Rosalie Steier
Pages 103-104
Bryan Kocher
Page 105
Robert L. Ashenhurst
Pages 108-110
Pamela Samuelson
Pages 111-114
Larry Press
Pages 115-119
A laboratory experiment studies the effects of color on a decision maker's ability to extract information from different graphical and tabular presentations. Results indicate color improves time performance for tables, pie charts …
E. Hoadley
Pages 120-125
The diffusion of technology to end users who can now develop their own information systems raises issues concerning the cost, quality, efficiency, and accuracy of such systems.
D. Batra, J. A. Hoffler, R. P. Bostrom
Pages 126-139
A new type of distributed computer system looks toward the time when computers will be used by everyone everywhere.
David K. Gifford
Pages 141-151
Software engineering is an established discipline that has accumulated and codified more than two decades worth of know-how. Knowledge engineering, on the other hand, is an emerging discipline with lots of issues but, at least …
Anders Kierulf, Ken Chen, Jurg Nievergelt
Pages 152-166
The variables that help make a handwritten signature a unique human identifier also provide a unique digital signature in the form of a stream of latency periods between keystrokes. This article describes a method of verifying …
Rick Joyce, Gopal Gupta
Pages 168-176
The importance of file migration is increasing because of its potential to improve the performance of distributed office, manufacturing and hospital information systems. To encourage research in the file migration problem, the …
Bezalel Gavish, Olivia R. Liu Sheng
Pages 177-189
A self-assessment procedure on operating systems
J. Rosenberg, A. L. Ananda, B. Srinivasan
Pages 190-201
Contrary to the widely-held view that post implementation evaluations are performed to assess and improve the information system and the system development practices, this study suggests that in practice, the primary reason for …
Kuldeep Kumar
Pages 203-212
The rise of the Open Systems Interconnection Reference Model (OSI) in the past five years is forcing IBM to rethink its plans for its proprietary network standard Systems Network Architecture (SNA). This article reviews three …
Matthew A. Tillman, David C.-C. Yen
Pages 214-224
N-fold inspection uses traditional inspections of the user requirements document (URD) but replicates the inspection activities using N independent teams. A pilot study was conducted to explore the usefulness of N-fold inspection …
Johnny Martin, W. T. Tsai
Pages 225-232
