Novelty, Information and Surprise

• Main Author: Palm, Günther (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Artificial intelligence.; Pattern recognition.; Neurobiology.; Algebra.; Ordered algebraic structures.; Information theory.; Biomathematics.; Information and Communication, Circuits.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Order, Lattices, Ordered Algebraic Structures.; Pattern Recognition.; Mathematical and Computational Biology.

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...