CAREER: Measuring Information's Contribution: Research on Value and Productivity

《衡量信息的贡献：关于价值和生产力的研究》密歇根大学安娜堡分校这个职业发展计划围绕两个维度发展了研究和教育议程：如何衡量信息价值和如何评估信息生产力。第一项研究通过将经济学中的效用和时间折扣概念与计算机科学中的程序信息相结合，形成了一个验证论的价值模型。通过将信息建模为减少不确定性的一系列指令，决策者创建对特定结果的调用。然后，金融期权理论可能被用来对信息工具进行估值。重要的是，许多管理决策可能受益于拥有更好的信息价值工具。第二项研究通过收集有助于提高生产率的管理实践数据来提供经验补充。软件监视器将跟踪组织信息流。采访将提供背景信息。假设--例如分散接入、有重点的通信以及促进共享的激励措施的价值--将使用计量经济学进行检验。学习的好处包括更好地理解信息生产力，使用个人而不是公司层面的数据，以及新开发的集成度量标准。相关的教育活动包括指导博士研究助理，在新的信息、经济、管理和政策轨道上教授这些主题，以及共同开发公共政策、电气工程与计算机科学和法律双学位。

Measuring Information's Contribution: Research on Value and ProductivityCAREER #98-76233Van Alstyne, Marshall W.The University of Michigan, Ann ArborThis career development plan developes research and education agendas along two dimensions: how to measure information value and how to evaluate information productivity.The first study devolopes a proof-theoretic model of value by combining concepts of utility and time-discounting from economics and procedural information from computer science. By modeling information as an uncertainty reducing series of instructions, a decision maker creates a call on a particular result. Financial options theory might then be used to value the information instrument. The significance is that numerous management decisions might benefit from having better information value tools.The second study provides an empirical complement by gathering data on management practices that contribute to productivity. Software monitors will track organizational information flows. Interviews will provide context. Hypotheses - such as the value of decentralized access, focused communications, and incentives to promote sharing - will be tested using econometrics. Study benefits include better understanding of information productivity, use of person rather than firm level data, and newly developed integration metrics.Related educational activities include mentoring Ph.D. research assistants, teaching these topics in a new Information, Economics, Management, and Policy track, and codeveloping dual degrees in Public Policy, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and Law.