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Download full textLindquist, Mats G. – 1978
Computer-based information search services (ISSs) of the type that provide online literature searches are analyzed from a systems viewpoint using a continuous simulation model. The methodology applied is "system dynamics," and the system language is DYNAMO. The analysis reveals that the observed growth and stagnation of a typical ISS can…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Decision Making, Definitions, Doctoral Dissertations
Peer reviewedLindquist, Mats G. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1978
An analysis of computer-based search services (ISSs) from a system's viewpoint, using a continuous simulation model to reveal growth and stagnation of a typical system is presented, as well as an analysis of decision making for an ISS. (Author/MBR)
Descriptors: Administration, Computer Storage Devices, Diagrams, Graphs
