Measuring the impact of information: Defining the concepts

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 697-714

  Meadow, Charles T ^a   Yuan, Weijing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; SYSTEM THEORY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

INFORMATION IMPACT;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 0031275665     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4573(97)00042-3     Document Type: Article

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