Author: Wolfgang Hofkirchner
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date: 1999
Size: 28.93 MB
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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The Quest For A Unified Theory Of Information

Book by Wolfgang Hofkirchner, The Quest For A Unified Theory Of Information Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Quest For A Unified Theory Of Information books,

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Author: Mark Burgin
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date: 2010
Size: 40.12 MB
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Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Theory Of Information

Book by Mark Burgin, Theory Of Information Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Theory Of Information books, Presents a fresh approach to scientific understanding of information phenomena. Based on an analysis of information processes in nature, technology, and society, as well as on the main directions in information theory, this book offers a theory that synthesizes various directions into a unified system.

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Author: Karen E. Fisher
Publisher: Information Today, Inc.
Release Date: 2005
Size: 68.58 MB
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Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 431
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Theories Of Information Behavior

Book by Karen E. Fisher, Theories Of Information Behavior Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Theories Of Information Behavior books, This unique book presents authoritative overviews of more than 70 conceptual frameworks for understanding how people seek, manage, share, and use information in different contexts. A practical and readable reference to both well-established and newly proposed theories of information behavior, the book includes contributions from 85 scholars from 10 countries. Each theory description covers origins, propositions, methodological implications, usage, links to related conceptual frameworks, and listings of authoritative primary and secondary references. The introductory chapters explain key concepts, theorymethod connections, and the process of theory development.

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Author: R. J. McEliece
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2004-07-15
Size: 46.33 MB
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Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 397
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The Theory Of Information And Coding

Book by R. J. McEliece, The Theory Of Information And Coding Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Theory Of Information And Coding books, Student edition of the classic text in information and coding theory

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Author: Harold Garfinkel
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date: 2015-11-17
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Toward A Sociological Theory Of Information

Book by Harold Garfinkel, Toward A Sociological Theory Of Information Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Toward A Sociological Theory Of Information books, In 1952 at Princeton University, Harold Garfinkel developed a sociological theory of information. Other prominent theories then being worked out at Princeton, including game theory, neglected the social elements of "information," modeling a rational individual whose success depends on completeness of both reason and information. In real life these conditions are not possible and these approaches therefore have always had limited and problematic practical application. Garfinkel's sociological theory treats information as a thoroughly organized social phenomenon in a way that addresses these shortcomings comprehensively. Although famous as a sociologist of everyday life, Garfinkel focuses in this new book-never before published-on the concerns of large-scale organization and decisionmaking. In the fifty years since Garfinkel wrote this treatise, there has been no systematic treatment of the problems and issues he raises. Nor has anyone proposed a theory of information like the one he proposed. Many of the same problems that troubled theorists of information and predictable order in 1952 are still problematic today.

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Author: Jan Kåhre
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date: 2012-12-06
Size: 17.13 MB
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
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The Mathematical Theory Of Information

Book by Jan Kåhre, The Mathematical Theory Of Information Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Mathematical Theory Of Information books, The general concept of information is here, for the first time, defined mathematically by adding one single axiom to the probability theory. This Mathematical Theory of Information is explored in fourteen chapters: 1. Information can be measured in different units, in anything from bits to dollars. We will here argue that any measure is acceptable if it does not violate the Law of Diminishing Information. This law is supported by two independent arguments: one derived from the Bar-Hillel ideal receiver, the other is based on Shannon's noisy channel. The entropy in the 'classical information theory' is one of the measures conforming to the Law of Diminishing Information, but it has, however, properties such as being symmetric, which makes it unsuitable for some applications. The measure reliability is found to be a universal information measure. 2. For discrete and finite signals, the Law of Diminishing Information is defined mathematically, using probability theory and matrix algebra. 3. The Law of Diminishing Information is used as an axiom to derive essential properties of information. Byron's law: there is more information in a lie than in gibberish. Preservation: no information is lost in a reversible channel. Etc. The Mathematical Theory of Information supports colligation, i. e. the property to bind facts together making 'two plus two greater than four'. Colligation is a must when the information carries knowledge, or is a base for decisions. In such cases, reliability is always a useful information measure. Entropy does not allow colligation.

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Author: Frank Nielsen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date: 2014-05-08
Size: 78.91 MB
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Geometric Theory Of Information

Book by Frank Nielsen, Geometric Theory Of Information Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Geometric Theory Of Information books, This book brings together geometric tools and their applications for Information analysis. It collects current and many uses of in the interdisciplinary fields of Information Geometry Manifolds in Advanced Signal, Image & Video Processing, Complex Data Modeling and Analysis, Information Ranking and Retrieval, Coding, Cognitive Systems, Optimal Control, Statistics on Manifolds, Machine Learning, Speech/sound recognition and natural language treatment which are also substantially relevant for the industry.

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Author: Kofi Kissi Dompere
Publisher: Springer
Release Date: 2020-08-15
Size: 11.81 MB
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 247
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A General Theory Of Entropy

Book by Kofi Kissi Dompere, A General Theory Of Entropy Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download A General Theory Of Entropy books, This book presents an epistemic framework for dealing with information-knowledge and certainty-uncertainty problems within the space of quality-quantity dualities. It bridges between theoretical concepts of entropy and entropy measurements, proposing the concept and measurement of fuzzy-stochastic entropy that is applicable to all areas of knowing under human cognitive limitations over the epistemological space. The book builds on two previous monographs by the same author concerning theories of info-statics and info-dynamics, to deal with identification and transformation problems respectively. The theoretical framework is developed by using the toolboxes such as those of the principle of opposites, systems of actual-potential polarities and negative-positive dualities, under different cost-benefit time-structures. The category theory and the fuzzy paradigm of thought, under methodological constructionism-reductionism duality, are used in the fuzzy-stochastic and cost-benefit spaces to point to directions of global application in knowing, knowledge and decision-choice actions. Thus, the book is concerned with a general theory of entropy, showing how the fuzzy paradigm of thought is developed to deal with the problems of qualitative-quantitative uncertainties over the fuzzy-stochastic space, which will be applicable to conditions of soft-hard data, fact, evidence and knowledge over the spaces of problem-solution dualities, decision-choice actions in sciences, non-sciences, engineering and planning sciences to abstract acceptable information-knowledge elements.

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Author: Rudolf Ahlswede
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date: 2006-12-14
Size: 29.98 MB
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Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
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General Theory Of Information Transfer And Combinatorics

Book by Rudolf Ahlswede, General Theory Of Information Transfer And Combinatorics Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download General Theory Of Information Transfer And Combinatorics books, This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed research papers contributed to a research project on the 'General Theory of Information Transfer and Combinatorics' that was hosted from 2001--2004 at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF) of Bielefeld University and also papers of several incorporated meetings thereof. The 63 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on probabilistic models, cryptology, pseudo random sequences, quantum models, statistics, probability theory, information measures, error concepts, performance criteria, search, sorting, ordering, planning, language evolution, pattern discovery, reconstructions, network coding, combinatorial models, and a problem section.

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Author: Giovanni Sommaruga
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date: 2009-04-22
Size: 77.64 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 269
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Formal Theories Of Information

Book by Giovanni Sommaruga, Formal Theories Of Information Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Formal Theories Of Information books, 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, probability, inference, and deduction. The goal of this volume is to examine whether there is any common ground between the different approaches to the concept of information. The structure of this book could be represented by a circular model, with an innermost syntactical circle, comprising statistical and algorithmic approaches; a second, larger circle, the semantical one, in which "meaning" enters the stage; and finally an outermost circle, the pragmatic one, casting light on real-life logical reasoning. These articles are complemented by two philosophical contributions exploring the wide conceptual field as well as taking stock of the articles on the various formal theories of information.

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