COMIT

Abstract: COMIT is a symbol-manipulating (or string-processing) language designed to handle texts, words, characters, logical expressions, descriptors, attributes, tags, and the like, and to manipulate them in the computer in ways that are relevant to problems in a variety of fields.COMIT is a general-purpose language which has been most efficiently used for problems in linguistics, mechanical translation of languages, information retrieval, modeling of cognitive processes, theorem proving, game playing, content analysis, graph theory, and many other primarily nonnumerical problems. In addition, COMIT serves as an introduction to a whole class of programming languages and language design features.This book is derived from two older manuals that have been out of print for some time, "An Introduction to COMIT Programming" and "COMIT Programmers' Reference Manual" (MIT Press 1962). The programs originally run under COMIT will still run under COMIT II; yet this new publication includes improvements in the language that allow easier programming plus additional facilities.COMIT II is designed to be easily learned and used both as a language for a first course in programming for students in a wide range of disciplines and as a second or third programming language for more advanced students who can use this book for self-study. Included are numerous exercises and problems along with answers, as well as problems to be run on the computer under a problem-grader program that may be obtained from the author.COMIT II is fully available on the IBM 7000 series of computers, including the 709, 7090, 7040, and 7044, and a more recent implementation is available for the IBM 360.

Abstract: The purpose of this article is to review the problems and processes impacting the deviation in first-case actual start times when compared to first-case scheduled start times. This article will also discuss the Continuous Outcomes Measurement and Improvement Technique (COMIT) model for problem resolution and share the experiences encountered by a group of collaborative nurse manager leaders in their outcome improvement efforts. The overall process improvements are discussed using the eight-step COMIT model, which showed the overall success of the project.

Abstract: ('o~[rr is a user-oriented general-purpose symbolmaldpulat.ion programming language. [ t is user-oriented it~ that it is a high-level language that is easy to learn and to use. T h e use of Comw should minimize the user's time for p rogramming a problem, the computer time. needed for (.heckhtg it out, and thus the elapsed time required lo obtain a running program. I t is a general-purpose synd)ol-manipulation language in that it is especially (,o~ vonient for problems ranging from nmchanical translation Io itfformation retrieval, and fl'on~ theorem proving to ihe maintenance of predominantly non-numerical {:i les. ( ' omT was originally conceived as a special-purpose t:)r,A)len>oriented programming language for research (m ihe m(~chanical translation into English of languages such as ( ; e r m a n and Russian. I t was based on a notation in daily use I~ 3, some of the linguists working on this pr(,hhml a t 5[ . I .T . Some of the individual features of *h(' notat ion were dropped as inappropriate, and marly features were added to convert it to a programming language. It was soon realized that the requirements of mc,.'hanieal i ranslation could not be used for the complete (leSnitiotl of a programming language because the proMem of meclmrfieal translation was partially unsoh'ed and it, was not: k n o w n where some of the solutions might lie or what tyDes of programs might be needed. For this reason the notatiott was consciously broadened so as to be potentiaily useful for as wide a class of symbol manipulation p rob lems as possible. At this point the emphasis shifted f rom problem orientation to user orientation, and