{"title":"A prototype data flow computer with token labelling","authors":"I. Watson, J. Gurd","doi":"10.1109/MARK.1979.8817164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MARK.1979.8817164","url":null,"abstract":"Computer users in many areas of scientific study appear to have an almost insatiable desire for processing power. Many of the computations exhibit a high degree of parallelism which is not exploited in conventional computer structures. Considerable interest has been shown in parallel computer architectures in the last decade in order to make use of this property.","PeriodicalId":341008,"journal":{"name":"1979 International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge (MARK)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1899-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124142714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Forecasting computer resource utilization using key volume indicators","authors":"David E. Y. Sarna","doi":"10.1109/MARK.1979.8817112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MARK.1979.8817112","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of capacity planning is to determine how much computer power we have overall, how much we are using and, most importantly, how much is left and how much is required. There is some justification for the current interest in capacity planning. We have recently improved our ability to predict the quality of service, i.e. the turnaround time that can be expected from a given configuration when a known workload is imposed. This is a basic activity in capacity planning.","PeriodicalId":341008,"journal":{"name":"1979 International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge (MARK)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1899-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129644319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Considerations in the employment of blind computer professionals","authors":"James A. Kutsch, Kimberly B. Kutsch","doi":"10.1109/AFIPS.1979.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AFIPS.1979.47","url":null,"abstract":"According to sections 503 and 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, employers are required to hire qualified handicapped persons and, where necessary, to provide reasonable accommodations relating to accessibility to their actual job station and to work environs—including rest rooms, recreation areas, eating facilities, etc. Further, companies holding federal contracts are required to have an Affirmative Action Program to seek out qualified handicapped individuals as potential employees.","PeriodicalId":341008,"journal":{"name":"1979 International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge (MARK)","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1899-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127634241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hiring a deaf computer professional*","authors":"Karen K. Anderson, P. W. Bravin","doi":"10.1109/MARK.1979.8817225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MARK.1979.8817225","url":null,"abstract":"The computer industry has a critical need for skilled professionals. Employers are already hard-pressed to find qualified workers and look with interest to the growing population of technically trained deaf individuals as a new source of competent employees. Interest in hiring deaf computer professionals has also been accelerated by employers’ growing sense of social responsibility and their need to comply with government regulations concerning affirmative action in hiring and promoting handicapped individuals. This willingness to employ deaf professionals must be accompanied, however, by specific guidelines for the actual hiring and accommodation of such workers. This paper addresses the practical concerns of managers who wish to hire deaf professionals into their organization.","PeriodicalId":341008,"journal":{"name":"1979 International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge (MARK)","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1899-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131949691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digital image shape detection","authors":"R. Hord","doi":"10.1109/MARK.1979.8817125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MARK.1979.8817125","url":null,"abstract":"Determining algorithmically the presence of specified objects in test imagery is desirable in many circumstances. Typically, a reference image containing an example of the object of interest is compared with a test image. The four primary characteristics of the object used for this comparison are:","PeriodicalId":341008,"journal":{"name":"1979 International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge (MARK)","volume":"125 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1899-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124267590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the fate of software enhancements","authors":"N. Sondheimer","doi":"10.1109/MARK.1979.8817228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MARK.1979.8817228","url":null,"abstract":"One of the most serious problems for vendors of software is pressure from users to enhance and extend their products. 1 One important type of enhancement is the change in language form aimed at improving user productivity by making the system easier to learn and use. Ideas for this sort of enhancement appear regularly in such publications as Sigplan Notices . As evidenced by the correspondence in that publication, there are many opinions on the quality of these proposals. However, little is known about the actual fate of enhancements that have been added to existing software systems and released to users. When a new feature is released with the best of intentions and the usual fanfare of documentation and instruction, its acceptance by programmers may have little to do with the sincerity of the request or the quality of the feature.","PeriodicalId":341008,"journal":{"name":"1979 International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge (MARK)","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1899-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115205069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alternatives for providing highly reliable access to X.25 networks*","authors":"Richard Chung, A. Rybczynski","doi":"10.1109/MARK.1979.8817280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MARK.1979.8817280","url":null,"abstract":"Public and private packet-switching networks (PSNs) are being developed or planned throughout the world—for example in Canada (DATAPAC), the U.S. (TELENET), France (TRANSPAC), the U.K. (EPSS), Japan (DDX), Spain, Netherlands and others. 7 Such an explosive development of data communications services is one of the means for attaining the near-perfect availability required from future distributed information processing systems. 9 The reasons for this requirement are the increasing size, complexity and geographic dispersion of information processing systems, and the increasing real-time dependence of users on these critical, distributed systems for the timely and effective operation of their businesses.","PeriodicalId":341008,"journal":{"name":"1979 International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge (MARK)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1899-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122875262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Updating defined relations","authors":"I. M. Osman","doi":"10.1109/MARK.1979.8817229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MARK.1979.8817229","url":null,"abstract":"Some relational data base systems 1 such as PRTV 2 and SEQUEL allow the user to create his own relations (logical files) as subsets of the main data. With such a facility the user may express his own view of the data in terms of the relations he creates. If a large number of such relations are created, disc storage space problems and other maintenance difficulties can arise.","PeriodicalId":341008,"journal":{"name":"1979 International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge (MARK)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1899-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129411904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On query-answering in relational data bases","authors":"E. L. Lozinskii","doi":"10.1109/MARK.1979.8817114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MARK.1979.8817114","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years the relational model has been widely adopted for data base description. According to this model a data base, DB, describes certain objects of the world having certain attributes, and the relationships among them. Thus, DB is characterized by a set of attributes, D , a set of domains associated with the attributes, and a set of dependencies, F , corresponding to the relationships among the attributes (all the terms and concepts not defined here are those of References 1 – 3 ). A data base is a collection of relations, R ={ R i }. Each relation R i is characterized by a set of attributes S i ={ D j | D j ∈ D } called its scheme , and consists of a set of tuples. Each tuple is a map from the attributes of the relation scheme to their domains that satisfies all the dependencies of F (we shall consider functional dependencies).","PeriodicalId":341008,"journal":{"name":"1979 International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge (MARK)","volume":"239 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1899-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124623700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performance and economy of a fault-tolerant multiprocessor*","authors":"J. Lala, Charles J. Smith","doi":"10.1109/MARK.1979.8817068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MARK.1979.8817068","url":null,"abstract":"The FTMP (Fault-Tolerant Multiprocessor) is one of two central aircraft fault-tolerant architectures now in the prototype phase under NASA Langley Research Center sponsorship. 1 , 2 The intended application of the computer includes such critical real-time tasks as \"fly-by-wire\" active control and completely automatic Category III landings (zero visibility and zero ceiling) of commercial aircraft. The life-critical nature of these tasks and the profit-oriented attitude of airlines translate into some very challenging and sometimes contradictory computer requirements. For example, a candidate computer should be able to execute tasks on time, without significant delays, be extremely reliable, and yet be cost-effective. At a first glance these requirements seem to be in conflict with each other. After all, to meet the performance criteria some sort of parallelism such as multiprocessing capability would be in order. Second, to meet the reliability and safety requirements it would be necessary to use redundancy since no simplex computer could possibly meet the \"extremely improbable\" failure criterion of the Federal Aviation Administration. The result is a computer that could be very expensive. Yet it may still be cost-effective. The reason is that it is the balance between the benefits and costs that determines the cost-effectiveness of a product; cost alone is not a pertinent criterion. In this paper we intend to show that the FTMP architecture is a viable solution to the multi-faceted problems of safety, speed, and cost.","PeriodicalId":341008,"journal":{"name":"1979 International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge (MARK)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1899-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121246972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}