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Information Theory for Systems Engineers

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  • © 1968

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Authors:
  1. L. P. Hyvärinen

    1. IBM European Systems Research Institute, Geneva, Switzerland

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems (LNE, volume 5)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages N2-VII
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

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      Pages 1-11

  3. Discrete Information Systems

    1. Noiseless Channels

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      Pages 12-24

    2. Coding for Noiseless Channels

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      Pages 25-50

    3. Joint Events, Natural Languages

      • L. P. Hyvärinen
      Pages 51-71

    4. Noisy Channel

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      Pages 72-87

    5. Error Checking and Correcting Codes

      • L. P. Hyvärinen
      Pages 88-104

  4. Continuous Information Systems

    1. Properties of Continuous Channels

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      Pages 105-123

    2. Detection of Continuous Signals

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      Pages 124-144

    3. Information Filters

      • L. P. Hyvärinen
      Pages 145-163

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 164-209
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About this book

This book is based on lectures given by the author at the IBM European Systems Research Institute (ESRI) in Geneva. Information Theory on the syntactic level, as introduced by Claude Shannon in 1949, has many limitations when applied to information processing by computers. But in spite of some obvious shortcomings, the underlyin~ principles are of fundamental importance for systems engineers in understanding the nature of the problems of handling information, its acquisition, storage, processing, and interpretation. The lectures, as presented in this book, attempt to give an exposition of the lovical foundation and basic principles, and to provide at the same time a basis for further study in more specific areas of this expan1in~ theory, such as coding, detection, pattern recognition, and filtering. Most of the problems in Appendix C are intended as extensions of the text, while calling for actjve participation by the stu1ent. Some other problems are direct applications of the theory to specific situations. Some problems require extensive numerical calculations. It is assumed in those cases that the student has access to a computer and that he is capable of writing the necessary programs. The stu1ent is assumed to have a good command of the calculus, and of the theory of probability as well as statistics. Therefore no basic mathematical concepts are discussed in this IV book. The Fourier transform and some related mathematical concepts are introduced in Appendix A.

Authors and Affiliations

  • IBM European Systems Research Institute, Geneva, Switzerland

    L. P. Hyvärinen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Information Theory for Systems Engineers

  • Authors: L. P. Hyvärinen

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87092-7

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin · Heidelberg 1968

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-04254-9Published: 01 January 1968

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-87092-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0075-8442

  • Series E-ISSN: 2196-9957

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 209

  • Topics: Business and Management, general

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