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Record Nr.

UNISA996466033403316

Titolo

Formal Theories of Information [[electronic resource] ] : From Shannon to Semantic Information Theory and General Concepts of Information / / edited by Giovanni Sommaruga

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2009

ISBN

3-642-00659-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2009.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VII, 269 p.)

Collana

Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues, , 2512-2029 ; ; 5363

Classificazione

DAT 570f

QH 710

SK 830

SS 4800

004

Disciplina

003.54

Soggetti

Coding theory

Information theory

Mathematics

Compilers (Computer programs)

Machine theory

Computer science—Mathematics

Discrete mathematics

Computer science

Coding and Information Theory

Compilers and Interpreters

Formal Languages and Automata Theory

Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science

Theory of Computation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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?.

Sommario/riassunto

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.