Information flows and environments in business contexts: the meat sector case of Salmanca/Spain

Organizational environments are related to hierarchic levels existing in a determined organization, and they influence in the formal and informal flows origin and in their monitoring and/or extinction. Informational environments are a result of organizational environments, of which focus is information and knowledge. Information flows are a fundamental element to informational environments, in a way that there´s no informational environments if there´s no information flows. Informational flows are natural reflections from their environments, in terms of content and in the way they occur. This qualitative and quantitative research was developed in three stages, in a way to allow the comprehension of the phenomena related to information and knowledge environments and information flows that occur in the meat sector from the Province of Salamanca, Spain. We used Laurence Bardin´s ‘Analysis of Content’, more specifically the ‘Categorical Analysis’ technique to data analysis. As data collection procedure we accomplished a field research, applying a questionnaire as an intentional sample of the meat industries segment from the Province of Salamanca, Spain. From data tabulation and analysis, we infer that information environments and flows are relevant to these companies business development, as well as we emphasized the need of information and knowledge management deployment, in a way to insure organizational processes quality, industrial chain production and companies competition to conquer potential markets.

Gestão de stocks e armazém de matérias-primas

Relatório de Estágio apresentado ao Instituto Politécnico do Porto para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Logística Orientadores do Instituto: Professor Doutor Luís Barreto e Mestre Jonas Lima Orientador da empresa: Engenheiro Vítor Carvalho

Ambientes e fluxos informacionais: modelo de diagnóstico de interfaces (DIFI) sob a ótica dos valores culturais

Pós-graduação em Ciência da Informação - FFC

Web colaborativa: inovação na criação, proteção e uso legal de informação

In the contemporary world, the Internet enables the development of a Collaborative Web where the decentralization and sharing of information and knowledge generate new cultural configurations of increasing representation in informational flows. In this environment, collaboration and remix practices are covered by a legislation established for another context, and an imbalance is created between what is provided by the technology and what is established by Copyright. Therefore, it is necessary to address, under the perspective of the third time in Information Science, contemporary issues concerning creation, recreation, use, reuse, sharing and dissemination of intellectual content under the legislation which regulates them. This article seeks to highlight the dilemma that contemporaneity is experiencing and how important is for both society as a whole and specially the professional of Information Science to know the legal conditions for the processes of generating, processing, using, recovering and, especially, re-using information on the Web at a larger scale. The Creative Commons licenses are emerging alternatives that offer individuals options to become not only users but also holders and creators of intellectual content under legal conditions.

Flujos informacionales en repositorios cooperativos : Consideraciones sobre algunas experiencias en instituciones académicas de América Latina

Este trabajo, de tipo descriptivo exploratorio, se propone efectuar un análisis de una serie de repositorios cooperativos pertenecientes a instituciones académicas de América Latina. Hace hincapié en la importancia de la cooperación como práctica de larga data en el ámbito de las bibliotecas, muchas de las cuales se han convertido en líderes o partícipes importantes tanto en la implementación como en el desarrollo de los repositorios en sus respectivas instituciones. Se toman en consideración los flujos informacionales que los atraviesan a fin de conocer cómo se delinean y desarrollan en el marco de instituciones académicas de cierta envergadura y complejidad, a través de un análisis de documentación. Se resaltan los modelos de flujos de información detectados en dichos repositorios cooperativos y cómo estos, desde su singularidad, favorecen la visibilidad y la difusión del conocimiento académico y científico existente en formato digital

Flujos informacionales en repositorios cooperativos : Consideraciones sobre algunas experiencias en instituciones académicas de América Latina

Este trabajo, de tipo descriptivo exploratorio, se propone efectuar un análisis de una serie de repositorios cooperativos pertenecientes a instituciones académicas de América Latina. Hace hincapié en la importancia de la cooperación como práctica de larga data en el ámbito de las bibliotecas, muchas de las cuales se han convertido en líderes o partícipes importantes tanto en la implementación como en el desarrollo de los repositorios en sus respectivas instituciones. Se toman en consideración los flujos informacionales que los atraviesan a fin de conocer cómo se delinean y desarrollan en el marco de instituciones académicas de cierta envergadura y complejidad, a través de un análisis de documentación. Se resaltan los modelos de flujos de información detectados en dichos repositorios cooperativos y cómo estos, desde su singularidad, favorecen la visibilidad y la difusión del conocimiento académico y científico existente en formato digital

Flujos informacionales en repositorios cooperativos : Consideraciones sobre algunas experiencias en instituciones académicas de América Latina

Este trabajo, de tipo descriptivo exploratorio, se propone efectuar un análisis de una serie de repositorios cooperativos pertenecientes a instituciones académicas de América Latina. Hace hincapié en la importancia de la cooperación como práctica de larga data en el ámbito de las bibliotecas, muchas de las cuales se han convertido en líderes o partícipes importantes tanto en la implementación como en el desarrollo de los repositorios en sus respectivas instituciones. Se toman en consideración los flujos informacionales que los atraviesan a fin de conocer cómo se delinean y desarrollan en el marco de instituciones académicas de cierta envergadura y complejidad, a través de un análisis de documentación. Se resaltan los modelos de flujos de información detectados en dichos repositorios cooperativos y cómo estos, desde su singularidad, favorecen la visibilidad y la difusión del conocimiento académico y científico existente en formato digital

Consciousness, Meaning and the Future Phenomenology

Phenomenological states are generally considered sources of intrinsic motivation for autonomous biological agents. In this paper we will address the issue of exploiting these states for robust goal-directed systems. We will provide an analysis of consciousness in terms of a precise definition of how an agent “understands” the informational flows entering the agent. This model of consciousness and understanding is based in the analysis and evaluation of phenomenological states along potential trajectories in the phase space of the agents. This implies that a possible strategy to follow in order to build autonomous but useful systems is to embed them with the particular, ad-hoc phenomenology that captures the requirements that define the system usefulness from a requirements-strict engineering viewpoint.

Consciousness, Action Selection, Meaning and Phenomenic Anticipation

Phenomenal states are generally considered the ultimate sources of intrinsic motivation for autonomous biological agents. In this article, we will address the issue of the necessity of exploiting these states for the design and implementation of robust goal-directed artificial systems. We will provide an analysis of consciousness in terms of a precise definition of how an agent "understands" the informational flows entering the agent and its very own action possibilities. This abstract model of consciousness and understanding will be based in the analysis and evaluation of phenomenal states along potential future trajectories in the state space of the agents. This implies that a potential strategy to follow in order to build autonomous but still customer-useful systems is to embed them with the particular, ad hoc phenomenality that captures the system-external requirements that define the system usefulness from a customer-based, requirements-strict engineering viewpoint.

Informational institutions in the agrifood sector:meta-information and meta-governance of environmental sustainability

In the agrifood sector, the explosive increase in information about environmental sustainability, often in uncoordinated information systems, has created a new form of ignorance ('meta-ignorance') that diminishes the effectiveness of information on decision-makers. Flows of information are governed by informal and formal social arrangements that we can collectively call Informational Institutions. In this paper, we have reviewed the recent literature on such institutions. From the perspectives of information theory and new institutional economics, current informational institutions are increasing the information entropy of communications concerning environmental sustainability and stakeholders' transaction costs of using relevant information. In our view this reduces the effectiveness of informational governance. Future research on informational governance should explicitly address these aspects.

Lesser-known worlds : bridging the telematic flows with located human experience through game design

This paper represents a new theorization of the role of location-based games (LBGs) as potentially playing specific roles in peoples’ access to the culture of cities [22]. A LBG is a game that employs mobile technologies as tools for game play in real world environments. We argue that as a new genre in the field of mobile entertainment, research in this area tends to be preoccupied with the newness of the technology and its commercial possibilities. However, this overlooks its potential to contribute to cultural production. We argue that the potential to contribute to cultural production lies in the capacity of these experiences to enhance relationships between specific groups and new urban spaces. Given that developers can design LBGs to be played with everyday devices in everyday environments, what new creative opportunities are available to everyday people?

The impact of susceptibility to informational influence on the effectiveness of consumer testimonials

In this article we examine how a consumer's susceptibility to informative influence (SII) affects the effectiveness of consumer testimonials in print advertising. More specifically, we show that consumers that are high in SII and that seek consumption-relevant information from other people are more influenced by the strength of the testimonial information than the strength of the attribute information. Conversely, consumers low in SII place greater emphasis on the strength of the attribute information when forming their evaluations. Our results show that consumer psychological traits can have an important impact on the acceptance of testimonial advertising. Theoretical and managerial implications of our findings are discussed.

Determining the informational, navigational and transactional intent of web queries

In this paper, we define and present a comprehensive classification of user intent for Web searching. The classification consists of three hierarchical levels of informational, navigational, and transactional intent. After deriving attributes of each, we then developed a software application that automatically classified queries using a Web search engine log of over a million and a half queries submitted by several hundred thousand users. Our findings show that more than 80% of Web queries are informational in nature, with about 10% each being navigational and transactional. In order to validate the accuracy of our algorithm, we manually coded 400 queries and compared the results from this manual classification to the results determined by the automated method. This comparison showed that the automatic classification has an accuracy of 74%. Of the remaining 25% of the queries, the user intent is vague or multi-faceted, pointing to the need for probabilistic classification. We discuss how search engines can use knowledge of user intent to provide more targeted and relevant results in Web searching.