This paper first describes the methodology of journal descriptor (JD) indexing, based on human indexing at the journal level using only 127 descriptors, and applying statistical methods that associate this journal indexing with text words in a training set of MEDLINE® citations. These associations form the basis for automatic indexing of documents outside the training set. The paper then presen...

The Common Indexing Protocol ([CIP1]) is designed to facilitate the creation not only of query referral indexes, but also of meshes of (loosely) affiliated referral indexes. The purpose of such a mesh of servers is to implement some kind of distributed sharing of indexing and/or searching tasks across different servers. So far, the TISDAG (Technical Infrastructure for Swedish Directory Access G...

We measure the rate of pro-poor growth by the mean growth rate of the poor, which equals the rate of change in the Watts index of poverty normalized by the headcount index. Examples are given using data for China during the 1990s.  2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

The recently proposed Euclidean index offers a novel approach to measure the citation impact of academic authors, in particular as an alternative to the hindex. We test if the index provides new, robust information, not covered by existing bibliometric indicators, discuss the measurement scale and the degree of distinction between analytical units the index offers. We find that the Euclidean in...

RÉSUMÉ. Cet article s’intéresse à l’indexation des données ayant une sémantique pauvre dans des documents structurés. Le but est d’exploiter le contenu des données symboliques avoisinantes afin d’en extraire les fragments adéquats pour compléter l’indexation de la donnée non symbolique. Cette approche a été abordée dans le cadre concret d’une application dans un contexte professionnel : indexer...

This paper presents a formal framework for the combination of document representations based on evidential reasoning. Each indexing method is modelled by an agent referred to as an indexer. Indexing elements re modelled as sentences which are used to describe the content of a document. The modelling of the indexing and its uncertainty provides the document representation. The combination of doc...

We offer a detailed examination of a broad class of 2 × 2 matrix games as a first step toward considering measures of resource distribution and efficiency of outcomes. In the present essay, only noncooperative equilibria and entropic outcomes are considered, and a crude measure of efficiency employed. Other solution concepts and the formal construction of an efficiency index will be addressed i...

In this communication, some results on the analysis of the reachability and observability of linear discrete-time fractional order systems are given. Mathematical conditions for checking the controllability and the observability of such systems are developed. Furthermore, the concepts of the controllability realization index, the observability realization index and the structure realization ind...

full text) and the cognitively different indexer interpretations of the