Rosalie Steier
Pages 1383-1384
Bryan Kocher
Page 1385
John McCarthy
Pages 1389-1390
Rosalie Steier
Pages 1391-ff.
Robert L. Ashenhurst
Pages 1394-1396
Pages 1397-1414
System designers can quantify the complexity of a software design by using a trio of finely tuned design metrics.
Thomas J. McCabe, Charles W. Butler
Pages 1415-1425
Software systems development has been plagued by cost overruns, late deliveries, poor reliability, and user dissatisfaction. This article presents a paradigm for the study of software project management that is grounded in the …
Tarek K. Abdel-Hamid, Stuart E. Madnick
Pages 1426-1438
ONCOCIN is a medical expert system that extends the skeletal-planning technique to an applciation area where the history of past events and the duration of actions are important. The system's knowledge base is designed to reflect …
Samson W. Tu, Michael G. Kahn, Mark A. Musen, L. M. Fagan, Jay C. Ferguson
Pages 1439-1455
The Grand Challenges to Computational Science conference held last January attracted over 100 scientists from major universities, national laboratories, and industrial research centers. The author reports some of the highlights …
Eugene Levin
Pages 1456-1457
A technique for associating rewrite rules with productions so that many high-level transformations of a source file can be generated easily is described. While eclipsed in power by other editing and compiler generation systems …
James J. Purtilo, John R. Callahan
Pages 1467-1477
While structure analysis is sometimes used as a first step towards a real-time software design with concurrent tasks, a more appropriate task structure can often be based directly on concurrent patterns in the problem environment …
Bo Sanden
Pages 1458-1466