Author : Imre Csiszár
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 11,61 MB
Release : 2007-04-05
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 3540327770
This book collects survey papers in the fields of entropy, search and complexity, summarizing the latest developments in their respective areas. More than half of the papers belong to search theory which lies on the borderline of mathematics and computer science, information theory and combinatorics, respectively. The book will be useful to experienced researchers as well as young scientists and students both in mathematics and computer science.
Author : Wojciech H. Zurek
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 31,23 MB
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 0429971435
This book has emerged from a meeting held during the week of May 29 to June 2, 1989, at St. John’s College in Santa Fe under the auspices of the Santa Fe Institute. The (approximately 40) official participants as well as equally numerous “groupies” were enticed to Santa Fe by the above “manifesto.” The book—like the “Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information” meeting explores not only the connections between quantum and classical physics, information and its transfer, computation, and their significance for the formulation of physical theories, but it also considers the origins and evolution of the information-processing entities, their complexity, and the manner in which they analyze their perceptions to form models of the Universe. As a result, the contributions can be divided into distinct sections only with some difficulty. Indeed, I regard this degree of overlapping as a measure of the success of the meeting. It signifies consensus about the important questions and on the anticipated answers: they presumably lie somewhere in the “border territory,” where information, physics, complexity, quantum, and computation all meet.
Author : Emmanuel Desurvire
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 19,9 MB
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0521881714
This complete overview of classical and quantum information theory employs an informal yet accurate approach, for students, researchers and practitioners.
Author : James Sethna
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 35,61 MB
Release : 2006-04-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 0191566217
In each generation, scientists must redefine their fields: abstracting, simplifying and distilling the previous standard topics to make room for new advances and methods. Sethna's book takes this step for statistical mechanics - a field rooted in physics and chemistry whose ideas and methods are now central to information theory, complexity, and modern biology. Aimed at advanced undergraduates and early graduate students in all of these fields, Sethna limits his main presentation to the topics that future mathematicians and biologists, as well as physicists and chemists, will find fascinating and central to their work. The amazing breadth of the field is reflected in the author's large supply of carefully crafted exercises, each an introduction to a whole field of study: everything from chaos through information theory to life at the end of the universe.
Author : Hans Kuijper
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 17,48 MB
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9811647097
This book argues for computer-aided collaborative country research based on the science of complex and dynamic systems. It provides an in-depth discussion of systems and computer science, concluding that proper understanding of a country is only possible if a genuinely interdisciplinary and truly international approach is taken; one that is based on complexity science and supported by computer science. Country studies should be carefully designed and collaboratively carried out, and a new generation of country students should pay more attention to the fast growing potential of digitized and electronically connected libraries. In this frenzied age of globalization, foreign policy makers may – to the benefit of a better world – profit from the radically new country studies pleaded for in the book. Its author emphasizes that reductionism and holism are not antagonistic but complementary, arguing that parts are always parts of a whole and a whole has always parts.
Author : Charles H. Lineweaver
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 47,60 MB
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 110702725X
Written by a wide range of experts, this work presents cosmological, biological and philosophical perspectives on complexity in our universe.
Author : Reggiani, Aura
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 49,6 MB
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1839100591
This ground-breaking Handbook presents a state-of-the-art exploration of entropy, complexity and spatial dynamics from fundamental theoretical, empirical and methodological perspectives. It considers how foundational theories can contribute to new advances, including novel modeling and empirical insights at different sectoral, spatial and temporal scales.
Author : Sanjeev Arora
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 15,51 MB
Release : 2009-04-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0521424267
New and classical results in computational complexity, including interactive proofs, PCP, derandomization, and quantum computation. Ideal for graduate students.
Author : Harout Aydinian
Publisher : Springer
Page : 811 pages
File Size : 21,91 MB
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3642368999
This volume is dedicated to the memory of Rudolf Ahlswede, who passed away in December 2010. The Festschrift contains 36 thoroughly refereed research papers from a memorial symposium, which took place in July 2011. The four macro-topics of this workshop: theory of games and strategic planning; combinatorial group testing and database mining; computational biology and string matching; information coding and spreading and patrolling on networks; provide a comprehensive picture of the vision Rudolf Ahlswede put forward of a broad and systematic theory of search.
Author : Tiziano Squartini
Publisher : Springer
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 19,79 MB
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319694383
This book is an introduction to maximum-entropy models of random graphs with given topological properties and their applications. Its original contribution is the reformulation of many seemingly different problems in the study of both real networks and graph theory within the unified framework of maximum entropy. Particular emphasis is put on the detection of structural patterns in real networks, on the reconstruction of the properties of networks from partial information, and on the enumeration and sampling of graphs with given properties. After a first introductory chapter explaining the motivation, focus, aim and message of the book, chapter 2 introduces the formal construction of maximum-entropy ensembles of graphs with local topological constraints. Chapter 3 focuses on the problem of pattern detection in real networks and provides a powerful way to disentangle nontrivial higher-order structural features from those that can be traced back to simpler local constraints. Chapter 4 focuses on the problem of network reconstruction and introduces various advanced techniques to reliably infer the topology of a network from partial local information. Chapter 5 is devoted to the reformulation of certain “hard” combinatorial operations, such as the enumeration and unbiased sampling of graphs with given constraints, within a “softened” maximum-entropy framework. A final chapter offers various overarching remarks and take-home messages.By requiring no prior knowledge of network theory, the book targets a broad audience ranging from PhD students approaching these topics for the first time to senior researchers interested in the application of advanced network techniques to their field.
