Frontmatter -- Table of Content -- Introduction -- 1. The Syntactic Approach to Information -- 2. The Semantic Approach to Information -- 3. The Causal Approach to Information -- 4. Situation Theory and Information -- 5. Information Flow in Distributed Systems -- Epilogue -- Further References -- Glossary of Notation
Summary
This book is conceived as an introductory text into the theory of syntactic and semantic information, and information flow. Syntactic information theory is concerned with the information contained in the very fact that some signal has a non-random structure. Semantic information theory is concerned with the meaning or information content of messages and the like. The theory of information flow is concerned with deriving some piece of information from another. The main part will take us to situation semantics as a foundation of modern approaches in information theory
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