The Research of Information Flow Theory and its Applications

Information Flow theory,also called Channel Theory,is a general theory of regularity that applies to the distributed information inherent in both natural world of biological and physical systems and the artificial world of computational systems. One of basic concepts of Information Flow theory is Infomorphisms. It is the key factor to form information channel. Since Information Flow theory can overcome the drawbacks of Shannon’s Information Theory that cannot support semantic interoperability,it becomes important. This paper describes the current states of international applications of Information Flow theory. The paper also presents the Infomorphism dynamic creation process by Agent’s conversation mechanism in the Grid information sharing research.