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Automated monitoring to support the analysis and evaluation of information systems

Published:01 September 1979Publication History

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This paper is based on, and extracted in part from, a much more expanded and detailed manuscript entitled "Monitoring and Evaluation of On-Line Information System Usage", accepted for publication in Information Processing and Management.

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    SIGIR '79: Proceedings of the 2nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Information storage and retrieval: information implications into the eighties
    September 1979
    87 pages
    ISBN:9781450373456
    DOI:10.1145/511706

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