May 1982 - Vol. 25 No. 5
Features
Contemporary software development environments
There are a wide variety of software development tools and methods currently available or which could be built using current research and technology. These tools and…
Analysis of pointer “rotation”
Two high-level pointer operations, rotation and slide, reduce conceptual difficulties when writing pointer programs and increase the reliability of programs. We analyze…
On an improved algorithm for decentralized extrema finding in circular configurations of processors
This note presents a more efficient algorithm for finding the largest element in a circular list of processors when messages can be passed in either direction. It passes…
Estimating and improving the quality of information in a MIS
Most discussions of MIS's assume that the information in the records is error-free although it is recognized that errors exist. These errors occur because of delays in…