Date:     Tue, 4 Feb 86 16:52 EST
To:       irdis at vpi
Subject:  IRList Digest V2 #6

IRList Digest           Tuesday, 4 Feb 1986      Volume 2 : Issue 6

Today's Topics:
   Announcement - New Journal on Applied AI
                - Continuing Ed. Program on Information Systems
   Abstracts - ACM Trans. Office Inf. Systems recent articles
             - Journal articles on retrieval selected by Raghavan (pt. 2)

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Date: Sat, 25 Jan 86 14:21:41 est
From: vtvax5::foxea@vtcs1.VT
Subject: New Journal on Applied AI

New Journal: Applied Artificial Intelligence, An International Journal

exchange information about advances and experiences in this field among
AI researchers.  Furthermore, it will aid decision makers in industry and
management to understand the accomplishments and limitations of the
state-of-the-art of artificial intelligence.
   Research to be presented will focus on methodology, time-schedules,
problems, work force strength, new tools, transfer of theoretical
accomplishments to application problems, information exchange among
concerned AI researchers and decision makers about the potential impact

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From: vtvax5::foxea@vtcs1.VT
Subject: Listing of a Continuing Ed. Program on Information Systems

    The Catholic University of America


[List of Courses Now Offered]
Managing Information Resources in Large Organizations
Records Management
OCLC Laboratory
Indexing and Abstracting
Information Technology
Retrieval Systems
Information Retrieval System Design
Online Search Laboratory
Systems Design Application and Project Management

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Date: Sat, 25 Jan 86 14:21:41 est
From: vtvax5::foxea@vtcs1.VT
Subject: biblio. refs. for interesting Office Information Systems articles

%T Editorial: Processing Manuscripts Electronically
%A Robert B. Allen
%P 233
%J ACM Trans. Office Inf. Systems
%D July. 1985
%V 3
%N 3
%Z TOOIS manuscripts may now be submitted electronically....
Once most articles are available on line and software has been developed
to manipulate and present manuscripts electronically, ...

%T A Prototype System for the Electronic Storage and Retrieval of
Document Images
%A G. R. Thoma
%A S. Suthasinekul
%A F. L. Walker
%A J. Cookson
%A M. Rashidian
%J ACM Trans. Office Inf. Systems
%D July 1985
%V 3
%N 3

%T An Imperative Sentence Processor for Voice Interactive Office
Applications
%A Alan W. Biermann
%A Linda Fineman
%A Kermit C. Gilbert
%P 321-346
%J ACM Trans. Office Inf. Systems
%D Oct. 1985
%V 3
%N 4
%Z  An imperative sentence processor that enables a user to manipulate
text with connected speech and touch-graphics is described.  The
processor includes capabilities to follow dialogue focus, execute a variety
of imperative commands, and handle nested noun groups, pronouns, and
aplication are given.  The system has been implemented in PASCAL and can

%A Arno J. H. M. Peels
%A Norbert J. M. Janssen
%A Wop Nawijn
%P 347-369
%J ACM Trans. Office Inf. Systems
%D Oct. 1985
%V 3
%N 4
%Z The formalization of the architecture of documents and text formatting
are the central issues of this paper.  Besides a fundamental and
theoretical approach toward these topics, an overview is presented of the
available.
advantage of the implicit structure of text.  A predefined layout for each
type of text element then opens the way for a fully automatic
text-processing system in which user control information can be reduced
to an absolute minimum.
   Discusses physical and logical document architecture.  Logical structure
has three information streams: primary, illustrative, and secondary.  BNF
grammars for each are given.

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Date: Sun, 26 Jan 86 20:36:45 est
From: "V.J. Raghavan" <ihnp4!sask!regina!raghavan@ucbvax.berkeley.edu>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 86 19:21:25 cst

.op

retrieval area)


     J          Scientific  publishing has evolved over three centuries
     of technological change.  It now faces problems that include 
     rapid  growth,  literature scatter,  increasing  costs,  and 
     excessive  delays  in publication.   This  article  examines 
     applications, the author contends that the widespread use of 
     electronic publishing.




     functions  have been suggested for the frequency of words in 
     text.   Some  of these models have also been applied to  the 
     proposed,  which  uses  both  a rank function for  the  high 


12.  A FUZZY K-NEAREST NEIGHBOR ALGORITHM

     James M. Keller, Michael R. Gray, and James A. Givens, Jr.
     Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
     University of Missouri
     Columbia, MD  65211

          Classification  of  objects  is an  important  area  of 
     research  and  application in a variety of fields.   In  the 
     of classification.  The K-nearest neighbor decision rule has 
     often been used in these pattern recognition problems.   One 
     of   the  difficulties  that  arises  when  utilizing   this 
     counterpart  in terms of a lower error  rate,  the  resuting 
     memberships give a confidence measure of the classification.  

13.  RUBRIC: A SYSTEM FOR RULE-BASED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

     Brian P. McCune,               
     Richard M. Tong,
     Jeffrey S. Dean,                
     Daniel G. Shapiro
     Advanced Information & Decision Systems
     Mountain View, CA 94040

          A  research  prototype software system  for  conceptual 
     information retrieval has been developed.   The goal of  the 
     system,  called  RUBRIC,  is  to provide more automated  and 
     documents  for  presentation  to  the  user,   and  detailed 
     explanation  of  how  and  why  a  particular  document  was 
     information   retrieval  systems,   or  real-time   document 
     filtering and routing.

     (IEEE TRANS.ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING,  Vol. SE-11, No. 9, PP. 
     939-945,  September 1985)

14.  AN  ASPECT  OF AESTHETICS IN HUMAN-COMPUTER  COMMUNICATIONS: 
     PRETTY WINDOWS

     Jason Gait,                 
     Computer Research Laboratory 
     Tektronix, Inc.
     Beaverton, OR 97077

          Aesthetics   in   user   interfaces   addresses    font 
     definitions,  type-setting conventions,  color combinations, 
     graphics   design   considerations,   high  resolution   for 
     viewscreens,   and   the  shapes   of   windows.    Computer 

     (IEEE TRANS.  ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING,  Vol.  SE-11,  No. 8, 
     PP. 714-717, August 1985)

15.  A  PROTOTYPE SYSTEM FOR THE ELECTRONIC STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL 
     OF DOCUMENT IMAGES

     G. R. Thoma, S. Suthasinekul, F. L. Walker,
     J. Cookson, and M. Rashidian
     National Library of Medicine

          A prototype system hass been implemented for electronic 
     scanning,  digitization,  storage, retrieval, and display of 
     (pels)  per  inch by either a high-speed loose-leaf  scanner 
     digitized   images  are  stored  on  magnetic  disks  to  be 
     processed  and will eventually be transferred  onto  optical 
     disks for archival storage.   Existing on-line bibliographic 
     databases  developed by the National Library of Medicine are 
     forms.
          This prototype system,  developed as part of a research 
     library documents.

     (ACM TRANS.  ON OFFICE INFORMATION SYSTEMS,  Vol.  3, No. 3, 
     July 1985, pp. 279-291)


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