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Information and pragmatic value-adding: Language games and information science

✍ Scribed by Kuhlen, Rainer


Publisher
Springer
Year
1991
Tongue
English
Weight
809 KB
Volume
25
Category
Article
ISSN
0010-4817

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✦ Synopsis


This paper discusses terms which are of mutual importance to the fields of information science and computer science. Specifically we discuss the notions of "information" and "knowledge": their interrelationships as well as their differences, and the concept of value-adding. Concrete exampies are used in the discussion.


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