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Bookstein, Abraham; Cooper, William – Library Quarterly, 1976
Presents a mathematical model of an information retrieval system thought to be general enough to serve as an abstract representation of most document and reference retrieval systems. The model is made up of four components that, in one form or another, appear in every functioning system. (Author)
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Information Systems, Mathematical Models