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Cooper, William S. – Information Processing and Management, 1976
The traditional concern with relevance or nonrelevance of unexamined documents is misplaced, and traditional measures of effectiveness should be replaced by estimates of direct utility of examined documents. (Author)
Descriptors: Documentation, Evaluation Methods, Information Retrieval, Information Systems

Slamecka, Vladimir; And Others – Information Processing and Management, 1986
Presents a performance analysis of Egyptian National Scientific and Technical Information Network's retrospective database search service. Statistics regarding service demand, trends, characteristics of searches, search results, U.S. database usage, service turn-around time, and costs are tabulated to profile the evolution and performance of a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cost Effectiveness, Costs, Databases

Meghabghab, George V.; Meghabghab, Dania B. – Information Processing and Management, 1994
Presents an Intelligent Negotiating Neural Network Design Model for solving the problem of poor information retrieval in subject searches of online catalogs. The purpose of the network, its architecture, and three different sessions of the user interface are described. Nineteen figures showing screens of the three sessions are appended. (Contains…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Expert Systems, Illustrations, Information Retrieval