November 1967 - Vol. 10 No. 11
Features
GEORGE 3—A general purpose time sharing and operating system
An Operating System is described which will run on a wide variety of configurations of the I.C.T. 1900, and can handle a large number of online console users while at the…
An experimental model of system/360
The problem of predicting the performance of modern computer systems is formidable. One general technique which can ease this problem is macroscopic simulation. This…
Methods for analyzing data from computer simulation experiments
This paper addresses itself to the problem of analyzing data generated by computer simulations of economic systems. We first turn to a hypothetical firm, whose operation…
The “information explosion” noted in recent years makes it essential that storage requirements for all information be kept to a minimum. A fully automatic and…
A computer system for inference execution and data retrieval
This paper presents a RAND project concerned with the use of computers as assistants in the logical analysis of large collections of factual data.…
On the expected gain from adjusting matched term retrieval systems
A file adjustment procedure based on maximizing the Bayes expected gain is proposed for matched term retrieval systems. The expected gain and its probability distribution…