The early 1980s saw the development of some rather sophisticated distributed systems. These were not merely networked file systems: rather, using remote procedure calls, hierarchi...
When trying to describe the behaviour of large systems, such as the business processes of large enterprises, we often adopt diagramming techniques based on derivatives of data flo...
The Interchamber Monitoring and Control (IMC) system is semi-autonomous, intelligent software that controls life support systems designed for recycling air in remote space habitat...
Debra Schreckenghost, Daniel Ryan, Carroll Thrones...
There are many in the information systemsdiscipline who believe that user participation is necessary for successful systems development. However, it has been suggested that this b...
Predicting how well applications may run on modern systems is becoming increasingly challenging. It is no longer sufficient to look at number of floating point operations and commu...