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

描述：该项目支持一个由五名科学家组成的美国代表团参加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、经验定律和一般理论；文献计量学、经典定律、模型、分布及其应用和流行病模型；引文分析；文献过时；图书馆、系统和数据库的增长；信息利用、模型、流通理论、馆内利用、期刊利用和数据库利用；科学计量学、科学的量化方面、科学政策的定量和图解研究、科学管理和科学生产力；适用于信息计量学、秩论、非高斯分布、随机模型、自助法推论和多变量研究的统计方法；软件，专用软件的开发。范围：这是该领域一系列会议中的第三次。前两场比赛分别在比利时迪彭贝克和加拿大安大略省伦敦举行。过去的参展国家有来自北美、欧洲、亚洲和非洲的23个国家。1991年会议的项目委员会包括4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。组织秘书是班加罗尔印度统计研究所的I.K.拉维坎德拉·拉奥博士。无论是学术机构还是政府组织，美国和印度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.