Information Systems Methodology Proceedings, 2nd Conference of the European Cooperation in Informatics, Venice, October 10-12, 1978

Analysis of user needs.- A participative approach to forward planning and system change.- A participative approach to systems analysis : An action research in the local government.- Tools for handling human and organizational problems of computer-based information systems.- Organising for common systems.- Values, technology and work.- A framework for the analysis of the relationship between business organization evolution and business information systems evolution.- Information systems management through office automation : An organizational and social perspective.- Methods and tools for information systems design.- Using assertions about traces to write abstract specifications for software modules.- Protection in languages for real time programming.- An experiment in computer aided information systems development.- The design of relational information system according to different kinds of dependencies.- Aspects of data semantics: Names, species and complex physical objects.- A model for the description of the information system dynamics.- Modelling approach for distributed data bases.- Portability of the programs using a data base management system.- A multi-level approach for data description and management of a large hierarchical database supporting a hospital patient information system.- A complementary approach to program analysis and testing.- Organizing the sequencing of processes.- A macro facility for cobol.- The reference string indexing method.- Working set size reduction by restructuring APL workspaces.- Optimal multiprogramming: Principles and implementation.- A simulation model for a loop architecture distributed computer system.- Scheduling dependent tasks from an infinite stream in systems with nonpreemptible resources.- Scheduling preemptable tasks onunrelated processors with additional resources to minimize schedule length.- Deadlock avoidance in graph-structured task systems.- Synchronic aspects of data types : Construction of a non-algorithmic solution of the Banker's problem.- The impact of technology on information system.- Interactive systems as if users really mattered.- Man-computer dialogues for many levels of competence.- Design of information systems for Arabic.- Operation and evolution of organizational information systems.- Human resources systematically applied to ensure computer security.