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@Article{Hoffnagle:1996:Pa,
  author =       "Gene F. Hoffnagle",
  title =        "Preface",
  journal =      j-IBM-SYS-J,
  volume =       "35",
  number =       "1",
  pages =        "2--3",
  year =         "1996",
  CODEN =        "IBMSA7",
  ISSN =         "0018-8670",
  bibdate =      "Wed Mar 25 12:39:01 1998",
  note =         "Issue Order No. G321-0123",
  URL =          "http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj35-1.html#one",
  abstract =     "This issue contains five papers on a variety of
                 subjects: medical image processing using object
                 technology, monitoring of computer network topology
                 through events, IBM's Information FrameWork and its
                 architecture, generation of applications for
                 manufacturing, and access control in host-centric
                 computing.
                 \par
                 The first paper, by Elliott et al., describes and
                 illustrates how object technology is being used to
                 create an easily modified system for image analysis of
                 medical scans in three dimensions. Such systems are
                 important for precise targeting of radiation
                 treatments. The flexibility provided here allows
                 production and testing of alternate approaches for
                 analyzing the images. The authors show how their system
                 is constructed, explain alternate analysis systems and
                 associated algorithms that have been successfully
                 incorporated for clinical testing, and provide insights
                 into the practical aspects of image analysis for
                 clinicians.
                 \par
                 One of the challenges of network management is to
                 closely monitor and adjust the network configuration,
                 or topology, without significant loss of network
                 bandwidth and performance to the monitoring functions
                 themselves. Chao and Tsun explore an event-driven
                 approach for monitoring point-to-point networks that
                 only requires nodes to keep information about
                 neighboring nodes. Their approach uses polling and
                 event monitoring, saves bandwidth over approaches that
                 only use polling, and maintains a map and history of
                 the network's topology. The existence of a map, and its
                 continuous updating, greatly eases the tasks of the
                 network operators.
                 \par
                 In a paper by Evernden, the framework and architectural
                 concepts built around John Zachman's information
                 systems architecture (ISA) are broadened and deepened
                 to provide a more comprehensive Information FrameWork
                 (IFW). In particular, the focus is shifted to
                 information and its management as a vital business
                 asset. The IFW contains three views of information:
                 organization, business, and technical. IFW also has six
                 dimensions: information types, levels of constraint,
                 content, transformation over time, ownership, and
                 methodology chains, which the author refers to as
                 routemaps. Considerable information is provided that
                 relates IFW to ISA and compares their
                 characteristics.
                 \par
                 Automation of manufacturing engineering can be largely
                 automated itself, according to Hazony. He has developed
                 a problem-solving platform for engineering that is
                 intended to allow rapid and easy conceptualization,
                 design, and implementation of manufacturing systems.
                 This system generator runs on commercially available
                 personal computers. The author presents the
                 mathematical and technical foundations, the generator
                 design, and examples of its use. The key design point
                 of the Application System Generator on the personal
                 computer (ASG/PC) is the complete integration of the
                 seamless-design-to-manufacture (SDTM) process.
                 \par
                 Over the years, sophisticated mechanisms have been
                 developed for controlling access in host-centric
                 systems. The authors of the next paper, Benantar,
                 Guski, and Troidle, provide a review of the key
                 theoretical models for such access control. Then they
                 use IBM's Multiple Virtual Storage (MVS) operating
                 system and the Resource Access Control Facility (RACF*)
                 as examples, showing how the models can be applied to
                 host-centric and network-centric computing
                 environments. The authors describe administration,
                 security contexts, resource access, and auditing and
                 reporting.
                 \par
                 As the Journal begins its 35th year, we would like to
                 acknowledge the support of readers, authors, and
                 referees that makes such a long history possible. We
                 thank you and encourage you to continue your interest
                 and participation in this publication. We point out
                 that in 1995 we published 37 papers and one Technical
                 Forum, and we offered the work of a record 177 authors
                 in the third largest volume ever, at 760 pages. It also
                 seems appropriate at such a time to state a few facts
                 that sometimes escape us as we focus on a single paper,
                 theme, or special issue. First, this publication is a
                 quarterly refereed technical journal, which means
                 \par
                 that the integrity of each paper is ensured by a
                 process that depends upon peer reviews of content,
                 currency, and value by recognized experts within and
                 outside IBM. Second, it is intended for the software
                 and systems professional and applied research
                 community worldwide. The papers are written for a
                 technically aware readership, and we welcome
                 submissions by knowledgeable authors around the
                 globe, within and outside IBM. Third, the Journal has
                 over 60,000 subscribers worldwide. Of those,
                 approximately, two-thirds are technical professionals
                 and researchers outside IBM; one-third are IBM
                 employees; two-thirds are in the United States; and
                 one-third are in other countries.
                 \par
                 The next issue of the Journal will be a special issue
                 on object technology.
                 \par
                 Gene F. Hoffnagle Editor",
  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
}

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