Logbooks and the ‘millennium bug’

HIV: the millennium bug.

By the end of 1999 hundreds of “millennial” appellations were being sprouted. Should the field of microbiology have been included? Throughout the second millennium epidemics claimed vast numbers of lives — the bubonic plague killed 50 million people in the Middle Ages, and the influenza epidemic took 20–40 million lives in the years immediately following World War I. But as modern medicine has ...

The Millennium Bug – Reasons not to Panic

There has been a lot of noise about the millennium bug, but little hard data. Many organisations have spent a fortune on the problem but refuse to share their findings. Governments tell their citizens not to panic while making panicky contingency plans in private. Few of the ‘experts’ in the field are willing to predict the outcome. Here I report the results of an examination of the systems use...

Antibiotics for the millennium bug in your practice.

From the Economics of Qwerty to the Millennium Bug, and Beyond

Object-Oriented Modelling Based on Logbooks

In this paper the notion of logbook is introduced as a common basis for various models to be produced during system analysis. A logbook has a unifying format which contains a complete description of the history of some Universe of Discourse. It is intended as a struc-turing mechanism for initial speciications based on natural language. A typing mechanism is provided as an abstraction mechanism ...