• Information theory is the mathematical study of the quantification, storage, and communication of information. The field was established and formalized...
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  • Information flow in an information theoretical context is the transfer of information from a variable x {\displaystyle x} to a variable y {\displaystyle...
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    in information theory are mutual information, channel capacity, error exponents, and relative entropy. Important sub-fields of information theory include...
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  • discourse-based grammatical theory, information flow is any tracking of referential information by speakers. Information may be new, i.e., just introduced...
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    In probability theory and information theory, the mutual information (MI) of two random variables is a measure of the mutual dependence between the two...
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  • Information flow can have one of several meanings: Information flow, in discourse-based grammatical theory Information Flow: The Logic of Distributed...
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    An information flow diagram (IFD) is a diagram that shows how information is communicated (or "flows") from a source to a receiver or target (e.g. A→C)...
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  • Organizational Information Theory (OIT) is a communication theory, developed by Karl Weick, offering systemic insight into the processing and exchange...
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    In contract theory, mechanism design, and economics, an information asymmetry is a situation where one party has more or better information than the other...
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  • productivity, and information all influence the successful operation of a firm in the economy and within itself. As such major economic theories such as transaction...
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    attentional abilities." Flow is an individual experience and the idea behind flow originated from the sports-psychology theory about an Individual Zone...
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  • are information and communication technologies, which have resulted in rapid growth of a variety of forms of information. Proponents of this theory posit...
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  • Information field theory (IFT) is a Bayesian statistical field theory relating to signal reconstruction, cosmography, and other related areas. IFT summarizes...
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  • Information security is the practice of protecting information by mitigating information risks. It is part of information risk management. It typically...
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    freely information flows, the stronger societies become'. The increasing access to and reliance on digital media to receive and produce information have...
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  • war theory. However, with Information Warfare, Just War Theory fails because the theory is based on the traditional conception of war. Information Warfare...
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  • Lazarsfeld in 1955. The multi-step flow theory offers a larger range of interaction between opinion leaders, information sources and audiences than the two-step...
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    commonly accepted theory of information management per se, behavioural and organisational theories help. Following the behavioural science theory of management...
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    management. LIS should not be confused with information theory, the mathematical study of the concept of information. Library philosophy has been contrasted...
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  • Media richness theory (MRT), sometimes referred to as information richness theory, is a framework used to describe a communication medium's ability to...
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  • game theory as two different types of games that may apply, including games with perfect information, complete information, and incomplete information. Experimental...
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    by the mass media. In contrast to the one-step flow of the hypodermic needle model or magic bullet theory, which holds that people are directly influenced...
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  • information. The concept encompasses any other decision-making practice with society-wide constitutive efforts that involve the flow of information and...
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    inventor, known as the "father of information theory" and credited with laying the foundations of the Information Age. Shannon was the first to describe...
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    science, data science, network science, information theory, discrete mathematics, statistics and analytics Information organization: library science, archival...
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    interrelate the theory of the organism, thermodynamics, and evolutionary theory. This concept was expanded upon with the advent of information theory and subsequently...
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  • The term "information algebra" refers to mathematical techniques of information processing. Classical information theory goes back to Claude Shannon. It...
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    Information design is the practice of presenting information in a way that fosters an efficient and effective understanding of the information. The term...
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  • data-flow diagram is a way of representing a flow of data through a process or a system (usually an information system). The DFD also provides information...
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  • An information cascade or informational cascade is a phenomenon described in behavioral economics and network theory in which a number of people make...
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