Information Dynamics: An Information-Centric Approach to System Design"
Information Dynamics: An Information-Centric Approach to System Design"
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2000-05-17
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Agrawala, Ashok K.
Larsen, Ronald L.
Szajda, Douglas
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Abstract
Acquisition, distribution, management, and analysis of information are the
fundamental purposes behind most complex constructed systems and
infrastructures, and yet a process centric approach is fundamental to the
design and implementation of such systems. Since information is the
essential commodity in these endeavors, we believe that an effective
design should take into account the fundamental properties of information:
it's characteristics, its fusion, its distillation, etc. Information
Dynamics is an attempt to bring a degree of rigor to the understanding of
the nature of information itself and how it is used in pursuit of system
objectives.
(Also cross-referenced as UMIACS-2000-08)