Information Flow: Difference between revisions

From Cibernética Americana
Jump to navigationJump to search
No edit summary
No edit summary
Line 20: Line 20:
== Summary ==
== Summary ==


Presents a theory of information flow based on channels and discourse. Has a Category theoretic approach. Barwise was co-author of ''Situations and Attitudes'' and this can be considered a follow-on to that work.
Presents a theory of information flow based on channels and discourse. Has a Category theoretic approach. Barwise was co-author of ''Situations and Attitudes'' and this can be considered a follow-on to that work which was the origin of the situation calculus. The original jacket of the book had the lower left corner of the Albrech Durer work below.  


<html><img src=/images/sitcalc.jpg></html>
<html><img src=/images/sitcalc.jpg></html>

Revision as of 17:56, 24 June 2011

INFORMATION FLOW The Logic of Distributed Systems  
IFLoDS.jpg
Author en:Jon Barwise, Jerry Seligman
Country en:United States
Language English
Publisher en:Cambridge University Press
Publication date 1997
Media type 274 (Hardback)
Pages 384 pp (Hardback)
ISBN ISBN 0-521-58386-1 (USA hardback)

Summary

Presents a theory of information flow based on channels and discourse. Has a Category theoretic approach. Barwise was co-author of Situations and Attitudes and this can be considered a follow-on to that work which was the origin of the situation calculus. The original jacket of the book had the lower left corner of the Albrech Durer work below.