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Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
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  Development and validation of a disaster management metamodel (DMM)
Othman S., Beydoun G., Sugumaran V. Information Processing and Management: an International Journal 50(2): 235-271, 2014.  Type: Article

In recognition of the fact that many features of a disaster are independent of the type of event, a generic disaster management metamodel has been developed. The metamodel is aimed at domain practitioners such as emergency managers wit...

Aug 27 2014
  Measuring the interestingness of articles in a limited user environment
Pon R., Cárdenas A., Buttler D., Critchlow T. Information Processing and Management: an International Journal 47(1): 97-116, 2011.  Type: Article

Pon et al. plead for a wider approach to relevance, implemented in the form of the “interestingness” of news articles. They combine an impressive array of features, ranging from n-grams to writing...

Dec 6 2011
   Popular and/or prestigious? Measures of scholarly esteem
Ding Y., Cronin B. Information Processing and Management: an International Journal 47(1): 80-96, 2011.  Type: Article

In the research community, an author’s popularity may be different from his or her prestige, according to Ding and Cronin. They distinguish between popularity--how often an author is cited--and prestige&...

Jan 3 2011
  Using genetic algorithms to evolve a population of topical queries
Cecchini R., Lorenzetti C., Maguitman A., Brignole N. Information Processing and Management: an International Journal 44(6): 1863-1878, 2008.  Type: Article

This paper looks at a new mechanism using genetic algorithms (GAs) to generate an improved query for an information retrieval system. There has been some research on using GAs for generating better queries using user relevance feedback...

Dec 30 2008
  An evaluation of adaptive filtering in the context of realistic task-based information exploration
He D., Brusilovsky P., Ahn J., Grady J., Farzan R., Peng Y., Yang Y., Rogati M. Information Processing and Management: an International Journal 44(2): 511-533, 2008.  Type: Article

Task-based information exploration, a specific type of exploratory search, is performed by various types of professional users, such as intelligence analysts. In this paper, the authors investigate the task-based information exploratio...

May 20 2008
  Sharing mass spectrometry data in a grid-based distributed proteomics laboratory
Veltri P., Cannataro M., Tradigo G. Information Processing and Management: an International Journal 43(3): 577-591, 2007.  Type: Article

Proteomics deals with the analysis of a complete set of proteins, expressed at time points, under different influences, and in different tissue samples of an organism. Proteomics literature identifies five areas of proteomics: mining, ...

Sep 4 2007
  “What is a good digital library?” - a quality model for digital libraries
Gonçalves M., Moreira B., Fox E., Watson L. Information Processing and Management: an International Journal 43(5): 1416-1437, 2007.  Type: Article

Since the term “digital library” has various definitions, Goncalves et al. were forced to confront the real meaning of this term. However, this scenario is not included in this paper and the authors assumed that the...

Aug 2 2007
  The information seeking behaviour of the users of digital scholarly journals
Nicholas D., Huntington P., Jamali H., Watkinson A. Information Processing and Management: an International Journal 42(5): 1345-1365, 2006.  Type: Article

The information-seeking behavior of users of digital scholarly journals is the topic of this paper. For behavior studies of these users, two main methodologies are commonly used: standard survey techniques (questionnaire surveys and in...

Apr 26 2007
  Print vs. electronic resources: a study of user perceptions, preferences, and use
Liu Z. Information Processing and Management: an International Journal 42(2): 583-592, 2006.  Type: Article

Whether you are reading the Reviews.com Web site, or the print version of Computing Reviews, I recommend you check out this paper. The paper explores the use of print and electronic resources by graduate students in a metropolit...

Nov 28 2006
  Towards mapping library and information science
Janssens F., Leta J., Glänzel W., De Moor B. Information Processing and Management: an International Journal 42(6): 1614-1642, 2006.  Type: Article

This most interesting study combines a whole variety of things, including concepts and methodologies. First, it combines full-text analysis and bibliometric methods. Second, it combines multidimensional scaling and clustering to accomp...

Nov 23 2006
 
 
 
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