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Deibel, Stephan R. A.; Greenes, Robert A. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1995
Discusses limitations in the development of health care information systems; explains component methodology for complex software development, including component interface semantics; and describes Arachne, a development environment available via the Internet consisting of a set of tools that enables applications to be constructed through…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Software Development, Information Systems, Internet

Marchionini, Gary; And Others – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1994
Reports on a comparative investigation of WAIS, a networking and finding aid used on the Internet, and a Boolean-based retrieval system. The terms and limitations of the study are described, and the comparative recall and precision rates are given. The problems and potential of WAIS and other highly interactive search systems are presented.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Networks, Information Networks, Information Retrieval