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Marshall, Eliot – Science, 1989
Describes the formation of the supercomputer system which reaches from Seattle to South Florida. Explains the major obstacles of international protocols, billing, priority routing, and security. (RT)
Descriptors: Communications, Computer Networks, Computers, Database Producers

Morrissey, J. M.; And Others – Information Processing and Management, 1986
Proposes a "Model of Querying" for users of office filing facilities and discusses its motivation, aspects, attributes, and advantages. A review of current information systems and attempts to combine information retrieval, artificial intelligence, and database management techniques leads to conclusion that no resultant system is adequate…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Comparative Analysis, Database Management Systems, Databases
Smoliar, Stephen W. – 1987
This review of the book, "Conceptual Structures: Information Processing in Mind and Machine," by John F. Sowa, argues that anyone who plans to get involved with issues of knowledge representation should have at least a passing acquaintance with Sowa's conceptual graphs for a database interface. (Used to model the underlying semantics of…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Book Reviews, Database Management Systems, Man Machine Systems
Fayen, Emily Gallup – 1986
A common command language has been proposed for use by systems designers and those developing new user interfaces. There is controversy over the appropriateness of a standard command language, and those who are working in artificial intelligence believe that natural language interfaces will make it unnecessary for users to learn such a language,…
Descriptors: Databases, Information Retrieval, Man Machine Systems, Online Systems
Clark, W. Bruce – 1982
A project at the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information Resources has resulted in the extension of the ERIC database to microcomputer. Small subject-related files for current-awareness purposes are downloaded from the ERIC tapes and are made available for searching with Apple II Plus microcomputers. Since the target audience for this system is…
Descriptors: Databases, Information Retrieval, Man Machine Systems, Microcomputers

Rybinski, Henryk; And Others – Information Processing and Management, 1985
Presents a concept of end-user query language with facilities for expressing relationships between objects kept in a database. The idea of nesting these features in typical document query language is shown. Examples of usage of these new facilities are included. (Author/MBR)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Databases, Diagrams, Information Retrieval

Yannakoudakis, Emmanuel J.; Attar-Bashi, Hussain A. – Journal of Documentation, 1989
Describes a model that displays structures necessary to map between the conceptual and external levels in database management systems, using an algorithm that maps the syntactic representations of tuples onto semantic representations. A technique for translating tuples into natural language sentences is introduced, and a system implemented in…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Computational Linguistics, Connected Discourse, Database Management Systems
Clancey, William J. – 1983
This paper argues that an important design principle for building expert systems is to represent all control knowledge abstractly and separately from the domain knowledge upon which it operates. Abstract control knowledge is defined as the specifications of when and how a program is to carry out its operations, such as pursuing a goal, focusing,…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Clinical Diagnosis, Communicable Diseases, Computer Software

Mukhopadhyay, Uttam; And Others – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1986
MINDS (Multiple Intelligent Node Document Servers) is a distributed system of knowledge-based query engines for efficiently retrieving multimedia documents in an office environment of distributed workstations. By learning document distribution patterns and user interests and preferences during system usage, it customizes document retrievals for…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Charts, Databases, Graphs

Burgess, Clifford; Swigger, Kathleen – Information Processing and Management, 1986
Describes the design of a database interface for infrequent users of computers which consists of a graphical display of a model of a database and a natural language query language. This interface was designed for and tested with physicians at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Dallas. (LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Graphics, Database Management Systems, Display Systems, Information Retrieval

Watters, C. R.; And Others – Online Review, 1985
Describes prototype system that provides retrieval from hierarchically structured full-text databases such as legal statutes and regulations and engineering standards. Enhanced retrieval is provided through integration of three different access techniques dependent on inherent hierarchical text structure: menu, Boolean combination of keywords,…
Descriptors: Databases, Display Systems, Information Systems, Keywords
Hasling, Diane Warner; And Others – 1983
This paper examines the problem of automatic explanation of reasoning, or the ability of a program to discuss what it is doing in some understandable way, particularly as part of an expert system. An introduction presents a general framework in which to view explanation and reviews some of the research in this area. This is followed by a…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Clinical Diagnosis, Communicable Diseases, Computer Assisted Instruction

Sewell, Winifred; Teitelbaum, Sandra – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1986
Investigation of end-user searching at National Library of Medicine reveals that volume of searching is related to convenient placement of terminal; slightly fewer than half of potential searchers search for themselves; practices of pharmacists and pathologists do not differ in important ways; end-user searchers perform simple searches. (86…
Descriptors: Databases, Interviews, Library Surveys, Man Machine Systems
Richer, Mark H.; Clancey, William J. – 1985
This paper describes GUIDON-WATCH, a graphic interface that uses multiple windows and a mouse to allow a student to browse a knowledge base and view reasoning processes during diagnostic problem solving. The GUIDON project at Stanford University is investigating how knowledge-based systems can provide the basis for teaching programs, and this…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Clinical Diagnosis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics

Freeman, Diana; Levett, John – Education and Computing, 1985
Describes two research projects based on QUEST and proposes an information handling model. Design, interrogation, and evaluation of data files are discussed relative to restraints imposed by child's developmental stage and nature of software employed. Implications of computer-related information handling for curriculum design and children's…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Curriculum Development, Databases, Developmental Stages
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