Genres and knowledge organization. Sponsored by SIG CR, HFIS

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Facing changing environment and user requirements, modern distributed software systems often have to evolve accordingly. We propose an extended object-oriented programming model for dynamically self-adaptive distributed software systems. With this model every component of a system is explicitly situated in an active architectural context, which is naturally used to regulate and facilitate poten...

Reports of the demise of the "user" have been greatly exaggerated: Dervin's Sense-Making and the methodological resuscitation of the user -- looking backwards, looking forward Sponsored by SIG/USE and SIG/HFIS

Text genres in information organization

Introduction. Text genres used by so-called information organizers in the processes of information organization in information systems were explored in this research. Method. The research employed text genre socio-functional analysis. Five genre groups in information organization were distinguished. Every genre group used in information organization is described. Empirical evidence for genre gr...

ASIS&T SIG/CR 2000. Classification for User Support and Learning

generic Partitive (physical and theoretical) Partitive (habits, law and jurisdiction) Partitive (geographical, topographical) Instrumental Cause/effect Beneficial Detrimental Process applied. Derivative When the user enters a search term, the system uses synonym relationships to identify the corresponding concept and then displays other concepts in an array arranged by type of relationship, as ...