Papers from the Foundations of Information Science 2002 (FIS 2002)

The following papers in the first issue of Entropy, volume 5, 2003, were presented at the electronic conference on Foundations of Information Science FIS 2002 (http://www.mdpi.net/fis2002/). The running title of this FIS e-conference was THE NATURE OF INFORMATION: CONCEPTIONS, MISCONCEPTIONS, AND PARADOXES. It was held on the Internet from 6 to 10 May 2002, and was followed by a series of discussions, structured as focused sessions, which took place also in the net from 10 May 2002 until 31 January 2003 (close to 400 messages were exchanged, see: http://fis.iguw.tuwien.ac.at/mailings/).