Rosalie Steier
Pages 1-ff.
Paul Abrahams
Pages 2-4
Robert L. Ashenhurst
Pages 5-9
A classic problem in concurrent programming is that of the "dining philosophers" which challenges the power of any aspiring concurrent program language. Recently, a growing number of logic programming languages have been refined …
G. A. Ringwood
Pages 10-25
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
Jacques Cohen
Pages 26-36
This firsthand recollection of those early days of logic programming traces the shared influences and inspirations that connected Edinburgh, Scotland, and Marseilles, France.
Robert A. Kowalski
Pages 38-43
Central-processing-unit schedulers have traditionally allocated resources fairly among processes. By contrast, a fair Share scheduler allocates resources so that users get their fair machine share over a long period.
J. Kay, P. Lauder
Pages 44-55
Many contemporary user oriented applications require a combination of attributes from both window and forms management systems. PANES was developed as a tool to fill this niche by providing a simple, yet flexible tool for both …
Jack W. Stott, Jeffrey E. Kottemann
Pages 56-66
A model is proposed that associates the impact of computer technology on a job, with the set of underlying characteristics that describe the activities performed on the job. An empirical test of the model has been undertaken. …
Ron Weber
Pages 68-77
There is a growing popularity of computer backup pools, where a few members share the ownership, or right for service, of a computer center. Such a center stands by to provide for the lost computing capacity of a member suffering …
Yehuda Kahane, Seev Neumann, Charles S. Tapiero
Pages 78-83
