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Download full textKantor, Paul B.; And Others – 1995
This is the final technical report (in three parts) of a 15-month long project to study the costs and value of library functions at five major research libraries. Twenty-one services or service aspects were studied, and numerous measures of the importance or benefit of the service to the users were made. These measures were studied together to lay…
Descriptors: Classification, Costs, Evaluation Methods, Information Services
Kantor, Paul B.; Nordlie, Ragnar – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1999
Illustrates how various key abstractions of information finding, such as document relevance, a desired number of relevant documents, discouragement, exhaustion, and satisfaction can be modeled using the Petri Net framework. Shows that this model leads naturally to a new approach to collection of user data, and to analysis of transaction logs.…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Document Delivery, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking
Kantor, Paul B.; Boros, Endre; Melamed, Benjamin; Menkov, Vladimir – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1999
Describes a model of information seeking/retrieval in which the user's quest is seen as a generalized abstract "response function" representing the user's response to the information delivered by the system. The concept of an information quest, "Q," is illustrated with data collected in the Ant World Project at Rutgers…
Descriptors: Feedback, Higher Education, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking
Peer reviewedKantor, Paul B. – Library Hi Tech, 1993
Describes the development of the Adaptive Network Library Interface (ANLI), an interactive computer program that acts as an interface between the users of an online card catalog and the catalog itself. Highlights include historical background; hypertext and the ANLI; neuronal nets and von Neumann computer architectures; and future possibilities.…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Software Development, Futures (of Society), Hypermedia
Peer reviewedShapira, Bracha; Kantor, Paul B.; Melamed, Benjamin – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2001
Reports on an experiment conducted using the "AntWorld" system, a collaborative information finding system for the Internet, to explore the effect of added motivation on users' behavior. Findings suggest that for the system to be effective, users must be motivated either by the environment, or by incentives within the system. (Author/AEF)
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking, Information Systems
Zhao, Shuyuan; Kantor, Paul B. – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1993
Describes ANLI (Adaptive Network Library Interface), an interface to an academic library's online catalog that links documents through interactions with users. Topics addressed include relation to neural networks; system design issues, including network management; the architecture of the ANLI; and the ANLI as a research tool. (Contains five…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Networks, Computer System Design, Higher Education
