Third International Conference on Informetrics, Bangalore, India, August 9-12, 1991, Group Travel Award in U.S. and Indian Currencies.

描述：该项目支持由五名科学家组成的美国代表团前往1991年8月9日至12日在印度班加罗尔举行的第三届国际信息计量学会议。会议主题包括：信息计量学、基础、经验法则和一般理论；文献计量学、经典规律、模型、分布及其应用、流行病模型；引用 分析;文学过时；图书馆、系统和数据库的发展；信息使用、模式、流通理论、图书馆使用、期刊使用和数据库使用；科学计量学、科学的定量方面、科学政策、科学管理和科学生产力的定量和图形研究；适用于信息计量学、秩理论、非高斯分布、随机模型、自举推理方法和多变量研究的统计方法；软件方面，开发专用软件。范围：这是该领域一系列会议中的第三次会议。前两次分别在比利时的迪彭贝克和加拿大安大略省的伦敦举行。过去有来自北美、欧洲、亚洲和非洲的23个国家参加。1991年会议的计划委员会包括四名美国科学家以及来自印度、中国、英国、加拿大、匈牙利、比利时和保加利亚的其他科学家。印度班加罗尔统计研究所的拉奥（I.K. Ravichandra Rao）博士是组织秘书。美国和印度的学术机构和政府机构的科学家都对这个话题特别感兴趣。

Description: This project supports the travel of a U.S. delegation of five scientists to the Third International Conference on Informetrics to be held in Bangalore, India, between August 9-12, 1991. Conference topics include: Informetrics, foundation, empirical laws, and general theory; Bibliometrics, classic laws, models, distributions and their applications, and epidemic models; Citation analysis; Obsolescence of literature; Growth of libraries, systems, and data bases; Information use, models, circulation theory, in-library use, use of journals, and of databases; Scientometrics, quantitative aspects of science, quantitative and graphic studies of science policy, science administration, and scientific productivity; Statistical methods as applicable to informetrics, rank theory, non-Gaussian distribution, stochastic models, bootstrap approach to inference, and multivariate studies; Software, development of special purpose software. Scope: This is the third in a series of conferences in this field. The earlier two were held in Diepenbeek, Belgium, and London, Ontario, Canada. Past participation has been from 23 countries from North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. The program committee for the 1991 conference includes four U.S. scientists in addition to others from India, China, the UK, Canada, Hungary, Belgium, and Bulgaria. Dr. I.K. Ravichandra Rao of the Indian Statistical Institute in Bangalore is the organizing secretary. The topic is of special interest to U.S. and Indian scientists, both in the academic institutions and in governmental organizations.