1 Diagnosis Techniques and Methodologies for Digital Systems. - 1. Introduction. - 2. Diagnostic Data Generation Theory. - 3. Diagnostic Execution. - 4. Applied Fault Diagnosis Techniques. - 5. Some Problems for Further Research. - 6. Conclusions. - References. - 2 Design for a Distributed Information Network. - 1. Introduction. - 2. Hardware Systems. - 3. Software Systems. - 4. Selected Applications. - References. - 3 Modeling and Design of Distributed Information Systems. - 1. General Introduction. - 2. Modeling Distributed Computer Systems. - 3. A Design Procedure for Distributed Computer Systems. - 4. Modeling Distributed Databases. - 5. Intelligent Coupler. - 5. 1. Locating Information. - 5. 2. Query Formulation and Test Run for Queries. - 5. 3. Query Languages. - 5. 4. Security. - 5. 5. Locking in Distributed Information Systems. - 5. 6. System Recovery. - 5. 7. Performance Measurements and Evaluation. - 6. Concluding Remarks. - References and Suggested Further Reading. - 4 Hardware Firmware Software Technology in Microcomputer Systems. - 1. Hardware Organization. - 2. Firmware. - 3. Software. - 4. What Computing Has Come To. - 5 Data Structures and Pattern Recognition. - 1. Introduction. - 2. The Pattern Recognition Problem. - 3. The Data Structure Concept. - 4. Pictorial Pattern Recognition and Image Processing. - 5. Review of Applications to Pattern Recognition. - 6. Line Drawings and Chain Codes. - 7. Histograms and Integral Projections. - 8. Medial Axis Transformation. - 9. Generalized Cones. - 10. Syntactic Methods. - 11. Trees in Analysis: Text Speech and Line-Drawing Data. - 12. Webs and Trees in Applications. - 13. Structure Learning. - 14. Conclusion. - References. Language: English