Jagdish C. Agrawal, Pranas Zunde

Empirical Foundations of Information and Software Science IV

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer, Berlin
• 1988
• Seitenzahl: 534
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 1988
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 1130g
• ISBN-13: 9780306428173
• ISBN-10: 0306428172
• Artikelnr.: 24450269

Inhaltsangabe

Symposium Opening Addresses.
Welcoming Address.
Welcoming Address.
Welcoming Address.
1. User
System Interfaces: Key Issues.
Softening Up Hard Science: Reply to Newell and Card.
Design and Evaluation of User
System Interfaces or of User
Task Interaction: A Discussion of Interface Design Approach in Different Domains for Application of Modern Information Technology.
Concurrent Computer and Human Information Processing.
On Meaningful Menus for Measurement: Disentangling Evaluative Issues in System Design.
Issues and Red Herrings in Evaluating Natural Language Interfaces.
2. User
System Interface Analysis.
Criteria and Techniques for the Objective Measurement of Human
Computer Performance.
Human
To
Machine Interaction in Natural Language: Empirical Results of Field Studies with an English and a German Interface.
Applying Operations Research Models to the Study of Complex Man
Machine Interfaces.
3. User
System Interface Evaluation.
Adaptive User Interfaces for Information Systems: An Evaluation.
DIADES: A Design Tool for Interactive Programs with Provisions to Assess Design Decisions About the Man
Machine Interface.
An Outline of Techniques for Evaluating the Human
Computer Interface.
Software Complexity Assessment and Human
Machine Interface Evaluation.
4. User
System Interaction.
A Comparison of the Usability of SQL vs a Menu
Driven Interface.
Use of Query Language Boolean Operators by Professionals.
Man
Computer Interaction in Computer
Aided System Analysis and Design: Application of PSL/PSA.
Layout and Highlighting in On
Line Information.
5. Information System Design and Development.
Performance Measurement and Tuning of Interactive Information Systems.
A Method for Designing Tools for Information Retrieval From Documents.
Implementing Modifications of Information Systems While Using Them: An Intentionally Intervening Approach.
The Semantic Model in Information Retrieval.
6. Software Engineering.
Counting Leaves
An Evaluation of Ada, LISP, and PROLOG.
Diffusion of Software Engineering Methods.
How do Software Practitioners Write Programs? An Empirical Study.
Empirical Evaluation of a Proposed Model of the Program Design Process.
7. Software and System Performance Evaluation.
An Evaluation Model for Distributed Computer Systems.
Comparison and Evaluation of Floating Point Representations in IBM/370 and VAX
11/80.
Investigating Downtime and Troubleshooting in Computer
Controlled Production Systems.
Software Pattern Constructs.
8. Software Transition Tools and Techniques.
A Tool for Transitioning COBOL Programmers to ADA.
Computer Assisted PASCAL to ADA Program Translation.
An Information Systems Software Engineering Methodology.
Configuration Management with the ADA Language System.
9. Information, Knowledge, and Value.
Expert Systems for Knowledge Engineering: Modes of Development.
What Price the Information Age: A Model for Fair Payment For the Use of Information.
Framework for Evaluating Learning From Computer Programming Courses: Problem Solving in an Introductory Computer Science Course.
10. Workshops.
Workshop on Research Directions and Opportunities I: Prospects and Open Problems.
Workshop on Research Directions and Opportunities II: Current Funding Program.
Selected Bibliography on Man
Machine Interface Evaluation.
Subject Index to Selected Bibliography.

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Symposium Opening Addresses.- Welcoming Address.- Welcoming Address.- Welcoming Address.- 1. User-System Interfaces: Key Issues.- Softening Up Hard Science: Reply to Newell and Card.- Design and Evaluation of User-System Interfaces or of User-Task Interaction: A Discussion of Interface Design Approach in Different Domains for Application of Modern Information Technology.- Concurrent Computer and Human Information Processing.- On Meaningful Menus for Measurement: Disentangling Evaluative Issues in System Design.- Issues and Red Herrings in Evaluating Natural Language Interfaces.- 2. User-System Interface Analysis.- Criteria and Techniques for the Objective Measurement of Human-Computer Performance.- Human-To-Machine Interaction in Natural Language: Empirical Results of Field Studies with an English and a German Interface.- Applying Operations Research Models to the Study of Complex Man-Machine Interfaces.- 3. User-System Interface Evaluation.- Adaptive User Interfaces for Information Systems: An Evaluation.- DIADES: A Design Tool for Interactive Programs with Provisions to Assess Design Decisions About the Man-Machine Interface.- An Outline of Techniques for Evaluating the Human-Computer Interface.- Software Complexity Assessment and Human-Machine Interface Evaluation.- 4. User-System Interaction.- A Comparison of the Usability of SQL vs a Menu-Driven Interface.- Use of Query Language Boolean Operators by Professionals.- Man-Computer Interaction in Computer-Aided System Analysis and Design: Application of PSL/PSA.- Layout and Highlighting in On-Line Information.- 5. Information System Design and Development.- Performance Measurement and Tuning of Interactive Information Systems.- A Method for Designing Tools for Information Retrieval From Documents.- Implementing Modifications of Information Systems While Using Them: An Intentionally Intervening Approach.- The Semantic Model in Information Retrieval.- 6. Software Engineering.- Counting Leaves - An Evaluation of Ada, LISP, and PROLOG.- Diffusion of Software Engineering Methods.- How do Software Practitioners Write Programs? An Empirical Study.- Empirical Evaluation of a Proposed Model of the Program Design Process.- 7. Software and System Performance Evaluation.- An Evaluation Model for Distributed Computer Systems.- Comparison and Evaluation of Floating Point Representations in IBM/370 and VAX-11/80.- Investigating Downtime and Troubleshooting in Computer-Controlled Production Systems.- Software Pattern Constructs.- 8. Software Transition Tools and Techniques.- A Tool for Transitioning COBOL Programmers to ADA.- Computer Assisted PASCAL to ADA Program Translation.- An Information Systems Software Engineering Methodology.- Configuration Management with the ADA Language System.- 9. Information, Knowledge, and Value.- Expert Systems for Knowledge Engineering: Modes of Development.- What Price the Information Age: A Model for Fair Payment For the Use of Information.- Framework for Evaluating Learning From Computer Programming Courses: Problem Solving in an Introductory Computer Science Course.- 10. Workshops.- Workshop on Research Directions and Opportunities I: Prospects and Open Problems.- Workshop on Research Directions and Opportunities II: Current Funding Program.- Selected Bibliography on Man-Machine Interface Evaluation.- Subject Index to Selected Bibliography.