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Sex, Lies, and Video Games: How to Write a MacIntosh Arcade Game, with Disk, 1st edition
Authors: Bill Hensler
Venue:  (1995)

:Tired of searching for memory leaks? Bored with tracking down pointers that point to nothing? Here's the book that brings the fun back to writing Macintosh programs. Sex, Lies, and Video Games exposes you to the techniques of producing games on the Macintosh - games with captivating animation and objectionable sounds. You don't need any previous game programming experience, or an extensive background in graphics or sound programming, just an ability to write a simple program that involves windows, menus, and other interface elements. In a light-hearted, unintimidating style, Bill Hensler explores the ins and outs of arcade-style programming in C and C++, introducing basic game theory, animation, sound, and interaction techniques. Along the way you'll learn the arcane lore of game programming, including sprite blitting, off-screen and on-screen animation, sprite cels and directing sprite movement, and ins and outs of producing sounds within your games. You'll also learn how to put it all together in the full-blown arcade game that's included on the enclosed disk. Now all Macintosh programmers can satisfy their secret desire to become game programming mavens. 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
Spreadsheet Tools for Engineers: Excel 2000 Version, 1st edition
Authors: Byron S. Gottfried
Venue:  (1999)

:Revision of a successful book which explains how to use the popular Excel 2000 spreadsheet application to solve a variety of mathematical problems that are of interest to engineers and scientists. We are the first publisher to have a book for this course.
Dummies 101: 1-2-3 97 for Windows (with CD-ROM), 1st edition
Authors: Alison Barrows
Venue:  (1996)

:Are you ready for a series of lessons that teach you all the basics of 1-2-3 97 for Windows? Then Dummies 101: 1-2-3 97 For Windows is the tutorial for you! Whether you need to learn 1-2-3 for work, home, or school, the step-by-step exercises in this book gently lead you through all the features you need to know. Inside, get the information you need now: Master all the basics of 1-2-3 and look like an expert in no time Learn the 1-2-3 program's most important features -- fast! In the very first unit, you'll learn how to create, print, and save a worksheet. Practice what you learn by working through the step-by-step exercises and using the worksheets with the included CD-ROM Find the functions you need to analyze your data Create charts that effectively illustrate your data Use the range fill feature to create even more data out of existing information Brush up on skills that may be rusty, like selecting cells, formatting cells, creating formulas, and using functions Don't forget! After you've taught yourself the basics with this easy-to-use tutorial, look for IDG Books Worldwide's 1-2-3&reg; 97 For Windows&reg; For Dummies&reg;, the perfect reference to keep by your side, and 1-2-3&reg; 97 For Windows&reg; For Dummies&reg; Quick Reference, the quick and easy way to look up tasks and commands alphabetically!
Building database applications of virtual reality with X-VRML
Authors: Krzysztof Walczak, Wojciech Cellary
Venue: Proceedings of the seventh international conference on 3D Web technology (2002)

A new method of building active database-driven virtual reality applications is presented. The term "active" is used to describe applications that allow server-side user interaction, dynamic composition of virtual scenes, access to on-line data, continuous visualization, and implementation of persistency.The use the X-VRML language for building active applications of virtual reality is proposed. X-VRML is a high-level XML-based language that overcomes the main limitations of the current virtual reality systems by providing convenient access to databases, object-orientation, parameterization, and imperative programming techniques. Applications of X-VRML include on-line data visualization, geographical information systems, scientific visualization, virtual games, and e-commerce applications such as virtual shops. In this paper, methods of accessing databases from X-VRML are described, architectures of X-VRML systems for different application domains are discussed, and examples of database applications of virtual reality implemented in X-VRML are presented.
Using new technologies for communication and learning
Authors: Philip Rubens, Sherry Southard
Venue: Proceedings of IEEE professional communication society international professional communication conference and Proceedings of the 18th annual ACM international conference on Computer documentation: technology & teamwork (2000)

This paper evolved during our efforts to implement distance education in a technologically impoverished region. Like other groups lost behind the so-called "Digital Divide," this constituency lacks both access and experience in using electronic devices. Even the most technologically savvy members of this audience, which is composed primarily of adult and continuing education graduate students, would be considered novices who have only basic computing access. Helping such an audience understand the technology and delivering useful educational experiences to them presents a significant challenge. This paper reviews how basic, perhaps rudimentary, designs were established and how they changed to accommodate emerging problems.
HTML, with CD-ROM (By Example), 1st edition
Authors: Que Corporation
Venue:  (1996)

:Millions of new users join the Web every day. They're looking for help creating their own Web pages. Look no further! HTML By Example makes use of more plentiful, step-by-step examples - and covers basic aspects of HTML programming. New programmers will be programming with HTML in no time at all!Provides solid coverage of HTML basics as well as up-to-date examples of Netscape and Internet Explorer extensions, JavaScript, and other cutting-edge Web page technologiesIncludes end-of-chapter review questions and exercises to reinforce the learning processCD-ROM includes example listings from the book, including tables, forms, JavaScript, client-side image maps, Netscape extensions, and more
Exploring navigational patterns on the web
Authors: Don Zimmerman, Pat Walls
Venue: Proceedings of IEEE professional communication society international professional communication conference and Proceedings of the 18th annual ACM international conference on Computer documentation: technology & teamwork (2000)

We report on our preliminary analyses of our research designed to determine the navigational patterns users follow in Web and hierarchical Web sites. In all 33 participants completed the study using a within-subjects, Greco-Latin design where each person viewed two sites-one organized in Web structure and one organized in a hierarchical structure. The results suggest no significant difference in participants' perceptions of their navigation of the sites, the sites' ease of use, feeling lost, and organization of the sites.
Users' conceptions of web security: a comparative study
Authors: Batya Friedman, David Hurley, Daniel C. Howe, Edward Felten, Helen Nissenbaum
Venue: CHI '02 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (2002)

This study characterizes users' conceptions of web security. Seventy-two individuals, 24 each from a rural community in Maine, a suburban professional community in New Jersey, and a high-technology community in California, participated in an extensive (2-hour) semi-structured interview (including a drawing task) about Web security. The results show that many users across the three diverse communities mistakently evaluated whether a connection is secure or not secure. Empirically-derived typologies are provided for (1) conceptions of security based on users' verbal reasoning, (2) the types of evidence users depend upon in evaluating whether a connection is secure, and (3) conceptions of security as portrayed in users' drawings. Design implications are discussed.
Algorithms for the visualization of large and multivariate data sets
Authors: Friedhelm Schwenker, Hans A. Kestler, Günther Palm
Venue: Self-Organizing neural networks: recent advances and applications (2001)

In this chapter we discuss algorithms for clustering and visualization of large and multivariate data. We describe an algorithm for exploratory data analysis which combines adaptive c-means clustering and multi-dimensional scaling (ACMDS). ACMDS is an algorithm for the online visualization of clustering processes and may be considered as an alternative approach to Kohonen's self organizing feature map (SOM). Whereas SOM is a heuristic neural network algorithm, ACMDS is derived from multivariate statistical algorithms. The implications of ACMMDS are illustrated through five different data sets.
Board-level multiterminal net assignment
Authors: Xiaoyu Song, William N. N. Hung, Alan Mishchenko, Malgorzata Chrzanowska-Jeske, Alan Coppola, Andrew Kennings
Venue: Proceedings of the 12th ACM Great Lakes symposium on VLSI (2002)

The paper presents a satisfiability-based method for solving the board-level multiterminal net routing problem in Clos-Folded FPGA based logic emulation systems. The approach transforms the FPGA board-level routing task into a single, large Boolean equation with the property that any assignment of input variables that satis¿fies the equation specifies a valid routing. The approach considers all nets simultaneously and the absence of a satisfying assignment implies that the layout is unroutable. We use two of the fastest SAT solvers: Chaff and DLM to perform our experiments. Empirical re¿sults show that the method is time-efficient and applicable to large layout problem instances.
Accelerator Data-Path Synthesis for High-Throughput Signal Processing Applications
Authors: Werner Geurts
Venue:  (1997)

:Accelerator Data-Path Synthesis for High-Throughput Signal Processing Applications is the first book to show how to use high-level synthesis techniques to cope with the stringent timing requirements of complex high-throughput real-time signal and data processing. The book describes the state-of-the-art in architectural synthesis for complex high-throughput real-time processing. Unlike many other, the Synthesis approach used in this book targets an architecture style or an application domain. This approach is thus heavily application-driven and this is illustrated in the book by several realistic demonstration examples used throughout. Accelerator Data-Path Synthesis for High-Throughput Signal Processing Applications focuses on domains where application-specific high-speed solutions are attractive such as significant parts of audio, telecom, instrumentation, speech, robotics, medical and automotive processing, image and video processing, TV, multi-media radar, sonar, etc. Moreover, it addresses mainly the steps above the traditional scheduling and allocation tasks which focus on scalar operations and data. Accelerator Data-Path Synthesis for High-Throughput Signal Processing Applications is of interest to researchers, senior design engineers and CAD managers both in academia and industry. It provides an excellent overview of what capabilities to expect from future practical design tools and includes an extensive bibliography.
Dominating Sets and Neighbor Elimination-Based Broadcasting Algorithms in Wireless Networks
Authors: Ivan Stojmenovic, Mahtab Seddigh, Jovisa Zunic
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (2002)

In a multihop wireless network, each node has a transmission radius and is able to send a message to all of its neighbors that are located within the radius. In a broadcasting task, a source node sends the same message to all the nodes in the network. In this paper, we propose to significantly reduce or eliminate the communication overhead of a broadcasting task by applying the concept of localized dominating sets. Their maintenance does not require any communication overhead in addition to maintaining positions of neighboring nodes. Retransmissions by only internal nodes in a dominating set is sufficient for reliable broadcasting. Existing dominating sets are improved by using node degrees instead of their ids as primary keys. We also propose to eliminate neighbors that already received the message and rebroadcast only if the list of neighbors that might need the message is nonempty. A retransmission after negative acknowledgements scheme is also described. The important features of proposed algorithms are their reliability (reaching all nodes in the absence of message collisions), significant rebroadcast savings, and their localized and parameterless behavior. The reduction in communication overhead for broadcasting task is measured experimentally. Dominating sets based broadcasting, enhanced by neighbor elimination scheme and highest degree key, provides reliable broadcast with \leq 53 percent of node retransmissions (on random unit graphs with 100 nodes) for all average degrees d. Critical d is around 4, with \leq 48 percent for \leq 3,\leq 40 percent for d\geq 10, and \leq 20 percent for d\geq 25. The proposed methods are better than existing ones in all considered aspects: reliability, rebroadcast savings, and maintenance communication overhead. In particular, the cluster structure is inefficient for broadcasting because of considerable communication overhead for maintaining the structure and is also inferior in terms of rebroadcast savings.
Official America Online for Windows 95 Membership Kit and Tour Guide: Everything You Need to Begin Enjoying the Nation's Most Exciting Online Service, 10th edition
Authors: Tom Lichty
Venue:  (1996)

:Explore the excitement of the World Wide Web and the Internet, manage your finances online, get the latest news and information, thousands of files to download and save, and share interests and expand your horizons. In this edition: improved areas for newcomers & getting help, Expanded Kids Only area plus enhanced Parental Control features, Buddy Lists so you can see when your friends are online, Personal Filing Cabinet to keep track of your important e-mail, and tips for making the best use of the Internet through America Online.
Analysis of the constraint solver in UNA based test data generation
Authors: Jon Edvardsson, Mariam Kamkar
Venue: Proceedings of the 8th European software engineering conference held jointly with 9th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering (2001)

In a series of articles Gupta et al. develop a framework for automatic test data generation for computer programs. In general, their approach consists of a branch predicate collector, which derives a system of linear inequalities representing the branch predicates for a given path in the program. This system is solved using a solving technique of theirs called the Unified Numerical Approach (UNA) [5, 7]. In this paper we show that in contrast to traditional optimization methods the UNA is not bounded by the size of the solved system. Instead it depends on how input is composed. That is, even for very simple systems consisting of one variable we can easily get more than a thousand iterations. We will also give a formal proof that UNA does not always find a mixed integer solution when there is one. Finally, we suggest using some traditional optimization method instead, like the simplex method in combination with branch-and-bound and/or a cutting-plane algorithm as a constraint solver.
Net Money: Your Guide to the Personal Finance Revolution on the Electronic Highway
Authors: Michael Wolff
Venue:  (1994)

:Get rich in Cyberspace! Here is the first map and sourcebook to the personal finance services, resources, and planning tools available on the Net. This comprehensive, easy-to-use guide features hundreds of listings for investment advice; resources for trading stocks, bonds, and mutual funds; comprehensive listings of the best financial conferences, forums, products and services on the Internet.
Models and approximation algorithms for channel assignment in radio networks
Authors: Sven O. Krumke, Madhav V. Marathe, S. S. Ravi
Venue: Wireless Networks (2001)

We consider the frequency assignment (broadcast scheduling) problem for packet radio networks. Such networks are naturally modeled by graphs with a certain geometric structure. The problem of broadcast scheduling can be cast as a variant of the vertex coloring problem (called the distance-2 coloring problem) on the graph that models a given packet radio network. We present efficient approximation algorithms for the distance-2 coloring problem for various geometric graphs including those that naturally model a large class of packet radio networks. The class of graphs considered include (r, s)-civilized graphs, planar graphs, graphs with bounded genus, etc.
Engineering Graphics with AutoCAD 2000, 1st edition
Authors: James D. Bethune
Venue:  (1999)

:Using AutoCAD applications exclusively throughout the text, this book offers state-of-the-art coverage on the AutoCAD 2000 version of software, integrates helpful screen captures throughout, and includes many new and extensive design and sketching exercises. Fundamentls of 2D construction, orthographic, sectional, and auxiliary views. Fundamentals of 3D drawing, and modeling. For engineers interested in computer graphics.
WordPerfect 3.5 for MacIntosh (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Authors: Rita F. Lewis
Venue:  (1995)

:Need to learn WordPerfect fast? Try a Visual QuickStart! Takes an easy, visual approach to teaching WordPerfect, where pictures guide you through the software and show you what to do.Works like a reference book - you look up what you need and then get straight to work.No long-winded passages - concise, straightforward commentary explains what you need to know.Teaches WordPerfect's core, everyday features, without bogging down in the finer details of the software. 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
C# essentials, 2nd edition
Venue:  (2002)

Concise but thorough, this second edition of C# Essentials introduces the Microsoft C# programming language, including the Microsoft .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) and .NET Framework Class Libraries (FCL) that support it. This book's compact format and terse presentation of key concepts serve as a roadmap to the online documentation included with the Microsoft .NET Framework SDK; the many examples provide much-needed context.
A simulated model for the growth of tourism in south Tenerife
Authors: Marianela Carrillo, José M. González
Venue: Systems Analysis Modelling Simulation (2001)

The aim of this study is to construct a dynamic model to represent the socio-economic system in the South of Tenerife. The historical process briefly sketched in the above paragraphs explains its development up to now. Further to this, the proposed mathematical model has to fit the observed reality and also permits simulations which forecast the behaviour of the observed reality and also permits simulations which forecast the behaviour fo the variables of interest in relation to alternative external scenarios (decision making). For this reason, tools from the technique known as Systems Dynamics have been employed, combined with statistical techniques aimed at minimising the errors in simulating the historical period considered. Despite this, the problem of parameter estimation in this type of model is still far from solved.
Create Your First Web Page, Revised and Expanded, 1st edition
Authors: Steven E. Callihan
Venue:  (1998)

:Readers don't have to be computer professionals in order to create their own Web page. In the 2nd edition of Create Your First Web Page In a Weekend, users learn what a Web page really is and how it works. This book offers ample information on the most useful features of HTML and how to apply those features. Readers can then use that knowledge to plan and create different types of Web pages.
Observations on the role life-cycle in the context of enterprise security management
Authors: Axel Kern, Martin Kuhlmann, Andreas Schaad, Jonathan Moffett
Venue: Proceedings of the seventh ACM symposium on Access control models and technologies (2002)

Roles are a powerful and policy neutral concept for facilitating distributed systems management and enforcing access control. Models which are now subject to becoming a standard have been proposed and much work on extensions to these models has been done over the last years as documented in the recent RBAC/SACMAT workshops. When looking at these extensions we can often observe that they concentrate on a particular stage in the life of a role. We investigate how these extensions fit into a more general theoretical framework in order to give practitioners a starting point from which to develop role-based systems. We believe that the life-cycle of a role could be seen as the basis for such a framework and we provide an initial discussion on such a role life-cycle, based on our experiences and observations in enterprise security management. We propose a life-cycle model that is based on an iterative-incremental process similar to those found in the area of software development.
Troubleshooting and Repairing PC Drives and Memory Systems, 1st edition
Authors: Stephen J. Bigelow
Venue:  (1993)

:When your PC memory or drives suddenly show signs of trouble,general troubleshooting manuals just aren't good enough. Focus on the problem and fix it fast with the best-selling guide that provides solutions for all PC drives and cards,including nonstandard ones like Syquest and Iomega Zip drives,and even writable CDs or CD-ROM burners. Clear,concise instructions make it a snap to diagnose,repair,and keep drives running in top condition. A volume in the Troubleshooting & Repair Series. Get your drives and memory systems running quickly and efficientlyand keep them that way. Having trouble installing solid-state memory or drives on your PC? Finding that newly installed drives or memory systems conflict with existing devices or drivers? Or,worst of all,facing an outright memory failure? Good news: PC memory and drive types have mushroomed. Bad news: Today's sophisticated new setups can be difficult to configure and troubleshoot. To head off truobleor fix it fastconsult this well-illustrated,all-in-one guide. Designed especially for computer enthusiasts and technicians,it shows you how to install,configure,diagnose,and correct problems with floppy drives; hard drives; solid-state PC memory; PC Cards; CD-ROM drives; tape drives; DVD drives; and nonstandard drives such as Syquest and ZIP. PC memory is such a tricky subject that general fix-it manuals just can't address all the symptoms and solutions. This is the only repair guide with the specific answers you need. Use it to: Learn the new drive technologies and operations; eliminate the high cost and delay of outside Pc service; Make fast,accurate repairs; Keep your equipment running longer;Locate parts,materials,and information.
Practice Abstract
Authors: Donald L. Keefer, Phil Beccue
Venue: Interfaces (2001)

Practice Abstracts carries short reports of specific current or recent OR/MS projects. Often these reports are based on existing documents, such as internal reports or company newsletters. We hope that these abstracts will be accessible, interesting, and valuable to practitioners in other organizations. Contributions should be sent for evaluation to the editor of ''Practice Abstracts,'' Donald L. Keefer, Department of Supply Chain Management, Arizona State University, Box 874706, Tempe, Arizona 85287-4706 [don.keefer@asu.edu].