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Data, Information, and Time

The DIT Model

Produktform: Buch / Einband - flex.(Paperback)

This SpringerBrief presents the (that precisely clarifies the semantics behind the terms and their relations to the 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. weiterlesen

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Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-3-030-96328-6 / 978-3030963286 / 9783030963286

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Erscheinungsdatum: 18.03.2022

Seiten: 75

Auflage: 1

Autor(en): Hermann Kopetz

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