Formal Theories of Information From Shannon to Semantic Information Theory and General Concepts of Information

Formal Theories of Information From Shannon to Semantic Information Theory and General Concepts of Information / edited by Giovanni Sommaruga.

This book presents the scientific outcome of a joint effort of the computer science departments of the universities of Berne, Fribourg and Neuchâtel. Within an initiative devoted to "Information and Knowledge", these research groups collaborated over several years on issues of logic, proba...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Sommaruga, Giovanni (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edition:1st ed. 2009.
Series:Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues ; 5363
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Coding theory.
Information theory.
Mathematics.
Programming languages (Electronic computers).
Mathematical logic.
Computer science—Mathematics.
Computers.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • Philosophical Reflections
  • Philosophical Conceptions of Information
  • The Syntactical Approach
  • Information Theory, Relative Entropy and Statistics
  • Information: The Algorithmic Paradigm
  • The Semantical Approach
  • Information Algebra
  • Uncertain Information
  • Comparing Questions and Answers: A Bit of Logic, a Bit of Language, and Some Bits of Information
  • Channels: From Logic to Probability
  • Beyond the Semantical Approach
  • Modeling Real Reasoning
  • Philosophical Conclusions
  • One or Many Concepts of Information?.

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