41. Fuzzy Archive: Help With Hopefully A Familiar AI Searching Problem Help with hopefully a familiar AI searching problem. multiple searchers with differingsearching capabilities, obstacles, etc. to better search the most area in http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/marchives/fuzzy-mail98/0163.html

Help with hopefully a familiar AI searching problem j ( 1@news.tuwien.ac.at Mon, 2 Mar 1998 16:58:29 +0100 (MET) Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Next message: Pankaj Kulshreshtha: "Help please .." Previous message: Anthony Cowden: "Re: Algorithm for fuzzy "OR" calculations?" Hello, i am a mechanical engineer, with sort of an advanced challenge in AI understanding/programing. Never having advanced classes in AI programming, i'm hoping some of you can relate my problem to some of the freely published routines. I know that what i'm trying to do has certainly been done before, and am hoping that someone in this group has run across this before, and can point me in a direction for more rsearch. Brute force searching the internet has revealed hundreds of archives, examples, and sample problemssorting through will take some time. The problem: a 2 dimensional (planar) search area, a simple square for now. A target T(x,y) exists somewhere on the grid. An origin O(x,y) also exists elsewhere on the grid (middle for now). Any number of searchers (points)

42. 2 Search Engines - Search The Net -Your Top Searching Resources When searching, one can choose the Web, the Special By choosing the most relevantfolder, one can Searchers easily become habituated to familiar search engines http://www.windweaver.com/searchengines2.htm

Windweaver Index Search Guide Search Helper Search Pages ... Next Search the Net The Top Search Engines Search Engines continued NORTHERN LIGHT http://www.nlsearch.com/ Help and Hints http://www.nlsearch.com/docs/bigfaq.htm#simplesearch On Custom Search Folders http://www.nlsearch.com/docs/bigfaq.htm#categories Special Collection http://www.nlsearch.com/docs/premiumcontentalpha.htm The newcomer, Northern Light, is quickly becoming one of the most popular and effective search engines. Not only does it index more pages than AltaVista or Infoseek, it also offers several unique, additional features - customized organization of search results by category, and access (for a fee) to a database not otherwise accessible on the Web. Finally, Northern Light is highly successful in sorting results by relevance, as well as filtering out duplicate links. When searching, one can choose the Web, the Special Collection or both. The Special Collection is a unique database of over one million articles from 1800 books, magazines, journals, newspapers, pamphlets and newswires, covering a wide variety of subjects.

43. Loughborough University Library: Searching The Internet Some further specialist guides to Internet searching. the Internet seem to be announcedevery week, but most users will tend to become familiar with one or http://www.lboro.ac.uk/library/searching.html

Searching the Internet Services Opening Hours About Us Finding Information ... Ask a Librarian Resources MetaLib - eResource Portal E-journals Reading Lists Past Exam Papers ... home There are four main approaches to finding information on the Internet using: Subject-based Hubs and Gateways Internet Search Engines Popular search engines Meta-search engines ... Weblogs or blogs Some further specialist guides to Internet searching Electronic newspapers Film information Finding quality sources Jobs ... Travel You may also find the Online courses and materials about the Internet of interest. subject-based hubs and gateways A range of subject gateways attempt to provide a 'one stop shop' for sites of interest to the UK higher education community. Each gateway or directory has a subject focus, and resources are evaluated to ensure only quality resources are included. A number of the gateways below are included in the Resource Discovery Network (RDN) . In time this will cover all subjects on a faculty hub basis, with a number of subject based gateways clustered around each hub.

44. Help: ERIC Thesaurus listing of terms used for indexing and searching in the ERIC database. This wordby-wordalphabetical display is probably the most familiar since it provides a http://www.csa.com/csa/HelpV5/suppl/ericthes.shtml

ERIC Thesaurus A thesaurus provides a standard language or set of terms with which to describe a subject area. Applied to indexing of a database, it indicates to a searcher which terms to use to retrieve the maximum number of relevant documents. The thesaurus terms are used by indexers to describe the contents of publications in a consistent, comprehensive and concise manner. These terms are listed in the Descriptors field (DE=) of each record added to the database. Using our interactive Thesaurus Search you can browse for terms via a hierarchical, alphabetical, or rotated index display. These display formats allow you to navigate the thesaurus alphabetically or through the hierarchical relationships between terms. After finding appropriate terms, you can submit a search for those terms in the database descriptor field. The Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors, 13th Edition, contains an alphabetical listing of terms used for indexing and searching in the ERIC database. This word-by-word alphabetical display is probably the most familiar since it provides a variety of information (a "display") for each Descriptor. This includes a Scope Note, Use For (UF) and Use (USE) references, Narrower Terms (NT), Broader Terms (BT), and Related Terms (RT). Each of these segments of the

45. Apostropher: Doggedly Searching For The Crux Of The Biscuit apostropher Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit. this cool story (tipsto Owlmother, who is familiar with my fascination with this most yin of yin http://www.apostropher.com/blog/

Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit June 11, 2004 Okay, okay, you've made your point. apostropher at 04:17 PM CNN : "A television cameraman filming a story about a dangerous intersection was struck and killed by a vehicle, police said." Comments (0) TrackBack (0) Democratic National Convention apostropher at 03:02 PM Democratic National Convention Democratic National Convention Democratic National Convention The website is actually quite boring, but I'm just doing my part in the GoogleBomb War Comments (0) TrackBack (0) The mythologizing continues. apostropher at 02:16 PM That damn liberal media, always trying to minimize Reagan's accomplishments. Wait, did I say minimize? I meant to say invent. Here's Tim Russert on Larry King last night. One other political point: The Republicans achieved control of the United States Congress for the first time in 70 years, of both houses, under Ronald Reagan. Okay, quick: what's wrong with this claim? The GOP took control of the House in 1994. Not only was Reagan not president, Bush I had already come and gone as well and Clinton was halfway through his first term. Just for fun, here are the House election results during Reagan's term. We'll start with '81, the class that entered with Reagan, and end with '89, the class elected during Reagan's last months in office. '81-'83: 242 Dem, 192 Rep, 1 Ind

46. Park City Utah Condos At Vacationparkcity.com We are very familiar with Park City, Deer Valley, and The Canyons most of the restaurants,shopping, and night life are on Main Let us do the searching for you. http://www.vacationparkcity.com/park_city_utah_condos_x.html

Park City Utah Condos at Vacationparkcity.com Park city utah condos Looking for Lodging in the Park City area? Let us do the searching for you. Main Street Historic District has character. Most of the restaurants, shopping, and night life are on Main Street. If you would like information via the Internet, please fill in the reservation request form. Park city utah condos We are very familiar with Park City, Deer Valley, and The Canyons, so feel free to ask us questions. We, the owners of Park City Lodging Connection, have all traveled domestically and internationally. Main Street Historic District has character. Most of the restaurants, shopping, and night life are on Main Street. Looking for Lodging in the Park City area? Let us do the searching for you. Homepage Products Services Help ... Site Map

47. Guides - WestLaw's Field Searching Capability effectively, the researcher must be familiar with what Combining Fields Wheneverfield searching is used, greater The most efficient use, however, is when http://www.law.uh.edu/guides/a_fldsrc.html

WestLaw 's "Field Searching" Capability (Mostly " Case Law Statutes This Legal Guide presumes understanding of West 's American Digest System , the anatomy " of a West judicial opinion , and the theory and function of West 's , all treated in other Legal Research Guides . Those treatments are not duplicated here. Citation Field Searching : The Citation Field contains West citations to particular documents. It can often be used to retrieve specific documents or, in conjunction with other field searches or terms, document groups. The Citation Field 's general form is CI(...) If you have a citation and seek, for instance, a Harvard Law Review article in WestLaw 's TP-ALL database, but are uncertain how the journal title should be entered, omit it. Assuming the fictitious citation 99 Harvard Law Review 888 , use the form CI(99 +P 888) . If the article is in the database, it will pop up. To be sure, there may be other journals and articles using the same number combination, and they will pop up too, but they will be few. Alternatively, you may want to review

48. Museum Of Jewish Heritage searching for boulders that were free of flaws, Goldsworthy selected interventionsand indoor installations that transform nature s most familiar elements into http://www.mjhnyc.org/visit_gardenofstones.htm

About the Garden of Stones About the Process About Andy Goldsworthy On September 17, Andy Goldsworthy's first permanent commission in New York City, Garden of Stones , opened to the public. G arden of Stones , an eloquent garden plan of trees growing from stone, is Goldsworthy's design for the Memorial Garden, an outdoor space that is a central feature of the Museum's new Robert M. Morgenthau Wing. The garden was commissioned by the Museum and organized by the Public Art Fund. Visiting Hours Garden of Stones is open Sunday through Friday during the Museum's regular visiting hours. Click here for detailed directions Admission to the Garden is free to the public Full view of the Garden of Stones About the Garden of Stones The Memorial Garden is a contemplative space dedicated to the memory of those who perished in the Holocaust and honoring those who survived. For Garden of Stones , Goldsworthy worked with nature's most elemental materials - stone, trees, and soil - to create a garden that is the artist's metaphor for the tenacity and fragility of life. Eighteen boulders form a series of narrow pathways in the Memorial Garden's 4,150-square-foot space. A single dwarf oak sapling emerges from the top of each boulder, growing straight from the stone. As the trees mature in the coming years, each will grow to become a part of the stone, its trunk widening and fusing to the base.

49. Evidence Network The extent to which the searcher is familiar with the Further details of most of thedatabases in these lists There is also a case for searching databases that http://www.evidencenetwork.org/searching.asp

Searching in the Social Sciences The researcher involved in evidence based policy and practice and seeking information to compile a systematic review is faced with a complex task if he or she is to identify all the existing research on a particular topic. The primary literature of the social sciences is extremely diverse and appears in a wide variety of formats. The secondary sources - databases, abstracts journals and indexes - are almost as diverse and of variable quality in terms of coverage, abstracts, and indexing. To summarise the problems facing the searcher: Research is published in a variety of media apart from peer reviewed journals - books, report literature (including government publications), conference proceedings, practitioner journals and, now, the internet. There is no routine reporting of research methodologies or archiving of data. The structured abstract is rare.

50. Advanced Searching In The Design Library stick to one topic and you want to become familiar with the word may be used in Keywordsearching; however single word searching will most likely result http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/design/advsearch.html

Home Services Research Resources About the Libraries ... E-journal Finder Ask a Librarian Hours, Phone Numbers My Borrowing Record Request Items/TRIPSaver Search this Website Suggest a Purchase Getting Started The Process Get Started Keep Everything ... SearchAssist - research assistance for faculty and grad students Ask a Librarian - for immediate help by phone or chat Email Karen DeWitt about design or design library questions Back to the Design Library Homepage Guide to Searching in the Design Library Design Library Home Advanced Searching in Design This page is intended as extra assistance for graduate and PhD students in Design. It describes more advanced searching techniques, databases of special interest for grad students, getting stuff from other libraries, and advanced research assistance available through the NCSU Libraries. As always, if you have any questions please email me( Karen DeWitt ) and let me know. Also, you may find useful information in the

51. Searching The Internet - UMUC searching the Internet It s a good idea to become familiar with several different ofthe NEC Research Institute estimated that the most comprehensive search http://www.umuc.edu/library/guides/search.html

Searching the Internet Table of Contents Subject Directories Search Engines Metasearch Engines Specialized Search Tools ... Ranking the Results Types of Search Tools Subject Directories (also known as "virtual libraries" or "portals") Characteristics Index web pages selected by editors Organized into hierarchical subject categories Search a description of Web pages, not the full-text May be annotated Examples The Internet Public Library The Invisible Web Librarians' Index to the Internet WWW Virtual Library ... Yahoo! Search Engines Characteristics Use "spiders" or "knowbots" (computer programs that roam the Web for sites and keep the search engines up to date) Provide keyword searching of words in pages or full-text of selected pages May not have subject categories May not search "invisible web" of information stored in databases Examples Alta Vista Google HotBot Lycos ... Northern Light Metasearch Engines Characteristics Search several individual search engines simultaneously and compile results Only catch about 10 percent of the search results of the engines visited Examples Go2Net / Metacrawler Dogpile Vivisimo Specialized Search Tools Characteristics Provide a subject-specific searchable database of indexed web page content Capture content of some of the "invisible web"

52. Technique - Career Fair Brings Back Familiar Anxieties For Many Students Career fair brings back familiar anxieties for many students. Now, most of the studentsthat are job searching conveniently submit resumes online. http://nique.net/master.php3?issue=2003-09-12&story=20

53. Searching Indexes And Databases Also, not being familiar with the specific vocabulary or Here are some common searchingtechniques which offer most online indexes and databases have at least http://www.wesleyan.edu/libr/tut/rst4.htm

Searching Indexes and Databases Searching for information on one particular topic is relatively easy: just look up the term you are interested in. But if you want to find sources that discuss a particular set of different topics, it can be time consuming to look up and make lists of all the sources on each individual topic and then pick out those sources which are on all the lists. Also, not being familiar with the specific vocabulary or standard subject terms used for the topic can present difficulties when you do not know what terms to look up (e.g. does the index use "elderly," "senior citizens," or "aged"?). But there are a few tricks to get around these problems when searching for information on a computer database. Here are some common searching techniques which offer powerful tools for quickly and accurately broadening, narrowing, or refining your search on a computer database. Most online indexes and databases have at least some of these search options, but there are often differences in how to use them, so read the help screens for the database you are using.

54. Text Analysis Software The easiest textsearching system is the one that is probably most familiar; mostword processing programs (WordPerfect, Microsoft Word) allow one to search http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/textual.html

Text Analysis Software Available at the Electronic Text Center Word Processors The easiest text-searching system is the one that is probably most familiar; most word processing programs ( WordPerfect Microsoft Word ) allow one to search for text in a document, even one as large as several megabytes. OpenText OpenText, our primary text analysis software, is the searching tool for all our on-lin texts, used through its Web interfaces. OpenText handles SGML tagging well, and its great speed produces little slowing in function even on files as large as one gigabyte (1000 megabytes). For more information, see the OpenText homepage. http://www.opentext.com Collate A Macintosh program, Collate enables a user to compare the text of up to one hundred different versions of a single work. Users are able to switch base texts, alter the process of collation by telling Collate to ignore certain idiosyncracies if necessary, and produce many different output formats, all with the point- and-click simplicity of the mouse. Collate accepts SGML mark-up in its texts, and tacitly encourages its use by requiring some form of tagging within the document.

55. COTTONTAILS AND KIN pattern vanishes leaving the predator searching in vain EASTERN COTTONTAILS (DRAWING)The familiar Eastern Cottontail is the most widespread family http://www.wildamerica.com/pages/s28.html

BACK TRANSCRIPT INTRODUCTION I'm Marty Stouffer. As a child, some of my favorite storybook characters were Rabbits . . . . Peter Cottontail, Uncle Wiggly, and most of all, Br'er Rabbit. After all, who can resist an animal with soft fur, bright eyes, and cute little ears? The Cottontail is perhaps the most prominent character in American folklore, but bedtime stories hardly reflect the daily struggle for survival of real life Rabbits. In addition to a host of wild predators, Rabbits must also face human hunters. Yet, despite so many dangers, there's rarely a short supply of "COTTONTAILS AND KIN." TRANSITION TO TITLE One of the most familiar mammals in the world is the Rabbit. It's found on every continent except Antarctica, and in nearly every habitat. No matter where the Rabbit lives, one thing is certain, danger is sure to follow. Every animal with a taste for meat yearns to feast on these cuddly looking creatures. GREAT HORNED OWL The most frequent aerial attacks come from the Great Horned Owl. FOX HUNTING RABBIT Of the mammals, the Fox is number one on the long list of Rabbit hunters.

56. CTLS: Savvy Web Searching We re all familiar with what s known as link rot, that is and require you to dosome additional searching if that Probably the most popular of these is Yahoo http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/teachlearn/workshops/savvyweb/savvy.html

Return to: U of M Home: OHR: CTLS: One Stop ... Coping with Link Rot More Workshops Active Learning with PowerPoint CTLS Home Savvy Web Searching Introduction: Information Technology Skill Versus Information Literacy One of the things that we know about students is that they don't tend to use the advanced features available with most search tools. They don't tend to know very much about what their favorite search tool indexes across; the types of documents it returns (discussed below); and they tend not to know about the wide variety of search tools that are available. Basically students are very savvy in terms of information technology skills, but in general, their information literacy is at a lower level than you might expect. I’d like to give you a few statistics on students and other people’s use of the web. In a study conducted by Amanda Spink ("2003, Web Search: Emerging Patterns," Library Trends , Vol 52, No 2, pp. 299-306), it was found that web users tended to use 2.6 terms per query, that is they plugged 2 to 3 words into their search engine of choice. Booleans were only used in about 10% of searches, and in studies where a higher level of Boolean use was found, about half the time the Booleans ("and," "or," etc.) were used incorrectly. The average search session involved 1.6 queries, that is, most students gave up after only a couple of attempts to find the information that they needed or they relied on what was returned on the first or second attempt. And finally, on average, only 2.35 pages of results were viewed, that is, most students did not inspect more than the first 24 items that were returned in a search.

57. Harvard Gazette: Deconstructing Dimensions To Understand The Universe He s also searching for missing pieces in our understanding of the physical lawsof but ArkaniHamed thinks one of them may be one of the most familiar in the http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/02.06/03-arkanihamed.html

Current Issue: February 06, 2003 News News, events, features Science/Research Latest scientific findings Profiles The people behind the university Community Harvard and neighbor communities Sports Scores, highlights, upcoming games On Campus Newsmakers, notes, students, police log ... Arts Museums, concerts, theater Calendar Two-week listing of upcoming events HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES Deconstructing dimensions to understand the universe: Arkani-Hamed looks to extra dimensions for explanations of nature By Alvin Powell Gazette Staff Nima Arkani-Hamed is searching exotic places for clues to questions about our universe's construction and the gravitational glue that holds it together. Arkani-Hamed, a theoretical physicist who was appointed professor of physics last July, is looking at places so exotic they stretch beyond the dimensions we live in every day and may exist only in theories. Physicists describe our everyday world as having four dimensions. The first three are the familiar width, length, and height. The fourth dimension is time, because something has to have a life span - just as it needs the three dimensions that give it shape - in order to exist. Arkani-Hamed is investigating fifth, sixth, and higher dimensions to see what they'll tell him about the universe. He's looking for clues to the mysteries of why gravity is so weak compared with other basic forces in the universe. He's also searching for missing pieces in our understanding of the physical laws of nature.

58. Access To Electronic Resources By Visually Impaired People to ascertain whether users stopped searching once they visually impaired users wereless familiar, although some The most popular site in terms of navigation http://informationr.net/ir/8-4/paper156.html

Information Research, Vol. 8 No. 4, July 2003 Access to electronic resources by visually impaired people Jenny Craven Research Fellow, CERLIM Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Abstract Introduction Research into access to electronic resources by visually impaired people, undertaken by the Centre for Research in Library and Information Management (CERLIM), is concerned with improving understanding of exclusion from access to digital information which can all too easily occur when individuals do not have so-called 'normal' vision. Advances in technology have enabled users to access resources in a variety of ways to suit their needs and requirements. This is particularly true in educational institutions, but also increasingly in public libraries, public information services and technology available in the home. For blind and visually impaired people, the Internet has enabled them to access the same resources as sighted people through the use of access technologies such as screen magnification, speech output and electronic Braille output. It is vital, however, to ensure access is provided fully. Access can have several meanings, including physical access to hardware and software as well as ensuring users can not only access or 'read' what is on the screen (be it using magnification, speech output or Braille output) but they can also interact with resources and services. This paper will describe research which has not only explored the accessibility of websites and levels of awareness in providing websites that adhere to design for all principles, but has sought to enhance understanding of information seeking behaviour of blind and visually impaired people when using digital resources, with particular focus on the recently completed Non-Visual Access to the Digital Library project, funded by Resource: the Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries.

59. Pew Internet & American Life Project: The Rise Of The E-Citizen -- Report expect that the most frequent surfers – those most familiar with government Educationand trust in government were associated with successful searching. http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/reports.asp?Report=57&Section=ReportLevel2&Fi

60. Searching For Jesus: Sources searching FOR THE HISTORICAL JESUS SOURCES. most admit that the passage in its presentform their information from Christians, or from people familiar with the http://www.courses.drew.edu/sp2000/BIBST189.001/sources.html

BIBST 189 Jesus: History or Myth? SEARCHING FOR THE HISTORICAL JESUS: SOURCES Christian Sources (Theissen and Merz, 17-61) By and large, this entire section is well done and basically reflects the views of most New Testament scholars today. I will simply make some observations for class discussion. 1. Theissen's discussion of the significance of extra-canonical Christian sources (pp. 18-24) is especially good. His primary point here is that "canonical and extra-canonical sources are in principle of equal value in the study of Jesus" (p. 23), where the key words are "in principle." This is where every historian must begin in evaluating the value of ancient sources. The Synoptic Sources Scholars today generally agree that there are four independent "Synoptic sources": Mark, the Sayings Source (Q), Matthew's special material, and Luke's special material. Theissen observes: "It is important for the study of Jesus that the content of these four independent sources (or complexes of tradition) are related: here we encounter the same forms and genres, themes and motifs. All the sources agree in presenting Jesus as an eschatological preacher who in word and deed, in parables and miracles, proclaims and represents the breaking in of God's kingly rule as a turning point towards the poor and sinners. Because of their great antiquity and the breadth of the dispersion of the Synoptic traditions... there is a broad scholarly consensus that we can best find access to the historical Jesus through the Synoptic tradition." (p. 25)

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