Describes results of a citation analysis of 209 articles from the "Journal of the American Society for Information Science" (JASIS) that was conducted to determine the intellectual base and the research front. Topics discussed include citation-based mapping techniques, including bibliographic coupling and cocitation analysis; and…

Describes methods for effecting the partition of information systems consisting of many components and interconnections into subsystems which are later made to interface with one another achieving an overall system. Clustering algorithms for the specific case of information systems are obtained and exemplified. Twenty-seven references are…