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Information leaks and information systems.
… has received limited focus within the field of information systems. This study surveyed current college students in order to understand what factors may play a role in encouraging students to show a degree of concern in regards to information leaks. Factors such as concernment about the national …
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Information quality and diverse information systems situations
Information quality is a recurring problem that many organisations contend with. Despite investment in both technology, and the renement of information systems, the problem persists. Information systems deployment has; in recent years undergone radical change; the traditional deployment where the …
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Information-theoretic limitations of distributed information processing
In a generic distributed information processing system, a number of agents connected by communication channels aim to accomplish a task collectively through local communications. The fundamental limits of distributed information processing problems depend not only on the intrinsic difficulty of the …
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Information friction : information technology and military performance
… this dissertation develops the notion of information friction, an aggregate measure of the intensity of organizational struggle to coordinate IT with the operational environment. It articulates hypotheses about how the structure of the external battlefield, internal bureaucratic politics, …
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Entropy, information rate and mutual information measures for the email content of information workers
Although most people agree that the use of information technology increases workplace productivity, the exact relationship between productivity and different characteristics of information employees send and receive, such as entropy, information rate and mutual information is not very well studied. …
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Makeshift Information Constructions: Information Flow and Undercover Police
… a viable model of the complex interactions, information flow and information seeking behaviors among undercover officers. The SVI model was created from a combination of various philosophies and models in the literature of information seeking, communication and philosophy. The questions this …
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Information similarity metrics in information security and forensics
We study two information similarity measures, relative entropy and the similarity metric, and methods for estimating them. Relative entropy can be readily estimated with existing algorithms based on compression. The similarity metric, based on algorithmic complexity, proves to be more difficult to …
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Essays on information, technology and information worker productivity
I examine how information technology (IT) skills and use, communication network structures, and the distribution and flow of information in organizations impact individual information worker productivity. The work is divided into three essays based on the task level practices of information workers …
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Information Session
My work concerns the divergent narratives created by fusing varied, often conflicting, textures, colors and fabrics, into a tenuous order. I intend for these otherwise clashing materials to create drama that is simultaneously enthusiastic, epic and ambiguous. While this media's formal properties re …
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Information visualisation
Information visualisation uses interactive three-dimensional (3D) graphics to create an immersive environment for the exploration of large amounts of data. Unlike scientific visualisation, where the underlying physical process usually takes place in 3D space, information visualisation deals with …
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Information Space
Thesis (M.S.V.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1979.
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Integrating geographic information systems into transit passenger information systems
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1991.
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Glom : information agglomerates-- an organic representation for quantitative information
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1998.
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Information quantity assessment : bases for managing the information resource
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1991.
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An Exploration of the Information Exchange Process: Information-Seeking and Information-Dissemination Behaviors During Organizational Socialization
… the results of this investigation revealed 17 information-seeking strategies and 34 information-dissemination strategies. With respect to the information-seeking strategies of newcomers, these findings suggest that newcomers may have a broader strategy repertoire than has been previously …
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Stratified information disclosure: a synthesis between hypermedia and information retrieval
Contains fulltext : mmubn000001_158864190.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Information quantity, information consistency, and the confidence of unsophisticated investors
… have led to an increase in the quantity of information available to the public. In this dissertation, I describe two experiments that examine the effects of information quantity and consistency (holding information quality constant) on the judgments and trading behavior of unsophisticated …
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