Information from Processes

About the Nature of Information Creation, Use, and Representation

Robert M. Losee (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XVIII, 242 Seiten

2014 | 2012
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-642-42968-2 (ISBN)

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This book describes, predicts and explains information as a general phenomenon, probing the nature and output of processes without requiring prior math or computer background. Applies basic processes to a range of disciplines related to information science.

Information is an important concept that is studied extensively across a range of disciplines, from the physical sciences to genetics to psychology to epistemology. Information continues to increase in importance, and the present age has been referred to as the "Information Age."

One may understand information in a variety of ways. For some, information is found in facts that were previously unknown. For others, a fact must have some economic value to be considered information. Other people emphasize the movement through a communication channel from one location to another when describing information. In all of these instances, information is the set of characteristics of the output of a process. Yet Information has seldom been studied in a consistent way across different disciplines.

Information from Processes provides a discipline-independent and precise presentation of both information and computing processes. Information concepts and phenomena are examined in an effort to understand them, given a hierarchy of information processes, where one process uses others. Research about processes and computing is applied to answer the question of what information can and cannot be produced, and to determine the nature of this information (theoretical information science). The book also presents some of the basic processes that are used in specific domains (applied information science), such as those that generate information in areas like reasoning, the evolution of informative systems, cryptography, knowledge, natural language, and the economic value of information.

Written for researchers and graduate students in information science and related fields, Information from Processes details a unique information model independent from other concepts in computer or archival science, which is thus applicable to a wide range of domains. Combining theoretical and empirical methods as well as psychological, mathematical,philosophical, and economic techniques, Losee's book delivers a solid basis and starting point for future discussions and research about the creation and use of information.

Robert Losee is a Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has authored other monographs, including The Science of Information and Text Retrieval and Filtering, as well as numerous articles, emphasizing the nature of information, analytic models of how information retrieval systems perform, and methods of organizing and tagging text to allow for improved access to information.

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From the reviews:

"This book is an essay on information seen from the process output perspective. The author makes an attempt to characterize the nature of processes and the ways of obtaining information as an output. ... This book can be recommended to a broad group of people. Beginners will appreciate the approachable way of content explanation. By presenting a large spectrum of aspects, it can be also a valuable source of information for experts." (Jozef Wozniak, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1257, 2013)

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.9.2014
Zusatzinfo	XVIII, 242 p.
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	403 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
Schlagworte	Alan Turing • Claude Shannon • Communication theory • Epistemology • information creation • Information science • Information Theory • Knowledge creation
ISBN-10	3-642-42968-8 / 3642429688
ISBN-13	978-3-642-42968-2 / 9783642429682
Zustand	Neuware