Home → Magazine Archive → December 1989 (Vol. 32, No. 12)
Table of Contents
News track
Rosalie Steier
Pages 1383-1384
President's letter
Bryan Kocher
Page 1385
Viewpoint
John McCarthy
Pages 1389-1390
Legally specking
Rosalie Steier
Pages 1391-ff.
ACM forum
Robert L. Ashenhurst
Pages 1394-1396
A debate on teaching computing science
Pages 1397-1414
Design complexity measurement and testing
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
Lessons learned from modeling the dynamics of software development
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
Episodic skeletal-plan refinement based on temporal data
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
Grand challenges to computation science
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
Entity-life modeling and structured analysis in real-time software design—a comparison
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
Parse tree annotations
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