Research criteria are established for computer networks and ten areas of research are identified and briefly described. (RAA)

This summary account of the research productivity of the school of Information and Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology describes research in theory and foundations, information processing technology, and information systems, as well as efforts to explore the nature and content of the information-based areas of knowledge. (VT)

Retrieval of passages from documents rather than whole documents as units speeds both user access to wanted information and the screening out of false retrievals. Results of an experiment suggest that high quality passage retrieval services for scientists are now feasible. (Author/PF)

Summarizes the status, organization, and themes of national research programs in information science. National plans from six countries are explored with respect to the planning organizations, content of national research plans, and desirable elements of a strategy for building the new discipline. (SW)

An experiment testing the assumption that committee and empirical approaches are needed to identify terms in thesaurus design found that the two strategies did not generate lists of terms. (KP)

The single-link cluster method is used to construct a hierarchic classification for the 1400 documents in the Cranfield test collection. A variety of retrieval strategies applied to this hierarchy are evaluated in terms of effectiveness and efficiency. (Author)

Based upon types of documents cited, age of cited literature, and core journals cited, the proceedings of a national computer conference are analyzed in order to measure how academics and practitioners differ in their use of published information. Methodology and results are described. (CWM)

Estimates of frequency of spelling errors are made based on a sample of 3,600 index terms drawn from 11 bibliographic data bases. The impact of these errors is discussed by tape supplier, tape user, and end user; with some suggestions for search strategies.

This paper surveys recent conceptual and empirical work related to development of decision-oriented frameworks for management information systems design, particularly as related to improving the management of organizations. (Author)

Explores what an intelligent information retrieval system involves and why expert system techniques might interest system designers. Expert systems research is reviewed with emphasis on components, architecture, and computer interaction, and it is concluded that information retrieval is not an ideal problem domain for expert system application at…