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Empirical Laws and Theories of Information and Software Sciences.
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Zunde, Pranas – Information Processing and Management, 1984
Reviews what information and software sciences have thus far accomplished in search for empirical regularities and laws and examines what theories have been developed to explain and account for regularities and laws. Specific laws and theories of information highlighted are those of Zipf, Bradford, Lotka, Mandelbrot, and Simon. (Forty references)…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Computer Software, Equations (Mathematics), Information Science
Was Euclid an Unnecessarily Sophisticated Psychologist?
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Arabie, Phipps – Psychometrika, 1991
The current state of multidimensional scaling using the city-block metric is reviewed, with attention to (1) substantive and theoretical issues; (2) recent algorithmic developments and their implications for analysis; (3) isometries with other metrics; (4) links to graph-theoretic models; and (5) prospects for future development. (SLD)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Equations (Mathematics), Graphs, Literature Reviews