DTIC AD0681347: PROCESSING AND TRANSMITTING INFORMATION, GIVEN pdf

DTIC AD0681347: PROCESSING AND TRANSMITTING INFORMATION, GIVEN

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An information system is defined as a chain of information services, encoding (processing)…transmitting…decoding (deciding). Each service is a transformer represented, in general, by a stochastic matrix and a cost function. The inputs of ‘encoding’ are the pay-off-relevant events. Actions are the output of decoding, actions and events determine the pay-off. The utility of the services to the user is a function of the pay-off and of the different costs. Efficiently choosing an information system is by definition choosing an information system which maximizes the expected utility. Communication engineers restricted themselves to information systems with fixed transmitting (channel) and identically zero cost functions. Moreover, they equated the user’s utility function with his pay-off function. The present study is also restricted to information systems with fixed transmitting and zero cost functions and users’ utility functions identical to their pay-off functions. But the approach is more efficient because the problem is treated of choosing encoding and decoding, given a source of events, a pay-off function and a channel, as a whole

• Creator/s: Defense Technical Information Center
• Date: 12/1/1968
• Year: 1968
• Book Topics/Themes: DTIC Archive, Pham-Huu-Tri, Henri M, CALIFORNIA UNIV LOS ANGELES WESTERN MANAGEMENT SCIENCE INST, *INFORMATION THEORY, *MANAGEMENT PLANNING AND CONTROL, CODING, COSTS, DECODING, ECONOMICS, MOTIVATION, STOCHASTIC PROCESSES, THEOREMS, THESES

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