Systems Approaches in Computer Science and Mathematics : Proceedings of the International Congress on Applied Systems Research and Cybernetics

Applied Systems and Cybernetics, Volume V: Systems Approaches in Computer Science and Mathematics covers the proceedings of the International Congress on Applied Systems Research and Cybernetics. This book discusses trends and advances in the application of systems science and cybernetics to various fields. This volume reviews the systems approaches in computer science and mathematics and concentrates on several major areas of systems research in computer science and theoretical and applied mathematics. This book will be of great interest to computer scientists interested in the development of the theories and applications of computer science. Content: Pergamon Titles of Related Interest, Page ii Front Matter, Page iii Copyright, Page iv APPLIED SYSTEMS AND CYBERNETICS, Page v THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON APPLIED SYSTEMS RESEARCH AND CYBERNETICS, Pages vi-vii PREFACE, Pages xix-xxvi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, Pages xxvii-xxix, George-Eric Lasker ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF AUTHORS, Pages xxx-xxxii INDEX OF MAJOR SUBJECT AREAS, Page xxxiii INFORMATION AS A NATIONAL ECONOMIC RESOURCE, Pages 2064-2070, M. Therese Flaherty INFORMATION-BASED MEASURES OF SOCIETY; AN INDEX OF THE INFORMATION UTILIZATION POTENTIAL, Pages 2071-2079, M.J. Menou MEASURING THE NATIONAL INFORMATION ECONOMY, Pages 2080-2083, Michael R. Rubin INFORMATION SERVICES OF EGYPT; OUTLINE OF PROJECT ISE, Pages 2084-2091, M.A.K. Madkour, V. Slamecka NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN SAUDI ARABIA, Pages 2092-2103, L.G. Burchinal, A. Al-Mazi THE IMPACT OF AUXILIARY INFORMATION AND UPDATE OPERATIONS ON DATABASE COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE, Pages 2104-2111, M.J. Menon, David K. Hsiao AN INTRODUCTION TO SABRE, A MULTI PROCESSOR DATA BASE COMPUTER, Pages 2112-2121, Georges Gardarin ON THE LONG-TERM IMPLICATIONS OF DATABASE MACHINE RESEARCH, Pages 2122-2126, David Elliot Shaw ANALYSIS OF BACKEND DATABASE SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURES, Pages 2127-2137, Fred Maryanski, Madhav Marathe METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS FOR DATA MODELLING CONCEPTS IN RM/T's DATA BASE DESIGN, Pages 2138-2143, R.R. Wagner, A.M. Tjoa ON THE SEMANTICS OF DATA DEPENDENCIES IN RELATIONAL DATA BASES, Pages 2144-2150, S.K. Arora, S.R. Dumpala, K.C. Smith RECENT RESEARCH RESULTS ON THE INFOPLEX INTELLIGENT MEMORY SYSTEM (IMS) PROJECT, Pages 2151-2156, Stuart E. Madnick DESIGN OF AN INTEGRATED MEDICAL DATABASE, Pages 2157-2161, P. De, W.D. Haseman A NETWORK STRUCTURE STUDY OF THE ERRORS IN DATABASES, Pages 2162-2168, A.J. Payne DATA BASE ALERTERS AND MESSAGE FILTERS, Pages 2169-2173, Shi-Kuo Chang COMPUTERS: TECHNOLOGICAL MIRACLE AND SOCIETAL FAILURE?, Pages 2174-2180, Edward Alexander Tomeski, Konrad E. Sadek Paper presented at the International Congress on Applied System Research and Cybernetics, Acapulco, December 12-15, 1980, Pages 2181-2188, Ernst P. Billeter VIDEOTEX, CYBERNETICS, AND HUC, Pages 2189-2196, Howard J. Hilton AN OPTION FOR A MICROCOMPUTER COURSE IN THE PHYSICS DEPARTMENT AT THE FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS, UNAM., Pages 2197-2199, Guerrero G. Héctor, Favela V. Fernando PROSPECTS AND PROBLEMS OF THE IMPACT OF MICROCOMPUTERS ON HUMAN LIFE, Pages 2200-2206, S. Raman, U. Deo MICROPROCESSOR APPLICATIONS TO ASSIST IN REPERTORY GRID ELICITATION AND TERMINATION, Pages 2207-2211, Dr. Terence R. Keen THE FUTURE OF COMPUTER SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY AND ITS EFFECTS ON COMPUTER PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT, Pages 2212-2216, Dr. F. Gunther, F. Siems, G. Goldman INTERACTIVE PROGRAMMING AS A CAD TASK; SOME REMARKS ON SYSTEM STRUCTURES, PREREQUISITES, AND IMPLICATIONS, Pages 2217-2222, Hans-Jürgen Hoffmann TOPCAG: TOP-DOWN COMPUTER-AIDED GRAPHICS, Pages 2223-2227, N. Magnenat-Thalmann, D. Thalmann SOME SYSTEMS FOR MODELING COMPUTER SECURITY REQUIREMENTS, Pages 2228-2245, David C. Rine TRANSPORTABILITY OF DATA AND RELATED SOFTWARE IN ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM MODELING, Pages 2246-2250, John C. Thompson, Turan Gonen A NETWORK EDITOR AND SHELL PROGRAM FOR ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM PLANNING, Pages 2251-2255, John C. Thompson, Turan Gonen ROCKWELL AIM 65/AIM 680 APPLICATIONS IN DISTRIBUTED PROCESS CONTROL, Pages 2256-2260, Professor Mohamed Rafiquzzaman IDENTIFYING ASPECTS OF HUMAN LANGUAGE PROCESSING TO AID IN COMPUTER PROCESSING OF HUMAN LANGUAGE, Pages 2261-2265, Lawrence J. Mazlack SPEAKEASY – AN EVOLUTIONARY SYSTEM, DESIGNED BY ITS USERS, Pages 2266-2271, Stanley Cohen ON THE PROBLEM OF THE MATHEMATICAL THEORIZATION OF HUMAN SYSTEMS DYNAMICS, Pages 2272-2276, Guy Jumarie BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN NATURAL AND COMPUTER LANGUAGE, Pages 2277-2283, Douglas R. Skuce ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A RECURSIVE MODEL OF WORD STRUCTURE IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, Pages 2284-2290, K.S. O'Mara, W.M. Jaworski, S. Klasa DESIGN ISSUES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS, Pages 2291-2297, F. Oppacher MAN-COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS BY VOICE, Pages 2298-2302, C.Y. Suen PRAGMATICS OF INFORMATION AND MAN-MACHINE COOPERATION, Pages 2303-2309, Ingbert Kupka ON THE USER INTERFACE OF COMPUTING SOFTWARE, Pages 2310-2314, Robert F. Ling BUILDING USER INTERFACES WITH AN EXTENSIBLE LANGUAGE SYSTEM, Pages 2315-2319, Ronald E. Mills SEMIOTICS IN THE REAL WORLD: MAKING INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS ACCESSIBLE TO IDEOGRAPHIC-LANGUAGE USERS, Pages 2320-2324, Ian H. Witten TOWARDS A PROGRAMMER'S ASSISTANT FOR NOVICE USERS, Pages 2325-2330,2330a,2330b,2330c,2330d, M.A. Bauer, D.M. Goldstein MESSAGES FROM SYSTEMS TO USERS: A PROPOSAL FOR STANDARDIZATION, Pages 2331-2335, William F. Eddy A MICROCOMPUTER BASED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY, Pages 2336-2340, Michael J. Magee DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF AN IMAGE GENERATOR WITH INFORMATION EXCHANGE, Pages 2341-2349, Akira Ishikawa, Hiroshi Mieno KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURES BASED ON GENERAL AUTOMATA COMPARED WITH OTHER TYPES, Pages 2350-2359, Eldo C. Koenig FORMAL NEURONS TO SYNTHESIZE ARBITRARY PROBABILISTIC AUTOMATA, Pages 2360-2364, R. Moreno-Díaz, F. Hernández-Guarch, J.M. Liminñana HOW PERSONAL COMPUTERS WILL AFFECT THE FUTURE OF LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION CENTERS, Pages 2365-2369, Eugene Garfield ACCESSIBILITY OF LOCAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS, Pages 2370-2373, N. Howden, K. Lee SPRINT -A SYSTEM FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL IN LAW, Pages 2374-2377, R. Pavlov, V. Kiskinov, G. Angelova RETRIEVAL ASPECTS OF THE UNIVERSAL RELATION FOR ATTRIBUTE-ORIENTED QUERY LANGUAGES, Pages 2378-2383, A.M. Tjoa, R.R. Wagner NEED OF A RELIABLE MESSAGE IN BIBLIOINFORMATICS RETRIEVAL, Pages 2384-2386, A. Perales de Mercado APPLICATION OF SYSTEMS APPROACH TO AUTOMATIC INTERPRETATION OF FREE TEXT DOCUMENTS, Pages 2387-2391, W. Delaney, L. Guerriero, C. Mero, E. Cannavò, E. Vaccari SOME ASPECTS IN THE DESIGN OF AN AUTOMATED SYSTEM FOR TERMINOLOGY SERVICES “TERMSERVICE”, Pages 2392-2394, B. Nikolova, R. Pavlov A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO WORD PROCESSING, Pages 2395-2399, P.A. Land AUTOMATIC INTERPRETATION OF SYMBOLIC DATA ON MAPS AND ENGINEERING DRAWINGS, Pages 2400-2404, J KITTLER VISUAL OBJECT ISOLATION AND RECOGNITION BY A CAMERA-COMPUTER SYSTEM, Pages 2405-2410, O. Santana, I. de la Nuez, J. Fortes A MICROCOMPUTER-BASED LETTER RECOGNIZER: DISCUSSION OF SOME PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS AND RESULTS OBTAINED WITH AN 8085, Pages 2411-2415, M.P. Beddoes, Wolfram Lunscher USE OF A RANGEFINDER FOR 3-DIMENSIONAL SCENE ANALYSIS, Pages 2416-2420, Z.U. Islam, C.N. Shen A Recursive Algorithm for Smoothing by Spline Functions, Pages 2421-2427, C.S. Kim, C.N. Shen EXPERIMENTAL OPTIMIZATION BY SIMULATION TECHNIQUE, Pages 2428-2446, Alain CHECROUN, Motaz KHORSHID SIMBAS, Pages 2447-2449, Guerra T. Armando ON THE ESTIMATION OF A DISCRETE PARAMETER IN THE M/M/m/n QUEUEING SYSTEM, Pages 2450-2456, Jacob E. Samaan, Derrick S. Tracy SIMULATING NEW MATERIALS PROCESSES REQUIRED FOR THE REALIZATION OF AN ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCE, Pages 2457-2461, Alexander Kran A SIMULATION MODEL FOR THE YUCATAN PENINSULA, Pages 2462-2466, Manfred Kudlek, Ingo Schwarz COMPUTER ANGST, Pages 2467-2471, Mark G. Graff, Roger B. Johnson USER SATISFACTION AND TELEPROCESSING, Pages 2472-2476, Dr. Kornel Terplan USER- AND ADMINISTRATOR- FRIENDLY ARCHITECTURE FOR INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT, Pages 2477-2483, H. Kitagawa, T.L. Kunii, M. Azuma, Y. Mizuno COMPUTERESE AND THE INFORMATION BARRIER, Pages 2484-2488, Sandra Eveland VIDEODISC: A NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR HUMAN FACTORS, Pages 2489-2496, Nancy H. McDonald Human Factors Issues in Office Information Systems, Pages 2497-2501, F.H. Lochovsky HUMAN PRODUCTION AND DETECTION OF ERRORS IN DATA SYSTEMS, Pages 2502-2508, I.B. Turksen THE MAKING OF AN INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM WRITER, Pages 2509-2514, Ernest F. Garcia CAI SYSTEMS AND TEACHING MATERIAL PORTABILITY, Pages 2515-2520, M. Ferraris, V. Midoro, G. Olimpo FORESTS OF ORIENTED TREES AS METASTRUCTURES FOR A CAI SYSTEM, Pages 2521-2525, Ian R. Greenshields TEACHING STATISTICS AND COMPUTERS, Pages 2526-2529, Walter W. Zwirner THE ESTATE OF THE ART: ASKING MORE OF COMPUTERS IN THE HUMANITIES IN THE EIGHTIES, Pages 2530-2534, Jeffrey F. Huntsman FRENCH SYMBOLIST LITERARY THEORY AND COMPUTER-AIDED ANALYSIS OF NOVELS, Pages 2535-2540, Paul A. Fortier VERBS: AN AFFORDABLE APPROACH TO COMPUTER-AIDED STUDIES OF NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES, Pages 2541-2546, B.B. Ellas THE IDEA BEHIND COMPUTER STYLISTICS, Pages 2547-2552, L.T. Milic STATISTICAL SOFTWARE TOOLS FOR COMPUTER-ASSISTED ANALYSIS OF MUSIC., Pages 2553-2563, Luigi Logrippo, Bernard Stepien COMPUTERIZED CONTENT ANALYSIS OF NARRATIVE IN ANNUAL REPORTS: A COMPUTER IN THE HUMANITIES LOOKS AT THE CORPORATE WORD, Pages 2564-2569, Robert L. Oakman A TYPOLOGY OF MELODIC CONTOURS IMPLEMENTED BY COMPUTER, Pages 2570-2575, Ramon Pelinski STATISTICS AND THE COMPUTER IN FORMULA ANALYSIS OF SERBO-CROATIAN HEROIC VERSE, Pages 2576-2580, Rudy S. Spraycar THE ROLE OF LANGUAGE IN THE NEW COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY, Pages 2581-2586, Henry Kučera TRENDS IN SOVIET CYBERNETICS, Pages 2587-2591, Ladislav Matejka NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING: A SURVEY OF ITS USE IN IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF LIFE, Pages 2592-2602, Louis G. Birta A MIXED-INTEGER NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING MODEL WELL SUITED FOR USE IN THE ANALYSIS AND CONTROL OF ENERGY SYSTEMS, Pages 2603-2607, Dudley V. Goetschel SOLVING A CAPITAL/TECHNOLOGY CONSTRAINT PROBLEM BY IMPLICIT ENUMERATION, Pages 2608-2612, H.T. Lau IDENTIFICATION OF STOCHASTIC PARAMETER INEQUALITIES, Pages 2613-2618, Dobrin Burev LARGE-SCALE SYSTEMS: STRUCTURE, STABILITY, RELIABILITY, Pages 2619-2626, D.D. Šiljak STABILITY OF DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER SYSTEMS WITH FINITE DIMENSIONAL COMPENSATORS VIA SINGULAR PERTURBATION METHODS, Pages 2627-2633, Mark J. Balas A SYSTEM ENGINEERING METHODOLOGY FOR EVALUATING THE BEHAVIOUR OF LARGE SCALE POWER SYSTEMS UNDER SMALL PERTURBATIONS, Pages 2634-2638, M. Eremia, H. Crisciu, A. Gheorghe STABILITY ANALYSIS OF ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, Pages 2639-2643, Helen A. Ryaciotaki-Boussalis, Steven D. Martinez COMPUTATIONAL METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER SYSTEMS: IDENTIFICATION AND CONTROL, Pages 2644-2645, H.T. Banks A COMPENSATION METHOD FOR SLOWLY TIME-VARYING DISCRETE DYNAMIC SYSTEMS, Pages 2646-2650, M. de la Sen, S. Dormido DESCRIBING FUNCTION METHODS FOR HIGH-ORDER HIGHLY NONLINEAR SYSTEMS, Pages 2651-2657, James H. Taylor SOME RECENT QUALITATIVE RESULTS ON MODELS BASED ON DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS, Pages 2658-2659, E.F. Infante GUARANTEED ULTIMATE BOUNDEDNESS CONTROL FOR UNCERTAIN DYNAMIC SYSTEMS, Pages 2660-2661, G. Leitmann ON THE NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS, Pages 2662-2666, Eusebius Doedel REAL-TIME SOLUTION OF STIFF LINEAR DIFFERENTIAL SYSTEMS, Pages 2667-2671, Karl H. Agar, Wiley E. Thompson FUNDAMENTAL STRUCTURES OF ALGORITHMIC SYSTEMS IN INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION, Pages 2672-2677, H.-G. Lauenroth ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY OF A CLASS OF STOCHASTIC INTERCONNECTED SYSTEMS, Pages 2678-2682, Dhemetrios Boussalis STOCHASTIC STABILITY OF A CLASS OF DECENTRALIZED SYSTEMS, Pages 2683-2687, Dhemetrios Boussalis, Wiley E. Thompson ON THE CHOICE OF THE NUMBER OF INTEGRATIONS IN ARIMA MODELS, Pages 2688-2693, N.K. Sinha, O. Abul-Haggag Ibrahim STOCHASTIC MODEL RELATING HIGH SCHOOL PERFORMANCE TO THAT IN UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN ENGINEERING, Pages 2694-2700, N.K. Sinha, O. Abul-Haggag Ibrahim NEARLY-COMPLETELY DECOMPOSABLE STOCHASTIC PROCESSES, Pages 2701-2704, G. Louchard, G. Latouche CLASSIFICATIONS ENDOWED BY TRANSFER OF STRUCTURES, Pages 2705-2709, J.P. AURAY, G. DURU, A. DUSSAUCHOY, M. MOUGEOT A NEW LATTICE THEORETICAL METHOD IN THE SYSTEM RESEARCH, Pages 2710-2712, K. Seitz THE APPLICATION OF THE CONCEPT OF COMPLEX SPACE/TIME TO A MODEL OF ELECTRIC CHARGE, Pages 2713-2717, David W. Brisson