Novelty, Information and Surprise

By Günther Palm

Part I Surprise and Information of Descriptions: Prerequisites.- Improbability and Novelty of Descriptions.- Conditional Novelty and Information.- Part II Coding and Information Transmission: On Guessing and Coding.- Information Transmission.- Part III Information Rate and Channel Capacity: Stationary Processes and Information Rate.- Channel Capacity.- Shannon's Theorem.- Part IV Repertoires and Covers: Repertoires and Descriptions.- Novelty, Information and Surprise of Repertoires.- Conditioning, Mutual Information and Information Gain.- Part V Information, Novelty and Surprise in Science: Information, Novelty and Surprise in Brain Theory.- Surprise from Repetitions and Combination of Surprises.- Entropy in Physics.- Part VI Generalized Information Theory: Order- and Lattice-Structures.- Three Orderings on Repertoires.- Information Theory on Lattices of Covers.- Appendices: A. Fuzzy Repertoires and Descriptions.- A.1 Basic Definitions.- A.2 Definition and Properties of Fuzzy Repertoires.- Glossary.- Bibliography.- Index.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642290744
• ISBN13: 9783642290749
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"