoft Office into multi-vendor and cross-platform environments. Leverage Office Web and workgroup capabilities for more effective document publishing and decision-making. Integrate Word into desktop publishing workflows. Manage mobile and global users. Troubleshoot failed Office installations. Coexist with legacy apps. Manage your VBA code resources. Provide better help desk support. Whether you're a system or network administrator, manager, IT professional or power user, the business-critical answers you need are right here.
Improving the Precision of INCA by Eliminating Solutions with Spurious Cycles
Authors: Stephen F. Seigel, George S. Avrunin
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (2002)

The Inequality Necessary Condition Analyzer (INCA) is a finite-state verification tool that has been able to check properties of some very large concurrent systems. INCA checks a property of a concurrent system by generating a system of inequalities that must have integer solutions if the property can be violated. There may, however, be integer solutions to the inequalities that do not correspond to an execution violating the property. INCA thus accepts the possibility of an inconclusive result in exchange for greater tractability. We describe here a method for eliminating one of the two main sources of these inconclusive results.
Molecular Modeling on the PC with 3.5 Disk
Authors: Matthew F. Schlecht
Venue:  (1998)

:This book, developed from course notes for a special topics course in Molecular Modeling, provides an introduction to molecular modeling techniques within a problem-solving framework. The reader will learn how to utilize molecular modeling as a tool for the evaluation of synthetic intermediates, as an aid on the strategic design of new molecules, and for the analysis of conformation and structure-property relationships. Complete with an extensive glossary, explanations, detailed procedure listings, numerous graphical aids (reproductions of PC screen graphics are given to facilitate understanding), tested examples, and references to more complex programs and techniques. Molecular Modeling on the PC is suitable for the novice. The PCMODEL group of programs, showcased in this work, provide any chemist with the tools to utilize modern molecular modeling on the PC. 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
Interaction, imagination and immersion some research needs
Authors: Thomas B. Sheridan
Venue: Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology (2000)

This paper discusses four ways that humans interact with their environments, plus four variables that determine the experience of virtual reality, and also which of the interactions support which of the VR-enhancing variables. Some philosophical issues abou immersion, the experience of presence, and the meaning of realit are then considered. The engineering paradigm of estimation is then reviewed as a way of bridging classical ontologica differences of opinion about reaility. Finally some VR research needs are discussed: haptics, mi nimally invasive diagnosis and surgery, driving simulation, decision aids in system operation, education, computer-aided synthesis, measures of presence and whether presence enhances performance, social ills of VR, and the relation of VR to spirituality.
Managing Information, 2nd edition
Authors: David A. Wilson
Venue:  (1997)

:Managing Information highlights the increasing value of information and IT within organizations and shows how organizations use it. It also deals with the crucial relationship between information and personal effectiveness. The use of computer software and communications in a management context are discussed in detail, including how to mould an information system to your needs. The book explains the basics using real-life examples and brings managers up-to-date with the latest developments in electronic commerce and the Internet. The book is based on the Management Charter Initiative's Occupational Standards for Management NVQs and SVQs at level 4. It is particularly suitable for managers on the Certificate in Management, or Part I of the Diploma, especially those accredited by the IM and BTEC. 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
Hypertext and the scholarly archive: intertexts, paratexts and metatexts at work
Authors: Rune Dalgaard
Venue: Proceedings of the 12th ACM conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (2001)

With the Web, hypertext has become the paradigmatic rhetorical structure of a global and distributed archive. This paper argues that the scholarly archive is going though a process of hypertextualization that is not adequately accounted for in theories on hypertext. A methodological approach based on Gerard Genettes theory of transtextuality is proposed for a study of the hypertextualized archive. This involves a rejection of the reductionist opposition of hypertext and the fixed linear text, in favor of a study of the intertexts, paratexts and metatexts that work at the interface between texts and archive. I refer to this as second-order textuality.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs, 6th Edition, 6th edition
Authors: Joe Kraynak
Venue:  (1998)

:A reference based title written in an approachable first person point of view. This book teaches a reader what a PCs is, how to use it, and how to use it productively without intimidating or offending him. Straight-forward conversational tone on customizing and organizing the PC, connecting to the internet, using peripherals like modems and multimedia. The reader is provided basic information in purchasing a new PC or its components. Finally the reader learns how various software applications can help him create documents and spreadsheets. This book gives its readers the foundation on what a PC is and how to use it in everyday language without being intimidated or insulted. Complete Idiot s Guide to PCs, 6th Edition is a task-oriented explanation of the PC, how to use it, and how to use PC software.Plain-English approach that is easy to read and fun for the reader to use when learning about his PCThis title has conversational tone that is familiar to the reader without being condenscending or too elementary levelIncreased coverage on how to actually use your PC including coverage of the latest Windows operation system, internet usage and more
Advanced C, 1st edition
Authors: Peter Hipson
Venue:  (1992)

:The complete programmer's guide to C success. Efficiency tips and techniques for debugging C programs and improving their speed, memory usage, and readability. Complete coverage of disk files including sequential access, text, binary and random access. Coverage of the internals of the standard header files: variable, understanding the prototypes, and special programming considerations.
10 Minute Guide to PowerPoint
Authors: Joe Kraynak
Venue:  (1993)

:The only fast, simple way to immediately produce great-looking graphs and business-oriented slide shows. Common procedures are taught one task at a time through a series of easy-to-grasp mini-tutorials-each of which can be completed in 10 minutes or less.Two-color graphical format makes learning quick and easyTimesaver Tips, Plain English definitions, and troubleshooting advice help users along the wayIncludes a Windows primer and handy installation instructions
Customizable output generation in modeling environments using pipelined domains
Authors: Dragan Milicev
Venue: ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes (2000)

Domain-specific modeling and metamodeling environments most often base their output generation capability on wizards, output templates, grammar-based transformers, or hard-coded output generators. The complexity of the specification process for such generators, and their dependence on the domain do not encourage customization, flexibility, and reuse. This paper proposes a solution to this problem. In the proposed approach, the domains are (meta) modeled using the standard object-oriented paradigm. Second, the generation of a model in the target domain from a model in the source domain is specified using extended UML object diagrams that allow specification of conditional, repetitive, and sequential creation of instances of the target domain's abstractions. Finally, the transformation of models may be performed in a pipelined fashion, where each domain model and mapping may be either created from the scratch or reused from the repository. This approach allows more efficient, incremental building of more abstract domains and their mapping into less abstract domains, because each transformation step is much less complicated to specify, maintain, and reuse. Furthermore, by simple choosing another pipeline, different versions of the ultimate implementation from the same initial high-level, user-defined model may be obtained automatically. A prototypal supporting tool has been implemented and briefly presented in the paper.
Locating closed streamlines in 3D vector fields
Authors: Thomas Wischgoll, Gerik Scheuermann
Venue: Proceedings of the symposium on Data Visualisation 2002 (2002)

The analysis and visualization of flows is a central problem in visualization. Topology based methods have gained increasing interest in recent years. This article describes a method for the detection of closed streamlines in 3D flows. It is based on a special treatment of cases where a streamline reenters a cell to prevent infinite cycling during streamline calculation. The algorithm checks for possible exits of a loop of crossed faces and detects structurally stable closed streamlines. These global features are not detected by conventional topology and feature detection algorithms.
Augmenting descriptive scenario analysis for improvements in human reliability design
Authors: Shamus P. Smith, Michael D. Harrison
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing (2002)

It is typical for cycles of iteration to be used to refine the current state of the design of a system so that it more closely meets its requirements. Such refinements are in terms of the original requirements specification and any new requirements that have been identified during this process. However, not all defined requirements are equally essential, particularly in high consequence systems where there are issues of dependability. Although descriptive methods for scenario analysis can be used to highlight new requirements, it can be difficult to evaluate the impact of these new requirements.In this paper, we exemplify this problem and investigate how numeric methods can be used to highlight the impact of consequences identified by descriptive scenario analysis. An example from the context of human reliability analysis is presented and dependability issues for system design are considered.
A fault-tolerant routing scheme in dynamic networks
Authors: Feng Xiushan, Han Chengde
Venue: Journal of Computer Science and Technology (2001)

In dynamic networks, links and nodes will be deleted or added regularly. It is very essential for the routing scheme to have the ability of fault-tolerance. The method to achieve such a goal is to generate more than one path for a given set of source and destination. In this paper, the idea of interval routing are used to construct a new scheme (Multi-Node Label Interval Routing scheme, or MNLIR scheme) to realize fault-tolerance. Interval routing is a space-efficient routing method for networks, but the method is static and determinative, and itcannot realize fault-tolerance. In MNLIR scheme some nodes will have more than one label, thus some pairs of destination and source will have more than one path; the pairs of nodes, which have inheritance relation, will have the shortest path. Using this character, MNLIR scheme has better overall routing performance than the former interval routing scheme, which can be proven by simulations. The common problem concerning the insertion and deletion of nodes and links are considered in this paper. So if the networks have some changes in topology, MNLIR scheme may find alternative path for certain pairs of nodes. In this way, fault-tolerance can be realized with only a little space added tostore the multi-node labels