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Categorie Soggetti
Information Science & Library Science","Information Science & Library Science
Several developments must occur before we are likely to see commercial
ly available intelligent intermediary systems for information retrieva
l. The first, which has received a great deal of attention and researc
h, is the design of appropriate inference engines and knowledge struct
ures. The second is the implementation of computational processes that
are sufficiently efficient to handle the potentially overwhelming com
putational demands of such systems when scaled up. The third is develo
pment of full-scale knowledge bases and databases. The fourth is the d
esign of interfaces that support easy and effective use of the intelli
gent search functions. This paper briefly reviews issues and advances
associated with the first concern, designing intelligent search functi
ons. It then discusses in detail issues associated with the design of
interfaces to such functions, and describes some general design princi
ples to guide in the implementation of these interfaces. Finally, a fu
nctional prototype is described that is based on suck principles to il
lustrate their application.