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Information Science

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ISBN-10: 0691124183

ISBN-13: 9780691124186

Edition: 2006

Authors: David G. Luenberger

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Presenting an approach to the field of information science, this book emphasises basic principles with a range of examples and applications. It is based around the five 'E's' of information: Entropy, Economics, Encryption, Extraction, and Emission.
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Book details

List price: $115.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 4/16/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 448
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.684
Language: English

Preface
Introduction
Themes of Analysis
Information Lessons
Entropy: The Foundation of Information
Information Definition
A Measure of Information
The Definition of Entropy
Information Sources
Source Combinations
Bits as a Measure
About Claude E. Shannon
Exercises
Bibliography
Codes
The Coding Problem
Average Code Length and Entropy
Shannon's First Theorem
Exercises
Bibliography
Compression
Huffman Coding
Intersymbol Dependency
Lempel-Ziv Coding
Other Forms of Compression
Exercises
Bibliography
Channels
Discrete Channel
Conditional and Joint Entropies
Flipping a Channel
Mutual Information
Capacity
Shannon's Second Theorem
Exercises
Bibliography
Error-Correcting Codes
Simple Code Concepts
Hamming Distance
Hamming Codes
Linear Codes
Low-Density Parity Check Codes
Interleaving
Convolutional Codes
Turbo Codes
Applications
Exercises
Bibliography
Summary of
Economics: Strategies for Value
Markets
Demand
Producers
Social Surplus
Competition
Optimality of Marginal Cost Pricing
Linear Demand Curves
Copyright and Monopoly
Other Pricing Methods
Oligopoly
Exercises
Bibliography
Pricing Schemes
Discrimination
Versions
Bundling
Sharing
Exercises
Bibliography
Value
Conditional Information
Informativity and Generalized Entropy
Decisions
The Structure of Value
Utility Functions
Informativity and Decision Making
Exercises
Bibliography
Interaction
Common Knowledge
Agree to Disagree?
Information and Decisions
A Formal Analysis
Metcalfe's Law
Network Economics
Exercises
Bibliography
Summary of Part II
Encryption: Security through Mathematics
Ciphers
Definitions
Example Ciphers
Frequency Analysis
Cryptograms
The Vigenere Cipher
The Playfair Cipher
Homophonic Codes
Jefferson's Wheel Cipher
The Enigma Machine
The One-Time Pad
Exercises
Bibliography
Cryptography Theory
Perfect Security
Entropy Relations
Use of a One-Time Pad
The DES and AES Systems
Exercises
Bibliography
Public key cryptography
A Basic Dilemma
One-Way Functions
Discrete Logarithms
Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
Modular Mathematics
Alternative Puzzle Solution
RSA
Square and Multiply
Finding Primes
Performance
The Future
The Extended Euclidean Algorithm
Exercises 217
Bibliography
Security Protocols
Digital Signatures
Blinded Signatures
Digital Cash
Identification
Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Smart Cards
Exercises
Bibliography
Summa
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