In today’s competitive business environment, accounting information systems (AISs) are crucial for organizations seeking to enhance decision making and improve performance. This study investigates the interplay between AIS competence, informati...
Information definitions across many disciplines commonly treat information as a physical world entity. Information measures are used along with other physical variables undistinguished for modeling physical systems. Building on previous work, this re...
Information quality management (IQM) is crucial in critical Information and Communications Technology (ICT) systems since our lives and health often depend on the quality of information that the systems provide. Especially in the field of transport,...
The information loss in deterministic, memoryless systems is investigated by evaluating the conditional entropy of the input random variable given the output random variable. It is shown that for a large class of systems the information loss is finit...
As educators, we want to guide our students so that they develop to the best of their ability and are emancipated. As researchers in education, we often use action research. We use proven theories to guide our intervention to emancipate our students....
Integrated information systems in sports have the potential to improve the efficiency of data management and support the managers’ decision-making. However, this implementation faces challenges such as inefficiency, data duplicity, and time dem...
Digital Humanism aims to prevent technologies from developing in ways that are detrimental to humanity. As the level of interaction between technologies and their users intensifies, it becomes inappropriate to consider the situation as one involving...
With the steady increase in the number of data sources to be stored and processed by higher education and research institutions, it has become necessary to develop Research Information Systems, which will store this research information in the long t...
This paper deals with problems of the development and security of distributed information systems. It explores the challenges of risk modeling in such systems and suggests a risk-modeling approach that is responsive to the requirements of complex, di...
Health information system deployment has been driven by the transformation and digitalization currently confronting healthcare. The need and potential of these systems within healthcare have been tremendously driven by the global instability that has...
This special issue collects contributions from the participants of the “Information in Dynamical Systems and Complex Systems” workshop, which cover a wide range of important problems and new approaches that lie in the intersection of information theo...
18 November 2022
Wellbeing can be ensured in society through quality healthcare, a minimum of medical errors, and the improved performance of healthcare professionals. To this end, health information systems have been implemented in hospitals, with this implementatio...
This article examines the occurrences of four types of unethical employee information security behavior—misbehavior in networks/applications, dangerous Web use, omissive security behavior, and poor access control—and their relationships w...
This paper discussed the role of actors in creating their own sensemaking devices as Feral Information Systems. In particular, we explore how Feral Information Systems (FIS) are actually a creative way to work around complex information systems and n...
Some critical trends in information theory, its role in living systems and utilization in fluctuation theory are discussed. The mutual information of thermodynamic coupling is incorporated into the generalized fluctuation theorem by using information...
Volunteered geographic information (VGI) is geographic information collected by way of crowdsourcing. However, the distinction between VGI as an information product and the processes that create VGI is blurred. Clearly, the environment that influence...
This study analyzes the use of new technologies, such as building information modeling (BIM), to simplify process management in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction sector. By providing dynamic, realistic system models, BIM enables innovat...
The progressive consolidation of information technologies on a large scale has been facilitating and progressively increasing the production, collection, and diffusion of geographic data, as well as facilitating the integration of a large amount of e...
The age of information (AoI) is now well established as a metric that measures the freshness of information delivered to a receiver from a source that generates status updates. This paper is motivated by the inherent value of packets arising in many...
The satisfaction of users is important for the success of government information systems. According to a satisfaction survey of X city’s Road Excavation Management Information System with 221 valid questionnaires in 2023 in Taiwan, however, the...
This paper aims to provide a state-of-the-art overview in research on Accounting Information Systems, analyzing scientific production characteristics and identifying this topic research trends. A quantitative bibliometric analysis is conducted on pap...
A significant increase in System-of-Systems (SoS) is currently observed in the social and technical domains. As a result of the increasing number of constituent system components, Systems of Systems are becoming larger and more complex. Recent resear...
The continuously growing framework of information dynamics encompasses a set of tools, rooted in information theory and statistical physics, which allow to quantify different aspects of the statistical structure of multivariate processes reflecting t...
Attribute reduction is an important topic in the research of rough set theory, and it has been widely used in many aspects. Reduction based on an identifiable matrix is a common method, but a lot of space is occupied by repetitive and redundant ident...
We present a model of information processing which is based on two concurrent ways of describing the world, where a description in one of the languages limits the possibilities for realisations in the other language. The two describing dimensions app...
This study aims to review the literature on antecedent factors of information security related to the protection of health information systems (HISs) in the healthcare organization. We classify those factors into organizational and individual aspects...
The nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans has a relatively simple neural system for analysis of information transmission from sensory organ to muscle fiber. Consequently, this study includes an example of a neural circuit from the nematode worm, and a...
Objective: The purpose of this study was to verify changes in a driver’s emotions through the physical characteristics of haptic signals. This is to improve the performance of drivers by designing haptic signals with emotional semantics. Background:...
This paper presents the framework for a dynamic Advanced Traveler Information System (ATIS). The ATIS currently in use provides users with stereotyped travel options, but the set of available modes in a given place and time is not the same for each t...
Digital technologies nowadays provide essential support for companies, making them a priority for businesses and a prominent area of study for researchers. In response to the increasing emphasis on sustainability and resilience, new information syste...
14 November 2024
(1) Background: With the increasing digitalization of healthcare systems, data security and privacy have become crucial issues. In parallel, blockchain technology has gradually proven to be an innovative solution to address this challenge, as its abi...
As building information model technologies become more complex and interconnected, the validation of building information models remains critical to ensure their reliability and effectiveness in practical applications. However, most of the existing r...
A combinatorial model is proposed for determining the probability and information losses in an organizational and technical system (OTS) under destructive external influences. Mathematical expressions are obtained to determine the loss of information...
Research purpose—Economy digital transformation has had a strong impact on several areas, such as employment, economic organization modus operandi, or the digital modernization of economic agents. Technological innovations, such as artificial i...
Information and symmetry are essential theoretical concepts that underlie the scientific explanation of a variety of complex systems. In spite of clear-cut developments around both concepts, their intersection is really problematic, either in fields...
Information is the fundamental currency of naturally occurring complex adaptive systems, whether they are individual organisms or collective social insect colonies. Information appears to be more important than energy in determining the behavior of t...
Computational ontologies are machine-processable structures which represent particular domains of interest. They integrate knowledge which can be used by humans or machines for decision making and problem solving. The main aim of this systematic revi...
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems have emerged as a critical approach for enhancing large language models with external knowledge, yet the field lacks systematic theoretical analysis for understanding their fundamental characteristics and...
Mass-balanced compartmental systems defy classical deterministic entropy measures since both metric and topological entropy vanish in dissipative dynamics. By interpreting open compartmental systems as absorbing continuous-time Markov chains that des...
Mainstream research on information theory within the field of living systems involves the application of analytical tools to understand a broad range of life processes. This paper is dedicated to an opposite problem: it explores the information theor...
In the framework of information dynamics, the temporal evolution of coupled systems can be studied by decomposing the predictive information about an assigned target system into amounts quantifying the information stored inside the system and the inf...
In previous studies, information dynamics methods such as Von Neumann entropy and Rényi entropy played an important role in many fields, covering both macroscopic and microscopic studies. They have a solid theoretical foundation, but there are...
Reliable internal communication and information systems (CISs) constitute a foundational yet often under-examined layer of contemporary digital government and organizational resilience. While existing research has predominantly focused on citizen-fac...
Collective organization in matter plays a significant role in its expressed physical properties. Typically, it is detected via an order parameter, appropriately defined for each given system’s observed emergent patterns. Recent developments in inform...
In this paper, a rigorous formalism of information transfer within a multi-dimensional deterministic dynamic system is established for both continuous flows and discrete mappings. The underlying mechanism is derived from entropy change and transfer d...
Recently, the hospital information system environment using IT communication technology and utilization of medical information has been increasing. In the medical field, the medical information system only supports the transfer of patient information...
Prebiotic information systems exist in three forms: analog, hybrid, and digital. The Analog Information System (AIS), manifested early in abiogenesis, was expressed in the chiral selection, nucleotide formation, self-assembly, polymerization, encapsu...
The performance of this study involves the use of the zoning method based on the principle of the hierarchical relationship between probabilities. This paper proposes an analytical model allowing for the design of information and analysis platforms i...
Decentralization is a peculiar characteristic of self-organizing systems such as swarm intelligence systems, which function as complex collective responsive systems without central control and operates based on contextual local coordination among rel...
15 June 2019
As interest in medical informatization has been increasing steadily worldwide, the adoption of health information systems (HISs) in medical institutions is essential. In this study, we intended to identify users’ adoption, utilization and helpf...
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