Information Dynamics: Foundations and Applications - Hardcover

Deco, Gustavo; Schürmann, Bernd

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0387950478 ISBN 13: 9780387950471

Publisher: Springer, 2000

Synopsis

This book originated from a forefront R&D project pursued at Siemens Corporate Technology over the past several years. As a name for this project, we chose "Information Dynamics", which stands for information processing in complex dynamical systems. In the project, we wanted to grasp the flow of information in such systems in a quantitative manner, on the one hand by making use of an existing arsenal of methods and techniques from areas such as information theory, mathematical statistics, neural networks, nonlinear dynamics, probability theory, and statistical physics, and on the other hand by deriving new methods and techniques if required. The book contains only those contributions to the above-mentioned project which lend themselves to a unifying theoretical framework. Other important results obtained in the project, such as the extension of transport-theoretic techniques and their application to optimizing traffic flow, or the design of new neural network architectures for treating systems at the edge of chaos with applications in economics, are left out. This certainly is a sacrifice, but we think it is of benefit to the reader that we tried to be as focused and self­ contained as possible.

About this title

Synopsis

Offers a theoretical approach to information dynamics. This book is useful for advanced graduates, researchers, and professionals in neural computing, information theory, nonlinear dynamics and complex systems modeling.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0387950478
• ISBN 13: 9780387950471
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 297