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

衡量信息的贡献：价值和生产力研究职业生涯#98- 76233范阿尔斯泰因，马歇尔W.密歇根大学，安娜堡这个职业发展计划沿着沿着两个维度发展研究和教育议程：如何衡量信息价值和如何评价信息生产力，第一个研究结合效用和时间概念，提出了一个价值的证明理论模型，经济学中的贴现和计算机科学中的程序信息。 通过将信息建模为一系列减少不确定性的指令，决策者创建了对特定结果的调用。 金融期权理论可以用来评估信息工具。 重要的是，许多管理决策可能会受益于更好的信息价值的工具。第二项研究提供了一个经验的补充，收集数据的管理做法，有助于生产力。 软件监控器将跟踪组织信息流。 采访将提供背景。 将使用计量经济学检验各种假设--如分散获取的价值、有针对性的交流和促进共享的激励措施。 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级别的数据，以及新开发的集成指标。研究助理，在一个新的信息，经济学，管理和政策轨道教学这些主题，并共同开发公共政策，电气工程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.