DocumentCode
3322901
Title
Analytic demonstration on the irrationality of negative entropy principle
Author
Xiang Xie ; Xue-yun Zang ; Zhong-Liang Guan
Author_Institution
Sch. of Econ. & Manage., Beijing Jiaotong Univ., Beijing
fYear
2008
fDate
10-12 Sept. 2008
Firstpage
109
Lastpage
115
Abstract
The enterprise is an open system, so according to the second law of thermodynamics and the dissipative structure theory, the enterprise has to require an influx of negative entropy from external sources by exchanging substances, energy and information with its external environment in order to become a system with low entropy. Negative entropy principle indicates information is negative entropy what suggests the enterprise should obtain more and more information from outside. But the fact does not support this principle, for example, information overburden has been a serious issue for the enterprise to deal with. This paper demonstrates the irrationality of negative entropy principle base on the basic definition of information entropy, and proves the possibility of information is positive entropy. The purpose of this paper is to make the enterprise pay much more attention to the management of information resources.
Keywords
information management; dissipative structure theory; external environment; information entropy; information overburden; information resources management; negative entropy principle; Conference management; Energy management; Engineering management; Environmental management; Information analysis; Information entropy; Open systems; Power generation economics; Thermal management; Thermodynamics; entropy change; information; information entropy; negative entropy; positive entropy;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Management Science and Engineering, 2008. ICMSE 2008. 15th Annual Conference Proceedings., International Conference on
Conference_Location
Long Beach, CA
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-2387-3
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-2388-0
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICMSE.2008.4668902
Filename
4668902
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