Media Theory [electronic resource] :Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics / by David Eppstein, Jean-Claude Falmagne, Sergei Ovchinnikov.
by Eppstein, David [author.]; Falmagne, Jean-Claude [author.]; Ovchinnikov, Sergei [author.]; SpringerLink (Online service).
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BookPublisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.Edition: First edition.Description: X, 328 p. online resource.ISBN: 9783540716976.Subject(s): Mathematics | Information theory | Artificial intelligence | Combinatorics | Mathematics | Applications of Mathematics | Theory of Computation | Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) | CombinatoricsDDC classification: 519 Online resources: Click here to access online | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Examples and Preliminaries -- Basic Concepts -- Media and Well-graded Families -- Closed Media and ?-Closed Families -- Well-Graded Families of Relations -- Mediatic Graphs -- Media and Partial Cubes -- Media and Integer Lattices -- Hyperplane arrangements and their media -- Algorithms -- Visualization of Media -- Random Walks on Media -- Applications.
The focus of this book is a mathematical structure modeling a physical or biological system that can be in any of a number of `states.' Each state is characterized by a set of binary features, and differs from some other neighbor state or states by just one of those feature. A simple example of a `state’ is a partial solution of a jigsaw puzzle, which can be transformed into another partial solution or into the final solution just by adding or removing a single adjoining piece. The evolution of such a system over time is considered. Such a structure is analyzed from algebraic and probabilistic (stochastic) standpoints.
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