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1996 Publications

Banerjee, Sujata

• Banerjee, S. On Relating Message Level to Cell Level QoS Parameters, In the Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (IC3N), pages 267--268, Washington D.C., October 1996.
• Banerjee, S. and Chrysanthis, P. K. A Fast and Robust Failure Recover Scheme for Shared-Nothing Gigabit-Networked Databases, In the Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS), pages 684--689, Dejon, France, September 1996.
• Banerjee, S. and Chrysanthis, P. K. A New Token Passing Distributed Mutual Exclusion Algorithm, In the Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS-16), pages 717--724, Hong Kong, May 1996.
• Srikitja, A., Stover, M. A., Zhang, T., Zhong, E., Banerjee, S., Tipper, D., Weiss, M. B. and Khalil, A. Analysis of Traffic Measurements on a Wide Area ATM Network, In the Proceedings of the Globecom-96 Conference, pages 778--782, London, U.K., November 1996.
• Srikitja, A., Stover, M. A., Zhang, T., Zhong, E., Banerjee, S., Tipper, D., Weiss, M. B. and Khalil, A. End to End Traffic Measurements on a Wide Area ATM Network, Presented at the Gigabit Networking Workshop GBN-96, San Francisco, March 1996.

Brusilovsky, Peter

• Brusilovsky, P. (1996) Methods and techniques of adaptive hypermedia. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 6 (2-3), pp. 87-129.
• Brusilovsky, P. (1996) Adaptive hypermedia, an attempt to analyze and generalize. In P. Brusilovsky, P. Kommers, & N. Streitz (Eds.), Multimedia, Hypermedia, and Virtual Reality (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1077). Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 288-304.
• Brusilovsky, P., Schwarz, E., and Weber, G. (1996) A Tool for Developing Adaptive Electronic Textbooks on WWW. In Proceedings of WebNet'96 - World Conference of the Web Society, October 16-19, 1996. San Francisco, CA, AACE. - pp. 64-69.
• Brusilovsky, P. and Weber G. (1996) Collaborative example selection in an intelligent example-based programming environment. In D. C. Edelson, & E. A. Domeshek (Eds.), In Proceedings of International Conference on Learning Sciences, ICLS'96, Evanston, IL, USA, AACE. - pp. 357-362.
• Brusilovsky, P., Schwarz, E., and Weber, G. (1996) A Tool for Developing Hypermedia-Based ITS on WWW. Proceedings of Workshop Architectures and Methods for Designing Cost-Effective and Reusable ITSs held at ITS'96, Third International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Montreal, Canada, June 10, 1996.
• Brusilovsky, P., Schwarz, E., and Weber, G. (1996) ELM-ART: An intelligent tutoring system on World Wide Web. In C. Frasson, G. Gauthier, & A. Lesgold (Eds.), Third International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS-96 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1086), Berlin: Springer Verlag, pp. 261-269.
• Brusilovsky, P., Pesin, L., and Zyryanov, M. (1996) Adaptive Educational Hypermedia: A knowledge Based Approach. Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, EWHCI'96. Moscow, Russia, August 12-16, 1996, pp. 67-73.
• Schwarz, E., Brusilovsky, P., and Weber, G. (1996) World-wide intelligent textbooks. In Proceedings of ED-TELECOM'96 - World Conference on Educational Telecommunications, June 1-22, 1996. Boston, MA, AACE. - pp. 302-307.
• Brusilovsky, P. and Vassileva, J. (eds.) (1996), Special Issue on Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia, User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction 6 (2-3).
• Brusilovsky, P., Kommers, P. & Streitz, N. (Eds.) (1996) Multimedia, Hypermedia, and Virtual Reality (LNCS Vol. 1077). Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1996. (Check a review of this book by E. Nissan at: JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL COMPUTING RESEARCH 17: (3) 319-320 1997)

Buchanan, Sally A.

• Editor of Our Common Wealth: A Preservation Plan for Pennsylvania. 1996.

Carbo, Toni

• “Information Policy and U.S. National Information Infrastructure,” The British Library Research and Innovation Centre, July 14, 1996. Information Policy Briefings, Number 14.
• The National Information Infrastructure, Geneva College, May 15, 1996.
• The Advisory Council's Role in Realizing the NII Vision of Universal Information Services for All, Clarion University, March 21, 1996.
• The National Infrastructure Advisory Council: Past Accomplishments and Future Opportunities, U.S. Department of Energy, Conference on Information Law and Policy: Directions and Issues for 1996, January 31, 1996.
• “The Global Information Infrastructure (GII) From One to One,” in Envisioning a Nation Connected, edited by Betty Turock, American Library Association, Chicago, 1996, pp. 22-25.

Cox, Richard J.

• The Record in the Manuscript Collection, Archives and Manuscripts 24 (May 1996): 46-61.
• Documenting Localities: A Practical Model for American Archivists and Manuscripts Curators (Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press and Society of American Archivists, 1996).
• Re-Defining Electronic Records Management, Records Management Quarterly 30 (October 1996): 8-13.
• The Archival Documentation Strategy and Its Implications for the Appraisal of Architectural Records, American Archivist 59 (Spring 1996): 144-154.
• The Archivist and Collecting: A Review Essay, American Archivist 59 (Fall 1996): 496-512.
• A Sense of the Future: A Child's View of Archives, Archivists: The Image and Future of the Profession; 1995 Conference Proceedings, eds. Michael Piggott and Colleen McEwen (Canberra: Australian Society of Archivists Inc., 1996), pp. 189-209.
• A Sense of the Future: An Adult's View of Archives, Archivists: The Image and Future of the Profession; 1995 Conference Proceedings, eds. Michael Piggott and Colleen McEwen (Canberra: Australian Society of Archivists Inc., 1996), pp. 219-224.
• The Record in the Information Age: A Progress Report on Research. Records & Retrieval Report 12 (January 1996).
• The Long-Term Maintenance of Records. Records and Retrieval Report 12 (April 1996).
• Computer Literacy and Records Professionals. Records and Retrieval Report 12 (October 1996).

Detlefsen, Ellen

• Discovering the Future: The University of Pittsburgh's NLM Grant on Education and Training of Health Sciences Librarians. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 84(4): 524-533 (October 1996).

Druzdzel, Marek

• Druzdzel, M. J. Decision-support Systems in Genetic Counseling (Open peer commentary on 'Information, Knowledge, and Values in Genetic Decision Making' by Dr. Sue P. Stafford). Technology Studies, 3(2):263-267, 1996. HTML File
• Druzdzel, M. J. Five Useful Properties of Probabilistic Knowledge Representations From the Point of View of Intelligent Systems. Fundamenta Informaticae, Special Issue on Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning, 30(3/4):241-254. HTML File
• Druzdzel, M. J. Qualitative verbal explanations in Bayesian belief networks. Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour Quarterly, special issue on Bayesian belief networks, 94:43-54, 1996. HTML File
• Druzdzel, M. J. Technology use in computer programming courses. In Second Annual University of Pittsburgh Teaching Excellence Conference: Technology in Teaching, Pittsburgh, PA, March 29, 1996. HTML File
• Marek J. Druzdzel. Explanation in probabilistic systems: Is it feasible? Will it work? In Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Intelligent Information Systems (WIS-96), Deblin, Poland, June 2-5, 1996.

Fine, Sara

• The Effect of Human Behavior on the Design of An Information Retrieval System Interface. with Jin Zhang. International Information and Library Review v.28, September 1996, pp. 249-260.
• The First Helping Interview: Engaging the Client and Building Trust. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1996.
• How the Mind of A Censor Works. School Library Journal v.42, January 1996, pp. 23-27.

He, Daqing

• Huacan He, Yonghuai Liu, Daqing He , and Hua Cheng, Generalized Logic in Experience Thinking , Science in China (series E), Vol.39, No.3, P226-234, 1996.

Hirtle, Stephen C.

• Ghiselli-Crippa, T., Hirtle, S. C., & Munro, P. (1996). Connectionist models in spatial cognition. In Portugali, J. (Eds.), The Construction of Cognitive Maps (pp. 87-104). Boston: Kluwer.
• Cai, G., & Hirtle, S. C. (1996). Retrieving environmental information from digital libraries. In the Proceedings of Eco-Informa'96, Lake Buena Vista, Florida.

Kabara, Joseph

• Allison, J.D., Kabara, J.F., Snider, R.K., Casagrande, V.A., and Bonds, A.B. (1996). GABAB-receptor mediatedinhibition reduces the orientation selectivity of the sustained response of striate cortical neurons in cats. Visual Neuroscience. 13:559-566.
• Kabara, J.F., Snider, R.K., Roig, B.R., and Bonds, A.B. Stimuli outside the classical receptive field modify the tuning characteristics of cat cortical cells. Investigative Ophthalmology andVisual Science 38:2914, 1996.
• Roig, B.R., Kabara, J.F., Snider, R.K., and Bonds, A.B. Non-uniform influence from stimuli outside the classic receptive field on gain control of cat cortical cells. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science. 37:484, 1996.
• Snider, R.K., Kabara, J.F., Roig, B.R., and Bonds, A.B. Cells in the 'hood: Influences on intercellular communication in cat striate cortex. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Scienc.38:64, 1996.
• Snider, R.K., Kabara, J.F., Roig, B.R., and Bonds, A.B. Synchronous entrainment of cat striate cortical neurons by display refresh rate. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science. 37:482,1996.

Kimmel, Margaret Mary

• Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Children, Television, and Fred Rogers, with Mark Collins. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA, 1996.

Rasmussen, Edie M.

• Hancock-Beaulieu, M., Rasmussen, E. and Robertson, S. (1996). Evaluating interactive systems in TREC. Journal of the American Society for Information Science.

Robins, David B.

• Robins, D. (1996). An intentionalist/rationalist approach to the concept of representation for information retrieval. In P. Ingwersen, & N. Ole Pors (Eds.), CoLIS 2: Second international conference on conceptions of Library and Information Science: Integration in perspective (pp. 135-148). Copenhagen, Denmark: Royal School of Librarianship.
• Spink, A., Goodrum, A., Robins, D., & Wu, M. M. (1996). Elicitations during information retrieval: Implications for design. In: SIGIR 96: Proceedings of the 19th Annual International ACM/SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Zurich, Switzerland, August 19-22, 1996 (pp. 120-127). New York: ACM Press.
• Spink, A., & Robins, D. (1996). Use of book reviews by scholars: Implications for electronic publishing. ASIS '96: Proceedings of the 59th Annual ASIS Meeting, 33, 243-248.

Sochats, Kenneth M.

• Bearman, D. and Sochats, K. (1996). Functional Requirements for Electronic Recordkeeping, In Electronic Laboratory Notebooks.
• Olsen, K.A., Sochats, K.M., and Williams, J.G. (1996). Is data really that unimportant for information retrieval, Proceedings Norsk Informatikk Konferanse 1996, Tapir.
• Functional Requirements for Electronic Recordkeeping, with D. Bearman. in Electronic Laboratory Notebooks, 1996.

Spring, Michael B.

• Heo, M., Morse, E.L., Willms, S. and Spring, M. B., Multi-level Navigation of a Document Space. WebNet96, AACE, San Francisco, CA, October 16-19, 1996.
• Morse, E.L., Willms, S., Pollak, W., Meyers, C., and Spring, M.B., The Impact of Collaborative Authoring Software on the Standardization Process. SIS Research Report LIS061/IS96002; April, 1996.
• Morse, E.L., and Spring, M.B., Visualizations that Support Group Work. 1996 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages, Boulder, CO, September 3-6, 1996.
• The Structure of IT Standardization Is a paper that took almost two years to bring together. It was authored over the network with Steve Oksala or Unysis and Tony Rutkowski who was then with the Internet Society. It appeared in ACM Standardview in March of 1996.
• Sapsomboon, B. and Spring, M.B. Computer Based Collaborative Authoring for Standards Development. Open Systems Standards Tracking Report, November, 1996, 5(8), pp. 4-6.
• Spring, M.B., Reference Model for Data Interchange Standards. IEEE Computer, August, 1996, 29(8).
• Spring, M.B., The Virtual Library: Explorations in Information Space. In T. Coggins (Ed.), The National Conference on Legal Information Issues: Selected Essays, Littleton, Colorado: Rothman, 1996, pp 79-150.
• Spring, Michael B. and Weiss, Martin B.H. Financing the Standards Development Process in Kahin, B. (ed.) Standards Policy for the Information Infrastructure, MIT Press, 1995.
• Spring, M. B., Morse, E.L., and Heo, M., Multi-level Navigation of a Document Space. Leveraging Cyberspace Conference, Palo Alto, CA, October 8-9, 1996.
• Willms, S., Morse, E.L., and Spring, M.B. System Design for an Integrated Document System and its Impact on Standards Development Efficiency. IEEE International Engineering Management Conference '96, Vancouver, BC, Canada, August 18-20, 1996.
• Multi-level Navigation in Large Document Spaces is a paper presented at the First Annual Conference on Leveraging Cyberspace held in Palo Alto CA at Xerox Parc in October of 1996. Another version of the paper was presented at WebNet96, in San Francisco, in November of 1996. The paper describes some of the navigational features of CASCADE which is dealt with in more detail in the research panels.
• A Data Interchange Reference Model is the original version of a paper which appeared in IEEE Computer in August of 1996. It contains somewhat more detail than the published paper which had to be edited down for space reasons.
• The Use of CASCADE in Standards Development looks at the Use of CASCADE to support the standards development process. At the current time, this paper exists only as a technical report. It will probably be combined with other research on CASCADE and prepared in abstracted form for publication.

Taylor, Arlene G.

• The Electronic Information Environment and Academic Libraries in the U.S. (in Electronic Information Environment and Academic Libraries: Proceedings of the Japan-U.S. Library Conference 1996, Tokyo: Kinokuniya Company, 1997), pp. 131-140; and in Japanese: pp. 11-19.
• Access to Networked Documents: Catalogs? Search Engines? Both? co-authored with Patrice Clemson. (In Proceedings of the OCLC Internet Cataloging Colloquium, 1996, available at: http://www.oclc.org/oclc/man/colloq/taylor.htm )

Thompson, Richard A.

• Operational Domains for Circuit- and Packet Switching, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications issue on Broadband Circuit Switching, February 1996.
• Photonic Switching Modules in Three Divisions, (with D. K. Hunter), IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications issue on Broadband Circuit Switching, February 1996.
• The Impact of Fiber Nonlinearities on the Architecture of Optical Data Networks, International Telecommunications Conference, Nashville, 1996.
• Photonic Switching in Space, Time, and Wavelength, colloquia at SUNY-Buffalo, Penn State, Iowa State, Technical University of Budapest, University of Texas, 1996-present.

Tipper, David

• Medhi, D. and Tipper, D. Some Approaches to Solving a Multi-Hour Broadband Network Capacity Design Problem with Single-Path Routing, Technical Report, CST/UMKC, July 1996. HTML File
• Pitsillides, A., Ioannou, P. and Tipper, D. Integrated Control of Connection Admission, Flow Rate and Bandwidth for ATM based Networks, Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM'96, San Francisco, CA, March, 1996.
• Qian, Y., Tipper, D. and Medhi, D. A Nonstationary Analysis of Bandwidth Access Control Schemes for Heterogeneous Traffic in B-ISDN, Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM'96, San Francisco, CA, March, 1996.
• Tipper, D. and Dawson, D. A Bound on the Settling Time of Finite Markov Processes, in Probability Models and Statistics: A J. Medhi Festschrift edited by A. C. Borthakur and H. Choudhury, pp: 159-169, New Age International Limited, New Delhi, India, 1996.
• Wang, W., Tipper, D. and Banerjee, S. A Simple Approximation for Modeling Nonstationary Queues, In Proceedings of INFOCOM , pages 255-262, San Francisco, March 1996.
• A. Srikitja, M.A. Stover, T. Zhang, E. Zhong, S. Banerjee, D. Tipper, M. B. Weiss, A. Khalil, End to End Traffic Measurements on a Wide Area ATM Network, presented at the Gigabit Networking Workshop GBN-96, San Francisco, March 1996.

Weiss, Martin B.H.

• Danielsen, Ketil and Weiss, Martin Real-Time End User Input to the Network Link Sharing Problem Thirteenth Nordic Teletraffic Seminar, August 20-22, 1996, Trondheim Norway.
• Lehr, William H. and Weiss, M. B. H. The Political Economy of Settlements in Packet Networks Telecommunications Policy 1996.
• Molka-Danielsen, J. A. and Weiss, Martin B.H. Local Telephony Access Costs: Empirical Cost Functions for Rural and Urban Access 4th Annual Conference on Telecommunications Systems, Nashville TN, March 1996.
• Snow, Andrew P. and Weiss, Martin B.H. Network Staffing Decisions Based Upon Network Fault Data 4th Annual Conference on Telecommunications Systems, Nashville TN March 1996.
• Weiss, Martin B.H. Standards, Regulations, and Private Decisions: A Framework for Analysis in Noam, E. and Nishuilleabhain, A. (eds) Private Networks and Public Objectives North-Holland, 1996. ISBN 0-444-82549-5.
• Weiss, Martin B.H. and Ronald T. Toyofuku Free-Ridership in the Standards- Setting Process: The Case of 10BaseT ACM StandardView Vol. 4, No. 4, December 1996.

Williams, James G.

• Williams, James G. and Carbo, Toni (eds). Information Science: an Emerging Discipline. Cathedral Press, Pittsburgh, Pa. 1996.
• Williams, James G. and Kent, Allen (eds). Encyclopedia of Microcomputers, New York: Dekker Inc., 1984-1997. Vol. 17 and 18, 1996.
• Williams, James G. and Kent, Allen (eds). Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology, New York: Dekker, Inc., Volumes 33-34, 1996.
• Williams, J.G. and Sochats, Kenneth. The Application of Expert Agents/Assistants in Library and Information Systems, DISDOC Bulletin on Information Technology, Vol 7, No. 7, July, 1996, pp 20:41.
• Williams, J.G. Selecting an Internet Provider, Dynamic Business: The Voice of Smaller Business, Vol 51, No. 2, March, 1996, pp 4-6

Xu, Hong

• The Impact of Automation on Job Requirement and Qualifications for Catalogers and Reference Librarians in Academic Libraries. Library Resources and Technical Services, v.40 n.1, 1996, pp. 9-31.
• Type and Level of Position in Academic Libraries Related to Communication Behavior. Journal of Academic Librarianship. 22(4) 1996, 257-266.

Zadorozhny, Vladimir

• Zadorozhny V. On universal magic. Programmirovanije jornal, vol. 22, N 1,1996, p. 51-65 (in Russian). English translation in Programming and Computer Software, v.22, N 1, 1996, pp 35-44.
• Ivannikov V., Zadorozhny V., Kossmann R., Novikov B. Efficient metaobject control using mediators. Proceedings of the 2nd International Andrei Ershov Memorial Conference, Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk, June 1996.
• Ivannikov V., Novikov B., Kossmann R., Zadorozhny V. Basic Issues on Software Integration Framework Architecture. TR ISP RAS. Submission to BNR/Nortel Design Forum, 1996.

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