RANDOMNESS THROUGH COMPUTATION: SOME ANSWERS, MORE QUESTIONS
暫譯: 透過計算的隨機性:一些答案,更多問題

Hector Zenil

  • 出版商: World Scientific Pub
  • 出版日期: 2011-02-15
  • 售價: $6,270
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$5,957
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 419
  • 裝訂: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9814327743
  • ISBN-13: 9789814327749
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This review volume consists of a set of chapters written by leading scholars, most of them founders of their fields. The volume is intended to explain the phenomenon of Randomness through the use of Computation, and to explore the connections of Randomness to other areas of scientific knowledge, especially its fruitful relationship to Computability and Complexity Theory, and also to areas such as Probability, Statistics, Information Theory, Biology, Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Learning Theory and Artificial Intelligence. The contributors cover these topics without neglecting important philosophical dimensions, sometimes going beyond the purely technical to formulate age old questions relating to matters such as determinism and free will. The scope of Randomness Through Computation is novel. Each contributor shares their personal views and anecdotes on the various reasons and motivations which led them to the study of Randomness. Using a question and answer format, they share their visions from their several distinctive vantage points.

The following are the sections in which the contributions have been grouped: Stochastic Randomness and Probabilistic Deliberations | Randomness and Computation in Connection to the Physical World | Algorithmic Inference and Artificial Intelligence | Computational Complexity, Randomized Algorithms and Applications.

Excerpt from ACM Computing Reviews. Date Reviewed: 22 Feb, 2012:
I couldn't put this book down. Its presentation of a computational approach to randomness, with its strong focus on applications, is the best I have read. It is carefully edited and comprises several chapters--most of them are by leading experts, and some are even the founders of their respective fields.
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I thoroughly enjoyed reading this gem of a book. Its target audience includes post-graduates and researchers in CS, statistics, applied mathematics, and related disciplines. It is surely a must-have book for any scientific library. Apart from research, the book also serves pedagogical and philosophical interests.
Reviewer:  Soubhik Chakraborty
ACM Review #: CR139897
Full review online at the ACM Computing Reviews website.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本評論集包含了一系列由領先學者撰寫的章節,其中大多數是其領域的創始人。本書旨在通過計算來解釋隨機性現象,並探索隨機性與其他科學知識領域的聯繫,特別是它與可計算性複雜性理論之間的豐富關係,以及與概率統計信息理論生物學物理學量子力學學習理論人工智慧等領域的關聯。貢獻者在討論這些主題時,並未忽視重要的哲學維度,有時甚至超越純技術的範疇,提出與決定論和自由意志等問題相關的古老問題。隨機性與計算的範疇是新穎的。每位貢獻者分享了他們對於促使他們研究隨機性的各種原因和動機的個人看法和軼事。他們以問答的形式,從各自獨特的視角分享他們的願景。

以下是貢獻內容所分組的部分:隨機隨機性與概率思考 | 隨機性與計算在物理世界中的聯繫 | 算法推理與人工智慧 | 計算複雜性、隨機算法及其應用。

摘錄自ACM Computing Reviews。評審日期:2012年2月22日:
我無法放下這本書。它對隨機性的計算方法的呈現,強調應用,是我所讀過的最佳作品。這本書編輯精良,包含幾個章節——大多數由領先專家撰寫,甚至有些是各自領域的創始人。
我非常享受閱讀這本珍貴的書。其目標讀者包括計算機科學、統計學、應用數學及相關學科的研究生和研究人員。這無疑是任何科學圖書館必備的書籍。除了研究,這本書也滿足了教學和哲學的興趣。

評審者:Soubhik Chakraborty
ACM 評論編號:CR139897
完整評論可在ACM Computing Reviews網站上查閱。