Although system analysis is a well established methodology, the specific application of such analysis to information systems is a relatively new endeavor.
The goal of this book is to present a framework within which the myriad of office technologies and office systems design techniques can be better understood.
Relational methods can be found at various places incomputer science, notably in data base theory, relationalsemantics of concurrency, relationaltype theory, analysisof rewriting systems, and modern programming languagedesign.
Multimedia environments suggest to us a new perception of the state of changes in and the integration of new technologies that can increase our ability to process information.
The mathematical theory of computation has given rise to two important ap- proaches to the informal notion of "e;complexity"e;: Kolmogorov complexity, usu- ally a complexity measure for a single object such as a string, a sequence etc.
The Summer School in Marktoberdorf 1990 had as its overall theme the development of programs as an activity that can be carried out based on and supported by a mathematical method.
With the rapid growth of integration scale of VLSI chips and the present need for reliable computers in space exploration, fault diagnosis and fault toleran- ce have become more important than before, and hence reveal a lot of interest- ing topics which attract many researchers to make a great number of contribu- tions to this field.
The present book is based on the conference Software Development and Reality Construction held at SchloB Eringerfeld in Germany, September 25 - 30, 1988.
The Marktoberdorf Summer Schools on Informatics were started in 1970, with the intention to convene every second or third year a group of top researchers in computing, devoted to preach their most recent results to an elite of advanced students - young and most promising people - and prepared to stand their questions, criticism and suggestions.
Die Gestaltung von Informationssystemen, ihre Organisation und ihr Betrieb, werden angesichts komplexerer Anforderungen und heterogener Betriebsmittel immer problematischer.
Die Fachtagung "Kommunikation in verteilten Systemen" hat zum Ziel, neue Erkenntnisse zu Konzepten, Anwendungen und Auswirkungen von verteilten Systemen und den zugehörigen Kommunikationsaspekten zu vermitteln.
Bringing together scientists from the various disciplines of chemistry who are actively engaged in developing software and using computers to solve their problems was the main objective of the 5th workshop "e;Computers in Chemistry"e; (November 21-23, 1990) held in Oldenburg.
This volume has a dual significance to the ESPRIT Basic Research efforts towards forging strong links between European academic and industrial teams carrying out research, often interdisciplinary, at the forefront of Information Technology.
