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Information theory
Known as:
Information-theoretic
, Shannons theory
, Shannon theory
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Information theory studies the quantification, storage, and communication of information. It was originally proposed by Claude E. Shannon in 1948 to…
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2007
Review
2007
Uncertainty and information: Foundations of generalized information theory: Book Reviews
L. Egghe
2007
Corpus ID: 27122319
Herdan's law in linguistics and Heaps' law in information retrieval are different formulations of the same phenomenon. Stated…
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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Grey Information - Theory and Practical Applications
Sifeng Liu
,
Yi Lin
Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing
2005
Corpus ID: 30178363
Grey Numbers and Their Operations.- Grey Equations and Grey Matrices.- Generation of Grey Sequences.- Grey Incidence Analysis…
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Information Theory of Complex Networks: On Evolution and Architectural Constraints
R. Solé
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S. Valverde
2004
Corpus ID: 6967445
Complex networks are characterized by highly heterogeneous distributions of links, often pervading the presence of key properties…
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Review
1998
Review
1998
Quantum Information Theory
Charles H. Bennett
,
P. Shor
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
1998
Corpus ID: 14380552
We survey the field of quantum information theory. In particular, we discuss the fundamentals of the field, source coding…
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Review
1998
Review
1998
Information Theory and Communication Networks: An Unconsummated Union
A. Ephremides
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B. Hajek
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
1998
Corpus ID: 12138020
Information theory has not yet had a direct impact on networking, although there are similarities in concepts and methodologies…
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Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Information Distance
Charles H. Bennett
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P. Gács
,
Ming Li
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P. Vitányi
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W. H. Zurek
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
1998
Corpus ID: 2607374
While Kolmogorov (1965) complexity is the accepted absolute measure of information content in an individual finite object, a…
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Review
1998
Review
1998
Zero-Error Information Theory
J. Körner
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A. Orlitsky
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
1998
Corpus ID: 29048738
The problem of error-free transmission capacity of a noisy channel was posed by Shannon in 1956 and remains unsolved…
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Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Algorithms for sliding block codes - An application of symbolic dynamics to information theory
R. Adler
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D. Coppersmith
,
M. Hassner
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
1983
Corpus ID: 15506198
Ideas which have origins in Shannon's work in information theory have arisen independently in a mathematical discipline called…
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1966
Highly Cited
1966
Information Value Theory
R. Howard
IEEE Transactions on Systems Science and…
1966
Corpus ID: 206799032
The information theory developed by Shannon was designed to place a quantitative measure on the amount of information involved in…
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1962
Highly Cited
1962
Coding Theorems of Information Theory
J. Wolfowitz
Ergebnisse der Mathematik und Ihrer Grenzgebiete
1962
Corpus ID: 8621809
1. Heuristic Introduction to the Discrete Memoryless Channel.- 2. Combinatorial Preliminaries.- 2.1. Generated sequences.- 2.2…
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