Overview
- Offers a deep understanding of the terms data and information in their different relations to the passage of time
- Presents the data-information-and-time (DIT) model as a framework in understanding human communication
- Includes examples to show how the insights from the DIT-model can help in the design of more useful computer systems
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Computer Science (BRIEFSCOMPUTER)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Hermann Kopetz received his PhD in physics "sub auspiciis praesidentis" from the University of Vienna, Austria in 1968. After eight years in Industry he accepted in 1978 an appointment as a Professor for Computer Process Control at the Technical University of West-Berlin, moving to the Technical University of Vienna in 1992. Kopetz is a full member of the Austrian Academy of Science, Fellow of the IEEE, and was a member of the Information Society Advisory Group (ISTAG), advising the European Commission in Brussels in the domain of information technology from 2008 to 2012. In June 2007 he received the honorary degree of Dr. honoris causa from the University Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France. Kopetz is the chief architect of the time-triggered technology for dependable embedded Systems and a co-founder of the company TTTech. He is the author of Real-Time Systems: Design Principles for Distributed Embedded Applications (Springer) and several other books.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Data, Information, and Time
Book Subtitle: The DIT Model
Authors: Hermann Kopetz
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96329-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96328-6Published: 18 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-96329-3Published: 17 March 2022
Series ISSN: 2191-5768
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5776
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 75
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations
Topics: Data Structures and Information Theory, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, Theory of Computation, Information Systems and Communication Service