Online and CD-Rom Review: Volume 18 Issue 1
Table of contents
AN INTRODUCTION TO GENETIC ALGORITHMS AND TO THEIR USE IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
Gareth Jones, Alexander M. Robertson, Peter WillettThis paper provides an introduction to genetic algorithms, a new approach to the investigation of computationally‐intensive problems that may be insoluble using conventional…
MARKETING OF ONLINE AND CDROM DATABASES
Carol King, Charles OppenheimThis paper reports the results of a survey of UK electronic information vendors regarding the importance of marketing to them, and reports the results of an examination of the…
NEW DATABASE PRODUCTS: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE (ISSUE 3)
Martha E. Williams, Linda C. SmithThis is the third article on Science, Technology and Medicine (STM) databases in a continuing series of articles summarizing and commenting on new database products. Two companion…
PATENTLY PREDICTABLE
Jim SibleyI remember a story of two businessmen looking out of an office window at a man carrying a billboard with the message The End of the World is Nigh on it and one saying to the…
END‐USER SEARCHING
Michael CasaleChanging access. The scene for the session was set by a paper presented by Harry East of the Centre for Communication and Information Studies (CCIS), University of Westminster…
THE CABLE ROUTE TO INFORMATION
Charles AshleyThe worlds of online information, the Internet and cable television networks are continuing to blur with announcements from the likes of PSI and Ziff‐Davis, Prodigy, CompuServe…
NEWS ROUNDUP
Paul BlakeElectronic news prices set to tumble. There now seems to be little doubt that the cost of electronic news information is set to tumble as publishers begin to launch their own…