Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (Cat. No.91TH0394-7)

The following topics were dealt with: hardware and software issues of superscalar, and superpipeline systems; breaking the I/O bottleneck; high-performance, special-purpose architectures; performance engineering; transputer-based research and applications; data/knowledge-based systems and machines; advances in computer architecture; biotechnology computing; architectural and operating system support for persistent object systems: software design tools and techniques; parallel programming tools and technology; multi-data/knowledge based systems; cleanroom software engineering; rapid software prototyping; advanced graphical user interface and human-computer interface technology; persistent object systems; expert systems; executive information systems; user computing interfaces; end-user computing; computer-aided software engineering; logic modeling; integrated modeling environments; DSS workbenches; research directions in blackboard architectures and applications; computing in organizations; research programs; group decision-support systems; computer supported cooperative work; negotiation support systems: advances in social technologies; creativity and innovation in IS organizations; measuring the effectiveness of emerging technologies; intelligent organizational processes and neural net applications in business; organizational modeling with object-oriented programming; software quality; strategic and competitive information systems; and global information systems