Robert L. Ashenhurst
Page 547
The Reagan Administration has given considerable attention to the issue of “technology transfer,” by which they mean the dissemination of unclassified, but militarily sensitive U.S. technology to Eastern Bloc countries. There …
Rosalie Steier
Page 548
Jon Bentley
Pages 549-552
The Local Distributed Data Interface (LDDI) Project of X3 Technical Committee X3T9 has resulted in three draft proposed American National Standards for a high performance local area network. The proposed standards are organized …
William E. Burr
Pages 554-561
Applications of distributed processing networks are proliferating rapidly. It is expected that by the year 2000, distributed networks will be one of the most significant developments to evolve from the computer revolution.
Distributed …
James V. Hansen
Pages 562-569
This note deals with a paper by Gremillion demonstrating the simulation approach to the design of a Bloom filter. It is shown that an analytical approach can yield insights into competing filter design and give expected values …
James K. Mullin
Pages 570-571
A new programming language control structure as well as an improved approach to a formal definition of programming languages are presented. The control structure can replace both iteration and conditional structures. Because- …
David Lorge Parnas
Pages 572-581
The choice of the attributes to be incorporated in a generalized software package is a complex design task, much like the choice of the characteristics of the basic model and the options to be offered when a new automobile is …
Frank Milne, Ron Weber
Pages 582-589
A regression method for estimating the inverse of a continuous cumulative probability function F(
x)
is presented. It is assumed that an ordered sample, X1, …, X
n, of identically and independently distributed random variables
0 …
Stephen C. Hora
Pages 590-594
Brelaz's modification of Brown's exact coloring algorithm contains two errors as demonstrated in two examples. A correct version of the algorithm and a proof of the exactness are given. Finally, Brown's look-ahead rule is built …
Jürgen Peemöller
Pages 595-597
