For multiattribute decision tasks, different metaphors exist that describe the process of decision making and its adaptation to diverse problems and situations. Multiple strategy models (MSMs) assume that decision makers choose adaptively from a set of different strategies (toolbox metaphor), whereas evidence accumulation models (EAMs) hold that a…

Online description using new Internet technologies, especially XML, is an interesting way to enhance the effectiveness and productivity of archival processing. Users and archivists benefit from the developments, making the achievement of their aims easier. The provenance-based structured presentation of finding aids can be supported with many new…

Chemists have been very active in utilizing the World Wide Web as an information distribution medium and much interesting scientific chemical information is already offered on it. Various classical text-based search engines have made locating information on the Web easier. However, keyword-based searches are often insufficient for chemists…