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  title info:
    title: Formal Theories of Information
    sub title: From Shannon to Semantic Information Theory and General Concepts of Information
  name:
    name part: Sommaruga, Giovanni.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VII, 269 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  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?.
  note: edited by Giovanni Sommaruga.
  subject:
    topic: Computer science
  subject:
    topic: Programming languages (Electronic computers)
  subject:
    topic: Coding theory
  subject:
    topic: Computers
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical logic
  subject:
    topic: Computer science
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Computer Science
  subject:
    topic: Coding and Information Theory
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics, general
  subject:
    topic: Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages
  subject:
    topic: Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science
  subject:
    topic: Theory of Computation
  classification: QA268
  classification: 003.54
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5363
  identifier: 9783642006593
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00659-3
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20170125035833.0
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