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Information and information systems
Information Processing & Management, 1993The purpose of an information system is to collect, store, process and distribute information. The concept of information is itself not well understood. It is in some sense a relative concept, rather than an absolute one. That is, a data object is assumed to contain information if the receiver of the data interprets it in such a way that the received ...
Arne Sølvberg, David Chenho Kung
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Information-As-System in Information Systems
International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach, 2008This article investigates the complex nature of information in information systems (IS). Based on the systems thinking framework, this study argues that information in IS is a system in its own right. A conceptual model of information-as-system is built on the systems thinking perspective adopted from Gharajedaghi’s holistic thinking rooted from Ackoff
Huy V. Vo, Tuan Manh Nguyen
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System as information—information as system
World Futures, 1997It is tried to show that pragmatic information as a generalised concept of information plays a role as an interacting meaningful entity between systems. Systems are sources of information and information is able to build up systems. Therefore system and information seem to be two sides of the same coin.
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Surgical Pathology Clinics, 2015
This article provides surgical pathologists an overview of health information systems (HISs): what they are, what they do, and how such systems relate to the practice of surgical pathology. Much of this article is dedicated to the electronic medical record.
David Artz, S. Joseph Sirintrapun
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This article provides surgical pathologists an overview of health information systems (HISs): what they are, what they do, and how such systems relate to the practice of surgical pathology. Much of this article is dedicated to the electronic medical record.
David Artz, S. Joseph Sirintrapun
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An information system for developing information systems
Proceedings of the May 16-19, 1983, national computer conference on - AFIPS '83, 1983This paper considers a paradigm for the development of software through the use of a complete, integrated-design database. A prototype information system for the implementation of information management systems is then described. This tool manages the requirement definitions, the process and data flow, and all design and operational documentation ...
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Geographic information systems
Progress in Human Geography, 1988Geographic information systems (GISs) are defined as software systems. In this article, the relationships between GIS and other activities having to do with geographic information are reviewed. The use of GIS in social and behavioral sciences is discussed as an increasingly essential component of the research infrastructure and as a tool for acquiring ...
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Information and Information Systems
1990Information is a basic resource of all organisations. It is essential for them to know, for example, how much is owed and to whom, who owes them money and how much, who the customers are, names of suppliers, what the competition is doing, market trends and much more. Organisations contain vast amounts of data of all kinds. Good decision-making requires
Kate Sallis, Edward Sallis
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Integration of the Maintenance Information System with the Production Information System
IFAC Proceedings Volumes, 1998This paper presents the structure of an information system for maintenance in different and complex groups of production plants: thermal power, heating plants, cement factories and sugar factories, equipment in the food processing, metal processing, electric and wood industries and machinery in civil construction industry, forestry and agricultural ...
Tomislav Šarić, Niko Majdandzic
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