Workshop on Distributed Expert-Based Information Systems: A Perspective

The organizing committee, N.J. Belkin, W.B. Croft, S. Deerwester, E.A. Fox, and D.E. Walker, met during the 1986 ASIS Annual Meeting and planned this activity. In December 1986 invitations were sent to people in academic, commercial, and government organizations who are involved in computer, information, and/or library science research relating to this view of information systems, which is characterized by distributed functionality and explicit coding of expertise.