ABSTRACT
Generation Process ....................................................... 312 9.2.3 Th e Information Generation Environment ...................................312
9.2.3.1 Increased Availability of Data .........................................312 9.2.3.2 Availability of New Data Sources ...................................313 9.2.3.3 Greater Need for Sharing Data at All Levels ...................313 9.2.3.4 Information Needs and Goals Not Always
Known in Advance ......................................................... 314 9.2.3.5 Greater Potential to Task Data Sources to Gather
What Is Needed .............................................................. 314 9.2.3.6 Data Sources Experience the Complexity
of an Environment .......................................................... 314 9.2.3.7 Data with Future Value .................................................. 315
9.2.4 Information Generation Challenges .............................................. 315 9.2.4.1 Correlating Data from Diverse Sources .......................... 315 9.2.4.2 Managing Information Needs and Goals........................316 9.2.4.3 Exploiting Elements of Complexity within an
Environment .................................................................316 9.2.5 Information Generation Tenets and Design Principles .................. 317
9.2.5.1 Make Explicit the Quality of Data or Generated Information at All Levels ................................................ 317
9.2.5.2 Develop, Publish, and Manage Information Needs and Goals ............................................................. 318
9.2.5.3 Associate/Correlate Data and Generated Information..... 319 9.2.5.4 Enable the Fusing of Data or Generated Information .....320 9.2.5.5 Use Visualization to Understand Relationships
in Data or Generated Information ..................................320 9.2.5.6 Enable the Recognition of Complexity in Data
and Decision-Making Environments ..............................321 9.2.5.7 Warehouse Data or Generated Information at All Levels ....................................................................321 9.2.5.8 Apply Meaningful Tags to Data or Generated Information ...................................................322
