Volume 8, Number 1, Summer 1976

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  Thomas E. Murray: From the Chairman. 3-6
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  Daniel Teichroew, Ernest A. Hershey III: A Computer-Aided Technique for Structured Documentation. 7-9
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  NCC Roundup: Minicomputers in Business. 10-11
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  J. Daniel Couger, Fred R. McFadden: Eastern Bloc Computing Environments. 12-13
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  Thomas E. Murray: SIGBDP Local Group Newsletter. 14-16

Volume 8, Number 2, Fall 1976

= SIGMOD Record 8(4) November 1976

Data Base Directions - The Next Steps, Proceedings of the Workshop of the National Bureau of Standards and the Association for Computing Machinery, held at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October 29-31, 1975, John L. Berg, Editor

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  Richard G. Canning: Introduction. 1-2
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  Daniel B. Magraw: A Manager's Viewpoint. 3-11
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  R. Michael Gall: What Experience Has Taught Us (Working Panel Report). 13-28
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  Robert W. Bemer: Standards: A Data Base Imperative (Working Panel Report). 31-39
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  Donald L. Adams: Auditing the Data Base (Working Panel Report). 41-64
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  Charles D. Trigg: Impact of Government Regulations (Working Panel Report). 67-78
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  George G. Dodd: Data Base Technology - Present and Future (Working Panel Report). 81-103
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  Background. 105-106
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  Criteria to be Applied in the Standardization of a Programming Language (ISO/TC 97/SC 5). 107-110
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  Barry R. Munson, Chester M. Smith Jr.: The Study of Data Base Management Systems (with Bibliography). 111-149
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  List of Attendees, Participants and Contributors. 151-158

Volume 8, Number 3, Winter 1977

Proceedings of a Conference on Decision Support Systems, Santa Clara, California, January 24-26, 1977, Edited by Eric D. Carlson

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  Eric D. Carlson, Michael Scott Morton: DSS Conference Overview. 2
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  Richard L. Klaas: A DSS for Airline Management. 3-8
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  Ephraim R. McLean, Thomas F. Riesing: MAPP: A DSS for Financial Planning. 9-14
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  John D. Joyce, N. N. Oliver: Impacts of a Relational Information System on Industrial Decisions. 15-21
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  Paul Berger, Franz Edelman: IRIS: A Transactions-Based DSS for Human Resources Management. 22-29
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  Barbara F. Grace: Training Users of a Prototype DSS. 30-36
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  Izak Benbasat: Cognitive Style Considerations in DSS Design. 37-38
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  Edward Gainer, Edward Kimball, Alfred Maley, Alan A. Kortesoja: A Statistical Evaluation of Tactics Usage. 38-40
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  M. Loomis, Jay F. Nunamaker, Benn R. Konsynski: An Approach to an Administrative DSS. 40-41
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  Richard D. Hackathorn: Modeling Unstructured Decision Making. 41-42
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  David R. Nash: Building EIS, a Utility for Decisions. 43-45
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  Peter Buneman, Howard L. Morgan, Michael Zisman: Display Facilities for DSS Support: The Daisy Approach. 46-50
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  C. Frank Starmer, Robert A. Rosati: A DSS for Management of Patients with Chronic Illness. 51-57
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  Randall Davis: A DSS for Diagnosis and Therapy. 58-72
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  William D. Haseman: GPLAN: An Operational DSS. 73-78
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  John J. Donovan, Stuart E. Madnick: Institutional and Ad Hoc DSS and Their Effective Use. 79-88

Volume 8, Number 3 Supplement, Winter 1977

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  Thomas E. Murray: From the Chairman / Title Page. 1
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  Guidelines for Cost Accounting Practices for Data Processing. 2-13
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  Suggested Organization of a Chart of Accounts for Accumulating Data Processing Expenses. 14-20

Volume 8, Number 4, Spring 1977

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  Thomas E. Murray: From the Chairman. 2-3
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  Joseph T. Hootman: Basic Considerations in Developing Computer Charging Mechanisms. 4-9
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  Norman R. Lyons: An Automatic Data Generating System for Data Base Simulation and Testing. 10-13
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  James S. Ketchel: Miscellany. 14-15
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  John T. Gorgone: Book Reviews. 16-17
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  Thomas E. Murray: SIGBDP Local Group Newsletter. 18-20