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Buell, Duncan
Center for Computing Sciences
Bowie, Maryland
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Understanding electronic commerce
Kosiur D., Microsoft Press, Redmond, WA, 1997. Type: Book (9781572315600)
It is difficult to know how to review this book. It is a book for readers of BYTE magazine, and for insurance salespeople to discuss at their Rotary club meetings, not a book for computer professionals and readers of the Jour...
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Jun 1 1998 |
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Automated information retrieval
Frants V., Shapiro J., Voiskunskii V., Academic Press, Inc., Orlando, FL, 1997. Type: Book (9780122661709)
The authors begin this book with 50 pages on the nature of a system, “the individual as a functioning system,” “the information need,” and the metaphysics of the concept of a document. They cite ...
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May 1 1998 |
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Ranking schemes in hybrid Boolean systems
Savoy J. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 48(3): 235-253, 1997. Type: Article
One problem in proposing improved techniques for selecting documents and for ranking the documents selected by a retrieval system is that large investments have already been made in commercial and other extant systems that may use docu...
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Apr 1 1998 |
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Stemming algorithms
Hull D. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 47(1): 70-84, 1996. Type: Article
The basic purpose of this paper is to provide a serious statistical analysis of various stemming algorithms in information retrieval and to show by example how such an analysis can be used to obtain a deeper understanding than is gaine...
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Jul 1 1997 |
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On modeling information retrieval with probabilistic inference
Wong S., Yao Y. ACM SIGSAC Review 13(1): 38-68, 1995. Type: Article
The problem of the mathematical framework for the documents-to-queries matching portion of an information retrieval system is examined. Assuming some universe in which probabilities can be computed, the fundamental notion is that the d...
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Dec 1 1995 |
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Indexing and retrieval performance
Soergel D. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 45(9): 589-599, 1994. Type: Article
It has always been difficult to measure the effects of indexing on retrieval performance in, for example, a bibliographic retrieval system. The reasons are varied and include the fact that the index language affects the nature of the q...
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Oct 1 1995 |
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The performance of current B-tree algorithms
Johnson T., Sasha D. ACM Transactions on Database Systems 18(1): 51-101, 1993. Type: Article
Seven algorithms for concurrent B-trees are analyzed: naïve lock coupling, optimistic descent, Mond-Raz optimistic descent with write intention locks, optimistic descent with a variable critical level, link type, Lehman-Yao, a...
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Apr 1 1994 |
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Image processing systems in business
Thierauf R., Quorum Books, Westport, CT, 1992. Type: Book (9780899306711)
I am not sure what the market is for a book like this, but I suspect a market does exist, albeit outside the scope of the usual ACM readership and perhaps in the Data Processing Management Association readership....
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Sep 1 1993 |
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A parallel algorithm for record clustering
Omiecinski E., Scheuermann P. ACM Transactions on Database Systems 15(3): 599-624, 1990. Type: Article
We start with a large file and a collection of queries to be processed against that file. We assume that the frequency of occurrence of each query and the records that satisfy it are known. The goal is to cluster the records in such a...
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Nov 1 1992 |
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IBM microcomputer architecture and assembly language
Matloff N., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1992. Type: Book (9780134519982)
I was not prepared to like this book. As I read it through three times, however, I became more and more convinced that it contains a wealth of valuable information about computers and computing that would make an excellent second cours...
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Aug 1 1992 |
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