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1993 Publications

Banerjee, Sujata

• Banerjee, S. Distributed Database Systems in High Speed Networks. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, August 1993.
• Banerjee, S., Li, V. O. K. and Wang, C. Distributed Database Systems in High Speed Wide Area Networks. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Gigabit Network Protocols and Applications, Vol. 11, No. 4, pages 617-630, May 1993.

Brusilovsky, Peter

• Brusilovsky P. (1993) Towards an intelligent environment for learning introductory programming. - In: E.Lemut, B.du Boulay, G.Dettori (eds.) Cognitive models and intelligent learning environments for learning programming. Springer-Verlag, p.114-124.
• Brusilovsky P., Pesin, L., and Zyryanov M. (1993) Towards an adaptive hypermedia component for an intelligent learning environment. In Bass L.J., Gornostaev J. and Unger C. (eds.) Human-Computer Interaction. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, v. 753, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1993, 348-358
• Brusilovsky, P., Burmistrov, I., and Kaptelinin, V. (1993) Structuring the field of HCI. An empirical study of expert's representation. In: L. J. Bass, J. Gornostaev and C. Unger (eds.) Human-Computer Interaction. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 11-20.
• Brusilovsky P. (1993) Student as user: Towards an adaptive interface for an intelligent learning environment. - In P.Brna, S.Ohlson and H.Pain (Eds.) Proceedings of AI-ED'93, World Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Education, Edinburgh, 23-27 August 1993, AACE, Charlottesville, p.386-393 [PDF]
• Brusilovsky P., Zyryanov M. (1993) Intelligent Tutor, Environment and Manual for Physical Geography. - In: Proceedings of the Seventh International PEG Conference, PEG'93, July 2-4, 1993, p.63-73.

Carbo, Toni

• The Education of Archivists: Future Challenges for Schools of Library and Information Science, Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 34 (Winter 1993), pp. 66-72.
• A View of Information Policy in the United States, The Role of Information in the Economy and Society, Luxembourg: Commission of the European Communities, 1993. Proceedings of the November 3-4, 1992 Conference. Luxembourg, pp. 131-139.
• A View of Information Policy in the United States, FID News Bulletin 43 (September 1993), pp. 197-203.
• Information Policy: Past, Present, and Future, Library Lectures: The LSU Libraries Schwing Lecture Series, Louisiana State University, 1993, pp. 50-56.

Cox, Richard J.

• The Concept of Public Memory and Its Impact on Archival Public Programming, Archivaria 36 (Autumn 1993): 122-35.
• The Masters of Archival Studies and American Education Standards: An Argument for the Continued Development of Graduate Archival Education in the United States, Archivaria 36 (Autumn 1993): 221-31.
• International Perspectives on the Image of Archivists and Archives: Coverage by The New York Times, 1992-93, International Information & Library Review 25 (1993): 195-231.
• The Roles of Graduate and Continuing Education in Preparing Archivists for the Information Age, American Archivist 56 (Summer 1993): 444-57.
• Readings in Archives and Electronic Records: Annotated Bibliography and Analysis of the Literature, in Electronic Records Management Program Strategies, ed. Margaret Hedstrom (Pittsburgh: Archives and Museum Informatics, 1993), pp. 99-156.
• Editor, Educating the American Archivist for the Twenty-First Century, Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 34 (Winter 1993).
• The Federal Government's Interest in Archives of the United States, in Oddo Bucci. ed., Archival Science on the Threshold of the Year 2000 (Macerata, Italy: University of Macerata, 1993), pp. 207-41.

Debons, Anthony

• Debons, A. (1993). Knowledge Counseling, the Concept, the Process and the Application. Infomediary, 7, 113-128.
• Debons, A. (1993). Information Science. World Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Third Edition, 353-358.

Detlefsen, Ellen

• Library and Information Science Education for the New Medical Environment and the Age of Integrated Information. Library Trends v.42, Fall 1993, pp.342-364.
• Detlefsen EG, Nozoe A, Sakai Y. Medical Libraries and Medical Informatics and New Roles for Medical Librarians. Journal of the IMIC [International Medical Information Center, Tokyo] 14(1):15-23 (1993). [Note: Text is in Japanese].

Druzdzel, Marek

• Druzdzel, M. Probabilistic Reasoning in Decision Support Systems: From Computation to Common Sense. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1993.
• Druzdzel, M. J. and Henrion, M. Belief propagation in qualitative probabilistic networks. In Qualitative Reasoning and Decision Technologies, N. Piera Carrete & M.G. Singh (eds), pp. 451-460, CIMNE: Barcelona, 1993. HTML File
• Druzdzel, M. J. and Henrion, M. Efficient reasoning in qualitative probabilistic networks. In Proceedings of the 11th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-93), pages 548-553, Washington, DC, July 11-15, 1993. HTML File
• Druzdzel, M. J. and Henrion, M. Intercausal reasoning with uninstantiated ancestor nodes. In Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-93), pages 317-325, Washington, DC, July 9-11, 1993. HTML File
• Druzdzel, M. J. and Simon, H. A. Causality in Bayesian belief networks. In Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-93), pages 3-11, Washington, DC, July 9-11, 1993. HTML File

Hirtle, Stephen C.

• Hirtle, S. C., Ghiselli-Crippa, T., & Spring, M. S. (1993) The cognitive structure of space: An analysis of temporal sequences. In A. V. Frank and I. Campari (Eds.), Spatial information theory: A theoretical basis for GIS. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
• Heidorn, P. B., & Hirtle, S. C. (1993). Is spatial information imprecise or just coarse? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 16, 246-247.
• Hirtle, S. C., & Heidorn, P. B. (1993). The structure of cognitive maps: Representations and processes. In Gärling, T. & Golledge, R. G. (Eds.), Behavior and Environment: Psychological and Geographical Approaches (pp. 170-192). Amsterdam: North-Holland.

Josey, E. J.

• The Challenge of Cultural Diversity in the Recruitment of Faculty and Students from Diverse Backgrounds. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science v.34, Fall 1993, pp. 302-311.

Kabara, Joseph

• Bonds, A.B., Snider, R.K., Kabara, J.F., Bush, P., and Sejnowski, T.J. On the origins of oscillation in cells of the cat striate cortex. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science. 34:909,1993.
• .D. Allison, V.A. Casagrande, E.J. DeBruyn, J.F. Kabara, R.K. Snider, A.C. Palmer and A.B. Bonds, Contrast Adaptation of V1 Neurons in a Nocturnal Primate Galago Crassicauatus. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science. 34:793, 1993.

Lewis, Michael

• Edlund, C. & Lewis, M. (1993). Ecological display integration for direct process control of a simple steam plant, Proceedings of the Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Man-Machine Interface Tech- nologies, Oak Ridge, TN, April pp. 18-21.
• Lewis, M. & Sycara, K. (1993). Reaching informed agreement in multi-specialist cooperation, Group Decision and Negotiation,vol 2, 3, 279-300.
• Lewis, M. & Sycara, K. (1993). Modeling multispecialist decision making. Smith, M. & Salvendy, G. (Ed.) Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Orlando, FL, August 8-13, vol 1, 481-486.
• Lewis, M. (1993). Assessing decision heuristics using machine learning. Decision Support Systems, 10, 199-212.
• Lewis, M. & Spoor, R. (1993). Thinking with a mouse. Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boulder, CO, June 18-21, pp. 659-663.
• Lewis, M. & Kim, H. (1993). Noise and emergent features in integrated displays. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Seattle, WA, October 11-15, pp. 520-523.
• Lewis, M. & Weise, C. (1993). Situation theoretic methods for display design, Proceedings of the Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Man-Machine Interface Technologies, Oak Ridge, TN, April pp. 18-21.

Rasmussen, Edie M.

• Rasmussen, E. M. (1993). Parallel processing for text retrieval. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Symbolic and Logical Computing. Madison, SD: Dakota State University. 161-171.
• Rasmussen, E. M., Willett, P. and Wilson, T. (1993). Chemical structure handling using the Distributed Array Processor. Chemical Structures 2. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. 327-341.
• Yang, J. -J., Korfhage, R. R. and Rasmussen, E. (1993). Query improvements in information retrieval using genetic algorithms--a report on the experiments of the TREC Project. The First Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-1). Gaithersburg, MD: National Institute of Standards and Technology. 31-58

Sochats, Kenneth M.

• Olsen, K.A., Korfhage, R.R., Sochats, K.M., Spring, M.B. and Williams, J.G. (1993). Visualization of a Document Collection: the VIBE System, Information Processing & Management, Vol. 29, No. 1 (69-82). HTML File
• Olsen, K.A., Korfhage, R.R., Sochats, K.M., Spring, M.B. and Williams, J.G. (1993). Visualization of a Document Collection with Hypertext Links: the VIBE System, Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, Vol. 3 (August).
• Olsen, K., Korfhage, R., Sochats, K., Spring, M. and Williams, J. Visualization of a Document Collection, Information Processing Management, Vol 29, No 1, 1993, pp 69-81.
• Sochats, K.M., Williams, J.G., Olsen, K.A. (1993). Visualization tools for document retrieval, ASIS MidYear Conference, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, May 1993.
• Visualization and Information Retrieval, With K. Olsen and J. G. Williams.

Spring, Michael B.

• Olsen, K., Korfhage, R., Spring, M., Sochats, K. and Williams, J. Visualization of a Document Collection with Implicit and Explicit Links: The VIBE System. The Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, Aug. 1993 5, pp 79-95.
• Spring, M.B., The Virtual Library: Explorations in Information Spaces. Virtual Reality World, Nov./Dec., 1993, 1(2), pp 53-66.
• Spring, M.B. and Jennings, M.C., Virtual Reality and Abstract Data: Virtualizing Information. Virtual Reality World, Spring, 1993, 1(1), pp. c-m.
• Spring, M.B., and Kim, H., Virtual Reality In A. Kent (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. Volume 52, New York: Marcel Dekker, 1993, pp 366-376.
• Spring, M.B., Jamison, W., Fithen, K.T., Thomas, P. and Pavol, R., Models for Human Computer Interaction. In A. G. Holtzman, A. Kent, and J.G. Williams (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Microcomputers. Volume 11. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1993, pp 189-218.
• Hirtle, S.C., Ghiselli-Crippa, T. and Spring, M.B., Cognitive Structure of Space: and Analysis of Temporal Sequences. European Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT '93), Marciana Marina, Elba, Italy, September 19-22, 1993.

Thompson, Richard A.

• Test Procedures for a Photonic Switching Fabric, (with BW Choy), Research Report, Department of Information Science and Telecommunications, University of Pittsburgh, 1993.

Weiss, Martin B.H.

• Bernt, Phyllis, and Weiss, Martin B.H. International Telecommunications, Indianapolis, IN: Howard Sams (A Division of Prentice Hall Computer Publishers), 1993.
• Weiss, Martin B.H. The Standards Development Process: A View From Political Theory ACM StandardView Vol. 1, No. 3, December 1993.

Williams, James G.

• Williams, James G. and Kent, Allen (eds). Encyclopedia of Microcomputers, New York: Dekker Inc., 1984-1992, Volumes 9-12, 1993.

Zadorozhny, Vladimir

• Zadorozhny V., Kalinichenko L., Nikitchenko N. Mutually complementary formalizations of deductive query languages. Kibernetika i sistemny analiz journal. vol. 29, N 2, 1993, p. 94-110 (in Russian). English translation in Cybernetics and Systems Analysis, vol. 29, N 2, 1993, p. 229-241.
• Kalinichenko L., Nikitchenko N., Zadorozhny V. Application of Composition Development Method for definition of SYNTHESYS information resource query language semantics. FME'93 Symposium, Odense, 1993.
• Zadorozhny V., Kuroshev M. Informal analysis of Smalltalk, C++, CLOS and Emerald object models. IPI RAS, TR-93-10, October 1993.

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