January 1982 - Vol. 25 No. 1
Features
Some practical experience with a software quality assurance program
Within a production programming environment, a software quality assurance program (QAP) was instituted to produce standards, conventions, and methodologies for all phases…
DIAGRAM: a grammar for dialogues
An explanatory overview is given of DIAGRAM, a large and complex grammar used in an artificial intelligence system for interpreting English dialogue. DIAGRAM is an…
Generating gamma variates by a modified rejection technique
A suitable square root transformation of a gamma random variable with mean a ≥ 1 yields a probability density close to the standard normal density. A modification of…
Control flow and data structure documentation: two experiments
Two experiments were carried out to assess the utility of external documentation aids such as macro flowcharts, pseudocode, data structure diagrams, and data structure…