Manfred Paul - Böcker

Die in den letzten Jahren in ganz aussergewohnlichem Masse gesteigerte Leistungsfahigkeit der Rechner und die ebenso rasch vorangeschrittene Entwicklung der Kommunikationstechnik bringen im Bereich der Buroarbeit eine Vielzahl erheblicher Umwalzungen. Die Jahrestagung 87 der GI, deren Tagungsband hier vorliegt, greift wichtige Fragen hierzu auf und setzt sich mit einer Fulle von Einzelthemen auseinander. Bekannte Referenten berichten in vier Hauptvortragen zu aktuellen Fragen der Buroautomatisierung aus erster Hand. Ferner werden in zehn Fachgesprachen referierte Beitrage und eingeladene Vortrage anerkannter Fachleute zu folgenden Themen angeboten: - Theoretische Aspekte der Kommunikation und Organisation bei verteilten Rechensystemen - Datenhaltung in Buroinformationssystemen - Desktop-Publishing - Software-Ergonomie und Software Engineering - Rechensysteme fur Buro-Arbeitsplatze - Graphik und Bildverarbeitung auf dem Weg zueinander - Entscheidungsunterstutzungs-Systeme in der Buro- kommunikation - Computerarbeitsplatze fur Juristen - Verwaltungspolitische Dimension der lokalen Automation - Macht und Ohnmacht in vernetzten Burosystemen.

In software engineering there is a growing need for formalization as a basis for developing powerful computer assisted methods. This volume contains seven extensive lectures prepared for a series of IFIP seminars on the Formal Description of Programming Concepts. The authors are experts in their fields and have contributed substantially to the state of the art in numerous publications. The lectures cover a wide range in the theoretical foundations of programming and give an up-to-date account of the semantic models and the related tools which have been developed in order to allow a rigorous discussion of the problems met in the construction of correct programs. In particular, methods for the specification and transformation of programs are considered in detail. One lecture is devoted to the formalization of concurrency and distributed systems and reflects their great importance in programming. Further topics are the verification of programs and the use of sophisticated type systems in programming. This compendium on the theoretical foundations of programming is also suitable as a textbook for special seminars on different aspects of this broad subject.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 4th European Software Engineering Conference. It contains 6 invited papers and 27 contributed papers selected from more than 135 submissions. The volume has a mixture of themes. Some, such as software engineering and computer supported collaborative work, anticipate future developments; others, such as systems engineering, are more concerned with reports of practical industrial applications. The contributed papers are organized under the following headings: requirements specification; environments; systems engineering; distributed software engineering; real-time systems; software engineering and computer supported collaborative work; software reuse; software processes; and formal aspects of software engineering.