In a selective information dissemination (SDI) system, users submit profiles consisting of a number of long-standing queries to represent their information needs. The system then continuously collects new documents from underlying information sources, filters them against the user profiles, and delivers relevant information to corresponding users. SDI systems are very important nowadays due to ...

Floating Content (FC) is a paradigm for localized infrastructure-less content dissemination, that aims at sharing information among nodes within restricted geographical area by relying only on opportunistic exchanges. FC provides the basis probabilistic spatial storage of shared in completely decentralized fashion, usually without support from dedicated infrastructure. One key open issues chara...

This study investigated the information needs and seeking behaviour of senior non-academic staff in selected universities in Nigeria. Whereas a lot has been written about teaching staff in universities, little is known through literature about the information needs and seeking behaviour of senior non-academic of Nigerian universities. The study adopted the survey research design. The population...