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Engineering >> 2023, Volume 27, Issue 8 doi: 10.1016/j.eng.2022.04.018

Foundations and Applications of Information Systems Dynamics

a Supreme People's Court Information Center, Beijing 100745, China
b School of Information Management for Law, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing 102249, China
c School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
d School of Mathematics and Statistics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China

Received: 2022-01-20 Revised: 2022-04-09 Accepted: 2022-04-11 Available online: 2022-07-11

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Abstract

Although numerous advances have been made in information technology in the past decades, there is still a lack of progress in information systems dynamics (ISD), owing to the lack of a mathematical foundation needed to describe information and the lack of an analytical framework to evaluate information systems. The value of ISD lies in its ability to guide the design, development, application, and evaluation of large-scale information system-of-systems (SoSs), just as mechanical dynamics theories guide mechanical systems engineering. This paper reports on a breakthrough in these fundamental challenges by proposing a framework for information space, improving a mathematical theory for information measurement, and proposing a dynamic configuration model for information systems. In this way, it establishes a basic theoretical framework for ISD. The proposed theoretical methodologies have been successfully applied and verified in the Smart Court SoSs Engineering Project of China and have achieved significant improvements in the quality and efficiency of Chinese court informatization. The proposed ISD provides an innovative paradigm for the analysis, design, development, and evaluation of large-scale complex information systems, such as electronic government and smart cities.

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