Title :
Sessions: information theory applications
Abstract :
The following topics are dealt with: entropy and neonatal hypertension risk; rule-based expert systems; capital growth rate; rate distortion function; information retrieval; distributed information storage; decision diagrams; Bayes risk in decision-making; financial value of information; semantic generalised predicate logic; intermittently faulty multiprocessor system design; and an extended fail-safe principle.<>
Keywords :
Bayes methods; decision theory; entropy; expert systems; fault tolerant computing; financial data processing; information retrieval; information storage; information theory; multiprocessing systems; probabilistic logic; Bayes risk; capital growth rate; decision diagrams; decision-making; distributed information storage; entropy; extended fail-safe principle; financial value of information; information retrieval; information theory; intermittently faulty multiprocessor system design; neonatal hypertension risk; rate distortion function; rule-based expert systems; semantic generalised predicate logic; Decision making; Entropy; Expert systems; Hypertension; Information retrieval; Information theory; Logic design; Multiprocessing systems; Pediatrics; Rate-distortion;
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory, 1988. Abstracts of Papers., 1988 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Kobe, Japan
DOI :
10.1109/ISIT.1988.22269
