ACM-SE 18Pub Date : 1980-03-24DOI: 10.1145/503838.503852
David S. Burris, Kurt A. Schember
{"title":"Table-driven problem solvers","authors":"David S. Burris, Kurt A. Schember","doi":"10.1145/503838.503852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/503838.503852","url":null,"abstract":"This paper suggests an extension of decision tables and finite automata to more general table-driven problem solvers. The basic idea is that when a problem description is changed, only the contents table directing the flow of control and actions taken by a program need be modified and not the actual code. Program actions may be changed easily and documentation and program reliability improved.","PeriodicalId":431590,"journal":{"name":"ACM-SE 18","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127828606","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}
ACM-SE 18Pub Date : 1980-03-24DOI: 10.1145/503838.503848
A. Kaufman
{"title":"Variations on the binary buddy system for dynamic memory management","authors":"A. Kaufman","doi":"10.1145/503838.503848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/503838.503848","url":null,"abstract":"Two new variations of the binary buddy system for dynamic storage bookkeeping are introduced. These variations, the revised buddy system and the tailored-lists buddy system, recombine smaller memory blocks only upon necessity in an attempt to save on processor execution time. Simulation results comparing the three systems reveal that the two new variations are superior to the original buddy system, since they are faster and the difference in memory utilization is insignificant. A comparison of the revised system and the tailored-lists system indicates that they are equal in performance.","PeriodicalId":431590,"journal":{"name":"ACM-SE 18","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121060044","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}
ACM-SE 18Pub Date : 1980-03-24DOI: 10.1145/503838.503885
W. R. Spickerman
{"title":"CERT (Curriculum Evaluation and Review Technique)","authors":"W. R. Spickerman","doi":"10.1145/503838.503885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/503838.503885","url":null,"abstract":"Most applications of the computer for the improvement of instruction take the form of CMI or CAI programs, Both approaches alter the interaction between teachers and individual students, Both force major modifications in traditional classroom procedures and instructional techniques, Consequently, both CMI and CAI have been resisted by experienced teachers who either do not want to change or feel threatened or uncomfortable working with a computer.","PeriodicalId":431590,"journal":{"name":"ACM-SE 18","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133852228","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}
ACM-SE 18Pub Date : 1980-03-24DOI: 10.1145/503838.503842
Wanda S. Talley Staggers
{"title":"A database-oriented social services system: title XX","authors":"Wanda S. Talley Staggers","doi":"10.1145/503838.503842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/503838.503842","url":null,"abstract":"INTRODUCTION Title XX of the Social Security Act was established by congress to assist the states in providing social services through federally-matched funding. These services are available without charge to eligible citizens of South Carolina. For the State of South Carolina an automated system was designed, implemented, and is being maintained by which client, service, provider, and delivery data may be reported as required by federal and state regulations.","PeriodicalId":431590,"journal":{"name":"ACM-SE 18","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121297206","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}
ACM-SE 18Pub Date : 1980-03-24DOI: 10.1145/503838.503864
David Blythe
{"title":"A study of stress as it relates to computerized speech","authors":"David Blythe","doi":"10.1145/503838.503864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/503838.503864","url":null,"abstract":"For computerized speech to be understood, it must be given human qualities, such as stress. This paper discusses how stress is perceived by the listener, primarily through pitch changes. It shows how inflections stress certain words in a sentence, and that a word's internal stress (accent) affects how these inflections are constructed.An implementation of these findings to add stress to computer speech is shown, compared with similar work, and evaluated.The paper concludes that a word's internal stress must be considered in the generation of speech, and that a grammar in the implementation produces satisfying complex inflections.","PeriodicalId":431590,"journal":{"name":"ACM-SE 18","volume":"2294 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130304558","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}
ACM-SE 18Pub Date : 1980-03-24DOI: 10.1145/503838.503847
C. Michelsen, W. D. Dominick, J. E. Urban
{"title":"A methodology for the objective evaluation of the user/system interfaces of the MADAM system using software engineering principles","authors":"C. Michelsen, W. D. Dominick, J. E. Urban","doi":"10.1145/503838.503847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/503838.503847","url":null,"abstract":"The application of software engineering principles to the objective evaluation of an information storage and retrieval system in terms of user/system interactions will be discussed within this paper. Nine software engineering characteristics are addressed as potential candidates for evaluating the MADAM system.","PeriodicalId":431590,"journal":{"name":"ACM-SE 18","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128501226","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}
ACM-SE 18Pub Date : 1980-03-24DOI: 10.1145/503838.503888
B. B. Barnes
{"title":"After a decade as director: the user's perspective revisited","authors":"B. B. Barnes","doi":"10.1145/503838.503888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/503838.503888","url":null,"abstract":"Computing support received at the first university is recalled as being cheerfully provided and of superior quality. Following the writer's recent change of duties at the second institution (from Director of Computing to Coordinator of Computer Science and Engineering), he is somewhat dismayed and chagrined to find that computing support viewed by a user is not as good as the same support viewed by its director.","PeriodicalId":431590,"journal":{"name":"ACM-SE 18","volume":"11 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116787553","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}
ACM-SE 18Pub Date : 1980-03-24DOI: 10.1145/503838.503866
M. B. Windeknecht, T. Windeknecht
{"title":"Microcomputer graphics and the color-and-weave effect in handweaving","authors":"M. B. Windeknecht, T. Windeknecht","doi":"10.1145/503838.503866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/503838.503866","url":null,"abstract":"Color-And-Weave is the use of both light and dark threads in both warp and weft in a handweaving. Traditional weaves such as twill, point twill, summer and winter, and shadow weave produce many unusual attractive handweaving patterns with Color-And-Weave that cannot be produced without it. The process of weaving these new patterns is interesting and not unduly complex in most cases of importance. The design of these patterns using paper-and-pencil drafting techniques is admittedly infeasibly difficult. However, this problem has been resolved by the use of an inexpensive microcomputer graphics system. In a forthcoming book [1], the authors present the main results of an extensive computer study of Color-And-Weave effects including complete drafts and woven samples for 700-800 nontraditional handweaving patterns. In this paper, we shall present a theoretical approach to Color-And-Weave and discuss the ramifications in the case of the simplest woven structure; namely, Plain Weave. In a companion paper [2], additional details are given on (i) the computer study of hand weaving patterns that was conducted and (ii) the microcomputer system that was used.","PeriodicalId":431590,"journal":{"name":"ACM-SE 18","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129848252","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}