TY  - BOOK
AU  - Palm,Gunther
TI  - Novelty, information and surprise
SN  - 9783642290749 (alk. paper)
U1  - 003.54 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Berlin
PB  - Springer-Verlag
KW  - Information theory
N1  - 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
N2  - 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.
ER  -