As microprocessor systems and single-chip microcomputers become more complex, so do the software systems developed for them. In many cases, software is being designed that incorporates multiple control functions running asynchronously …
Thomas L. Wicklund
Pages 772-780
The recommendations of the 1972 and 1973 ACM Curriculum Committee on Information Systems programs have been influential in the development of degree programs at the bachelor's, master's, and doctoral levels. The earlier curriculum …
Jay F. Nunamaker, J. Daniel Couger, Gordon B. Davis
Pages 781-805
The needs of management, unions, employees, and computer professionals combined with existing practices of Labor Relations Boards and the various divisions in the Departments of Labor have combined to create a unique array of …
Theodor D. Sterling
Pages 807-816
We describe a computer program that has been used to maintain a record of the known complexity results for a class of 4536 machine scheduling problems. The input of the program consists of a listing of known “easy” problems and …
B. J. Lageweg, J. K. Lenstra, E. L. Lawler, A. H. G. Rinnooy Kan
Pages 817-822
The problem of characterizing the number of granules (or blocks) accessed by a transaction is important in modeling the performance of database management systems and other applications. Different expressions for this quantity …
Annie W. Shum, Andrew M. Langer
Pages 831-832
We use the paradigm of diffusing computation, introduced by Dijkstra and Scholten, to solve a class of graph problems. We present a detailed solution to the problem of computing shortest paths from a single vertex to all other …
K. Mani Chandy, J. Misra
Pages 833-837
Computer technology has recently been applied to the automation of office tasks and procedures. Much of the technology is aimed not at improving the efficiency of current office procedures, but at altering the nature of office …
Margrethe H. Olson, Henry C. Lucas
Pages 838-847
Pages 854-857
David H. Brandin
Pages 769-770
The “Wolf Fence” method of debugging time-sharing programs in higher languages evolved from the “Lions in South Africa” method that I have taught since the vacuum-tube machine language days. It is a quickly converging iteration …
Edward J. Gauss
Page 780
The features of a language designed for the description of the structure of computer systems are described. The structure of a system is specified hierarchically as an interconnection of components with each component being a …
Willie Y.-P. Lim
Pages 823-830
