Preface iii Mary L. Rich Introduction v Addie Mattox The Cinderella syndrome: Information systems used but abused 3 Kathy Brittain White Micro/mainframe networking: An agent of change 9 James R. Cook, Marvin A. Johnston, Herbert J. Mattord, and Frank Landram Role of the information systems manager as a change agent 15 Allen N. Smith, Chair Change is routine for information systems 16 Kathy Brittain White, Chair Inventing the future - competitive advantage 17 M. Victor Janulaitis, Chair Who's really the boss? 18 Paul Dati, Featured Speaker Finally, shoes for the cobbler's children 19 Richard A. Carpenter, Chair How Washington regulates the information age 20 Howard L. Funk, Chair Computer supported decision making in the real estate industry 23 Marc W. Swenson, Chair Computer supported decision making at Ernest W. Hahn, Inc. 23 Scott D. MacDonald Deregulation and automation - the financial industry 24 John E. Parady, Chair Computers, politics, and policy 25 John Gosden, Chair Transborder data flow: A corporate concern 29 Janet Palmer and Andria Page Dukes Can software ever meet legislated warranties? 35 Edward J. Bride, Chair COBOL in the twenty-first century 39 Jerome Garfunkel Knowledge-based software development: A paradigm and a tool 43 Mehdi T. Harandi and Mitchell D. Lubars Software quality assurance in a changing development environment 51 Harry Kalmbach Supervisory attitudes toward software maintenance 61 Ned Chapin Software productivity metrics: Some candidates and their evaluation 69 Jai Navlakha Testing for usability 77 Kathleen M. Potosnak and Richard P. Koffler Self-management of software productivity by every project member 85 Yoshiro Matsumoto, Featured Speaker Models, methods, and tools for software development 86 Winston W. Royce, Featured Speaker Can software help software development? The case for expert systems 87 Barbara Brawn, Chair The programmer's apprentice project 87 Charles Rich Positive experiences with software metrics 88 Michael Evangelist The future of software engineering metrics and models 88 Vincent Y. Shen Problems and strategies for measuring software productivity 90 Walt Scacchi Views and perspectives on the future of databases and graphics 91 Shaku Atre Integration of graphics into the information center 91 James R. Warner Can we manufacture software? How? Why? 92 Norihisa Suzuki, Chair Experiences in software manufacturing 93 Yoshiro Matsumoto The software factory project at the Software Engineering Institute 94 Mario Barbacci High-level software representation testing 95 Raymond T. Yeh Computer network topology management using an automated documentation system 99 Robert N. Linebarger and Beth Ann Pratt Layered interface processors in a heterogeneous network environment 107 Robert N. Linebarger and Chong San Yu Electronic conferencing 115 Tom Housel, Chair Impact and implications of optical storage technology within the automated office 119 Jack Walsh, Chair Smart facilities in support of smart systems 119 Michael A. Bell, Chair The future of computer storage-the role of optical storage 120 David H. Davies, Featured Speaker Architectures, applications, and the futures of supercomputing 121 Steve Wallach, Featured Speaker Knowledge-based simulation programming 125 Norman R. Nielsen . Human interlaces in a legal expert system 135 James Sprowl, Karen Applegate, Martha Evens, Henry Harr, and Raymond Rueb Toward expert simulation systems in job shop scheduling 143 George J. Mejtsky An artificial intelligence approach to document preparation 149 Martha Evens, Chair AI microprocessor applications in CAD/CAM 150 I. William Salmon, Chair Design issues of an intelligent workstation for the office 153 N. Naffah, G. White, and S. Gibbs Organizational videotex: Information services for the end user 161 T. Andrew Finn Measuring management effectiveness: The value-added benefits 171 N. Dean Meyer Vendor service and support-what's important? 171 Alexia Martin, Chair Interactive document processing systems (IDP) 172 Gerry Walter Future trends in end-user interface 173 Jim Bair, Chair Implementing large-scale projects 177 Michael S. Heschel, Chair Electronic publishing - with and without paper; three case studies 179 Constance U. Greaser, Chair Chief information officer - success or failure 179 Nancy Markle, Chair Evaluating your information center - Case studies in measuring success 180 Jerome P. Thode, Chair Strategic planning for the design and development of management information systems in education 185 Brent Edward Wholeben OLLIE: an On-Line Library for Inter-campus Exchange 193 Sharon Cubbin Who's minding the system? I don't know, I just work here! 199 Gopal K. Kapur, Featured Speaker Life-cycle databases for buildings 205 Curtis Pounds, Chair Decision support systems 209 Gary Humphreys How to know when you are ready for automation 213 Ron Mansfield, Chair How to streamline your computer purchase 214 Therese E. Myers, Chair Inside information for first time users 215 Stanley Siegel, Chair Reasoning about knowledge: An overview 219 Joseph Y. Halpern Applying software reliability models to decision support 229 Carl K. Chang, Kwang-ya Fang, and Jeffrey C. Yang Updates in relational databases 237 B. C. Desai, P. Goyal, and F. Sadri Non-chronological sequential simulation 245 Devendra Kumar Extending the capabilities of word processing software through Horn clause lexical databases 251 Hal L. Berghel Detecting loop structure in assembly code 259 Linore Cleveland and Yoshihiro Akiyama Project source tile management under the UNIX operating system 267 Alan Filipski and Luke C. Dion Generation of minimum test sets for detection and location of multiple faults in fanout-free combinational circuits 273 Hsun-kang Su and Ku-chung Tai Graphic-theoretic bounds for on-line checks in multiple processor systems 283 Prithviraj Banerjee and Jacob A. Abraham Fault-tolerance and diagnosability of a class of binomial interconnection networks 297 Arif Ghafoor, Theodore R. Bashkow, and Imran Ghafoor How to convert informal requirements into formal requirements in software engineering 305 T. A. Nartker Fault tolerance by means of external monitoring of computer systems 309 Algirdas Aviiienis Engineering computer network (ECN): A hardwired network of UNIX computer systems 323 Kai Hwang, Benjamin W. Wah, Faye A. Briggs Multibase-integrating heterogeneous distributed database systems 335 John Miles Smith, Philip A. Bernstein, Umeshwar Dayal, Nathan Goodman, Terry Landers, Ken W. T. Lin, Eugene Wong Shifting to a higher gear in a natural language system 349 Bozena Henisz Thompson, Frederick B. Thompson GRASS3, a language for interactive graphics 355 Nola Donato The MC68000 family and distributed processing 361 John F. Stockton The impact of Ada on software engineering 369 Kenneth L. Bowles Impacts of information system vulnerabilities on society 375 Lance J. Hoffman The star user interface: an overview 383 David Canfield Smith, Charles Irby, Ralph Kimball, and Eric Harslem Computational lexicology: a research program 397 Robert A. Amsler An English-language processing system that "learns" about new domains 405 Bruce W. Ballard and John C. Lusth Stepwise structuring: A style of life for flexible software 413 Erik SandewaIl, Sture Hagglund, Christian Gustafsson, Lennat Jonesjo, and Ola Stromfors Advanced office systems: An empirical look at use and satisfaction 421 T. K. Bikson and B. A. Gutek Resiliency of the computerized society 431 Rein Turn and Eric J. Novotny The DSS development system 441 Robert H. Bonczek, Nasir Ghiaseddin, Oyde W. Holsapple, and Andrew B. Whinston Goals and tradeoffs in the design of the MC68881 floating point coprocessor 457 Joel Boney Software management issues for new system designs 465 Robert E. Loesh, Donald J. Reifer, and Steven M. Jacobs Aspects of integrated software 471 Clyde W. Holsapple and Andrew B. Whinston Fifth-generation computing as the next stage of a new medium 479 Mildred L. G. Shaw and Brian R. Gaines LCNET: Ethernet concepts + ubiquitous RS232C ports = Low Cost NETwork 487 Jay B. Jordan and Victor P. Holmes Hypercube architectures 495 Lyle L. Welty and Peter C. Patton Dataflow architectures for knowledge representation systems 503 Lubomir Bic Structured application generation using XDB 513 S. Bing Yao and H. Kitagawa AGENT: An advanced test-case generation system for functional testing 525 Zengo Furukawa, Kenroku Nogi, and Kenji Tokunaga SNA directions - a 1985 perspective 537 R. J. Sundstrom, J. B. Staton, G. D. Schultz, M. L. Hess, G. A. Deaton, L. J. Cole, and R. M. Amy