... can improve customers’ service quality (Chen et al., 2018). The main goal is to make these services accessible to users anytime and anywhere based on a “pay-as-you-go” fashion (Aldawsari et al., 2015 ; Sheikholeslami and Jafari Navimipour, 2018). Information theory Qualitative...

...@yahoo.com © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Information theory Cybernetics Dynamic and integrative epistemology Insight Institutional Rationality Lonergan Normative epistemology makes five assumptions about knowledge...

... 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...

... (1971) , deals particularly with: Information theory Philosophy Knowledge management Systemic thinking Philosophy of science © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Professor Jon-Arild Johannessen can be contacted at: Jon-Arild.Johannessen@hih.no Methodical monism...

...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...

... 3). Information theory Adaptation Emergence Autopoiesis Social systems Intelligent agents In this paper we shall introduce an agent-based approach inspired by bacterial conjugation to model resilience in artificial societies. Even though similar approaches have been previously...

... Publishing Limited 2014 Causality Philosophy Epistemology Information Information theory Language The origin of the use of the word “information” and the related concept of “code” is generally ascribed to the famous “Central Dogma” by Francis Crick (1958) : [O]nce information has...

... of thermodynamics: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Language Consciousness 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...

... obscures) that of sensation (Nizami, 2010). Figures 4 and 5 show the respective distributions. Lance Nizami can be contacted at: nizamii2@att.net © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Psychology Information theory Sensory Shannon Shannon (1948) derived the calculation...

...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...

... Information theory Web site design Cross‐cultural consumer behaviour Information quality Exploratory experiment Wine online Statistical design of experiments The literature on marketing and consumer behaviour identifies five stages in the consumer purchase decision process: problem recognition...

... 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...

... such that the following equations are satisfied: Equation 4   Equation 5 Guy Jumarie 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...

...Alex M. Andrew George J.   Klir . Uncertainty and Information: Foundations of Generalized Information Theory . Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley   2006 . , ISBN: 0‐471‐74867‐6 xv+499 pp. Hardback £55.95/79.20 Euros © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006...

.... A researcher using RA is typically interested in one or more of the following questions. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Cybernetics Information theory Computer software Reconstructability analysis (RA) is a technique based on set theory and information theory for the modeling...

... within a “generalized information theory” (Klir and Wierman, 1998), which includes also fuzzy possibilistic and probabilistic distributions. The same model structures are considered in both IRA and SRA. Let ABC represent a set‐theoretic relation or mapping or a probability or frequency distribution...