eugene@PIONEER.ARC.NASA.GOV (Eugene Miya N.) (09/14/87)
Please excuse cross-posting to so many newgroups, but I believe the
following to be important.
Recently, while updating bibliographic entries, I have noticed a
disturbing trend. I had to resolve in excess of 300 name conflicts
in 8,000. Most were updates in status from TRs to Journals or Books.
But a size percentage were papers publised in more than one location
(31 titles total), and papers/texts with the same title, but different
authors/contents, etc. (18, remember double each of these counts for a
lower bound). Increasing interest is creating a bigger headache
For example: popular titles include:
%T Distributed Operating Systems (one book, one article)
%T Elliptic Problem Solvers
%T Supercomputers (3 books this title)
%T Supercomputers in Theoretical and Experimental Science (one book, one
article)
%T A Framework for Distributed Problem Solving
%T Estimating Speedup in Parallel Parsing
%T Multi-grid solvers on parallel computers
One interesting name conflict seems to come from titles of SIMD processors
such as [SIMD titles]
%T The Distributed Array Processor
%T The Massively Parallel Processor
which occur in some cases 4-5 times. Will Connection Machine papers be
far behind?
From the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers:
--eugene miya
NASA Ames Research Center
eugene@ames-aurora.ARPA
"You trust the `reply' command with all those different mailers out there?"
"Send mail, avoid follow-ups. If enough, I'll summarize."
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