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Introduction
(The advantages of the approach taken in Information from Processes to the study of
information in a range of disciplines)
Ch. 1: Information
(Information, Processes, Process Output, Communication,
Physical World and Entropy, People and Information, Hierarchies of Processes,
Defining Information, Characteristics of Information Phenomena)
Ch. 2: Processes
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Functions, Processing, Decidability, Formal Computational Models, Systems,
Maxwell's Demon, Reversibility and Information Loss, Basis for Information,
Process Complexity, Information Theory and Channels, Networks of
Processes
)
Ch. 3: Representation
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Encoding and Decoding Representations, Error Detection and Correction,
Compression, Secrecy, Metainformation, Organizing Representations for
Access,
Retrieving, Structured Information
)
Ch. 4: Improving the Informative
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What is the best?, Accidental and Evolutionary Improvement,
Evolution of Communication,
Self-organization, Directed Improvement, Producing Statements with
Reasoning,
Quantitative Information Reasoning
)
Ch. 5: Words and Knowledge
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Perceiving and Observing,
Reference, Sense, Descriptions, Classes,
A Priori Information, Ideas and Mental Representations,
Truth, Justification for Beliefs, Knowledge and Information
)
Ch. 6: Economic Value
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Utility, Decisions with Uncertain Information,
Competing Processes,
Choosing a Strategy, Adverse Selection, Moral Hazard, Signalling,
Cooperative Processes, Groups of Processes
)
Ch. 7: Information Redux
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What is Information Science? What is not Information Science? Theoretical Information
Science vs Applied
Information Science, System Analysis.
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Written for
those interested in Information, Communication, Computer Science,
Philosophy, and Cognitive Studies
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