E D IT O R
Professor C J van Rijsbergen
Department of Computer Science, University
College, Dublin 4, IrelandU S E D IT O R
Professor W B Croft
Department of Computer Science, Universityof Massachusetts, Amherst, MAO 1003, USA

B O O K R E V IE W S E D IT O R
D r C D Paice
Department of Computer Studies, Lancaster
University, Lancaster UK

E D IT O R IA L A D V IS O R YBOARD
Dr T Addis
Department of Computer Science, Brunei
University, Uxbridge, Middx. UB8 3PH, UK
D H Barlow
Kent-Barlow Information Associates, Kingsmead House, 250 Kings Road, Chelsea,London SW3 5UE, UK

Dr H P Frei
Institut fur Informatik, ETH-Zentrum,CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Dr D J Harper
Department of Computer Science, UniversityCollege, Dublin 4, Ireland
Dr P Higginson
Department of Computer Science, University
College, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Dr J Lloyd
Department of Computer Science, The
University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria
3052, Australia
R D Mannix
Unilever Research Laboratory, Bebington,Wirral, Merseyside L63 3JW, UK
Professor M J McGill
Ohio College Library Center, 6565 Frantz
Road, Dublin, Ohio, USA
Professor D R McGregor
Department of Computer Science, Universityof Strathclyde, Livingstone Tower, RichmondStreet, Glasgow G1 1XH, UK
Mr N Naffah
INRIA, Bulltransac.
91300 Massy, France127,rue

Professor R N Oddy
School of Information Studies, Syracuse
University, 113 Euclid Avenue, Syracuse,NY 13210, USA
Dr T Radecki
Department of Computer Science, Louisiana
State University, Baton Rouge, LA 708034020, USA
Dr S E Robertson
Centre for Information Science, The City
University, London EC1V 0HB, UK
Professor G Salton
Department of Computer Science, Cornell
University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
Dr H ] Schek
Department of Computer Science, Technische
Hochschule Darmstadt, Alexanderstrasse 24,61 Darmstadt, FRG
D Wallis
Reckitt H & Colman, Dansom Lane, Hull
HU8 7DS, UK
Dr E J Yannakoudakis
Department of Computer Science, Universityof Bradford, West Yorkshire BD7 1DP, UKAmpere,

Professor W M Newman
14 Denning Road, London NW3, UK

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Professor C T Yu
Department of Information Engineering,
University o f Illinois, Chicago, IL 60680,...
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Editor-in-Chief Professor C J van Rijsbergen

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Simulation of a distributed expert-based information prov1s1on
mechanism.NJBelkin, RD Hennings and T Seeger discuss five simulations
formulated to test an IPM model's design potential, validity and architecture

142

An integrated fact/document information system for office automation.
A system designed to combine document retrieval with a relational databasemanagement system is described by E A Ozkarahan and F Can

157

Technique for redundancy control in a distributed hierarchical filestore.
K Lunn andK H Bennett present an approach to distributed filestorage thatis based on user-oriented file naming

162

Experimental adaptive interface. The application of man-machine inter­face techniques to information retrieval is examined by M V Mason andR C Thomas

168

An approach to the functional description of an information retrieval
system based on a generalized model. CJ Crouch and R E Nance assess
an abstr�t specification of an IR system as a collection of processes, theirinputs, outputs and associated transformations

180

Book reviews. Library systems

IBC

Calendar

Executive Editor Corinne Stocker

vol 3 no 3 1984

-R & D-literature searching

Managing Editor Amanda Harper

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