This article is an attempt to capture, in a reasonable space, some of the major developments and currents of thought in information theory and the relations between them. I have particularly tried to include changes in the views of key authors in the field. The domains addressed range from mathematical-categorial, philosophical and computational approaches to systems, causal-compositional, biol...

Information overflow is one of the greatest challenges for information focused professions today. This paper presents the Personal Information Agent, an agent based information filtering prototype. The prototype has been build to prove the concept of our agent and neuronal network based information filtering system which is presented in this paper. Further experiences made during implementation...

A personal information retrieval tool, offering a unified search interface to all data sources available to a user and operating with some degree of knowledge of the user’s preferences and context, seems desirable in light of the vast amount of information available in electronic form. Such a tool however raises challenging research questions in areas include source discovery and selection, res...

Evaluation of personal search over an individual’s personal information space on the desktop or elsewhere is problematic for reasons relating both to the personal and private nature of the data and the associated personal information needs of collection owners. Indeed challenges associated with evaluation in this space are recognised as one of the key factors hindering the development of resear...

Physical document verification is a necessary task in the process of reviewing applications for a variety of services, such as loans, insurance, and mortgages. This process consumes a large amount of time, money, and human resources, which leads to limited business throughput. Furthermore, physical document verification poses a critical risk to clients’ personal information, as they are require...

One of the most important aspects of security organization is to establish a framework to identify securitysignificant points where policies and procedures are declared. The (information) security infrastructure comprises entities, processes, and technology. All are participants in handling information, which is the item that needs to be protected. Privacy and security information technology is...

Background. The role of personal information collections is a well known feature of personal information management. The World Wide Web has introduced to such collections ideas such as filing Web pages or noting their existence in 'Bookmarks' and 'Favourites'. Argument. It is suggested that personal information collections are created in anticipation of some future need for that information-per...