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Novelty, information and surprise / Gunther Palm.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berlin : Springer-Verlag, 2012.Description: xxiii, 248 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9783642290749 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 003.54 23 P171
Contents:
Pt. I. Surprise and Information of Descriptions -- 1. Prerequisites from Logic and Probability Theory -- 2. Improbability and Novelty of Descriptions -- 3. Conditional and Subjective Novelty and Information -- Pt. II. Coding and Information Transmission -- 4. On Guessing and Coding -- 5. Information Transmission -- Pt. III. Information Rate and Channel Capacity -- 6. Stationary Processes and Their Information Rate -- 7. Channel Capacity -- 8. How to Transmit Information Reliably with Unreliable Elements (Shannon's Theorem) -- Pt. IV. Repertoires and Covers -- 9. Repertoires and Descriptions -- 10. Novelty, Information and Surprise of Repertoires -- 11. Conditioning, Mutual Information, and Information Gain -- Pt. V. Information, Novelty and Surprise in Science -- 12. Information, Novelty, and Surprise in Brain Theory -- 13. Surprise from Repetitions and Combination of Surprises -- 14. Entropy in Physics -- Pt. VI. Generalized Information Theory -- 15. Order- and Lattice-Structures -- 16. Three Orderings on Repertoires -- 17. Information Theory on Lattices of Covers-- Appendices-- Glossary-- Index.
Summary: This book offers a new, more general approach to information theory, presenting a generalized information concept called novelty, and several new concepts derived from it. Includes description of applications in statistics and the neurosciences.
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Includes index.

Pt. I. Surprise and Information of Descriptions --
1. Prerequisites from Logic and Probability Theory --
2. Improbability and Novelty of Descriptions --
3. Conditional and Subjective Novelty and Information --

Pt. II. Coding and Information Transmission --
4. On Guessing and Coding --
5. Information Transmission --

Pt. III. Information Rate and Channel Capacity --
6. Stationary Processes and Their Information Rate --
7. Channel Capacity --
8. How to Transmit Information Reliably with Unreliable Elements (Shannon's Theorem) --

Pt. IV. Repertoires and Covers --
9. Repertoires and Descriptions --
10. Novelty, Information and Surprise of Repertoires --
11. Conditioning, Mutual Information, and Information Gain --

Pt. V. Information, Novelty and Surprise in Science --
12. Information, Novelty, and Surprise in Brain Theory --
13. Surprise from Repetitions and Combination of Surprises --
14. Entropy in Physics --

Pt. VI. Generalized Information Theory --
15. Order- and Lattice-Structures --
16. Three Orderings on Repertoires --
17. Information Theory on Lattices of Covers--
Appendices--
Glossary--
Index.

This book offers a new, more general approach to information theory, presenting a generalized information concept called novelty, and several new concepts derived from it. Includes description of applications in statistics and the neurosciences.

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