Designed to minimize information overload in telecommunications systems, the formal model developed in this paper predicts the usefulness of a message based on the available message features, and may be used to rank messages by expected importance or economic worth. The assumptions of binary and two Poisson independent probabilistic distributions…

The information needed for informed decision making and planning by institutions of higher education can be made available through the establishment of carefully constructed databases. This handbook outlines the characteristics of databases, the needs databases meet, the key factors around which they must be organized, the advantages they offer,…

Paper describes a method of analysing information based on theories about the way in which human beings tackle this problem. (Author)

WISE is an on-line interactive information retrieval system designed to operate on keyword oriented data bases. The system was designed particularly with bibliographic data bases in mind, but it is potentially useful for any keyword oriented data base. The WISE user searches a data base by entering and combining keywords that are appropriate to…

Location theory was extended into the domain of information-processing firms by attempting to optimally place a federal research and development agency according to its information-processing functions. The techniques used consisted of identifying possible locations within the continental United States, examining the costs of performing the…

In this essay, the author describes the difficulty of publishing in the Third World as part of a larger relationship of dependence of developing countries on industrialized nations. (Editor)

The problems of information handling in education and a description of the techniques used to meet some of these problems are discussed. (Editor/KE)

Starting with the conceptual framework of man as a living system, the author addresses the problem, "What is the essence of counseling?" The essentials of systematic organization and the importance of information are discussed as related to living systems. It is suggested that facilitating information flow is an important part of therapeutic…

A corpus of daily and weekly French publications was analyzed in an effort to identify and explain neologisms. Results are summarized here. (Text is in French.) (PMP)

The interactive monitoring of group communication through computers is a procedure analogous to biofeedback, and small group communication computer programs have been developed with monitoring software that has been used to evaluate the impact of the medium on group communication. There is presently no technical reason that such information could…

A SUBJECT HEADING AUTHORITY LIST CONTAINING MAIN ENTRIES, SCOPE NOTES, CROSS-REFERENCES, AND SUBDIVISIONS IS COMPILED, PRINTED, AND UPDATED BY COMPUTER. DESIGN CRITERIA, PROGRAMING, INPUT PREPARATION, PRINTING, AND FUTURE REFINEMENTS OF THE LIST TECHNIQUE ARE COVERED. A UNIQUE CODE WAS DESIGNED FOR SEQUENCING THE MASTER TAPE FILE AND PREPARING…

ASSOCIATIVE ADJUSTMENTS TO A DOCUMENT FILE ARE CONSIDERED AS A MEANS FOR IMPROVING RETRIEVAL. A THEORETICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF A GENERALIZED MISMATCH MEASURE WAS CARRIED OUT AND IMPROVEMENTS IN RETRIEVAL RESULTING FROM PERFORMING ASSOCIATIVE REGRESSION ADJUSTMENTS ON DATA FILE WERE EXAMINED BOTH FROM THE THEORETICAL AND…

THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN OBJECTIVE STRATEGY FOR THE SELECTION OF JOURNAL LITERATURE IN THE RETRIEVAL OF READING RESEARCH IS DESCRIBED. A FREQUENCY COUNT WAS MADE OF THE ARTICLES APPEARING IN THE GRAY SUMMARIES OF READING RESEARCH PUBLISHED ANNUALLY BY THE READING RESEARCH CENTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. THE JOURNALS FOR THE PERIOD 1884 TO…

VARIOUS COUNTY, PUBLIC, AND SCHOOL LIBRARIES HAVE UTILIZED THE SERVICES OF CENTRALIZED CATALOGING AND PROCESSING CENTERS. TO DETERMINE WHETHER PRACTICAL AND FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS MIGHT ENABLE PUBLIC JUNIOR COLLEGES IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TO ESTABLISH SUCH A SYSTEM, 35 JUNIOR COLLEGES WERE SENT A CHECKLIST OF 100 TITLES, A QUESTIONNAIRE…