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From: eugene@PIONEER.ARC.NASA.GOV (Eugene Miya N.)
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Subject: Note on MP biblio update (WARNING!)
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Date: Mon, 14-Sep-87 15:53:58 EDT
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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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