November 1986 - Vol. 29 No. 11
Features
MIS in Soviet industrial enterprise: the limits of reform from above
The USSR has carried out a large-scale program to bring computer-based information systems, called Automated Enterprise Management Systems (ASUPs), to industrial…
A self-assessment procedure dealing with computer organization and logic design
The report of the ACM Longe-Range Planning Committee: a summary
The Committee evaluates ACM as it exists today, and makes recommendations for the future.
Schematic pseudocode for program constructs and its computer automation by SCHEMACODE
To achieve program control flow representation that is relatively independent of any given programming language, schematic pseudocode (SPC) uses a perceptual notation…
Spreadsheet calculations of probabilities from the F, t, χ2, and normal distribution
By computing probabilities from the normalization of the F distribution (instead of by numerical integration methods), statistical capabilities in spreadsheet operations…
A series of three laboratory experiments were conducted to assess the influence of graphical and color-enhanced information presentation modes on decision quality,…