Coding and Redundancy : Man-Made and Animal-Evolved Signals / Jack P. Hailman.
2008
QA268
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Title
Coding and Redundancy : Man-Made and Animal-Evolved Signals / Jack P. Hailman.
Author
Hailman, Jack P., author.
ISBN
9780674273283
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2008]
Copyright
©2008
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (272 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.4159/9780674273283 doi
Call Number
QA268
Dewey Decimal Classification
003/.54
Summary
This book explores the strikingly similar ways in which information is encoded in nonverbal man-made signals (e.g., traffic lights and tornado sirens) and animal-evolved signals (e.g., color patterns and vocalizations). The book also considers some coding principles for reducing certain unwanted redundancies and explains how desirable redundancies enhance communication reliability. Jack Hailman believes this work pioneers several aspects of analyzing human and animal communication. The book is the first to survey man-made signals as a class. It is also the first to compare such human-devised systems with signaling in animals by showing the highly similar ways in which the two encode information. A third innovation is generalizing principles of quantitative information theory to apply to a broad range of signaling systems. Finally, another first is distinguishing among types of redundancy and their separation into unwanted and desirable categories. This remarkably novel book will be of interest to a wide readership. Appealing not only to specialists in semiotics, animal behavior, psychology, and allied fields but also to general readers, it serves as an introduction to animal signaling and to an important class of human communication.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Preface
1 Introduction
I Coding
Introduction
2 Binary Coding
3 Multi-valued Coding
4 Multivariate Coding
II Redundancy
Introduction
5 Intrinsic Redundancy
6 Redundancy Reduction
7 Designed Redundancy
Appendix A: List of Equations
Appendix B: How to Find Base-2 Logarithms on a Pocket Calculator
Appendix C: Binary Pervasiveness
Notes
References
Index
Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Preface
1 Introduction
I Coding
Introduction
2 Binary Coding
3 Multi-valued Coding
4 Multivariate Coding
II Redundancy
Introduction
5 Intrinsic Redundancy
6 Redundancy Reduction
7 Designed Redundancy
Appendix A: List of Equations
Appendix B: How to Find Base-2 Logarithms on a Pocket Calculator
Appendix C: Binary Pervasiveness
Notes
References
Index