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ECIS
2003
13 years 10 months ago
Critical realism: a way forward in IS research
Although different strands of “post-approaches” and “post-theories”, for example, grounded theory and structuration theory, have gained popularity in Information Systems (...
Sven A. Carlsson
CORR
2004
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Shannon Information and Kolmogorov Complexity
The elementary theories of Shannon information and Kolmogorov complexity are cmpared, the extent to which they have a common purpose, and where they are fundamentally different. T...
Peter Grünwald, Paul M. B. Vitányi
SIGECOM
2005
ACM
93views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
Ranking systems: the PageRank axioms
This paper initiates research on the foundations of ranking systems, a fundamental ingredient of basic e-commerce and Internet Technologies. In order to understand the essence and...
Alon Altman, Moshe Tennenholtz
IPL
1998
80views more  IPL 1998»
13 years 8 months ago
The Economics of Large-Memory Computations
We propose, and justify, an economic theory to guide memory system design, operation, and analysis. Our theory treats memory random-access latency, and its cost per installed mega...
Clark D. Thomborson
CAISE
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
The Problem of Transitivity of Part-Whole Relations in Conceptual Modeling Revisited
Abstract. Parthood is a relation of fundamental importance in a number of disciplines including cognitive science, linguistics and conceptual modeling. However, one classical probl...
Giancarlo Guizzardi