Overview
- Definition of useful new concepts: description, novelty, surprise, template
- New viewpoint on information theory in relation to (natural) science
- New method to analyse neuronal spike trains (burst surprise)
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Surprise and Information of Descriptions
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Coding and Information Transmission
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Information Rate and Channel Capacity
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Repertoires and Covers
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Information, Novelty and Surprise in Science
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“In this interesting book, the author extends classical Shannon information theory to include the subjective element of interestingness, novelty or surprise. … A theory of novelty and surprise is developed in this book to provide a brief and comprehensive exposition of classical information theory … . all the chapters have exercises, and so this book can be used as an undergraduate/graduate textbook. Since each chapter contains a decent number of references … readers can find research problems from those references.” (Yûichirô Kakihara, Mathematical Reviews, July, 2013)
“In this book the author introduces (subjective) notions of interestingness, novelty and surprise of messages employing probality spaces … . The book is easy to read and does not require strong mathematical background, thus it could be used as a textbook or as material for self-study in graduate or post-graduate courses.” (Jaak Henno, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1257, 2013)Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Günther Palm studied mathematics in Hamburg and Tübingen. After completing his studies in mathematics (Master in 1974, Ph.D. in 1975) he worked on nonlinear systems, associative memory and brain theory at the MPI for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen. In 1983/84 he was a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. From 1988 to 1991 he was professor for theoretical brain research at the University of Düsseldorf. Since then he has served as a professor for computer science and Director of the Institute of Neural Information Processing at the University of Ulm, where his focus is on information theory, pattern recognition, neural networks, and brain modelling.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Novelty, Information and Surprise
Authors: Günther Palm
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29075-6
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-29074-9Published: 31 August 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-29075-6Published: 30 August 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 248
Topics: Information and Communication, Circuits, Artificial Intelligence, Order, Lattices, Ordered Algebraic Structures, Pattern Recognition, Neurobiology, Mathematical and Computational Biology