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Barker, Bruce O.; Petersen, Paul D. – 1984
This paper explores the fault-tree analysis approach to isolating failure modes within a system. Fault tree investigates potentially undesirable events and then looks for failures in sequence that would lead to their occurring. Relationships among these events are symbolized by AND or OR logic gates, AND used when single events must coexist to…
Descriptors: Critical Path Method, Decision Making, Diagrams, Evaluation Methods
Kuhlthau, Carol C. – 1988
Traditionally, library instruction has been based on the sources in the library and not on the process of seeking information. A new approach to library skills may be needed to enable students to become effective information users. This study investigated the information search process of 140 high school seniors in six high schools. Subjects were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Change, Correlation, Course Integrated Library Instruction
Katzer, Jeffrey; And Others – 1982
This report investigates seven document representations--configurations of controlled and free-text vocabulary--which can be used to search the INSPEC (Computer and Control Abstracts) and PsychInfo (Psychological Abstracts) databases. The performance of each representation is analyzed, as is overlap among the representations, i.e., the extent to…
Descriptors: Databases, Information Retrieval, Models, Online Systems
Stinaff, Russell D. – 1973
The problem of structuring sequences of instructional stimuli such that learning is optimized is modelled as a sequential decision problem with an imbedded mathematical model of learning providing a criterion function. Three types of optimization methods for such a representation are investigated for the specific case of paired-associate learning…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Science, Educational Research

Zahir, Sajjad; Chang, Chew Lik – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1992
Describes the design and development of a prototype expert system called ONLINE-EXPERT that helps users select online databases and vendors that meet users' needs. Search strategies are discussed; knowledge acquisition and knowledge bases are described; and the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), a decision analysis technique that ranks databases,…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Databases, Decision Making, Expert Systems
Spink, Amanda; Greisdorf, Howard; Bateman, Judy – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1998
Proposes a useful concept of relevance as a relationship and an effect on the movement of a user through the iterative stages of their information seeking process, and that users' relevance judgments can be plotted on a Three-Dimensional Spatial Model of Relevance Level, Degree and Time. Discusses implications for the development of information…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking, Information Systems
Giguere, Marlene; And Others – 1995
Information literacy is an set of acquired skills and strategies which encompass the abilities to recognize a need for information, to retrieve the required information, and to evaluate and utilize it effectively. Teaching students how to structure, acquire, analyze, and synthesize information must start much earlier than at the post-secondary…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Information Literacy

Saracevic, Tefko; And Others – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1988
Three articles describe a series of observations and experiments that examined the user context of questions in information retrieval, the structure and classification of questions, cognitive traits and decision-making searchers, and different searches of the same question. (71 references) (Author/CLB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Cognitive Tests, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods

Morrissey, J. M.; And Others – Information Processing and Management, 1986
Proposes a "Model of Querying" for users of office filing facilities and discusses its motivation, aspects, attributes, and advantages. A review of current information systems and attempts to combine information retrieval, artificial intelligence, and database management techniques leads to conclusion that no resultant system is adequate…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Comparative Analysis, Database Management Systems, Databases
Choo, Chun Wei; Detlor, Brian; Turnbull, Don – 1999
This paper presents findings from a study of how knowledge workers use the Web to seek external information as a part of their daily work. Participants were mainly IT specialists, managers, and research/marketing/consulting staff working in organizations that included a large utility company, a major bank, and a consulting firm. Thirty-four…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Foreign Countries, Information Scientists, Information Seeking

Ackerson, Linda G. – RQ, 1996
Outlines a model to promote more effective interaction between reference librarians and science graduate students conducting literature searches in preparation for dissertations. The model uses a sequential set of search strategies: searching subject indexes, identifying reviews, searching for "ancestors," searching for…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographies, Doctoral Dissertations, Graduate Students

Hjorland, Birger – Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 1988
Provides an overview of the problems with information retrieval in psychology, based on the examination of the search strategy used for a dissertation. The discussion illustrates the usefulness of a facet model for formulating search strategies for psychology literature reviews, using the same dissertation as an example. (15 references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Doctoral Dissertations

Huston, Mary M. – Research Strategies, 1989
Presents literature review of concept-based search theory and its relationship to end user instruction for online bibliographic information systems. Existing search models and search curriculums from the library and information science literature are surveyed, scholarly patterns of information access are discussed, and commercial sources of…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bibliographic Databases, Curriculum, Information Utilization

Michel, Dee Andy – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1994
Presents a taxonomy of 11 sources of information used during library and database searching based on observations of 49 searches in a variety of libraries and search situations. Three categories of sources are identified: those internal to the searcher, those created by the searcher, and those external to the searcher. (Contains 54 references.)…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Databases

Spink, Amanda; Ozmutlu, H. Cenk; Ozmutlu, Seda – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2002
Presents findings from four studies of the prevalence of multitasking information seeking and searching by Web (via the Excite search engine), information retrieval system (mediated online database searching), and academic library users. Highlights include human information coordinating behavior (HICB); and implications for models of information…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer System Design, Databases, Higher Education