Books of Computers / Information Theory

The Mathematical Theory of Communication

By Warren Weaver, Claude E Shannon

Scientific knowledge grows at a phenomenal pace--but few books have had as lasting an impact or played as important a role in our modern world as The Mathematical Theory of Communication, published originally as a paper on communication ...

Introduction to the Theory of Error-correcting Codes

By Vera Pless

An introduction to the theory of error-correction codes, and in particular to linear block codes is provided in this book. It considers such codes as Hamming codes and Golay codes,...

Interactive Relational Database Design: A Logic Programming Implementation

By Tapan P. Bagchi, Vinay K. Chaudhri

Relational databases have quickly come to be regarded as a natural and efficient way of organizing information. Duplicate data can be eliminated and powerful set-theoretic operations can be used to...

Summarizing Information: Including CD-ROM “SimSum”, Simulation of Summarizing, for Macintosh and Windows

By Brigitte Endres-Niggemeyer

Summarizing is the process of reducing the large volume of information in something like a novel or a scientific paper to a short summary or abstract comprising only the most...

Cross-Language Information Retrieval

By Gregory Grefenstette

Most of the papers in this volume were first presented at the Workshop on Cross-Linguistic Information Retrieval that was held August 22, 1996 dur ing the SIGIR'96 Conference. Alan Smeaton...

Lectures on Quantum Information

By Dagmar Bruss, Gerd Leuchs

Quantum Information Processing is a young and rapidly growing field of research at the intersection of physics, mathematics, and computer science. Its ultimate goal is to harness quantum physics to...

Error-correcting Coding Theory

By Man Young Rhee

Error-correcting Coding Theory

An Introduction to Error-correcting Codes

By Shu Lin

Codes, Kodierung (Telegrafie) ; Kodierung, Datendarstellung, Bit, Byte (EDV).

Error Control Systems for Digital Communication and Storage

By Stephen B. Wicker

This introductory text on error control coding focuses on key implementation issues and performance analysis with applications valuable to both mathematicians and engineers. It features discussion of punctured convolutional codes;...

Information Theory: 50 Years of Discovery

By Sergio Verdú, Steven W. McLaughlin

"In 1948 Claude Shannon published the paper that single-handedly started the field of information theory, ""The Mathematical Theory of Communication."" This groundbreaking paper laid the foundation for virtually all aspects...

Animation and Scientific Visualization: Tools and Applications

By David Watson, Rae A. Earnshaw

During the past decade the field of computer graphics has undergone a significant evolution as the development of new tools and techniques has made possible the production of an increasingly...

Principles of Information Systems: A Managerial Approach

By Ralph M. Stair, George Walter Reynolds

This new edition of Principles of Information Systems builds on the successful pedagogy of its previous editions and goes the distance to provide a new and highly comprehensive IS textbook....

Advances in Spatial Databases

By Max J. Egenhofer, John R. Herring

Advances in Spatial Databases

Finite Fields with Applications to Coding Theory, Cryptography and Related Areas: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Finite Fields...

By Gary L. Mullen, International Conference on Finite Fields and Applications

The Sixth International Conference on Finite Fields and Applications, Fq6, held in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico, from May 21-25, 2001, continued a series of biennial international conferences on finite...