Information Management Model Research Articles

State- and context-dependent information management and wealth accumulation: an intercultural information analysis among the billionaires in Asia, Taiwan and China

From the Forbes Magazine survey of the world's 538 richest, 77 or about 14.4% were identified as born in Asia (Asia Week, June 28, 2001). In addition, the top 100 billionaires (in $NT) in Taiwan, 2001 and 2002 were surveyed by Taiwan Smart Monthly magazine (November 11, 2002) and another top 100 billionaires in China (in US dollars) were reported by the Forbes magazine in 2004. This paper utilises Liu, Lin, Lee and Chou's (1997) state- and context-dependent information management model specification and equity account-dependent variables to study the underlying intercultural factors affecting the richest 77 Asian and the top 100 Taiwanese and Chinese entrepreneurs, respectively, by such attributes and characteristics as shown in the Bamboo network (Weidenbaun and Hughes, 1996) and Liu and Gawford (1996). Using regression and categorical techniques, this paper shows that important intercultural information factors affecting the world's richest Asian billionaires are age, marital status, Chinese cultural background and self-made accomplishment, economic and national business condition, education, training and Total Quality Management, and the Human Development Index, etc. While most billionaires in Taiwan came from the Information Technology (IT) industry, but due to different stage of IT development, many billionaires in China were found in real estate and manufacturing management.

Managing the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: An Information Management Perspective

The threat towards international security that terrorists, failed or failing states, and rogue regimes pose when in possession of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) is a very significant one. Having accurate and timely intelligence is a must in today's security environment, especially when estimating WMD capabilities. Breakdowns in information management relating to WMD intelligence can be responsible for failures in deterring a WMD attack or may create a false alarm regarding a nation's capabilities, with equally serious consequences. This paper seeks to propose a framework for understanding the informational failures associated with estimating a state's WMD capabilities using an information management model. Estimating a state's nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) weapons capabilities is complicated due to several factors. At every point of the intelligence process that will later transcend to policy and action, there are challenges that affect how information is managed. This article will cover these different challenges by organizing them into four information management categories: Sources Management, Analytics Management, Interpretation Management, and Actions Management. An appreciation of the informational challenges associated with WMD detection may lead to improved practices of information management thereby resulting in accurate assessments regarding WMD capabilities and policy agendas.

Management of information in development projects – a proposed integrated model

The first section of the article focuses on the need for development in Africa and the specific challenges of development operations. It describes the need for a holistic and integrated information management model as part of the project management body of knowledge aimed at managing the information flow between communities and development project teams. It is argued that information, and access to information, is crucial in development projects and can therefore be seen as a critical success factor in any development project. In the second section of the article, the three information areas of the holistic and integrated information management model are described. In the section thereafter we suggest roles and actions for information managers to facilitate information processes integral to the model. These processes seek to create a developing information community that aligns itself with the development project, and supports and sustains it.

Diseño de libros para dispositivos de tinta electrónica

The multi-channel and multi-platform technologies allow the mobility of information, which has a direct impact on the evolution of the electronic book. The change is dictated by the emergence of a new generation of electronic paper devices, as well as their own models of information management. In the present paper we review the electronic book concept and present the basic characteristics of the devices that can be found on the market; then we describe the elements needed to carry out projects that produce works designed for electronic ink devices.

MODEL REPRESENTASI INFORMASI DAN PENGETAHUAN UNTUK PROYEK-PROYEK PERUSAHAAN DENGAN MENGGUNAKAN SEMANTIK ONTOLOGI

This paper presents the utilization of knowledge management system for information and knowledge model development of enterprise projects. This information and knowledge management model is based on ontology semantic data model. The ontology data model is new technique for representing information and knowledge base on more semantically conception of meanings of objects, their properties, and relations between them that may arise within certain domain knowledge. The concern of the knowledge management model is to ensure that the model allows the process of creation, access, and utilization of data in a semantically manner (for querying process) and information or knowledge of enterprise projects. The experimentation shows that project ontology model has satisfied all consistent, valid, complete, and correct ontology model criteria and can be used for semantic reasoning computation. A prototype of the proposed model can access information and knowledge from the knowledge ontology model.

The Management of Information in Development Projects: A Proposed Model for Enhancing Community Participation in Democracy and Policy Making in Africa

Politicians in their role as information managers and developers could play an important role in leading communities via agreed expectations towards achievable results, thus becoming real leaders for sustainable democracy. The first section of this article focuses on the need for development in Africa and the specific challenges faced by development operations as the foundation for sustainable democracy in Africa. It describes the need for a holistic and integrated information management model as part of the project management body of knowledge aimed at managing the information flow between communities and development teams. It is argued that information, and access to information, is crucial to development projects and can therefore be seen as a critical success factor in any development project, particularly towards sustainable democracy. The second section describes the three information areas of the holistic and integrated information management model. In the final section we suggest roles and actions for information managers to facilitate information processes integral to the model. These processes seek to create a developing information community that aligns itself with the development project and supports and sustains it.

Information modeling for variation management during the product and manufacturing process design

For car and aircraft industries, Design for Manufacturing, Robust Design and Conceptual Process Planning are a key activity to evaluate manufacturability, to improve design in the product development stage. Moreover, the inherent imperfections of manufacturing processes and resources (Manufacturing Process Key Characteristics, MPKCs) involve a degradation of functional part or product characteristics (Part / Product Key Characteristics, PKCs). The management of Key Characteristics (KCs) has become an important issue in product and process design and concurrent engineering. In order to ensure a certain level of quality, to assess the manufacturability, to select resources and to improve design, it is important to know the causality between MPKCs and PKCs. Effective reuse of enterprise knowledge about causality is a key strategic component of integrated product and processes development. The goal here is to put the management of KCs in a concurrent engineering context. There is an important question that would need to be looked upon: How to formalize and to capitalize the causality between MPKCs and PKCs? Therefore, to formalize and to capitalize this causality, we describe an information model.

A Distributed Data Model for Port Administration and Onboard Information and Service Management

A Distributed Data Model for Port Administration and Onboard Information and Service Management

State and Context-Dependent Information Management and Wealth Accumulation: An Information Analysis of the Billionaires between Taiwan and China

From the Forbes Magazine survey of the world’s 538 richest, seventy seven (77) or about 14.4% were identified as born in Asia (Asia Week, June 28, 2001). In addition, the top 100 billionaires (in $NT) in Taiwan, 2001 and 2002 were surveyed by Taiwan Smart Monthly magazine ( Nov 11, 2002) and another top 100 billionaires in China (in U.S dollars) were reported by the Forbes magazine in 2004. This paper utilizes Liu ,Lin, Lee and Chou’s (1996) state and context dependent information management model specification (Joseph & John, 2006), and equity account dependent variables to study the underlying intercultural factors affecting the richest 77 Asian and the top 100 Taiwanese and Chinese entrepreneurs respectively by such attributes and characteristics as shown in the bamboo network (Weidenbaun & Hughes 1996), Liu and Grawford(1996) and Fedorowicz, Gogan and Ray,(2004). Using regression and categorical techniques, this paper shows that important intercultural information factors affecting the world’s richest Asian billionaires are age, marital status, Chinese cultural background and self-made accomplishment, economic and national business condition, education, training and total quality management, and the human development index, etc. While most billionaires in Taiwan came from the information technology (IT) industry, but due to different stage of IT development, many billionaires in China were found in real estate and manufacturing management.

Sensor Information Management Mechanism for Context-aware Service in Ubiquitous Home

Recently, sensor network technologies are being applied to more places such as the intelligent home, offices and universities. It is considered a main component of ubiquitous computing. This work focuses on sensor networks, the main infrastructure for context-aware service in ubiquitous home network. The context-aware services will trigger intelligent and automatic services according to the context information based on the sensor platform context in the future home. This service requires accurate sensing information about the environment or user, (which is gathered via information exchange among sensors without human intervention) and management of this information. Hence, if the intelligent service develops configuration and control problems related to some sensed information. Such problem causes interaction issues which require an optimal solution. This paper's proposed model, implements a location tracking system, sensor information management (SIM) model, and mechanism, which can gather optimal information through the interaction within sensed information. Finally, context-aware services such as location tracking service and appliance control service presently adopt SIM mechanism. The SIM model implements a framework which comprise of foundation for intelligent physical agents (FIPA) based on intelligent agent platform, a sensor platform, an environment sensor node, and an ultra-sonic based active bat location sensor node.

Product lifecycle information acquisition and management for consumer products

PurposeThis paper aims to capture and manage the product lifecycle data for consumer products, especially data that occur in distribution, usage, maintenance and end‐of‐life stages, and to use them to provide information and knowledge.Design/methodology/approachA lifecycle information acquisition and management model is proposed, and an information management system framework is formulated. The information management system developed is then used in actual field trials to manage lifecycle data for refrigeration products and game consoles.FindingsIt has been demonstrated that valuable services can be delivered through a lifecycle information management system.Practical implicationsLifecycle information management systems can open new horizons for product design which are sustainable and environmentally sensitive. They also contribute to the wider exploration of eco‐design and development of next generation consumer products (e.g. smart home appliances).Originality/valueExisting lifecycle information systems cannot support all phases of the product lifecycle. They mainly manage the lifecycle data only during the design and manufacture stages. Lifecycle data during distribution, usage, maintenance and end‐of‐life stages are usually hard to acquire and in most cases lost. The lifecycle information management system developed can capture them, and manage them in an integrated and systematic manner to provide information and knowledge.

A Component-based Software Framework for Product Lifecycle Information Management for Consumer Products

In this paper, a component-based software framework that can facilitate the development of lifecycle information management systems for consumer products is developed. This software framework can accommodate the management of lifecycle data at all stages, especially data that occur in distribution, usage, maintenance and end-of life stages, and use them to provide information and knowledge. The software framework is built with software components, based on a component-based concept with reference to a product lifecycle information acquisition and management model proposed within this research study. Two actual lifecycle information management systems are created using the Framework in field trials. This software framework can open new horizons for product design which are sustainable and environmentally sensitive. It also contributes to the wider exploration of middleware solutions for implementing next generation consumer products (e.g. smart home appliances) and intelligent products.

Um modelo de gestão da informação para aprendizagem organizacional em projetos empresariais

O objetivo deste trabalho foi apresentar um modelo de gestão da informação de modo a se obter aprendizagem organizacional em projetos. Trata-se de um estudo teórico no qual procurou-se enfatizar a interface entre a Ciência da Informação com o campo de conhecimentos da Área de Administração que trata de projetos. A pesquisa conclui que uma adequada gestão da informação na gestão de projetos pode favorecer a aprendizagem organizacional, com conseqüente formação de uma substancial base de conhecimentos.

Extending Apache Axis for Monitoring Web Service Offerings

The Web Service Offerings Infrastructure (WSOI) is a monitoring and management infrastructure for the Web Service Offerings Language (WSOL). It extends Apache Axis, an open-source tool for hosting Web services. We present technical details of several WSOI solutions for monitoring Web Services. To pass management information among management parties, we built WSOI serializer and WSOI deserializer modules converting data between formats of Axis’ MessageContext properties and SOAP headers. To perform different monitoring activities for different WSOL service offerings, we implemented Web Service Offering Descriptor (WSOD) as a complement to Axis’ Web Service Deployment Descriptor (WSDD) component. To represent run-time values of WSOL-related management information, we developed WSOI management information model. All these solutions were verified with a prototype implementation of WSOI 2.0 and validated on case studies.

Semi-Markov information model for revenue management and dynamic pricing

In traditional airline yield management, when a customer requests a discount fare, the airline must decide whether to sell a seat at the requested discount or to hold the seat in hopes that a customer will arrive later who will pay more. In contrast to that, in dynamic pricing models of revenue management, when faced with a request for a seat the airline quotes a price that may or may not be accepted by that customer. In each approach different type of information is available to the seller and, consequently, there is usually a difference between optimal policies and their expected revenues. On the other hand many structural properties of optimal policies are shared. We provide a framework that includes these two types of models by introducing an information variable into the state description of the decision problem.

DIGITAL TRACEABILITY FROM DESIGN TO MANUFACTURING IN EXTENDED ENTERPRISES.

This paper proposes an information model for traceability data management in complex industrial environments such us extended enterprises. The objective of the model is to assure that traceability data will be understandable and available whenever required, no matter the product or the manufacturing complexity. The main feature of the model is the definition of an explicit link between the traceability data and the product structure. This provides data significance and drives the data transfer process through industrial partners along the supply chain.

Towards PDM extension to support the exchange of preliminary information in design

The earlier designing process of technical artefacts requires collaborative activities among various disciplines. The organisation requires the actors to exchange the preliminary information, which is non-mature. Designers often make decisions relying on the information that is invalid and not finalised. Current computing systems, particularly those that are intended to manage the technical data Engineering Data Management System (EDMS), such as Product Data Management (PDM) are hard to conciliate with the dynamic and the evolutionary aspects of the design data. Design data are partially integrated in PDM and represent consolidated and valid states. This article is based on a qualitative study of the engineering projects. The framework proposed in this article represents preliminary information management models. They are based on the maturity of information and workspace concepts. The present model-based framework reports only the two workspaces, among four that correspond with the management of preliminary information. We argue that such management supports designers in their day-to-day collaboration and allows them to exchange preliminary information.

Information management: Considering adolescents’ regulation of parental knowledge

Employing Goffman's [(1959). The presentation of self in everyday life. New York: Doubleday and Company] notion of impression management, adolescents’ conveyance of information about their whereabouts and activities to parents was assessed employing two methodologies. First, a two-wave panel design with a sample of 121 adolescents was used to test a model of information management incorporating two forms of information regulation (lying and willingness to disclose), adolescents’ perception of their parents’ knowledge about their activities, and adolescent misconduct. Path analysis was used to examine the model for two forms of misconduct as outcomes: substance use and antisocial behaviours. Fit indices indicate the path models were all good fits to the data. Second, 96 participants’ responses to semi-structured questions were analyzed using a qualitative analytic technique. Findings reveal adolescents withhold or divulge information in coordination with their parents, employ impression management techniques, and try to balance safety issues with preservation of the parent–adolescent relationship.

Agent-based model for managing composite product information

The importance of product information management during the whole lifetime of the product has increased due to the technical sophistication of products as well as stricter governmental regulations for lifecycle management. Just sending the relevant product information downstream in the supply chain does not solve the challenges of product information management of complex products due to difficulties in updating the information and a risk of information overflow in the supply chain. This article describes an agent-based information management model that can be used for managing the information of complex products at a component level in a distributed manner. Further the paper presents an information management platform that can achieve information management requirements by using seven distinct messages.

Using Key Performance Indicators as Knowledge-Management Tools at a Regional Health-Care Authority Level

The advantages of the introduction of information and communication technologies in the complex health-care sector are already well-known and well-stated in the past. It is, nevertheless, paradoxical that although the medical community has embraced with satisfaction most of the technological discoveries allowing the improvement in patient care, this has not happened when talking about health-care informatics. Taking the above issue of concern, our work proposes an information model for knowledge management (KM) based upon the use of key performance indicators (KPIs) in health-care systems. Based upon the use of the balanced scorecard (BSC) framework (Kaplan/Norton) and quality assurance techniques in health care (Donabedian), this paper is proposing a patient journey centered approach that drives information flow at all levels of the day-to-day process of delivering effective and managed care, toward information assessment and knowledge discovery. In order to persuade health-care decision-makers to assess the added value of KM tools, those should be used to propose new performance measurement and performance management techniques at all levels of a health-care system. The proposed KPIs are forming a complete set of metrics that enable the performance management of a regional health-care system. In addition, the performance framework established is technically applied by the use of state-of-the-art KM tools such as data warehouses and business intelligence information systems. In that sense, the proposed infrastructure is, technologically speaking, an important KM tool that enables knowledge sharing amongst various health-care stakeholders and between different health-care groups. The use of BSC is an enabling framework toward a KM strategy in health care.