Trends in Information Processing Systems [electronic resource] : 3rd Conference of the European Cooperation in Informatics Munich, October 20–22, 1981 Proceedings / edited by Arie Duijvestijn, Peter Christian Lockemann.

Architecture for office automation -- Software engineering: Experience and convictions -- Rads — Rapid appligation development system -- Separate and integral compilation of subsystems -- S/E/TEC — An environment for the production of reliable software -- Construction of application systems: Some aspects of standardization -- Specification as a design base -- Prospects of new tools for software development -- Ada and the German pay phone: An illustrative example of parallel processing -- Modules program structures and the structuring of operating systems -- SEVAL, a high-level validation language -- Problems in compiling Ada -- The future of applicative programming -- Structuring concepts for distributed systems: The communication aspect -- A communication service applied in a distributed data base system -- Phlox 2: A distributed system providing a server database management system -- Transaction management in a distributed database management system -- Access control and management in multilevel database models -- The grid file: An adaptable, symmetric multi-key file structure -- Serializability problems of interleaved database transactions -- Performance evaluation of two concurrency control mechanisms in a distributed database system -- A multiprocessor architecture using a circulating memory -- The realization of a data type architecture -- Conservation laws in operational analysis -- TOCS: a SIMULA-based simulator for the analysis of mainframe-oriented distributed systems -- The future of applicative programming.