DATA BASE, Volume 8

Volume 8, Number 1, Summer 1976

• Title.
  
• Thomas E. Murray:
  From the Chairman. 3-6
  
• Daniel Teichroew, Ernest A. Hershey III:
  A Computer-Aided Technique for Structured Documentation. 7-9
  
• NCC Roundup: Minicomputers in Business. 10-11
  
• J. Daniel Couger, Fred R. McFadden:
  Eastern Bloc Computing Environments. 12-13
  
• Thomas E. Murray:
  SIGBDP Local Group Newsletter. 14-16
  

Volume 8, Number 2, Fall 1976

= SIGMOD Record 8(4) November 1976

Data Base Directions - The Next Steps, Proceedings of the Workshop of the National Bureau of Standards and the Association for Computing Machinery, held at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October 29-31, 1975, John L. Berg, Editor

• Title.
  
• Richard G. Canning:
  Introduction. 1-2
  
• Daniel B. Magraw:
  A Manager's Viewpoint. 3-11
  
• R. Michael Gall:
  What Experience Has Taught Us (Working Panel Report). 13-28
  
• Robert W. Bemer:
  Standards: A Data Base Imperative (Working Panel Report). 31-39
  
• Donald L. Adams:
  Auditing the Data Base (Working Panel Report). 41-64
  
• Charles D. Trigg:
  Impact of Government Regulations (Working Panel Report). 67-78
  
• George G. Dodd:
  Data Base Technology - Present and Future (Working Panel Report). 81-103
  
• Background. 105-106
  
• Criteria to be Applied in the Standardization of a Programming Language (ISO/TC 97/SC 5). 107-110
  
• Barry R. Munson, Chester M. Smith Jr.:
  The Study of Data Base Management Systems (with Bibliography). 111-149
  
• List of Attendees, Participants and Contributors. 151-158
  

Volume 8, Number 3, Winter 1977

• Title. 1
  
• Eric D. Carlson, Michael Scott Morton:
  DSS Conference Overview. 2
  
• Richard L. Klaas:
  A DSS for Airline Management. 3-8
  
• Ephraim R. McLean, Thomas F. Riesing:
  MAPP: A DSS for Financial Planning. 9-14
  
• John D. Joyce, N. N. Oliver:
  Impacts of a Relational Information System on Industrial Decisions. 15-21
  
• Paul Berger, Franz Edelman:
  IRIS: A Transactions-Based DSS for Human Resources Management. 22-29
  
• Barbara F. Grace:
  Training Users of a Prototype DSS. 30-36
  
• Izak Benbasat:
  Cognitive Style Considerations in DSS Design. 37-38
  
• Edward Gainer, Edward Kimball, Alfred Maley, Alan A. Kortesoja:
  A Statistical Evaluation of Tactics Usage. 38-40
  
• M. Loomis, Jay F. Nunamaker, Benn R. Konsynski:
  An Approach to an Administrative DSS. 40-41
  
• Richard D. Hackathorn:
  Modeling Unstructured Decision Making. 41-42
  
• David R. Nash:
  Building EIS, a Utility for Decisions. 43-45
  
• Peter Buneman, Howard L. Morgan, Michael Zisman:
  Display Facilities for DSS Support: The Daisy Approach. 46-50
  
• C. Frank Starmer, Robert A. Rosati:
  A DSS for Management of Patients with Chronic Illness. 51-57
  
• Randall Davis:
  A DSS for Diagnosis and Therapy. 58-72
  
• William D. Haseman:
  GPLAN: An Operational DSS. 73-78
  
• John J. Donovan, Stuart E. Madnick:
  Institutional and Ad Hoc DSS and Their Effective Use. 79-88
  

Volume 8, Number 3 Supplement, Winter 1977

• Thomas E. Murray:
  From the Chairman / Title Page. 1
  
• Guidelines for Cost Accounting Practices for Data Processing. 2-13
  
• Suggested Organization of a Chart of Accounts for Accumulating Data Processing Expenses. 14-20
  

Volume 8, Number 4, Spring 1977

• Title. 1
  
• Thomas E. Murray:
  From the Chairman. 2-3
  
• Joseph T. Hootman:
  Basic Considerations in Developing Computer Charging Mechanisms. 4-9
  
• Norman R. Lyons:
  An Automatic Data Generating System for Data Base Simulation and Testing. 10-13
  
• James S. Ketchel:
  Miscellany. 14-15
  
• John T. Gorgone:
  Book Reviews. 16-17
  
• Thomas E. Murray:
  SIGBDP Local Group Newsletter. 18-20