Herbert R. J. Grosch
Page 195
This paper presents the results of a study of the use of an interactive computerized storage and retrieval system. A monitor built into the computer system provided usage data for the study. Additional data on user reactions
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Henry C. Lucas
Pages 197-205
Traditional concepts of management information systems (MIS) bear little relation to the information systems currently in use by top management in most US local governments. What exists is management-oriented computing, involving …
William H. Dutton, Kenneth L. Kraemer
Pages 206-218
Technological and nontechnological value orientations are investigated with special attention to the complexity of value structures. Computer science students, who are closely associated with technology, contrast with social
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Ronald E. Anderson
Pages 219-225
Recently Hirschberg has established that insertions into one-sided height-balanced trees can be done in O(log
2N) steps. It is proved here that deletions can also be performed in O(log
2N) steps, which answers the open problem
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S. Rao Kosaraju
Pages 226-227
Programmers and data structure designers are often forced to choose between alternative structures. In storing these structures, preserving logical adjacencies or “proximity” is usually an important consideration. The combinatorial …
Richard A. DeMillo, Stanley C. Eisenstat, Richard J. Lipton
Pages 228-231
Five types of anomalous behaviour which may occur in paged virtual memory operating systems are defined. One type of anomaly, for example, concerns the fact that, with certain reference strings and paging algorithms, an increase …
M. A. Franklin, G. Scott Graham, R. K. Gupta
Pages 232-236
Based on an empirical study of more than 10,000 lines of program text written in a GOTO-less language, a machine architecture specifically designed for structured programs is proposed. Since assignment, CALL, RETURN, and IF statements …
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Pages 237-246
Kenneth G. Walter
Page 247
Robert L. Ashenhurst
Pages 252-253
