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LIST OF CONTENTS Number | Fabrizio Sebastiani TRENDS IN ... A CRITICAL REVIEW On the role of logic in information retrieval Mounia Lalmas Logical models in information retrieval: introduction and overview C. D. Hurt “ Nonmonotonic logic for use in information retrieval: an exploratory paper Massimo Melucci 3 Passage retrieval: a probabilistic technique Ronald N. Kostoff Database tomography for technical intelligence: a Henry J. Eberhart roadmap of the near-earth space science and technology Darrell Ray Toothman literature Ronald Rousseau Jaccard similarity leads to the Marczewski-Steinhaus topology for information retrieval Neil C. Rowe Automatic caption localization for photographs on Brian Frew World Wide Web pages Babu M. Mehtre Content-based image retrieval using a composite color- Mohan S. Kankanhalli shape approach Wing Foon Lee B. M. Gupta Literature growth and author productivity patterns in Lalita Sharma Indian physics Suresh Kumar Book Review William Hersh Rationalizing Medical Work: Decision-Support Tech- niques and Medical Practices by M. Berg Call For Papers Numbers 2/3 Mark Rorvig 3 Visualization and scaling of TREC topic document sets Steven Fitzpatrick Mark Rorvig Scaled structure in visualized TREC data and query feedback 789 Corinne Jorgensen Attributes of images in describing tasks Lee Anne H. Paris Freestyle vs. Boolean: a comparison of partial and exact Helen R. Tibbo match retrieval systems Leo Egghe A theoretical study of recall and precision using a Ronald Rousseau topological approach to information retrieval Carol L. Barry Users’ criteria for relevance evaluation: a _cross- Linda Schamber situational comparison Rong Tang Toward an understanding of the dynamics of relevance Paul Solomon judgment: an analysis of one person’s search behavior Amanda Spink Elicitation behavior during mediated information Abby Goodrum retrieval David Robins Liang Thow-Yick General information theory: some macroscopic dynamics of the human thinking systems Raymond L. Major A symbolic approach using feature construction capable of acquiring information/knowledge for building expert systems J. Christopher Westland Some conditions for cost efficiency in hypermedia Narasimhaiah Gorla Is the lack of keyword synergism inhibiting maturation Gary Walker in the MIS theory? An exploratory perspective Alireza Tahai Information processing using citations to investigate John T. Rigsby journal influence in accounting Pertti Vakkari TRENDS IN... A CRITICAL REVIEW Growth of theories on information seeking: an analysis of growth of a theoretical research program on the relation between task complexity and information seeking Book Review Robert C. Ward National Information Infrastructure Initiatives: Visions and Policy Design, edited by B. Kahin and E. Wilson Call For Papers Number 4 Martin Fricke Jean Tague-Sutcliffe on measuring information 790 Shane MacNamara Neural networks for language identification: a com- Padraig Cunningham parative study John Byrne Dana Vrajitoru Crossover improvement for the genetic algorithm in information retrieval Won Yong Kim Probabilistic retrieval incorporating the relationships of Myoung Ho Kim descriptors incrementally Yoon Joon Lee Masao Fuketa A fast method of determining weighted compound Shoji Mizofuchi keywords from text databases Yoshitaka Hayashi Jun-ichi Aoe Jonathan D. Cohen Hardware-assisted algorithm for full-text large- dictionary string matching using n-gram hashing Pedro Alvarez Equating research production in different scientific fields Antonio Pulgarin John C. Huber The underlying process generating Lotka’s Law and the statistics of exceedances Book Reviews James Allan Readings in Information Retrieval by K. Sparck Jones and P. Willett (Eds) K. L. Kwok Information Storage and Retrieval by R. R. Korfhage Robert M. Losee Automated Information Retrieval: Theory and Methods by V. I. Frants, J. Shapiro and V. G. Voiskunskii Deanna Morrow Hall Software Agents by J. M. Bradshaw (Ed.) Abby Goodrum Digital Image Access & Retrieval by P. B. Heidorn and B. Sandore P. Bryan Heidorn The Perception of Visual Information (2nd ed.) by W. Hendee and P. Wells Jeffrey Pomerantz Electronic Publishing: Applications and Implications by E. Logan and M. Gluck Nancy K. Roderer From Print to Electronic: The Transfermation of Scientific Communication by S. Crawford, J. M. Hurd and A. C. Weller 791 Tom Wilson Proceedings. CoLIS 2 Second International Conference on Conceptions in Library and Information Science: Integration in Perspective by Peter Ingwersen and Niels Ole Pors Charles Cole Information Seeking and Subject Representation: An Activity-Theoretical Approach to Information Science by B. Hjorland Terrence A. Brooks Information and Meaning: An Evolutionary Perspective by T. Stonier Michael Buckland Information Science: Still an Emerging Discipline. Dedicated to Allen Kent by J. G. Williams and T. Carbo Tom Wilson Management, Information and Power: a Narrative of the Involved Manager by Lucas D. Iltrona Katherine M. Sinitsa Virtual Education Manifesto by R. Rada Diane Nahl Affective Computing by R. W. Picard Number 5 Jian Kang Wu Fuzzy content-based retrieval in image databases A. Desai Narasimhalu Gary Marchionini Interfaces and tools for the library of congress national Catherine Plaisant digital library program Anita Komlodi L. T. Su Value of search results as a whole as the best single measure of information retrieval performance Catherine Plaisant An information architecture to support the visualization Ben Shneiderman of personal histories Rich Mushlin Amanda Spink From highly relevant to not relevant: examining Howard Greisdorf different regions of relevance Judy Bateman R. Chandrasekar Glean: using syntactic information in document filtering B. Srinivas Book Reviews Marcel M. Allbritton The Gordian Knot: Political Gridlock on the Information Rolf T. Wigand Highway by W. Russell Neuman, Lee McKnight and Richard Jay Solomon 792 M. P. Sajita Success factors for fee-based information services by Irene Wormell Number 6 Michael P. Oakes Automated assistance in the formulation of search Malcolm J. Taylor statements for bibliographic databases Dietmar Wolfram Hypertext vs boolean-based searching in a bibliographic Alexandra Dimitroff database environment: A direct comparison of searcher performance Joon Ho Lee Combining the evidence of different relevance feedback methods for information retrieval A. T. Arampatzis Phase-based information retrieval T. Tsoris C. H. A. Koster Th. P. van der Weide Charles Cole Intelligent information retrieval: diagnosing information need. Part I. The theoretical framework for developing an intelligent IR tool Charles Cole Intelligent information retrieval: diagnosing information Pablo Cantero need. Part II. Uncertainty expansion in a prototype of a Diane Sauve diagnostic IR tool Stewart Greenhill Noetica: a tool for semantic data modelling Svetha Venkatesh Masafumi Koyama A fast retrieving algorithm of hierarchical relationships Kazuhiro Morita using trie structures Masao Fuketa Jun-Ichi Aoe Suresh Kumar Lotka’s law and institutional productivity Praveen Sharma K. C. Garg Book Review Judy Bateman Electronic resources: use and user behavior edited by H. lyer