Infonomics for Distributed Business and Decision-Making Environments: Creating Information System Ecology (Premier Reference Source)

✍ Scribed by Malgorzata Pankowska, Malgorzata Pankowska

• Publisher: Business Science Reference
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 391
• Series: Premier Reference Source
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The information economy continues to challenge businesses in many ways with information technologies and globalization leading to blurred the organizational boundaries. Infonomics for Distributed Business and Decision-Making Environments: Creating Information System Ecology provides greater understanding of issues, challenges, trends, and technologies effecting the overall utilization and management of information in modern organizations around the world. A leading field resource, this innovative collection addresses the emerging issues in information resources economics and its applications.

✦ Table of Contents

IGI Global - Infonomics for Distributed Business and Decision-Making Environments (October 2009) (ATTiCA)......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 5
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 9
Information Interpretation and Modeling......Page 25
Information and Knowledge......Page 27
Ontology-Based Network Management for Autonomic Communications......Page 34
On the Infological Interpretation of Information......Page 52
How Models and Methods for Analysis and Design of Information Systems......Page 69
Information Management Process......Page 87
Expanding the Strategic Role of Information Interactions in the Enterprise Environment......Page 88
Information Management in a Grid-Based E-Health Business Environment......Page 106
Intelligent Agents for Business Process Management Systems......Page 122
Virtual Heterarchy......Page 157
Information Valuation......Page 177
Value of Information in Distributed Decision Support Systems......Page 178
Accounting and Billing in Computing Environments......Page 202
Methodological Aspects of the Evaluation of Individual E-Banking Services......Page 226
Health Infonomics......Page 242
The Information Sector in the Economy and its Strategic Value......Page 258
Collaboration in Networks......Page 273
Designing Collaborative Infrastructures......Page 274
Governance of Virtual Networks......Page 287
New Forms of Work in the Light of Globalization in Software Development......Page 302
Digital Confidence in Business......Page 313
Ethics of Information in Distributed Business Environment......Page 326
Compilation of References......Page 341
Preface......Page 17
Acknowledgment......Page 24
About the Contributors......Page 373
Index......Page 380