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Toward a theory of honesty and trust among communicating autonomous agents
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1993-09)
This article outlines, through a number of examples, a method that can be used by autonomous agents to decide among potential messages to send to other agents, without having to assume that a message must be truthful and ...
Factors Affecting Students' Use of MEDLINE
(Elsevier, 1993-12)
MEDLINE search transcripts by a class of third-year medical students were analyzed. The 184 students were divided into three groups according to their search experience in terms of the number of sessions logged at the time ...
Term and citation retrieval: A field study
(Elsevier, 1993)
The relative efficacy of searching by terms and by citations is investigated with real searches collected in health sciences libraries. The objective is to seek evidence to confirm or refute findings from a controlled pilot ...
Perusing the Literature via Citation Links
(Elsevier, 1993-04)
While MEDLINE searching is recognized as the single most effective means to identify relevant items to solve clinical and research problems, the clinician should also consider the complementary strategy to search for ...
Search reduction in hierarchical distributed problem solving
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1993-09)
Knoblock and Korf have determined that abstraction can reduce search at a single agent from exponential to linear complexity (Knoblock 1991; Korf 1987). We extend their results by showing how concurrent problem solving ...
Communicating MIS research: A citation study of journal influence
(Elsevier, 1993)
Due to difficulties with objectively evaluating the quality of MIS research, attitudes about journals in which this research is published play an important role in determining the allocation of research resources. To provide ...
Effective Continuing Education for Training the Archivist
(Association for Library and Information Science Education, 1993-01)
This paper argues for the intimate linkage between the effectiveness of continuing professional education programs and systematic evaluation. After briefly describing the context of existing continuing education offerings ...