Information Processing and Management, Volume 28

Volume 28, Number 1, 1992

• Jean Tague-Sutcliffe: An Introduction to Informetrics. 1-4
• H. S. Sichel: Anatomy of the Generalized Inverse Gaussian-Poisson Distribution with Special Applications to Bibliometric Studies. 5-18
• Quentin L. Burrell: The Gini Index and the Leimkuhler Curve for Bibliometric Processes. 19-34
• Leo Egghe: Duality Aspects of the Gini Index for General Information Production Processes. 35-44
• Ronald Rousseau: Two Remarks on the Preceding Paper by L. Egghe. 45-52
• Wolfgang Glänzel: On Some Stopping Times of Citation Processes. From Theory to Indicators. 53-60
• Albert N. Tabah: Nonlinear Dynamics and the Growth of Literature. 61-74
• Abraham Bookstein, Edward O'Neill, Martin Dillon, David Stephens: Application of Loglinear Models to Informetric Phenomena. 75-88
• Esther Green Bierbaum, Terrence A. Brooks, Robert M. Brooks: Subject Control of the Literature of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). 89-98
• Miranda Lee Pao: Global and Local Collaborators: A Study of Scientific Collaboration. 99-110
• Susan Bonzi: Trends in Research Productivity Among Senior Faculty. 111-120
• Dietmar Wolfram: Applying Informetric Characteristics of Databases to IR System File Design, Part I: Informetric Models. 121-134
• Dietmar Wolfram: Applying Informetric Characteristics of Databases to IR System File Design, Part II: Simulation Comparisons. 135-

Volume 28, Number 2, 1992

• Nassrin Tavakoli, Alan Ray: A New Signature Approach for Retrieval of Documents from Free-Text Databases. 153-164
• Stefan Sitter, Adelheit Stein: Modelling the Illocutionary Aspects of Information-Seeking Dialogues. 165-180
• Timo Niemi, Kalervo Järvelin: Advanced Query Formulation in Deductive Databases. 181-200
• Leo Egghe, I. K. Ravichandra Rao: Citation Age Data and the Obsolescence Function: Fits and Explanations. 201-218
• Nicholas V. Findler, Sarita Maini, Albert F. M. Yuen: SHRIF, A General-Purpose System for Heuristic Retreival of Information and Facts, Applied to Medical Knowledge Processing. 219-240
• Zorana Ercegovac, Harold Borko: Design and Implementation of an Experimental Cataloguing Advisor-Mapper. 241-258
• Zorana Ercegovac, Harold Borko: Performance Evaluation of Mapper. 259-268
• Li Da Xu, Ling X. Li: An Information Systems Approach to the Intervention and Prevention of Aids. 269-280

Volume 28, Number 3, 1992

• Peter Bollmann, Vijay V. Raghavan, Gwang S. Jung: On Probabilistic Notions of Precision as a Function of Recall. 291-316
• Gerda Ruge: Experiments on Linguistically-Based Term Associations. 317-332
• Forbes J. Burkowski: An Algebra for Hierarchically Organized Text-Dominate Databases. 333-348
• Paraic Sheridan, Alan F. Smeaton: The Application of Morpho-Syntactic Language Processing to Effective Phrase Matching. 349-370
• Maristella Agosti, Girolamo Gradenigo, Pier Giorgio Marchetti: A Hypertext Environment for Interacting with Large Textual Databases. 371-387
• Jacques Savoy: Bayesian Inference Networks and Spreading Activation in Hypertext Systems. 389-406
• Jessica L. Milstead: Methodologies for Subject Analysis in Bibliographic Databases. 407-432
• Michael Koenig: How Close We Came. 433-

Volume 28, Number 4, 1992

• Donna Harman: Evaluation Issues in Information Retrieval. 439-440
• Gerard Salton: The State of Retrieval System Evaluation. 441-450
• Robert H. Ledwith: On the Difficulties of Applying the Results of Information Retrieval Research to Aid in the Searching of Larg Scientific Databases. 451-456
• Stephen E. Robertson, Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu: On the Evaluation of IR Systems. 457-466
• Jean Tague-Sutcliffe: The Pragmatics of Information Retrieval Experimentation Revisited. 467-490
• E. Michael Keen: Presenting Results of Experimental Retrieval Comparisons. 491-502
• Louise T. Su: Evaluation Measures for Interactive Information Retrieval. 503-516
• Philippe Aigrain, Véronique Longueville: Evaluation of Navigational Links between Images. 517-

Volume 28, Number 5, 1992

• Fausto Rabitti, Pasquale Savino: Automatic Image Indexation to Support Content-Base Retrieval. 547-566
• Eric Andonoff, Michel Canillac, Catherine Mendiboure: OHQL: A Hypertext Approach for Manipulating Object-Oriented Databases. 567-580
• Chin-Chen Chang, Tzong-Chen Wu: Retrieving the Most Similar Symbolic Pictures from Pictorial Databases. 581-588
• Mahmoud Mhashi, Roy Rada, Eevi Beck, Antonios Michailidis, Almal Zeb: Computer-Supported Discussion and Annotation. 589-608
• Marc Cavazza, Pierre Zweigenbaum: Extracting Implicit Information from Free Text Technical Reports. 609-618
• Robert Burgin: Variations in Relevance Judgments and the Evaluation of Retrieval Performance. 619-628
• Florence E. DeHart: Monographic References and Information Science Journal Literature. 629-636
• Quentin L. Burrell: A Simple Model for Linked Informetric Processes. 637-646
• J. Christopher Westland: Economic Incentives for Database Normalization. 647-

Volume 28, Number 6, 1992

• Abraham Bookstein, James A. Storer: Data Compression. 675-680
• Pamela C. Cosman, Eve A. Riskin, Robert M. Gray: Combining Vector Quantization and Histogram Equalization. 681-686
• Oscal T.-C. Chen, Bing J. Sheu, Wai-Chi Fang: Image Compression on a VLSI Neural-Based Vector Quantizer. 687-706
• Tassos Markas, John H. Reif: Quad Tree Structures for Image Compression Applications. 707-722
• Jianhua Lin, James A. Storer, Martin Cohn: Optimal Pruning for Tree-Structured Vector Quantization. 723-734
• Abraham Bookstein, Shmuel T. Klein: Models of Bitmap Generation: A Systematic Approach to Bitmap Compression. 735-748
• Paul G. Howard, Jeffrey Scott Vitter: Analysis of Arithmetic Coding for Data Compression. 749-764
• Paul G. Howard, Jeffrey Scott Vitter: New Methods for Lossless Image Compression Using Arithmetic Coding. 765-780
• Craig G. Nevill-Manning, Timothy C. Bell: Compression of Parallel Texts. 781-794
• Abraham Bookstein, Shmuel T. Klein, Donald A. Ziff: A Systematic Approach to Compressing a Full-Text Retrieval System. 795-