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Information from Processes - About the Nature of Information Creation, Use, and Representation (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
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Information from Processes - About the Nature of Information Creation, Use, and Representation (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
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Information is an important concept that is studied extensively
across a range of disciplines, from the physical sciences to
genetics to psychology to epistemology. Information continues to
increase in importance, and the present age has been referred to as
the "Information Age." One may understand information in a variety
of ways. For some, information is found in facts that were
previously unknown. For others, a fact must have some economic
value to be considered information. Other people emphasize the
movement through a communication channel from one location to
another when describing information. In all of these instances,
information is the set of characteristics of the output of a
process. Yet Information has seldom been studied in a consistent
way across different disciplines. Information from Processes
provides a discipline-independent and precise presentation of both
information and computing processes. Information concepts and
phenomena are examined in an effort to understand them, given a
hierarchy of information processes, where one process uses others.
Research about processes and computing is applied to answer the
question of what information can and cannot be produced, and to
determine the nature of this information (theoretical information
science). The book also presents some of the basic processes that
are used in specific domains (applied information science), such as
those that generate information in areas like reasoning, the
evolution of informative systems, cryptography, knowledge, natural
language, and the economic value of information. Written for
researchers and graduate students in information science and
related fields, Information from Processes details a unique
information model independent from other concepts in computer or
archival science, which is thus applicable to a wide range of
domains. Combining theoretical and empirical methods as well as
psychological, mathematical, philosophical, and economic
techniques, Losee's book delivers a solid basis and starting point
for future discussions and research about the creation and use of
information.
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