COMPUTER SOCIETY OF INDIA inr For Organizational Excellence Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Convention of the Computer Society of India November 13-16, 1997 Ahmedabad, INDIA Editors V. Venkata Rao T.P. Rama Rao Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad or Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Limited NEW DELHI McGraw-Hill Offices New Delhi New York St Louis San Francisco Auckland Bogota Caracas Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan Montreal San Juan Singapore Sydney Tokyo Toronto
CONTENTS Preface v 1. MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS 1 1 IT for Competitive Advantages: Case Studies from Singapore K.V. Ramani 3 2 Modelling a Vegetable and Fruit Market to Aid Modernization Girja Sharan and T. Madhavan 11 3 Experimenting with Genetic Algorithm on Pallet Loading Problem Subir Bhattacharya, Prakash Jalan and Kuntal Das Barman 27 2. PLANNING AND STRATEGY 35 *1 IT Planning and Strategy: An Industry Experience Utpal K. Banerjee 37 *2 IT Applications for Transportation Infrastructure G. Raghuram 39 3 Reengineering Information Technology Management Education K.B.C. Saxena 41 *4 A Mult-period Optimization Based DSS for Strategic and Operational Planning Gautam Dutta and Robert Fourer 49 3. SYSTEMS FOR END-USER PARTICIPATION 51 *1 Building Competences for Effective Use of IT Users' Perspective Arabinda Tripathy 53 2 Browser Interface to Legacy Application Case Study B.V.P. Subba Rao and S. Sadagopan 55 3 Implementation and Status of On-line Materials Management Systems (OLMMS) at a Subsidiary of Coal India: Past, Present, Future Scenario J.K. Mukherjee 63 * Extended abstract only vn
4. MANAGEMENT IT INFRASTRUCTURE 77 *1 Managing IT Infrastructure B.H. Jajoo 79 2 A Cost / Benefit / Risk (CBR) Analysis of a Computing System R.N. Tiwari and Rajiv Srivastava 85 3 Intranet: Implementation Techniques and Strategies A.K. Gupta, Anil Rawat, Gitika Khare, S.S. Tomar and Shivkumar 99 5. EDUCATION AND TRAINING 107 *1 Study of Models for Training in a Large Software Services Organization S. Yegneshwar 109 2 Management Gaming through Computer Networks: Experiences and Design Issues V. Venkata Rao 111 6. COMPUTER NETWORKS AND MULTI-MEDIA 125 *1 Cost Effective Enterprise Wide Networking Using 'VSAT Technology in Indian Environment E. Kirubakaran and V.P. Muthuswamy 127 2 Cultural Information Systems B.V.P. Subba Rao, S. Saravana Prasad, K. Durai Murugan and S. Sadagopan 141 7. SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT 147 *1 Managing Y2K Projects: Productivity Improvement V: Venkata Rao 149 2 Object Oriented Process Management Rakesh Agrawal, S.P. Mishra, M.N. Diweedi and M. Pattnaik 151 8. DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING AND CLD3NT-SERVER SYSTEMS 159 *1 Concurrency Control Through Locks of Multisizes in Object Oriented Data Base Rajesh Narang and K.D. Snarma 161 2 Controlled Data Flow for Multipoint Usage in a Database Application Anil Rawat, Gitika Khare, Shubhada Dhoble, D.V.R. Prasad and. Sudheer 171
3 Security in Client Server Systems S. Ananth Sayana, Udayan Mandavia and Shibu Joys 179 9. SOFTWARE QUALITY "1 Managing Software Quality Pankaj Jalote 189 2 Interpreting Software Testing and Validation in the Context of ISO 9000 K. Vishwanathan Iyer 191 10. INTERNET, INTRANET AND WEB 199 1 Security Service Architecture for Internet and Intranet Environments K. Subramanian 201 2 Public Issues of Financial Products on Internet: Opportunities, Strategy and Legal Issues Muneesh Kumar 217 3 Design and Implementation of Website: A Case Study KG. Subhash Babu, G. Baiju and S. Sadagopan 229 11. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, NEURAL NETWORKS AND FUZZY LOGIC 241 1 Indian Stock Markets: Is it Characterized by Chaos S. Chandrasekhar 243 2 Genetic Based Output Controlled Feed Forward Neural Network A. Chitra and S.N. Sivanandam 261 3 Fuzzy Multivalued Dependency S.K. Jena 271 4 Design and Development of New Algorithms for Image Enhancement using Fuzzy Neural Scheme: An OOP Approach K. Ramar, D. Manimegalai, S. Arumugam, S.N. Sivanandam and L. Ganesan 281 5 Symbolic Clustering of X-Ray Image Samples: A Fuzzy Neuro Approach D. Manimegalai, K. Ramar, L. Ganesan, S.N. Sivanandam and S. Arumugam 289 ix
12. IMAGE PROCESSING AND DATA COMPRESSION 299 1 Directive Based Translator for Image Processing: Single Image Case Haresh Bhatt, C.V.S. Prakash and A.K. Aggarwal 301 13. GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS 309 1 Building Knowledge-Based Multimedia GIS for Planning and Management of Natural Resources M.P Jaiswal 311 2 Surface Reconstruction from Contour Data: Improvements to the Barequet - Sharir Heuristic Asish Mukhopadhyay, Sanjay Agrawal and Gunjan Jha 321 14. COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE AND SCD3NTIFIC COMPUTING 333 1 Performance Analysis of Two-stage Job Scheduling Schemes for Large Parallel Processing Systems M.P. Singh, Vinod Kumar and Arun Kumar 335 2 Simulation for Conductivity Curve Fitting in BCO Superconductors R.M. Bhatt and R.P. Gairola 347 3 Design and Hardware Implementation of 8 bit * 8 bit Multiplication Algorithm using Vedic Sutras Bhupendra Singh 353 4 A Comparative Study of Division Algorithms and Software Implementation of Nikhilam Sutra Bhupendra Singh 367 15. OTHER PAPERS PRESENTED IN THE CONFERENCE 371 A. Keynote Speeches and Invited Talks 373 B. Contributed Papers 374 16. COMMITTEES 375 A. Publications Committee 377 B. Referees 377 Author Index 379