What is information? This is the first question that information science should answer clearly. However, the definitions of information have been so diversified that people are questioning if there is any unity among the diversity, leading to a suspicion on whether it is possible to establish a unified theory of information or not. To answer this question, a system approach to defining informat...

Diversity is a topic that garnering much attention in society and organizations. We use paradox lens to suggest tendency of diversity practices focus on only, essentially neglect unity. identify two categories strategies address diversity: (1) “woke”, (2) “integrative.” Woke take single-edged approach diversity, whereby concerns for are pursued without concern potentially detrimental effects In...

The identification of local structure composition may help understand the network construction law from a bottom-up view. Focusing on structure, subgraph approach was applied to systematically analyze 3- 7-node subgraphs in several transportation networks China. Results show that number and forms increase as scale increase, but rate are different, which indicates diversity building blocks netwo...

 Keen observers of living things have long noted that organisms are well suited to their environments, that there is a rich diversity of life on Earth, and that life shows a striking unity.  Charles Darwin’s fascination with ―endless forms most beautiful‖ led him to propose a scientific explanation for these broad observations.  On November 24, 1859, Darwin published his hypothesis in On the...

When envisaging new digital instruments, designers do not have to limit themselves to their sonic capabilities (which can be absolutely any), not even to their algorithmic power; they must be also especially careful about the instruments’ conceptual capabilities, to the ways instruments impose or suggest to their players new ways of thinking, new ways of establishing relations, new ways of inte...