Abstract: A stream manager provides a way of redirecting and managing messaging and information access in a packet network environment. The stream manager is linked to a packet network, such as the Internet. The stream manager receives over the packet network a message from a user's host server initiated by a user and intended for a destination site. The message bears an address for the stream manager which is provided to the host server by the address server for the packet network, such as a server utilized as part of the domain name system. The stream manager determines the availability of at least one destination server at the destination site to receive and process the message. If a destination server at the destination site is available to receive and process the message, the stream manager selects a destination server from those available.

Abstract: The consumption of decision information by an organizations' own structures results in an upper limit on the average sustainable per capita decision rate. Individual decision-makers insert management decisions into the control network and expect to eventually receive decisions back from it. The organizational entropy and the related maximum decision rate measure extra information used to support the partitioning of tasks to decision-making nodes. The invention teaches how to quantify organizational entropy, using information theory, and applies the new principles to tools for managing and re-engineering organizations in order to improve productivity in performing knowledge-intensive tasks. The embodiments are quantitative methods of choosing efficient organizational structures and sizes matched to the decision complexity.