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Peer reviewedPao, Miranda Lee; McCreery, Laurie – Information Processing and Management, 1986
A rudimentary description of Markov Chains is presented in order to introduce its use to describe and to predict authors' movements among subareas of the discipline of ethnomusicology. Other possible applications are suggested. (Author)
Descriptors: Authors, Models, Predictive Measurement, Probability
Peer reviewedCroft, W. Bruce; Turtle, Howard R. – Information Processing and Management, 1993
Reports information retrieval experiments comparing the performance of a probabilistic retrieval model that incorporates interdocument links with the simpler spreading activation strategy. Results indicated that the overall improvement obtained by including hypertext links in the retrieval model was low. (30 references) (EA)
Descriptors: Citations (References), Comparative Analysis, Heuristics, Hypermedia
