this article is a report of a research project aimed at developing a strategic plan for the department of library and information science (lis), ferdowsi university of mashhad the aim of the project was to identify the factors and a model for designing the strategic plan for lis department. according to the process of strategic planning, external and internal studies carried out. in these studi...

ing and indexing (A&I) services have long provided their users with aids to retrieving information from their databases. The initial products of many A&I services were printed publications organized in separate sections similar to chapters in a book and containing helpful author and subject indexes. Each section contained abstracts of articles on a broad subject. Users could therefore simply sc...

Supervised learning in attribute-based spaces is one of the most popular machine learning problems studied and, consequently, has attracted considerable attention from the evolutionary computation community. The problem studied here is typical—determining optimal symbolic descriptions for a concept, for which positive and negative examples are provided along with an appropriate language. Key di...