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Novelty, Information and Surprise
The book offers a new approach to information theory that is more general then the classical approach by Shannon. The classical definition of information is given for an alphabet of symbols or for a set of mutually exclusive propositions (a partition of the probability space Ω) with corresponding pr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2012. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I Surprise and Information of Descriptions: Prerequisites
- Improbability and Novelty of Descriptions
- Conditional Novelty and Information
- Part II Coding and Information Transmission: On Guessing and Coding
- Information Transmission
- Part III Information Rate and Channel Capacity: Stationary Processes and Information Rate
- Channel Capacity
- Shannon's Theorem
- Part IV Repertoires and Covers: Repertoires and Descriptions
- Novelty, Information and Surprise of Repertoires
- Conditioning, Mutual Information and Information Gain
- Part V Information, Novelty and Surprise in Science: Information, Novelty and Surprise in Brain Theory
- Surprise from Repetitions and Combination of Surprises
- Entropy in Physics
- Part VI Generalized Information Theory: Order- and Lattice-Structures
- Three Orderings on Repertoires
- Information Theory on Lattices of Covers
- Appendices: A. Fuzzy Repertoires and Descriptions
- A.1 Basic Definitions
- A.2 Definition and Properties of Fuzzy Repertoires
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index.