With the growing use of computers as tools for the automation of clerical tasks, there has come not only a proliferation of documentation, but the realization that computers could be employed in automating certain aspects of the production of documents — not only such documents as describe computer developments, but also papers, briefs, letters, etc. The runoff program, usually an adjunct to a text editing facility, has been in existence for a long time, but its use has been limited to computing installations and those directly involved with computing. The reason for this is two-fold: public unawareness, and the ad hoc nature of runoff program design have prevented wider use. This thesis is an attempt to present a reasoned design of a program which acts enough like a rather intelligent typewriter to be usable by members of the public, but gives the user with a greater computing background enough power of expression in terms of programming language and layout design, to overcome some of the limitations of earlier runoff programs. Previous work in the area of text processing which relates to document processing is examined in some detail. The underlying ideas common to existing document-processing facilities are brought forth, and examined in the light of what a user might reasonably expect of such a facility. The resulting design for a document processor is presented in an orderly fashion, outlining the reasons for design decisions and backing away respectfully from designs which are unfeasible for economic implementation. An entire chapter is devoted to a description of the resulting document processor, in the form of a somewhat rarified user's manual. Suggestions for and details of an implementation are given, based on the author's own experiences with implementation. A bibliography and a short glossary of the most important terms and those most likely to confuse are appended to the thesis. / Science, Faculty of / Computer Science, Department of / Graduate

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Thesis--University of California. / Bibliography: leaves 198-209.

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Includes bibliography. / The Institute for Medical Literature (IML) provides an online bibliographic service to the biomedical community in South Africa. The requirements of the users of the services of IML were evaluated in respect of needs and satisfaction of these needs. A non-user population was also identified and evaluated. The research study was undertaken by (a) conducting a review of the literature; and (b) conducting an empirical study of users and non-users of IML to construct both a "personal" and "information behaviour" profile of both the user and non-user groups. The literature was studied to provide (i) a conceptual framework for the field of research, (ii) a compilation of findings in studies related to this study and (iii) a basis for the selection of the methodology employed in the study. The "personal" profile comprised details of age, rank and work activity type and the "information behaviour" profile comprised details of use of information channels. The needs of the users, as measured by various criteria for satisfaction of these needs, were also measured. The reasons for the non-use of the service were also investigated. The principal conclusions reached were: (a) The expressed information need of the users of IML were satisfied; (b) the majority of non-users had not heard of IML; (c) there was a difference between the information seeking behaviour of users and non-users of IML; and (d) age, rank and work activity type influenced the use or non-use of IML.

Informationssystem är resultatet av samarbete människor emellan. System designas, realiseras, testas och implementeras i de verksamheter som de ska stödja. Samarbetekrävs under alla dessa steg. I utvecklingsarbetets inledning är det inte ovanligt att kraven på systemen formuleras genom projekt som organiseras genom olika typer avsamarbetsformer. I föreliggande avhandling lyfter vi pä locket på samarbetsinriktad modellering och studerar i detalj vad som sker när krav på system formuleras. Genom en gedigen forskningsdesign och ett rikt datamaterial följer vi två modelleringsteam när de facililerar verksamhetsrepresentanter i olika situationer under tre modelleringsprojekt. Avsikten är att utveckla kunskap om vad som utmärker facililering i dessa situationersamt studera vad som utmärker situationsanpassning när modellerarna underlättar och möjliggör arbetet. Genom videobaserad forskning har modelleringsarbetet dokumenterats och med hjälp av olika analysmetoder, såsom konversationsinriktad handlingsanalys och multigrundad teoriutveckling, tolkas episoder i materialet och en plattform för en praktisk teori om facililering utvecklas. Resultatet utgörs av en typologi över samarbetsinriktad modellering, åtgärder för att utföra facililering av arbetet, samt insikter om vad som utmärker situationsanpassning när facilitering utförs och olika omständigheter måste mötas. Synsättet som förespråkas är att tillämpande av struktur och utnyttjandet av frihet är förutsättningar då goda krav på informationssystem ska formuleras genom samarbete.

Shi Xiaodong. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 114-117). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / 摘要 --- p.i / Abstract --- p.ii / Acknowledgement --- p.iii / Table of Contents --- p.iv / List of Tables --- p.vi / List of Figures --- p.vii / List of Figures --- p.vii / Chapter Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.9 / Chapter 1.1. --- Background --- p.9 / Chapter 1.2. --- Research Motivation --- p.10 / Chapter 1.3. --- Research Objective --- p.14 / Chapter 1.4. --- Organization of Thesis --- p.14 / Chapter Chapter 2. --- Problem Analysis and Definition --- p.15 / Chapter 2.1. --- "Definitions of Story, Event and Topic" --- p.15 / Chapter 2.2. --- Characteristics of News Stories --- p.17 / Chapter Chapter 3. --- Literature Review --- p.26 / Chapter 3.1. --- Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) --- p.26 / Chapter 3.2. --- Document Clustering Techniques --- p.27 / Chapter 3.3. --- Event Evolution --- p.30 / Chapter Chapter 4. --- System Architecture --- p.34 / Chapter Chapter 5. --- Event Evolution --- p.37 / Chapter 5.1. --- Event Evolution --- p.37 / Chapter 5.2. --- Event Timestamp and Temporal Relationship --- p.39 / Chapter 5.3. --- Event Evolution Graph --- p.42 / Chapter 5.4. --- Event Threading and Event Joining --- p.46 / Chapter Chapter 6. --- Extracting News Events --- p.48 / Chapter 6.1. --- Clustering Approach --- p.48 / Chapter 6.2. --- Utilizing Clustered Stories from News Infomediaries --- p.59 / Chapter Chapter 7. --- Modeling Event Evolution Relationships --- p.62 / Chapter 7.1. --- Measuring the Confidences of Event Evolution Relationships --- p.63 / Chapter Chapter 8. --- Constructing Event Evolution Graphs --- p.68 / Chapter 8.1. --- Static Thresholding --- p.68 / Chapter 8.2. --- Static Pruning --- p.69 / Chapter 8.3. --- Dynamic Pruning --- p.70 / Chapter Chapter 9. --- Experimental Evaluation --- p.72 / Chapter 9.1. --- Evaluation Measure --- p.72 / Chapter 9.2. --- Data Set --- p.77 / Chapter 9.3. --- Experimental Results and Analysis --- p.78 / Chapter Chapter 10. --- Case Study --- p.89 / Chapter Chapter 11. --- Story Segmentation and Its Effects --- p.93 / Chapter 11.1. --- Story Segmentation --- p.95 / Chapter 11.2. --- Event Generalization --- p.97 / Chapter 11.3. --- Experimental Evaluation --- p.98 / Chapter Chapter 12. --- Conclusions and Future Work --- p.112 / Chapter 12.1. --- Conclusions --- p.112 / Chapter 12.2. --- Future Work --- p.113 / References --- p.114