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1991 Publications

Banerjee, Sujata

• Banerjee, S. and Li, V. O. K. A General Model for Non-Uniform Data Access in a Database System. In Proceeding of COMPSAC-91: The 15th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Confernece, pages 301-306, Tokyo, Japan, September 1991.

Brusilovsky, Peter

• Brusilovsky, P. (1991) Turingal - the language for teaching the principles of programming. In: E. Calabrese (ed.) Proceedings of Third European Logo Conference, Parma, 27-30 August, 1991, A.S.I., pp. 423-432.

Carbo, Toni

• Approaches to Manpower Planning in the Information and Communications Field, in Information Manpower Forecasting, edited by Marta L. Dosa and Thomas J. Froehlich. Paris: UNESCO, 1991. Session chair, pp. 97-125.
• Comments on Papers of Kozmetsky and Duncan, in Critical Issues in the Information Age, edited by Robert Lee Chartrand. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1991. Based on seminars by the American Federation of Information Processing Societies, 1985-1986, pp. 84-85, 138-140.
• Preparing Information Professionals for the Multimedia Environment, in Multimedia Information, edited by Mary Feeney and Shirley Day. London: Bowker Saur, 1991, pp. 165-172.
• Toward the Development of a Model Standards Curriculum for Library and Information Sciences, in A Sourcebook of Standards Information: Education, Access and Development, edited by Stephen M. Spivak and Keith A. Winsell. Riverside, NJ: Macmillan, 1991, pp. 49-51.
• Preparing Information Professionals for the Multimedia Environment, paper presented for MultiMedia Information at the Second International Information Research Conference, Cambridge, UK, July 17, 1991.
• The Developing U.S. Information Network: Policy Challenges for the 1990s, paper presented at the Centre for International Research on Communication and Information Technologies (CIRCIT), South Melbourne, Australia, June 20, 1991.
• Archives Towards 2000, panel discussion, Australian Society of Archivists Conference, Sydney, Australia, June 15, 1991.
• Information Resource Management Education: A New Agenda, paper presented at the Australian Society of Archivists Conference, Sydney, Australia, June 13, 1991.
• A Keynote to the Pre-Conference Symposium on the International Aspects of the White House Conference on Library and Information Services, The Information Society 8 (April-June 1992) pp. 71-75. Keynote address at WHCLIS, Washington DC, May 23, 1991.
• Interdisciplinary Nature of Information Science, the Educational and Research Perspective, paper presented with Michael Buckland at meeting co-sponsored by University of Tennessee, and Local Chapters of ASIS and SLA, Knoxville, TN, April 22, 1991.
• Libraries in Transition: Meeting the Needs of the Future Today, closing address at LAUNCH-CH Spring Conference, University of Chapel Hill, NC, Durham, NC, March 11, 1991.
• The Role of Library and Information Science Educators in National Networking Developments, OCLC presentation at the American Library Association (ALA) Conference, Chicago, IL, January 11, 1991.
• Toward the Development of a Model Standards Curriculum for Library and Information Sciences, Library and Information Technology Standards, edited by Michael Gorman, LITA Monographs, 1991, pp.30-47.

Cox, Richard J.

• Library History and Library Archives, Libraries & Culture 26 (Fall 1991): 569-93.
• Managing Business Archives: Basic Considerations, Records & Retrieval Report 7 (November 1991): 1-16.

Detlefsen, Ellen

• Detlefsen EG, Huber JT. AIDS Awareness in the LIS Classroom and School. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 32:237-239 (1991).
• Detlefsen EG, Olson JE, Frieze IH. Women and Librarians: Still Too Far Behind? [The University of Pittsburgh MLS/MBA study: a summary report]. Library Journal 118(5):36-43 (1991).
• Detlefsen EG, Olson JE. The Leaver and the Librarian: Who Leaves the Profession. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 31:275-294 (1991).

Druzdzel, Marek

• Henrion, M. and Druzdzel, M. J. Qualitative propagation and scenario-based approaches to explanation of probabilistic reasoning. In Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, pages 10-20, Cambridge, MA, July 1990. Reprinted in Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence 6, P.P. Bonissone, M. Henrion, L.N. Kanal, and J.F. Lemmer (eds), Machine Intelligence and Pattern Recognition 12, pages 17-32, Elsevier, North Holland: Amsterdam, 1991. HTML File
• Jon F. Merz, Marek J. Druzdzel, and Dennis J. Mazur. Verbal expressions of probability in informed consent litigation. Medical Decision Making, Vol. 11, No. 4, pages 273-281, October-December 1991. HTML File

Hirtle, Stephen C.

• Hirtle, S. C., & Hudson, J. H. (1991). The acquisition of spatial knowledge. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 11, 335-345. (Reprinted in Garling, T. (Ed.) (1995). Urban Cognition. Academic Press).
• Hirtle, S. C. (1991). Knowledge representations of spatial relations. Doignon, J.-P., & Falmagne, J.-C. (Eds). Mathematical Psychology: Current developments. (pp. 233-250). New York: Springer-Verlag.

Kimmel, Margaret Mary

• For Reading Out Loud! : A Guide to Sharing Books with Children. with Elizabeth Segal. Revised and expanded ed. Dell Pub., New York, NY, 1991.

Lewis, Michael

• Lewis, M. & Heidorn, B. (1991).IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 21(6), 1560-1571.
• Lewis, M. (1991). Visualization and situations. In J. Barwise, M. Gawron, G. Plotkin, & S. Tutiya (Eds.), Situation Theory and Its Applications, II Stanford,CA: CSLI Publications, 553-580.
• Lewis, M., & Sycara, K. (1991). Fusing Disparate Expertise in Multi-Agent Cooperation. Proceedings of the IJCAI-91 Workshop on Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems, Sydney, Australia, 187-198.
• Sycara, K. & Lewis, M. (1991). Modeling Group Decision and Negotiation in Concurrent Product Design. Systems Automation: Research and Applications, vol 1, 3, 217-238.
• Sycara, K. & Lewis M. (1991). Modeling Group Decision making and negotiation in concurrent product design. Systems Automation: Research and Applications, 1(3), 217-238
• Sycara, K., & Lewis, M. (1991). Forming Shared Mental Models. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Chicago, 400-405.
• Sycara, K., & Lewis, M. (1991). Cooperation of Heterogeneous Agents Through the Formation of Shared Mental Models. Proceedings of the AAAI-91 Workshop on Cooperation Among Heterogeneous Intelligent Systems, Anaheim, CA.

Rasmussen, Edie M.

• Hill, L. L. and Rasmussen, E. M. (1991). Geographic indexing terms as spatial indicators. Proceedings of the 1991 Mid-Year Meeting, American Society for Information Science, Santa Clara, CA, April 26-29, 1991. Medford, NJ: Learned Information. 9-20.
• Rasmussen, E. M. (1991). Clustering algorithms. Chapter in: Information Retrieval: Data Structures & Algorithms (W.B. Frakes and R. Baeza-Yates, eds.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. pp. 419-442.
• Rasmussen, E. M. (1991). Final Report on Quality Issues for the Energy Science and Technology Database. Report submitted to the U.S. Department of Energy.
• Rasmussen, E. M. (1991). Introduction: Parallel processing and information retrieval. Information Processing & Management 27(4): 255-263.
• Rasmussen, E. M. ed. (1991). Special Issue: Parallel Processing and Information Retrieval. Information Processing & Management 27(4).

Sochats, Kenneth M.

• Metropolitan Bypass Networks With M. B. Weiss and J. G. Williams. Communique, Vol. 44, No. 6, Dec./Jan. 1991.
• Visualization and Ideation: The VIBE System, With K. Olsen, J.G. Williams and S.C. Hirtle. Proceedings of the Norwegian Conference on Informatics, Trondheim, November 19-20, 1991.
• Ideation Through Visualization: The VIBE System, With K. Olsen, J G. Williams and S. C. Hirtle. University of Pittsburgh, Information Science Report Series, LIS041/IS91009.
• Visualization of a Document Collection with Hypertext Links: The VIBE System, With K. Olsen, J. G. Williams, M. B. Spring and R. R. Korfhage. University of Pittsburgh, Information Science Report Series, LIS040/IS91008.
• Visualization of a Document Collection: The VIBE System, With K. Olsen, J. G. Williams, M. B. Spring and R. R. Korfhage. University of Pittsburgh, Information Science Report Series, LIS033/IS91001

Spring, Michael B.

• Bonino, M.J. and Spring, M.B., Standards as Change Agents in the Information Technology Market. Computer Standards and Interfaces. 1991, 12(2), pp 97-107.
• Spring, M.B., Electronic Printing and Publishing: The Document Processing Revolution. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1991.
• Spring, M.B., Information Technology Standards. In Martha E. Williams(Ed.) Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Volume 26, 1991, pp 79-111.
• Spring, M.B. and Weiss, M.B., Education in Information System Standards, in A Sourcebook on Standards Information: Education, Access and Development, Steven Spivak and Keith Winsell (eds.) Boston: G. K. Hall, 1991, pp 53-72.
• Spring, M.B., Jamison, W., Fithen, K.T., Thomas, P. and Pavol, R., Rationale, Policy Issues, and Architectural Considerations for a Human-Computer Interaction Reference Model (HIRM). SIS Research Report LIS043/IS91011; October, 1991.
• Spring, M.B., Review: An Introduction to Text Processing by Peter Smith. Journal of Documentation. , June 1991, 47(2), pp 205-206.

Thompson, Richard A.

• The Dilated Slipped Banyan Switching Network Architecture for Use in an All-Optical Local Area Network, IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, December 1991.
• Broadband Photonic Switching Using Guided-Wave Fabrics, (with Ailawadi, Alferness, Ber-gland), IEEE Magazine of Lightwave Communications Systems, May 1991.
• The Dilated Slipped Banyan Switching Network Architecture for Use in an All-Optical Local Area Network, OSA Topical Meeting on Photonic Switching, Incline Village, 1991.
• Wavelength-Multiplexed Bit Synchronization in Optical Transmission, (with Ailawadi, Anderson, and Giordano), IEEE GlobeCom, December 1991.
• The Synergy Between Photonic Switching and the Intelligent Network, (with KL Montgomery), IEEE Intelligent Network Workshop, Dallas, 1991.
• Standardization Didn't Help the Slide Rule, position statement in panel on Standards: Technical or Political? IEEE International Communications Conference, Chicago, 1991.
• Guided-Wave Photonic Switching - The State of the Art and the Potential for New Services, National Engineering Consortium's Eastern Communications Forum, 1991.

Weiss, Martin B.H.

• Weiss, M. & Lewis, M. (1991). Telecommunications pricing and consumer expectation: The case of alternate operator services. Telecommunications Policy, Dec 91, 497-508.
• Weiss, M. B., Williams, J. G. and Sochats, K. (1991). Metropolitan Bypass Networks Communique, Vol. 44, No. 6.
• Weiss, Martin B.H. Compatibility Standards and Product Development Strategies: A Review of Data Modem Developments Computer Standards and Interfaces Vol. 12, No. 2, Sept 1991, pp. 109-122.
• Weiss, Martin B.H., Sochats, Kenneth M., Williams, James G. Assessing Market Size in Telecommunications ICA Communique November 1991.
• Weiss, Martin B.H. and Wewis, C. Michael Telecommunications Pricing and Consumer Expectations: The Case of Alternate Operator Services Telecommunications Polic Vol. 15, No. 6, December 1991, pp. 497 508.
• Weiss, Martin B.H. The Standards Development Process: A View from Political Theory at Panel Session: Standards: Technical or Political? International Communications Conference1991), Denver CO
• Weiss, Martin B.H. The Standards Development Process: A View from Political Theorv, SIS Research Report LIS042/IS91010 June 1991.

Williams, James G.

• Olsen, K. A., Williams, J. G., Sochats, K. M., and Hirtle, S. C. (1991, November). Visualization and ideation: The VIBE system. In the Proceedings of Norsk Informatikk Konferanse (Norwegian Conference on Informatics), Trondheim.
• Williams, J and Spring, M. Creating Learning Environments Using Multimedia Systems. In Conference Proceedings of the 1991 International Symposium on Computer Education. June 19-25, 1991. Taipei, R.O.C. Tamsui, Taiwan.
• Williams, J., Olsen, K. and Sochats, K. Full-Text Retrieval, Classification of Data and Visualization. SIS Report Series, 1991.
• Williams, J., Olsen, K., Hirtle, S. and Sochats, K. Ideation Through Visualization: The VIBE System. SIS Report Series, 1991.
• Williams, J. and Flynn, R. Significant Trends in Information Processing Technologies. In Proceedings of International Conference on Information Technology and National Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, Dec 16-17, 1991.
• Williams, J., Olsen, K., Korfhage, R., Sochats, K. and Spring, M. Visualizatio. SIS Report Series, 1991.
• Williams, J., Olsen, K., Korfhage, R., Sochats, K. and Spring, M. Visualization of a Document Collection with Hypertext Links: The VIBE System. SIS Report Series, 1991.

Zadorozhny, Vladimir

• Kalinichenko L., Zadorozhny V. A generalized information resource query language and basic query evaluation technique. Proc. of the 2nd Int. Conf. on DOOD, Munich, 1991.