Data, information, and time : the DIT model / Hermann Kopetz.
Kopetz, Hermann, author.
2022
QA76.54
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Title Data, information, and time : the DIT model / Hermann Kopetz.
Author Kopetz, Hermann, author.
ISBN 9783030963293 (electronic bk.)
3030963292 (electronic bk.)
9783030963286 (print)
3030963284
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96329-3
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 75 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-96329-3 doi
Call Number QA76.54
Dewey Decimal Classification 004/.33
Summary This SpringerBrief presents the data- information-and-time (DIT) model that precisely clarifies the semantics behind the terms data, information and their relations to the passage of real time. According to the DIT model a data item is a symbol that appears as a pattern (e.g., visual, sound, gesture, or any bit pattern) in physical space. It is generated by a human or a machine in the current contextual situation and is linked to a concept in the human mind or a set of operations of a machine. An information item delivers the sense or the idea that a human mind extracts out of a given natural language proposition that contains meaningful data items. Since the given tangible, intangible and temporal context are part of the explanation of a data item, a change of context can have an effect on the meaning of data and the sense of a proposition. The DIT model provides a framework to show how the flow of time can change the truth-value of a proposition. This book compares our notions of data, information, and time in differing contexts: in human communication, in the operation of a computer system and in a biological system. In the final Section a few simple examples demonstrate how the lessons learned from the DIT-model can help to improve the design of a computer system.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 24, 2022).
Series SpringerBriefs in computer science, 2191-5776
Available in Other Form Print version: 9783030963286
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1. Introduction
2. Overview of the DIT Model
3. Fundamental Terms
4. Context
5. Language and Information
6. Data in Communication
7. Data in Archival Systems
8. Data in Real-Time Control Systems
9. Data in Biological Systems
10. Generation and Explanation of Data
11. Consequences for System Design
12. Conclusions.

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