© 1980 by British Computer Society
Discussion and correspondence
Automatic analysis and design of information processing systems
Computer Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Powai, Bombay, India
Based on a selected set of design criteria, this paper describes a system for computer aided analysis and design of an Information Processing System (IPS). The Scope of the described system is restricted to design of programs and the operating schedule for execution of these programs. The main design criteria used in the formulation of the algorithms for an optimal IPS design include functional design, operational convenience, and minimisation of transport of data. Our approach results in certain advantages over other approaches used in the past. The system described here also generates a scheduler to maintain automatically the status of the design IPS, and to execute automatically appropriate programs.
Received June 1978.
* Computer Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Powai, Bombay 400 076, India