South African Computer Journal (SACJ): Recent submissions

  • A Linda solution to the evolving philosophers problem 
    Hazelhurst, SE (South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 1991)
    The dining philosophers problem and the evolving philosophers problems are abstractions of resource sharing problems in parallel and distributed systems. A Linda solution to the dining problem has already been shown; this ...
  • An investigation in the separation of the application from its user interface 
    Greyling, JH; Warren, PR (South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 1991)
    The separation of an interactive program's application from its user interface is investigated. In order to support good human interaction, the interface requires a deep knowledge of the application. This is in direct ...
  • The placement of subprograms by an automatic programming system 
    Du Plessis, JP; Messerschmidt, HJ (South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 1991)
    Programming in a procedural language such as Pascal usually involves the development of subprograms. An auto­matic programming system needs a systematic method to determine the placement (position) of a subprogram in a ...
  • A method of controlling quality of application software 
    Crossman, T.D. (South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 1991)
    This paper describes the inspection team process and explores its value to the application developer. The conclusion reached is that the technique does incur added development costs, but the whole process brings with it ...
  • Cost-effective visual simulation based on graphics workstations 
    Caduri, A; Kourie, D.G. (South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 1991)
    Visual simulators can play a key role in personnel training and the evaluation of engineering designs. Although commercially available simulators provide realistic 3D perspective images, they are priced in the million ...
  • Why the fuss about neural networks? 
    Barth, G (South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 1991)
    Currently, there is a certain hype about issues related to neural networks. This is somewhat surprising since the origins of neural nets date back some 40 years. At that time, several researchers experimented with distributed ...
  • The fixpoint theorem in the El-Calculus 
    Postma, SW; McGee, A (South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 1990)
    The οr.1-calculus is presented as an extension to the standard 1-calculus, and a r.1-term called the strong conditional is discussed. The strong conditional is shown to be non-monotomic, and an extension is made to the ...
  • A review of the use of computers in education in South Africa: Tertiary education 
    Pistorius, MC; Fallick, PM (South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 1990)
    This informal review is based on personal discussions carried out within the last year with various experts in the field on the current use of computers in tertiary education, particularly at universities. An attempt has ...
  • MINIX for a distributed database system 
    Meumann, MD; Rennhackkamp, MH (South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 1990)
    A user of a distributed database management system must be able to access data which is stored on a number of different sites, connected by a network, without being aware of the physical data distribution. The NRDNIX ...
  • A file server for a multi-transputer UNIX system 
    Hoffman, PK; Smit, G de V (South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 1990)
    The DISTRIX operating system is a multiprocessor UNIX-like distributed operating system. It consists of a number of satellite processors connected to central servers. The system is based on the MINIX operating system, ...
  • Review of mapping neural networks in classification systems 
    Hing, RL (South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 1990)
    An old approach used in classification systems has been revived by the discovery of new algorithms which use this approach to approximate complex non-linear functions. This approach, known as neurocomputing, classifies ...
  • Data-dependence of semantic information 
    Heidema, J; Labuschagne, W.A. (South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 1990)
    The theory of semantic information is sketched in an algebraic setting, and automorphisms characterising various degrees of incompatibility are introduced. Data-dependent measures of semantic information are defined in ...
  • An exploratory study into communications between IS staff and users during requirement specification 
    Du Plessis, CJ; Rip, SDE; Lay, PMQ (South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 1990)
    Communication between IS staff and users during requirement specification is unavoidable. However, little research has been conducted to explore the relationship between effective group communication and the quality of the ...
  • OCTOLISP: An experiment with data structures 
    Dempster, Robert (South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 1990)
    OCTOLISP is a functional programming language which provides the programmer with a number of explicit data structures, such as lists, stacks, vectors, sets, trees and forests. Each of these data structures also has a ...
  • Kritiese faktore vir die suksesvolle afhandeling van inligtingstelselprojekte 
    Bruwer, P.J.S. (South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 1990)
    During the past 30 years the rapid evolution and distribution of information systems have brought about a change in the issues surrounding information systems projects. The technical, internal and external environment ...
  • Opening address: Vth SA Computer Symposium 
    Viljoen, HC (South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 1990)
    You may know that I am sitting on two chairs at the present moment: one, at the University of Stellenbosch in the Chair of Electronic Engineering as Dean of Engineering; the other at the SABC as chairman of the Board of ...
  • Data structuring via functions 
    Venter, BH (South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 1990)
    A programming language data model is introduced, based on the notions that variables are functions and types are sets of values. It is shown that, despite the simplicity of the underlying mathematical formalism, the data ...
  • An Estelle compiler for a protocol development environment 
    Kritzinger, PS; van Dijk, J (South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 1990)
    The development of communication protocol standards has been accompanied by the standardization of formal specification languages to describe these standards in a clear and unambiguous way. Simulta­neously, techniques for ...
  • On the generation of permutations 
    Naccache de Paz, D (South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 1990)
    A new incremental algorithm for generating permutations on 1,2,..n (hereafter called "arrangements') is presented. The scheme generates arrangement k +1 by reversing a certain prefix of its predecessor and linking it to ...
  • Homological transfer: an informations systems research method 
    Mende, J. (South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 1990)
    Information systems are members of a large class of similar systems called "productive processes". The existence of similarities between manufacturing, financial, educational, informational and other productive processes ...

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