SAICSIT Digital Archive: Recent submissions

  • Migrations: A Microcomputer-Based Generalized Information Retrieval System 
    Pino, Jose A. (Computer Society of South Africa (on behalf of SAICSIT), 1984)
    This paper describes the design of MIGRATIONS, a software system under development at the University of Chile, whose purpose is to store, manage and retrieve unformatted text information. Among the most important design ...
  • Developing an Intelligent Editor for Microcomputers 
    McDermott, T.S. (Computer Society of South Africa (on behalf of SAICSIT), 1984)
    A language-independent syntax-directed editor for teaching programming languages on micro-computers is briefly described. The design of the configuring grammar and the lnternal tree-structure to be edited and interpreted ...
  • On a Generalisation of Cayley Diagrams 
    Labuschagne, W.A.; Van Rooyen, H.O. (Computer Society of South Africa (on behalf of SAICSIT), 1984)
    A technique for partially representing binary group operations by sets of binary relations was devised by Cayley. This technique can be generalised to permit the representation of arbitrary sets of n-ary relations {n ~ ...
  • Software Configuration Management - A practical approach 
    Du Preez, L.S. (Computer Society of South Africa (on behalf of SAICSIT), 1984)
    A brief description of software configuration management principles is given, followed by a discussion on the application of these principles in a specific installation.
  • A Virtual Multiprocessor Computer Design 
    Turton, Trevor (Computer Society of South Africa (on behalf of SAICSIT), 1984)
    This paper describes computer design which 'would achieve a high instruction throughput rate on a relatively modest amount of hardware. It is based on multiprogramming the CPU at a sub-instruction level. The design will ...
  • Program Design as the Tool of Preference in Computer Literacy Education, Experience, Incentives, Implications 
    Richfield, J.M. (Computer Society of South Africa (on behalf of SAICSIT), 1984)
    Structured program design is urged as a rewarding vehicle for the introduction of computer concepts to age groups ranging from mid primary school to senior management. Progressively expanded subsets of the material form ...
  • Concurrency: An Easier Way to Program 
    Mueller, C.S.M. (Computer Society of South Africa (on behalf of SAICSIT), 1984)
    Why concurrency in itself should be seen as a method of programming, is discussed. Current approaches to concurrent programming are evaluated in terms of e~e qt programming. The properties required to decompose the ...
  • A Context Sensitive Metalanguage for Intelligent Editors 
    Kaplan, S.M. (Computer Society of South Africa (on behalf of SAICSIT), 1984)
    The notion of and mot1vat1on for intelligent editor systems 1s introduced, spec1f1cally a language independent intelligent editor called "PASTOR" We also introduce and discuss the metalanguage used in the editor for grammar ...
  • Documenting a Database System with a Database 
    Hunter, D.A. (Computer Society of South Africa (on behalf of SAICSIT), 1984)
    The South African Data Centre for Oceanography (SADCO) has implemented a multi d1sc1plinary oceanographic database using OMS 170, a relational database management system Using a high level query language sc1ent1sts from ...
  • Very High Speed Graphics Work-Station 
    Jablonski, J.; Dijkman, J.H. (Computer Society of South Africa (on behalf of SAICSIT), 1984)
    The design of a high speed graphics workstation 1s presented A spec1f1caly designed Graphics System Interface com bines standard computer peripherals to produce a soph1st1cated man machine workstation A review 1s given ...
  • Micro-Code Implementation of Language Interpreters 
    Roets, P. P. (Computer Society of South Africa (on behalf of SAICSIT), 1982)
    An evaluation is made of the improvement of language interpreters by coding recurring sequences of instructions in micro-code. The results of an experiment with PASCAL indicate that the increase in speed expected may not ...
  • Knowledge-based selection and combination of forecasting methods 
    Finnie, G.R. (South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 1991)
    Forecasting techniques are used extensively in a variety of business (and other) applications for the analysis and prediction of various factors of interest e.g. future market demand for a specific product. However, the ...
  • An analysis of the usage of systems development methods in South Africa 
    Erlank, S; Pelteret, D; Meskin, M (South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 1991)
    The systems development process is commonly described in terms of a System Development Life Cycle (SDLC). There is a wide range of tools and techniques available to the system developer, and these are typically used for ...
  • CID3: an extension of ID3 for attributes with ordered domains 
    Cloete, I; Theron, H (South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 1991)
    Quinlan's ID3 is a popular and efficient algorithm for inducing decision trees from concept examples, where the examples are presented as vectors of attribute-value pairs. If some attributes have integer or real domains ...
  • An interrupt driven paradigm of concurrent programming 
    Clayton, Peter G. (South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 1991)
    This paper introduces a class of concurrent programming construct based on an interrupt driven paradigm. This programming model is designed to simplify the application of conventional imperative programming techniques ...
  • An ADA compatible specification language 
    Bosua, R; Du Plessis, A.L (South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 1991)
    Specification languages to be used in conjunction with Ada as the implementation language have been proposed in the literature. Simultaneously, methods for the development of real-time software systems have been introduced, ...
  • Hypertext for browsing in computer aided learning 
    Barrow, J (South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 1991)
    Hypertext is presented as a database accessing mechanism well-suited to computer aided learning applications. On the basis of informal experiments with prototype software, some benefits of structured hypertext are explored. ...
  • A model checker for transition systems 
    De Villiers, PJA (South African Computer Society (SAICSIT), 1992)
    A model checker automatically determines whether a model of a reactive system satisfies its specification. Temporal logic is used to specify the intended behaviour of a reactive system which is modelled as a transition ...
  • PEW: A tool for the automated performance analysis of protocols 
    Wheeler, G; Kritzinger, Pieter S. (South African Computer Society (SAICSIT), 1992)
    The Protocol Engineering Workbench (PEW) is an integrated software system or tool for the analysis of communication protocols specified using the Estelle Formal Description Technique or FDT. The execution of systems specified ...
  • Beam search in attribute-based concept induction 
    Theron, H; Cloete, I (South African Computer Society (SAICSIT), 1992)
    Thi spaper investigates the issues of specializing only a single best conjunction to employing a beam search when learning attribute-based concept descriptions using the GCA algorithm. We describe GCA, a recently introduced ...

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