Information Theory New Trends and Open Problems

Front Matter....Pages N3-V
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Lecture Notes on Concepts and Measures of Information....Pages 3-44
Self-Organizing Dynamics with Entropy Potentials....Pages 45-60
Physics, Structure and Information....Pages 61-83
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
A Generalization of the Rate-Distortion Theory and Applications....Pages 87-123
The AEP Property of Random Sequences and Applications to Information Theory: Part I Basic Principles....Pages 125-156
Constructive Codes for Multi-User Communication Channels....Pages 157-171
Some Methods in Multi-User Communication: A Tutorial Survey....Pages 173-224
Front Matter....Pages 225-225
Combinatorial designs constructed from or with coding theory....Pages 227-262
Symmetries of the State Diagram of the Syndrome Former of a Binary Rate-1/2 Convolutional Code....Pages 263-281
Notes on Cyclic Convolutional Codes....Pages 283-292
Global Quadratic Abelian Codes....Pages 293-310
Preparata Codes and Goethals’ Generalization: The Dual of a Nonlinear Code....Pages 311-318
Properties of Weight Enumerator Polynomials....Pages 319-324
Residual Error Rate of Binary Linear Block Codes....Pages 325-335
Back Matter....Pages 337-340