Trends in Information Processing Systems

Architecture for office automation.- Software engineering: Experience and convictions.- Rads -- Rapid appligation development system.- Separate and integral compilation of subsystems.- S/E/TEC -- An environment for the production of reliable software.- Construction of application systems: Some aspects of standardization.- Specification as a design base.- Prospects of new tools for software development.- Ada and the German pay phone: An illustrative example of parallel processing.- Modules program structures and the structuring of operating systems.- SEVAL, a high-level validation language.- Problems in compiling Ada.- The future of applicative programming.- Structuring concepts for distributed systems: The communication aspect.- A communication service applied in a distributed data base system.- Phlox 2: A distributed system providing a server database management system.- Transaction management in a distributed database management system.- Access control and management in multilevel database models.- The grid file: An adaptable, symmetric multi-key file structure.- Serializability problems of interleaved database transactions.- Performance evaluation of two concurrency control mechanisms in a distributed database system.- A multiprocessor architecture using a circulating memory.- The realization of a data type architecture.- Conservation laws in operational analysis.- TOCS: a SIMULA-based simulator for the analysis of mainframe-oriented distributed systems.- The future of applicative programming.