Table Of Content

Index for The Computer Journal, Volume 34 1. Index of titles of Papers, etc Integrating Human-Computer Interaction with Jackson System A Controlled Environment for Meta-Message Processing 331 Development 132 A DAP FORTRAN Subroutine for Thinning Digitised Pictures I-Pigs: an Interactive Graphical Environment for Concurrent 377 Programming 320 A Framework for Building Dependable Systems 173 A Longest Path Algorithm to Display Decision Tables 358 Linear Probing Sort 370 A Mergeable Double-ended Priority Queue 423 Logic Programming for Software Verification and Testing 350 A Model for the Stability Analysis of Maintenance Strategies for Linear List 80 Manipulating Full-text Scientific Databases: A Logic-based A Modification of Sale’s Algorithm to Accommodate FORTRAN Semantico-pragmatic Approach 245 77 373 Methodologies from Machine Learning in Data Analysis and A Neural Network Simulating System 92 Software 559 A New Technique for Self-Organising Linear Searches 450 Mu-balancing M-way Search Trees 406 A Note on the Efficiency of an Interval Routing Algorithm 475 Multimedia Information Systems — The Management and Semantic A Parallel Prolog Abstract Machine and its Multi-Transputer Retrieval of all Electronic Data Types 225 Implementation 52 A Query Language for Retrieving Information from Hierarchic Text Notices 188 Structures 254 A Structured Semantic Design of Distributed Operating Systems On the Design of a Machine-Independent Perfect Hashing Scheme 482 469 A Survey of Exploratory Software Development 153 Order-sorted Term Rewriting 16 A Survey on Binary Tree Codings 438 Ord-Smith’s Pseudo-Lexicographical Permutation Procedure is the Adaptive Deadlock-free Packet Routing in Transputer-based Multi- Tompkins-Paige Algorithm 569 processor Interconnection Networks 493 Additional papers 571 Performance of Priority Queue Structures in a Virtual Memory An Adaptive Overflow Technique to Defer Splitting in B-trees 397 Environment 428 An Efficient Starvation-Free Semaphore Solution for the Graphical Practical Concurrent Programming for Parallel Machines 302 Mutual Exclusion Problem 345 Prolog in Practical Compiler Writing 64 An Examination of Requirements Specification Languages 143 An Introduction to Knuth—Bendix Completion 2 Reduction and Narrowing for Horn Clause Theories 42 Announcements 87, 91, 94, 121, 142, 152, 163, 181, 185, 238, 244, Representing Business Policies in the Jackson System Development 271, 286, 344, 349, 381, 414, 437, 454, 468, 476, 477, 492, 541, Method 122 550, 558, 565 Autodescriptivity: beware! 380 Seven Ways to Develop Office Systems: A Managerial Comparison of Office System Development Methodologies 113 Book Reviews 15, 41, 187, 188, 194, 301, 319, 357, 396, 422, 474, Structure Clashes 566 Sk, 333; 573 The Coordinatation of Distributed Active Messages in a Dynamic Comparative Performance of Overlapping Connectivity Multi- Network Topology 542 processor Interconnection Networks 207 The Design of a System for Distributing Shared Objects 514 Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming in Lisp 311 The HDG-Machine: a Highly Distributed Graph-Reducer for a Constraint Maintenance as a Data Model Design Criterion 73 Transputer Network 296 Constructive Rewriting 34 Threshold Values for Processing Distributed Queries 551 Correspondence 72, 206, 264, 310, 405, 427, 502, 513 Unity Doesn’t Imply Unification or Overcoming Heterogeneity Default Databases and Incomplete Information 239 Problems in Distributed Software Engineering Environments Design Approaches: A Comparative Study of Information System $22 Design and Architectural Design 215 Development Methods for Real-Time Systems 164 Weighting Without Waiting: the Weighted Path Length Tree 444 When does a Mouse become a Rat? or ... Comparing Performance Editorial 1, 97, 193, 289, 385, 481 and Preferences in Direct Manipulation and Command Line Efficient Dissemination of Information in Computer Networks 534 Environment 265 Efficient Generation of Rotational-Admissible Codewords for Wilkes Award 112 Binary Trees 379 Efficient Two-Dimensional Fast Fourier Transform Subroutines for Real-Valued or Hermitian data 362 Empirical Study of the Expected Running Time of Shellsort 88 2. Index of Authors and Other Contributors Agrawal, D. and Malpani, A. 534 Fault-tolerant Reference Counting for Garbage Collection in Akman, V. 279 Distributed Systems 503 Ancona, M., Clematis, A., De Floriani, L. and Puppo, E. 195 Finding a Majority When Sorting is Not Available 186 Argo, G. 444 Avison, D. E. and Wood-Harper, A. T. 98 HIDEL: A Language for Hierarchical VLSI Design 195 High Storage Utilisation for Single-Probe Retrieval Linear Hashing Bastani, F. B., Chen, I.-R. and Hilal, W. 80 455 Bodorik, P. and Riordon, J. S. 55i Bradford, R. see Padget, J. Implementation of Flexible Arrays Using Balanced Trees 386 Brink, C., Rewitzky, I. M. and Schmidt, R. A. 380 Implementation of Karp—Luby Monte Carlo Method: An Exercise Burn, G. L. see Kingdon, H. in Approximate Counting 279 Burns, A. and Lister, A.M . 173 Implementations of Term Rewriting Systems 20 Improved Partial-Match Search Algorithms for BD Trees 415 Campbell, D. and McNeill, T. 186 Improved Recursion Handling through Integrity Constraints 282 Challab, D. J. 386 Information Systems Design Methodologies - Book Reviews 182 Chang, C. C., Chen, C. Y. and Jan, J. K. 469 Information Systems Development Research: An Exploration of Chen, C. Y. see Chang, C. C. Ideas in Practice 98 Chen, I.-R. see Bastani, F. B. ‘Innovation for Failure’ - Some Reflections on the Work of the Cheng, S.-T. see Wu, J.-L. NRDC Relevant to the Early History of the Computer Industry Clematis, A. see Ancona, M. in the UK 272 Clint, M. see Stewart, A. THE COMPUTER JOURNAL, VOL. 34, 1991 Dandamudi, S. P. and Sorenson, P.G. 415 Shahid, A. A. see Yannakoudakis, E. J. Daskalakis, C. N. see O’Docherty, M. H. Shrivastava, S. K. see Mancini, L. Daszczuk, W. B. 482 Skillicorn, D. B. 302 De Floriani, L. see Ancona, M. Slape, J. K. and Wallis, P. J. L. 373 Dick, A. 5.5. 2 Small, C. see King. P. Dick, A. J. J. and Watson, P. 16 Smyth, W. F. 406 Dobosiewicz, W. 370 Son, N. T. and Paker, Y. 493 Dollimore, J., Miranda, E. and Xu, Wang 514 Sorenson, P. G. see Dandamudi, S. P. Srinivasen, B. 397 Fenwick, P.M. 450 Stewart, A., Holt, C., Clint, M. and Perrott, R. 377 Fitch, J. see Padget, J. Sutcliffe, A. G. and Wang, I. 132 Geesink, L.H. 542 Thanisch, P. F. see Wicovsky, K. Gibbs, S. see Morgan, K. Tharp, A. L. see Ou, S. F. Trenouth, J. 153 Hagan, B. J. see Hull, M. E. C. Tse, T. H. and Pong, L. 143 Halsbury, The Rt. Hon. the Earl of 272 Hammersley, A. P. 362 Vanthienen, J. 358 Hammersley, P. 182 Verrall, M. 522 Hermann, M., Kirchner, C. and Kirchner, H. 20 Wallis, P. J. L. see Slape, J. K. Hilal, W. see Bastani, F. B. Wang, I. see Sutcliffe, A. G. Holt, C. see Stewart, A. Watson, P. see Dick, A. J. J. Hull, M. E. C., O’Donoghue, P. G. and Hagan, B. J. 164 Weiss, M. A. 88 Wen, Z. see Olariu, S. Jacob, R.T., see Yue, K Wicovsky, K., Thanisch, P. F. and Williams, M. H. 282 Jan, J. K. see Chang, C. C. Wilkinson, B. 207 Williams, M. H. see Wicovsky, K Kacsuk, P. 52 Wood-Harper, A. T. see Avison, D. E. Khanna, S. 350 Wu, J.-L. and Cheng, S.-T. 92 King, P. and Small, C. 239 Kingdon, H., Lester, D. R. and Burn, G. L. 290 Xu, Wang see Dollimore, J. Kirchner, C. see Hermann, M. Kirchner, H. see Hermann, M. Yannakoudakis, E. J. and Shahid, A. A. 331 Yue, K. and Jacob, R. T. 345 Lahodynskyj, L. A. 566 Lester, D. R. see Kingdon, H Lister, A. M. see Burns, A. 3. Index of Topics, etc Abstract parallel machine 290 Macleod, I. A. 254 Abstraction 164 Makinen, E. 379, 438 Access methods 397 Malbani, A see Agrawal, D. Action research 98 Mancini, L. and Shrivastava, S. K. 503 Action systems 302 Marshall, R. 245 Active messages 542 Martel, C. U. see Naor, D. Adaptive reorganisation 397 Matloff, N.S. see Naor, D. Algorithms 406, 415, 444 McNeill, T. see Campbell, D. Application architecture 514 Michie, D. 559 Application software 522 Miranda, E. see Dollimore, J. Architectural design 215 Morgan, K., Morris, R. L. and Gibbs, S. 265 Architecture independent propramming languages 302 Morris, R. L. see Morgan, K. Architectures 173 Artificial intelligence 52 Naor, D., Martel, C. U. and Matloff, N.S. 428 Artificial intelligence programming 153 Nipkow, T. 34 Attribute grammars 64 Noble, F. 113 Augmented data manipulator network 207 Autodescriptivity 380 O’Docherty, M. H. and Daskalakis, C. N. 225 O’Donoghue, P. G. see Hull, M. E. C. Ballot sequence 438 Olariu, S., Overstreet, C. M. and Wen, Z. 423 Bandwidth 207 Olerup, A. 215 Baseline network 207 Orman, L. 73 BD tree 415 Ou, S. F. and Tharp, A. L. 455 Binary search trees 444 Overstreet, C.M. see Olariu, S. Binary trees 379, 438 Book reviews 182 Paakki, J. 64 Boolean formulas 279 Padawitz, P. 42 B-trees 386, 397, 406, 428 Padget, J., Bradford, R. and Fitch, J. 311 Business policy 122 Paker, Y. see Son, N. T. Perrott, R. see Stewart, A. CASE 182 Pong, L. see Tse, T. H. Cellular automation 52 Pong, M-C. 320 Client-server model 80 Poo, C.-C. D. 122 Closed world assumption 239 Puppo, E. see Ancona, M. Code generation 64 Codeword 379 Rewitzky, I. M. see Brink, C. Compiler construction 64 Riordon, J. S. see Bodorik, P. Completion 20 Rohl, J.S. 569 Computational complexity 475 Ruzicka, P. 475 Computer hardware description languages 195 Computer networks 534, 542 Schmidt, R. A. see Brink, C. Concurrent maintenance 80 (vi) THE COMPUTER JOURNAL, VOL. 34, 1991 Concurrent programming 302, 311, 320, 345 Full-text databases 245 Conditional reduction 42 Functional simulation 195 Consistent sharing of objects 514 Constraint maintenance 73 Gamma networks 207 Constructive rewriting 34, 42 Garbage collection 503 Content retrieval 225 Garbage collection algorithms 80 Content scanning 245 Goal 215 Contingency 98 Goal reduction 42 Coordination Model 542 Graphical interface 320 Cooperating processes 331 Graphical languages 320 Correcting query processing strategies 551 Graphs 195, 215 Counting 279 Critical success factors 113 Hashing 455, 469 Crossbar switch network 207 HCI methods 132 CSCW application platform 514 Heap 423, 428 CSP 302 Heapsort 88 Height-balancing 406 DAP FORTRAN 377 Heterogeneity 522 Data flow computing 52 Hierarchical models 195 Data model design 73 HOOD 164 Data models 225 Hopfield net 92 Data structure maintenance policy 80 Horn clauses 42 Data structures 195, 397, 423, 428, 444 HOS 143 Database constraints 73 Human activity systems 98 Databases 282, 397, 415 Human computer interaction 132, 265 Dataflow 302 Human computer interface 98 Deadlock 207, 331, 345, 493 Human interface preferences 265 Deap 423 Hypercube 493 Decision rules 559 Hypermedia 225 Decision tables 358 Hypertext 245 Decision-to-decision graph 350 Deductive databases 239 ICL DAP 377 Definite clause grammar 64 Image databases 225 Degradable systems 80 Implementation 113 Delta networks 207 Incomplete information 239 Dependability 173 Index sequential access 397 Design 215 Index sequential files 406 Design and analysis of algorithms 475 Indexing 397 Design criteria 73 Information analysis 132 Design procedure 73 Information extraction 331 Design process 215 Information modelling 98 Dialogue design 132 Information processing 331 Digitised pictures 377 Information retrieval 254 Directed acyclic graph 282 Information systems 98, 122, 225 Disjunctive normal form 279 Information systems design 215 Display design 132 Information systems development methodologies 113 Distributed active messages 542 Information transferring 331 Distributed algorithms 475 Insertion costs 455 Distributed computer networks 475 Integrity constraint 282 Distributed databases 551 Intelligent mail 542 Distributed hardware 482 Interacting defaults 239 Distributed objects 514 Interactive graphics 320 Distributed systems 80, 503, 522, 534, 542 Interconnection networks 482, 493 Distribution 173, 290, 311 Interface design 265 Dynamic (adaptive) query processing 551 Inter-process communication 331 Dynamic networks 542 IPSC 52 Dynamic state information 331 Isabelle 34 Dynamic storage allocation 386 JSD 122, 132, 164 EDDA 143 JSP 164, 566 Electronic mail 542 Equational reasoning 2, 16, 20 Kernel 482 Equational theories 2, 16 Keywords 469 Equivalence class 186 Knowledge databases 225 Event list 428 Knowledge-base systems 245 Experimental evaluation 265 Knuth-Bendix completion 2 Experimental measurements 428 Kohonen map 92 Expert systems 245 K-d tree 415 Exploratory programming 153 Letter-oriented keys 469 Fast Fourier transform 362 Level-by-level order 438 Fault-tolerance 503, 534 Level sequences 438 File organisation 397 Linda 302 File structures 415 Linear hashing +55 Flexible arrays 386 Linear probing sort 370 Fluid approximation model 80 Linear search 450 Formula rewriting 34 Lisp 311 FORTRAN 77 373 Location and access transparency 514 Fragmentation 386 Logic of partial functions 380 THE COMPUTER JOURNAL, VOL. 34, 1991 Logic programming 20, 52, 64, 350 Priority queues 423, 428 Long term reliable storage of objects 514 Privacy and protection of information 514 Lower bounds in computational complexities 475 Process management 331 L-sequences 438 Process synchronisation 164 Program inversion 566 Maintenance cost 73 Program transformation 569 Management of change 113 Program understanding 331 Manual design 73 Program verification 42 Many-sorted rewriting 16 Programming environments 153 Many-valued logic 380 Prolog 64 Markup languages 254 Prolog-based systems 245 Mascot 3 164 Propagation protocols 534 Matrices 215 Propositional logic 380 Memory management 386, 455 Protocol management 331 MERISE 182 Protocols 475 Message processing 331 Prototyping 98 Messages and meta-messages 331 Proxies 514 Method integration 132 P-sequences 438 Methodologies 98, 122, 164, 182 Pseudo-Lexicographical permuation generation 569 Miranda 290 PSL 143 Misfit 215 ML 34 Query languages 254 Modal logic 245 Query optimisation 551 Modelling 164 Queueing systems 80 Monte Carlo algorithm 279 Quicksort 88 Mulfiprefix 302 Multidimensional data structures 415 Real-time 164, 173 Multikey searching 415 Recursion 282 Multimedia 225, 245 Reference counting 503 Multimedia databases 225, 245 Reliability 503 Multi-processor interconnection networks 207 Remote procedure calls 503 Multi-processor systems 482, 493 Replicas of shared objects in users workstations 514 Multistage interconnection networks 207 Replicated data 534 Multivariate data analysis 559 Requirements definition 215 Multiview 98 Requirements specification 143, 164 Mutual exclusion problems 345 Reversal 569 M-way trees 406 Rewrite rules 2 Rhombic crossbar switch networks 207 NAG 362 Rich picture 98 Narrowing 42 Rotation 379, 569 Natural language processing 245 Routing 493 Negation as failure 239 Routing problems 475 Neural description language 92 RSL 143 Neural networks 92 Rule-structured classification 559 NRDC 272 SADT 143 Object-based systems 503 Safe defaults 239 Object-oriented databases 225 Safety critical 173 Object-oriented design 164 Sale’s algorithm 373 Object-oriented programming 225, 311 SAMM_ 143 OCCAM _ 52, 302 Scan 302 Office information systems 113 Scanning 64 Open world assumption 239 Scientific data bases 245 Operating systems 345, 469, 482 Search trees 406 Optimal rewriting 20 Searching 450 Order-sorted rewriting 16 Secondary clustering 455 Organisation design 113 Self-adjusting data structures 444 Orphan detection 503 Self-organizing search 450 Overflow technique 397 Semantic analysis 64 Overhead 551 Semantic nets 225 Overlapping connectivity networks 207 Semantics and pragmatics 245 Semaphores 345 Page faults 428 Sequential lists 450 Parallel machine interface 302 SGML 254 Parallel processing 52 Shared model 514 Parallel programming 345 Shared objects 514 Parallelism 164, 290 Shellsort 88 Parsing 64, 373 Sigma networks 207 Partial-match queries 415 SIMD 52 Participation 98 SIMD computation 377 Pascal 406 SIMD implementation 377 Path predicate 350 Simulation 428 #P-complete 279 Single-probe retrieval 455 Performance 415 Single-sorted rewriting 16 Performance evaluation 80, 551 Socio-technical approach 98, 113, 122, 182 Periodic maintenance 80 Soft systems 98, 113 Permutation pairs 438 Software engineering 522, 559 Permutations 569 Software factory 522 PRAM 302 Software methodologies 153 (viii) THE COMPUTER JOURNAL, VOL. 34, 1991 Software tools 153 Term reduction 42 Software verification 350 Term rewriting 2, 16, 20, 34, 42 Sorting 186, 370 Termination 20 Sorting algorithm 88 Text retrieval 254 Specification languages 143 Theorem proving 20, 34, 42 Splay trees 428 Thinning algorithms 377 SSADM_ 182 Timing analysis 132 Stability analysis 80 Tools 98 Starvation 345 Total order 186 Static processing 551 Transparent remote method invocation 514 Stochastic processes 80 Transputer 52, 290 Storage structures 397 Tree permutations 438 Strategic applications 113 Strategy 113 U-list 282 Strategy execution phases 551 Unification confluence 2 Structural description 195 Unitary thickness skeletons 377 Structure clashes 566 UNITY 302 Structured methods 132 User interfaces for shared information 514 Structured programming 566 User modelling 245 Structured system design 164 Subsumption 2 VDM 380 Superposition 2 Viewpoint 350 Symbolic evaluation 350 Virtual memory 428 Synchronisation 534 VLSI CAD 195 Systems analysis 132 Systems approach 98 Weight sequences 438 Systems evolution 122 Weighted path length 444 Worst-case analysis 475 Task analysis 132 Techniques 98 Zak’s sequences 438 Term complexity 2 THE COMPUTER JOURNAL, VOL. 34, 1991 (ix)