Yuji Tosaka is Cataloging/Metadata Librarian and Cathy Weng is Head of Cataloging at The College of New Jersey Library; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]. We would like to thank Jeffrey Weng for his editorial assistance and the anonymous reviewers for their invaluable comments and suggestions. © Yuji Tosaka and Cathy Weng Content-enriched metadata in bibliographic records is considered hel...

Most virtual database systems are suitable for environments in which the set of member information sources is small and stable. Consequently, present virtual database systems do not scale up very well. The main reason is the complexity and cost of incorporating new information sources into the virtual database. In this paper we describe a system, called Autoplex, which uses machine learning tec...

Image information content is known to be a complicated and a controversial problem. We posit a new image information content definition. Following the theory of Solomonoff-KolmogorovChaitin’s complexity, we define image information content as a set of descriptions of image data structures. Three levels of such description can be generally distinguished: (1) the global level, where the coarse st...

This thesis presents a new architecture for information discovery based on a hierarchy of content routers that provide both browsing and search services to end users. Content routers catalog information servers, which may in turn be other content routers. The resulting hierarchy of content routers and leaf servers provides a rich set of services to end users for locating information, including ...

Efficient service discovery is a crucial process for Web service utilization. Most existing service discovery approaches, based on either functional or non-functional attributes, do not address the issues associated with the impact of subjective expectations and preferences on service discovery. For example, duplicated and similar functionalities existing among services require service consumer...

In this work, we present results from a system that was designed to automatically identify critical data based upon content. This identification data can then be used for computer security purposes: known critical data can have extra safeguards extended to it and users that are attempting to access critical data illicitly can also be better identified. The process works by using a SVM-based fil...

While library discovery systems offer great promise for delivering open access materials, they often fall short. Discovery tools merge multiple records together, and in the process show a preference linking options that are less likely to successfully deliver full text. Third party bringing users missing content, but these not fully supported systems. Library so focused on keeping unauthorized ...

decision support systems (dsss) are prevalent information systems for decision making in many competitive business environments. in a dss, decision making process is intimately related to some factors which determine the quality of information systems and their related products. traditional approaches to data analysis usually cannot be implemented in sophisticated companies, where managers need...

decision support systems (dsss) are prevalent information systems for decision making in many competitive business environments. in a dss, decision making process is intimately related to some factors which determine the quality of information systems and their related products. traditional approaches to data analysis usually cannot be implemented in sophisticated companies, where managers nee...

The fact that natural language proper names are rigid designators is an empirical discovery about natural language. However, unlike other empirical discoveries about language made in the past few decades, it is one which has been taken to have great philosophical significance. One reason for this is that it helped simplify the formal semantical representation of ordinary modal discourse. But th...