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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Claude Shannon (redirect from Father of information theory)
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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