Rosalie Steier
Pages 469-471
Paul Abrahams
Pages 472-473
Robert L. Ashenhurst
Pages 474-478
Jon Bentley
Pages 479-483
By reducing the costs of coordination, information technology will lead to an overall shift toward proportionately more use of markets—rather than hierarchies—to coordinate economic activity.
Thomas W. Malone, Joanne Yates, Robert I. Benjamin
Pages 484-497
Analysis and awareness of the types of power that IS professionals exercise over users can improve the productivity of both parties.
M. Lynne Markus, Niels Bjørn-Andersen
Pages 498-504
Adopting an appropriate model for systems analysis, by avoiding a narrow focus on the requirements specification and increasing the use of the systems analyst's knowledge base, may lead to better software development and improved …
Itzhak Shemer
Pages 506-512
An abstract graph module that allows for easy and secure programming of a great number of graph algorithms is implemented by symmetrically stored forward and backward adjacency lists, thus supporting edge-oriented traversals
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Jürgen Ebert
Pages 513-519
The state of the art in data compression is arithmetic coding, not the better-known Huffman method. Arithmetic coding gives greater compression, is faster for adaptive models, and clearly separates the model from the channel
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Ian H. Witten, Radford M. Neal, John G. Cleary
Pages 520-540
Flexible representations are required in order to understand and generate expert behavior. Although production rules with quantifiers can encode experiential knowledge, they often have assumptions implicit in them, making them …
Vasant Dhar, Harry E. Pople
Pages 542-555
Three organizational variables influence the quality of the system development process: available resources (both human and financial), external influences on the development process, and the project team's exposure to information …
Ananth Srinivasan, Kate M. Kaiser
Pages 556-562
