INTELLIGENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS:

INTELLIGENT
INFORMATION
SYSTEMS:
Progress and Prospects
Editor:
R. DAVIES, B.ScALA
The University Library, University of Exeter
Tacrmische Hochschule Darmstadt
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Contents
Preface
1
Introduction: Artificial Intelligence and Librarianship
3
Part I Database Creation and Cataloguing
1
2
;
3
11
A software components catalogue
I. Sommerville and M. Wood
13
Library manager: a case study in knowledge engineering
H. Coelho
33
Cataloguing as a domain for an expert system
R. Davies
,
54
Part II Information Retrieval
.
79
4
A rule-based system as an intermediary for searching cancer
therapy literature on MEDLINE
A. S. Pollitt
82
5
An experiment
RESEARCHER
M. Lebowitz
in
intelligent
information
Part III Referral and User Modelling
6
7
systems:
127
151
An expert system for referral: the PLEXUS project
A. Vickery, H. M. Brooks and B. C. Vickery
154
Users are individuals: individualizing user models
E. Rich
184
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Part IV Cognitive Science and Information Science
8
9
Cognitive analysis and the role of the intermediary in
information retrieval
P. Ingwersen
206
A cognitive model for intelligent information systems
M. L. G. Shaw and B. R. Gaines
238
Part V Lessons of History
10
203
259
Classification and ratiocination: a perennial quest
R. Davies
262
Notes on Contributors
290
Index
294

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