Information Retrieval (in Computing)

Information Storage and Retrieval - the systematic process of collecting and cataloging data so that they can be located and displayed on request. Computers and data processing techniques have made possible the high-speed, selective retrieval of large amounts of information for government, commercial, and academic purposes. There are several basic types of information-storage-and-retrieval Read More...

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Text-Based Intelligent Systems: Current Research and Practice in Information Extraction and Retrieval
by Paul S. Jacobs. 290 pgs.

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Preface

Introduction: Text Power and Intelligent Systems

Bibliography

Abstract

Part I Broad-Scale NLP

Robust Processing of Real-World Natural-Language Texts

Introduction

Abstract

Conclusion

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Combining Weak Methods in Large-Scale Text Processing

Conclusion

Bibliography

Mixed-Depth Representations for Natural Language Text

Acknowledgments

Conclusion

Bibliography

Robust Partial-Parsing Through Incremental, Multi-Algorithm Processing*

Introduction

Bibliography

Abstract

Corpus-Based Thematic Analysis

Conclusions

Bibliography

Part II "Traditional" Information Retrieval

Introduction

Text Retrieval and Inference

Abstract

Bibliography

Assumptions and Issues in Text-Based Retrieval

Introduction

Conclusion

Bibliography

Text Representation for Intelligent Text Retrieval: A Classification-Oriented VIew

Introduction

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Abstract

Automatic Text Structuring Experiments

Part III Emerging Applications

Statistical Methods, Artificial Intelligence, and Information Retrieval

Introduction

Bibliography

Intelligent High-Volume Text Processing Using Shallow, Domain-Specific Techniques

Abstract

Conclusion

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Automatically Constructing Simple Help Systems from Natural Language Documentation

Abstract

Introduction

Conclusion

Bibliography

Introduction

Abstract

Direction-Based Text Interpretation as An Information Access Refinement

Conclusions

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Index
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Law, Decision-Making, and Microcomputers: Cross-National Perspectives (Chap. 1 "Information Retrieval Research: How It Might Affect the Practicing Lawyer")
by Stuart S. Nagel. 348 pgs.

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This volume examines the role that microcomputers and decision-aiding software can play in the various aspects of the legal profession. The contributors focus on the normative and predictive questions that are faced by practicing lawyers, legal policy-makers, and legal scholars, and analyze the possibilities that different types of software can offer in answering these questions. In addition, a group of essays provides analyses that cut across all three parts of the legal profession, applying legal prescription and prediction to a wide variety of fields, countries, and purposes of the law.

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Tables and Figures

Introduction: Decision-Aiding Software and the Law

Part One: The Practicing Lawyer

Chapter 1: Information Retrieval Research: How It Might Affect the Practicing Lawyer

Chapter 2: Expert Systems--Lawyers Beware!

Chapter 3: Repercussions of Computer Technology on United States Law and Lawyers

Chapter 4: Practical Applications of Document Assembly Systems

Chapter 5: Microcomputers, Decision-Making, And Case Evaluation

Part Two: The Legal Policymaker and Public Sector Uses

Chapter 6: The Growing Role of Computers in American Federal Tax Compliance and Administration

Chapter 7: Computerization in the Prosecution Service in Scotland

Chapter 8: A Computer System to Assist in Sentencing Convicted Offenders

Chapter 9: The Courthouse of the Future

Part Three: The Legal Scholar and Law Training

Chapter 10: Courses on Computers and Law In American Law Schools

Chapter 11: Using Microcomputers in Case-Method Law Teaching

Chapter 12: The LEXICAL System for Computer-Aided Legal Instruction

Chapter 13: A Hypertext System for Teaching Legal Research

Chapter 14: The Computer in American Legal Education

Part Four: Cross-Cutting Analyses of the Law

Chapter 15: Implementation of Expert Systems as an Aid to Legal Decision-Making

Chapter 16: Automatic Generation of a Legal Expert System

Chapter 17: Thes-Maker: A Tool for Legal Thesaurus Building

Chapter 18: The Problem of Finding a Precedent

Chapter 19: Computers in Legal Decision-Making

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Name Index

Subject Index

About the Editor and Contributors
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A Symbolic and Connectionist Approach to Legal Information Retrieval
by Daniel E. Rose. 320 pgs.

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List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Humans, Computers, and Finding Information

Chapter 3 Knowledge Representation, Meaning, and Text in Ai

Chapter 4 Approaches to Information Retrieval

Chapter 5 Some Perspectives on the Law and Legal Research

Chapter 6 Hybrid Vigor

Chapter 7 the Structure of Scalir

Chapter 8 the Retrieval Process

Chapter 9 Feedback and Learning

Chapter 10 Interacting with Scalir

Chapter 11 Performance Evaluation

Chapter 12 Discussion

References

Author Index

Subject Index
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Natural Language and the Computer (Part 5 "Information Retrieval")
by Paul L. Garvin. 402 pgs.

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The Authors

Acknowledgments

Preface

Contents

1: Three Linguistic Models of Language

The Definitional Model of Language

The Transformational Model of Generative or Predictive Grammar

The Informational Model of Language: Analog and Digital Coding in Animal and Human Communication

2: Mathematics and Computation

On the Use Of Mathemtics in Behavioral Research

Computer Languages

Programming for Natural Language

3: Language-Data Processing

A Linguist's View of Language-Data Processing

A Logician's View of Language-Data Processing

A Statistician's View of Linguistic Models and Language-Data Processing

4: Machine Translation

Research Procedures in Machine Translation

Dictionary Problems in Machine Translation

Syntax In Machine Translation

Programming Aspects of Machine Translation

5: Information Retrieval

The Formulation of the Retrieval Problem

Mathematical Models for Information Retrieval

Analytic Information Retrieval

6: Overview

Linguistics, Data Processing, and Mathematics

Glossary

Selected References

Name Index

Subject Index
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Lexical Acquisition: Exploiting On-Line Resources to Build a Lexicon (Chap. 3 "Lexical Acquisition and Information Retrieval")
by Uri Zernik. 430 pgs.

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Preface

1. Introduction

1.1 Introduction: a Lexical Bottleneck

1.5 Conclusions

Bibliography

Part I Lexical Senses

2. Making Sense of Lexical Acquisition

2.1 Introduction

2.6 Conclusion

2.5 Summary

Bibliography

3.1 Introduction

3. Lexical Acquisition and Information Retrieval

3.6 Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

4.1 Introduction

4. Using Context for Sense Preference

4.8 Conclusion

Acknowledgment

Bibliography

5. Train1 Vs. Train2: Tagging Word Senses in Corpus: Uri Zernik Artificial Intelligence Laboratory General Electric - Research and Development Center

Part II Lexical Statistics

6. Using Statistics in Lexical Analysis

6.5 Conclusion

Bibliography

7. Macrocoding the Lexicon with Co-Occurrence Knowledge

7.6 Summary and Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

8. Lexical Databases and Textual Corpora: Perspectives of Integration for a Lexical Knowledge Base

Part III Lexical Representation

9. Wordnet: a Lexical Database Organized on Psycholinguistic Principles

9.1 Introduction

10. Admitting Impediments

10.5 Conclusion

Bibliography

11. Conceptual Basis of the Lexicon in Machine Translation

11.9 Summary

Bibliography

12. Lexical Acquisition Through Symbol Recirculation in Distributed Connectionist Networks

12.5 Conclusions

Bibliography

Part IV Lexical Semantics

13. Acquiring a Semantic Lexicon for Natural Language Processing

13.4 Concluding Remarks

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

14. Lexicons for Broad Coverage Semantics

Bibliography

14.5 Acknowledgments

15. Representing and Acquiring Metaphor-Based Polysemy

15.1 Introduction

Authors

Index
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From Documentation to Information Science: The Beginnings and Early Development of the American Documentation Institute-American Society for Information Science ("Bibliographies and Information Retrieval" begins on p. 133)
by Irene S. Farkas-Conn. 234 pgs.

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This work charts the history of the American Society for Information Science, originally begun in 1937 as the American Documentation Institute. Beginning with the post-World War I period that preceded the creation of ADI and the professional and technological climate that led up to the institute's formation, Farkas-Conn traces the organization's development and its restructuring in response to changes in society and technology. Important questions such as whether the institute was, and still, is technology driven are also addressed.

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Introduction

NOTES

Abbreviations

Prologue

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1: The Incubation Period

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2: Visions and Realities-- Documentation in the 1930s

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3: First Steps Toward Realization

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Organizing the American Documentation Institute

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5: Early Years, Early Projects

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6: The War Years, Then Information Turmoil

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7: New Winds Blowing

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8: International Interests and Steps Toward Revival

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9: A Threat, a Shift, and a New Adi

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10: A New Profession, a Changed Society

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Appendix A: Presidents of the Society

Appendix B: Archival Collections and Interviews

Index

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Questions and Information Systems (discussion of information retrieval in computing begins on p. 131)
by Thomas W. Lauer, Arthur C. Graesser, Eileen Peacock. 374 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

1: Introduction

REFERENCES

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

2: Questioning Knowledge Acquisition

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

3: Knowledge Acquisition with Question Probes and Conceptual Graph Structures

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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4: Question Generation and the Systems Analysis Proess

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5: The Evolution of Questions in Successive Versions of an Expert System for Real Estate Disposition

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

6: Design by Question: Developing User Questions Into Scenario Representations for Design

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

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7: Questioning Design: Toward Methods for Supporting User- Centered Software Engineering

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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8: Question Asking in Human Computer Interfaces

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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9: Mechanisms that Generate Questions

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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10: Interpretation of Textual Queries Using a Cognitive Model

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11: WHEN: A Model for Answering "When" Questions About Future Events

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12: Answering Questions About Information in Databases

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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13: Question-Driven Information Search in Auditor Diagnosis

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14: The Role of Questioning in Learning from Computer Based Decision Aids

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15: Question Theoretic Analysis of Problem Formulation: Implications for Computer Based Support

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16: Question Asking, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Creativity

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

REFERENCES

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Subject Index
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Journalism for the 21st Century: Online Information, Electronic Databases, and the News (Chap. 5 "Electronic Libraries: Files, Vendors, and Databases")
by Tom Koch. 374 pgs.

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This is a book about the news--the way it is written and the forms it takes. It examines the relation between the content of public information and the potential affect of new technologies on the degree and type of information available in the public forum. Tom Koch uses concrete, casebook examples to demonstrate the degree to which news information can be changed through the efficient and cost effective application of online bibliographic resources accessed by personal computers.

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Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Notes

1: The News: Myths and Realities

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2: Online News: Trivial, Contextual, and Structural

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3: Transformations: Scale and Focus

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4: Search Strategies: Electronic and Traditional

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5: Electronic Libraries: Files, Vendors, and Databases

Notes

6: Conclusions

Notes

Appendix: Databases and Vendors

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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99 Jumpstarts for Kids: Getting Started in Research
by Peggy J. Whitley, Susan Williams Goodwin. 226 pgs.

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Preface

How This Book Is Organized

Aids in Children

Airplanes

Allergies

Alternative Energy

American Heroes

Susan B Anthony

Ants and Other Social Insects

Arthur

Automobile

Bald Eagle

Bats

Bees

Jan Berenstain and Stan Berenstain

The Berenstain Bears

Boys Choir of Harlem

Bridges

Marc Brown

Bullies

Butterflies

George Washington Carver

Cats in the Wild

Children in India

Children in Japan

Children in Mexico

Children in Nigeria

Cloning

Coca-Cola

Collecting

Coming to America

Common Cold

Communicating on the Web

Consumers Can Be Kids

Davy Crockett

Tomie Depaola

Emily Dickinson

Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon

Dinosaurs

Educating Homeless Children

Electricity

Endangered Species

Etiquette

Exercise and Kids

Fairy Tales

Families Are Different

Food Allergies

Food Chains in Your Backyard

Food Rules

Henry Ford

Benjamin Franklin

Germs

Gone Fishing

Habitat for Humanity

Harry Potter

Hunger in the United States

Hurricanes and Tornadoes

Inventions and Inventors

Helen Keller

Martin Luther King Jr

Libraries

Lice (Head Lice)

Abraham Lincoln

Yo-Yo Ma

Martial Arts

Modern Art

Monkeys

Monopoly Game

Music

Mystery and Detective Stories

Newbery Award

The Night Sky

Nutrition

Octopus

Pandas

Peanuts

People I Know

Pets

Pablo Picasso

Pocahontas

Poetry

Pop Culture: Or Your Parents When They Were Your Age

Presidents

Recycling

Rodents

J K Rowling

Sacagawea

Seahorse

Snakes

Sneakers

Space Exploration

Strega Nona

Sojourner Truth

Harriet Tubman

Tyrannosaurus Rex

Virtual Reality

Whales

Living in a Wheelchair

Who Am I? Who Were My Ancestors?

The Wright Brothers

Zoos

Bibliography

Subject Directory

Index

About the Authors
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Using National Data Bases in Educational Research
by Thomas L. Hilton. 308 pgs.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter One Introduction

Chapter Two General Problems in Using Results from Two or More Data Bases

Chapter Three Pooling Questionnaire and Test Data from Three National Surveys: an Example Involving Project Talent, the Coleman Study, and Nls

Acknowledgment

Chapter Four Equating Test Results from Two National Surveys: a Study of the Sat Score Decline

Appendix: Description of Partitioning Analysis

Chapter Five Merging Data from Three Data Bases with Common Members: an Example Involving Sat Scores, Asvab Scores, and Hs&b Data

Acknowledgment

Chapter Six Pooling Results from Two National Surveys: a Study of National Trends in Spatial-Visual Ability

Acknowledgment

Chapter Seven Estimating Ability in the College-Bound Population from a Self-Selected Sample

Conclusion

Acknowledgment

Chapter Eight Aggregating Data from Two Testings of the Same Cohort: Do Naep Means Predict Later Sat Means for the Same Cohort of Students?

Conclusions

Acknowledgment

Chapter Nine Pooling Results from Two Cohorts Taking Similar Tests, Part I: Dimensions of Similarity

Acknowledgment

Appendix

Chapter Ten Pooling Results from Two Cohorts Taking Similar Tests, Part Ii: Factor Structure and Irt Equating

Acknowledgment

Chapter Eleven Estimating Change in Enrollments from Two National Surveys Eight Years Apart

Acknowledgment

Chapter Twelve Merging Data from Two Data Bases Without Common Members--A Proposal

Chapter Thirteen Pooling Data from Two Longitudinal Cohorts: Some Problems and Solutions

Chapter Fourteen Drawing Educational Implications from Multiple Data Bases

Chapter Fifteen Summary and Conclusions

Conclusion

References

Appendix Description and Directions for Obtaining Copies of Selected National Data Bases (in Order of Listing in Table 2.1)

Author Index

Subject Index
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Health Information Systems: Design Issues and Analytic Applications
by Elizabeth A. Mcglynn, Cheryl L. Damberg, Eve A. Ker, Robert H. Brook. 296 pgs.

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Mixing medical records with computer technology makes good medicine. This book provides practical guidance on using information systems effectively to answer questions of concern to those responsible for purchasing, managing, delivering and regulating health care services. The authors provide an introduction to health services research techniques, discuss the use of various data sources for analysis, and address the critical issues in using information systems.

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About the Series Directions in Health Services Research and Policy

Foreword

Contents

Figures

Tables

Acknowledgments

Acronyms

Introduction

Part I Health Information Systems: An Overview for Policymakers

Chapter One: Building an Integrated Information System

Chapter Two: Data Sources for an Integrated Information System

Chapter Three: What Consumers of Research Need to Know Aboutanalysis

Chapter Four: Thinking Strategically About Information Systems

Part 2: Technical Issues in Designing and Improving Health Information Svstems

Chapter Five: Description of Data Sources and Related Issues

Chapter Six: General Analysis Issues

Chapter Seven: Developing and Using a Clinical Information System

Chapter Eight: An Overview of Methods for Conducting Surveys

Chapter Nine: An Overview of Risk Adjustment

Bibliography

Glossary

Index

About the Authors
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A New Archetype for Competitive Intelligence
by John J. McGonagle Jr., Carolyn M. Vella. 225 pgs.

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McGonagle and Vella maintain that competitive intelligence as we know it is just the first step toward the creation of true "corporate intelligence". Their book explores ways in which new channels of communication and new uses of information and intelligence will change corporations, and how these changes can be anticipated in an organization's strategic planning, crisis management, benchmarking, reverse engineering, and defensive intelligence activities. In doing so, they introduce readers to new techniques, such as "shadow benchmarking" and "factual management analysis". Readable, with useful checklists, forms, reminders, and drawings from real world cases, this book will be essential reading for executives in the public and private sectors, and their colleagues in the academic business community.

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Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

I: Introduction

1: About This Book

NOTE

2: Why Is Intelligence Important Today -- and More Important Tomorrow?

Appendix: National Interests in Intelligence

NOTES

3: The Building Blocks of Cyber-IntelligenceTM

Appendix: Reengineering and Downsizing

NOTES

4: Cyber-IntelligenceTM in the Modern Corporation

Appendix: Case Study -- How Pervasive is Cyber-Intelligence in Modern Businesses?

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II: The Building Blocks of Cyber-intelligenceTM

5: Competitive Intelligence

How Does CI Relate to the Other Building Blocks of Cyber-IntelligenceTM?

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6: Strategic Intelligence

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7: Market Intelligence

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8: Crisis Management

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9: Benchmarking

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10 Reverse Engineering

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11: Defensive (Counter) Intelligence

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12: The Building Blocks of Cyber-IntelligenceTM: Charting the Relationships

III: Using Cyber-IntelligenceTM

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13: Data Gathering: An Overview of Sources

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14: Data Gathering: An Overview of Techniques

Appendix: Case Study: Selecting and Approaching Targets

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15: Data Analyses

Appendix A: Comparative Target Profile Summary

Appendix B: Strategic Analysis Report Form

Appendix C: Communicating Conclusions

APPENDIX B: STRATEGIC ANALYSIS REPORT FORM

16: Using Cyber-IntelligenceTM Intelligently

Appendix A: Using Cyber-Intelligence in Strategic Planning

Appendix B: Case Study -- CI Supporting Other Intelligence Functions

APPENDIX B: CASE STUDY -- CI SUPPORTING OTHER INTELLIGENCE FUNCTIONS

17: Critical Management Issues

NOTES

18: The Future of Cyber-IntelligenceTM

A: U.S.-Based Organizations Involved with Some Aspect of Cyber-IntelligenceTM

B: Selected Internet World Wide Web Sites

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Index to Forms and Checklists

Index to Case Studies

Index

About the Authors

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