Information Systems Analysis and Modeling: An Informational Macrodynamics Approach

✍ Scribed by Vladimir S. Lerner (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 328
• Series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science 532
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Informational Macrodynamics (IMD) presents the unified information systemic approach with common information language for modeling, analysis and optimization of a variety of interactive processes, such as physical, biological, economical, social, and informational, including human activities.
Comparing it with thermodynamics, which deals with transformation energy and represents a theoretical foundation of physical technology, IMD deals with transformation information, and can be considered a theoretical foundation of Information Computer Technology (ICT). ICT includes but is not limited to applied computer science, computer information systems, computer and data communications, software engineering, and artificial intelligence. In ICT, information flows from different data sources, and interacts to create new information products. The information flows may interact physically or via their virtual connections, initiating an information dynamic process that can be distributed in space.
As in physics, a problem is understanding general regularities of the information processes in terms of information law, for the engineering and technological design, control, optimization, and development of computer technology, operations, manipulations, and management of real information objects.
Information Systems Analysis and Modeling: An InformationalMacrodynamics Approach belongs to an interdisciplinary science that represents the new theoretical and computer-based methodology for system informational description and improvement, including various activities in such interdisciplinary areas as thinking, intelligent processes, management, and other nonphysical subjects with their mutual interactions, informational superimpositions, and the information transferred between interactions.
Information Systems Analysis and Modeling: An InformationalMacrodynamics Approach can be used as a textbook or secondary text in courses on computer science, engineering, business, management, education, and psychology and as a reference for research and industry.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi
Mathematical Foundations of Informational Macrodynamics....Pages 1-94
Information Systems Modeling....Pages 95-170
Information-Physical Models and Analogies....Pages 171-210
Solution of the Applied IMD Problems....Pages 211-299
Back Matter....Pages 300-305

✦ Subjects

Computer Science, general; Coding and Information Theory; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Business Information Systems