Theoretical Information Studies Information in the World
Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: World Scientific Series in Information Studies ; Vol. 11Publication details: Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2020Description: xxi, 511 p. : illISBN:- 9789813277489
- 003.54 BUR
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Reference Collection | Reference Section | Department of Materials Engineering | Reference Section | 003.54 BUR | 2023-24 | Available | 98547 |
SUMMARY
This is the first attempt to delineate the synthetic field of the theoretical study of information, treating information as the basic phenomenon on the fundamental level of the world, encompassing nature, technology, individuals and society. The exploration of information is done within Info-computational approaches, to natural and social phenomena such as Bioinformatics, Information Physics, Informational Chemistry, Computational Physics, Cognitive and Social sciences, with special emphasis on interdisciplinary, crossdisciplinary and transdisciplinary knowledge.
The book presents results of collaboration across research fields within info-computational and info-structural frameworks, in attempt to better theoretically and conceptually capture the phenomenon of information and its dynamics (such as computation and communication), as they appear on different levels of organization, on different scales and in different contexts.