Rosalie Steier
Page 665
Lynn Arthur Steen
Pages 666-667
Jon Bentley
Pages 668-670
Jon Bentley
Pages 671-679
Unless computer-mediated communication systems are structured, users will be overloaded with information. But structure should be imposed by individuals and user groups according to their needs and abilities, rather than through …
Starr R. Hiltz, Murray Turoff
Pages 680-689
Strategic Computing, a 10-year initiative to build faster and more intelligent systems, is ambitious, flawed by overscheduling perhaps and problems of definition, but basically sound.
Mark Stefik
Pages 690-704
Robert Papsdorf
Pages 704-706
A whole-system designer, fire fighter, mediator, and jack-of-all-trades, the system architect brings unity and continuity to a development project—offsetting the inevitable compartmentalization of modern modular designs.
John A. Mills
Pages 708-717
An examination of the respective advantages and disadvantages of three characteristic paradigms of design and implementation in Ada illustrates the importance of choosing the appropriate paradigm for a given set of circumstances …
Václav Rajlich
Pages 718-727
This article tests two competing theories of system development referred to here as environmental and institutional models. These models form the basis for most explanations of why systems are developed and utilized. We will
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Kenneth C. Laudon
Pages 728-740
The transient probabilistic structure of M/E
m/1 and E
m/M/1 queues initialized in an arbitrary deterministic state is derived in discrete time. Computational algorithms for obtaining the required probabilities are provided, and …
W. David Kelton
Pages 741-749
CORPORATE Tech Correspondence
Pages 750-753
