Improving the Traditional Information Management in Natural Sciences

Improving the Traditional Information Management in Natural Sciences

It is common practice that in teams working in the field of natural sciences all group members manage their primary data in highly individual systems. The consequence of this is that the data are usually lost shortly after the scientific results have been published or that they lose part of their value, as significant background information can no longer be found. To solve this problem in a sim...

Erratum: Improving the Traditional Information Management in Natural Sciences [Data Science Journal, Volume 8, 10 January 2009, 18-26]

Optimization Methods in Information and Management Sciences

Copyright © 2015 Jung-Fa Tsai et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This special issue continues to raise the aim of The Scientific World Journal in the operations research subject area through its cutting-edge pr...

Access to information in natural disaster management in in Iran: stakeholders’ perspective

Background and objective: Access to information is one of the pillars of a smooth and productive information flow which would provide the best opportunities for an effective Information management. Thus, it is essential to acquire the knowledge about how to access information and ways to improve it, especially in the field of natural disaster management (NDM), which is based on decisions making...

(Information Processing Across the Sciences) Info-Metrics in the Natural Sciences and Its Implications for the Social Sciences

Info-Metrics in the Natural Sciences and Its Implications for the Social Sciences Amos Golan (American University and Info-Metrics) The study of information, the philosophy of information and entropy as a method of inference provides a unified approach to inference and learning across the disciplines. The Info-Metrics Institute promotes the study of information, information processing and optim...