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1992 Publications

Brusilovsky, Peter

• Brusilovsky P. and Gorskaya-Belova T.B. (1992) The Environment for Physical Geography Teaching. Computers and Education, 1992, 18, (1-3), p.85-88.
• Brusilovsky P. (1992) The Intelligent Tutor, Environment and Manual for Introductory Programming. Educational Technology and Training International, 1992, 29, (1), p.26-34.
• Brusilovsky P. (1992) Adaptive visualization in an intelligent programming environment. In: J.Gornostaev, (ed.) Proceedings of the East-West International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, EWHCI'92, St.Petersburg, 4-8 August, 1992, p.46-50.
• Brusilovsky P. (1992) A Framework for Intelligent Knowledge Sequencing and Task Sequencing. In: Intelligent Tutoring Systems (Frasson C., Gauthier G., McCalla G.I. eds.), Proceedings of Second International Conference, ITS'92, Montreal, Canada, June 10-12, 1992. - LNCS, N.608, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1992, p.499-506.
• Brusilovsky, P. and Stefanuk, V. (Eds.) (1992) Proceedings of East-West Conference on Emerging Computer Technologies in Education, Moscow, 6-9 April, 1992. ICSTI, Moscow.

Carbo, Toni

• Education: International Professional Issues, Special Libraries ‘83 (Fall 1992) pp. 256-261, also published in Library Hi Tech News, no. 97 (November 1992), pp. 8-10.
• The Future of Government Information: Money, Management and Technology, moderator of panel on Case Studies--Problems, Priorities, and Challenges at Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC) Forum,Washington, D.C., March 17, 1992.
• 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 (1992), pp. 71-75.

Cox, Richard J.

• Managing Institutional Archives: Foundational Principles and Practices (New York: Greenwood Press, 1992).
• Researching Archival Reference as an Information Function, RQ 31 (Spring 1992): 387-97.
• The Archival Profession and Information Technology Standards, Journal of the American Society for Information Science 43 (September 1992): 571-75.
• Archival Preservation Interests and Issues: An Archival Perspective. Advances in Preservation and Access (New York: K. G. Saur, 1992), I: 228-43.
• Archivists and the Use of Archival Records: Or, A View from the World of Documentary Editing, Provenance 9 (1991 [1992]): 89-110.
• with Christinger Tomer, Electronic Mail: Implications and Challenges for Records Managers and Archivists, Records & Retrieval Report 8 (November 1992).

Detlefsen, Ellen

• Hirtle, S. C., & Gärling, T. (1992). Heuristic rules for sequential spatial decisions. Geoforum, 23, 227-238.
• Olsen, K. A., Williams, J. G., Sochats, K. M., & Hirtle, S. C. (1992). Ideation through visualization: The VIBE system. Multimedia Review, 3 (3), 42-47.

Hirtle, Stephen C.

• Hirtle, S. C., & Gärling, T. (1992). Heuristic rules for sequential spatial decisions. Geoforum, 23, 227-238.
• Olsen, K.A., Hirtle, S.C., Sochats, K.M. and Williams, J.G. (1992). Ideation through Visualization: The VIBE System, Multimedia Review, Vol.3, No. 3 (Fall, 1992) og i Norsk Informatikk Konferanse '91, Trondheim.

Kimmel, Margaret Mary

• Ivory Tower or Temple of Doom: Some Questions Concerning the Application of Research (in the context of service to children and young adults). Applying Research to Practice. GSLIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, 1992.

Lewis, Michael

• Lewis, M. (1992). Why are situations hard?, Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Bloomington, IN, 939-944.
• Lewis, M. & Toth J. (1992) Situated cognition in diagrammatic reasoning, Working Notes AAAI Spring Symposium, Stanford, CA, 47-52.
• Lewis, M. & Sycara, K. (1992). Informed Decision making in Multi-specialist cooperation. Eleventh International Workshop on Distributed AI Glen Arbor, MI, 215-227.
• Lewis, Michael (1992). Situated visualization: Building interfaces from

Rasmussen, Edie M.

• Rasmussen, E. M. (1992). Parallel information processing. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) 27: 99-130.
• Rasmussen, E. and Zeng, M. L. (1992). An Evaluation of the Quality of Chinese Records in the OCLC Database and a Study of a Rule-based Validation System. Final Report submitted to OCLC.
• Rasmussen, E. and Zeng, M. L. (1992). The quality of Chinese records in the OCLC database: a proposal for rule-based validation. Annual Review of OCLC Research, July 1991-June 1992. pp. 58-60.

Sochats, Kenneth M.

• VIBE: A Visualization System for Exploring Large Scientific Data Bases, With James G. Williams, Proceedings of INFOTECH92, October 21-23, 1992, Oak Ridge TN.
• Market Analysis Using Regulatory Reports, With M.B. Weiss and J.G. Williams, Telecommunications Policy, April, 1992.
• Full-Text Retrieval and Output Overload, With K. Olsen and J. G. Williams. University of Pittsburgh, Information Science Report Series, LIS046/IS92002.
• Visualization of a Document Collection: The VIBE System, With K. Olsen, J. G. Williams, M. B. Spring and R. R. Korfhage. Information Processing and Management. 1992.

Spring, Michael B.

• Spring, M.B. and Dubin, D.S., Hands on Postscript. Carmel, Indiana: Hayden Books, 1992
• Spring, M.B., and Lunin, L.F., Guest editors, Perspectives on ... Information Technology Standards. Journal of the American Society of Information Science. Sepetember, 1992, 43(8).
• Spring, M.B., Being There or Models for Virtual Reality. in Studies in Multimedia, Susan Stone and Michael Buckland (eds.), Medford NJ: Learned Information, Inc., 1992, pp 237-251.
• Spring, M.B., People, Products, Processes and Productivity. Edge International, Orlando Florida, May 30, 1992, pp 30-53.
• People, Processes, Products, and Productivity Postscript(271K) PDF(79K) is a keynote address presented -- Edge International in Orlando Florida in May, 1992.

Thompson, Richard A.

• Integration and User-Orientation of Broadband Intelligent-Network Services, IEEE Intelligent Network Workshop, Newark, 1992.
• Role of Telecommunications in a City without a Local Newspaper, POINT-21, October 1992.
• Broadband: How Broad? Who Cares? Presentation at the Conference of the American Society of Information Science, October 1992.

Weiss, Martin B.H.

• Weiss, M. B., Williams, J. G. and Sochats, K. (1992). Market Analysis Using Regulatory Reports, Telecommunications Policy, April, 1992.
• Weiss, Martin B.H. Communications Standards Froehlich, Fritz A. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Telecommunications, Vol. 4, Marcel-Dekker (1992).
• Weiss, Martin B.H., Sochats, Kenneth M., Williams, James G. Assessing Market Size in Telecommunications: The Use of Regulatory Reports, Telecommunications Policy, Vol. 15, No.3, April 1992, pp. 237-248
• Weiss, Martin B.H. and Cargill, Carl A Theory of Consortia in IT Standards Setting Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Vol. 43, No. 8, Sept. 1992, pp. 559-565.
• Weiss, Martin B.H. and Spring, Michael B. Selected Intellectual Property Issues in Standardization, 20th Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (1992), Solomons MD.

Williams, James G.

• Olsen, K. A., Williams, J. G., Sochats, K. M., & Hirtle, S. C. (1992). Ideation through visualization: The VIBE system. Multimedia Review, 3(3), 42-47.
• Olsen, K., Williams, J. G. and Sochats, K. (1992). Full-Text Retrieval and Output Overload, University of Pittsburgh, Information Science Report Series, LIS046/IS92002.
• Williams, J. and Sochats, K. (1992). VIBE: A Visualization System for Exploring Large Scientific Data Bases, Proceedings of INFOTECH92, October 21-23, 1992, Oak Ridge TN.
• Williams, J., Olsen, K. and Sochats, K. Full-Text Retrieval and Output Overload, SIS Report Series, 1992.
• Williams, J., Wiess, M. and Sochats, K. Metropolitan Bypass Networks. Communique, Vol 44, no 6 December 1991/ January 1992.
• Williams, J. G. and Sochats, K. Networking and Telecommunications Desk Reference, Sams Publishing Company, New York, N.Y., 1992.
• Williams, J. G., Sochats, K. and Weiss, M. Telecommunications Network Design and Performance, 1992.
• Williams, J. G. and Sochats, K. An introduction to Computer Graphics, Brooks Cole Publishers, 1992.
• Williams, J. G. and Kent, Allen (eds). Encyclopedia of Microcomputers, New York: Dekker Inc., 1984-1992, Volumes 1-8.

Zadorozhny, Vladimir

• Zadorozhny V., Nikitchenko N., Algebraic approach to formalization of deductive query languages. Programmirovanije journal, N 6, 1992, pp 29-47 (in Russian). English translation in Programming and Computer Software, vol.18, N 6, 1992, p. 259-273.

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