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Bianchi, Nadia; And Others – Information Processing & Management, 1996
Describes the architecture of an anthropocentric Biomedical Information Management System prototype that is based on a network of computational components, or agents, that expert biomedical users can define, use, and refine to serve their own communication and documentation habits and needs. The innovation of the proposal, the Participatory Design…
Descriptors: Biomedicine, Computer System Design, Information Management, Information Systems
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Lee, Dik L. – Information Processing & Management, 1995
Provides an overview of HYTREM (Hybrid Text-Retrieval Machine), a high-performance, cost-effective text-retrieval machine that handles information in large textual databases. Describes HYTREM's software and hardware design principles and presents an evaluation of system performance in relation to user demand and access versus system capacity. (JMV)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer System Design, Cost Effectiveness, Full Text Databases
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Blair, David C.; Kimbrough, Steven O. – Information Processing & Management, 2002
Suggests an alternative document representation method based on "exemplary documents," those that describe or exhibit the intellectual structure of a particular field of interest. Exemplary documents provide both an indexing vocabulary for that area and a narrative context in which the indexing terms have a clearer meaning. It is much…
Descriptors: Classification, Computer System Design, Document Delivery, Indexes