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Appendix

Table D The Hi-loading Terms in the Top 30 Factors of PCA Factors Matrix

(G1) factor1, knowledge acquisition, deductive databases; (G2) factor2, fulltext databases, document handling, information analysis, selforganising feature maps; (G3) factor3, image, remote sensing; (G4) factor4, visual databases, spatial data structures; (G5) factor5, decision theory, trees; (G6) factor6, financial data processing, stock markets, economics; (G7) factor7, power system, digital simulation, fault diagnosis, diagnostic expert systems; (G8) factor8, Bayes methods, belief maintenance, probabilistic logic, uncertainty handling; (G9) factor9, scientific information systems, natural sciences computing; (G10) factor10, SQL, relational database, query, optimisation; (G11) factor11, parallel processing, programming, computer applications; (G12) factor12, data analysis, database management systems, knowledge, data acquisition; (G13) factor13, graphical user interfaces, interactive systems, data visualisation, online frontends; (G14) factor14, problem solving, casebased reasoning, expert systems; (G15) factor15, file servers, storage; (G16) factor16, office automation, business data processing; (G17) factor17, computational geometry, time series, pattern recognition; (G18) factor18, indexing, transaction processing, multimedia; (G19) factor19, telecommunication, data handling; (G20) factor20, bank data processing, marketing data processing, insurance data processing; (G21) factor21, genetic algorithms, search problems; (G22) factor22, information theory, formal logic, knowledge engineering; (G23) factor23, chemical technology, biology computing; (G24) factor24, data compression, information networks; (G25) factor25, fuzzy, uncertainty handling, (G26) factor26, inheritance, knowledge based systems, heuristic programming, (G27) factor27, distributed databases, geophysics computing, objectoriented, (G28) factor28, user interfaces, unsupervised learning; (G29) factor29, software engineering, internet, cooperative systems, (G30) factor30, management information systems, active databases, logic programming.