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Impirical Foundations of Information and Software Science

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  • © 1985

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Editors:
  1. Jagdish C. Agrawal

    1. U.S. Army Institute for Research in Management, Information, and Computer Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

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  2. Pranas Zunde

    1. School of Information and Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

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Table of contents (34 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Jagdish C. Agrawal, Pranas Zunde
      Pages 1-2

  3. Symposium Opening Addresses

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 3-3
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    2. Symposium Opening Addresses

      • Albert P. Sheppard
      Pages 3-6

  6. Aids for Man-Machine Interaction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. Computer Graphics and a Revised Concept of Dependence and Independence

      • Bruno Forte
      Pages 127-137

    3. Designing a Human-Computer Interface with Software Specification Techniques

      • Robert J. K. Jacob
      Pages 139-156

    4. Empirical Methods in the BTU-Project

      • Ed Lieff, Carl-Martin Allwood
      Pages 157-168

    5. The use of Multi-Level Adaptable user Interfaces in Improving User-Computer Interaction

      • J. Robinson, A. Burns
      Pages 169-177
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About this book

The purpose of the Second Symposium on Empirical Foundations of Informa­ tion and Software Science (EFISS) was, in essence, the same as that of the First Symposium in this series, i. e. to explore subjects and methods of sci­ entific inquiry which are of fundamental and common interest to information and software sciences, and to map directions of research that will benefit from the mutual interaction of these two fields. In fact, one of the most important results of the First EFISS Symposium was the conclusion that the commonality of these two sciences is much more than just the commonality of their objects of study, namely, the study of informative and prescriptive properties of texts in all kinds of sign sys­ tems (such as natural or artificial languages). Rather, the most challeng­ ing problems appear to be in the areas in which both these sciences overlap, such as, for instance, the problem of trade-offs between informative and prescriptive uses of texts. This problem can be formulated in generic terms as follows: given a certain kind of action or activity which has been pre­ scribed to some agent, i. e. which is required to be implemented or carried out, what kind of information should be provided to the agent, in what form, and how should it be distributed over the contextual structure of the pre­ scriptive text to enable the agent to carry out the action or activity most effectively and efficiently.

Editors and Affiliations

  • U.S. Army Institute for Research in Management, Information, and Computer Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

    Jagdish C. Agrawal

  • School of Information and Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

    Pranas Zunde

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Impirical Foundations of Information and Software Science

  • Editors: Jagdish C. Agrawal, Pranas Zunde

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2521-5

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-9523-5Published: 03 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-2521-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 415

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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