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In the field of office automation, workstations serving a single user with considerable computing power become more and more important. However, such machines are useful only if they are interconnected and offer, among other possibilities for ...

Advances in communication technology and inexpensive hardware are spreading the use of distributed information systems and in particular distributed databases. There has also been a lot of interest and substantial investment in the use of personal ...

Database machines are good components to compose distributed systems along with personal computers and local area networks. Distributed database systems by those machines could be cost-effectively respond to various user's requirements. A stepwise ...

The graphical functional language PROGRAPH is briefly described, followed by a more extensive discussion of prograph development facilities. In particular, the PROGRAPH editor/interpreter is described, which allows prographs to be simultaneously ...

The imperative style of standard programming languages is not appropriate for many modern computing tasks involving manipulation of symbols and complex structures. These applications require higher level declarative languages such as Lisp and Prolog. A ...

The usual algorithms for the analysis and synthesis of woven textile structures assume, in general, that the interlacement data is binary, and that this data corresponds on a one-to-one basis with the visible pattern exhibited by a cloth constructed of ...

The continuing proliferation of new processors and new languages creates a demand for program assemblers that can be parameterized with respect to the program assembly languages they translate. MAUFI differs from the usual implementation of meta-...

In this paper we present a system for the automatic generation of code generators for small computer systems. This system runs under Unix (a trademark of AT&T Bell Laboratories) and along with Lex and YACC provides an automatic compiler generator ...

This paper describes a system for generating attributed translators. The translator is based on an LL(1) parser generator which has been augmented with error detection and recovery capabilities. These aspects are outlined in the paper. Attributed ...

The widespread use of high-level languages and portable operating systems such as the UNIX operating system has greatly facilitated the development of portable utilities and application programs. The activity of “porting” software from one environment ...

Program Synthesizers are becoming increasingly useful for program creation. However, a majority of these synthesizers are apparently not truly language sensitive. This is indicated by the fact that most of them use error-correcting parsers. We consider ...

Two major characteristics shared by most program editors are that they are static, as they operate within a single framework of a full program text, and that they are strictly language based. These characteristics are considered to be less than ...

The communication services and an experimental system for the integrated office information system “Lumiere” are shown. The Lumiere provides office users with advanced integrated communication services. Different types of information not only data, text,...

The goal of building office information systems requires a representation of office work and its relevant objects. The concern of this paper is that of describing the flow of information between active agents in an office environment, within the ...

Despite an abundance of text editors for microcomputers, it is difficult to edit texts of a mathematical nature an small systems. Some editors are only capable of a rudimentary notation, and almost all make editing difficult because the text shown on ...

A physical storage structure based on the List data structure is presented. The structure, along with the operations defined on it, is meant to serve as an internal model of a database system utilizing a semantic conceptual data model. The advantages of ...

This paper describes a programming environment designed as a means for implementing prototype expert systems on microcomputers. The system is being implemented with attention to keeping the language simple while at the same time providing a set of ...

The development of customized applications is expensive, time consuming and generally beyond the cost or expertise of someone running a small business. This paper describes some initial work on the development of an application generation system ...

The selection of an order processing and inventory control (OPICS) system is a complicated process. The overall satisfaction derived from a system depends on many variables. This study analyzes the influence of OPICS predictor variables on overall ...

The current software quality assurance methodology employed at Motorola Microsystems is one which has only recently been adopted. The evolution of the methodology has been based, for the most part, on software development activities occurring within the ...

The software and hardware available today for personal computers provides a broad range of support for personal productivity, business applications, research, programming, and other activities. If personal computers are connected in a local area network,...

Distributed systems that are configured with many small workstations interconnected with a few large servers are becoming more common in the computer science community. In many cases, requesting services across the net requires explicit specification of ...

This paper presents a direct execution PROLOG system. It does syntax check at token level and reports errors even before a clause is completed. It does consistency checking whenever rules and facts are entered, and waits for corrective action from the ...

A large variety of tools for program development are available today. The tools tend to become more and more sophisticated, but are usually isolated utilities that have to be applied one by one. An alternative to the tool-box approach is an integrated ...

This paper presents an overview of GCP (Guarded Communicating Processes), a language for distributed applications programming, which has been defined deriving its control mechanisms from Hoare's CSP (with new communication primitives and a new ...