Automating Systems Development

Section 1 — Fourth Generation Languages.- Toolbox Design Philosophy.- The Impact of Fourth Generation Tools in Practice — Three Case Histories.- A Case History of the Development and Implementation of a System Using MIMER and Prototyping.- Flexible Design of Manufacturing Information Systems.- 4GL Productivity Through Information Engineering.- DB4GL — An Intelligent Database System.- Section 2 — Work Bench Tools.- Can Fact—Finding Be Automated?.- Accelerating the Analysis/Design Transition with the Transform Analyser.- Implementing Relational Data Bases: Automating the Mapping Process.- PLEX — A Structured Line Diagram Editor.- MAJIC — Automating JSP Program Design and Development.- Computer — Aided Design of Software: Research and Experience.- Section 3 — Work Bench Tools Within a Methodology.- Automating a Systems Development Methodology: The LBMS Experience.- Tetrarch — A System Development Methodology with Automated Tools.- Intellipse: A Knowledge Based Tool for an Intergrated Project Support Environment.- Methodologies and Tools for Real—Time Systems.- Making Structured Methods Work: Using an Embedded Expert System to Monitor the Use of Methodology in an Analyst’s Workbench — The Information Engineering Workbench.- Automating Information Engineering.- Introducing Workbench Tools into a Development Environment.- Section 4 — Open Tools.- IPSEs in Support of Teams.- Perspective Kernel — The Basis for a General Purpose IPSE.- Fortune — An IPSE Documentation Tool.- An Investigation into A Systems Development Technique.- A View Mechanism for An Integrated Project Support Environment.- Using Databases to Automate System Development.- Knuth with Knobs on — Literate Program Development.- Section 5 — Environments And Approaches: OtherIssues.- Data Data Dictionaries.- The Role of the Corporate Dictionary.- Entity Modeling and Intelligent Dictionaries.- Automated Support Using a Data Mainframe Data Dictionary for Analysis and Data Modelling at a Major International Bank.- Application Environments.- An Application Environment.- High Level Design for Office Automation with Supporting Graphics Facilities.- Are There Non Real—Time Systems?.- The Use of Frame—Based Knowledge Representation Techniques in Prototyping.- Section 6 — Future Trends.- Time to Change the Culture of Information Systems Departments.- The Rubic Project: A New Paradgm for Information Systems Development.- Designing a Method Driven Software Development Environment.- An Environment Definition Model for Meta System Support.- Specifying Procedures to Office Systems.