..., escalated, or responded. Second-order cybernetics Communication Information theory Systems theory Social cybernetics Mathematical modeling This paper explains, in simple terms, how everyday communication can be described with a small set of rules. We start from the well-known ideas of Paul...

... Information theory Qualitative research Information Information technology Marketing systems Web marketing Cloud computing Cloud-based service Marketing Quality User satisfaction Intention to use Marketing mechanism as a network of persons, users, providers and groups offers properties...

... “experts”. © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Information theory Cybernetics Dynamic and integrative epistemology Insight Institutional Rationality Lonergan Dynamic and integrative epistemology remains obscure unless one...

... sensitive content and information theory. A hypothetical case study scenario of flight ticket booking Web services has been considered in the present paper in which leakage of 18.89 per cent information is calculated. Originality/value The paper shows that it is practically possible to quantify...

... information theories; on the other hand, the semiotics concepts (that engineers and professionals use in intuitive manner) are illustrated. Findings – In consequence of the popularity of the semiotic notions – in the second section – the authors define the concept of signifier using the mathematical...

...: Professor Jon-Arild Johannessen can be contacted at: Jon-Arild.Johannessen@hih.no © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Information theory Philosophy Knowledge management Systemic thinking Philosophy of science In this paper, information science is regarded as the science dealing...

...Philip Baron, Professor Ranulph Glanville, Professor David Griffiths and Dr Ben Sweeting; Lance Nizami Purpose – For half a century, neuroscientists have used Shannon Information Theory to calculate “information transmitted,” a hypothetical measure of how well neurons “discriminate” amongst...

.... Even when the owner of a successful strategy (a_{b) allows an agent with lower energy (aa) to get a copy of that genome and then improve its strategy, ab also can impose two restriction policies to that copy: Information theory Adaptation Emergence Autopoiesis Social}...

... came to be there in the first place” (Maynard Smith, 2000, p. 177). Justification of information talk in teleosemantics follows from four de facto interconnected but theoretically independent reasons: Causality Philosophy Epistemology Information Information theory Language...

... Epistemology Ecology Information theory Homeostasis Origin of binarism Human meaning systems Theory of meaning Ecology of meaning The work of pioneers of systems ecology and the early formulators of the restated second law of thermodynamics (i.e. Schrödinger, Odum, Hatsopoulos, Keenan and Kestin...

...Prof Ranulph Glanville, Prof David Griffiths; August Mohr Purpose – David Huffman, as a graduate student, earned his immortality by solving a problem that had stumped Claude Shannon, the creator of the field of information theory. How he saw the problem differently and the nature of his discovery...

... of which all observed behaviours are based. Findings – A rigorous mathematical framework, employing only information theory and conventional physics, is hypothesized to empirically measure for cognitive behaviours. Research limitations/implications – Empirical studies will be conducted...

...) , and her successors like Georgopoulos and Massey (1988) , where “outcomes” were an actual subset of “events”). Psychology Information theory Sensory Shannon © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Shannon (1948) derived the calculation of “information transmitted...

... an exploratory experiment to determine the attributes that might be suitable for inclusion in a later stage of a conclusive research. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Experimental psychology Information theory Web site design Cross‐cultural consumer behaviour Information quality...

... orientation leading to a lesser likelihood of predicting behaviour. Using information theory, this paper aims to further develop the model to show how it is possible to predict behaviour in post‐normal conditions. It also aims to consider the nature of agency pathologies. Design/methodology/approach...

...Ranulph Glanville; Ben Sweeting; Lance Nizami Purpose The purpose of this paper is to ask whether a first‐order‐cybernetics concept, Shannon's Information Theory, actually allows a far‐reaching mathematics of perception allegedly derived from it, Norwich et al.'s “Entropy Theory...

... and their successors used Shannon's Information Theory to quantify information transmitted in absolute judgments of sensory stimuli. Here, information theory is briefly reviewed, followed by a description of the absolute judgment experiment, and its information theory analysis. Empirical channel capacities...

... can be contacted at: jumarie.guy@uqam.ca © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Cybernetics Systems theory Information theory In an approach to a quantitative theory of (human) subjectivity, we considered the problem in the Shannon information theoretic framework, and we...

...Alex M. Andrew Uncertainty and Information: Foundations of Generalized Information Theory [1] contains comprehensive and up‐to‐date coverage of results that have emerged from a research program begun by the author in the early 1990s under the name “generalized information theory” (GIT...

.... Each of these layers is extensible to address the needs of a particular constituency. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Cybernetics Information theory Computer software Reconstructability analysis (RA) is a technique based on set theory and information theory...