Rosalie Steier
Pages 1-2
Bryan Kocher
Page 3
Donald A Norman
Pages 4-ff.
Peter J. Denning
Pages 6-7
Trellis coded quantization (TCQ) is incorporated into a noise feedback coding structure for encoding sampled speech. The effects of varying the encoding delay and the number of symbols released per trace-back on system performance …
Michael W. Marcellin, Thomas R. Fischer
Pages 11-19
Interest in integrating voice and data on local computer networks has been building in recent years. Subsequently, much research has been devoted to various techniques that are implementable on existing networks using current …
S. S. Gaitonde, Doug Jacobson, A. V. Pohm
Pages 20-28
Because of the multiple-access property of the media, the problem of constructing multicast trees in bus-based networks differs fundamentally from that in point-to-point networks. This article investigates the multicast tree …
Philip K. McKinley, Jane W. S. Liu
Pages 29-42
The exact structural relationship between the hypercube and multistage interconnection networks for multiprocessors is characterized here. By varying the node architecture, structures other than these two interconnection schemes …
Krishnan Padmanabhan
Pages 43-52
An incremental constraint solver, the DeltaBlue algorithm maintains an evolving solution to the constraint hierarchy as constraints are added and removed. DeltaBlue minimizes the cost of finding a new solution after each change …
Bjorn N. Freeman-Benson, John Maloney, Alan Borning
Pages 54-63
Diverse database management systems are used in large organizations. The heterogeneous distributed database system (DDS) can provide a flexible intergration of diverse databases for users and applications. This is because it …
Chin-Wan Chung
Pages 70-80
Phoenix contains two timestamped versions of the in-memory file system allowing for a reserve version that ensures safety for diskless computers with battery-powered memeory.
Jason Gait
Pages 81-86
Although superficially time-consuming, on 32-bit computers the minimal standard random number generator can be implemented with surprising economy.
David F. Carta
Pages 87-88
