scholarly journals SOBRE OS LIMITES E ALCANCES DA INTERPRETAÇÃO: REFLEXÕES A PARTIR DE HEIDEGGER, HUSSERL E WITTGENSTEIN

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-107
Author(s):  
Luciana de Souza Gracioso ◽  
Lourival Pereira Pinto
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Being And Time ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Philosophical Investigations ◽  
Current Information ◽  
Logical Investigations

O plano ampliado e reconfigurado dos fluxos de informação na contemporaneidade sugerem novas condições para que a ação da leitura e da interpretação possa ser estabelecida. Com o objetivo de refletir sobre as implicações que fazem parte destas ações desenvolvemos um exame dialético parcial sobre três obras - Ser e Tempo, de M. Heidegger, Investigações Lógicas, Sexta Investigação: Elementos de uma Elucidação Fenomenológica do Conhecimento, de E. Husserl, e Investigações Filosóficas, de L. Wittgenstein - que, embora não tenham tido o objetivo direto de analisar a leitura e a interpretação, parecem oferecer elementos para refletirmos sobre estes fenômenos na contemporaneidade. Ao final, nos posicionamos a favor da interpretação enquanto uma ação social a priori e discorremos, sinteticamente, sobre a configuração dos atuais sistemas de informação, considerando tal condição. ABOUT THE LIMITS AND SCOPE OF INTERPRETATION: REFLECTIONS FROM HEIDEGGER, HUSSERL AND WITTGENSTEIN AbstractThe expanded and reconfigured plan of information's flow in contemporary can suggest new conditions for the action of interpretation be established. In order to reflect on the implications of this action be part of interpreting process, we have developed a partial dialectical examination of three works - Being and time, of M. Heidegger, Logical Investigations, Sixth Research: Elements of a Phenomenological Elucidation of Knowledge, of E. Husserl, and Philosophical Investigations, of L. Wittgenstein - which, although these works had not the direct interest to address the phenomenon of interpretation, seem to offer the necessary elements to reflect on this phenomenon in the nowadays. In the end, we position ourselves in favor of interpretation while social phenomenon placed a priori, and commented above, briefly, about the configuration of current information systems, considering that condition.

scholarly journals Panoptic Pranksters: Power, Space and Visibility in the Information Panopticon in Scare Campaign

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-128
Author(s):  
Elloit Cardozo
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Work Culture ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Seminal Work ◽  
Future Of Work ◽  
The Future ◽  
Hierarchal Structure ◽  
Smart Machine

Foucault, in his seminal work Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1975) discusses Bentham’s architectural design of the Panopticon as a means to exercise power and enforce discipline. He extends this metaphor to speak of Panopticism as a social phenomenon used to discipline work forces through covert strategies. Shoshana Zuboff, in In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power (1988) contextualizes Foucault’s discussion in an age where the work culture uses Information Systems extensively for surveillance. She calls such a structure an “Information Panopticon”.  This paper aims to bring out the various nuances of the Information Panopticon in Cameron and Colin Cairnes’ film Scare Campaign (2016) and how it facilitates the exercise of power. The paper firstly looks at Zuboff’s Information Panopticon in light of Foucault’s discussion before evaluating the Information Panopticon created in the film and its hierarchal structure. Next it endeavours to demonstrate how the Information Panopticon in the film is not solely reliant on literal visibility. It wraps up with a discussion on the relation between spatiality, visibility and power in the film’s Information Panopticon.

A Survey on Ontology Creation Methodologies

2011 ◽  
pp. 98-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matteo Cristani ◽  
Roberta Cuel
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
General Terms ◽  
The Right

In the current literature of knowledge management and artificial intelligence, several different approaches to the problem have been carried out of developing domain ontologies from scratch. All these approaches deal fundamentally with three problems: (1) providing a collection of general terms describing classes and relations to be employed in the description of the domain itself; (2) organizing the terms into a taxonomy of the classes by the ISA relation; and (3) expressing in an explicit way the constraints that make the ISA pairs meaningful. Though a number of such approaches can be found, no systematic analysis of them exists which can be used to understand the inspiring motivation, the applicability context, and the structure of the approaches. In this paper, we provide a framework for analyzing the existing methodologies that compares them to a set of general criteria. In particular, we obtain a classification based upon the direction of ontology construction; bottom-up are those methodologies that start with some descriptions of the domain and obtain a classification, while top-down ones start with an abstract view of the domain itself, which is given a priori. The resulting classification is useful not only for theoretical purposes but also in the practice of deployment of ontologies in Information Systems, since it provides a framework for choosing the right methodology to be applied in the specific context, depending also on the needs of the application itself.

The Social Side of Security

2011 ◽  
pp. 140-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard G. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Social Issue ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Information Security ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
Current Information ◽  
New Methods ◽  
The Social ◽  
Organizational Information ◽  
Social Side

The introduction of new technologies to accumulate large amounts of data has resulted in the need for new methods to secure organizational information. Current information security strategies tend to focus on a technology-based approach to securing information. However, this technology-based approach can leave an organization vulnerable to information security threats. Organizations must realize that information security is not necessarily a technology issue, but rather a social issue. Humans operate, maintain, and use information systems. Their actions, whether intentional or accidental, are the real threat to organizations. Information security strategies must be developed to address the social issue.

Moral Perfectionism and Cavell's Romantic Turn

2014 ◽  
pp. 24-34
Author(s):  
Nikolas Kompridis
Keyword(s):  
High Impact ◽  
Being And Time ◽  
Philosophical Investigations ◽  
Moral Perfectionism

The first book of Stanley Cavell’s that I read is the only book that I ardently wished I had written, The Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage. Why this book, and not some high impact, world-historical book like Heidegger’s Being and Time or Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations? Well, there are a number of reasons, some of them personal and some of them, well, Cavellian. Most immediately, the book explained to me why I so much enjoyed watching again and again over the course of more than three decades the films which are the objects of Cavell’s interpretations — why, in short, watching these films made me so happy, why they filled me with goofy delight, always ringing a smile to my face, a smile not unlike that smile of Cary Grant’s (from Holiday) reproduced in the pages of The Pursuits of Happiness.

Toward a regional ontology for information systems project management

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 681-692 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kosheek Sewchurran ◽  
Derek Smith ◽  
Dewald Roode
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Relational Model ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Underlying Theory

PurposeThe paper aims to paper an overview of a completed doctoral thesis which pursued the development of underlying theory (ontology) to give coherence to research in the information systems (IS) project management space.Design/methodology/approachAs a result of the considerable concern about a lack of underlying theory in project management the author has chosen to investigate the development of underlying theory to serve as a regional ontology to give debates undertaken to improve IS project management coherence. The thesis is a critical interpretive a priori effort. In the pursuit of the goal of developing a regional ontology, the notions, concepts and theories related to existentialism and social construction were investigated. These were investigated because the research literature places considerable emphasis on the need to understand as‐lived project experiences.FindingsOne of the significant outcomes that results from this research is the development of a proposed regional ontology. This was achieved by fusing the theories of Heidegger's Dasein, Bourdieu's “Theory of practice” and Maturana and Varela's “Theory of living systems”. The regional ontology is a consolidation of the various concepts defined by these researchers. These theories complement each other to give rise to a relational model of social construction which also has related phenomenological, existential and biological perspectives.Practical implicationsThe proposed ontology was interpreted using the popular alternatives that have recently emerged alongside the established best practices such as project management body of knowledge. The perspectives of complex, responsive processes of relating, the temporary organisation, agility and organisational becoming were reviewed using the regional ontology. The interpretation process illustrated that the regional ontology is able to provide a more fundamental and coherent context to subsume and delimit these emerging new frames.Originality/valueThe thesis also discusses the researcher's view of contemporary project management practice that accords with the regional ontology principles. Through argument and the contemporary context of IS project management practice that was sketched, the principles of the regional ontology are illuminated. Through this process it was possible to claim that established best practice modes of education should not exist in isolation but should instead be situated within a wider analogical context that embraces the values of learning, becoming and innovating.

ON THE MATABILITY OF POLYGONS

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (05) ◽  
pp. 469-506
Author(s):  
GILL BAREQUET ◽  
AYA STEINER
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Medical Imaging ◽  
Surface Reconstruction ◽  
Geographical Information Systems ◽  
Piecewise Linear ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Triangulated Surface ◽  
The Past

Interpolating a piecewise-linear triangulated surface between two polygons lying in parallel planes has attracted a lot of attention in the literature over the past three decades. This problem is the simplest variant of interpolation between parallel slices, which may contain multiple polygons with unrestricted geometries and/or topologies. Its solution has important applications to medical imaging, digitization of objects, geographical information systems, and more. Practically all currently-known methods for surface reconstruction from parallel slices assume a priori the existence of a non-self-intersecting triangulated surface defined over the vertices of the two polygons, which connects them. Gitlin et al. were the first to specify a nonmatable pair of polygons. In this paper we provide proof of the nonmatability of a “simpler” pair of polygons, which is less complex than the example given by Gitlin et al. Furthermore, we provide a family of polygon pairs with unbounded complexity, which we believe to be nonmatable. We also give a few sufficient conditions for polygon matability.

scholarly journals Waiting list statistics as performance indicators: Observations on their use in hospital management

1998 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Cromwell ◽  
Larry Mays
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Waiting Lists ◽  
Hospital Performance ◽  
Waiting List ◽  
Effective Solution ◽  
Activity Data ◽  
Current Information ◽  
Software Packages

Improvements in data collection and the types of statistics collected have enhancedthe usefulness of waiting list statistics as a measure of hospital performance. But thesechanges are not sufficient for waiting list statistics to be used effectively formanagement purposes. The statistics need to be viewed alongside activity data ifclinicians and managers are to identify specific areas that need improvement. Thismeans that how the data are analysed and presented is also important.During a study into the management of waiting lists, we observed that waiting listdata were typically presented in a way that made interpretation difficult. A simplebut effective solution was found by using available PC-based software, but obstaclesremain. These stem from limitations of current information systems and the awarenessamong staff of the potential of common software packages.

scholarly journals INFORMATION SUPPORTING SYSTEM ABOUT TAX CAPACITY OF A COMPANY AND ITS EFFICIENCY: PRINCIPLES OF FORMATION AND EVALUATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 38-44
Author(s):  
Halyna Kuzmenko ◽  
◽  
Nataliia Shalimova ◽  
Alla Lysenko ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Supporting System ◽  
Current Information ◽  
The Impact ◽  
A Company ◽  
Capacity Efficiency ◽  
Tax Capacity

The principles of forming the system of information about tax capacity are grouped and the directions of activity of the enterprise are identified, in view of which it is expedient to establish criteria for assessing its efficiency. The formation of information about tax capacity of an enterprise should occur not chaotically, but according to certain principles. The lists of basic principles (unity, objectivity, competence, probability and periodicity) and additional principles (dynamism, rationality, conformity, control) have been substantiated. The system of indicators and criteria of the formalized expression of efficiency is offered. The list of indicators made it possible to build the system (vector) of criteria requirements to ensure the effectiveness of information about the tax capacity of a business entity. It has been proved that in assessing the effectiveness of the information supporting system on tax capacity of the entity, the impact of time and cost criteria, as well as other non-measurable parameters should be taken into account. The proposed approach to assessing the effectiveness of the current information supporting system on the taxpayer's capacity will allow assessing alternative information systems in terms of the effectiveness of their implementation. Keywords: information supporting system; taxation; tax capacity; efficiency; principles; criteria; assessment; evaluation

Fundierung und Motivation

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-132
Author(s):  
Christian Ferencz-Flatz
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
The Other ◽  
Being And Time ◽  
Traditional Concept ◽  
Traditional Conception ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
Primary Layer ◽  
Logical Investigations ◽  
Nuanced Understanding

In several of his early lectures and also in Being and Time, Heidegger rejects the traditional conception of “cultural objects” as objects comprising a primary layer of natural thing-reality and a secondary, subjective layer of value, opposing it a concept of “meaningfulness” as an immediate sense structure of situational life-experience. In opposition to the traditional concept, often associated in a more or less overt fashion with Husserl himself, Heidegger stresses that the foundational relationship we are dealing with here is actually directed the other way around: meaningfulness is not founded in natural reality, but instead the latter already presupposes the former. The present article aims to question this heideggerian critique by analyzing the concept of „foundation“ employed by Husserl and by tracing it’s evolution from the Logical Investigations to several later notations from the 1930’s, in order to obtain a more nuanced understanding of the term.

Model-Driven Adaptive Enterprise

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Vinay Kulkarni ◽  
Sreedhar Reddy ◽  
Tony Clark
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Control Theory ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Systems Design ◽  
Dynamic Environments ◽  
Information Systems Design ◽  
Systems Of Systems ◽  
Digital Twin ◽  
Model Driven

Modern enterprises are large complex systems operating in dynamic environments and are therefore required to respond quickly to a variety of change drivers. Moreover, they are systems of systems wherein understanding is only available in localized contexts and is partial and uncertain. Given that the overall system behaviour is hard to know a-priori and that conventional techniques for systemwide analysis either lack rigour or are defeated by the scale of the problem, the current practice often exclusively relies on human expertise for adaptation. This chapter outlines the concept of model-driven adaptive enterprise that leverages principles from modeling, artificial intelligence, control theory, and information systems design leading to a knowledge-guided simulation-aided data-driven model-based evidence-backed approach to impart adaptability to enterprises. At the heart of a model-driven adaptive enterprise lies a digital twin (i.e., a simulatable digital replica of the enterprise). The authors discuss how the digital twin can be used to analyze, control, adapt, transform, and design enterprises.

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