Intelligent Information Retrieval: The Case of Astronomy and Related Space Sciences

Intelligent information Retrieval comprehensively surveys scientific information retrieval, which is characterized by growing convergence of information expressed in varying complementary forms of data - textual, numerical, image, and graphics; by the fundamental transformation which the scientific...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Heck, Andre (Editor), Murtagh, Fionn (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1993, 1993
Edition:1st ed. 1993
Series:Astrophysics and Space Science Library
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Enabling Technologies
  • Understanding and Supporting Human Information Seeking
  • Advice from the Oracle: Really Intelligent Information Retrieval
  • Search Algorithms for Numeric and Quantitative Data
  • Information-Sifting Front Ends to Databases
  • What Hypertext can do for Information Retrieval
  • Wide Area Network Resource Discovery Tools
  • Archie
  • WAIS
  • The Internet Gopher
  • WorldWideWeb (WWW)
  • State of the Art in Astronomy and Other Sciences
  • Information in Astronomy: Tackling the Heterogeneity Factor
  • Multistep Queries: The Need for a Correlation Environment
  • Intelligent Information Retrieval in High Energy Physics
  • Astronomical Data Centres from an IIR Perspective
  • Epilogue