DATA BASE, Volume 8

Volume 8, Number 1, Summer 1976

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  Thomas E. Murray:
  From the Chairman. Data Base 8(1): 3-6 (1976)
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  Daniel Teichroew, Ernest A. Hershey III:
  A Computer-Aided Technique for Structured Documentation. 7-9
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  NCC Roundup: Minicomputers in Business. 10-11
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  J. Daniel Couger, Fred R. McFadden:
  Eastern Bloc Computing Environments. 12-13
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  Thomas E. Murray:
  SIGBDP Local Group Newsletter. Data Base 8(1): 14-16 (1976)

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

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  Richard G. Canning:
  Introduction. Data Base 8(2): 1-2 (1976)
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  Daniel B. Magraw:
  A Manager's Viewpoint. Data Base 8(2): 3-11 (1976)
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  R. Michael Gall:
  What Experience Has Taught Us (Working Panel Report). Data Base 8(2): 13-28 (1976)
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  Robert W. Bemer:
  Standards: A Data Base Imperative (Working Panel Report). Data Base 8(2): 31-39 (1976)
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  Donald L. Adams:
  Auditing the Data Base (Working Panel Report). Data Base 8(2): 41-64 (1976)
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  Charles D. Trigg:
  Impact of Government Regulations (Working Panel Report). Data Base 8(2): 67-78 (1976)
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  George G. Dodd:
  Data Base Technology - Present and Future (Working Panel Report). Data Base 8(2): 81-103 (1976)
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  Background. Data Base 8(2): 105-106 (1976)
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  Criteria to be Applied in the Standardization of a Programming Language (ISO/TC 97/SC 5). Data Base 8(2): 107-110 (1976)
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  Barry R. Munson, Chester M. Smith Jr.:
  The Study of Data Base Management Systems (with Bibliography). Data Base 8(2): 111-149 (1976)
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  List of Attendees, Participants and Contributors. Data Base 8(2): 151-158 (1976)

Volume 8, Number 3, Winter 1977

Proceedings of a Conference on Decision Support Systems, Santa Clara, California, January 24-26, 1977, Edited by Eric D. Carlson

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  Eric D. Carlson, Michael Scott Morton:
  DSS Conference Overview. Data Base 8(3): 2 (1977)
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  Richard L. Klaas:
  A DSS for Airline Management. 3-8
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  Ephraim R. McLean, Thomas F. Riesing:
  MAPP: A DSS for Financial Planning. 9-14
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  John D. Joyce, N. N. Oliver:
  Impacts of a Relational Information System on Industrial Decisions. 15-21
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  Paul Berger, Franz Edelman:
  IRIS: A Transactions-Based DSS for Human Resources Management. 22-29
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  Barbara F. Grace:
  Training Users of a Prototype DSS. 30-36
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  Izak Benbasat:
  Cognitive Style Considerations in DSS Design. 37-38
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  Edward Gainer, Edward M. Kimball, Alfred Maley, Alan A. Kortesoja:
  A Statistical Evaluation of Tactics Usage. 38-40
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  M. Loomis, Jay F. Nunamaker Jr., Benn R. Konsynski:
  An Approach to an Administrative DSS. 40-41
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  Richard D. Hackathorn:
  Modeling Unstructured Decision Making. 41-42
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  David R. Nash:
  Building EIS, a Utility for Decisions. 43-45
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  Peter Buneman, Howard L. Morgan, Michael D. Zisman:
  Display Facilities for DSS Support: The Daisy Approach. 46-50
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  C. Frank Starmer, Robert A. Rosati:
  A DSS for Management of Patients with Chronic Illness. 51-57
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  Randall Davis:
  A DSS for Diagnosis and Therapy. 58-72
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  William D. Haseman:
  GPLAN: An Operational DSS. 73-78
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  John J. Donovan, Stuart E. Madnick:
  Institutional and Ad Hoc DSS and Their Effective Use. 79-88

Volume 8, Number 3 Supplement, Winter 1977

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  Thomas E. Murray:
  From the Chairman / Title Page. Data Base 8(3 Supplement): 1 (1977)
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  Guidelines for Cost Accounting Practices for Data Processing. Data Base 8(3 Supplement): 2-13 (1977)
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  Suggested Organization of a Chart of Accounts for Accumulating Data Processing Expenses. Data Base 8(3 Supplement): 14-20 (1977)

Volume 8, Number 4, Spring 1977

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  Thomas E. Murray:
  From the Chairman. Data Base 8(4): 2-3 (1977)
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  Joseph T. Hootman:
  Basic Considerations in Developing Computer Charging Mechanisms. 4-9
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  Norman R. Lyons:
  An Automatic Data Generating System for Data Base Simulation and Testing. 10-13
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  James S. Ketchel:
  Miscellany. Data Base 8(4): 14-15 (1977)
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  John T. Gorgone:
  Book Reviews. Data Base 8(4): 16-17 (1977)
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  Thomas E. Murray:
  SIGBDP Local Group Newsletter. Data Base 8(4): 18-20 (1977)