twenty-first century and the supporting role of IT in general, we turn attention to the foundations of information systems in organizations and how they help organizations solve problems and seize opportunities. The two major determinants of IT support are organizational structure and the functions that employees perform within organizations. As this chapter shows, information systems tend to f...

The impact of results from Information Theory on todays information technology is illustrated by means of derivations from capacity formula and chain rule. By this, the huge possible increase in power and bandwidth efficiency for transmission of analog source signals via modern digital communication techniques is enlightened. The foundations of modern approaches like OFDM, CDMA, coded modulatio...

Information can be defined in terms of categorical opposition of one and many, leading to two manifestations of information, selective and structural. These manifestations of information are dual in the sense that one always is associated with the other. The dualism can be used to model and explain dynamics of information processes. Such dynamical processes are analyzed in contexts of two domai...

The use of information technology in educational management has rapidly increased due to its efficiency and effectiveness. In the initial stages of its development, management information systems (MIS) main purpose and usage was to improve the efficiency of school office activities. It was used to store student and personnel data. The most concern was being focused on data entry and collation, ...

Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (LOCKSS) represents a sophisticated combination of technical and businessaware elements that can be deployed to ensure the longterm accessibility to electronic journal content even if the publisher ceases to exist, a subscription is terminated, or the already acquired content becomes damaged. Given the potential benefits of LOCKSS to the UK community, and in consi...

Among models and information about economic phenomena which help to understand how enterprises produce value, Accounting and Financial Reporting still play a leading and regulative role. The regulative role is established by enforceable International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Ontology engineering methods, which have proven to cope with difficult standardization issues, are seldom us...