Inconsistencies and paradoxes in the conceptualization of information can
be found throughout numerous fields of natural, social and computer
sciences.
Rather than strictly focusing on the quest for a unifying
conceptualization, this FIS (Foundations of Information Science)
e-conference also explores the "reverse" approach: what information is not.
Thus, the conference aims to introduce new categories
and unifying theories, as well as to critically analyze conceptual
stumbling-blocks that may be acting as inefficient surrogates in strategic
areas of information-related disciplines. Given the contemporay social
context of booming information technologies and widespread proclamations of
the
"information society", reassessing the very status of information within
the system of the sciences becomes a timely enterprise.
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ALLAN
Received on Wed Dec 12 17:35:08 2001
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