Automated support for experience-based software management

To effectively manage a software development project, the software manager must have access to key information concerning a project's status. This information includes not only data relating to the project of interest, but also, the experience of past development efforts within the environment. This paper describes the concepts and functionality of a software management tool designed to provide this information. This tool, called the Software Management Environment (SME), enables the software manager to compare an ongoing development effort with previous efforts and with models of the 'typical' project within the environment, to predict future project status, to analyze a project's strengths and weaknesses, and to assess the project's quality. In order to provide these functions the tool utilizes a vast corporate memory that includes a data base of software metrics, a set of models and relationships that describe the software development environment, and a set of rules that capture other knowledge and experience of software managers within the environment. Integrating these major concepts into one software management tool, the SME is a model of the type of management tool needed for all software development organizations

Users guide for information retrieval using APL

A Programming Language (APL) is a precise, concise, and powerful computer programming language. Several features make APL useful to managers and other potential computer users. APL is interactive; therefore, the user can communicate with his program or data base in near real-time. This, coupled with the fact that APL has excellent debugging features, reduces program checkout time to minutes or hours rather than days or months. Of particular importance is the fact that APL can be utilized as a management science tool using such techniques as operations research, statistical analysis, and forecasting. The gap between the scientist and the manager could be narrowed by showing how APL can be used to do what the scientists and the manager each need to do, retrieve information. Sometimes, the information needs to be retrieved rapidly. In this case APL is ideally suited for this challenge

IPAD: Integrated Programs for Aerospace-vehicle Design

Early work was performed to apply data base technology in support of the management of engineering data in the design and manufacturing environments. The principal objective of the IPAD project is to develop a computer software system for use in the design of aerospace vehicles. Two prototype systems are created for this purpose. Relational Information Manager (RIM) is a successful commercial product. The IPAD Information Processor (IPIP), a much more sophisticated system, is still under development

Remote MIB-item look-up service

Despite some deficiencies, the Internet management framework is widely deployed and thousands of management information base (MIB) modules have been defined thus far. These modules are used by implementers of agent software, as well as by managers and management applications, to understand the syntax and semantics of the management information that may be exchanged. At the manager's side, MIB modules are usually stored in separate files, which are maintained by the human manager and read by the management application. Since maintenance of this file repository can be cumbersome, management applications are often confronted with incomplete and outdated information. To solve this "meta-management" problem, this paper discusses the design of a remote look-up service for MIB-item definitions. Such a service facilitates the retrieval of missing MIB module definitions, as well as definitions of individual MIB-items. Initially the service may be provided by a single server, but other servers can be added at later stages to improve performance and prevent copyright problems. It is envisaged that vendors of network equipment will also install servers, to distribute their vendor specific MIB. The paper describes how the service, which is provided on a best effort basis, can be accessed by managers/management applications, and how servers inform each other about the MIB modules they support

Computer networks analysis with Cacti

In this thesis, we have identified techniques and approaches that are most commonly encountered in network management systems. We have described availability and performance monitoring techniques. Selection of monitoring technique depends on the complexity of monitored parameters and preliminary established architecture. Network monitoring suggests architecture in which centralized manager collects and analyses data from managed devices. Managed devices expose their network statistics through objects defined within the Management Information Base. Simple Network Management Protocol allowing the manager to communicate with the managed hosts. Afterwards we analyse network monitoring and graphing tool Cacti. Cacti allows a manager to poll managed devices and graph the gathered data. In the last part we cover the details of establishing network management system in which we monitor local and remote network resources. Cacti has emerged as adaptable tool for monitoring computer networks

U.S. - U.S.S.R. technical exchange program: Smokejumping - rappelling, October 1976

This technical report was prepared by North Cascades Smokejumper Base manager Bill Moody on his detail to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the exchange of information and techniques related to the management of forests in October 1976. The report includes various aspects of wildland fire fighting by use of smokejumping and rappelling, from recruitment to fire suppression. The report is prefaced by a brief summary by Moody about the exchange.https://dc.ewu.edu/smokejumping_pubs/1017/thumbnail.jp

Tolerance in the Communicative Culture of Modern Educational Manager

Cultural, racial, social, religious, ethnic heterogeneity of educational groups is a problem of modern education in the context of integration and globalization. This often becomes a reason for misunderstandings, sometimes aggression in the interaction of representatives of opposing worldviews, preferences or traditions. Tolerance in the communicative culture of the educational manager, activated at the level of management structures and broadcast vertically and horizontally through the education system through pedagogical teams to all categories of consumers of educational services, will be able to prevent this. The aim of the article is to outline the role of tolerance in the communicative culture of the modern education manager.  According to the purpose the following tasks of research have been defined: - to analyze sources of various branches of science and to find out meanings of basic concepts; - to outline the features of management in education in communication area; - to define its structure, establish relationships between components and develop a structural and semantic model of tolerance in the communicative culture of the education manager. The following research methods have been used to study the backgrounds of the problem: information, terminology, analysis, synthesis, methods of scientific research. The comparative-typological method has been used to compare, identify signs of similarities and differences between phenomena and facts Methods of forecasting and theoretical modeling have been used in the development of structural and semantic model. Systematization, classification and use of structural-functional analysis have been contributed to the generalization of the research results. Interdisciplinary approaches (sociocultural and multicultural) to the study of management, along with axiological, holistic, systemic, activity and synergetic are the methodological basis of the study. Methodological principles (synergetic, complementarity, activity (action and creative), interaction between the subjects of the educational process, convergence from the abstract to the concrete) have been applied. The scientific novelty of the research: - for the first time the meaning and value-semantic nature of tolerance in the communicative culture of an educational manager have been determined; - the determinants of educational management in the projection on communication have been clarified; - the interrelations between the components have been established and the possibilities for realization of tolerance in different directions of communicative culture have been revealed; - a structural and semantic model of tolerance in the communicative culture of the education manager has been developed. The main results of the study are the analysis of the source base from the standpoint of scientific approaches to various fields of knowledge (economics, sociology, psychology, pedagogy, management, culturology, etc.), which made it possible to identify a modern interpretation of "education management". The determinants of educational management as a component of social in the context of intangible, spiritual resource of education have been revealed. The similar and different characteristics of the managerial activity of the education manager and the pedagogical worker have been outlined. The essence, origin, structure, types and directions of functioning of communicative culture of the manager of education have been determined

Tolerance in the Communicative Culture of Modern Educational Manager

Cultural, racial, social, religious, ethnic heterogeneity of educational groups is a problem of modern education in the context of integration and globalization. This often becomes a reason for misunderstandings, sometimes aggression in the interaction of representatives of opposing worldviews, preferences or traditions. Tolerance in the communicative culture of the educational manager, activated at the level of management structures and broadcast vertically and horizontally through the education system through pedagogical teams to all categories of consumers of educational services, will be able to prevent this. The aim of the article is to outline the role of tolerance in the communicative culture of the modern education manager.  According to the purpose the following tasks of research have been defined: - to analyze sources of various branches of science and to find out meanings of basic concepts; - to outline the features of management in education in communication area; - to define its structure, establish relationships between components and develop a structural and semantic model of tolerance in the communicative culture of the education manager. The following research methods have been used to study the backgrounds of the problem: information, terminology, analysis, synthesis, methods of scientific research. The comparative-typological method has been used to compare, identify signs of similarities and differences between phenomena and facts Methods of forecasting and theoretical modeling have been used in the development of structural and semantic model. Systematization, classification and use of structural-functional analysis have been contributed to the generalization of the research results. Interdisciplinary approaches (sociocultural and multicultural) to the study of management, along with axiological, holistic, systemic, activity and synergetic are the methodological basis of the study. Methodological principles (synergetic, complementarity, activity (action and creative), interaction between the subjects of the educational process, convergence from the abstract to the concrete) have been applied. The scientific novelty of the research: - for the first time the meaning and value-semantic nature of tolerance in the communicative culture of an educational manager have been determined; - the determinants of educational management in the projection on communication have been clarified; - the interrelations between the components have been established and the possibilities for realization of tolerance in different directions of communicative culture have been revealed; - a structural and semantic model of tolerance in the communicative culture of the education manager has been developed. The main results of the study are the analysis of the source base from the standpoint of scientific approaches to various fields of knowledge (economics, sociology, psychology, pedagogy, management, culturology, etc.), which made it possible to identify a modern interpretation of "education management". The determinants of educational management as a component of social in the context of intangible, spiritual resource of education have been revealed. The similar and different characteristics of the managerial activity of the education manager and the pedagogical worker have been outlined. The essence, origin, structure, types and directions of functioning of communicative culture of the manager of education have been determined

Detailed requirements document for common software of shuttle program information management system

Common software was investigated as a method for minimizing development and maintenance cost of the shuttle program information management system (SPIMS) applications while reducing the time-frame of their development. Those requirements satisfying these criteria are presented along with the stand-alone modules which may be used directly by applications. The SPIMS applications operating on the CYBER 74 computer, are specialized information management systems which use System 2000 as a data base manager. Common software provides the features to support user interactions on a CRT terminal using form input and command response capabilities. These features are available as subroutines to the applications