Foundations

SI609 -- Lecture Notes

1. Week 1
   • Course overview (JMM)
   • Work in Groups (JSO)
     • Slides
     • Exercise: Person A (MSWord)
     • Exercise: Person B (MSWord)
   • Perspectives from Library and Information Science (KD)
   • Perspectives from Cognitive and Social Psychology (JSO)
   • Perspectives from Economics (JMM)
   
   
   
2. Week 2
   • Design process (JO)
   • Design process (cont) (JO)
   • Agents and agent system methodology (TD) (Slides not yet available)
   • Methodology (JMM)
   • Information seeking (KD)
   
   
   
3. Week 3
   • Needs analysis, Contextual analysis (JO)
   • The reference interview (KD)
   • Objective functions (JMM)
   • Objective functions - supplement (JMM)
   • Human motivation (JO)
   • Function allocation (JO)
   • Engineering agents (TD) (Slides not yet available)
   • Integrating Question #1 (KD)
   
   
   
4. Week 4
   • Economic constraints (JMM)
   • Non-strategic agents (JMM)
   • Overview of organization theory (M. Cohen)
   • Routines and standards (M. Cohen)
   
   
   
5. Week 5
   • Organizational learning: Effects of technology (M. Cohen)
   • Elementary data structures (TD) (No slides)
   • Collection development (KD)
   • Recursion (TD) (No slides)
   • Analysis of algorithms; sorting (TD) (No slides)
   • Human information processing (JO)
   
   
   
6. Week 6
   • Human information processing (JO)
   • Classification (KD)
   • Controlled vocabulary (KD)
   • Quicksort; priority queues (TD) (No slides)
   • Design of system to fit the human informaiton processor (JO)
   
   
   
7. Week 7
   • Non-strategic agents, uncertainty (JMM)
   • Non-strategic agents, consumer agents (JMM)
   • Searching methods; balanced trees; elementary graph algorithms (TD) (No slides)
   • Weighted Graphs (TD) (No slides)
   • Human decision making (JO)
   
   
   
8. Week 8
   • Non-strategic agents, consumer agents (JMM)
   • Non-strategic agents; supplier agents (JMM)
   • Small group behavior (JO)
   • Small group behavior (JO)
   • Review classification assignment (KD)
   
   
   
9. Week 9
   • Markets: equilibrium (JMM)
   • Bibliography, Type of literature, footnote chasing... (KD)
   • Market equilibrium and efficiency (JMM)
   • Integrating Question 2
   
   
   
10. Week 10
    • Scholar's workstation and indexing (KD)
    • Market equilibrium and efficiency (JMM)
    • Market Failure: Negative Externalities (JMM) [PDF file]
    • Solving problems by searching (TD) (No slides)
    
    
    
11. Week 11
    • How to evaluate an information system (JO)
    • How to evaluation an information system (JO)
    • Indexing, searching and evaluating search results (KD)
    • Informed search methds (KD)
    • Agents that reason logically (TD) (No slides)
    
    
    
12. Week 12
    • Evaluating search results (KD)
    • Integrating Question 3
    • Archives approach to information seeking (M. Hedstrom)
    • Meta data, descriptive cataloging... (KD)
    • Information seeking models revisited (KD)
    • First-order logic (TD)
    
    
    
13. Week 13
    • Inference and first-order logic (TD)
    • Inference (TD)
    
    
    
14. Week 14
    • Inference and first order logic (TD)
    • Info system economics (JMM)
    • Telecom industry economics, network externalities (JMM)
    • Principle-agent theory; preference revelation; auctions (JMM)
    
    
    
15. Week 15
    • Smart markets (JMM)
    • Integrating Question 4
    
    
    

Last Update: 12/09/96

Name: Eileen Gifford Fenton

Email: egfenton@umich.edu