Improving Strategic Scanning Information Analysis: An Alternative Measure for Information Proximity Evaluation

Annette Casagrande, Edison Loza Aguirre, Laurent Vuillon

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Abstract

Strategic Scanning activities become less effective when faced with managing information overload. This paper introduces 'nearness measure' (NM), a measure for information proximity evaluation. We also present and analyze the principles and properties of a graphical representation of the measure. We compare the measure to the usual Cosine similarity (CS). Even when the algorithm that calculates NM between texts is larger than CS in terms of complexity, NM with a minimization phase expresses an analysis of the documents from the general to the specific that is the opposite to what CS does. Thus, the manager using NM would require less time to explore collected information.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2015 3rd International Conference on Enterprise Systems, ES 2015
EditorsKnut Hinkelmann, Barbara Thonssen
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1-8
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781467380058
DOIs
StatePublished - 12 Feb 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event3rd International Conference on Enterprise Systems, ES 2015 - Basel, Switzerland
Duration: 14 Oct 201515 Oct 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2015 3rd International Conference on Enterprise Systems, ES 2015

Conference

Conference3rd International Conference on Enterprise Systems, ES 2015
Country/TerritorySwitzerland
CityBasel
Period14/10/1515/10/15

Keywords

  • Decision support systems
  • Information overload
  • Nearness Measure
  • Strategic scanning
  • Texts comparison

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