Communications of the ACM articles from March 1995

Communications of the ACM archives from March 1995

The Internet is not TV: Web publishing. (World Wide Web)
March 1, 1995... Don't turn the page. This is not yet-another article on how great the World-Wide Web is, and how fast it is growing. By now you must have read many of those, and surfed the Web a bit. But, the Internet is not television - are you ready to become...

Bayesian networks. (Real-World Applications of Bayesian Networks) (Cover Story)
March 1, 1995... This brief tutorial on Bayesian networks serves to introduce readers to some of the concepts, terminology, and notation employed by articles in this special section. In a Bayesian network, a variable takes on values from a collection of mutually...

Structure and chance: melding logic and probability for software debugging. (Real-World Applications of Bayesian Networks) (Cover Story)
March 1, 1995... Software errors abound in the world of computing. Sophisticated computer programs rank high on the list of the most complex systems ever created by humankind. The complexity of a program or a set of interacting programs makes it extremely...

Applying Bayesian networks to information retrieval. (Real-World Applications of Bayesian Networks) (Cover Story)
March 1, 1995... Information retrieval (IR) is the identification of documents or other units of information in a collection that are relevant to a particular information need. An information need is a set of questions to which someone would like to find an...

Decision-theoretic troubleshooting. (Real-World Applications of Bayesian Networks) (Cover Story)
March 1, 1995... You have just finished typing that big report into your word processor. It is formatted correctly and looks beautiful on the screen. You hit print, go to the printer - and nothing is there. You try again - still nothing. The report needs to go...

Temporal difference learning and TD-Gammon. (includes related article)
March 1, 1995... Ever since the days of Shannon's proposal for a chess-playing algorithm [12] and Samuel's checkers-learning program [10] the domain of complex board games such as Go, chess, checkers, Othello, and backgammon has been widely regarded as an ideal...

Coordination in software development.
March 1, 1995... Since its inception, the software industry has been in crisis. As Blazer noted 20 years ago, "[Software] is unreliable, delivered late, unresponsive to change, inefficient, and expensive . . . and has been for the past 20 years" [4]. In a survey...

Race differences in job performance and career success.
March 1, 1995... Although blacks have gained entry to the information systems (IS) field and various managerial positions, they continue to experience more restricted career advancement prospects than whites. They have found it difficult to advance professionally...

Forums for management information systems scholars.
March 1, 1995... What is "scholarly research" and which publication outlets are considered "best"? In any academic discipline, the answers to these questions are sought by: * Selection, promotion, and tenure committees as they seek to secure and retain the...