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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.0 20120330//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Informatica</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn><issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn><publisher><publisher-name>VU</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">INF43-407</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3233/INF-1993-43-407</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Hierarchy of information processing in organizational systems</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Gudas</surname><given-names>Saulius</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">Department of Information Systems, Kaunas University of Technology, 3028 Kaunas, Studentų St.50, Lithuania</aff></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>01</month><year>1993</year></pub-date><volume>4</volume><issue>3-4</issue><fpage>322</fpage><lpage>334</lpage><abstract><p>An attempt to explain a basic nature of the information processing hierarchy in Organizational Systems is made. A framework for intelligent information processing at managing is presented. Organizational System (Enterprise) as the framework of so called elementary management cycles is decomposed. The structure of elementary management cycle (EMC) is presented and its properties discussed. A taxonomy of information processing hierarchies is based and presented. Such considerations seems to be important for the design of intelligent management information systems.</p></abstract><kwd-group><label>Keywords</label><kwd>information processing</kwd><kwd>hierarchy</kwd><kwd>Enterprise</kwd><kwd>elementary management cycle</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>