Volume 30, Number 11, November 1987
The Relationship of MIS Steering Committees to Size of Firm and Formalization of MIS Planning.

William J. Doll Gholamreza Torkzadeh

The Vocabulary Problem in Human-System Communication.

George W. Furnas Thomas K. Landauer Louis M. Gomez Susan T. Dumais

The Partial Metrics System: Modeling the Stepwise Refinement Process Using Partial Metrics.

Robert G. Reynolds

A Proposed Solution to the Problem of Levels in Error-Message Generation.

Kemal Efe

Markup Systems and the Future of Scholarly Text Processing.

James H. Coombs Allen H. Renear Steven J. DeRose

A Plausibility-Drven Approach to Computer Architecture Design.

Ulises Agüero Subrata Dasgupta

ARIADNE: Pattern-Directed Inference and Hierarchical Abstraction in Protein Structure Recognition.

Richard H. Lathrop Teresa A. Webster Temple F. Smith


Volume 30, Number 10, October 1987
Self-Assessment Procedure XVII: A Self-Assessment Procedure Dealing with ACM.

Eric A. Weiss

Commentaries on the Past 15 Years.

Eric A. Weiss

ACM: The Past 15 Years, 1972-1987.

Anita Cochran

The First 25 Years: ACM 1947-1962.

Lee Revens

Fifteen Years ACM.

Franz L. Alt

ACM - Making Computing History for 40 Years - Introduction.

Linda Feczko

The Computing Program of the Office of Naval Research, 1946-1953.

Mina Rees

Allan L. Scherr - Big Blue's Time-Sharing Pioneer.

Karen A. Frenkel

Brian K. Reid - A Graphics Tale of a Hacker Tracker.

Karen A. Frenkel

Donald A. Knuth - Scholar with a Passion for the Particular.

Karen A. Frenkel

Profiles in Computing - Introduction.

Karen A. Frenkel


Volume 30, Number 9, September 1987
A Metamodel of Information Flow: A Tool to Support Information Systems Theory.

Niv Ahituv

Processing Encrypted Data.

Niv Ahituv Yeheskel Lapid Seev Neumann

An Object-Oriented Programming Discipline for Standard Pascal.

Jonathan Jacky Ira Kalet

The 1984 Olympic Message System: A Test of Behavioral Principles of System Design.

John D. Gould Stephen J. Boies Stephen Levy John T. Richards Jim Schoonard

A Sample of Brilliance.

Jon Louis Bentley


Volume 30, Number 6, June 1987
Relationship between Selected Organizational Factors and Systems Development.

Ananth Srinivasan Kate M. Kaiser

Rule-Based versus Structure-Based for Models for Explaining and Generating Expert Behavior.

Vasant Dhar Harry E. Pople

Arithmetic Coding for Data Compression.

Ian H. Witten Radford M. Neal John G. Cleary

A Versatile Data Structure for Edge-Oriented Graph Algorithms.

Jürgen Ebert

Systems Analysis: A Systemic Analysis of a Conceptual Model.

Itzhak Shemer

Power Over Users: Its Exercise By System Professionals.

M. Lynne Markus Niels Bjørn-Andersen

Electronic Markets and Electronic Hierarchies.

Thomas W. Malone JoAnne Yates Robert I. Benjamin

Self-Describing Data.

Jon Louis Bentley


Volume 30, Number 5, May 1987
A Statistical Technique for Comparing Heuristics: An Example from Capacity Assignment Strategies in Computer Network Design.

Richard E. Nance Robert L. Moose Jr. Robert V. Foutz

An Empirical Validation of Software Cost Estimation Models.

Chris F. Kemerer

A Software Architecture for Supporting the Exchange of Electronic Manuscripts.

Sandra A. Mamrak Michael J. Kaelbling Charles K. Nicholas Michael Share

Distribution of Mathematical Software via Electronic Mail.

Jack J. Dongarra Eric Grosse

Intelligent Information-Sharing Systems.

Thomas W. Malone Kenneth R. Grant Franklyn A. Turbak Stephen A. Brobst Michael D. Cohen

Computer Science Program Acceditation: The First-Year Activities of the Computer Science Accreditation Board.

Taylor L. Booth Raymond E. Miller

Taking "Computer Literacy" Literallly.

Carolynn Van Dyke

A Mathematically Focused Curriculum for Computer Science.

Alfs T. Berztiss


Volume 30, Number 4, April 1987
Computing Multi-Colored Polygonal Masks in Pipeline Architectures and Its Application to Automated Visual Inspection.

Jorge L. C. Sanz Its&aposhak Dinstein Dragutin Petkovic

Attributes of the Performance of Central Processing Units: A Relative Performance Prediction Model.

Phillip Ein-Dor Jacob Feldmesser

Case Study: IBM's System/360-370 Architecture.

Alfred Z. Spector David K. Gifford

Abstract Data Types.

Jon Louis Bentley


Volume 30, Number 2, February 1987
Systolic Algorithms to Examine All Pairs of Elements.

Zen-Cheung Shih Gen-Huey Chen Richard C. T. Lee

An Improved Parallel Thinning Algorithm.

Christopher M. Holt Alan Stewart Maurice Clint Ronald H. Perrott

Cobol on a PC: A New Perspective on a Language and its Performance.

Paul J. Jalics

Heterogeneous Computing Environments: Report on the ACM SIGOPS Workshop on Accommodating Heterogeneity.

David Notkin Norman C. Hutchinson Jan Sanislo Michael F. Schwartz

Computer System Reliability and Nuclear War.

Alan Borning


Volume 30, Number 1, January 1987
MATCH - A New High-Level Relational Operator For Pattern Matching.

James P. Held John V. Carlis

A Relational Information Resource Dictionary System.

Daniel R. Dolk Robert A. Kirsch II

Beyond the Chalkboard: Computer Support for Collaboration and Problem Solving in Meetings.

Mark Stefik Gregg Foster Daniel G. Bobrow Kenneth M. Kahn Stan Lanning Lucy A. Suchman

Interface Design Issues for Advice-Giving Expert Systems.

John M. Carroll Jean McKendree