Peter J. Denning
Pages 315-316
There are a wide variety of software development tools and methods currently available or which could be built using current research and technology. These tools and methods can be organized into four software development environments …
William E. Howden
Pages 318-329
This note presents a more efficient algorithm for finding the largest element in a circular list of processors when messages can be passed in either direction. It passes 2
N*floor(lg
N) + 3
N messages in the worst case, compared …
Randolph Franklin
Pages 336-337
Most discussions of MIS's assume that the information in the records is error-free although it is recognized that errors exist. These errors occur because of delays in processing times, lengthy correction times, and, overly or …
Richard C. Morey
Pages 337-342
Pages 350-353
Two high-level pointer operations, rotation and slide, reduce conceptual difficulties when writing pointer programs and increase the reliability of programs. We analyze theoretically as well as empirically why these operations …
Norihisa Suzuki
Pages 330-335
