Information Systems Methodology: Proceedings, 2nd Conference of the European Cooperation in Informatics, Venice, October 10–12, 1978

Analysis of user needs....Pages 1-38
A participative approach to forward planning and system change....Pages 39-61
A participative approach to systems analysis : An action research in the local government....Pages 62-81
Tools for handling human and organizational problems of computer-based information systems....Pages 82-119
Organising for common systems....Pages 120-141
Values, technology and work....Pages 142-159
A framework for the analysis of the relationship between business organization evolution and business information systems evolution....Pages 160-170
Information systems management through office automation : An organizational and social perspective....Pages 171-192
Methods and tools for information systems design....Pages 193-210
Using assertions about traces to write abstract specifications for software modules....Pages 211-236
Protection in languages for real time programming....Pages 237-248
An experiment in computer aided information systems development....Pages 249-265
The design of relational information system according to different kinds of dependencies....Pages 266-290
Aspects of data semantics: Names, species and complex physical objects....Pages 291-306
A model for the description of the information system dynamics....Pages 307-318
Modelling approach for distributed data bases....Pages 319-341
Portability of the programs using a data base management system....Pages 342-366
A multi-level approach for data description and management of a large hierarchical database supporting a hospital patient information system....Pages 367-379
A complementary approach to program analysis and testing....Pages 380-401
Organizing the sequencing of processes....Pages 402-419
A macro facility for cobol....Pages 420-431
The reference string indexing method....Pages 432-459
Working set size reduction by restructuring APL workspaces....Pages 460-473
Optimal multiprogramming: Principles and implementation....Pages 474-503
A simulation model for a loop architecture distributed computer system....Pages 504-520
Scheduling dependent tasks from an infinite stream in systems with nonpreemptible resources....Pages 521-535
Scheduling preemptable tasks on unrelated processors with additional resources to minimize schedule length....Pages 536-547
Deadlock avoidance in graph-structured task systems....Pages 548-559
Synchronic aspects of data types : Construction of a non-algorithmic solution of the Banker's problem....Pages 560-583
The impact of technology on information system....Pages 584-617
Interactive systems as if users really mattered....Pages 618-630
Man-computer dialogues for many levels of competence....Pages 631-642
Design of information systems for Arabic....Pages 643-663
Operation and evolution of organizational information systems....Pages 664-683
Human resources systematically applied to ensure computer security....Pages 684-695