Table of Contents

1 Diagnosis Techniques and Methodologies for Digital Systems.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Diagnostic Data Generation Theory.- 2.1. Digital System and Its Faults.- 2.2. Test Data Generation Method.- 2.3. Test Data Optimization.- 2.4. Fault Simulation.- 2.5. Fault Dictionary.- 3. Diagnostic Execution.- 3.1. Test Data Input and Symptom Output.- 3.2. Test and Diagnosis Execution.- 4. Applied Fault Diagnosis Techniques.- 4.1. FLT (Fault Location Technology).- 4.2. Microdiagnostics.- 4.3. ESS (Electronic Switching System) Approach.- 4.4. Practical and Useful Diagnosis Method in Real-World Digital Systems.- 5. Some Problems for Further Research.- 6. Conclusions.- References.- 2 Design for a Distributed Information Network.- 1. Introduction.- 1.1. Overview.- 1.2. The Distributed Network: Design Criteria.- 1.3. The Distributed Network : Implementation Criteria.- 2. Hardware Systems.- 2.1. Basic Modular Unit.- 2.2. Switching Station.- 2.3. Communications.- 3. Software Systems.- 3.1. The System Implementation Language.- 3.2. The Network Communication Language.- 3.3. The Retrieval System.- 3.4. Network Resource Management.- 3.5. The User Oriented Language Interface (UOLI).- 3.6. Information Processing.- 3.7. Network Controller.- 4. Selected Applications.- 4.1. Medical Sciences.- 4.2. Physical Sciences.- 4.3. Nonacademic Applications.- References.- 3 Modeling and Design of Distributed Information Systems.- 1. General Introduction.- 1.1. Distributed Information Systems.- 1.2. Background.- 2. Modeling Distributed Computer Systems.- 2.1. Modeling a Distributed Computer System.- 2.2. Transaction Processing by a Distributed Computer System.- 2.3. An Example.- 3. A Design Procedure for Distributed Computer Systems.- 3.1. Transaction Allocation.- 3.2. Processor Allocation.- 3.3. Line Allocation.- 3.4. File Allocation.- 4. Modeling Distributed Databases.- 4.1. Database Skeleton.- 4.2. An Example of a Database Skeleton.- 4.3. Logical Database Synthesis.- 5. Intelligent Coupler.- 5.1. Locating Information.- 5.2. Query Formulation and Test Run for Queries.- 5.3. Query Languages.- 5.4. Security.- 5.5. Locking in Distributed Information Systems.- 5.6. System Recovery.- 5.7. Performance Measurements and Evaluation.- 6. Concluding Remarks.- References and Suggested Further Reading.- 4 Hardware, Firmware, Software Technology in Microcomputer Systems.- 1. Hardware Organization.- 1.1. Introduction.- 1.2. A Simple Microprocessor.- 1.3. An Improved Microprocessor.- 1.4. A Sophisticated Microprocessor.- 2. Firmware.- 2.1. Definitions.- 2.2. Software LSI.- 2.3. Grand-Scale Integration.- 3. Software.- 3.1. Problems.- 3.2. A System Implementation Language.- 3.3. Pushbutton Programming.- 3.4. Improved Pushbutton Programming.- 4. What Computing Has Come To.- 4.1. How Large Should a Computer Be?.- 4.2. The Cost of Complexity.- 4.3. Large-Scale Versus Micro Hardware.- 4.4. Large-Scale Versus Micro Software.- 4.5. Summary.- References.- 5 Data Structures and Pattern Recognition.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Pattern Recognition Problem.- 3. The Data Structure Concept.- 4. Pictorial Pattern Recognition and Image Processing.- 5. Review of Applications to Pattern Recognition.- 6. Line Drawings and Chain Codes.- 7. Histograms and Integral Projections.- 8. Medial Axis Transformation.- 9. Generalized Cones.- 10. Syntactic Methods.- 11. Trees in Analysis: Text, Speech, and Line-Drawing Data.- 12. Webs and Trees in Applications.- 13. Structure Learning.- 14. Conclusion.- References.