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Peer reviewedHollenberg, Dennis – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1986
This three-part article introduces a population dynamics model of an information processing system. The first part describes the general model and defines the terms used, the second describes the functional relationships between components, and the third explores the hypothesized emergence of increasingly complex, hierarchical information systems.…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Data Processing, Environment, Information Systems
Peer reviewedCooper, David; Lynch, Michael F. – Information Processing and Management, 1984
Suggests new method of external distribution called tree partitioning that involves use of binary tree to split incoming file into successively smaller partitions for internal sorting. Number of disc accesses during a tree-partitioning sort were calculated in simulation using files extracted from British National Bibliography catalog files. (19…
Descriptors: Classification, Comparative Analysis, Computer Software, Data Processing
Peer reviewedSmeaton, A. F.; van Rijsbergen, C. J. – Information Processing and Management, 1986
Review of office filing facility filing and retrieval mechanisms for unstructured and mixed media information focuses on free text methods. Also discussed are the state of the art in handling voice and image data, problems with searching text surrogates to implement free text content retrieval, and work of Project Minstrel. (Author/MBR)
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Data Processing, Databases, Filing
Cronin, Blaise – 1986
An information society is one in which the expression "to earn one's daily bread by the sweat of one's brow" appears decidedly anachronistic. People have been seduced by the rhetoric of novelty and confused by the surface significance of terms which have become accepted parts of everyday speech. What do rubrics such as information society,…
Descriptors: Computers, Data Processing, Development, Economic Change
Download full textGuthrie, James W., Ed.; Kirst, Michael W., Ed. – 1984
The policy papers included in this package address various facets of the topic of data-based accountability for education in California. Guy Benveniste of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Education explores the underlying issue of accountability and describes the implications of different types of accountability measures. In…
Descriptors: Accountability, Data Collection, Data Processing, Educational Assessment
Peer reviewedSeppanen, Loretta J. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1995
College and university institutional researchers can use unemployment insurance wage and related files to describe and compare students' workplace status before, during, and after enrollment. However, some issues must be addressed, including data delays, uncovered employment and other work status, confidentiality of records, information…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Students, Computer Uses in Education, Confidential Records
