Rosalie Steier
Pages 1-2
Rosalie Steier
Page 3
As societies have become more dependent on information systems to conduct and record transactions between organizations and individuals, interorganizational computer systems have become a widely used method of coordinating the …
Kenneth C. Laudon
Pages 4-11
The compilation and analysis of data collected from 125 business schools reveal important trends and identify problems that arise when computers are integrated into education.
Jason L. Frand, Ephraim R. McLean
Pages 12-18
By introducing the concept of an abstract graphics device called the workstation, an existing graphics system is generalized to support multiple devices in applications software.
Mike Heck, Martin Plaehn
Pages 30-37
There are a number of alternative tools and methods for building and designing information systems for organizational use. Each tool or design alternative has its advocates. Benefits and advantages are proposed or claimed; little …
Gordon B. Davis
Page 39
A total of 840 junior and senior-level undergraduate business students particpated in three experiments that compared computer-generated graphical forms of data presentation to traditional tabular reports. The first experiment …
Gary W. Dickson, Gerardine DeSanctis, D. J. McBride
Pages 40-47
Prior research has identified two psychological processes that appear to be used by programmers when they perform design and coding tasks: (a) taxonomizing—identifying the conditions that evoke particular actions; and (b) sequencing—converting …
Iris Vessey, Ron Weber
Pages 48-57
CORPORATE Technical Correspondence
Pages 58-59
Building and prototyping an agricultural electronic marketing system involved experimenting with distributed synchronization, atomic activity, and commit protocols and recovery algorithms.
Jean-Pierre Banâtre, Michel Banâtre, Guy Lapalme, Florimond Ployette
Pages 19-29