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From: mauney@ncsu.UUCP (Jon Mauney)
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Subject: TOC: IEEE Software, Jan 85
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Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 11:43:55 EST
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%A Bertrand Meyer
%T On Formalism in Specification
%J IEEE Software
%V 2
%N 1
%P 6-26
%D January 1985
%X A critique of natural-language specification, followed by a presentation
of a mathematical alternative, demonstrates the weakness of natural language 
and the strength of formalism in requirements specifications. 

%A Marc H. Brown
%A Robert Sedgewick
%T Techniques for Algorithm Animation
%J IEEE Software
%V 2
%N 1
%P 27-39
%D January 1985
%X Allowing a user to interact with dynamically changing graphical
representations of algorithms of data structures may help in teaching, 
research, or systems programming 

%A Ellis Horowitz
%A Alfons Kemper
%A Balaji Narasimhan
%T A Survey of Application Generators
%J IEEE Software
%V 2
%N 1
%P 40-54 
%D January 1985
%X By encouraging the unsophisticated computer user to develop his own
data-intensive programs, application generators can significantly improve 
software productivity 

%A John D. Musa
%T Sofware Engineering: The Future of a Profession
%J IEEE Software
%V 2
%N 1
%P 55-62 
%D January 1985
%X Increasing and diverse pressures, manpower shortages, and technology
transfer problems all plague the growing software engineering profession. 
Industry, government, education, and the professional society together 
must help. 

%A Alexander Borgida
%T Features of Languages for the Development of Information Systems
as the Conceptual Level 
%J IEEE Software
%V 2
%N 1
%P 63-72 
%D January 1985
%X Conceptual modeling languages make information systems easier to
design and maintain by using vocabularies that relate naturally and directly 
to the "real world" of many computer applications 

%A Timothy E. Lindquist
%T Assessing the Usability of Human-Computer Interfaces
%J IEEE Software
%V 2
%N 1
%P 74-82 
%D January 1985
%X Engineers may be able to design a better interface if they take into
account the control structures underlying the interface syntax